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Muslim group's TN forum with feds disrupted by hecklingMANCHESTER Hundreds of people turned out at the Manchester Convention Center Tuesday evening for an event billed as a discussion of public discourse in a diverse society, with a particular focus on the Muslim religion.
People were turned away at the door because the facility was too full. Some grew angry and started hurling terms such as communist, socialist and Muslim at law enforcement officials.
The indoor event, sponsored by the American Muslim Advisory Council, was countered by a large group of protesters, both outside and inside the facility. Some who made it in before admission was cut off continuously interrupted the speakers.
The interruptions were so intense at times that attendee Elaine Smith, 55, of Bedford County, said she was afraid of other audience members.
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20130605/NEWS21/306050155/Muslim-group-s-TN-forum-feds-disrupted-by-heckling
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)spanone
(135,838 posts)Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)Heckling is good is we do not support them.
It's important that we, as hypocrites, are consistent in our hypocrisy.
spanone
(135,838 posts)Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)I despise hecklers and heckling under all circumstances. No exceptions.
spanone
(135,838 posts)Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)spanone
(135,838 posts)So ... you post an article and only want agreement with your perspective? All others should stay away?
Whatever. I'm done here.
spanone
(135,838 posts)Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)This is a discussion board. If you don't want comments, start a blog.
Jeezus eff!
spanone
(135,838 posts)asjr
(10,479 posts)The rabble rousers will keep silent since Bonnaroo brings in big bucks to our county.
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)a discussion. They should have gotten rid of the protesters if they could not comply with simply courtesy.
Ron Green
(9,822 posts)I think I'd gladly die tomorrow if I could take all the other old white guys with me.
WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)Protesting and getting arrested at NC's Moral Mondays.
CanonRay
(14,103 posts)SQUEE
(1,315 posts)And yes, welcome to Tennessee. There were the obligatory reactionaries, drummed up by talk radio hosts, most from the "enlightened" city areas of Tennessee, I saw very few locals and have to say the reports are making much more of this than actually happened.
The entire event was a joke, the Q&A was extremely short and whomever decided this was a good venue needs to be retrained and taught about room capacity. This just struck me as a cheap attempt to show how back'ards and bigoted us poor country mice are.