Now, the killing in New York and the killings here in our community were all brutal, completely senseless, and outright evil domestic violence killings. My guess is that if you tracked the “religion” of all domestic violence killings in the US, the vast, overwhelming majority of them are committed by people who would self-identify as being Christian. Does that mean that all Christains are violent wife killers? No.
The Bible in the old testament actually justifies the killing by stoning of women (the Koran does not), does that mean that Christian men who kills their wives are justified by religion? of course NOT!

Several years ago, Ed Sileo forwarded out a joke that was stupid and not something a public official should do. He immediately apologized. Ms. Marquez has not only not apologized, but she literally continues to slap the Muslim community in the AV in the face. The city itself is sending exactly the same message to the population as Marquez did in her post by treating the Muslim Community as if they were outlaw bikers, thugs and criminals.

I’m be surprised, but nothing here surprises me anymore……
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why did we elect such a dumbass?
why would we elect someone who can’t
help but stereotype a BILLION people?
someone who majored in “i’ll ask my husband, 101”?

and what of the christians killing there
family’s, another one this weekend?

SEPARATE OUR TOWN FROM THIS FANATIC’S
RELIGIOUS HATREDS? before jesus really weeps!
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Did they also pat down the men?
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Ask yourself that. I didn’t vote for Obama.
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And the more confused/frustrated/angry normal, thinking, reasonable people got about it….the better the churchers feel about themselves. Because pissing off people “not like them” gives them a doing-God’s-work high (which, in reality, is a feed-their-hatred/bigotries/fears rush, renamed).
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Many Muslims on the other hand do, and they make it loud and clear. They want Christians dead.

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marques is a idiot. but if you fight for her, marino, maybe u can put her in a higher position of power.

seems like she’s ur kinda girl!
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You didn’t vote for Obama. Neither did 99% of the voters who voted for the “dumbass” Marquez.

Anti-Obama = pro-dumbass, apparently. Not the other way around.
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Most of the hatred is Muslim on non Muslim. Show me a clip similiar to the vid I posted where Christians want to destroy Islam. I could post a hundred seperate sources of Muslims On Chritian hatred and death threats for every one you post. You can’t even find one.

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“Non-Muslim Burned Alive & Mutilated by Islamic…”

“Muslim mobs screaming for the beheading of three Christian women in Indonesia.”

You can’t compare or even get close to this.
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The important distinction here is culture versus religion. The culture of some Islamic countries allow, or even condone, such acts of barbarism but the Muslim religion does not.

Haven’t we gotten past the habit of painting everyone with the same brush? Perhaps not.
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this blog site isn’t large enough to list all those who have killed in the name of jesus.
and we got a idiot council member who wants to join the ranks. someone commit this dame before she really hurts someone.
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but then u think u don’t belong to a church that raped children.
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“Show me a clip similiar to the vid I posted where Christians want to destroy Islam”

i guess u can pull up a clip of marquez at the ur very own towns council meeting today.
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There are jerks in every religion. No shit. But lets cut out the politics for a minute. I won’t ever run for council or mayor or janitor here so I’ll speak my mind unlike most politicians.

There are more outspoken Muslims that want to behead you than there are Christians they want to destroy Islam. It’s all there. I could post dozens of of clip and sources of Mulsims in London and around the globe that make clear they want non-Muslims exterminated.

There is no comparison. And not nearly enough decent Muslims speak out against the high percentage (compared to Christians) os Mulsims that want to destroy, behead, and murder, non-Muslims, and Muslims for that matter.

Feels good not being a politician. I didn’t lose any votes.
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I will post videos of beheadings here shortly. They are on the net, because those Mulsim maniacs want you to view them.

Let’s see how long they stay here before being deleted. Then you can post your evil Marquez vid. Hahaha…what a comparison.
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100.000s of dead men women and children. cuz bush said god was on his side.

the muslim haven’t come close to killing the numbers GOOD christians have killed in the last 8 yrs alone.
and ur one of the GOOD christians who didn’t speak out against the murders.

but go ahead marino. keep pretending there’s no blood on ur hands. keep waiting for the OTHER side to raise
their voices!!!
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Your religious and/political beliefs are your own. I shall respect them and question you for enlightenment. Yet I find the closed-mindedness of many opiners reprehensible!
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doesn’t change the fact that GOOD christians have killed 100,000s more muslims then muslims have killed, regardless of the dead’s religious beliefs.

but yeah, i guess christians need better video coverage.
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i can live with that!
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Most Iraqi and Afghani citizens that have been mudered since the beginning of the war have been murdered by insurgents. Suicide bombings stiil happen there almost on a daily basis. Muslim insurgents murder there own to try to get coalition forces out.
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Someone wants to kill me because I’m a Christian will be dealt with accordingly. I’ll speak out against them.

