Commissioner Storms Out During Muslim Prayer: ‘I Don’t Need No Arab Telling Me What To Do
The Lincoln County, North Carolina Board of Commissioners always had Christian prayers, but realized they needed to invite other religions in to avoid lawsuits.
On Monday, commission chairman Carrol Mitchem, who had previously announced he wouldn’t “bow to minorities” and that he “ain’t gonna have no new religion or pray to Allah” at board meetings, held true to his word and walked out on the first person to address the North Carolina government meeting with a Muslim prayer, the Lincoln Times-News reports.
“That was very upsetting. It was upsetting,” Dustin Barto of the Foothills Interfaith Assembly, who had led the Muslim prayer, told WSCOTV.
By the end of the meeting, all prayer was banned at board meetings and will be replaced with a moment of silence. Commissioner Alex Patton initiated the motion which was easily voted into effect.
“To me, the final straw was when our chairman got up and walked out,” Patton told WSCOTV, adding that the commission needs to focus on pressing matters like the economy and education.
The issue of prayer at the meetings had generated months of controversy, the station reported.
Previously, Mitchem had vowed to keep Christian-only prayers at the meetings.
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DustonBarto August 7th, 2015 at 13:21
This is the full transcript of the invocation that was delivered. Please share it:
Chapter 1: The Beginning/The Opening
(1) In the Name of the One God of all, the Merciful Benefactor, the Merciful Redeemer.
(2) All Praise belongs to God, Creator, Cherisher and Sustainer of all the Worlds and all systems of knowledge!
(3) The All-Merciful, the All-Compassionate,
(4) Sovereign Master of the Day of Judgment!
(5) We worship You. We call upon you for help and guidance
(6) Show us the Straight Way.
(7) Guide us to the way of those who have earned Your grace. Not the path of those who have earned Your anger. Do not let us be among the misguided.
Ameen
We call upon you, oh Lord of all that exists, to guide those present to righteousness. We ask for a measure of Your infinite wisdom to be granted to those in leadership positions, that You may guide them to govern in a righteous manner and that You may guard their hearts and minds from any decisions which would restrict the liberty that You have endowed all of Your creation with. We ask that governance be done with mercy and with equity. Oh Master of the Day of Judgment, we ask that your divine sense of justice be found in the decisions made in this room and that all people will be free to seek their path in this world. May their path be in your guidance.
Furthermore, oh Creator of all that exists, the seen and the unseen and the giver of life to all of mankind, all animals and everything within the infinite worlds that you reign over, we ask that you allow this moment of history to be a bright point of guidance. We ask, oh Lord, that you allow this moment to pierce the darkness of bigotry and hate no matter where it may exist in this world and that people will look to Lincoln County as a point of hope, where many faiths and philosophies coexist in peace, justice and equity. We know, oh Lord, that all freedom and liberty we have comes from you and that it is as infinite as your immeasurable mercy. We know that sharing this freedom and liberty costs us nothing as it comes from your infinite wellspring. Help us to share liberty with all of mankind with the knowledge that freedom for others does not diminish freedom for ourselves.
We ask all things with your Divine name as you are the Most Merciful Benefactor and the Most Merciful Redeemer.
AMEEN!
Interfaith prayers is what area Muslims wanted to see. Equality for every faith and philosophy. I was looking forward to the Humanist prayer on the 17th!
Sage August 21st, 2015 at 10:35
Something tells me this guy has an ass the size of a VW, his hood is pointed and his flag is of a defeated slave nation. who’s gonna bet me.