2/ Another Patriot Prayer follower says that "Islam is an evil religion.... In fact, Allah seems more and more like Satan as time goes by."pic.twitter.com/YZcNNen2Hs
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1/ Let's take a look these comments from Joey Gibson and other members of Patriot Prayer, to see how they anti-Muslim conspiracy theory to justify their campaign of violence against the city of Portland. Gibson's followers claim that CAIR is "basically the Muslim Brotherhood."pic.twitter.com/6ckHllQ4hy
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3/ Another Patriot Prayer commenters just writes, "THEY WILL ANSWER TO GID [sic] FOR ALL THEIR EVIL WAYS!!"pic.twitter.com/Va2toyNxDD
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4/ Another just claims that CAIR "is a Terrorist [sic] supporting organization...."pic.twitter.com/W8jdFRsBrJ
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5/ Patriot Prayer, as an organization, exists primarily to spread anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant sentiment of the kind depicted below.pic.twitter.com/KaSpUpJbrT
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6/ This "stochastic terrorism"-- a 2011 phrase by an anonymous blogger who defined it as "the use of mass communications to incite random actors to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable." http://stochasticterrorism.blogspot.com/2011/01/stochastic-terrorism-part-1-triggering.html …
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7/ Currently,
@GoDaddy hosts Patriot Prayer's website, and they're on both Facebook and Twitter, where they routinely spread this sort of incitement to violence. In 2017, Patriot Prayer associate Jeremy Christian murdered two people on a train.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40096993 …Show this thread -
8/ News accounts report that Christian screamed slurs against Muslims just prior to committing the murders.https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2017/05/max_heros_last_words_tell_ever.html#incart_big-photo …
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9/ And this is the exact sort of rhetoric that Patriot Prayer is allowed to spread via the services of Facebook, Twitter, and
@GoDaddy. Watch this short video for examples. https://twitter.com/leftkist/status/1124354951826759680 …This Tweet is unavailable.Show this thread -
10/ And that's far from the last violent incident Patriot Prayer's been tied to. On June 30, 2018, Portland police revoked their permit to rally after declaring it a "riot."https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2018/06/portland_police_revoke_permit.html …
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11/ Just a month later, on August 4, 2018, members of Patriot Prayer established a "sniper's nest" on the rooftop of a garage overlooking a rally site, from which they planned to shoot protesters.https://www.newsweek.com/patriot-prayer-members-armed-snipers-positioned-themselves-roof-ahead-august-1171862 …
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12/ On October 6, 2018, Joey Gibson was the featured guest at a Resist Marxism rally in Providence, RI, where members of the Proud Boys waded into a crowd of protesters to attack people.https://upriseri.com/2018-10-07-ocean-state-against-hate/ …
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13/ On October 13, 2018, Gibson took a "flash march" to downtown Portland, where the group assaulted anyone they deemed a leftist.https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/10/15/patriot-prayer-again-brings-violence-portland-flash-march-downtown-rounding-out-weekend-far …
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14/ In January 2019, Patriot Prayer showed up at a DSA meeting at a Union Hall, attempting to start fights with members. Days later, they returned to vandalize the union hall.https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2019/01/24/25623138/union-headquarters-vandalized-after-patriot-prayer-attention …
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15/ Just days after that, Patriot Prayer associate Reggie Axtell issued a threat to Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, saying, "I'm coming for you, you little punk."https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/01/25/proud-boy-threatens-portland-mayor-im-coming-you …
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16/ And here's a clip from Joey Gibson's livestream from May 1, 2019, showing Patriot Prayer's Ian Kramer beating a woman in the back of the head with a baton. Reports say she has a cracked vertebrae. https://twitter.com/AmericanSHARP1/status/1123986030128959488 …
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17/ This is kind of violence that results from giving groups like Patriot Prayer a platform to spread their hateful rhetoric and conspiracy theories. Please,
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18/ In 2017,
@GoDaddy stopped hosting The Daily Stormer, so there is precedent.https://www.newsweek.com/it-legal-hosting-companies-ban-hate-sites-654618 …Show this thread -
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@GoDaddy's Terms of Service prohibit "activities designed to encourage unlawful behavior by others, such as hate crimes [and] terrorism." And that's exactly what Patriot Prayer does.https://www.godaddy.com/agreements/showdoc?plvid=1&pageid=Big_Send_EULA …Show this thread -
20/ Please,
@GoDaddy, enforce your own Terms of Service and deplatform Joey Gibson and Patriot Prayer. They've been responsible for a years-long campaign of terror against the city of Portland. Please stop letting them use your services to spread their hate and violence.Show this thread
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