I don’t knock your non Chritian views, lanc. I don’t care.
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i just don’t lie to myself about the brutality of my country or theirs.
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You’d rather be beheaded? You havn’t witnessed a beheading, and all the gurgling, and strugling involved, and all the time spent up to that point waiting and knowing it’s about to happen.
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u want to beleive ur better. and ur not!
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PK, iraq was not out to destroy the world. even the smallest amount of research will prove that.

and afghan is a vast waste land that proved no threat to anyone but themselves.

of course, because of our brilliant foreign policy of kill 1st, ask questions later, (which is a laff, i can assure u, we didn’t want any answers), HASN’T MADE US SAFER, but has caused more people to saw off heads. many who had no interest in us at all. until we invaded their country.

marino if we’re invaded, would u saw off their head?
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If you have an issue about us being in Iraq and Afghanastan, direct them to your boy, who stated we’d be out by now. Obama is keeping us there.
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and the WMD’s were used against the kurds in the mid 80’s, and given to saddam by us. to kill people. so i guess we were responsible, for the 5000 kurds.
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amazing how doing the wrong thing again and again tends to bite u in the ass.
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just like the muslims.
hey marino , it’s like u all are related.
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The truth is that every religion has fanatics. From the nuts that think its ok to shoot abortion providers because its “justified by God”, to the mass murderers of 9/11. To say that one has more then the other is to ignore the dark ages, the salem witch trials, and even the fact that groups like the KKK have often claimed to be Christian organizations.
Even Buddhists, probably one of the most peaceful religions on earth, as fanatics who will set themselves on fire as some sort of statement to protest things they don’t like.

The case in New York was a Domestic Violence case, and just like a lot of women murdered by husbands, it was done because the husband felt he was losing control of her. It happens in this country every single day, but this one made the news because the husband was Muslim.

I know a lot of people that practice the Muslim faith as devoutly as any Christian I have ever met. They love their wives, their children, their neighbors, the same way we Christians are supposed to love ours. Not once have I ever felt that I was being judged around them because of my faith, and I can not imagine what its like to take your spouse and children into a public meeting and be treated like a criminal simply because of your faith.

PK, I don’t know if they patted down the men because I was 20 minutes late getting there. I do know they were quite thorough in inspecting my tiny little purse, which is barely big enough to hold my wallet and keys, and when I asked one of the Muslim women, she said they searched her bag like they were sure she was carrying a bomb inside. I’m surprised they didn’t have dogs there.
It always pisses me off- These boneheads don’t seem to realize how invasive it is to a woman to have some idiot pawing through her bag.

Can you imagine what would have happened had they discovered a “feminine hygiene product”? They probably would have evacuated the building and called in the bomb squad.
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It’s a weak, weak person who is afraid of things they don’t understand, or who will spread the kind of viciousness she spread toward her neighbors, and worse, her constituents.

If you want to hold bigoted beliefs, thats fine. You’re not elected to anything, you don’t serve the public interest. You can be as scared as you want of “those people”. You can even move to Lancaster and vote for her in 2 years.
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They should have checked out the little old lady with the blue hair and the red white and blue blouse.

I get on a plane with a group that’s dressed in Muslim gard, I’m havin’ a quick meeting with the rest of those in the plane. We will have a plan, just in case. And hopefully many on the plane will keep an eye on them. Some a-holes would call that stereotyping, and/or pre-judging.
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BRITISH GOVERNMENT WARNED THAT IRAQ WAR WOULD BE ILLEGAL
Posted on Jan 26, 2010
U.S. Air Force / Staff Sgt. Nicole Ketchen

….Before the invasion of Iraq, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw’s top legal adviser warned that the use of force was “contrary to international law” and “would amount to the crime of aggression.”
—www.truthdig.com
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I’d rather be accused of being a live bigot then a dead idiot. And I don’t appreciate the number of Americans that are putting the rest of us in harms way.
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Sometimes just getting to know what you fear shows you that fear itself just because something isn’t familiar to you is kind of silly.

