Lone Woman At Anti-Muslim Protest Ends Up inside Mosque for coffee, bagels & hugs!

[kpete]

This happened in Dearborn at the anti-Muslim rally - one person, and she wound up inside for coffee and bagels. A good story for once.

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Global Rally For Humanity was supposed to be an anti-Muslim protest at Mosques nationwide, organized by a group known as the Oath Keepers. While an estimated 120 Christian bigots picketed outside a Mosque in Phoenix, Arizona, things looked vastly different in Dearborn, Michigan. Only one protester showed up.

Dozens more were seen driving by, but when they realized turnout wasn’t what they were quite expecting, they decided to turn tail.

For the lone woman brave enough to stay the course, her day of protesting a “violent Islam” turned into something entirely different. Instead of running into a situation that confirmed her beliefs (i.e. Muslims hating her for her bigoted views), she was welcomed with hugs and invited inside the Mosque for coffee and bagels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=2718&v=drlZS989mEQ


MORE:
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/10/11/christian-bigot-protesting-violent-islam-gets-hugs-invited-into-mosque-video/

[PatrickforO]

1. K & R!

Nice story kpete.

[LittleBlue]

2. This reminds me of House of Cards

Where the union started eating ribs at Claire's party.

[Cal Carpenter]

3. That is NOT how I expected it to go

That's fucking awesome. Only one person was even bold enough to stand there - the rest of the assholes apparently don't have strong enough convictions to put themselves out there without the safety of a mob? Hahahahahahaaaaa!!!

And she actually LEARNED something. That these eeeeeevul Muslims are just regular everyday people, and most of them are nice good friendly people just like anyone else.

Lovely. Thanks for sharing. When I saw the news that this event was going to happen I feared the worst. I never imagined it would end up this way. So nice.

[Phentex]

6. Well, let's hope she learned something...

and will pass it on to others. It is a nice thought.

[treestar]

4. Glad that turned out like that

There are a lot of Christians who would have protected that mosque too, from the bigoted ones.

[closeupready]

12. lol, yeah right.

[awoke_in_2003]

20. I am an atheist, but in fairness

it has happened, I just can't recall where at the moment.

[CBGLuthier]

21. Explain, if you can how your bigotry against all christians, is somehow morally superior to the

bigotry of those who hate Muslims.

[treestar]

23. Crickets.

[treestar]

22. I don't agree

Not all Christians are fundie nutcases.

[closeupready]

25. The posts from you and your co-religionists here on this thread alone

underscore the defensiveness of Christians in light of a well-earned reputation for abusive treatment of nonbelievers and the rights of nonbelievers. As in, methinks y'all protest too much that "not ALL Christians are that way".

Finally, you and your co-religionists will likely want to bicker further about my views, but I'm not into that. I'm moving on to more productive discussions.

Peace.

[LanternWaste]

34. Actually, yeah... right.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1353330/Egypt-protests-Christians-join-hands-protect-Muslims-pray-Cairo-protests.html

But no doubt, we often see what we want to, and more often ignore that which we don't... human nature, I'd guess.

[JNelson6563]

28. Wasn't this a well publicized thing?

I would think some would've been there in anticipation of this planned anti-Muslim event. They couldn't have known only one would show.

Such things have occurred but, for the most part, I find the "good Christians" to most remiss in countering extremist behavior on their own team.

Julie

[3catwoman3]

5. Let's hope...

...it sticks.

[safeinOhio]

7. Nice people there

I use to visit Lebonise friends from work there. Very kind folks. I can see them inviting protestors into their home and giving them homemade humus. Yum.

[blackspade]

8. By emphasizing the awful, we miss the good.

Middle Eastern culture has many great things going on which are overshadowed by murderous assholes...
Kind of like all of the great things about American culture overshadowed by murderous assholes...

[Scurrilous]

9. Thanks.

K & R

[SwissTony]

10. When you can get beyond the stereotypes, you find people are...em...people

Two years ago, my wife and i visited Jordan. The people there were unfailingly kind, welcoming and friendly.

