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I am Muslim and Republican – and was attacked by people in my party
The Guardian ^ | July 4 2014 | Saba Ahmed

Posted on 07/05/2014 9:40:40 AM PDT by PoloSec

Earlier this year, I attended an event with former House speaker Newt Gingrich, despite knowing of his stereotypical attitude towards Muslims. I realized then the power of one voice to change people's prejudices – and how rarely people like me use ours: I was the first Muslimah to whom he had ever spoken.

Yes, I am Muslim, and I am a Republican – and that's why I was at the Heritage Foundation panel on Benghazi last month, where I asked the now-infamous question about how conservatives deal with the vast majority of people of my faith who are peaceful. Americans don't expect minorities – especially Muslims – to be Republicans, and it happens often in conservative circles that I am the only Muslim woman in the audience.

I became Republican because I felt that my Islamic values – pro-life, pro-traditional family, pro-business, pro-trade – aligned best with the Republican party platform. I identified as a Democrat for several years when I was younger, but found it hard to defend liberal values as they were so often in conflict with my deeply-held beliefs.

Though I have been a Republican for a long time – and despite having had a tough time with my fellow Republicans in Oregon, where I lived until 2012 – I joined the Washington DC Republican Party earlier this year. They have all been kind and welcoming to me at their meetings, events and fundraisers, and I have made good friends in the GOP.

So the personal attacks by conservatives after my question at the Heritage event went viral came as somewhat of a surprise – though the support from the Republicans who reached out to me did not. As one of the few lobbyists among the 10,000 on Capitol Hill who is a practicing Muslim, I regularly

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Anyway she want to twist and turn, she represents the enemy IMO!

saba newt

1 posted on 07/05/2014 9:40:40 AM PDT by PoloSec
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To: PoloSec

I have no need of Muslims of any stripe, period!!


2 posted on 07/05/2014 9:42:23 AM PDT by blam
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4 posted on 07/05/2014 9:43:23 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: PoloSec

Lying bitch.


5 posted on 07/05/2014 9:43:30 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: PoloSec

Reject violence, condemn those who are and throw them out of your “religion” and work toward changing moozlums into civilized people, respecting others...and then we’ll talk. Until then, you are the enemy of all.


6 posted on 07/05/2014 9:44:16 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: PoloSec

Yeah, right.

Provocateur!


7 posted on 07/05/2014 9:45:16 AM PDT by x1stcav ("The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.")
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To: PoloSec
...I was at the Heritage Foundation panel on Benghazi last month, where I asked the now-infamous question about how conservatives deal with the vast majority of people of my faith who are peaceful.

She wasn't there about Benghazi. She was there as a covert Musloid agent.

8 posted on 07/05/2014 9:45:51 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: PoloSec

The great bulk of Germans were peaceful people. The Nazis were never in the majority. They killed millions of people. The great bulk of the Soviets were not party members. They were peaceful people. They killed even more people. The great bulk of the Chinese were never Maoists. Yet Mao (and Pol Pot) killed millions. The great bulk of “peaceful” Muslims are irrelevant. They are enablers who enable the more animated among them to carry out murders. So, cry me a river. (Oh, and don’t call yourself a Republican. I have a Lesbian cousin who has never voted for a Republican who claims she’s a Republican.)


9 posted on 07/05/2014 9:47:21 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: cripplecreek

taqiyya


10 posted on 07/05/2014 9:47:28 AM PDT by Salvey
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To: PoloSec

Chris Plante of WMAL in DC, was moderator, and played tapes of the event. She was treated fairly and courteously by everyone, but corrected promptly by Brigitte Gabriel, a Lebanese Christian, for lying and exaggerating, as a muzzie shill. The tapes are available on YT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-vvoRwJSPc


11 posted on 07/05/2014 9:47:39 AM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Incoming fire always has the right of way.)
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They are busy molling their way way into every American institution to subvert them. Her particular target was the Republican party. Amazing they caught on to her.


12 posted on 07/05/2014 9:47:40 AM PDT by DManA
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To: PoloSec

I don’t have a link, but I remember reading that this particular individual was a “plant” at the Heritage Meeting, and that she is connected to an islamic organization that is certainly NOT “Republican”.

It’s just a memory i have of the incident, so i welcome correction if I am wrong about it.


13 posted on 07/05/2014 9:47:55 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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here’s the raw video... judge for yourself, you’ll know where i stand on the matter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry3NzkAOo3s&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop


14 posted on 07/05/2014 9:47:57 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: F15Eagle

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/deborah-weiss/saba-ahmed-unveiled/


15 posted on 07/05/2014 9:48:39 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: carriage_hill

Hannity’s show, round 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4-HdVFbnw8


16 posted on 07/05/2014 9:49:05 AM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Incoming fire always has the right of way.)
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To: Gen.Blather
I have a Lesbian cousin who has never voted for a Republican who claims she’s a Republican.

Same here. Seems to be a pattern developing.
17 posted on 07/05/2014 9:49:08 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: PoloSec

Answer one question Saba Ahmed: Does Israel have the right to exist?


18 posted on 07/05/2014 9:49:26 AM PDT by Velveeta
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To: left that other site

See my #15


19 posted on 07/05/2014 9:49:34 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: carriage_hill
ya beat me by less than 20 seconds... 8^)
20 posted on 07/05/2014 9:50:11 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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