I see we're still ignoring the Waco murders to focus on "cartoon contests."
You can draw your own conclusions as to why a bunch of fourth-tier patriots have decided that drawing pictures of Muhammad and showing them to Muslims is the very best way for them to show how much they love freedom. That's going to be their thing, though, so a group of
freedom-fighting biker-yokels are converging today at the Arizona mosque that the two Texas cartoon-contest would-be terrorists worshipped at in order to shout and
wave those pictures.
In a Facebook event for the contest, entitled “Freedom of Speech Rally Round II,” organizer Jon Ritzheimer wrote, “This is in response to the recent attack in Texas where 2 armed terrorist, with ties to ISIS, attempted Jihad.”
He also asks freedom-lovers to come armed. Not because they want to stir up trouble, just
because.
“People are also encouraged to utilize there [sic] second amendment right at this event just incase [sic] our first amendment comes under the much anticipated attack.”
Helpful tip: You can leave out the "sic" when quoting the things that America's most freedom-loving patriots write. If we have to put a "sic" for every error of basic English that the Tea Party Red Dawn Patriot Brigades write on a sign or on Facebook wer gong to be heer awl dayh.
Despite all this, the protest is expected to be peaceful, though stupid. The mosque has asked their patrons to not interact with the group as usual (this is the second protest, not the first) and the police will be there to ensure that none of the Red Dawners get their guns and their crayons mixed up.
Head below the fold for more.
As to why Mr. Ritzheimer is doing any of this, he has a perfectly good reason that doesn't at all make him sound like a shitstain.
“They’ve come out and they’ve condemned ISIS,” he said. “Unfortunately, we have to hold the cartoon contest, as silly as it sounds, to be able to show the true colors of Islam.”
The organizer said that he will be wearing a shirt that says “F—- Islam” at the rally and will be bringing additional shirts for fellow protesters.
It sounds like somebody is indeed showing their true colors, but I'm not sure it's the Muslim folks.
In closing, let us note that armed bikers have many killed more people in Texas in the last month than Islam has, and those bikers also apparently did it because other people were showing drawings on their clothing that the biker imams had decreed they should not show. Still, nobody is going around to armed biker hangouts and taunting them with signs, because everybody knows armed bikers would attack your "First Amendment rights" in about fifteen twitchy seconds if you showed them a scribble they didn't like. Patriots are always quick to protest at mosques, though, because patriots know the folks who attend mosques won't actually do them any harm.
Armed bike-riding patriots, though? A clear and present threat. If you ask me, we should be rounding armed bike-riding patriots up and putting them in camps—perhaps under abandoned Walmarts, under the guise of a military exercise in the southwestern states.