A Muslim Texan Sought to Find His Place in the Party at the State GOP Convention. He Left in Tears; ‘Islamophobia’ Makes a Texas Muslim Start Crying: All the Poor Guy Wanted was to Show Republicans How Wonderful Sharia Is

Manoo Sirivelu for The Texas Tribune

A Muslim Texan sought to find his place in the party at the state GOP convention. He left in tears.

Muslim delegates and attendees hoping to participate in the state Republican convention were shunned and rejected by members as they espoused themes of party unity ahead of the November election.

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 at least 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.”

That slogan, touted by the governor on press releases, placards, lanyards and even the elephant he procured to march through the convention hall, became a rallying cry for the state’s leaders and party nominees heading into November. If fractured, they warned, the party could lose the state to Democrats and their U.S. Senate nominee, Austin state Rep. James Talarico.

But in spite of that warning, members were willing to lose the support of Muslim conservatives. --->READ MORE HERE

‘Islamophobia’ Makes a Texas Muslim Start Crying:

All the poor guy wanted was to show Republicans how wonderful Sharia is.

Texas is home to some serious anti-Sharia initiatives, and the establishment media is fighting back with everything it’s got, misrepresenting Sharia as private religious law that harms no one, and smearing opponents of Sharia as “far-right” mouth-breathers who are bent on opposing Sharia not out of any real principle, but because they hate “brown people,” and are unjustly suspicious of anything that ain’t Christian, ‘specially some furrin’ law that folks that don’t even talk like us is bringin’ here in the dark of night.

And so now the Texas Tribune has brought us the sad story of Mohamed Hussein, the poor guy, who (at least to hear the Tribune tell it) reached out in friendship to Texas Republicans and got a full dose of their “hatred,” “bigotry,” and “Islamophobia.” Mohamed Hussein left his encounter with the Texas GOP in tears, and the Texas Tribune hopes that you’ll be weeping, too, once you hear of just how mean and racist these “far-right” gargoyles really are.

Hussein, we’re told, “knew he was preparing to enter the lion’s den.” But he summoned up his courage and “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.” See? All Mo wanted to do was belong. He just wanted to fit in. He only wanted to be one of the guys. And what happened to him was just… cruel.

“What he found,” the Tribune tells us, “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.” Now, you’d think by this point that Hussein encountered a bunch of cross-burning Klansman, and that’s exactly what the Texas Tribune wants you to think, but reality, as is always the case, is a bit more complicated.

The Tribune notes that “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.” Hussein himself insists that “when they say Sharia-free, that means Muslim-free, no practices of Islam. No one is calling for the state to implement Sharia laws.”

Well, that’s true. But neither Hussein nor the Tribune bother to note the plans of Muslims in Texas to establish residential areas such as EPIC City that have received a good deal of attention, and that would be 100% Muslim or close to it. Sharia, or as much as the residents could get away with, would likely prevail there.

Nor do Hussein or the Tribune mention the elements of Sharia that are incompatible with U.S. law: the death penalty for criticizing Islam; polygamy; child marriage; female genital mutilation, the recommendation to “beat” women “from whom you fear disobedience” (Qur’an 4:34); and much more. It’s far easier to despise people who oppose Sharia when you think Sharia is harmless than when you know what it’s really all about. --->READ MORE HERE

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