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'Hindus and Muslims teaming up to take over Texas': Jan 6 rioter's hate speech at Frisco council meeting

The council meetings of Frisco, a city in Texas, have long become a platform to score social media brownie points by spouting hateful comments against Indians. The latest of them was a January 6 rioter, Edward Jacob Lang, who attended the council meeting on May 19 and called India 'sh*thole' without naming India. "The Hindus and the Muslims are teaming up to take over Texas. This is not Muslims versus Hindus here. They are here to eradicate the Christians; they are here to drive us out of our homeland," Lang said.

"You have to understand. These people do not want to assimilate. They have not come here to become Americans. They have come here to drag their third-world culture over to our country. If Jainism and Hinduism are so great, why are there countries sh*tholes? They are bringing this ideology here," Lang said, calling America a Christian country.

Edward Jacob Lang, a conservative activist and Florida US Senate candidate, is a native New Yorker who rioted on Jan. 6 and was pardoned by President Donald Trump. Lang had to be escorted out of the meeting as his allotted time for speaking was over. "If I lived in Texas, I would burn down one of these mosques," he yelled.

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