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Only Two House Democrats Show Up for Impeach Trump Rally

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The organizers of a rally calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump said the event was held to deliver to Congress a petition with more than ten million signatures urging for the action, but only two House Democrats showed up in support.

Reps. Al Green (D-TX) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) were the only two Democrats to attend and speak at the event.
They were joined by a host of leftwing organizations, including CREDO, George Soros-funded MoveOn.org, the Woman’s March — including pro-Palestinian activist Linda Sarsour — and Free Speech for People.
“I always tell people: ‘This is your House, you tell us what to do.’ This is us telling this House what to do,” Tlaib said at the rally.
“We must impeach,” Green said. “Let the Senate do what they may. We have to do what we must.”
“Each day that we wait is a day we waited too long,’ Green said. “I say we should start impeachment immediately, if not sooner.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...h-trump-rally/
“Tlaib introduced a resolution in late March that calls on the Judiciary Committee to investigate whether the House should impeach Trump,” the Hill reported. “It currently has seven co-sponsors, most of whom signed on after the release of a partially redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.”
“The initiative was organized by a coalition of liberal groups, including Need to Impeach, an organization backed by billionaire Democratic activist Tom Steyer, a vocal advocate for impeachment,” CBS reported on Tlaib’s resolution.
“Green, meanwhile, forced two floor votes on impeachment in 2017 and 2018 while Republicans controlled the House and has threatened for months to force a third vote,” theHill reported.
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/10/only-two-house-democrats-show-up-for-impeach-trump-rally/

Tell Congress to #RepealTheBan and Support the No Ban Act

Posted on May 08, 2019


A new bill—the NO BAN Act—introduced by Senator Chris Coons and Congresswoman Judy Chu, would not just repeal Trump’s Muslim, asylum, and refugees bans—it would limit the ability for this administration or any post-Trump administration to do something like it ever again.We need to send a strong message that our communities and allies will stand together and fight back in the face of hatred and bigotry.Please sign this petition to make sure your representatives are on board.It’s true—there's already been legislation attempting to end Trump’s Muslim Ban.But the NO BAN Act is not just another minor variation.It’s fundamentally different, and possibly a game changer if we can get it rolling strong out the gate. Here’s why:This is the first major piece of legislation that doesn’t just take aim at the Trump administration’s Muslim Ban, but at preventing any future president from walking in Trump’s footsteps.In the wake of white nationalist violence threatening our communities every day, we demand real, concrete action.We demand that Congress not just repeal Trump’s Muslim Ban, but limit the ability of future administrations to ban people based on their religion or where they come from. Join us now.In a society already plagued by white supremacy, Islamophobia, and anti-Blackness, political leaders like Donald Trump have created the necessary political and cultural environment for the horrific, deadly violence we’ve seen in recent months and years.We can see this clearly in the fact that nearly all of Trump's signature policies are specifically aimed at keeping Black and brown people out of the U.S.Whether it’s the Muslim Ban, the racist border wall, detention camps, or ICE raids, this agenda is straight out of the white nationalist playbook—in fact, many of these policies were directly or indirectly influenced by anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant hate groups.1,2Trump’s Muslim Ban was already a moral crisis.Now, #AfterChristchurch, we can’t afford to do anything less than prevent any future President from stoking this kind of hate ever again.

http://www.takeonhate.org/repealthebanpetition

April 26, 2019
Does 'Take on Hate' Promote Hate?

By Hesham Shehab

A group of protestors have targeted a Palos Township Trustee for over two years, seeking to have the elected official fired for remarks made on social media almost four years ago.
Palos Township Trustee Sharon Brannigan made comments on her personal Facebook page in January 2015 about "Middle Easterners” failing to assimilate, concerns that many Americans share, but described in terms some found offensive.
Brannigan posted on her Facebook page: “In the 3rd district here in Illinois, our demographics include 25% Muslims of which very few integrate within the communities keeping themselves and their activities hidden from the general population.”
“Everywhere you turn, from Orland Park to Bridgeview, those numbers are increasing in leaps and bounds. We are allowing these people whether they have peaceful intentions or not into our country without question,” she added.
It is true that Muslims and Arabs in America may face racism, but it’s also true the southern suburb of Chicago dubbed “Little Palestine,” is home to mostly Palestinian-Jordanian immigrants who are exposed to Islamist leaders peddling anti-Semitism, anti-Israeli and anti-Western sentiments that hamper assimilation.

Bridgeview, Illinois, (15 miles south west of Chicago), is home to the largest mosque in the state; the Mosque Foundation, led by Sheikh Jamal Said, a Palestinian immigrant, whom investigators have said was tied to Hamas, according to Matt Levitt’s HAMAS: Politics Charity and Terrorism in Service of Jihad. Said was named as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) trial. HLF and five of its leaders were convicted of providing funds to HAMAS.
The second largest mosque, in Orland Park, Illinois (26 miles south west of Chicago), Orland Park Prayer Center (OPPC) is led by Said’s former assistant Sheikh Kifah Mustapha; another HLF unindicted co-conspirator with a history of anti-Semitism. In addition, last January, OPPC hired an assistant imam, Haitham Zamara, who appears cut from the same cloth as Said and Mustapha.
Brannigan issued a strongly worded and sincere apology to the Muslim and Arab community in September 2017, to no avail.
Since July 2017, protesters have crowded meetings of the Palos Township Board; screaming, yelling, and making threats, demanding that Brannigan resign. They are led by a group called “Take On Hate (TOH).” TOH was officially launched in 2014, in Detroit, Michigan, and claims that it “is a multi-year, grassroots campaign that challenges the growing discrimination and persistent misconception of Arab and Muslim Americans..." TOH was formed by the National Network of Arab American Communities (NNAC), a coalition which consists of membership organizations from around the country. NNAC’s Bridgeview IL affiliate, the Arab American Family Services was founded by a former Mosque Foundation board member in 2001. NNAAC itself is an “institution” of ACCESS, the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS), founded in Detroit.
While TOH mission statement claim that the organization “inspires a positive perception of Arab and Muslim Americans (…) and opposes and stands against all forms of hate and bigotry toward any group of people,” it invokes one of the icons of Palestinian terrorism in the 20th century on its Facebook page -- Rasmea Odeh.
In 1970, Odeh was convicted of two bombings in Jerusalem, including one that killed two young men at a supermarket. She was sentenced to life in prison but was released in 1979 as part of a prisoner swap between Israel and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
With family in Michigan, she applied for a U.S. visa in 1994, but didn't disclose her criminal record. Convicted in a U.S. Federal court for lying about her terrorist past, Odeh was deported in August, 2017. Until her deportation, Odeh served as Associate Director of the Arab American Action Network (AAAN) a Chicago-based activist group which is also a member of NNAAC.
While at AAAN, Rasmea worked with Take On Hate’s Chicago organizer Bassem Kawar, one of the leading organizers of the Anti-Brannigan protests. TOH’s other Chicago Organizer Husam Marajda, a regular fixture at the Anti-Brannigan protests, described Odeh as having “paved the way” for him in his activism in a 2017 social media post.





TOH has been inciting protestors to the limit, seeking to bully Brannigan and disrupting normal township business for more than two years over social media posts about assimilating immigrants made over four years ago. That’s their view of “Taking on” hate. But when it comes to real hate, the kind that leads to terrorism and murder, TOH advocates for “justice” for Odeh; an unrepentant convicted terrorist they portray as a hero of liberation.
Hesham Shehab is the Chicago Area Associate of the Counter-Islamist Grid (CIG).

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/04/does_take_on_hate_promote_hate.html

They are doing much better than Republicans ever did opposing Obama.