Posted on 02/17/2008 9:58:56 AM PST by 3AngelaD
INDIANAPOLIS - A convert to Islam stands an election victory away from becoming the second Muslim elected to Congress and a role model for a faith community seeking to make its mark in national politics. Political newcomer Andre Carson is the Democratic nominee in a March 11 special election to succeed his late grandmother, Julia Carson, representing Indiana's 7th District. She died in December...If Andre Carson wins the Democratic-leaning Indianapolis district over a freshman Republican legislator and a longshot Libertarian candidate, he would join Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., as the only Muslims elected to Congress.
Carson, 33, said he doesn't believe his religious identity hurts him politically even while American Muslims struggle to gain acceptance. Polling last summer by the Pew Research Center and Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found 29 percent of Americans held unfavorable views of Muslim Americans, a higher percentage than shortly after Sept. 11, 2001.
"I think it's more of an advantage," Carson said. "It's a platform to address ignorance. It's a platform to really show that this campaign is about inclusion of all races and religions."
However, Carson said his faith doesn't drive his stands on issues, other than instilling the values that have shaped his life and led him to public service. He said his decision-making is based on his constituents' needs....
Carson's grandmother raised him in a Baptist church and enrolled him at an inner-city Catholic school, where he entertained the idea of becoming a priest. As he grew older, he became interested in Islam, reading the poetry of the Sufi mystic Rumi and "The Autobiography of Malcolm X." He converted to Islam more than a decade ago and began attending prayers at Nur-Allah Islamic Center, a predominantly African-American Sunni mosque....
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There - all fixed.
Don’t forget the Farrakhan-buddy headed for the WH.
There, more accurate title.
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Calypso Louie’s Black Muslim’s..........just one more gang to deal with at a later date.
Freudian slip?
(my Glock 21 only holds 14 rounds)
Regards
damn, wouldn’t that be sweet? any of those death cult savages.
He’ll change his name from Andre Carson to Muhammed al-Indiana after he gets elected.
Meanwhile 88% of the electorate have no idea who he is except he’s the grandson of Julia.
Keith Ellison and Andre Carson. To convert to Islam, they had to choose a new Islamic name. Why don’t they refer to themselves by their Islamic names?
Resection or radiotherapy is induicated..
People who hate and despise Western culture, and want to destroy it, should not be allowed to live in the West.
HA HAAAA! That’s a good one!
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