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Armed Black Panthers face off against protesters at Nation of Islam mosque in Texas (April 3, 2016)




Armed Black Panthers face off against protesters at Nation of Islam mosque in Texas
By Joe Newby -
April 4, 2016

  



On Saturday, armed members of the New Black Panther Party faced off against a smaller group of armed protesters at a Nation of Islam mosque in Dallas, Texas, BizPac Review reported.

According to the Dallas Morning News, police kept the two factions apart:

A few hundred South Dallas residents, mostly black, flooded Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to oppose a planned demonstration by a mostly white group that routinely protests outside mosques.

Both sides were armed.

Dallas police stood guard on a funeral home’s roof as black counterprotesters swarmed the parking lot of Eva’s House of Bar-B-Q, vowing to defend their streets and chanting “black power.”

“This is what they fear — the black man,” activist Olinka Green said. “This is what America fears.”

Protesters from the Bureau of American Islamic Relations (BAIR) planned the protest for 1 p.m., but eventually left when they realized they were outnumbered.

Sarah Mervosh explained:


The group rallies against what it calls radical Islamism. Its name riffs on the national Muslim advocacy group CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. BAIR has protested multiple times outside the Islamic Center of Irving and had threatened a protest outside the Nation of Islam two weeks ago, but no one showed up.

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