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?”…
Jay says
Trustee Brannigan is one brave woman! I hope she remains safe from harm. And I am sure she is telling the truth. Why is it today the immigration issue can only be one sided against American cities and American values?? Example:::: if you look at Dearborn and Hantramck Michigan there is zero acclimation
to American way of life!!! Both of these cities have been overcome by Muslim immigration and you would never think you are in Michigan! You can see all of this online in special reports done. There are more mosques and halal stores than churches or American stores. Immigration years ago through Ellis island when my grandparents arrived legally, everyone wanted to become an American while keeping their ethnic values, and they acclimated to the American way of life!! Not somtoday !!! And why are we giving these immigrants both legal and illegal, government assistance? It’s the definition of insanity!
And if you object to this you are the one criticized. Look how well this is working for Germany and France and England. It’s insanity!
Benedict says
It’s the board member that’s not integrating into growing the Muslim community. If she did there would be no problems.
Susan B says
This women deserves our support for her bravery and resolve for standing up against these islamic anti-American bullies, many of who need to be deported for being criminals and coming to America illegally. All freedom loving westerners must stand up to this invasion of a female hating cult of murderers’ liars and rapist. Benedict, do you actually think that anyone with a soul and conscience will ever accept the satanic laws and ways of this evil cult? Oh and, I hate to break it to these islamic bullies, actually, I love to break it to mohammedans; God will win in the end allah will lose. Sadly these brainwashed and inbred fools are on the wrong team they stand against God, they have my sympathy.
Notice all the pretty signs all prepared for these brain dead morons, not an original thought among them. They do as they are commanded to do like the satanic robots they are. Very sad that so many souls and minds have been lost because of a psychopathic rapist and mass murdering warlord false prophet.
Benedict says
I never indicate when I’m ironic, Susan. And I agree with you that Muhammad was a false prophet. Unfortunately his plagiaries and presumptuous claims have seduced millions and millions of people and “Our Culture, What’s Left of It: …” (Theodore Dalrymple) in the West seems to be incapable of or unwilling to raise up a bulwark against the evils of Islam. The solution is not to integrate Islam in the West; Islam ought to be totally expelled from the West and its oxygen turned of.
abad says
I agree.
All of these Moslem “immigrants” should be returned to their home countries, their way of life is contrary to ours. Plus they will be happier in a Moslem majority nation.
gravenimage says
I knew you were being sarcastic, Benedict.
granddaddy says
And whoever disbelieves in the Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, signs, revelations, etc.) of Allah, then surely, Allah is Swift in calling to account
Quran 6:19
And whoever seeks a religion other than Islam, it will never be accepted of him, and in the Hereafter he will be one of the losers.
Quran 3:85
Let not the believers take the disbelievers as Auliya (supporters, helpers, etc.) instead of the believers, and whoever does that will never be helped by Allah in any way
Quran 3:28
As to those who disbelieve, I will punish them with a severe torment in this world and in the Hereafter, and they will have no helpers.
Quran 3:56
And indeed We [Allah] revealed to you clear Verses, and none disbelieve in them except the defiantly disobedient
Quran 2:99
We shall cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve
Quran 3:151
and Allah became angry with them, and made some of them apes and swines…
Quran 9:60
And kill them wherever you find them
Quran 2:191
and kill them wherever you find them
Quran 4:89
kill them wherever you find them
Quran 4:91
then kill the unbelievers wherever you find them
Quran 9:5
And kill them wherever you find them
Quran 2:191
they shall be killed or crucified or their hands and their feet be cut off on the opposite sides
Quran 5:33
So my question is, how are we supposed to integrate with this?
Susan B says
+1
Joe says
The hate of the unbeliever is on almost every page of the Koran. You can give us a few samples, but the entire book is mostly a command to hate. Let’s get real, Islam is not a religion, if a religion is something that brings people and God together.
DBM echo says
Muslim Americans?
Like unicorns, they don’t exist. Neither do Muslim British, or Muslim Canadians, or Muslim French, and so forth. So maybe they have in hand all the paperwork of superficial citizenship, but all of that would have been falsely, fraudulently, obtained through lying.
