A gun-toting anti-Muslim hate group protesting at a mosque in Texas were weren’t expecting to be confronted by armed members of the New Black Panther party and the Huey P Newton Gun Club.
The Bureau of American Islamic Relations (BAIR) enjoys showing up at Muslim prayer centers armed with firearms in an effort to intimidate people trying to worship.
The hate group expected an average day of bigotry and aggression at the Nation of Islam mosque on Martin Luther King Boulevard in South Dallas, only to find themselves outnumbered by the armed self-defense group waiting for them.
Members of the community, along with the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and the Huey P Newton Gun Club, were there to protect the Muslims from the BAIR demonstrators.
Both groups made the most of open carry laws in Texas that allow residents to carry AK-47s and rifles on the streets.
There was a heavy police presence at the scene.
“They have no reason to bring themselves here to South Dallas. David Wright and his band of idiots, they’re out of their minds thinking they can bring their right-wing ideology into South Dallas,” Yafeuh Balogun, a member of the gun club named after the original Black Panther Party leader, explained in his military fatigues.
“We cannot stand by while all these different anti-American, Arab radical Islamists team up with Nation of Islam/Black Panthers and White anti-American anarchist groups, joining together in the goal of destroying our country and killing innocent people to gain dominance through fear! We will be going in full gear for self defense only. This is a full gear situation,” BAIR said on its Facebook page.
The group previously protested at an event to welcome refugees in Irving in February, with leader David Wright explaining, “We want to see how many are actually women and children.”
BAIR didn’t stay long, after being encouraged to leave by the police, Fox 4 reports.
“The community here in South Dallas, on Martin Luther King and Malcolm X spoke out, and you should see today, it wasn’t the Huey P Newton Gun Club that ran BAIR out of the community, it was the residents, and the people who live here who got BAIR out of here,” Balogun said.
Huey P Newton Gun Club has organized a number displays against police violence, marching for justice for Michael Brown, Eric Garner, James Harper and others.
The New Black Panther for Self Defense was established in Dallas in 1989.
The original Black Panthers say the new group is not affiliated with them – and both new BPP and BAIR are considered hate groups by Southern Poverty Law Center.
Nearly 50 years ago, armed members of the original BPP marched into California’s state Capitol building, shocking the world.
Behind the guns, their 10-point platform pushed for “radical” ideas like “decent housing”, an immediate end to police brutality, and “an end to the robbery by the capitalists of our black and oppressed communities.”
https://www.rt.com/usa/338282-anti-muslim-militia-black-panthers/
I have to wonder if this wasn’t staged to raise opposition to open carry laws.
“The Bureau of American Islamic Relations (BAIR)……Members of the community, along with the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and the Huey P Newton Gun Club, were there to protect the Muslims from the BAIR demonstrators……Both groups made the most of open carry laws in Texas that allow residents to carry AK-47s and rifles on the streets.”
Sounds to me like we’d all be better off if they all opened fire on each other instead of just waving their guns at each other.
HAH! Called it yesterday, they ARE black panthers! However, I do NOT believe for one second that the “original” group have “disowned” this lot in any regard, this is more a “testing the water” than anything else. People need to remember just how VIOLENT the black panthers are in thuggery and openly wanting to ethnically cleanse whites. Also do not forget that they were a “back to our roots” group that pushed conversion to Islam or a small handful of other African religions.
The “old core” is supporting this group whether they deny it or not, it is merely a test to see how much they can get away with. Should “BAIR” or any other offshoots succeed they will be welcomed with open arms, if they fail well… Plausible deniability.
Yea, as I said yesterday, it all looked staged to me.