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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRep 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 hasnt 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 didnt 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 its 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, its 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!!!!
Bolo Boffin
(23,796 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Same shit different name is all.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)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?
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I hope he's not driving.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)if a politician is an idiot or a panderer