Posted on 08/01/2004 8:18:16 AM PDT by SJackson
Edited on 08/01/2004 8:24:03 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
HASHIM Raza is a 38-year-old physician from St. Louis who, like like a majority of Arab- Americans, voted for President Bush in 2000. Raza has voted Republican in every presidential election starting with Ronald Reagan in 1984.
This year, he will vote for Democrat John Kerry. "After 9/11, things started adding up,' he said at a reception Tuesday for Muslim attendees to the Democratic National Convention hosted by the Islamic Society of Boston. "Muslims were unfairly targeted; we were presumed guilty; Ashcroft, Rumsfeld and Cheney acted like they have no use for Muslims. The Republican Party has become a refuge for far right religious extremists. I believe people like Bush senior and (Bob) Dole were moderates. But now I feel the party has excluded me.' A year ago, Arif Gafur, a 52- year-old engineer for Shell Oil in Houston, did not know anything about being a delegate to the convention. Before 9/11, he and many of his professional friends were never involved in politics. But the aftermath of the terrorist attacks, where many Muslims were detained, made him concerned. "America is the best country in the world, but it's not easy to be a Muslim,' he said.
The invasion of Iraq, which Gafur said was "unnecessary,' pushed him and several other South Asian Muslims to register 1,000 voters and elect delegates to district, state and national delegations. Of the about 5,000 delegates to the convention, about 40 are Muslim and six are from Texas, including himself.
"Sometimes, on Middle East policy, Kerry seems to come across as Bush Lite,' Gafur said. "But on domestic policy, with the Patriot Act and the racial profiling of Muslims, the Muslim community was awakened to the fact that we had to get involved.'
Grover Nordquist, line 1!
A lot of those exiled Iraqi's that were dancing in the streets when Iraq was liberated will be voting Bush. It wouldn't surprise me if Bush gains in the Arab vote.
Conservatives?....depends on what the meaning of 'is'...'is'... apparently....
Awww, another member of the Religion of Peace (tm) irked because Ashcroft won't lethis favorite charity sponsor suicide attacks against us and our allies. tsk tsk. Kerry, of course, is glad for his vote.
John, we know what side you were on in the Viet Nam War, and which side you are on now.
And is he so stupid that he cannot figure out why?
Maybe it's the fact that 19 out of 19 9/11 hijackers were muslim?
Maybe it's the fact that 95% of the terrorist incidents of the last 20 years were perpretrated by muslims?
I challenge both the adjectives.
Dan
Hopefully it is because Ashcroft is using the patriot act to keep good track of them.
Is there such a thing?
Just damn.
If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
It wouldn't suprise me either!
All of which tends to support the contention that Muslims owe their primary allegianceto the Islamic ummah.
" All four members of the family say they have been singled out for antiterrorism searches in airports. "
I am pretty average American and you know I've been singled out for searches. The last time I was flying I had to take my belt off and shoes and sit while they were take away for study. Sitting next to me was an East-Indian and he screamed and complained and tried to play the race-card. So come up with a better line then the airport story.
Victimhood is the new badge of honor in the USA!
I wonder how Muslims will like a President Kerry when he overreacts after the next terror attack by doing what Roosevelt did with Japanese-Americans in 1942.
Jewish Americans should listen carefully.
French Jews are emmigrating to Israel because the antisemetic climate is growing.
American Jews have a chance to defend themselves now or fall in behind their Muslim "brothers" who love them so dearly.
Everything about Islam is un-American.
And TAY-RAY-ZAH Heinz Kerry can quote me on that.
Well, one more terror attack within our borders, and I'm not sure how much longer any of these people will stay in the United States. If they think it's hostile now..........and I will gladly help usher them out the door.
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