CAIR: REJECT THE POLITICAL MUSLIM-BASHING SMEARS
There has been much sound and fury in certain circles about the American Muslim community’s support for Keith Ellison and his campaign to represent Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District.
A handful of right-wing bloggers, agenda-driven commentators and political operatives have used scurrilous smear tactics in an attempt to derail his campaign and to marginalize American Muslim voters. These smears and distortions send an un-American message of intolerance and bigotry. (MORE)
[Parvez Ahmed is board chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil liberties group. Nihad Awad is CAIR’s national executive director.]