Anti-Mosque Leader Wonders If Romney's Been Silent Because Of ‘Similarities Between Islam and Morm

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Anti-Mosque Leader Wonders If Romney Has Been Silent Because Of ‘Similarities Between Islam and Mormonism’

At WorldNetDaily’s Take Back America 2010 conference in Miami this weekend, ThinkProgress spoke to William Murray, the chairman of a group organizing protests against the proposed Park51 community center in lower Manhattan. ...

During our interview, Murray noted that Frank Gaffney, a well-funded anti-Muslim activist, actually provided Newt Gingrich with the idea for Republicans to ban sharia law in the United States. Asked why some Republican leaders, like Mitt Romney, have been relatively quiet on his crusade against Park51, Murray suggested that Romney might reveal “similarities between Islam and Mormonism” if he became vocal. ...

MURRAY: I don’t know with the case with Mitt Romney. It could be because of some similarities between Islam and Mormonism, to be very frank with you, and his fear that any criticism of Islam, that those arguments could then be construed or used against Mormonism. I think that is some false logic. Also there is the issue of Mitt Romney being purely an economic conservative, not a social conservative.

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/20/romney-mosque-murray/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Romney shouldn't let anyone accuse him of not being "Christian enough".

[jaxx]

2. So they will play the Mormon card against Mitt.

I am not surprised.

[realisticphish]

3. What in the world are the similarities between Mormonism and Islam?

Well, the similarities not shared by other Abrahamic religions. I mean, Mormonism is crazy, but it has its OWN brand of crazy.

[Bitwit1234]

4. He doesn't want to get involved in the 14th amendment

strife. After all if it passes it might take HIS CITIZENSHIP away.

[damntexdem]

5. That's it: tear apart the rightwing idiocy by attacking each other!

Go to it vigorously, please!