May 30, 2015, 10:09 am
By Mark Hensch
A tense religious confrontation at a Phoenix mosque avoided violence Friday, despite concerns the standoff would escalate.
Law enforcement officials kept watch over about 500 protesters at the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix, The Associated Press reported.
That total divided into roughly 250 participants for each side, AP said.
The initial rally was organized by a Phoenix Marine who fought in the Iraq War and sees Islam as a religion promoting violence, according to AP.
The Marine and his supporters arrived at the mosque with American flags, assault rifles, pistols and cartoons depicting Muhammad, Islam’s holiest prophet.
The event sparked a counter-protest, AP said, made up mainly of supporters of the Phoenix Muslim community and other demonstrators preaching tolerance.
That group carried signs that advocated for peace and love in the community.
Dozens of law enforcement officials served as a buffer between each side.
Liberals side with Islamists who threatened to drink blood of mosque protesters
On Friday, hundreds participated in a protest held at a Phoenix mosque that reportedly included a “draw Muhammad” contest. Islamists, however, issued threats on Twitter, including one that threatened to drink the blood of protesters if Muhammad was drawn, Breitbart.com said. Meanwhile, a number of liberal counter-protesters took a stand in support of the Islamists on Friday, both in front of the mosque and online, using the hashtag “#NotMyAmerica.”
“WARNING IF U LOVE UR CHILDREN DONT BRING THEM IN THE EVENT TODAY THE WILL SPLIT OF BLOOD IN THE EVENT OF MUHAMMAD SAW DRAWINGS (sic),” said a Twitter account that has since been suspended. “WHO EVER LOVE HER OR HIS CHILD DONT TAKE THEM IN THE EVENT WE PROMISE U WE WILL DRINK UR BLOOD (sic),” the account said Thursday.
The same person also issued a threatening tweet promising the event would not finish without bloodshed. “WE WILL PAY U BACK TODAY THE EVENT WONT FINISH WITHOUT KUFFAR BLOOD WE PROMISE U DAT,” the Twitter account said.
“If an attack happens at that contest and loads of people die you brought upon yourselves, I won’t care in the slightest,” said a tweet from an account called Shariah will Rule. “You stupid kuffar clearly did not take from the Charlie Hebdo attacks. You guys are truly deaf, dumb & blind,” the same account said.
The #NotMyAmerica campaign, the Huffington Post said, was organized by the Campaign to Take On Hate, a group Antonia Blumberg said “works to challenge misconceptions of Muslims and Arab Americans.” The group even went so far as to provide sample tweets for those who couldn’t think of something to say. The group, however, said nothing about the threats leveled at event organizer Jon Ritzheimer and his family.
Meanwhile the Obama administration is quietly seeding muslim imigrants into communities across the nation — look it up
Meanwhile is there any effort on the part of the Obama administration to facilitate the absorption of any middle-east CHRISTIANS being driven out of their ancestral homelands by murderous muslim hordes? No – we’re only interested in allowing unchecked MUSLIM infiltration.