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Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)
Tue Apr 14, 2015, 08:44 PM Apr 2015

OMG!!!!11!!!!! Why haven't we heard all about this???!!!???!!!

Islamic Extremists Have Seized Control Of U.S. Cities, Says NRA Seminar

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/04/14/3646567/no-go-zones-nra-convention/

NASHVILLE, TN — Islamic extremists have seized control of cities across the United States and have enacted sharia law, according to a speaker at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting who spoke about current and emerging threats to American gun owners.

Author Steve Tarani said during a presentation in Nashville on Sunday that he has witnessed the alleged “no-go zones” — areas where police cannot enter — while shadowing a friend who serves on the Detroit Metro SWAT Police on a drive in Dearborn, MI. He described pulling up to one of the alleged Muslim-controlled areas:

The street signs suddenly went from English to Arabic. There wasn’t a single English word on any shop or any street sign. And in fact, these little yellow signs were posted all along the edges. Jeremy said to me, ‘this is it. We don’t go past this line.’ And I said to Jeremy, ‘what do you mean? You guys are Detroit Metro. You’re the SWAT team. You can go anywhere you want. What if you get a call over there?’ He said ‘this is it, it’s hazardous for our team if we go past this line.’


Leave it to the NRA to dream up another ridiculous excuse why people need guns.
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OMG!!!!11!!!!! Why haven't we heard all about this???!!!???!!! (Original Post) Binkie The Clown Apr 2015 OP
Fear = gun sales. JaneyVee Apr 2015 #1
I blame Reagan. Scuba Apr 2015 #2
Among others. n/t jaysunb Apr 2015 #10
LMFAO! marym625 Apr 2015 #3
then name Tarani screws up spell check. it sounds foreign, JanMichael Apr 2015 #4
Here they are praying to the Big Gun in the sky! Rex Apr 2015 #5
The Republican party at prayer. hrmjustin Apr 2015 #8
If I was raised with zero scruples, I would gin up paranoia like a mofo and make bullwinkle428 Apr 2015 #6
Right on. Missn-Hitch Apr 2015 #23
"Bah gawd it must be true. I seen it on the innernets." lpbk2713 Apr 2015 #7
I think I just choked on my porridge. (nt) Nine Apr 2015 #9
Well, I guess there's only on thing left to do: Downtown Hound Apr 2015 #11
Yep. Some of the details are jumbled though. That place is called the bible belt. GoneFishin Apr 2015 #12
lol well we can't let Bristol outdo us on the Twitter memes daredtowork Apr 2015 #13
Like they say, some days it just isn't worth it to truedelphi Apr 2015 #14
This is Judicial Watch's doing. dixiegrrrrl Apr 2015 #18
Ok, aside from all of the rest of the asinine story... eggplant Apr 2015 #21
and why would ISIS have anything to do with sales of drugs? dixiegrrrrl Apr 2015 #25
Thanks for pointing to the source. truedelphi Apr 2015 #28
Why does anyone give them credence? nt babylonsister Apr 2015 #15
This is the NRA gratuitous Apr 2015 #16
Detroit cops do not patrol Dearborn. longship Apr 2015 #17
I remember that! Binkie The Clown Apr 2015 #19
Lived and worked on the West side for more than safeinOhio Apr 2015 #20
Don't laugh. It could be true. I may have a picture of their Ringleader. BlueJazz Apr 2015 #22
mmmmm. soup. merrily Apr 2015 #27
I assumed that everyone knew Thespian2 Apr 2015 #24
Excuse for guns, excuse for beefing up the Pentagon, excuse for Homeland Security and militarizing merrily Apr 2015 #26

bullwinkle428

(20,631 posts)
6. If I was raised with zero scruples, I would gin up paranoia like a mofo and make
Tue Apr 14, 2015, 08:53 PM
Apr 2015

countless millions scamming the shit out of hysterical right-wingers!

Missn-Hitch

(1,383 posts)
23. Right on.
Tue Apr 14, 2015, 11:35 PM
Apr 2015

The very first time I thought of this was when Passion of Christ came out. Remember? There was a car in NASCAR sponsored by the movie. The merchandising was brilliant. Little metal spikes on friendship bracelets. Anyway...I have ideas but that little voice keeps me from rubbing my hands together doing my Mr. Burns voice...but still.

