Construction of Georgia mosque halted due to threats by armed militia

But I'm not a liberal. I'm actually quite conservative.

More to the point, I rely on logic, fact and reason, which is why I am an Independent.

I also believe in the Constitution, and one cannot believe in Constitution and at the same time continually attempt to drive daggers into its heart.

Do believe people should not be forced to make cakes for a wedding they don't believe in. IE religious freedom.
 
Really?

There are entire neighborhoods that consist of Muslims, and yet Sharia law has not usurped local, state or federal laws.

You said, "an area." Are you now racing to qualify that statement because you can't produce facts to support it?

I thought so.

Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pretty much any country that has muslim majorities implements their style of govt.

It isn't a religion, its a form of govt.
 
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A meeting about whether to lift a moratorium on the construction of a mosque in an Atlanta suburb was canceled on Tuesday after a video made by right-wing militia members led to fears of armed violence.
According to NBC News, officials in Covington, GA canceled a city planning meeting dedicated to voting on whether to proceed with the construction of a new mosque and Muslim cemetery in the town.

Chris Hill — leader of local militia group the Three Percent Security Force — told reporters that he made the video during a weekend protest against the mosque.

“I was just shooting from the hip is what I was doing, and saying, ‘Right over there, this is going to be a future ISIS training group. This is where you’re going to see terrorism taking hold in Newton County.’ It’s tied to terrorism, everything from 9/11 to Boston bombings to the Fort Hood shooting, to the coup in Turkey. It’s all connected,” said Hill, who goes by the name “Blood Agent” in his videos.

On Tuesday, armed militiamen protested outside the site of the proposed meeting, some carry assault weapons, others with sidearms. One man walked in circles shouting through a megaphone.

Hill, a Marine veteran, said that at no point has his group made violent threats against city officials, but Newton County administrators took the video seriously enough to postpone the planning meeting.

In a statement, Newton County manager Lloyd Kerr said, “Unfortunately in today’s society, uncivil threats or intentions must be taken seriously.”

The group hoping to open a house of worship and consecrate ground to bury their dead quietly filed for a permit to build the mosque earlier this year, but local newspaper the Newton Citizen made the plan public knowledge, prompting outrage, in August.

In mid-August, city officials declared a moratorium on the project. Tuesday’s meeting was ostensibly intended to take a vote on whether to lift the restriction.
Hill told WXIA that he will continue to protest if plans for the mosque go forward.

As an American, I have a right to defend. As a Marine, I have a right and a duty to defend our country and our Constitution,” he said.

Edward Ahmed of the Georgia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations told WXIA that this is typical of many Muslims’ experience in the U.S. in our divided political climate.

“American Muslims, every time that we go outside, we are standing up to extremists. If we can do that, then a county commission surrounded by law enforcement officers should be able to do the same thing,” he said.

Cry me a river.
 
Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pretty much any country that has muslim majorities implements their style of govt. It isn't a religion, its a form of govt.

I notice that your opposition to Islam doesn't lead you to fight it in the Middle East.
 
Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pretty much any country that has muslim majorities implements their style of govt.

It isn't a religion, its a form of govt.

It can be one or the other. Where it's a mere religion Islam is fine.

But when it becomes a basis for government or civil law it's an ugly problem for those non-Muslims affected by it. Liberals won't accept that Islam is more amenable for abuse than any other religion because it conflicts with some of their sacred assumptions about the world.

As a form of government it becomes Islamofascism. Barely distinguishable from Nazism in its supremacism, anti-Semitism and expansionism.

Some would argue that the qualifier 'radical' in front of Islam is redundant.
 
Is that your idea of America?

A huge # of people who came here in the beginning (and since) did so for religious freedom. You guys are so ignorant it's laughable.

You mean the religious freedom to not have to bake a cake based on religious beliefs?

You people are so hypocritical it's laughable.
 
But I'm not a liberal. I'm actually quite conservative.

More to the point, I rely on logic, fact and reason, which is why I am an Independent.

I also believe in the Constitution, and one cannot believe in Constitution and at the same time continually attempt to drive daggers into its heart.

That's a fucking lie but you're a Liberal and it comes natural for you.

If you truly believed as you SAY, you'd support the baker in Oregon that didn't want to bake a cake for the homos. Let us know your view on that situation.
 
You are aware that the Branch Davidians - an American-grown Christian-offshoot cult of a limited number of people and the entire population of one of the world's major religions is just a TINY bit different, yes?

So? They are both cults.
 
Oh come on. That's not true. It's not like he's Catholic. He may bow to Mecca every day in prayer but it's not like he places his allegiance to a Pope before his country.
Clearly you misrepresent Catholicism with your ignorance of it. In spite of several of my own posts where I have railed against my own pope.
 
It can be one or the other. Where it's a mere religion Islam is fine.

But when it becomes a basis for government or civil law it's an ugly problem for those non-Muslims affected by it. Liberals won't accept that Islam is more amenable for abuse than any other religion because it conflicts with some of their sacred assumptions about the world.

As a form of government it becomes Islamofascism. Barely distinguishable from Nazism in its supremacism, anti-Semitism and expansionism.

Some would argue that the qualifier 'radical' in front of Islam is redundant.

What is the liberal assumption in your mind? Why do they refuse to denounce Islam and barely denounce radical Islam?

I noticed, while watching Jon Stewart, that when he made fun of ISIS and called them assholes or w/e the liberal audience barely laughed. But when he made fun of say Trump, or Republicans it was HAHAHAHAHA!

I think its because they are brown people that aren't American, automatically on the protected from any criticism list. Plus their main ideology focuses on how evil the West and USA is and must be reformed in a socialist way. ISIS and radical Islam cut into this theory because they appear to create themselves and persecute other not chrstian, non whites.

So what is their solution? Ignore it, and keep bashing capitalism.
 
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