Posted on 07/30/2004 7:38:33 AM PDT by SJackson
Islamics are becoming better organized and picking sides. The number of Muslim delegates to this year's Democratic National Convention has grown by 60 percent
http://www.jewishworldreview.com | (KRT) BOSTON — Provoked by what they see as civil-rights violations after the terrorist attacks of 2001, U.S. Muslims are growing more politically active and sophisticated.
The number of Muslim delegates to this year's Democratic National Convention has grown by 60 percent. Forty Muslim delegates are representing 20 states at the 2004 convention, up from 25 Muslims at the Democratic convention four years ago.
The selection of Erum Malik, 43, of Ellicott City, Md., is an example of how greater numbers of Muslims are engaging in shaping public policy through grass-roots lobbying, voter registration drives, fund-raising and running for office since Sept. 11, 2001, community leaders said.
"There has been a historic and unprecedented under-representation of Muslims in government in America, from the county to the federal level," said Saqib Ali of North Potomac, Md., a computer engineer active with the nonpartisan Montgomery County, Md., Muslim Council.
"We have been a politically immature community," Ali said.
The terrorist attacks "jolted people out of their complacency," he said.
Before Sept. 11, 2001, Muslim groups were "naive" about the workings of the American political system, said Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, president of the Minaret of Freedom Institute, an Islamic think-tank in Bethesda, Md.
Ahmad said he believes strong Muslim support helped deliver Florida to George Bush in 2000, with exit polls showing an overwhelming percentage of Florida Muslims voted Republican.
Many Muslims came to regret their support for the Bush campaign when they became subject to profiling, arrest and registration after the attacks, Ahmad said.
"People are beginning to realize ... they need to get their act together and get into politics," said Mushtaque Mirza, an executive board member of the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee, who helped organize an event honoring Muslim convention delegates at the Islamic Society of Boston in Cambridge. "I think Muslims are getting more politically aware."
Part of that political awareness has meant Muslim voter registration has shifted from the Republican Party toward the Democrats, said several Muslim delegates from Texas and Minnesota gathered at an Islamic Society event Tuesday.
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Seriesly warped people.
A big reason why Bush captured so much of the Muslim vote in 2000 is because Lieberman was the Dem VP nominee. Being obvious anti-semites, the Muslims came out in droves to vote for Dubya. I don't think Muslims realize that Kerry is part Jewish (He is not Irish). I have no idea how the GOP points that out to them without appearing anti-semite themselves.
Good point.
I'm pretty sure they could find a video of the moron stating so. Just put it in an ad in Al Jazeera, that should do it.
Seriesly LOL.
All I can conclude from this is that the majority of American Jewry (and the majority are liberals) don't mind at all watching Israel's only friend--the US--become dominated by the anti-Israel left and the Muslims.
Let's hear a nice chorus of "Never Again."
Funny and brilliant. Anyway to pass this along to the RNC?
If I had to guess I'd bet that someone in the RNC is probably FReeping as we speak, just a hunch, hope I'm right.
Seriesly
ain't this nice-JEWS & MUSLIMS voting together
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