Posted on 03/09/2010 8:42:45 AM PST by NormsRevenge
Terrorism and the Middle East are continuing to roil the Republican Senate contest after a letter written by former congressman Tom Campbell emerged that appeared to contradict statements Campbell and his aides had made about his dealings with a radical Muslim professor.
The professor, Sami Al-Arian, contributed to Campbell's unsuccessful campaign in 2000 for the U.S. Senate. On Sept. 26, 2001, when he was teaching at the University of South Florida, Al-Arian gave an interview to Fox TV host Bill O'Reilly in which he conceded that he had said, "Jihad is our path. Victory to Islam. Death to Israel. Revolution. Revolution until victory. Rolling to Jerusalem."
Those statements quickly generated a furor and the university moved to discipline Al-Arian. Campbell, by then a law professor at Stanford University, wrote a letter to Judy Genshaft, the president of the University of South Florida, protesting any punishment.
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.. The text of the letter was first disclosed by the website of the Investigative Project on Terrorism. Campbell's aides, who had said the candidate no longer had a copy of the original letter, then posted a link to it on the campaign website.
On Monday, Campbell said in an interview that despite the language of his letter, he had never read the full transcript of the O'Reilly interview, specifically the "Death to Israel" language. If he had seen it, he said, he never would have written the letter.
"That's too zealous," he said. "Unacceptable. Calling for death to a country or individual is unacceptable."
Campbell has previously said that Al-Arian never contributed to his 2000 Senate campaign; Campbell later admitted that he had.
In 2006, Al-Arian pleaded guilty to providing aid to a terrorist group.
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What’s the problem?
This guy’s beliefs are right in line with the (P)Residents’...
This smells like agitprop by the LA Slimes trying to knock down a Republican candidate. Campbell was my Congressman and he’s OK. He’s too liberal for me on social issues and he stuck his foot in it supporting taxes for schools when he was a gov candidate. But, if the choice is him or Boxer, I would vote for him.
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