What did Sharon Brannigan say to trigger these self-righteous protests and demands for her resignation? She noted that Muslims are not integrating into the local communities, and that schools are full of Middle Eastern students without proper documentation. What in that is false? All over Europe, we have seen Muslim leaders discourage Muslims from integrating, because they are the “best of people” (Qur’an 3:110), and the unbelievers are “the most vile of created beings” (Qur’an 98:6). Turkey’s Erdogan has discouraged Muslims in Europe from integrating, and yet to note that in the U.S. is “Islamophobic”? The persecution of Sharon Brannigan is sheer madness, and shows the avidity of the Left to target and destroy anyone and everyone who says the mildest critical word about Islam or mass Muslim migration into the West.
“Palos Township trustee says she won’t resign a year after Facebook comments about Middle Eastern immigrants ignited protests,” by Zak Koeske, Chicago Tribune, July 10, 2018 (thanks to the Geller Report):
In the year since protesters began picketing Palos Township board meetings to demand Trustee Sharon Brannigan resign for incendiary Facebook posts she made about Middle Eastern immigrants, little has changed.
The activists pack the township’s tiny boardroom on the second Monday of every month to attempt to shame and deride Brannigan for her comments. Brannigan refuses to step down.
“Can’t stop, won’t stop,” said Emily Biegel, founder of Southwest Suburban Activists, reflecting on the one-year anniversary of the protests.
“The only solution is that racists are not in power, and that racists are not public officials,” Biegel said. “And so, however long it takes for her to either step down or for us to vote her out, we will ensure that racists are not in power and that…they will be held accountable for their words and that they cannot isolate and hate their constituents because of their descent.”
But Brannigan said Tuesday she stands by her position from a year ago that her comments weren’t meant to be racist: “Obviously, name calling doesn’t get anyone anywhere. . . People who scream, yell, whine and carry on when they do not get their way.”
About 100 protesters turned out for Monday’s meeting wielding glossy signs that read, “I’m here because Sharon Brannigan said this … ” with a photo of Brannigan surrounded by screenshots of her controversial Facebook posts.
“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,” reads one of Brannigan’s posts highlighted on the posters. “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.”
Another of her social media statements plastered on the signs asks, “What’s Palos doing? Why are all our schools filling with Middle Eastern students without proper documentation? What is Dan Lipinski 3rd district rep. (D) doing about it?”…