Trying to paint all the people in the world that practice the the religion of Islam is in fact bigoted. If you can justify insane public scrutiny of law abiding citizens, then I’m sure justification of public flogging of them because they don’t share your faith can’t be that far behind.

Marquez did not “speak out”, she simply forgot that the Facebook is public and everyone in the world could see what she was saying. She thought she was preaching to the choir, because she has posted other, equally inflammatory things and no one has called her out on it. She deleted this posting as soon as she became aware that other people could see it. The great thing about computers though is that sometimes, you just can’t erase things faster than people can screen shot them.
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If it isn’t Muslims, it’s the Gay Community, the Jews, the Methodists…the list of Lancaster Baptist ire is cyclical, it seems.
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I guess it’s easy to post hate on the computer, but when you have to stare someone in the face it becomes a little harder.

I guess we can add Sherry Marquez to the “Slate of Hate” of Parris, Smith, & Marquez.
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And there exists an unlimited amount of sources that prove this.
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How many have the KKK killed/beheaded lately? Very poor comparison. Try again.
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Go for it! Or are you scared that the Muslim boogeyman might get you?

Come on!! Support Sherry! Tell her to re-post her statement on Facebook!

Oops, we only have convictions when it doesn’t embarrass people.

Bunch of frickin’ cowards. Defy the Muslim infidel!
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“So as you walked into the council meeting tonight, you were greeted by security, even ridiculous by Lancaster standards.”

Yes, you speak out against Islamic extremists, and you have to watch your back.

Go to any Arabic country and speak out against Islam, like those here that speak out against Christianity, and see how long you live.
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I will now support Marquez due to this blog.
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I hope you follow through on your big talk of supporting Sherry by organizing a pro-Sherry rally. Or do you right wing Republicans just talk big?

Bock, bock, bock, BOCK!!

I guarantee you that any pro-Sherry will be BLOCKED by Rex Parris.

I guess he wants to protect you from every body except Muslims.
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I think that it would really say something if every Muslim or Sikh physician in the Antelope Valley showed up to a city council meeting to confront her about those remarks.
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I’ve taken my turn doing the rally thing. Marquez is a big girl and can obviously handle herself.

The problem isn’t all Muslims, Harding. Re-read my comments.
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Maybe Sherry can find some Republicans who won’t throw her under the bus.
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She’s simply exhibiting a symptom of several abnormalities: Chappell-itis, Rex-itis, and who am I sitting in this big chair trying to sound rational?

I told you a while back that when we went to lunch she acted like a religious fanatic, pushing that holy paper across the lunch table at me, forcing me to recoil.

It was scary. I didn’t know if she was going to break out with a magic wand or a cross.

I felt as if I was looked at as a potential convert to what I don’t know. I don’t want to be a Chapell-ite, Rex-ite or someone Sherry things is a do-gooder. Frankly, those kinds of do-gooders I hold accountable for the Crusades and other religious wars that harm thousands of people.

So give Sherry some space. Allow her to rely on the three people she told me over lunch have control over her — her husband, her God, and her Pastor.

Her Pastor?

Ok….I’m not getting the last one but Sherry will find her way.
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http://www.avnewstodayonline.com/Letters_to_the_Editor.html

As I was on my way to the ribbon cutting of the Army National Guard
Readiness Center last Friday morning, I started thinking and praying
about those families of the Fort Hood victims that had their loved ones
(sons and

daughters, husbands and wives, mothers and fathers) taken from them in
what

I see as a tragic and avoidable act of terrorism.

I thought about my experiences as a dependent military child, wife and

mother; living on military installations were the safest places on
earth. I began to think about how it could have been my son, who serves
in the Air Force; what if this attack had happened on an Air Base? What
if he had been preparing to deploy or returning home? Again, I began to
pray for the families of our dead and our wounded. They died in what
should be the

safest place on earth, a US military installation, at the hands of a
madman

filled with hate for America and all it stands for.

The asinine political correctness of the day has wiped out all common
sense.

Under the ruse of religious freedom, allowing those with Jihad in their
hearts to embed themselves with those they hate and are just waiting for
the

right time to attack. This has got to stop!

Unfortunately, these attacks will continue and increase until all see
the Jihadists for what they are: terrorists.

American’s please speak out and speak out now. Call or write your
congressman, call or write the president and express your outrage. Our
troops, that come home from harms way only to find the enemy still
within

has got to stop! Our troops deserve to be safe at home!

God bless our troops, God bless our Veterans – and may God bless
America!

