When we first published Green and Grossell conduct dystopian fantasy workshop for Hubbard County Commissioners on Sunday, we thought last Tuesday's meeting was simply a curiosity.
After all, it was Clearbrook's Grossell and Fosston's Steve Green.
But the Minnesota Reformer picked up the Park Rapids Enterprise article in Deena Winter's article Minnesota GOP lawmaker says Antifa and Muslim organization plan to ‘police Minneapolis under Muslim rule’.
Career anti-Muslim figure Robert Spencer couldn't resist. Writing for the ultra-conservative Frontpage Mag, Spencer defended Green in Minnesota State Rep: Antifa and Muslim Groups Plan to 'Police Minneapolis Under Muslim Rule', citing articles of faith from the anti-Muslim internet:
The Minneapolis City Council voted two weeks ago to abolish the city’s police force. Its plans beyond that have so far been sketchy, but something is going to have to be put in place as an alternative to the police.
Actually, that wasn't a council vote, but pledges at a community gathering as the New York Times reported, but we're talking Robert Spencer here. He writes:
. . .The Sharia enforcers’ hard-Left allies in Antifa would have no problem with this. Islam historically has never had any difficulty coexisting with authoritarian governments; in fact, it is free republics that have never proved to be compatible with Islamic law. Consequently, Steve Green’s words don’t appear farfetched at all. The unholy alliance of Leftists and Islamic supremacists sees that its moment is now, and is grabbing all it can.
How likely is it that Minneapolis really could end up under Islamic rule, with the blessing and cooperation of the hard-Left? According to the Minnesota Reformer, another Minnesota state Representative, Mohamud Noor of Minneapolis, did not deny the truth of Green’s statements. Instead, when asked about them, he “said rather than talk about things that inflame people and create division, Minnesota needs to address the challenge before it.” And of course, talk of Antifa/Islamic rule in Minneapolis might “inflame people,” so keep quiet. Keep quiet, that is, if you oppose such an eventuality, not if you favor it. Said Noor: “Minnesota is awake. They understand the challenges; they have been hearing the challenges for far too long. And we can’t wait any longer.”
Steve Green may turn out to have been a prophetic voice far sooner than anyone expects. And if any free people who may still be in Minneapolis want to head this off, the time is now to “inflame people” – not to riot and destroy after the manner of the Left, but to stand up decisively now and stop the power-grab of these insidious totalitarian forces.
We're not sure how Spencer managed to bend the Noor statement into a threat of Muslim rule:
Rep. Mohamud Noor, DFL-Minneapolis, said rather than talk about things that inflame people and create division, Minnesota needs to address the challenge before it.
“Minnesota is awake,” he said. “They understand the challenges; they have been hearing the challenges for far too long. And we can’t wait any longer.”
Who is the person who's twisting those words to be so scary? In its Extremist Files, the Southern Poverty Law Center's Robert Spencer article notes:
As the director of the Jihad Watch blog and co-founder of Stop Islamization of America, Robert Spencer is one of America’s most prolific and vociferous anti-Muslim propagandists.
About Robert Spencer
Spencer is one of the most prolific anti-Muslim figures in the United States. An incessant blogger, author, and activist, he insists, despite his lack of academic training in Islam, that the religion is inherently violent and that extremists who commit acts of terror are simply following its most authentic version.
His writing was cited dozens of times in a manifesto written by the Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik. Spencer was banned from the United Kingdom as an extremist in July 2013.
Key takeaways
A career anti-Muslim figure, Spencer has devoted much of his life to writing books, countless articles, and producing other content all with the goal of vilifying and maligning Muslims and the Islamic faith.
Spencer works closely with his allies, most notably Pamela Geller and David Horowitz, to broadcast his intolerant message.
As a practiced public speaker, Spencer also travels the country speaking about the alleged threat of Muslims. In 2017, he called students who peacefully walked out of his presentation at Stanford University the “children of Brownshirts and Nazis.”
He seems nice.
As far as Steve Green being prophetic about anything, we can only think of his concern about problem bears documented in The unbearable lightness of Steve Green's sourcing for problem wildlife removal or the classic Green bill to promote hunting feral swine in Minnesota we covered in Too cute: if only Steve Green could have come up with a real defense against feral swine. Hint: no feral swine in Minnesota at the time and the "solution" was thought to be ineffective by wildlife management experts.
Bonus: Grossell is escaping attention here. See our recent posts about his own "community policing":
- State DFL responds to Matt Grossell Facebook post
- In early morning Facebook post, Matt Grossell frets about alter agenda coordinated attack
- Snipe hunt of war: Grossell spent night out with patriot buds waiting for phantom buses.
- Beltrami Co. Sheriff addresses rumors and misinformation; Grossell presence confirmed
- Was Minnesota state representative Matt Grossell out with vigilantes during Bemidji curfew?
Related posts:
- Only Steve Green gets the blues: Hubbard County's list of 2020 polling locations includes bunches of mail ballot townships
- MN LWV president chides Rep. Steve Green for disregarding transgender student safety
- Nitrogen amnesia strikes state representative Steve Green during LWV Park Rapids Area forum
- In town hall & letters sections, constituents sass back to state rep Steve Green about lots of stuff
- MN 2B: Steve Green totally doesn't believe any science supports human role in climate change
Photo: Steve Green in a televised 2014 debate. We've always thought the thumb by the nose thing is his "tell."
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