Muslims prove this point over and over again. And they state it over and over as well. Namely, that they are loyal only to Islam, and to nothing else. Affirmed by the Orlando shooter, by the Fort Hood murderer, by the Boston Bombers, by the Paris Bombers, by the 911 hijackers, the countless murders by Muslims in Europe (Lee Rigby, Charlie Hebdo, Bataclan, et alia) and on and on. Explaining why Muslims can never be trusted and never be considered loyal Americans, British, Canadians, French, Italian, Australian, and so forth. They represent an enemy living among us.
Here in America, as elsewhere, Muslims are out for colonization and conquest. They cannot be considered Americans because of their adoption of Islam, and their wish to impose it on us. By force, since they will follow their 1400-year practice, should we decline their we-won’t-be-taking-no-for-an-answer “offer” to adopt Islam. Shariah (total government) and American constitutional principles (government contained/controlled by the people) couldn’t be farther apart. To the Muslim no man-made law could ever be superior to the Shariah considered by them to come directly from their Allah.
Is it possible to conceive of a Muslim American? No way. At best and at most they can only be described as “Muslims who live in North America,” but they are not Americans in the heart, where it counts. I’m gladdened to see more and more real Americans are seeing Muslims for the danger that they are.
gravenimage says
Spot on.
No Muzzies Here says
The left has eliminated free speech in the USA. It’s gone. No more. You are fired for your opinions, or for pronouncing a forbidden word.
Unfortunately, I see absolutely no way out of this. I see no way this can change or improve. In fact, it is getting worse fast. How can it get better? There is no way.
Spencer’s book on Free Speech says it all.
Berengaria says
Thank you to No Muzzies Here, Free Speech is just a remembrance of America’s Past. So-Called Free Speech always becomes Hate Speech, if the wrong groups are offended. Sharon Brannigan w/b sacrificed, because the members of the Township Board must pacify their Muslims & Muslim Sympathizers.
The Sympathizers are more Dangerous!!
Steve's nephew says
Criticism equals freedom. When you give up the right to analyze and criticize something, you guarantee it’s continuance. The Muslims have no desire to assimilate. The best solution is to not allow any more of them to immigrate into our country.
On a side note, I have a conversation every so often with a Muslim client. He’s basically a nice guy except he has been brainwashed into Muslim ideology. When we last spoke, and I started bringing up objections and complaints about Muslim behavior, he said that “hate speech was bad.” I answered that I don’t hate anything, rather I disagree with it. It was a distinction he was not prepared for and our conversation continued.
PATRICIA FRANCES KOENIG says
She makes a true and correct observation…yet somehow it is controversial…and the Left is protesting reality!
infidel says
Muslim Americans when playing eternal victims and sucking welfare and benefits … HARDCORE Muslims when doing Jehaad and mass murdering innocents
Rarely says
I am no lover of islam. I particularly detest those with knee-jerk reactions to anything they, in their infinite wisdom, see as prejudice.
But, you can’t solve a problem until you know what the problem is.
Integration is not the problem. Whenever there is large immigration of one group they tend to integrate slowly and sometimes very little. What middle sized city doesn’t have a Chinatown or Little Italy? Around Winnipeg we have towns that are predominately French, Mennonite, Icelandic, German, Ukrainian, etc. There are Hutterite Colonies and Reservations. In the city proper there are areas that are predominantly one group or another (Vietnamese, French Canadian, Philippine, Metis, Ukrainian, etc.). Many speak neither English or French and have been here a long time. No one is shouting “integration” from the rooftops.
In would be bigotry to single out one group for “not integrating” especially where a language difference exists and must be overcome first.
The no-go zones, the parallel legal system, the anti-female, the anti-Christian, the anti-Semitism, the aggression, and other problems that the heavy muslim immigration has brought to Western Europe and threatens to bring here are the problems.
I don’t pretend to know the solution but I don’t think Sharon Brannigan knows what the problem is. Nothing can be gained by skirting the real issues (except perhaps detracting from the them) and sooner or later we are going to have to — better sooner.
gravenimage says
She is a lot closer to defining the problem than are those tools demanding her resignation, Rarely.
Rarely says
Of course she is but that isn’t saying much. What irritates me is that politicians won’t address the real issues that cause us (me, anyway) great anguish. I see lack of integration as a red herring of sorts since it is easily justified as I try to show above. The Mafia came to America with Italian immigration (Sicilian anyway) and initially got its start in heavily Italian neighbourhoods. Bad guys? For sure but I’ve never heard anyone blame the Italian community or their lack of integration at the time — they were victims too.. The examples are numerous.
