Chicago-area leftists demand resignation of Township Trustee for “anti-Muslim” Facebook posts

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“The most recent post by Republican Sharon Brannigan reads ‘What is Palos doing? Why are all our schools filling with Middle Eastern students without proper documentation?’ Another from 2015 criticizes the community’s Muslim population for ‘keeping themselves and their activities hidden’ from others, WBBM’s Andy Dahn reports.”

These things are true: there are Muslims all over the country who do not have proper documentation, and Muslim communities are notorious for being secretive. But you cannot criticize Muslims or Islam — for the left today, that’s intolerable and unacceptable under any circumstances. And so this grim fascist Emily Biegel is demanding Sharon Brannigan’s resignation. Good for Brannigan for hanging tough against this Sharia pressure.

“Trustee’s Social Media Posts About Muslims Draws Protesters,” CBS, July 10, 2017 (thanks to Anne):

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CHICAGO (CBS) — Activists say Monday’s rally against a Palos Township Trustee is just the beginning, after a string of Facebook posts the group calls anti-Muslim.

The most recent post by Republican Sharon Brannigan reads “What is Palos doing? Why are all our schools filling with Middle Eastern students without proper documentation?” Another from 2015 criticizes the community’s Muslim population for “keeping themselves and their activities hidden” from others, WBBM’s Andy Dahn reports.

Emily Biegel is director and founder of Southwest Suburban Activists, a group that organized the rally.

“It’s not that we’re attacking her right to free speech, but with free speech comes consequences,” Biegel said. “If you’ve been charged with representing your entire township, that includes the ones who’s religion you have such disdain for.”

“I am not anti-Muslim,” Brannigan told CBS 2’s Dana Kozlov Monday night. “I am pro-community and pro-taxpayer.”

Asked if she regretted the social-media postings, she replied: “I regret that they feel it was a slight.”

Critics flooded the township board of trustees meeting Monday night. They are calling for Brannigan to step down and plan to protest until that happens.

“Money will be withheld from the township,” Biegel said. “We will not be spending money in Palos Township. We will not be supporting things in Palos Township if Palos Township and their trustees stand for hate.”

Brannigan has said she has no plans to resign.

A statement she released earlier Monday said: “All statements on my personal pages of social media reflect the observations I have had living in this district for 25 years and in the 3rd congressional district for 55 years. I believe that questioning our government is our responsibility even if the issues at hand are sensitive in nature.”…

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johnnycab23513
johnnycab23513
6 years ago

So the lady is criticised for doing what she was elected to do, and for telling the truth! Only in America!

Meoldfart Fartme
Meoldfart Fartme
6 years ago
Reply to  johnnycab23513

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Rebeccaahubbard
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Jack Holan
Jack Holan
6 years ago

Unless mis-characterized, Ms Brannigan did not state religion as alleged by her detractors but did say those people coming from the Middle East. Her emphasis along with lack of documentation appears to be the legal status of those using taxpayer’s resources in the community and their continued lack of cooperation to provide proper paperwork to governmental authorities that will establish their legal position. Some immigrant lack a problem fulfilling these obligations while other flat out refuse to do so giving rise to suspicions they are hiding something about their immigration status.
Rather than reply with a positive message, the community as is very common in Middle Eastern Culture play victim that it must be their religion attack the messenger Trustee Brannigan while they say they are for free speech they want to silence the free speech of Ms Brannigan for good.
Ms Brannigan the very worse thing you can do is surrender to these calls to resign. The people of your area voted you into office, if they disagree with you, they won’t re-elect you next election. You must ask your community why does everyone else comply while this community thumbs its nose and when called out ask for resignations based on racism (a made up charge)

JoetheDoe
JoetheDoe
6 years ago
Reply to  Jack Holan

I have to laugh at this. Brannigan surely did cite religion when she called Trump’s women dignified and blasted veiling-wearing Muslims. But, since you think all Muslims are dogs and don’t care about what they have to say, let me tell you what “your people” are saying and doing. Members of School Board 118 (the schools she cited) came to broadcast to the public and to Sharon that she misused the facts–in fact, she had no knowledge of the information she lied about and embarrassed the schools, making them look badly. She lied and they called her on that. That guy’s name was Terry, not Muhammad. In addition, her own board members called her speech racist. Board member had an Irish last name; again, not Muhammad. Cook County Board president has asked her to resign from the women’s board. Again, Preckwinkle isn’t an Arabic name.

