And now this, from Texas:

Updated at 7:30 p.m.: New details have been added, and early reports have been merged into a longer article.

About a dozen protesters — most carrying long guns, some masked and one with his mother — lined up outside an Irving mosque on Saturday. They had come from as far away as Hunt County to the green-domed complex. To “Stop the Islamization of America,” as the mother’s hand-drawn sign urged.

A pickup tooted on its way down Esters Road, not the first or last driver to endorse the message. Right behind the truck, a sedan pulled out of the Islamic Center of Irving lot, where afternoon prayers had just finished, and blasted Arabic music as it passed.

Two men on the sidewalk mocked the song, distorting foreign lyrics into gibberish as the car sped away. Then they huddled in the cold around their cigarettes, guns and flags, waiting for another passer-by to pay attention. It was a strange protest, held at a strange time in a suburb strangely relevant to America’s brand of anti-Islamic politics.

David Wright (center) organized the protest and brought his tactical shotgun
David Wright (center) organized the protest and brought his tactical shotgun

“We tried to talk to the mosque before we did this, but they wouldn’t return our messages,” said David Wright, dressed in black all the way from his backwards baseball cap to the barrel of his tactical shotgun. “So here we are.”

Wright said he organized the rally in the wake of an Islamic terrorist group’s massacre of Parisian civilians this month. Like millions of Americans, he wants to block Syrian refugees from U.S. shores, lest they replicate the attack here.

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The protest was peaceful, but I suspect this is a precursor to more (and some perhaps violent).

When the ballot box no longer works . . .

Quote: Rufus T Firefly wrote in post #2

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The protest was peaceful, but I suspect this is a precursor to more (and some perhaps violent).

When the ballot box no longer works . . .

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