So lack of or slow integration isn’t what sets muslims apart.(by itself anyway). Lets address the things which are really dangerous and damaging and which make muslims unique. Doing so would likely bring on a much bigger opposition than what we are seeing here.
simpleton1 says
Al-wala’ wa-l-bara’
Muslims must live by this, so of course you can not run the risk of being contaminated by “shirk”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Wala%27_Wal_Bara%27
granddaddy says
The first lie is: “I’m here because Sharon Brannigan said this … ”
The second lie is: “they cannot isolate and hate their constituents because of their descent.”
They are not there because of what Sharon Brannigan said, they are there because they see her as an obstacle to their invasion. And if Trustee Brannigan did not love her constituents, she would say nothing, like all the other trustees. There are four others. Where are they? The truth is, Palos Township is being sold out. Exactly who is doing the selling is unclear; it could be other trustees, it could be the county, it could be the state, it could be organized religion. We aren’t told. But the Muslims are buying. And the people are either not speaking, or we are not being told what they say.
We are not being told everything. And what we are being told is biased to the left. As usual.
Giacomo Latta says
Sharon Brannigan used her democratic right to speak in a democracy? Boy, these people are slow to understand basic concepts.
Elizabeth Lawson says
Yet again, we have another example of pressure being applied to an honest and forthright lady, for her description of what she perceives in her community. Ironically, the pressure to oust and denigrate this lady, is being applied by ignoramuses and those who are intellectually deficient – to the extent that their future, which, if the demands of the Koran are followed, will see their heads on the block. The very, and much cherished cornerstone of Western democracies, is freedom of speech. Remove, question, denigrate, deride the ability of citizens to freely speak, and wallah! You have totalitarianism replete. I see, as is the case here, the charge of racism applied to remarks made by the nemeses of all free people- the Muslim autocracy. First, ask the victims of real racism what it entailed in their cases. Currently, in South Africa, much of the Middle East, and Northern Nigeria, we can see exactly what it is and how it is carried out. Loss, and/or denial of employment, robbery and occupation of the homes of victims by racists, denial of educational opportunities, rejection of assistance by law enforcement, physical assaults, and finally, murder of the those targeted by racists. THIS is racism. All other nonsense, is the purview of those who are expressing opinions and/or dislike – which, in the case of Muslim immigrants is unsurprising. Their well being is being supported by taxpayers, yet, they denigrate and complain about ALL that they are “ forced” to accept in the West, which includes those of other religious faiths ( and none) and those with different cultural expression. It would seem that nothing in the West is as good as the basketcases that they left behind. Why does anyone suppose that this is the case?
somehistory says
moslims are commanded not to integrate….to not make friends, to not take up the culture., to remain separate from the non moslims.
But, they can’t handle it when non moslims point out to other non moslims that this is the case. They know it makes them look bad. they know others look at is as an insult to the community.
moslims come in and take advantage of all opportunities for making money, esp getting it through welfare and fraud…and they don’t want to be like the people they are cheating. But, they also don’t want this to be made public knowledge and come under public scrutiny.
moslims can’t handle the truth. The Truth is their enemy.
simpleton1 says
somehistory
You are right.!
They must not be contaminated with the kaffir and shirk, and so unless they can resist the worldly temptations must therefore stay grouped together.
Al-wala’ wa-l-bara’ “loyalty and disavowal” loyal to their own and disavowal of all others.
TKF says
It’s official…./truth is the new hate speech. Feelings are replacing reality….but not changing it. We will pay dearly for or voluntary delusions.
brane pilot says
Migrants always vote and aggressively promote their ethnic and cultural interests. Always.
Americans who vote or even mention their ethnic and cultural interests are called bigots, racists and xenophobes.
The Democratic party has become the party of open borders mass migration in a quest for absolute political power through demographic population replacement.
Unfortunately, the first act of those with absolute power is to liquidate their opposition.
The call by prominent elected Democratic leaders for mob lynching of government officials stalked and caught alone in non secure spaces should be a wake up call to anyone who cares about Freedom in the USA.
