Posted on 07/21/2020 2:27:02 AM PDT by Libloather
Several prominent Muslim American elected officials endorsed Joe Biden for president in a letter organized by Emgage Action ahead of an online summit that starts Monday and features the presumptive Democratic nominee.
Among those signing the letter, obtained by The Associated Press, are Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and Indiana Rep. Andre Carson, all Democrats. Omar, one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, served as a high-profile surrogate for Bernie Sanders before he exited the presidential race in April - making her support for Biden potentially helpful as the former vice president seeks to mobilize Muslim voters this fall.
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“A lot is at stake,” Alzayat said. “The importance of Muslim American voter participation in this upcoming election cycle is greater than it has ever been.”
Youssef Chouhoud, assistant professor of political science at Christopher Newport University, said Biden’s appearance at Monday’s summit was “a very meaningful step” but noted that he didn’t participate in a large Muslim gathering last year addressed by Sanders and another then-presidential candidate, Julián Castro. Both attended a forum held at an Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) convention.
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But Ocasio-Cortez, who served on a task force that helped shape a climate change plan designed to unite Biden and Sanders backers, has yet to issue a full-throated Biden endorsement. Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, another “Squad” member and former backer of Sanders‘ presidential bid, was conspicuously absent from the Emgage Action-organized letter.
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We’ve already forgotten 9/11, it seems.
> Several prominent Muslim American elected officials endorsed Joe Biden for president <
Who your friends are says a lot about who you are.
> We’ve already forgotten 9/11, it seems. <
Oh, yes. And that’s all on George W. Bush. He set the tone with his idiotic “Islam is peace” statement after 9/11. And he said that less than a week after the attacks!
Say what you will about FDR. But he set the proper tone after Pearl Harbor. No “Japanese imperialism is peace” nonsense from him.
That is exactly the justification for reading and studying history. Presently, we are on the path to painfully reliving and relearning painful lessons from the past.
She’s got her own husband ping list....and it’s growing.
> That is exactly the justification for reading and studying history. <
Right. And that’s one reason I’m so bitter about George W. Bush. He had all the lessons of Vietnam right in front of him. Yet he repeated most of LBJ’s mistakes.
No thanks...
Send her back! Send her back! Send her back!
muzzies endorse biden. So biden has sold out to the muzzies, like his former boss. They will give him money and votes, and he will allow millions of them to come to the USA and to set up sharia-controlled zones, all paid for by the taxpayers of this country.
A Muslim ‘endorsement’ is a condemnation in itself...if Americans have any sanity left.
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