cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/26899243
To some extent, Mohamed Hussein knew he was preparing to enter the lion’s den.
But he made the decision to attend the Republican Party of Texas Convention to confirm for himself that he had a place in the GOP, even as members of the party have railed for months about the urgency of ending Sharia Law and the so-called “Islamification” of Texas.
What he found was a party that didn’t want him. He arrived with hope, but left in tears after being told explicitly that he should leave the country.
Hussein was among four Muslims, who arrived at the convention in earnest — not as protesters, but as delegates or attendees — to participate in the annual meeting of the state’s most hardlined Republicans as they vote on the party’s priorities and hear from GOP leaders. Two prevailing themes from the Houston gathering were party unity and combatting Sharia Law, a movement that veered into outright Islamophobia by members of the convention.
“When they say Sharia-free, that means Muslim-free, no practices of Islam,” Hussein said in an interview with The Texas Tribune. “No one is calling for the state to implement Sharia laws.”
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.”
Whatever it takes for you to sleep at night.
I’m far too wicked to get any rest.
Yeah if I enabled a genocide I wouldn’t be able to sleep either.
You actually trying to shame people for how they vote like it’s a culture war. I guess the L in ML stands for LIberal
You’d be astoundingly wrong. I’m literally shaming liberals for voting for genocide.
I’m not a liberal and it looks weird to see an ML adopt the “logic” of liberal elections to further drive class divisions.
If genocide is a culture war in your country, it deserves to collapse.
Genocide is not a culture war though, it’s deeply structural and goes all the way back to the formation of the country. And sure, no state has a right to exist, only it’s people do. I just don’t get why you are using liberal logic to say this issue is a culture war and not rooted in historical materialism. It’s like you given up on educating liberals and are simply trying to trigger them.
I’m saying it’s not a culture war issue, and if it is in your country, your country is trash.
You can’t educate those who refuse to be educated. It’s not my fault that pointing out obvious facts triggers libs. If there were Conservatives on here I’d be mocking them even harder.