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Right Wing Watch: Tony Perkins Admits 'No-Go Zone' Accusation 'Not Literally Accurate,' ...
Accepts Congressman's Invitation To Tour MinneapolisFriday, 1/30/2015 12:05 pm
Last month, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins claimed that the city of Dearborn, Michigan, and some areas of Minneapolis have effectively become no-go zones where authorities have allowed Sharia law to be imposed.
In response, Rep. Keith Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat who is one of two Muslims in Congress, invited Perkins to visit him in Minneapolis and see firsthand that Minneapolis is an inclusive and thriving city completely under the jurisdiction of local, state, and federal authorities.
On his Washington Watch radio program last night, Perkins defended his no-go zone remark, admitting that the term is not literally accurate but that it correctly describes the underlying problem is the lack of assimilation and integration into the broader society that is seen in Muslim communities in some of these areas in this country.
Perkins then said that he would accept Ellisons invitation to tour Minneapolis as soon as the weather warms up. Or, as he put it, Let a little more of the presidents forecast of global warming hit and I will be there.
Last month, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins claimed that the city of Dearborn, Michigan, and some areas of Minneapolis have effectively become no-go zones where authorities have allowed Sharia law to be imposed.
In response, Rep. Keith Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat who is one of two Muslims in Congress, invited Perkins to visit him in Minneapolis and see firsthand that Minneapolis is an inclusive and thriving city completely under the jurisdiction of local, state, and federal authorities.
On his Washington Watch radio program last night, Perkins defended his no-go zone remark, admitting that the term is not literally accurate but that it correctly describes the underlying problem is the lack of assimilation and integration into the broader society that is seen in Muslim communities in some of these areas in this country.
Perkins then said that he would accept Ellisons invitation to tour Minneapolis as soon as the weather warms up. Or, as he put it, Let a little more of the presidents forecast of global warming hit and I will be there.
Link: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tony-perkins-admits-no-go-zone-accusation-not-literally-accurate-accepts-congressmans-invita
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Right Wing Watch: Tony Perkins Admits 'No-Go Zone' Accusation 'Not Literally Accurate,' ... (Original Post)
inanna
Feb 2015
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Mr Perkins? Just FYI: It is now official policy of the US Senate that climate change is real.
DetlefK
Feb 2015
#1
True, but I'll cut him some slack with a joke re visiting Minnesota in the winter!
Lucky Luciano
Feb 2015
#2
Only a demogogue can admit to being "not literally accurate" but being "correctly" describing .....
marble falls
Feb 2015
#4
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)1. Mr Perkins? Just FYI: It is now official policy of the US Senate that climate change is real.
Lucky Luciano
(11,258 posts)2. True, but I'll cut him some slack with a joke re visiting Minnesota in the winter!
No other slack will be cut.
underpants
(182,851 posts)3. Senator jon kyl "This is not intended to be a factual statement"
marble falls
(57,137 posts)4. Only a demogogue can admit to being "not literally accurate" but being "correctly" describing .....
the same thing in the same sentence. What a terrible person.
Aristus
(66,434 posts)5. "Not literally accurate - you know, in, like, the real world and stuff.
But inside my head where I live with Pauley Parrot and Captain Jammers, No-Go Zones are totally a real thing!..."
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)6. That's right, confront those islamophobic SOBs nt