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ck4829

(35,071 posts)
Mon May 14, 2012, 10:05 PM May 2012

Rep Congressional candidate: Texas is being taken over by Sharia... because there are Muslims here

Itamar Gelbman is a Republican congressional candidate who has attracted attention for his mailing where he pledged to “Stop Islamization of America,” which won him wild praise from anti-Muslim activist Pamela Geller and scorn from one local Republican precinct chair Jamal Qaddura, who said, “I would like to ask him, how do you plan to stop the ‘Islamization of America’ and show me where the ‘Islamization of America’ is?”

Gelbman hasn’t provided a clarification, but he did post a video of his long form birth certificate, and he told Janet Mefferd last week that he sees the “Islamization of America” in the fact that Muslims live in the state and are building mosques! He even claimed that Texas was the “first state ever to have a Sharia law approved court,” although didn’t say what this court is called or who approved it. George Bush? Rick Perry? Maybe Gelbman is referring to Frankford, Texas, the town Sharron Angle claimed was run by Sharia law even though the town is actually just a church and a cemetery and was annexed by Dallas in 1975.

Gelbman: In Texas it’s very, very unique because Texas has the biggest Islamic community and people feel it. You feel the influation (sic) of the Islamic community here in the state and people are worried about it. If you look and you see mosques are standing up, are building up on a weekly basis or a monthly basis, you have Sharia law approved court right now in Texas, it’s the first state ever to have a Sharia law approved court, so people here are very, very concerned about it.


http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/republican-candidate-sharia-texas-islamization-america

They're building Mosques! Run!!!!
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Rep Congressional candidate: Texas is being taken over by Sharia... because there are Muslims here (Original Post) ck4829 May 2012 OP
It's like Sharia Law is Cooties. n/t Bolo Boffin May 2012 #1
Sharia Law, Christian Law Politicalboi May 2012 #2
Maybe it's time to let Democrats run Texas again? gratuitous May 2012 #3
Mosques! Be afraid!!!! Ooga booga wooga!!!! kestrel91316 May 2012 #4
Mr. Gelbman sounds like he's under the influation pinboy3niner May 2012 #5
It is getting so hard to determine Angry Dragon May 2012 #6

gratuitous

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3. Maybe it's time to let Democrats run Texas again?
Mon May 14, 2012, 10:12 PM
May 2012

If Sharia law has gotten such a stranglehold on the Lone Star State, we need look no further than the party that's been running the state for 20 years, no?

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