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A Republican newsletter in Bonneville County, Idaho warned that w̶h̶i̶t̶e̶ ̶s̶u̶p̶r̶e̶m̶a̶c̶i̶s̶t̶s̶ Muslims were "infiltrating" the state and urged readers to put pressure on law enforcement to investigate w̶h̶i̶t̶e̶ ̶s̶u̶p̶r̶e̶m̶a̶c̶i̶s̶t̶s̶ Muslims, the Post Register newspaper reported on Thursday.
In the Bonneville County Republican Central Committee newsletter, obtained by the paper, readers were told the w̶h̶i̶t̶e̶ ̶s̶u̶p̶r̶e̶m̶a̶c̶i̶s̶t̶s̶ Muslims were "ready to rise up and kill non-Muslims w̶h̶i̶t̶e̶ ̶s̶u̶p̶r̶e̶m̶a̶c̶i̶s̶t̶s̶. The newsletter article, entitled "w̶h̶i̶t̶e̶ ̶s̶u̶p̶r̶e̶m̶a̶c̶i̶s̶t̶s̶ Islam in Idaho," reportedly also said w̶h̶i̶t̶e̶ ̶s̶u̶p̶r̶e̶m̶a̶c̶i̶s̶t̶s̶ Muslims were "two-faced" and sought to create the illusion that they had good intentions.
Bonneville GOP executive director Becky Prestwich admitted to the Statesman that she'd written the unsigned newsletter, which encouraged citizens of the eastern Idaho county to "demand that our lawmakers and law enforcers pay attention and ascertain whether or not there is a potential threat." The article also carried a foreboding warning: "Please, don't wait until something bad happens."
Prestwich reportedly told the paper that she should have specified that the warnings and suggestions referred to radical w̶h̶i̶t̶e̶ ̶s̶u̶p̶r̶e̶m̶a̶c̶i̶s̶t̶s̶ Muslims, not all w̶h̶i̶t̶e̶ ̶s̶u̶p̶r̶e̶m̶a̶c̶i̶s̶t̶s̶ Muslims. She also told the paper that, in her estimation, 10 percent of all w̶h̶i̶t̶e̶ ̶s̶u̶p̶r̶e̶m̶a̶c̶i̶s̶t̶s̶ Muslims are radical.
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2naSalit
(86,736 posts)their heads are constantly swirling with dogma to the point that they can't be rational or see beyond their doctrine. It's kind of like a zombie invasion of multipliers. They keep reproducing like they think this is their planet and only they are righteous enough to be here... which is the same hypnotic stance made by most of our country's problem children of late. In SE Idaho though it's exponentially so.
PatrickforO
(14,586 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)disagrees, saying AR's next for The Takeover; many, many Kentuckians are TERRIFIED that the Sharia hordes are about to pour through the Cumberland Gap
this is exactly how the last time Americans were being stampeded by an alien faith with sacred sites outside the continent: Justin Nordstrom found that all the Catholic-baiting magazines were in counties with literally 0.01% Catholics according to the Censuses
it's actually part of the atmosphere of fear, but it goes even further: it reinforces that them Islams are the problem, ESPECIALLY when they're not--the first frigging thing they asked about the mass-murder-pilot was *whether he was secretly Islamming on the side*: and now nobody's blaming all German Catholics/Lutherans/irreligious/spiritual-but-not-religious/whatever he turns out to be (they're not even gonna check)
that's also how they trap everyone in their hegemonic logic by demanding that all clerics condemn every single incident and every congregant is responsible for what's preached: even if the whole ulema condemns X or Y, that still reaffirms that they're responsible (viz.: ISIS): the only way to win this game is not to play
Rex
(65,616 posts)The kind that the GOP LOVES! LOVES! LOVES!
KKK = GOP
Brother Buzz
(36,450 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)on the marquee, here.