Michigan GOP tilt toward Christian nationalism vexes Muslim party leaders : leopardsatemyface

[-] krayj@sh.itjust.works 73 points 10 months ago

We feel like we’re in a club where we’re not really welcome.

How brain dead do they have to be, to be realizing this just now?

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 39 points 10 months ago

Well, they're GOP, so.

[-] Therealgoodjanet@lemmy.world 57 points 10 months ago

People who joined the leopard eating faces club are surprised the leopards ate their face. Who could have predicted this? No one I tell you, absolutely no one. A very surprising turn of events.

/s just in case, we’re on the internet after all

[-] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee 53 points 10 months ago

"Cmon, can't we all just hate queers in peace, together?"

[-] eatthecake@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Queers and women

[-] irreticent@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

And poor people.

[-] runeko@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

Oh, and also Muslims while we're at it.

[-] Blackout@kbin.social 49 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If you are in the Republican party and not a wealthy white male you are an outsider and will forever be one. They will only use you for as long as they need then dump you. Muslims that vote conservative are the biggest fools of all.

Reminds me of the gay man that helped Hitler rise to power just to be executed for being gay. His name was Ernst Rohm and he took thought they would change and see how he was different but that was a mistake.

[-] yetAnotherUser@feddit.de 8 points 10 months ago

He wasn't executed for being gay but rather due to internal power struggles in the Nazi party and being seen as a threat.

He was the co-founder of the Nazi party and leader of the brown shirts.

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I mean Stalin had a reason to remove everyone. It seems plausible that it could be a cover story.

[-] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

Muslims feeling alienated in the U.S.

Is this an "Onion" article?

[-] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Leopard ate my face, same thing

[-] Jonna@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

Handy tip: an abbreviation for Nationalist Christians is Nat-Cs.

[-] jmd_akbar@aussie.zone 24 points 10 months ago

In a Michigan Republican Party where three of the six vice chairs are Muslim, “we feel like we’re in a club where we’re not really welcome."

I mean, who would have ever thought that... No one could have foreseen this happen. No one, I say... No one... /s

[+] aniki@lemm.ee 22 points 10 months ago

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[-] Blackout@kbin.social 14 points 10 months ago

It absolutely is and has prevented peace on this planet for its entire existence. How people could defend it as something good when it is entirely evil, preys on the weak and young, and desires the death of all those who oppose them. Even my own mother effortlessly threw me away when I brought up concerns when I was younger. Where is the love and kindness they pride themselves over? It's in the gay community, and the trans community, with the pro-choice and the liberals and intellectuals. Everywhere but in their religion.

[-] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

What about their reaction to 9/11 makes any Muslim want to join the GOP?

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Religion.

[-] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

The only religion the GOP cares about is evangelical Christianity. If they don't realize that, they're delusional

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world -5 points 10 months ago

Nope. False. All politicians who have a faith based base have to care about all faiths because faith in general is what is protected. Protecting Islam, or Judaism as antithetical as it sounds boldters the Christian faith as well.

Once a national religion is defined and enforced they could then stop carrying about all others.

[-] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They don't care about any other religion and want Christianity to be the state religion. They're pushing it at all levels of government

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

They have to care, what they want and what they need to get what they want are two different things entirely.

[-] GlendatheGayWitch@lib.lgbt 10 points 10 months ago

Was there ever a point in the last 80 years when they actually felt welcome? The GOP dove headfirst into Christian Nationalism after WWII.

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