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Cruz draws from anti-Islamist fringe
Politico ^ | 3-17-2016 | MICHAEL CROWLEY

Posted on 03/17/2016 6:55:23 PM PDT by Citizen Zed

Ted Cruz's new team of foreign policy advisers includes several fringe conservative activists and fervid anti-Islamist hardliners — but few of the GOP establishment elites who are outraged over the rise of Donald Trump.

Cruz's list of nearly two dozen names includes Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., a former Reagan Pentagon official whose focus on the influence of Islam in the U.S. has drawn charges of bigotry. In June 2009, Gaffney claimed there was "mounting evidence" that President Barack Obama "not only identifies with Muslims, but actually may still be one himself."

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KEYWORDS: antiislamist; cruzforeignpolicy; islamophobia
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To: AndyTheBear

Maybe our progressive friends are converting to Islam. Hillary in a hijab. Well at least that’s an improvement.


41 posted on 03/17/2016 10:57:47 PM PDT by Pelham (more than election. Revolution)
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To: Citizen Zed

&, I guess, this is better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzmA3YSsl18


42 posted on 03/18/2016 2:36:53 AM PDT by pookie18 (8 months until the general election...)
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To: Citizen Zed

Is this the Cruz that chastised Trump for “using incitement/rhetorical invective for saying that Islam hates us?


43 posted on 03/18/2016 3:48:13 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: mabelkitty

Prepare to be surprised.


44 posted on 03/18/2016 5:12:49 AM PDT by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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