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Largest Islamic civil rights group @CAIRNational condemns Orlando attack, urges Muslims to donate blood.https://twitter.com/GarrettHaake/status/742002995055861760
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Try and find THIS on TV (Original Post)
kpete
Jun 2016
OP
It is sad that normal Muslim people need to publicly disavow fundamentalist's actions. I know I
Squinch
Jun 2016
#8
O.o Freak out RW nitwits! Start a meme that the blood supply is "contaminated with muslim blood"
Bernardo de La Paz
Jun 2016
#10
Joe the Revelator
(14,915 posts)2. CAIR is full of great people. nt
JustinL
(722 posts)3. thank you for posting this n/t
jwirr
(39,215 posts)5. Don't know where but there was a post that the blood donation
center in the town where this happened had a huge line of people there and that they were open on a day they were usually closed.
boston bean
(36,219 posts)7. I saw a woman representative of CAIR on CNN this afternoon.
Squinch
(50,918 posts)8. It is sad that normal Muslim people need to publicly disavow fundamentalist's actions. I know I
would be pissed if I had to disavow fundamentalist Christian acts.
But I do think it is in their interests to do so, and to highlight the fact that they are a world away from Al Qaeda and ISIS, etc.
Silver_Witch
(1,820 posts)13. You should disavow them!
We notice Christians never disavow the westboro group or pastors who yell for the death of gay people or the subjugation of woman!
Squinch
(50,918 posts)14. That's my point.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,965 posts)10. O.o Freak out RW nitwits! Start a meme that the blood supply is "contaminated with muslim blood"
Watch them die rather than get surgery!
JEB
(4,748 posts)11. Doesn't fit the predetermined narrative.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)12. I can't give blood due to my low weight/BMI
but I hope somebody will do so in my stead.