Some Republicans want to oust a Muslim doctor from his GOP leadership role -- because he's Muslim

[IronLionZion]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/05/group-republicans-want-oust-muslim-doctor-his-gop-leadership-role-because-he-is-muslim/?utm_term=.6e69f8ee5e06



The first time Shahid Shafi ran for a seat on the city council in Southlake, Tex., in 2011, advisers assured him a Muslim in post-9/11 America who spoke with an accent and emigrated from Pakistan would never win an election in Texas.

It’s a story that Shafi, a Republican trauma surgeon, likes to tell because he didn’t believe them. He won the Southlake City Council seat on his second try, in 2014, has since served as a delegate to multiple Texas GOP conventions and, in July, was appointed vice chairman of the Tarrant County Republican Party, located in Fort Worth.

But that’s when his religion somehow became a problem again — in the eyes of some Republican colleagues.

Shafi hadn’t held the position in the North Texas county for more than a couple of days before a precinct chairwoman urged Darl Easton, chairman of the Tarrant County Republican Party, to “reconsider” appointing Shafi to a leadership role, a request that was soon echoed by several other precinct chairs.

“The only reason she had was because he was a Muslim,” Easton told The Washington Post. “That was the only reason she gave.”

The bigoted Republicans should resign from the GOP in protest. You know, to resist Sharia law.

[Renew Deal]

1. Lara Trump: 'Democrats always scream "racism" at a Republican contender'

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/418230-lara-trump-defends-hyde-smith-democrats-always-scream-racism-at-a-republican

Can't imagine why

[Hortensis]

2. Well, he's obviously respected by a lot more Republicans than not.

Let's remember that.

[angrychair]

5. I would suggest that is unlikely

I used to live in Texas and worked in Tarrant county. He is a Pakistani immigrant and a practicing Muslim, I have no doubts what the majority of republicans in Texas and Tarrant county think and none of it is good.
I cannot the imagine the level of self-loathing and self deprecation required for him to be a republican, especially in Texas. Tarrant county isn’t the most racist or bigoted county in Texas but it’s not that far off either.

[Hortensis]

6. He's in office and has been elevated to various

positions by mostly fellow Republicans. That's not some imagining on my part, it's fact. Maybe plug that into your picture and study it?

You know, it did me a world of good to read about conservative personality. In a low point in my life I worked for a couple who were intensely conservative. I really didn't understand their behavior but thank them now for irritating and amazing me enough to try to learn what the hell was going on in their minds. It wasn't self loathing for being conservative and associating with others who shared their beliefs, believe me, nor was there a black hole where morals should have been. Their morals are very real, but their way of looking at them different, for one thing more emphasis on communal good, comparatively less on individual rights when they conflict.

[angrychair]

8. I understand conservatives all to well

The lot of them are amoral repugnant narcissists.
Republicans are racist, bigoted, misogynistic self-righteous bible thumpers who want rules to apply to everyone but them.
There is literally no such thing as a “good republican”

This particular gentleman is actually from a country that republicans are happily trying to deny the right to even come here out of pure ignorance and racism.
Come talk to me when Republicans stop supporting and advocating for putting children in indefinite detention camps and trying to make people work for food stamps that if they work they will loss the ability to get food stamps and forcing women to be criminals to just get reproductive healthcare.

Fuck all republicans.

[Hortensis]

9. Shhhh. Repub elected by voters to the Southlake City Council,

delegate to multiple Texas GOP conventions, vice chairman of the Tarrant County Republican Party.

[angrychair]

11. Those republicans

Support those things too. Some of those camps are actually in Texas.

Republican is a republican. He voted for Cruz in the Senate, another immigrant that operates under the premise of “fuck them, I got mine” moral compass.

[angrychair]

3. So...hold...let me get this straight....

An immigrant from the Asian country of Pakistan, a practicing Muslim, is a republican in Texas?

I am desperately confused. That someone would be willing to participate in a group that literally and openly denies his right to be a full and normal citizen in this country and views him with complete contempt is disturbing. This story is a vivid example of the point I’m making.

Sorry, don’t get it.

[IronLionZion]

4. Many Muslims are conservative

he said he supports small government because of his experience in Pakistan where their corruption and abuses of government power have been a problem. It's misguided but there are others like him who may eventually have discussions with their therapists about their support of the party that hates them. Plus it's North Texas.

I like seeing the GOP divided over superficial nonsense. I hope stuff like this tears their party apart.

[angrychair]

7. I don't disagree

In a big picture sense rightwing evangelicals and orthodox Muslims, aka Sunni Islam, are not that different in their goals or intent.
I am also consistently amused that “small government” republicans fail to see the irony of their often spending their entire working lives drawing a government check.
Often (read: always) “small government” is code for “screw the poor” because it never seems to apply to giving big checks to campaign donors in the form of tax breaks, less regulations and no-bid contracts.

[Hortensis]

10. I hope so too, so that the kind of conservatives who

respect and admire this Muslim can become dominant again. I suspect they have other good leaders in that county, leading the way.

[angrychair]

12. I really don't mean to be rude

I don’t but given everything that republicans have said and done, a list way to extensive for any one person to enumerate, that some Democrats continue to operate under the delusion that there is such thing as a “good republican” is depressing and frustrating.
Why some still insist that we capitulate and compromise with them is mind-boggling.

[Hortensis]

13. Angrychair, I understand, but IMO what you want

will doom you to eternal frustration if you can't let go because it simply cannot be.

Democracy REQUIRES stable majorities be formed by people who disagree, it cannot function any other way, and those can only come from compromise and cooperation to achieve common purpose. And, happily, over time we average out progressing because of common needs.

It's not impossible. Next time you speed down a freeway maybe consider just how much cooperation and compromise are required to be able to come through without incident. Yet by far most of us have never had an accident on the freeway. We can behave and finish our journeys, and we don't have to be friends with other drivers to do it.

One huge problem these days isn't that conservatives cannot be decent but that their party has been taken over by people who refuse to compromise and cooperate with us to keep the nation healthy and prosperous. And why do they follow these leaders? Short version, human nature, which we share, and that's like gravity. But note that was Trump was actually a rebellion against the takeover, incredibly stupid, dysfunctional one, but!

Another is that no one party is going to win control for some time except by very slim majorities, so that control is likely to shift back and forth each election. Especially with left-wing dissidents mounting spoiler candidacies that could throw many elections to the right. Ournation must form a stabilizing, working majority that can agree to meet the great, immediate challenges threatening our wellbeing, instead of destroying every term's works, or our wellbeing will continue to decline as it has been, and for the same reasons.

So, forget hating Republicans. They want healthcare, so do we.

[angrychair]

14. There is no compromise with republicans

There is enough room to compromise with other Democrats but there is no room to compromise with people that put children in indefinite detention camps without trial.
That want to treat women as second class citizens that have no right to reproductive healthcare.

A group that wants a useless and pointless wall between us and Mexico.

I am never going to compromise with people with that perspective because there is no acceptable compromise that could possibly fall between that perspective and my perspective.

There is no compromise with people that think that all of our laws should be taken straight out of the Bible and that everyone should worship their god.

It’s not just a difference of opinion, it a fundamental difference in morals and ethics.

I have zero common ground with ANY republican.

[Hortensis]

15. You're missing the point that hating Republicans

is completely unrelated to achieving the goals I imagine you think you support. But if you refuse to take the freeway, or indeed any road, to work because you'd have to merge with Republicans, so be it.

Have a, uh,...satisfying evening.