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Showing Original Post only (View all)BREAKING NEWS! Multiple heavily armed masked men wearing all black target worship center in Texas [View all]
My god, what is this world coming to?

oh wait, the armed masked men are White and the worship center they're targeting is actually a Mosque. False alarm! Sorry!
Armed protesters stalk peaceful Muslims at Texas mosque: We want to show force
A group of armed protesters who wanted to show force gathered outside a Texas mosque Saturday in response rumors about Syrian refugees and Sharia law.
The group, calling itself the Bureau of American Islamic Relations, stationed itself outside the Islamic Center of Irving carrying signs with messages like, Stop the Islamization of America, according to the Dallas Morning News. A video taken at the mosque shows a man dressed in black with his face masked carrying a rifle.
The groups leader told the News they were upset because they had heard rumors of a Sharia court at the mosque and the prospect of letting Syrian refugees in. They also claimed members of the local Muslim community had made death threats against Irvings mayor, Beth Van Duyne, earlier this year. The News found no evidence that this claim was true.
When asked by the News why his group was armed, organizer David Wright said the weapons were mostly for self protection, but then added, But Im not going to lie. We do want to show force. Were not sitting ducks.
He then added,We dont want people to think were out to kill people or shoot people. It would be ridiculous to protest Islam without defending ourselves.
The group, calling itself the Bureau of American Islamic Relations, stationed itself outside the Islamic Center of Irving carrying signs with messages like, Stop the Islamization of America, according to the Dallas Morning News. A video taken at the mosque shows a man dressed in black with his face masked carrying a rifle.
The groups leader told the News they were upset because they had heard rumors of a Sharia court at the mosque and the prospect of letting Syrian refugees in. They also claimed members of the local Muslim community had made death threats against Irvings mayor, Beth Van Duyne, earlier this year. The News found no evidence that this claim was true.
When asked by the News why his group was armed, organizer David Wright said the weapons were mostly for self protection, but then added, But Im not going to lie. We do want to show force. Were not sitting ducks.
He then added,We dont want people to think were out to kill people or shoot people. It would be ridiculous to protest Islam without defending ourselves.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/armed-protesters-stalk-peaceful-muslims-at-texas-mosque-we-want-to-show-force/

Armed protesters set up outside Islamic Center of Irving
About a dozen protestorsmost carrying long guns, some masked and one with his motherlined up outside an Irving mosque on Saturday. They had come from as far away as Hunt County to the green-domed complex. To Stop the Islamization of America, as the mothers hand-drawn sign urged.
A pickup tooted on its way down Esters Road, not the first or last driver to endorse the message. Right behind the truck, a sedan pulled out of the Islamic Center of Irving lot, where afternoon prayers had just finished, and blasted Arabic music as it passed.
Two men on the sidewalk mocked the song, distorting foreign lyrics into gibberish as the car sped away. Then they huddled in the cold around their cigarettes, guns and flags, waiting for another passerby to pay attention. It was a strange protest, held at a strange time in a suburb strangely relevant to Americas brand of anti-Islamic politics.
We tried to talk to the mosque before we did this, but they wouldnt return our messages, said David Wright, dressed in black all the way from his backwards baseball cap to the barrel of his tactical shotgun. So here we are.
http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2015/11/armed-protesters-set-up-outside-islamic-center-of-irving.html/
Funny, when whites do this they're called PROTESTERS by multiple news outlets but if a bunch of heavily armed Muslim men showed up to a church and did this they'd be called deceased, dead, worm food, cadavers, napoleon blownapart, organ donors and TERRORISTS.
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BREAKING NEWS! Multiple heavily armed masked men wearing all black target worship center in Texas [View all]
951-Riverside
Nov 2015
OP
Small minded people must assault the attention of others to feel big and important.
Rex
Nov 2015
#13
This is fucking ridiculous and shows why we need stricter gun laws. Fuck open carry.
cui bono
Nov 2015
#24
Prosters with guns. Whow. this is something new. We know of the 'patriot guards' who
riversedge
Nov 2015
#64
OMG. This is just like the KKK, isn't it? American Terrorists, Fascists, Paranoids in need of meds
DebJ
Nov 2015
#44
Great .... a paranoid, delusional, "not-so-bright" hatefilled idiots with guns
etherealtruth
Nov 2015
#68