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.”
69 Comments
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 146 pts · 79d
This is why they get treated that way, because they're going to show up and vote for them anyway.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world · 72 pts · 79d
It’s pathetic really. These people hate their existence and yet they continue to carry water for them. Useful idiot isn’t a strong enough descriptor.
SayJess@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 78d
So many immigrants support this lunacy. My old best friend’s family are all big Trump supporters—None of them were born here. Some have citizenship, and the others have green cards. The one’s who can vote, vote red.
It’s so fucking stupid.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 79d
pickme's
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 78d
Apparently not at this convention.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 78d
haha, yes indeed; that's the thing about these people - they're never gonna be embraced by the right. hell, Kaitlin Jenner is still trying to convince them she's a good trans person, and all the other ones are the icky types. jfc...
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz · -19 pts · 79d
Blue no matter what?
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 78d
Nah. Blue cuz they always govern better.
Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml · -10 pts · 78d
What about the genocide?
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 77d
What about it?
Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml · -5 pts · 77d
You'd vote for a party doing one? That's vile.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 77d
You guys don't learn, do you?
Your little purity test resulted in a felon rapist pedophile controlling your life and a free-for-all wholesale slaughter of the people you were conducting a purity test for.
There is no debate here.
Palestinians were better off with Democrats in control and losers like you assured that the absolute worst possible outcome for Palestinians came to pass.
Eat shit. Freak.
zbyte64@awful.systems · 1 pts · 77d
Voting is not an endorsement. It's picking your boss battle. But yall rather we leave power at the table because the spectacle is too confusing for the vanguard navigate
ramenshaman@lemmy.world · 115 pts · 79d
Imagine being as delusional as someone who was Muslim and felt welcome in the GOP in 2026. Trump literally tried to create a "Muslim ban". Were you not paying attention?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 39 pts · 79d
or being LGBTQ+ and voting R, which is even more delusional. at least with muslim, which lean right in some cases.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 78d
I know a gay republican. He makes my ears bleed when he talks.
Iusedtobeanalien@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 78d
Trans for Trump was certainly an interesting diversion.
I wonder how those Illinois Muslims for trump guys are getting on these days
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 33d
this I don't get, the muslims fir Trump are just because of their LGBTQ hate, it blinds them to anything else. Gay Republicans are inexplicable.
johnyreeferseed@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 78d
The idiot said he would continue to vote Republican, not delusional, a dumb ass
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 78d
Think you just figured out how every Trump/GOP supporter became a Trump/GOP supporter.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 33d
For them its about gay hate
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com · 73 pts · 79d
Their idea of unity is not coming together despite differences, it's an eradication of differences. They aren't even hiding it. I have no idea why they are surprised.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 78d
they are hoping they are the exception to the rule.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 78d
"No, we meant to unite with US, not whatever weirdo religion you believe in"
WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today · 42 pts · 79d
But the group of Republican wannabe Muslims still won't face their cognitive dissonance. I mean... There's a reason they wanted to join the Republicans, after all...
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 78d
Gotta have a pretty smooth brain to not recognize a political party as racist when they've been brazenly racist for decades.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 78d
Conservative muslims in America do love to participate in the culture war bullshit which attracts them to lemming voting for Republicans.
inari@piefed.zip · 19 pts · 79d
The Republicans would get a lot more votes if they weren't so racist. A lot of conservative racial minorities end up voting Democrat as a result.
Tedesche@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 79d
Not enough of them though. Hence, #leopardsatemyface.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 79d
apparently they still do get alot votes with thier racism, despite the people voting them in is end of the targeted racism. i think they would lose votes without the culture wars and bigotry, because they be another dem party without the fascism.
Wakmrow@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 78d
Lol no they wouldn't they're the party of racism
zebidiah@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 78d
Jeb understood this... He married a Latina and learned fluent Spanish. But the racism is a key pillar of the gop, and they don't care if you hate minorities too if you're a minority yourself.
Omgpwnies@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 78d
I don't think they care, it's been well proven now that 50%+1 is enough for them to do all the damage they please, and fixing it essentially requires a supermajority.
magnetosphere@fedia.io · 15 pts · 79d
Get them all CAT scans immediately
Natanael@infosec.pub · 6 pts · 78d
Can't scan a void. Can't have much there to support Trump
magnetosphere@fedia.io · 2 pts · 78d
That makes early detection even more important!
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 77d
I don't have time to research but i wonder what the right tells to people with immigrant background for the latter to be duped by the right? Are some religious minorities enamoured by, let's say misogyny, to vote for Republican but somehow forget that the Republicans also hate non-whites? I'm curious if social media feed only show minorities on certain things from the right but don't see other platforms from the same right.
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 77d
The right only hates the "bad minorities" which they obviously are one of the good ones. Except oops! there is no such thing as a "good minority" to republicans.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 78d
Teresa's? And? Was anyone surprised? I mean, Nazi's go Nazi and Nazi's do nazi shit. I'm not surprised, I'm not even outraged anymore because it's like being surprised that snakes do snake shit like biting you and injecting venom. It's a "doh" thing
But Muslims at a GOP convention, that IS interesting, that does make you wonder
keylime314@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 78d
Jewish Nazis were a thing. They thought the antisemitism was just rhetoric to get votes.
Hitler sent them to the camps first.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 78d
CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 78d
Good. Fucking pieces of shit all round.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 78d
Fucking idiots
eletes@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 77d
Better to figure it out this way than an ICE concentration camp
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 78d
There's never a shortage of fuck-you-got-mines until they find their comeuppance.
bagsy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 78d
This has to be fake, there is no way an adult human being can be this stupid. The picture show 5 of them, are 5 people really this stupid?
Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 78d
Buddy, there's a whole country full of em.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 78d
That picture is not of 5 muslims
mlg@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 78d
I searched up one of the delegates and uh: https://threepennypress.org/features/2021/01/13/teacher-shares-her-immigration-story-to-america/
bruh
EDIT:
I've forgotten but I'm like 90% sure CAIR was the scam DC org pretending to represent all the Islamic/Mulsim orgs in the USA, especially during the election cycle.
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 78d