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Remember this guy? Florida Gun Store Sued After Declaring 'Muslim-Free Zone'
The Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday against a gun shop whose owner declared it a "Muslim-free zone" earlier this month.
Andy Hallinan drew national media attention when he announced that he would "not arm and train those who wish to do harm to my fellow patriots" at his Florida Gun Supply in Inverness.
He made the declaration that he had "a moral and legal responsibility" to take action days after a Muslim-American man went on a shooting rampage at two Chattanooga, Tenn. military facilities by a gunman that left four Marines and one Navy sailor dead.
In the lawsuit, CAIR-FL asks the court to grant an injunction against the gun shop, prohibiting it from discriminating against Muslims or instituting any policies or practices that discriminate or segregate people on the basis of religion.
Officials at CAIR-FL criticized Hallinan after he made the declaration for discriminating against an entire religion for the act of one person. Hallinan subsequently agreed to meet and train Hassan Shibly, CAIR-FL's executive director.
But Hallinan later rescinded the invitation to Shibly after receiving a flood of e-mails and calls from people that he said warned him that CAIR had been put on the United Arab Emirates' terror list.
Shibly is not named as a plaintiff in the lawsuit, and he stressed that the lawsuit is about countering what he said was an "illegal" policy by the store to discriminate against Muslims.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/07/29/groups-sues-fla-gun-shop-declared-muslim-free-zone/30845365/
The Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday against a gun shop whose owner declared it a "Muslim-free zone" earlier this month.
Andy Hallinan drew national media attention when he announced that he would "not arm and train those who wish to do harm to my fellow patriots" at his Florida Gun Supply in Inverness.
He made the declaration that he had "a moral and legal responsibility" to take action days after a Muslim-American man went on a shooting rampage at two Chattanooga, Tenn. military facilities by a gunman that left four Marines and one Navy sailor dead.
In the lawsuit, CAIR-FL asks the court to grant an injunction against the gun shop, prohibiting it from discriminating against Muslims or instituting any policies or practices that discriminate or segregate people on the basis of religion.
Officials at CAIR-FL criticized Hallinan after he made the declaration for discriminating against an entire religion for the act of one person. Hallinan subsequently agreed to meet and train Hassan Shibly, CAIR-FL's executive director.
But Hallinan later rescinded the invitation to Shibly after receiving a flood of e-mails and calls from people that he said warned him that CAIR had been put on the United Arab Emirates' terror list.
Shibly is not named as a plaintiff in the lawsuit, and he stressed that the lawsuit is about countering what he said was an "illegal" policy by the store to discriminate against Muslims.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/07/29/groups-sues-fla-gun-shop-declared-muslim-free-zone/30845365/
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What did he expect was going to happen? However, there was a statement from CAIR in this article that made me stop reading for a minute to think about it... "When he refused to reconsider his position, when he refused to reconsider to be educated, refused to engage this community, refused to respect American law, we had no choice but to bring forward this lawsuit." The words that stuck out to me the most was "when he refused to reconsider to be educated"... For some reason, that didn't sit too well with me coming from a CAIR rep... Am i reading too much into this?
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Not surprising that Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) wants to target Andy Hallinan. CAIR is an oxymoron to the extreme they don't care about anybody but their own kind SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S. :-)
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LTC Stephen F.
CMSgt Mark Schubert - Mark, i noticed that you already had 50 up votes and 1 vote down. I checked to make sure I had not voted for you already and then had the honor of being the 51st up vote for you. Hopefully your net vote counts :-)
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LTC Stephen F. Bingo Sir
2500 pts and my first 50 badge - ironically, with a down vote - go figure...
2500 pts and my first 50 badge - ironically, with a down vote - go figure...
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LTC Stephen F.
SFC James Sczymanski - Jim, I hope that it was an accidental down vote. I looked at his page and he is new with 7 or so contacts. I contacted a mutual contact and asked for his assistance to get a response.
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There is more going on here than CAIR claiming to have filed a lawsuit against Hallinan. CAIR (you cannot tell me they didn't set this up) Having a American veteran convert come to FL from CA to attend a class and for that veteran to be advised of his rights by CAIR while at the same time Federal agents are advising Hallinan to close his store because of it to avoid having the veteran attend classes at his store.
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