Almost two years ago, myself and a group of Tarrant County conservatives who became known as the "Tarrant County Forty Nine" were offered up on the alter of political correctness by the Tarrant County and Texas Republican Party leaders.
The Tarrant County Forty Nine had dared to oppose the appointment of Shahid Shafi as vice chair of the Tarrant County Republican Party.
Dr. Shafi failed to directly respond to requests that he himself publicly declare that he will support Israel with Jerusalem as its undivided capital and oppose creation of a Palestinian State within the historic borders of Israel, in keeping with our 2018 Texas Republican Party Platform (Planks 207 and 208). Moreover, Shafi had been enddorsed by CAIR, and refused to renounce that endorsement and repudiate CAIR, despite the fact that the 2018 Texas Republican Party Platform stated:
177. Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR): We hereby call on all law enforcement and governmental agencies in Texas to avoid and suspend all contact and outreach activities with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), named unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation trial, with ties to terrorist groups such as Hamas.
For this, and other reasons (seen in The Geller Report here), the Tarrant County Forty Nine dared to oppose the Shafi appointment. The leadership of both the local Tarrant County Republican Party and the Texas Republican Party conspired directly with the liberal media, to publicly smear the Tarrant County Forty Nine as supposed bigots. Texas GOP Chair James Dickey even wrote an Op-Ed in the liberal Dallas Morning News attacking Shafi opposition as "bigotry"!
The whole fiasco had the Geller Report asking, "Is Texas Going Green"?
And by Understanding the Threat at Texas Media Desperate to Defend Jihadis
And instigated this video response from Understanding the Threat:
But time has finally exonerated the Tarrant County Forty Nine.
Less than a year ago, in December of 2019, Tarrant County GOP Chair Darl Easton finally gave heed to calls that he resign (As seen in the Geller Report here) over his division of the party over his handling of this issue. See my blog on this: Tarrant GOP Chair Darl Easton Heeds Calls to Resign
Last weekend the grass roots of the Texas GOP, about 6,000 delegates, voted to replace Texas Chair James Dickey with Lt. Col. Allen West. West had once written a blog about "stealth jihad" in which he said "As those of us not under the spell of political correctness know, Islam does not coexist." (See my blog on this Allen West is Texas State Chair: Good Pro-Israel News
See Pamala Geller Interview of Allen West here
It has been almost two years, but time has ultimately redeemed the Forty Nine Conservatives who had the courage to stand up for our party platform, and against CAIR, while our own party leaders were throwing us under the bus and publicly calling us bigots in the liberal media. It is indeed ironic that the Aramaic word חילא KHAILA, meaning "strength, courage" has a numerical value of 49.
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