Craziest Elected Official In The US? Maybe - AK GOPer Paints Local Electrician As Muslim Terrorist
Friday night, Anchorage Assembly member Amy Demboski (Eagle River) — who also hosts a local conservative talk show on KVNT — posted a salacious and misleading link to her radio show’s Facebook page. The link directed viewers to a post penned by Anneta Griffee, published on former Newsmax host Dennis Michael Lynch’s blog. Lynch is a film documentarian specializing in anti-immigration flicks. The article, entitled “Report: Why Islamic Compounds Across the US Are Stockpiling Arms,” asserts that radical Muslims are collecting weapons in several U.S. states with the intention of committing terrorist attacks.
“With the election of Donald Trump, they believe that their end times prophecies that they believe in are now being fulfilled, Donald Trump is part of a Satanic Jewish conspiracy, and they are preparing for the camps to be raided and to fight back,” Anti-Muslim extremist and conspiracy theorist Ryan Mauro explained to Fox Business channel’s Stuart Varney, accompanied by an infographic showing nine states with alleged compounds.
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One of the nine states Mauro reported as hosting an “Islamic compound” was Alaska, but Griffee and Mauro only identified a single name to substantiate the claim: Gregory Jones, a Democratic Party delegate, who supported Bernie Sanders in this year’s primary and went on to unsuccessfully challenge State Rep. Mark Neuman (R-Big Lake) in the November election.
“The Clarion Project has learned that a delegate for Bernie Sanders at the Democratic National Convention is a member of Muslims of the Americas, which is a rebranding of Jamaat ul-Fuqra, a cultish Islamist group that is led by an extremist cleric in Pakistan and has a history of terrorism and criminal activity,” Mauro wrote for Clarion. “The individual is also running for the Alaska State House.”
“I know Gregory Jones,” my Alaska Commons colleague and friend, Kokayi Nosakhere, mentioned when I showed him the article. I asked if he was a terrorist. Nosakhere responded, “I think he’s an electrician.”
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http://www.alaskacommons.com/2016/12/04/anchorage-assembly-member-amy-demboski-targets-wasilla-man-with-fake-news-alleging-islamic-compound/