Texas GOP in Disarray as Party Members Demand Removal of Practicing Muslim Leader

[Soph0571]

The Republican Party of Texas is riven with fractures and infighting as a local branch attempts to remove a Muslim man from his leadership post simply because of his religious faith.

Shahid Shafi serves as a party official for the Tarrant County GOP. Shafi is a trauma surgeon and city council member in suburban Southlake, Texas. He’s also a practicing Muslim.

Being a doctor and elected official doesn’t appear to outweigh that third item–Shafi’s Muslim identity. The fact of his chosen religion is apparently none-too-pleasing for a not inconsequential number of Texas Republicans.

[link:https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/texas-gop-in-disarray-as-party-members-demand-removal-of-practicing-muslim-leader/|

To fair it must be terribly confusing for these right wing racist bigots that someone they actively hate and despise would want to be part of their nasty....

[onetexan]

1. The good dr. Needs to change his party affiliation

As no one on their right mind would belong to a party that promotes hate and bigotry.

[TexasTowelie]

2. Shafi isn't the only Muslim being targeted.

I posted this article from the Texas Observer in the Texas Group this morning:

Tarrant County Republicans to Host Islamophobic Speaker Days Before Vote on Muslim Leaders
https://www.democraticunderground.com/107841698

[Renew Deal]

3. He should switch parties

Democrats would benefit from his base of support and the very public lesson that there is no room in the Republican Party for non-Christians.

[Renew Deal]

4. Who was the Republican spokesperson that asked last week why Democrats keep calling republicans...

racist?

The answer is basically in the OP. It’s because they keep doing racist things.

[Lucky Luciano]

5. Republican identity politics should be called identity politics.

[Lochloosa]

6. I have no sympathy for Mr. Shafi.

He knows what his party stands for and still pursued a leadership role.

[Captain Stern]

7. That's pretty much where I'm at with this guy too.

He was happy to be a member, and even a leader, of the republican party when he thought that they were only fucking over other people.

Fuck that guy.

[dalton99a]

9. Yeah, he had no idea that the GOP rank and file don't like Muslims

[dsc]

8. well there was the Jewish man who repeatedly rose to high ranking positions in state Klans

only to get thrown out when he was found out.

[leftynyc]

11. Pretty sure he didn't know

He was Jewish so hardly the same.

[dsc]

12. He did

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Burros



Daniel Burros was born to Jewish parents George and Esther Sunshine Burros in the Bronx. The family moved to Queens a few years later and Burros attended Hebrew school at Talmud Torah in Richmond Hill, where his bar mitzvah was held in 1950.[3] In high school, he did well in most classes. Burros was not athletic and had poor eyesight. He was intense to the point of paranoia in athletic competition, particularly if he was losing or feared he was losing. He also possessed a fiery temper. This and his intensity frequently led to fights.[citation needed]

[leftynyc]

15. Must be thinking of a different prick

This one got what he deserved. Like chickens for colonial sanders.

[tanyev]

10. The Tarrant County GOP wants to hate themselves out of existence? Please proceed.

[Blue_true]

13. In other news, another chicken went for dinner at Colonel Sanders' house and it did not end well for

the chicken.

[Gothmog]

14. The Racists at Night Are Big and Bright, Deep in the Heart of Texas

From Juanita Jean http://juanitajean.com/the-racists-at-night-are-big-and-bright-deep-in-the-heart-of-texas/

Hissy fits abound! There’s horrors unfolding at the campfire.

Some in the party say Shahid Shafi, a surgeon and city council member in a Fort Worth suburb, may be more loyal to Islamic law or not supportive enough of the party’s pro-Israel platform.

They’re using the Sharia word. They also object to a precinct chair who is married to a Muslim man and another female precinct chair who has nothing to do with Muslims but they don’t like her because she might be a Democrat. And they don’t like the man who’s party chairman ether. Hell, they even have an online petition to remove him as chairman.

All this was brought about because Beto won Tarrant County and they feel secularism breathing down their skinny upright and uptight necks so they decided to eat each other.
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It might be worth a ticket to Fort Worth just to stand in the back of the room and with them build a fire.