Texas man claims he was told to remove American flag over "threat" toward Muslims
http://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-man-claims-he-was-told-to-remove-american-flag-over-threat-toward-muslims
A Texas man is standing defiant after he claims he was told by his apartment complex that he had to remove an American flag from his balcony because it was a "threat towards the Muslim community."
Duy Tran told KHOU that he has friends who died for the country, so he decided to hang one from his balcony after moving into a new apartment in Webster, Texas. However, he said that soon after he hung the flag, he was told by his apartment complex manager he had to remove it.
"What really stunned me is that she said it's a threat towards the Muslim community," Tran told the station. "I'm not a threat toward nobody."
In a statement to KHOU, the manager for Tran's apartment complex, the Lodge at El Dorado, said she appreciates residents' patriotism but displays must conform to community guidelines.
"Such guidelines maintain the aesthetics of our apartment community and provide for the safety of all residents," the statement said. "The apartment community already proudly displays our country's flag in a safe and appropriate manner at the entrances to our community."
Tran told KHOU he has no plans to remove his flag.
"I'm gonna leave my flag there, as an American, until she shows me proof that I don't have the right to leave my flag there," he said.
If I had to guess, I'd say the following is in play:
1. There were probably some muzzies who complained to the apartment manager.
2. To make it easier on her, the apartment manager tried to get Mr. Tran to remove his flag by spouting some nebulous "aesthetics guidelines."
3. If Mr. Tran digs in his heels and the muzzies continue to be a pain in the apartment manager's backside, then it wouldn't surprise me if the apartment manager tells him to either take it down or move out.
In any event, I am at least encouraged that the apartment manager says the apartment complex regularly flies the American flag at the entrance to the property.
If muzzies come to the United States to escape the hell-hole they were born in, then they shouldn't denigrate the symbols and character of the country that graciously took them in. If that's the way they feel about America, then they need to go somewhere else that they can appreciate.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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