GoneFishin

(5,217 posts)
12. Yep. Some of the details are jumbled though. That place is called the bible belt.
Tue Apr 14, 2015, 09:21 PM
Apr 2015

They don't call it sharia law, but it's the same thing.

daredtowork

(3,732 posts)
13. lol well we can't let Bristol outdo us on the Twitter memes
Tue Apr 14, 2015, 09:23 PM
Apr 2015

The NRA Facts American geography lessons must commence at once! I look forward to seeing Burqas on Broadway: The Musical as the ultimate expression of American pizzazz.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
18. This is Judicial Watch's doing.
Tue Apr 14, 2015, 10:37 PM
Apr 2015
ISIS is operating a camp just a few miles from El Paso, Texas, according to Judicial Watch sources that include a Mexican Army field grade officer and a Mexican Federal Police Inspector.
According to these same sources, “coyotes” engaged in human smuggling – and working for Juárez Cartel – help move ISIS terrorists through the desert and across the border between Santa Teresa and Sunland Park, New Mexico. To the east of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, cartel-backed “coyotes” are also smuggling ISIS terrorists through the porous border between Acala and Fort Hancock, Texas. These specific areas were targeted for exploitation by ISIS because of their understaffed municipal and county police forces, and the relative safe-havens the areas provide for the unchecked large-scale drug smuggling that was already ongoing.

Mexican intelligence sources report that ISIS intends to exploit the railways and airport facilities in the vicinity of Santa Teresa, NM (a US port-of-entry). The sources also say that ISIS has “spotters” located in the East Potrillo Mountains of New Mexico (largely managed by the Bureau of Land Management) to assist with terrorist border crossing operations. ISIS is conducting reconnaissance of regional universities; the White Sands Missile Range; government facilities in Alamogordo, NM; Ft. Bliss; and the electrical power facilities near Anapra and Chaparral, NM.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/04/isis-camp-a-few-miles-from-texas-mexican-authorities-confirm/

Judicial Watch is a very right website.
Info wars parrots this story.

eggplant

(3,915 posts)
21. Ok, aside from all of the rest of the asinine story...
Tue Apr 14, 2015, 11:18 PM
Apr 2015

...why would a drug cartel want to help ISIS target their biggest market?

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
25. and why would ISIS have anything to do with sales of drugs?
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 12:13 AM
Apr 2015

Hmmm...the common denominator IS $$$$$$.

Anyhow, no sign of any story remotely like this in legit news.

truedelphi

(32,324 posts)
28. Thanks for pointing to the source.
Fri Apr 24, 2015, 03:04 PM
Apr 2015

A preposterous story, reported on by a preposterous group. (Althugh their name sounds progressive, doesn't it?)

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
16. This is the NRA
Tue Apr 14, 2015, 10:03 PM
Apr 2015

I'm sure all of its members must be very proud of the goings-on in Nashville. I know this because nobody in membership seems to be working to change anything.

longship

(40,416 posts)
17. Detroit cops do not patrol Dearborn.
Tue Apr 14, 2015, 10:07 PM
Apr 2015

Dearborn cops do. Two different cities; two different jurisdictions.

What a maroon!

And in my earlier days we would go to Hamtramck, a city surrounded by Detroit, to buy polish food and stuff. Not one sign on Joseph Campau street was in English. It was all Polish.

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)
19. I remember that!
Tue Apr 14, 2015, 10:47 PM
Apr 2015

My grandmother lived in Hamtramck, or very close to it (All I remember is she was off Van Dyke Ave. on Pressler, in a two-story brick house that looked identical to every other house on the block.) Her third (or maybe it was her fourth) husband was Polish. I remember driving past the big auto plant on the way to her house. That was in the mid 1950's.

safeinOhio

(32,738 posts)
20. Lived and worked on the West side for more than
Tue Apr 14, 2015, 11:09 PM
Apr 2015

30 years. Had many Muslim friends in that area. Some of the best people I've ever known. Got invited to their homes and always felt welcomed and safe.
I guess fear sells lots of guns and memberships.

Thespian2

(2,741 posts)
24. I assumed that everyone knew
Tue Apr 14, 2015, 11:39 PM
Apr 2015

that anyone speaking at an NRA meeting would be beating his/her teeth...more guns to make us safe (I don't know who we are supposed to be safe from)...More wars...munitions makers are not rich enough...more bowing down to the politicians who will assure we are safe from some unknown threat...

Must admit, though, that these self-same speakers do not give ONE SHIT about the health and well-being of the cloth-brained people they are speaking to.

merrily

(45,251 posts)
26. Excuse for guns, excuse for beefing up the Pentagon, excuse for Homeland Security and militarizing
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 12:17 AM
Apr 2015

state and local police, excuse for the NSA and other warrantless spying, excuse for so many things

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