Seems to me you might be on the wrong side. Your folk are standing up against Sharon.

notislam
notislam
6 years ago
Reply to  JoetheDoe

The (the board members ) used “racist” because that is what the LIB LEFT does! There is no “race” in filthy-islam— because they do all things distasteful and corrupt and treat women as animals –very cruel and painful and torture them on a daily basis. Islam DOES NOT BELONG IN THE USA and that is why so many of them are here illegally–It is disgusting , to put it politely. Islam is built on corruption and evil -that’s what Mo. was all about. Don’t equate islam as a “religion” with Christianity etc. because it is the opposite of all infidel-religions,

JoetheDoe
JoetheDoe
6 years ago
Reply to  notislam

Here ya go. I guess, regardless of all your drivel about religion (don’t care about any religion myself), you missed the MAIN POINT–that is the BOARD OF PALOS SAID SHE LIED. YES, OLE GIRL LIED.

Go lash and thrash at ghosts in the closet:

Terry Heafey, a Palos School District 118 trustee, defended the district registration process Brannigan had criticized and said he’d contacted her to discuss the issue after learning of her Facebook comments.

“As we discussed the issue of school registration and the thorough process that Palos School District 118 enacts to verify residency, it was clear that Mrs. Brannigan had no knowledge of this process or evidence to substantiate her claim,” he said in a prepared statement. “The issue of residency and school admittance are taken very seriously in District 118. Mrs. Brannigan’s efforts to undermine the community’s confidence in our residency process without fact or evidence using the lever of bigotry is disgraceful.”

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  JoetheDoe

All muslums are fascists, because their belief system, like nazism is inherently and explicitly fascist.
F*(k allah, f*(k muslums.

Ron rockit
Ron rockit
6 years ago

Moslems are the only immigrant group that I can think of that murders its hosts. I am an islamophobe, for good reasons.

Jack Holan
Jack Holan
6 years ago
Reply to  Ron rockit

Excellent 2 points. Unfortunate but true

Meoldfart Fartme
Meoldfart Fartme
6 years ago
Reply to  Ron rockit

we be > invasionophobe <

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
6 years ago
Reply to  Ron rockit

They do not assimilate. They cannot integrate properly into their adopted societies, because their loyalty to their religion is far too strong.

tatka150
tatka150
6 years ago
Reply to  R. Arandas

and because they are inbreeds. The average IQ is around 70

Raymond of Canada
Raymond of Canada
6 years ago
Reply to  R. Arandas

The civilized and the savage cannot co-exist.

Sara Sue Schmidt
Sara Sue Schmidt
6 years ago
Reply to  R. Arandas

Their Qur’an tells them not to assimilate nor to make friends with the infidel. It also tells them to deceive the infidel and pretend to be a friend if it serves their purpose or that of Allah.

notislam
notislam
6 years ago
Reply to  Ron rockit

Once you understand why you are an islamophobe then it is easy to why you are aware of the total LIE that is islam. You are aware that if you choose to trust one then you may also have a short -lived life. KNOW FILTHY ISLAM = NO filthy islam!

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
6 years ago

Islam is a disease, muslims are the symptoms

Meoldfart Fartme
Meoldfart Fartme
6 years ago
Reply to  Halal Bacon

satanism is a disease, muslims are the symptoms

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
6 years ago

Tomato Potato

Meoldfart Fartme
Meoldfart Fartme
6 years ago
Reply to  Halal Bacon

sams club has halal lamb bugger meat – no tomato or potato – chobani yogurt is halal

Meoldfart Fartme
Meoldfart Fartme
6 years ago

-> islamcpmicbook.com — believe it or else!!

Jackie Puppet
Jackie Puppet
6 years ago

http://islamcomicbook.com/

just giving the correct link there that you sent me the other day. Wish I could print out several copies and spread the word in certain places.

