Republican-Muslim "humiliated and degraded" by ACT message

Many North Texas Muslims and some Republican Party officials have expressed offense towards a program that's drawing crowds at some Republican clubs.

Traveling across the country, the program warns of a stealth Jihad within the United States. While some consider the message prudent, others say it's just about hate.

Muslims packed a mosque in south Arlington for Friday prayers. Inside, the imam switches back and forth from Arabic to English. But, a Republican precinct judge, Dorrie O'Brien, is crisscrossing Tarrant County to spread a message that he believes something more might be more [sic] going on than prayer.

At a meeting at a Fort Worth restaurant, O'Brien warned North Texans to beware of stealth Mujahidee manipulating the media, infiltrating the military and running for public office.

Jamal Qaddura, a Republican precinct chair, shot [a] video of O'Brien's speech.

"[The] Quran demands believers wage Jihad against the infidel, again, everybody who isn't Muslim," O'Brien is captured telling the north Tarrant County Republican club. "... A grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the western civilization from within."

O'Brien is a local representative for a Florida-based group called "Act for America," which warns that Muslims want to undermine the United States government.

In his message, he said he believes there is "a stealth Jihad in the United States guided by the Muslim Brotherhood." The Muslim Brotherhood is a large international organization based in Egypt that supports creating Islamic states.

"I'm not aware of anybody in the United States here who is with the Muslim Brotherhood," said Qaddura, who enlisted Tarrant County Medical Examiner Nizam Peerwani to give a rebuttal.

"I was humiliated and degraded," he said of O'Brien's message.

Qaddura said he was shocked to hear O'Brien's message, which included warnings that "Islam permits the killing of innocent people."

"And this is what the ultimate goal is is to replace the United States' flag and the United States' government with the half moon and the star," O'Brien said.

Qaddura said the messages prey on fears, which have a way of spreading and doing a lot of harm.
"This is a good community," he said. "We are Texans, and Texans don't put up with that stuff."

ACT is a great organization. They are watching the muslims in this country and reporting what they hear.