“More than 13 states have introduced bills banning Sharia law…”
By Safia Samee Ali; NBC:
CHICAGO — ACT for America, which the Southern Poverty Law Center designates as an anti-Muslim hate group, is spearheading several rallies across the country Saturday in what is slated to be the group’s largest protest against Islam.
The “March Against Sharia” will take place in more than 20 cities, including New York, Dallas, and Atlanta.
In New York City, about 100 protesters and more than 200 counter-protesters verbally clashed in downtown Manhattan Saturday morning, as police officers stood between the groups.
The rally began with ACT for America supporters denouncing Sharia — or Islamic law — and claiming that America was moving in the wrong direction.
While they were were speaking, counter-protesters were trying to drown them out using bullhorns and noise makers.
Countering protests in Foley Square pic.twitter.com/cH7IVMLN5Y
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Some anti-Sharia demonstrators yelled, “Commie scum!,” while counter-protesters shouted, “Nazis!,” according to NBC New York.
The nationwide “March Against Sharia” first gained widespread attention when the mayor of Portland, Oregon, moved to stop the local chapter from rallying. Ted Wheeler’s decision came after two men were fatally stabbed as they tried to protect two women — one of whom was wearing a headscarf — from an anti-Muslim tirade.
The organizers of Portland parade eventually changed the venue to Seattle, citing “safety concerns” in Portland.
In Seattle, opposing groups protested outside City Hall on Saturday, according to NBC affiliate KING 5.
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Alleged NSA Leaker Reality Winner Called White People Terrorists, Pledged Loyalty to Iran
By Chris Erickson; OpsLens:
Yesterday, news broke that the United States Justice Department had filed a criminal complaint against a federal contractor who worked for the National Security Agency. The ironically named Reality Leigh Winner, 25, was arrested by the FBI at her home in Augusta, Georgia and is accused of willfully retaining and transmitting classified national defense information to a person not entitled to receive it , in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 793(e).
According to the FBI’s affidavit from the application for Winner’s arrest warrant, Winner admitted to printing out classified documents she did not have a “need to know” for and then mailed the classified material to a news outlet she knew was not authorized to receive or possess said documents.
Even more damning, she admitted that she knew what the contents of the material she sent to a media outlet could be used to injure the United States and give advantage to a foreign nation. This is coming from a self-identified member of “the resistance” who claimed, without proof, that President Trump was the one breaking the law, conspiring with foreign governments, and betraying her country; this was all being claimed while she was actively committing the crimes she was accusing others of. In the most hilariously tragic outcome, reality did in fact win and none of the documents she leaked backed up her conspiracy theories.
This betrayal of her nation is made even more disturbing by the fact that she once served in the United States Air Force. Much like the veteran sentenced to jail last week for attempting to join ISIS, Reality Winner picked up some radical ideas along the way that allowed her to betray her nation. On February 25th, Winner tweeted at Kanye West, saying “being white is terrorism.”
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