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US Muslim leaders oppose Bush
2003-09-02
We needed al-Jazeera to tell us that?
Leaders of the US Muslim community hope to hurt President George W Bush at the polls next year by attacking his administration's treatment of Arab and Muslim Americans. The heads of four leading US Muslim groups said last weekend that as many as one million of their followers may use next year's presidential elections as a chance to register their dissatisfaction with the Bush administration.
Register and be damned!
“Muslims are eager to vote in defence of their liberties and in defence of their future,” Nihad Awad, executive director of the council on American-Islamic relations said at the group's annual convention in Chicago. “We feel that civil liberties have deteriorated in this country,” he added. Many American Muslims feel victimised by policies that allow for the racial profiling of Arab and Muslim men. Under the wide ranging powers of the Patriot Act of 2001, many Arab and Muslim have been detained and deported without the right to legal representation.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#19  Hey Repooplican asshats--the Muslims supported GWB--didn't want no Joooooooo like Lieberman anywhere near the White House--so now--their support makes the Democrats a subsidiary of Hamas?! LOL You people are too ridiculous for words--I guess Ailes did give you your talking points tho'
Posted by: Not Mike Moore   2003-9-2 11:13:49 PM  

#18  I can just see the support rally for the eventual Democratic Presidential Candidate, Banners reading Jews, Gays/Lesbians and Muslims for ........
Posted by: Someone who did NOT vote for William Proxmire   2003-9-2 9:58:44 PM  

#17  I'm so sick of listening to these assholes pissing and moaning about their victimhood. Planes leave damn near every airport in the country headed for whatever hellhole you or your ancestors came over here from. Get on one. And we'd appreciate it if you didn't crash into any of our buildings while you're heading home.
Posted by: tu3031   2003-9-2 8:37:29 PM  

#16  The Muslim minority is heavily concentrated in area like Ann Arbor, Michigan. I think that's why several Congressmen - notably Conyers - go out of their way to kowtow to CAIR. In the right circumstances, the Muslim minority could be an important block vote like the Cubans are in Florida.
Posted by: Super Hose   2003-9-2 8:33:31 PM  

#15  Muslim organizations have not helped their cause in this country since 9-11. Their attitude is automatically that the civil liberties are being taken away - bullshit. Stand up and be part of this country or shutup and get out. The govt. must protect this country and if that means being profiled then so be it. If they were true americans they would gladly help the govt. and prove their loyalty.
Sure hope that lieberman is the democrat contender - then who will they vote for. Then what - don't like bush and they hate israel--
Posted by: Anonymous   2003-9-2 7:52:56 PM  

#14  Anon1 - in the smaller elections, with apathetic issues on the ballot, fringes get their chance, but their biggest play is as the spoiler in close elections - there they can push the election one way or another - see Nader or Perot's examples
Posted by: Frank G   2003-9-2 7:27:43 PM  

#13  they might be 1/3 of 1 percent, but voting is voluntary in America: what percentage of Americans actually vote?

Methinks sometimes the apathetic majority cannot be bothered to go to the polling booths so fringe groups get over-represented. Does this happen?
Posted by: Anon1   2003-9-2 7:06:30 PM  

#12  Right On, Frank! So who is gonna follow through on the watch doggin' and whistleblowin'? Don't want to leave it to govt, or it won't happen....
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2003-9-2 5:49:15 PM  

#11  and of course, endorsing a candidate from the Mosque pulpit will lose them their tax-exempt status...we'll enforce that, right?
Posted by: Frank G   2003-9-2 5:40:23 PM  

#10  Gee whiz, a whole MILLION?!...

Why, that's almost a full 1/3 of a percent!
Posted by: mojo   2003-9-2 5:34:14 PM  

#9  just to remind y'all, in 2000 they supported Dubya, thought Clinton (and more so Gore) had been too pro-Israel.
Posted by: liberalhawk   2003-9-2 5:31:40 PM  

#8  It's clearly time to set up Moslem-American Studies programs in several prestigious universities. We do, after all, have a new victim class.
Posted by: Highlander   2003-9-2 5:23:06 PM  

#7  Just a lot of whining barbarians who should be sent back to where they came from.
Posted by: SPQR 2755   2003-9-2 5:11:15 PM  

#6  I'd pay money to see any one of them press that button for Joe Lieberman.
Posted by: Matt   2003-9-2 4:51:48 PM  

#5  Oddly, the laws he's whining about say nothing about Arabs or Muslims.

Posted by: Robert Crawford   2003-9-2 4:50:28 PM  

#4  Every nationalized citizen of the United States has sworn to "bear true faith and allegience to" the US Constitution. Part of that Constitution is the guarantee of religious liberties. Islam has a poor record of guaranteeing any freedoms, and especially religious freedom. I'm beginning to believe there are "irreconcilable differences" between Islam and US citizenship. Unless the Muslims in this country stand up and prove they support our freedoms, we may have to get a "divorce".

I haven't found incontrovertible proof yet, but the Democratic party may also fit this category. I've got my eyes on them, especially the clowns currently running for President of the United States.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2003-9-2 4:48:54 PM  

#3  CAIR should be labeled for what it is, a terrorist organization or at least one that supports it. Nihad Awad would have you be believe that there is no evidence linking Muslims with terrorism. These people need a better whine, PR, and better leadership. They only people who have been arrested and face deportation or prison are those that have ADMITTED that they belong to a terror organization. Mr. Awad should think about that before he starts ranting about his sacred civil rights.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter)   2003-9-2 4:41:45 PM  

#2  Bush needs to make clear during the 2004 election that Muslim organizations support his opponent.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2003-9-2 4:38:33 PM  

#1  Wow, I'm going to have to write my congressman about that....the day after hell freezes over.
Posted by: Flaming Sword   2003-9-2 4:28:35 PM  

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