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A Texas state Representative today said she instructed her staff to ask Muslim constituents to “publicly announce allegiance to America.”
“Today is Texas Muslim Capital [sic] Day in Austin,” newly-elected Republican state Rep. Molly White wrote on Facebook. “I did leave an Israeli flag on the reception desk in my office with instructions to staff to ask representatives from the Muslim community to renounce Islamic terrorist groups.”
“We will see how long they stay in my office,” she added.
In response to White’s post, CAIR Government Affairs Manager Robert McCaw sent a letter to Texas Speaker Joe Straus asking if White violated any House ethics rules by “creating such an internal office policy that is selectively being enforced to discriminate against certain religious minorities.”
“The Texas Capitol belongs to all the people of this state, and legislators have a responsibility to treat all visitors just as we expect to be treated — with dignity and respect,” Straus said in a statement to ABC News. “Anything else reflects poorly on the entire body and distracts from the very important work in front of us.”
White later commented on Facebook, “I do not apologize for my comments. … if you love America, obey our laws and condemn Islamic terrorism, then I embrace you as a fellow American. If not, then I do not.”
“Isn’t it amazing when you stand for America, our allies and against terrorism how much vile and angry responses you get? I will never cow to anti Americanism and extremists,” she wrote in another comment.
“I am banning users that are insulting,” she added.
In a post earlier today, the Texas lawmaker insisted that “becoming an American” is “not the intent of most Muslims who move to America.”
“Remember, in the Koran, it is ok to lie for the purpose of advancing Islam,” she wrote. “Texas must never allow fringe groups of people to come here so they can advance their own culture instead of becoming an American.”
Real American Muslims will have no,problem saying the pledge of alliegence to the USA…all American citizens are proud to say it..”.I pledge alegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all”
The Texas Legislator said “Remember, in the Koran, it is ok to lie for the purpose of advancing Islam,”. If that is so, then even if the Muslim constituents “publicly announce allegiance to America.”, it can still be considered a lie. Then what the should do to prove OR what the Legislator do to disprove?!
This woman is mad. She is being intentionally provocative: “we will see how long they stay in my office” is not the sort of remark one expects from someone who is in public office.
Fool.
AIPAC’s dollars at work, the reason behind America’s decline can be seen in the lunacy of its leaders!