Saturday, December 12, 2015

Texas demonstration reactions.

"Texas Mosque Draws Protest, Counter-Protest Demonstrations."
About 20 people, half of them armed with rifles, rallied outside a suburban Dallas mosque against Islamist violence and Syrian refugee resettlement. The demonstration organized by the Bureau of American-Islamic Relations drew a counter-demonstration by about 50 people. An Associated Press photographer reported that while there were frequent discussions between both sides, they were peaceful and intervention by the dozen police officers wasn't needed. The protesting group included members of the "Three Percenters" who consider themselves patriots protecting the homeland from Muslims. They previously organized armed protests outside a mosque in Irving, another Dallas suburb.
LATER: The story was also picked up by Al-arabiya and no doubt is being used as propaganda in mosques around the Middle East right now: "Protesters with rifles rally outside Texas mosque."

5 comments:

jon said...

hmm. i'm not sure that was productive, and i'm not sure it wasn't.

i put all the blame on the AP reporter for the conflation angle, which of course is there in plain text. however, this photo does not show the presence of any nyberg flags, yet, there was at least one. they could have done that, but didn't.

https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/t31.0-8/12370713_1531860467139443_7254560610946007434_o.jpg

now i'd say DW is a good texan, as are the rest of 'em there, "getting involved" as it were, but also that they are unintentionally fueling the mixed message the AP reporter is looking for.

Anonymous said...

It's easy for an idiot to carry a rifle in public.
Too bad someone didn't test their shooting skills.
I'd love to see a video of these mice scattering for cover.

Anonymous said...

What a worthless group of losers. No doubt their (ex) wives/mothers or the gov. check pay the bills. A different country, indeed.

Anonymous said...

Real men don't carry prosthetics outside their pants.

Chiu ChunLing said...

Well, it seems that an anonymous 'real man' is relying on a prosthetic inside his pants.

I have to say, I really cannot fathom what reasoned objection there could be to making it clear that Muslims can expect to suffer negative consequences from their continued support of terrorism. We all know that Islam feeds on the perception of weakness, not strength. Immoral displays of strength are possible, China and Russia both provide plenty of evidence. But moral displays of strength are also possible.

Why exactly isn't this one?

If you're going to say it's because the media didn't cooperate then I have to say that, by that standard, moral displays of strength aren't possible and we should just give up and surrender to tyranny. Not that I care enough about your ideas of morality to actually do that.