FEAR Of A Republican MUSLIM

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" A Muslim leader in south Florida is seeking to form the first Muslim Republican club in the area, drawing intense opposition from some within the GOP.



Nezar Hamze is the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations of South Florida. He is also, he tells me, a longtime registered Republican who wants to "fight the myth of the Muslim vote being Democratic." He is also the latest flashpoint in a battle over Islam within the GOP, seen most recently in the criticisms of Rick Perry for his ties to the Texas Muslim community and in Virginia, where a Muslim Republican candidate for the House of Delegates has come under attack.



In August, Hamze, 35, submitted an application to become a voting member of the Broward Republican Executive Committee, a body within which he would like to organize the Muslim Republican club. "A lot of Muslims I know, their values really line up with the conservative values of the Republican party," Hamze says. "I'm a strict social conservative, a fiscal conservative, a very strict constitutionalist. The protection of civil liberties for all Americans is supreme."



He was not exactly welcomed with open arms. Following a report on Hamze's plans on Shark Tank, a right-leaning Florida politics website, he was attacked as un-American by some commentators. Sarasota-based blogger and radio host Rich Swier dismissed Hamze’s religious convictions. In a post published on Tea Party Nation and picked up on several other sites, Swier wrote: Mr. Hamze, if he is a true believer, would not embrace the U.S. Constitution as supreme because it is accepted Islamic doctrine, under shariah, that the Qur'an must supersede any document written by man.



The Jacksonville branch of the anti-Muslim group ACT! for America responded to the news of Hamze's plans with this un-Welcome Mat.



CAIR / HAMAS will start Islamic Republican Club in S. Florida? REALLY? As a CAIR leader his is in fact a HAMAS operative and one who is a Devout adherent to SHARIA Law with is Diametrically opposed to the Constitution."



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http://www.salon.com/news/islam/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/09/08/florida_muslim_gop



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[flamingdem]

1. fabulous! nt

[OneGrassRoot]

2. The racists/bigots in the GOP are going to crack soon (well, more than they have already)...

Between this, Log Cabin Republicans, and Herman Cain, they're gonna drop all pretense of NOT being racists and/or bigots.

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[qb]

3. How can a "strict social conservative" also value civil liberties for all Americans?

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[Shagbark Hickory]

4. I would imagine there's a lot of Muslim republicans.

Just as there are a lot of every other religion who identify as republican.

[Turbineguy]

5. A republican muslim???

Wouldn't that be somebody in Al Qeada?

[arbusto_baboso]

6. If Hamze is truly concerned about his civil liberties, he needs to come over to our side.

[KamaAina]

7. Thanks largely to the work of Grover Norquist, Muslim Americans once trended repuke

Then came Nineleven(TM) and its shameful racial backlash. Now many Muslims say they will never vote repuke again. Mr. Hamze's experience helps to explain why. And yet he's still drinking the Kool-Aid.

[kestrel91316]

8. Log Cabin Republicans, Muslim Republicans......WTF is wrong with some people

that they are so in love with their oppressors??