Week After Armed Anti-Islam Protest, Hundreds Show Support for Irving’s Mosque

[Douglas Carpenter]

Posted by Bobby Rodrigo on Nov 29, 2015 in General, Top News Stories

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About 200 people lined up outside the Islamic Center of Irving on Saturday afternoon. Cold but mostly dry, they stood for hours with signs of friendship and support for religious freedom, and they hugged worshippers who drifted over from the mosque.

A dozen men and women with long guns stood in the same spot a week earlier, convinced that the Quran preached violence and declaring that Islam must not be allowed to spread.

“It turned my stomach,” said Bob Maryan, one of many in Saturday’s crowd who had never been to a demonstration. He usually spends his days in downtown Dallas, working in corporate business development.

Behind him, a girl in a pink headscarf wandered through the crowd, mouth agape as people thrust flowers toward her.

“Holding guns where little kids study … it’s just being a coward,” said Maleeha Aziz, 22, who emigrated from Pakistan to Dallas about four years ago. Her sign read: “Terrorism, NOT in my name.”

http://www.itakelibertywithmycoffee.com/2015/11/week-after-armed-anti-islam-protest-hundreds-show-support-for-irvings-mosque/

[cpwm17]

1. Good for them. n/t

[OldRedneck]

2. And where were . . .

Where were the armed assholes who paraded around in ski masks carrying AR-15's last week?

I'm betting they were cowering in their single-wide trailers, afraid to show their faces.

[Jack Rabbit]

3. !!

[LeftishBrit]

4. k&r