Thu Oct 13, 2022, 03:43 PM

GOP unites with conservative Muslims in Dearborn

Republicans are offering support to conservative Muslims in Dearborn angry over LGBTQ+ affirming books in school libraries.

Driving the news: Dearborn is engaged in debate over a number of books — including "This Book is Gay" — in media centers across Dearborn Public Schools, Michigan's third-largest district.

Hundreds who packed a school board meeting Monday to protest school board members defending the books refused to settle, shutting the meeting down.

The meeting is scheduled to resume tonight at 7pm at the 600-person capacity Stout Middle School auditorium, where posters and signs have been banned, the Free Press reports.

More: https://www.axios.com/local/detroit/2022/10/13/gop-unites-conservative-muslims-dearborn-michigan

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GOP unites with conservative Muslims in Dearborn (Original post)	Jose Garcia	Oct 2022	OP
Muslims uniting with gqp...gee what could go wrong there	PortTack	Oct 2022	#1
The christofascists always have had more in common with Muslims than not.	Thomas Hurt	Oct 2022	#3
This concerns me. I think they are targeting certain groups to appeal to " conservative values "	tulipsandroses	Oct 2022	#7
The FDR coalition was a big tent that included	Jose Garcia	Oct 2022	#9
Religious fanatics of a feather . . . (nt)	CivicGrief	Oct 2022	#2
Fuck these assholes. Banning books is one of the first steps towards genocide.	Initech	Oct 2022	#4
And when those Christian Nationalists come for the Muslims?	gratuitous	Oct 2022	#5
Fuck it !! Just don't read the books!! We are about to lose our democracy and Muslims will have	Samrob	Oct 2022	#6
These are the same fools that screamed bloody murder about sharia law...	Volaris	Oct 2022	#8

Response to Jose Garcia (Original post)

Thu Oct 13, 2022, 03:47 PM

PortTack (29,137 posts)

1. Muslims uniting with gqp...gee what could go wrong there

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Response to PortTack (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 13, 2022, 04:12 PM

Thomas Hurt (13,736 posts)

3. The christofascists always have had more in common with Muslims than not.

Their problem with Muslims was not that they were religious or that their religion was different.

It was and is, primarily, that they are a competing religion.

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Response to PortTack (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 13, 2022, 05:33 PM

tulipsandroses (4,511 posts)

7. This concerns me. I think they are targeting certain groups to appeal to " conservative values "

Of those groups. They’ve had success with some Hispanic groups. I posted a few days ago about a horrendous ad that was playing on a local Caribbean radio station about Dems forcing kids to be trans. I said in that post, I hope Dems are paying attention.
They know how to play the long game. It doesn’t have to be successful right now, but if they continue to chip away, we may find ourselves in deep trouble.

Republicans understand tribalism really well.
Immigrants, religious groups may stick together on a certain cause out of loyalty to that group. Even if they would not otherwise align with republicans.

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Response to tulipsandroses (Reply #7)

Fri Oct 14, 2022, 09:32 AM

Jose Garcia (2,260 posts)

9. The FDR coalition was a big tent that included

African-Americans as well as southern segragationsts.

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Response to Jose Garcia (Original post)

Thu Oct 13, 2022, 04:04 PM

CivicGrief (123 posts)

2. Religious fanatics of a feather . . . (nt)

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Response to Jose Garcia (Original post)

Thu Oct 13, 2022, 04:16 PM

Initech (96,362 posts)

4. Fuck these assholes. Banning books is one of the first steps towards genocide.

Fuck them, and fuck Fox News and conservative radio for egging this shit on.

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Response to Jose Garcia (Original post)

Thu Oct 13, 2022, 04:18 PM

gratuitous (80,540 posts)

5. And when those Christian Nationalists come for the Muslims?

I hope our Muslim neighbors won't be missing the LGBTQ+ community to stand up for them and their rights.

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Response to Jose Garcia (Original post)

Thu Oct 13, 2022, 04:22 PM

Samrob (4,187 posts)

6. Fuck it !! Just don't read the books!! We are about to lose our democracy and Muslims will have

more to worry about than LGBTQ books that they are not being forced to read. Abortion: if you don't like it or your religion forbids it, just don't have one.

Books: If you don't like the subject matter just don't read the book.

The people you are aligning yourself with will be among the first to deny you the rights afforded citizenship ... they want you out of their neighborhood, their schools, "their country."

WT absolute F???

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Response to Jose Garcia (Original post)

Thu Oct 13, 2022, 05:46 PM

Volaris (10,046 posts)

8. These are the same fools that screamed bloody murder about sharia law...

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