ISLAM IN AMERICA: HOW THE RESISTANCE IS STANDING UP TO ANTI-MUSLIM SPEAKERS IN AMERICA’S HEARTLAND
BY JOSH SAUL ON 6/16/17 AT 2:08 PM
Demonstrators gathered on both sides of a South Dakota street Thursday night, one side protesting against what they saw as an anti-Muslim event, the other showing support—the latest in a series of conflicts over Islam in the sparsely populated state.
Sponsored by the local Republican Party, the event that sparked the demonstrations focused on “the threat of the global Islamic movement.”
South Dakotans gathered outside the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center in Rapid City, with those protesting the event waving signs that read, “No hate, no fear, Muslims are welcome here,” and “Rapid City Is Love.”
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On the other side of the street, demonstrators in favor of the event waved American flags and signs that read, “Indivisible Supports Christian Persecution,” referencing Indivisible Rapid City, a local progressive group that spoke out against the event and says on its website that it aims to resist President Trump.
The event was titled “Understanding the Threat: Strategic and Operating Training & Consulting on the Threat of the Global Islamic Movement” and featured John Guandolo and Chris Gaubetz. Guandolo is the founder of an organization called Understanding the Threat, which says it is the only group training politicians, law enforcement and citizens about the threat of jihadi networks in communities around the nation. Progressive and Muslim groups call Guandolo an anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist.
In arguing their sides before the event, both raised the shooting Wednesday that targeted Republican members of Congress.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations called on the local Republican Party to drop its sponsorship of the event. "Following yesterday's terror attack on members of Congress and their staff in Virginia, it is more important than ever to repudiate the promotion of conspiracy theories and bigotry targeting any segment of our society," CAIR Government Affairs Director Robert McCaw said in a statement.
The Rapid City chapter of ACT for America, which co-sponsored the event, referenced the shooting in its explanation of why it barred reporters. “By likening Act for America to the KKK, the media has endangered our attendees … and by referencing the [Southern Poverty Law Center] whose hate speech has been tied to domestic terrorism incidents as recently as June 14 of 2017 – the shooting of Congressman Steve Scalise,” reads a statement from ACT posted on the Indivisible Facebook page.
The conflict is the latest over events and speakers involving Islam, the world’s second-largest religion.
A small group of protesters gathered outside a Rapid City hotel on May 6 to demonstrate against another ACT for America event, this one attended by the South Dakota attorney general and a Republican candidate for governor, according to the Rapid City Journal. “The nicer the West shows itself, there’s a percentage of Muslims that view that niceness as weakness. And they take that as an invitation to attack,” speaker William Federer, a Christian author and radio personality, told the audience, according to the newspaper.
And in Sioux Falls on April 9, a man named Ehab Jaber walked into an anti-Islam event, “Sabotaging America: Islam’s March Toward Supremacy,” and held up a Quran until he was told to leave, according to the Argus Leader. A Facebook Live video showed Jaber, who was charged with making terrorist threats, flashing guns in his car and repeating the phrase “Be scared,” according to the newspaper.
Re: SD: How the Resistance is standing up to anti-Muslim speakers in the US heartland
Amazing that islam is having such an effect upon the hearts of people all across the globe that those who live in ignorance and decadence are afraid that it will be accepted across the continents.
The claims that their primary fear is violence from Muslims needs not much in terms of refuting since those who have been following events carefully are aware that the government of u.s.a is guilty of unjustifiable violence abroad and false flag attacks agaunst it's own citizens for the sake of vilifying and attacking Islam - for all of which sincere repentance is required - whilst the response from Muslims has for the most part been that of longsuffering and patience despite having the right to retaliate.
It is He (Allah) Who has sent His messenger with guidance and the real and true way of life, so that it may prevail over all other ways of life, and though the polytheists dislike it.
Btw using weak and false labels such as "resistance" to describe those who stand up to "anti-Muslim" speakers is unnecessarily confusing. Islam is the perfect way which goes with God's prevailing flow.
Re: SD: How the Resistance is standing up to anti-Muslim speakers in the US heartland
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Btw using weak and false labels such as "resistance" to describe those who stand up to "anti-Muslim" speakers is unnecessarily confusing. Islam is the perfect way which goes with God's prevailing flow.
The use of the term "The Resistance" has become the ideologic term for the organized protests against Trump, his policies, and the hate politics of the American Right. That is likely what it is referring to in the article by the use of the term.
Re: SD: How the Resistance is standing up to anti-Muslim speakers in the US heartland
The term resistance implies pushing back against a powerful force, I believe Ibrahim was not a rebel, but a proponent of the truth in submission to Allah in Allah's dominion, and that Nimrod was the rebel and resistor of truth and justice, just as satan is the resister of truth and justice.
Any who claim to be resistors of donald trump are directly acknowledging trump's superiority to themselves, whereas the party of Allah deliver the guidance of Allah with serenity and authority and it is the task of donald trump to decide if he will obey Allah and be successful - or resist Allah and suffer the consequences of the inevitable injustice which comes with rebellion and resistance against Allah.
The terms "Anti-Muslim" and "anti-Christ" themselves denote resistance.
Do the queen's police ever claim to be resistance when they impose upon you?
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The people of the Scripture (Jews) ask you to cause a book to descend upon them from heaven. Indeed they asked Musa (Moses) for even greater than that, when they said: "Show us Allah in public," but they were struck with thunder clap and lightning for their wickedness. Then they worshipped the calf even after clear proofs, evidences, and signs had come to them. (Even) so We forgave them. And We gave Musa (Moses) clear authority.
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was not a rebel, but a proponent of the truth in submission to Allah in Allah's dominion, and that Nimrod was the rebel and resistor of truth and justice, just as satan is the resister of truth and justice.
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