Ted Cruz Is an Anti-Muslim Bigot, Too
The GOP has an anti-Muslim hate problem: Ted Cruzs foreign-policy team is anchored by Americas biggest Islamophobe.
By Ali GharibTwitter
Yesterday 4:14 pm
This is a frightening time for Muslims in America. One of the countrys major parties is in thrall to anti-Muslim ideologues.
If this was not clear beforeand it should have beenit is now. Yesterday, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who is in second place in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, announced his foreign-policy team. As Matt Duss, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, put it on cable news, the advisers run the gamut from Iran-Contra conspirators to anti-Muslim conspiracy theorists. Duss was referring, on one side, to the sometimes loopy warmonger Michael Ledeen and the convicted liar Elliott Abrams, both of whom were implicated in the Reagan administrations dirty dealings of the 1980s, and, on the other, a cadre of Islamophobes whose bigoted and McCarthyite ideas would be laughable if they hadnt gained so much traction among GOP elites and voters.
Chief among the latter cohort stands Frank Gaffney, perhaps the most notorious anti-Muslim activist in America today. Gaffney is the author of a long list of incredible hypotheses about not only the ills of Islamthe faith of about a third of the worlds populationbut particularly about what Muslims are trying to do here in the United States. One of those Muslims, Gaffney suspects, is Barack Obama. Thats why, his twisted logic goes, the Obama administration redesigned the US Missile Defense Agency logo so that it appears ominously to reflect a morphing of the Islamic crescent and star with the Obama campaign logo. Sounds like an open and shut case.
Seemingly eager to prove that he is endorsing this bigotry, Cruz added a few more prominent Islamophobes names to his list of advisers. Fred Fleitz, a disgraced former top aide to the famously mustachioed and infamously hawkish George W. Bush administration UN Ambassador John Bolton, and Clare Lopez, who among other things thinks Iran already has nuclear warheads, both work for Gaffneys Center for Security Policy. A Bloomberg View report on Cruzs advisers also included Gaffneys combative deputy Jim Hanson, bringing the number of CSP officials on the list up to fourmore than any other institution represented therein. Next theres Andrew McCarthy, a former prosecutor, and Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin, a religious-right activist and Holy Warrior, both of whom traffic in Shariah conspiracy theories and otherwise agree with Gaffney on a whole lot.
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