Meoldfart Fartme
Meoldfart Fartme
6 years ago
Reply to  Jackie Puppet

Wish I could print out several copies< – so what is holding you – we have it all on this computer and print when needed

CrustyB
CrustyB
6 years ago

But if she posted “F da police!” she’s get the key to the city and a bridge named after her.

Poppey
Poppey
6 years ago

Good for her, telling the truth as a public servant today is often a revolutionary act, I hope she gets support and a clever council.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
6 years ago

Islam poisons and undermines Western democracy in so many subtle ways, and not just through violence alone.

jobird
jobird
6 years ago

My husband was born in Chicago and doesn’t claim it and I thank God everyday we don’t live there.She is one brave lady and I hope she keeps up with her stand against undocumented illegals filling the schools.They are bad enough already,plus all the shooting and killing there.Good old Ron Emanuel still gets a salary.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

Two can play the boycott game, do not spend money at businesses that patronize or are run by liberal hate mongers. As most liberal democrats are on welfare, their financial contribution is minimal.

b.a. freeman
b.a. freeman
6 years ago

hang tough, ms. brannigan; if they can’t shout U down, they’ll use lawfare and file civil suits with no merit to use up all your time and money. and if U manage to raise enough money to hire an attorney, then they’ll send a pious muslim to kill U, just like their “perfect man” muhammed did.

the nazis are alive and well in Southwest Suburban Activists.

santashandler
santashandler
6 years ago

Because she dared to ask questions about the status of many arabs in their area, she is vilified on par with Hitler. Welcome to the ‘new upside down’ world we live in.

notislam
notislam
6 years ago
Reply to  santashandler

Turn it around -Nazi-islam IS JUST THAT. They added NAZISM TO ISLAM IN THE 1930’s when the Arabs let them move in and teach more vile acts of terrorism.

Jackie Puppet
Jackie Puppet
6 years ago

That area of the Chicago suburbs has been heavily Muslim for well over a decade, long before Obama usurped the Presidency.

Now they have a problem with her?

bargogx1
bargogx1
6 years ago

The best thing that could happen would be if someone turned the tables on those leading the attack against her and gave them a tast of their own medicine.

DistantEarlyWarning611
DistantEarlyWarning611
6 years ago

Islam will be the death of this once great nation and we’re dying already.comment image

Sharon ODonnell
Sharon ODonnell
6 years ago

She told the truth .
I would not resign for telling the truth .
There are 24 year Olds in high schools attacking young girls .Its preposterous .
The Left cares more for the unknown foreign invaders over AmericanTeenagers.
Haven’t they ever heard of the 1000s of UK rape grooming gangs .?The Rapugees have No papers.can’t Verify a thing they say.
They could be ISIS imported to Our schools and Communities .GASP – thats- Islamaphobia to know who is imported to attend school with Our Children …
RIGHT?!.
Sounds like she’s doing her job .comment image

Sharon ODonnell
Sharon ODonnell
6 years ago

Grooming Gang Statistics
Table showing details of those jailed as members of gangs who targeted white schoolgirls for rape. Muslims are approximately 5% of the UK population, but they are 90% of those convicted for these grooming gang crimes.
http://www.pmclauth.com/sentenced/Grooming-Gang-Statistics/Gangs-Jailed

AlgorithmicAnalystD
AlgorithmicAnalyst
6 years ago

Use an avatar rather than your real name, when posting political stuff. Unless you are very brave 🙂

kgolfinghawaii
kgolfinghawaii
6 years ago

You should see this woman’s fb page. What man could be married to this idiot? She has every cause under the sun. I am talking about this critic Emily biegel. Limbaugh was right about feminism and why it exists. You should see the moronic statements by people that follow her. They say the Muslims are private because of people like Brannigan, but we all know it is because they want to stay separate. And one day one of those peaceful private people will cut someone’s head off in that community and this idiot biegel will blame someone like Brannigan as having caused it by being mean to free loaders.

Alleged Comment
Alleged Comment
6 years ago

LOOKS like the Moslems are being anti-white and anti-Christian again. We need to remove them from OUR country and send them BACK to theirs.

Sung to the tune of:

HOME OF THE DERANGED

Ohh, give them a home, where their goats roam,
And the sheep and the donkey are their prey….

