Posted on 03/12/2008 8:13:01 PM PDT by PROCON
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Indiana voters on Tuesday elected a Muslim to Congress, only the second of that faith chosen in U.S. history.
Andre Carson, grandson of the late Democrat Rep. Julia Carson, was elected to serve the balance of her term in the U.S. House of Representatives in a special election.
She died in December 2007, after serving 11 years in the heavily Democratic district.
The younger Carson, 33, a member of the Indianapolis City Council who converted to Islam about a decade ago, will serve out the remainder of his grandmother's term through calendar 2008. He beat Republican Jon Elrod and a third party candidate with 52 percent of the vote to 44 percent for Elrod.
The first and only other Muslim member of the U.S. Congress is Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota, also a Democrat, who is in his first term.
Carson will face a strong challenge against other contenders in a May primary which will determine who runs in November for the next full two-year term in the district which covers most of the city of Indianapolis.
His Democratic opponents then are expected to be two state legislators -- Carolene Mays, an Indianapolis newspaper publisher, and David Orentlicher, a lawyer and doctor who is a professor of law and medical ethics at Indiana University School of Law and Indiana University Medical Center.
Carson's faith had not been an issue in the special election.
They may take us having never fired a shot. The mooselimbs are coming...the mooselimbs are coming.
Great. Another Fifth Columnist in Congress. He should have no access to any kind of classified information.
I agree, and no Armed Services comittee appointments!
Islam makes inroads through the ignorance of black voters.
Yes. It's amazing, especially in the prison system, that this cancer is allowed to thrive!
I’m beginning to think that the reason they let so many Hispanics in is too counterbalance all the Muslims they let in. How on earth could we elect 2 muslims in congress?
Since Minnesoota was dumb enough to elect Ellison, Islamic madrassas are operating in the Twin Cities, infesting children with hate and violence.
Since Minnesoota was dumb enough to elect Ellison, Islamic madrassas are operating in the Twin Cities, infesting children with hate and violence.
How much you want to bet those damn dems will put him on the armed forces committee or something to do with national security.
President Bush appointed a Muslim originally from Afghanistan, Dr. Zalmay Khalilzaid to be the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, replacing John Bolton.
I saw a lot of his television ads, and never once was it mentioned that he was a muslim to the voters of Indianapolis. He’s fighting to make sure they DON’T privatize social security, donchaknow.
The only place I’ve seen the information that he is a Muslim is on freerepublic. His wife has not been pictured wearing a burka either.
Is he a real mooselimb, or one of Minister Farrakan’s Nation of Islam assholes?
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