Posted on 02/25/2016 2:17:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Republican Muslim Coalition president explains why she thinks Islamic and Republican party values are aligned.
Comments by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump proposing a ban on Muslims entering the US and by fellow candidate Ben Carson saying a Muslim should not be elected US president have been decried by many as racist and Islamophobic.
But Saba Ahmed, an attorney and the president and founder of the Republican Muslim Coalition, says that while she found them "hurtful", they would not stop her from urging other American Muslims to vote for the Republican party, and even for Trump.
Ahmed, who lives in the Washington DC, area, says she left the Democratic party in 2011 because she could not reconcile her own views with what she considers to be the party's "liberal values" and "incompatibility with Islam".
Despite what appears to be a firmly anti-Muslim sentiment among some US conservatives and elements of the country's Christian religious right, Ahmed says she believes that Islamic values are most closely aligned with those of the Republican party and that American Muslims would be better off voting for it.
Al Jazeera spoke to her about the current political climate as the election campaign continues.
Al Jazeera: What is it that you think makes - or should make - the Republican party attractive to American Muslims?
Saba Ahmed: The appeal to American Muslims is that Republicans have values - such as [being] pro-life, [in favour of] traditional marriage, business, trade, etc, that align with Islamic beliefs....
(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...
That’s all we f***ing need, is more drivel from this little Muslimah creep.
Saba Ahmed is desecrating our flag by wearing it as an Islamic headbag. Tonya Harding needs to rip it off Ahmed’s ugly Paki head.
There are a lot of good looking Paki’s especially in England, just saying.
Because he can make a deal! (And Muslims have taller towers).
What a strange world we live in.
I spent a lot of time dealing with Pakis. They were no better or worse looking than the Arabs or Americans.
"OOOgly" comes in all nationalities.
Lots of beautiful women in the Muslim world. I saw them in Uzbekistan, cute Central Asian gals with round eyes who would knock your socks off. And they didn’t care two shakes about Islam, either. Wore whatever they liked.
Too bad they’re subjected to an evil religion which regards women as evil in the eyes of Allah.
Saba Ahmed does not meet that standard & needs a two bag headbag which is not an American flag.
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