Sincerely,

Sherry Marquez

MY RESPONSE: How does Mayor Rex feel about Sherry’s comments? Inquiring minds would like to know. What a council staff threesome:

Truly as Harding Republican eloquently stated: The SLATE OF HATE
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I don’t think she apologized to the people last night, her constituents, etc. I thought it would be nice if Mayor Rex had of done that and not looked like he was in suspended animation or a coma.

Geeze, between the black minister who got excoriated by Mayor Parris and Sherry’s comments, minorities aren’t fairing very well in Lancaster.

And I thought the Mayor’s attack on the black minister took the cake. Go Sherry!
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01/27/10 – 07:12 PM
marino says…
Harding,

How many have the KKK killed/beheaded lately? Very poor comparison. Try again.

why oh why, would hanging from a tree, gurgling and kicking not be worth comparing to being beheaded and kicking and gurgling.

or being burned out. or being hunted through the woods??

and marino, u state ur an american 1st.
and u seem to think i ‘m not, and don’t “pull my own wait”?

u take the easy way and think ur working HARD at being PATRIOTIC.

I THINK IT MUCH HARDER, AND MUCH MORE PATRIOTIC TO FIGHT TO FIX WHATS WRONG WITH MY COUNTRY.

not wear blinders, and pretend we’re RIGHT. whether we are or not.

u keep talking of video,and conveniently
choose to forget we have pictures, WE CAN’T RELEASE, because they are so incendiary!

so yeah, hate to see u lie to urself.
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I guess since they haven’t lynched anybody recently that they’ve cleaned up their act. Those lynchings do take a toll on your public relations image.
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Hasn’t the KKK simply become more sophisticated in its way of hanging people.
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PK is correct but do we need them sitting in such a pivotal position like City Council Member?
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10 a.m. City Hall! Support a Christian Community in Lancaster! Support Mayor Parris, Councilman Smith, and Councilwoman Marquez!! We will not tolerate a Muslim/ACLU takeover in Lancaster!

Spread the word!

See you at City Hall tomorrow!

God Bless America
America Bless God

United we STAND!!!!
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I mean, as you put it, “united we stand”? Really, or is it “3 of the 5” we stand?
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Will women who come to this be required to bring a note from their husbands with permission to protest?

How about a proper dress check by the flying LBC God Squad?
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Second- Since that crime and contrary to Ms. Marquez fears, there has been no rash of “honor killings or beheadings” in the US, in fact, that one stands alone as a horrific example of Domestic Violence of a man toward his estranged wife. In 2008, when this crime took place, almost 1200 women were killed by their husbands or boyfriends. Of those close to 1200, 1 killing was by a Muslim… hmmm, maybe there is something off about Ms. Marquez’s post.

Third- Of Demographic groups in the US, Arab-Americans, including Muslims, are right down there with Asian population as the least likely to be involved in criminal activity. Worse, these days, they are the MOST LIKELY to be victims of hate crimes.

Fourth- Just like Asian-Americans, Arab Americans have higher than average incomes, are more likely to send their kids to college, and strangely enough considering the local Republican Parties view of them, more likely to be political conservatives.

To sum it all up, with the exception of the “political conservative” (haha), they are way more likely than almost any other ethnic group in the US to be good citizens, productive and successful citizens.

For the record- All of the crime statistics came from the DOJ, the rest from the US census and several demographic ethnic study reports.

So yes, Ms. Marquez comments were ignorant, racist and wrong.
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And red meat for the churchers.
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The powerbrokers then get a free ride in power to continue buying and selling Lancaster to their inner circle. And they never have to defend themselves on the real issues, because churchers are focused on their ridiculous nonissues only.

As long as the powerbrokers are paying homage to churchers with the right empty words, then they get easy tickets back to city hall.

Meanwhile, citizens who care about real issues and genuine good public policy are left to the (relegated to bit part) task of debating real issues amongst themselves.

Rinse and repeat.
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Thank you again for the response.
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That’s why Lancaster moved their election to an off MONTH (April), not just off year, date. They want as few as possible normal, working, (busy) citizens to come out. Leaving the powerbrokers’ only campaign challenge of saying the right things (and prompting the right congregations) to get churchers out to vote.

Tried and true. Been working for years. They’ve got the numbers.

Never forget. Lancaster has “In God We Trust” on their wall, and Christ’s cross on their city logo (two previous bones thrown to the churchers).

It’s positively clear!
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Here’s his chance to show how tolerant and inclusive he is!
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