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Mansfield News JournalMore than 350 people crowded into the Premier Office Complex on Monday night to hear a speaker whose talk about Islam was suddenly moved from Mansfield Senior High School because of worries about public safety. Tea party members receptive to the lecture bumped elbows with concerned listeners from the Mansfield chapter of the NAACP and the Islamic Society of Mansfield.
He (Usama Dakdok) quoted the Koran and Islamic figures -- contending the U.S. Constitution had its roots in the Bible, while Islam produced slavery, religious murders and repression. Much of Dakdok's lecture focused on President Barack Obama. Dakdok said Obama has not been truthful with Americans when he tried to distance himself politically from his Islamic father, has welcomed Muslims into high government offices, and set the stage for immigration of Muslim doctors and nurses to America to fill positions needed in the administration's health care plan.
The tea party meeting originally was scheduled to take place Monday evening at Mansfield Senior High School. On Friday, the Mansfield chapter of the NAACP criticized the school district for allowing a speaker it calls "anti-Muslim" to address the public on school property, arguing that permitting the event created the appearance of endorsing it.
Bonnie Oleksa, an organizer with the tea party group that invited Dakdok, said she is disappointed with the school district's decision. She said Freund was pressured by the NAACP and other groups to rescind permission for the event. "I thought in the United States we lived under the constitution, but it looks to me we are under Sharia law already," she said.
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