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TexasTowelie

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Thu Jan 29, 2015, 06:43 PM Jan 2015

Protesters disrupt rally at Capitol by Muslims, supporters; Rep. Molly White criticized on Facebook

What was supposed to be a rally at the Texas Capitol Thursday promoting political engagement and tolerance for Muslims and was largely derailed by sustained screams from protesters loudly advocating for something quite apart from peace and love.

Texas Muslim Capitol Day was organized by Texas chapters of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, whose members intended to raise awareness on issues, advocate on a number of bills and celebrate their right as Americans — and in one speaker’s case an eighth-generation Texan — to be part of the political process.

But not one of the 10 or so speakers at the hourlong event managed to finish a sentence without being heckled by noisome group of maybe two dozen that fanned out about 20 paces from the south steps of the statehouse. A patriotic song by the Houston Koran Academy didn’t even silence the screaming.

CAIR-TX spokeswoman Ruth Nasrullah had barely begun the program when a woman briefly commandeered the podium and attempted to claim the Capitol in the name of Jesus Christ. The woman, a native Michigander who said she goes “wherever the Lord calls,” later said she was seized by “righteous anger” and felt she’d accomplished what she attempted to do Thursday morning.

Read more: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/protesters-disrupt-rally-at-capitol-by-muslims-sup/njzNr/

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Protesters disrupt rally at Capitol by Muslims, supporters; Rep. Molly White criticized on Facebook (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2015 OP
My fave comment... TreasonousBastard Jan 2015 #1

TreasonousBastard

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Thu Jan 29, 2015, 07:16 PM
Jan 2015

1WiseLatina 3 hours ago
"later said she was seized by “righteous anger” and felt she’d accomplished what she attempted to do Thursday morning." Actually she was seized by a 6 pack of Lone Star and 3 hours of recorded Ted Cruz speeches.

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