Radical Islamist and Far Left Activist Umar Lee Launches Petition to Rename St. Louis City
By Jim Hoft
TheGatewayPundit.com
June 19, 2020
Radical St. Louis Islamist Umar Lee was arrested in Ferguson, Missouri in September 2014.
Umar Lee once threatened to behead his critics and watch them squeal “like Daniel Pearl.”
Lee was cuffed and detained in September 2014 in Ferguson.
Umar Lee is now passing around a petition to remove the grand St. Louis Statue from Art Hill in Forest Park in St. Louis.
Via KMOX:
A petition has been made with hopes of changing the city’s name in St. Louis and taking down a statue of its namesake, Saint Louis IX in Forest Park. The creators say the city’s name is “outright disrespect” to Jewish and Muslim residents and they’re asking for support.
The petition on Change.org was started this week, after the statue of Christopher Columbus in Tower Grove Park was taken away. Local writer Umar Lee is a co-signer of the petition.
These are the fans of King Louis IX. Here when he says blasphemers he is referring to Jews. This is the man whose bloody sword sits atop Art Hill in Forest Park and our city is named after. Take the statue down. Change the name of the city. https://t.co/dEKsF9ZRpk
— Umar Lee (@UmarLeeIII) June 19, 2020
“For those unfamiliar with King Louis IX he was a rabid anti-semite who spearheaded many persecutions against the Jewish people. Centuries later Nazi Germany gained inspiration and ideas from Louis IX as they embarked on a campaign of murderous genocide against the Jewish people. Louis IX was also vehemently Islamophobic and led a murderous crusade against Muslims which ultimately cost him his life,” the petition states.
The statue of Louis IX, which now sits on top of Art Hill in front of the St. Louis Art Museum, was unveiled in 1906. It served as the symbol of St. Louis until the Gateway Arch was completed in 1965.
Louis IX is the only King of France to be canonized in the Catholic Church. He became king when he was 12-years-old and is credited with changing the judicial process in France, with trials no longer being settled by combat, but instead by evidence and Roman law.
The Rest…HERE
