“We told them we did not want to see their insensitive rainbow flag everywhere, as it offends our eyes and souls. “We have objected verbally time and again to the LGBT people,” he told reporters. Muhmar Al-Sajeer, one of the organizers of the rally, welcomed attention of the media.
The assailants who beat her shouted, “you are not a man, stop dressing like it.” They walked off with the flag, leaving her unconscious on the sidewalk. Susan Griffon, an outspoken lesbian and LGBT supporter, had her nose broken with the heel of a shoe that was used like a club, as she wrestled with a group of protesters ripping an LGBT flag out of her cigar shop window. Terrified residents hid in their homes and workplaces as a giant mob of over 3,000 Muslim men and women marched through the streets while pointing their fingers in the air and shouting ‘death to the homosexuals,’ ‘Allahu Akbar,’ and other homophobic slurs mixed with praises of Allah. A large pile containing hundreds of LGBT flags was burned later during a massive anti-gay-marriage rally.
Throughout the day members of the Muslim community prowled the city streets, tearing down LGBT flags from public buildings and private residences.
HOUSTON, TX – Smoke choked the streets of the city of Houston yesterday as Islamic protesters gathered to oppose the Supreme Court’s decision upholding gay marriage.