[passiveporcupine]

11. I hope this video goes viral

All though a lot of people will think it too long.

[Chemisse]

13. This is sweet.

I love that this happened.

[Uncle Joe]

14. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[nadine_mn]

15. They even carried her signs

I love what happens when people see each other as people and not stereotypical rhetoric

[teach1st]

16. That is beautiful

Excellent! You could actually see the influence of some of the hateful, erroneous Internet static fall away from the woman protester as she was treated as a human with truth, gentle respect, and understanding. I don't like the headline of the AddictingInfo article calling her a bigot. Technically, the ideas she verbalizes are bigoted, but notice how few people in the video actually called her ignorant or bigoted, which would have been very easy to do. The people trying to inform her took the correct, though painstaking path.

It took a lot of patience and humanity to counteract the misinformation she had been fed. Good job!

[F4lconF16]

18. I like your username.

The only way there will ever be.

[Oilwellian]

17. Love this n/t

[jen63]

19. The article says this was Dearborn,

but I actually believe that it's Noor Mosque in Dublin, OH. It's right around the corner from where my son and I lived. Suburban Columbus.

[jamzrockz]

24. Funny dialogue

Christian woman: what if I catch on fire?
Muslim woman: we have lots of bottled water inside.

That line just made my morning.

[Gothmog]

26. This is a great video

Thank you for posting

[randome]

27. Can't you see? She's stabbing that poor woman's foot with a pointy stick!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]"The whole world is a circus if you know how to look at it."
Tony Randall, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)[/center][/font][hr]

[KamaAina]

29. Bagels in a mosque?

[Nay]

40. Yeah, that made me laugh out loud. Wonder if lox and cream cheese were

available, too.

[Glassunion]

30. I find the headgear a bit offensive.

I can't stand the Packers.

[Paka]

31. K&R

One person at a time. Open up your mind and let the good flow in.

[patsimp]

32. As heartwarming as this is, muslim radicalization in western countries is a real concern and threat.

All religions are not the same.

[Cal Carpenter]

33. And what does that have to do with the good people at the mosque in the story?

Not all MEMBERS of a religion are the same. Not all radicalized religious nuts are Muslim.

The vast majority of Muslims are not 'radicalized' just as the vast majority of Christians are not radicalized, bigoted assholes.

Your comment veers sharply to a bigoted and/or xenophobic attitude.

As someone who encounters many, many Muslims every day including some good friends, I refuse to keep my mouth shut when I see statements like this.

[patsimp]

37. Not at all - I have many Muslim friends as well

I just don't think this is all feel good.

[Cal Carpenter]

38. The part that isn't feel-good is the Anti-Muslim Open Carry advocates,

the so-called Christians who were planning to show up en masse at mosques and Muslim community centers. With guns.

How you manage to convince yourself that the story is the other way around is appalling. If you are truly concerned about the 'radicalization' of Muslims in the west, you should probably focus on the gun-toting assholes who are actively trying to contribute to it. You should be able to recognize that it was the Muslims that turned this around with kindness, tolerance, and humanity.

Yet somehow you focus on the opposite... Oh well. You get to live with the cognitive dissonance.

[patsimp]

39. You make good points.

[LanternWaste]

35. It ain't Muslims denying citizens marriage certificates because it's against Christian law...

It ain't Muslims in America denying fellow citizens their lawful marriage certificates simply because it's against Christian law...

[patsimp]

36. Well there are tens of thousands of Muslim's in Syria and Iraq that are

throwing men suspected of being gay off rooftops and beheading Christians.

And there are supporters of their ideas in mosques all around the world.

[CJCRANE]

41. And who's supporting those rebels...

and who's funding those mosques?

I don't disagree with you but we need to look at the source and support of this ideology, and it might be closer to home than you think.

[patsimp]

42. saudi arabia is funding the mosquse. The religious ideology and

fanaticism around the world is supporting the killings.