LR says
brane,
Yep. I remember when it use to be ‘normal’ for people including Dems. to support border control. Now, it is deemed ‘racist’, ‘bigot’ etc., if one supports it. I don’t care where anyone comes from. If we are to be as fair as possible with our immigration then we shouldn’t allow any illegal immigration from anywhere, period.
TWG says
Ms. Brannigan is to be commended for her strength and perseverance in the face of these mobs. I pray she doesn’t EVER back down.
I’d rather be hated by islammunist liars than to BE an islammunist liar.
Wear this honorable medal on a big gold chain, Ms. Brannigan! Bling bling, yo!
gravenimage says
Chicago-area town board member pressured to resign for noting that Muslim immigrants aren’t integrating
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How many times have we seen travesties like this? Sharon Brannigan is not wrong–she is being punished for being right.
Lydia Church says
Yup. A portend of things to come…
SAE says
…..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?”…
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Though, I know nothing of Dan Lipinski, D, 3rd district….my money is on…-he’s encouraging and promoting this “Welcoming City & Refugee Resettlement” insanity that’s infecting our entire nation, destroying our culture, security, & economy.
Thank God there still are honest & principled people such as Sharon B. May God Bless & protect her.
Johm says
If they aren’t integrating then get them out of the country .
terry says
These poor so-called refugees are Ameriaphobic! And all the so-called groups, operations, and parties who are making a fortune off of them are just plain greedy! If you think there is no foundation in what is being said concerning islam, muslims, and jihad, then read the koran, the hadithes, the fatwas by the imams; go live in a muslim dominated area, region, or country- wear a yarmulke, a cross, or just act like you act in the West at a club or a party! See for yourself how much of this is true. If you live….
IanB says
Sharon Brannigan is persecuted for stating the bleeding obvious.
When truth is on your side never apologise, never resign, never admit you were wrong.
Only tyranny attempts to destroy the right to reveal the truth.
David B says
Islam is not a “race” of people, it is a failed and flawed ideology; dictated by a child molesting, war lord and spread by violence, fear, and intimidation. That is FACT.
I for one will never be silenced and I will never capitulate to an invasion of uneducated and violent 7th Century barbarians.
Giacomo Latta says
If you cannot integrate on basis of race then you are a racist. If you cannot integrate on basis of religion then you are elitist. Muslims will pick whichever that works against Western democracy. Islam does not melt.
Midnite Rider says
I refuse to believe that these MUSLIMS are “refugees” from their own relatives,as they are so inbred they’re almost all related.They are an INVASION FORCE here as they have been in EU.
If we are so FOOLISH to take them in as “refugees” then they should be sent to “Refugee Camps” to be repatriated to their home countries when hostilities cease,NOT released into our society as freeloading,freedom hating anti-American non-vetted “refugees”.
The USA doesn’t owe them squat and wherever they land they immediately go to work destroying the area and infrastructure with their delusional,freedom hating CULT beliefs and constant sniveling and whining about “islamophobia”when in FACT they use our laws to destroy us in “Lawfare” and the ONLY laws THEY recognize is their 1st milennia “sharia” instituted by their false “prophet” the lying,thieving pedophile known by them as “The Perfect Man”.
We are NOT welcome in their countries so why should we welcome them here?
Doesn’t it strike anyone as being odd that they want to leave their islamist run countries to go to Free Societies and when they get there to want to change that Free society into EXACTLY what they claim to be in fear of in their home countries?
I have a suggestion,Stay home and change THEM and leave us alone.
We have NO need of followers of a FALSE so-called “prophet” nor of their FALSE so-called “god” allah aka ba’al the moon god.
Much CREDIT to Sharon Brannigan for standing up against these ENEMIES of our Great Country.
Semper Fi
LR says
This reminds me…
Many years back (after 9/11) while listening to the radio, a public announcement came on to state that illegals should not be afraid to send their children to school. Nothing to worry about. (Most of the illegals here are Mexican. Some from other Latin American countries.)
When a country shows the world it does not abide by it’s own rules, does not have much resolve on this issue, and is fine allowing desperate people in without much caution, what do we expect?
The U.S. got itself into a big pickle a long time ago. Wanting illegal cheap labour for big business, and half-*ssing it on enforcing illegal immigration laws.
If the U.S. isn’t consistent about illegal immigration, why the heck should we care about assimilation?
It’s that old adage…Once you let go of the reigns good luck…