“My brothers and my sisters. We cannot stay hidden anymore for [the issue is]… getting closer to each and every one of us,” said Mahmoud Mourra at the event. “If you’re not a father today, tomorrow you will be. If you’re not a mother today, tomorrow will be. You’ll have a daughter. Or do you have a son who is of minor age? He’s so vulnerable, and you have some hyenas and really powerful predators they are willing to go. They to do whatever they can take your… kids away from you.
“Just like I will always stand up for the rights of LGBT kids, including if they’re LGBT Muslims… We’re going to defend your rights even when you disagree with us defending other people’s rights.” Michelle Goldberg, an opinion columnist at The New York Times called the supposed ideological alliance between Christians and Muslims on education “strange new political bedfellows,” and went on to list the right’s purported phobia of Muslims.
“The left wants to scare Muslims into accepting its indoctrination of our children in exchange for a smile and pat on the head,” Royer told Fox News Digital. “They insult Muslims by portraying us as having no agency or intelligence but can’t imagine that we’ve weighed the bargain they offer us and rejected it.”