Posted on 12/24/2006 4:27:49 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Muslim vote is powerful, group told
Examples are cited in Dearborn
BY ZACHARY GORCHOW
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
December 24, 2006
Muslims played a critical role in some key elections this year. But elected officials won't take them seriously if they don't continue to organize and turn out Muslim voters, two politically active Muslims said Saturday at a convention in Dearborn.
If there are efforts to register Muslims to vote, educate them about the candidates and get them to the polls to vote for one candidate, politicians will court their support, Jameel Johnson, an aide to U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., said at the Muslim American Society and Islamic Circle of North America convention.
"It is our job to make the Muslim vote visible to candidates," he said.
A strategy of organizing Muslim voters worked in Virginia this year in the U.S. Senate race.
The effort was so organized that Muslim taxi drivers in northern Virginia took the day off to ferry Muslims to the polls, said Imam Mahdy Bray, a speaker at the convention. Volunteers also made phone calls to Muslims in Virginia to urge them to vote, he said.
As a result, Democrat James Webb ousted incumbent Republican George Allen by about 9,000 votes in a race in which 50,000 Muslims went to the polls -- 47,000 of them voting for Webb, Bray said.
"You can make a difference when you work," Bray said.
Mohammed Shoman, 18, of Dearborn said the conference inspired him to get involved. "We realize how much our influence is" now, he said.
Contact ZACHARY GORCHOW at 313-223-4536 or zgorchow@freepress.com.
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Yup...the writing is on the wall.
I can't believe there are (non-Muslim) people who enter a taxi with that "driver" on the wheel...
This statement should scare the hell out of everybody. Diversity run amok is what this is..
We lost because conservative voters stayed at home and the RATS did everything they could to dig up the dead and use every kind of voter fraud imaginable. Until the GOP investigates and insists on the prosecution of voter fraud will this ever change. Meanwhile, the American public better wake up to the dire threat that is upon us. Our enemies have declared their intentions and no one is listening. That includes the enemies within along with Liberals and RINOs.
Hi DogByte, the pic of the Muzzi on prayer rug at taxi is a sight I see here in San Diego. Most drivers are Middle Eastern or Horn of Africa Muzzies, the others are Russians.
pffff the taleban won the elections for the dems- Just ask them http://sacredscoop.com
The anti-truth, anti-freedom collective will align with the anti-truth, anti-freedom collective.
It's not diversity. It's actually them clumping together to get out and vote for the party they perceived to support them most (the Dems, obviously).
We need to get our people to go out and vote for the party that is best to confront Islam. At the moment, it's the GOP. Too bad so many of us appear to have blown it and given the victory to Islam, to the point where AQ and its buds are congratulating the "American people" on their choice.
Yea, and it is the Muzzies' crowing roosters that causes the sun to rise, too.
You mean without exiting after leaving a package of bacon inside?
Sounds like a repeat of "Anschluss" 1938.
The Nazis got themselves elected to enough political offices in Austria that there was never a war, only surrender. Is this the Dems secret plan?
Yep. With anti-war activists, gays, blacks, "hispanics", American muzzies, Al Qaeda and the Taleban all claiming credit for the Dems win, it's hard to tell which group of the Democrat "core constituencies" really had the greatest impact.
Some of the 9/11 hijackers were smiling taxi drivers.
lol i think it was the kkk
Webb ran a rather explicitly anti-Semitic campaign from primary to general.
Bump!!
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