- cross-posted to:
- politics@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- politics@beehaw.org
Hussein said he was in disbelief that he was told to convert or leave — for the first time in his life — at a Republican convention with the tagline, “Unity drives victory.”
That slogan, touted by the governor on press releases, placards, lanyards and even the elephant he procured to march through the convention hall, became a rallying cry for the state’s leaders and party nominees heading into November. If fractured, they warned, the party could lose the state to Democrats and their U.S. Senate nominee, Austin state Rep. James Talarico.
But in spite of that warning, members were willing to lose the support of Muslim conservatives.
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Hussein attended a panel from the Judeo-Christian Caucus moderated by Dr. Rick Scarborough, a former Southern Baptist pastor and the president of Recover America, an organization to engage ministers and pastors in politics.
Speakers told the audience that immigrants who don’t believe in Judeo-Christian values will erode those values and create problems for America. Scarborough accused Muslims of lying to win political power.
“You’re going to find Muslims that aren’t being antagonistic or mean, at least not publicly. But I’ll guarantee, if they get power, they’ll cut your head off as believers of Christ,” he said.
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It’s ironic
Hey - I know Rick Scarborough.
He’s a bastard.
Halabi, a teacher, declined to say how she would vote in November, but said that she is a Republican and always votes.
They’re still voting. Are you?
After reading the article. The Republicans aren’t necessarily wrong with their concerns about Sharia Law. They just need to look in a mirror.
And he probably shouldn’t have admitted this, to be honest when he said:
He was practicing Sharia at that very moment,
Kind of implies he has no issue with Sharia Law being imposed.
This is certainly a take, so Imma ask you to further clarify your positions:
What concerns raised about the law’s “incompatibility with Judeo-Christian values” are worth listening to?
Also, the last sentence is an especially stinky take: people are allowed to impose discipline on themselves without demanding others follow the same (like gyms and diets).
What concerns raised about the law’s “incompatibility with Judeo-Christian values” are worth listening to?
The issue isn’t that they are compatable, it’s that both Judeo-Christian values and Shria Law are two sides of the same coin. Religious restrictions imposed on others.
Also, the last sentence is an especially stinky take: people are allowed to impose discipline on themselves without demanding others follow the same (like gyms and diets).
Not saying they can’t. The framing that that he’s practicing Sharia law wasn’t the best thing to say in response to the allegations. He could have said, “Sharia Law doesn’t require A,B,C.” Instead, he said made a general claim about lies and how he is currently practicing Sharia law, further validating the criticism against him.
Hussein sounds like a dumbass.
Well yea, he’s a fucking republican
This has to be some sort of masochism, right?
Did the leopard eat your face again?
My neighborhood has a lot of Bhutani and Nepali immigrants and when I was canvassing last year a surprising number of houses had the older generation as Republicans and the younger generation as Democrats.
Seems like a lot of people don’t recognize that they aren’t “in on it” until it’s too late.
It was just weird to me. I’m wondering how someone with limited English would make that kind of decision. What were their criteria? What did they base it on?
At the end of the day I blamed it on what I blame everything on: Reagan. These were Boomer age folks who remember the gilded 80s in US pop culture.
But I would love to explore it more deeply. Is being conservative common with immigrant parents?
I’m wondering how someone with limited English would make that kind of decision. What were their criteria? What did they base it on?
“Family values”, opposing abortion, limiting women’s rights…
You know. Conservative.
All the boomers I knew and grew up around, including my parents, fucking hated Ronnie Raygun with a white-hot hatred.
My boomer parents were the same.
We had an exceptional experience.
At the end of the day I blamed it on what I blame everything on: Reagan. These were Boomer age folks who remember the gilded 80s in US pop culture.
Don’t forget Marget Thatcher and the rest of 80s Conservative Ghouls.
I don’t want him in my party either ,watering it down. Once a religious nutjob always a religious nutjob.
Fuck all conservatives no matter the religion
So grand, this old party…
“Unity drives victory.”
Yeah, they like unity, not diversity.
Uniformity.
In what should be a surprise to absolutely nobody…
Every time I hear the term “Log Cabin Republicans” or “Blacks for Trump” or “Hispanics for Trump” or about these Muslims going to GOP things, or about trad wives…all I hear is:
Jews for Hitler
…which was a real thing. People have not only not learned history, they absolutely refuse to learn from it even if they know some of these things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehi_(militant_group)
Lehi split from the Irgun militant group in 1940 in order to continue fighting the British during World War II. It initially sought an alliance with Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.[20] Believing that Nazi Germany was a lesser enemy of the Jews than Britain, Lehi twice attempted to form an alliance with the Nazis, proposing a Jewish state based on “nationalist and totalitarian principles, and linked to the German Reich by an alliance”.[20][21]
Read the whole article. It’s fills in a lot of the gaps.
Oh, right there’s that, but I was talking about this specifically:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews
The “fuck around” phase:
The Association of German National Jews (German: Verband nationaldeutscher Juden, VnJ) was an assimilationist and nationalist German Jewish organization which was formed during the early years of the rule of the Weimar Republic and during the early years of the rule of Nazi Germany, that eventually came out in support of Adolf Hitler.
The “find out” phase:
Despite the extreme nationalism of Naumann and his colleagues, the Nazi regime did not accept the Association of German National Jews as a legitimate intermediary. Following the passage of the Nuremberg Laws, the VnJ was declared illegal and dissolved on 18 November 1935. Naumann was arrested by the Gestapo the same day, and imprisoned at the Columbia concentration camp. He was released after a few weeks, and died of cancer in May 1939.[1] Most other members and their families were murdered in the Holocaust.[17]
Wow. I did not know that!
the “unity” they want is just for themselves to ‘unite’ against everyone else. if they splinter, they would lose.
What a fucking idiot. The GOP has been brazenly anti Muslim for almost 30 years, they’ve always been xenophobic.
Literally what carried them to popularity after 9/11 was they siezed the chance to make the public irrationally terrified of an (all things considered) benign and innocuous minority. Their whole platform FOR THE ENTIRE 21ST CENTURY has been, “Fuck anybody who isn’t us, and that goes double for Muslims.”
But you see he thinks he is one of the good ones. Surely he will be accepted as the in group.
They’re just house slaves vs the field slaves to the republicans. Just as disposable, but somehow they think they aren’t viewed the same.
I have no Idea what he was thinking.
Anti-abortion.