Where seldom is heard an encouraging word
And the crowds blaspheme all day…

Home, home of the deranged
Where the sheep and donkey are their prey….

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

Just love camp fire songs like that… 99 qur’an crocks on the wall, 99 qur’an crocks, pisss on one and what have you got? 98 qur’an’s crocks of qur’an on the wall…
or the ever popular No go zone mutaween sing this song, fubar, fubar, the no go mutaween sing this song, fubar, fubar, throwing stones all day…

michaelofsydney
michaelofsydney
6 years ago

Bravo

Pantalones
Pantalones
6 years ago

Stories like these kill my erection!?????

peakpower
peakpower
6 years ago

It is important to recognize when your country is being invaded.

Robert Batchelor
Robert Batchelor
6 years ago

I didn’t know there were any elected Republican officials left in the Chicago area. I thought it was run exclusively by the Thug Party, aka, Democrats. Let’s hope she holds her ground and doesn’t buckle to the anarchists.

Annie
Annie
6 years ago

She might back down if she receives enough death threats against
herself or her family – a typical Muslim intimidation tactic

For anyone doubting the insidious acceptance of Muslim bullying –
try driving around the city in a car with a bumper sticker that insults –
or even just depicts – their prophet.

It’s monstrous that in America, you would have to fear for your life
for simply stating the truth – as Sharon Brannigan has done.

Thank God for President Trump’s ban.

Robert Batchelor
Robert Batchelor
6 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Amen to the ban!

StillAmerica
StillAmerica
6 years ago

I am so sick of the Muslim population “thinking” their feelings supersede our citizenship. Has anyone investigated what Moraine Valley Comm College is doing? Donations for Muslims? Muslims PUSHING their beliefs on AMERICANS! Dist 203 ALLOWING prayer for Allah in ALL the schools. This is a separation of church and state!! We are NOT living in Saudi Arabia…it’s AMERICA!! I’m a FRUSTRATED CITIZEN. Our businesses our suffering because THEIR businesses don’t have to pay taxes and get GRANTS/LOANS w/o interest, it’s part of Sharia Law. Freedom of speech is our greatest gift which THEY use against us and I hope to God ICE infultrates the surrounding suburbs.

Justice
Justice
6 years ago

Stand strong against the radical left, Islamic extremists and Marxist DemocRats!

JoetheDoe
JoetheDoe
6 years ago

I have to laugh at this. Brannigan surely did cite religion when she called Trump’s women dignified and blasted veiling wearing Muslims. But, since you think all Muslims are dogs and don’t care, let me tell you what “your people” did. Members of School Board 118 (the schools she cited) came to broadcast to the public that Sharon misused the facts–in fact, she had no knowledge of the information she lied about and embarrassed the schools, making them look badly. That guy’s name was Terry, not Muhammad. In addition, her own board members called her speech racist. Own board member had an Irish last name; again, not Muhammad. Cook County Board president has asked her to resign from the women’s board. Again, Preckwinkle isn’t an Arabic name.

Seems to me you might be on the wrong side. Your folk are standing up against Sharon.

Keepingitrealz
Keepingitrealz
6 years ago

Here trolls: read what someone in authority had to say about your darling lady, Sharon. Seems muzlums aren’t the only one dismayed at Shar:

Terry Heafey, a Palos School District 118 trustee, defended the district registration process Brannigan had criticized and said he’d contacted her to discuss the issue after learning of her Facebook comments.

“As we discussed the issue of school registration and the thorough process that Palos School District 118 enacts to verify residency, it was clear that Mrs. Brannigan had no knowledge of this process or evidence to substantiate her claim,” he said in a prepared statement. “The issue of residency and school admittance are taken very seriously in District 118. Mrs. Brannigan’s efforts to undermine the community’s confidence in our residency process without fact or evidence using the lever of bigotry is disgraceful.”

Bruce Atchison
Bruce Atchison
6 years ago

I demand that all Chicago leftists SHUT UP! We’re fed up with you defending Muslims when we know darn well they’re like snakes who bite the hands that feed them.

Sara Sue Schmidt
Sara Sue Schmidt
6 years ago

Sharon, stick with it. You have many supporters. Some of us will be at the meeting on the 14th to support you.

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