Trump Fans Hate This Virginia Republican Because They Think He's Muslim

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this is good stuff and demonstrates the need for open dialogue (and a bit of basic understanding, sans GOP paranoia) between american christians and american muslims. or i guess, american christians and americans who have names that sound muslimy. and you'll have to click through if you want to see all the non family friendly responses. lol. never thought i'd see the day where i'd defend someone like ramadan (ULTRA CONSERVATIVE). can you imagine if ramadan did actually practice islam?

State rep David Ramadan thought he was just standing up for Virginia Republicans when he tweeted at Trump over the weekend. What he got has become increasingly familiar to Trump non-believers: threats and racist taunts.

Three days ago, David Ramadan was just another low-profile state lawmaker—one of more than 7,000 humble state legislators.

That was until he stood up to Donald Trump and became the latest politician/citizen/human to draw the fact-free rage of the mob of angry Trump supporters.

It all started on Sunday when Donald Trump decided to tweet his displeasure with the Republican Party of Virginia as a result of their intentions to have Republican primary voters sign a statement affirming that they are, in fact Republicans. It’s an honor-system practice likely aimed at weeding out Democratic and other non-Republican voters who are technically allowed to vote in the state’s open primary.

Donald J. Trump

✔@realDonaldTrump

Straighten out The Republican Party of Virginia before it is too late. Stupid! RNC

Over the course of a lengthy Twitter rant, Trump asserted that it was a conspiracy on the part of the state party’s leaders to hurt his candidacy (a curious assertion, as the state considered such a move in 2011 but then reversed course after it drew controversy—almost like everything isn’t all about Donald Trump!).

Seeing Trump’s criticism, Ramadan—a Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates and an immigrant from Lebanon—pushed back:

Hon. David I RamadanVerified account‏@DavidIRamadan

@realDonaldTrump, Our party, our rules; your $$s and your bullying do not work in the Commonwealth. MORON@VA_GOP #RNC @GOP

Over the next day, the hate-tweets from Trump supporters came by the thousands. But this wasn’t just typical Trump-lovin’ internet excitability; this was from the kind of people who love Donald Trump and are not especially amenable to immigrants from the Middle East.

Ramadan, born to a Muslim family, is married to a Methodist, and doesn’t practice Islam, as the AP reported when he first entered the House of Delegates in 2011. Since his election, he’s gotten a 90 percent lifetime score from the American Conservative Union and won the NRA’s endorsement. He also gets miserable marks from pro-choice groups and teachers’ unions. But that hasn’t stopped Trump’s genius Twitter fans from deciding that Ramadan is a secret Muslim mole who must be stopped.

“Revoke his citizenship, and send him back,” said one. “No right to be here at all. Vote Trump!!”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/29/virginia-rep-ramadan-draws-hate-from-trump-fans-because-of-course.html

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Trump-lovin’ internet excitability

ah geez - if'n I can combine this with female hysteria - I'm good ! for the nonce, anyway...