THE PROGRESSIVE MAGAZINE: “Romney: Don’t Pander to Islamophobia”

By Arsalan Iftikhar
May 4, 2012
 
Watch for Mitt Romney to play the anti-Muslim card against President Obama.

During the primaries, several Republican candidates pandered to their nativist constituencies by mouthing anti-Muslim slurs.

Newt Gingrich stated that ”Shariah is a mortal threat to the survival of freedom in the United States and in the world as we know it,” and he expressed his worry that the United States could become “a secular atheist country … potentially one dominated by radical Islamists” in the foreseeable future.

Continue reading Arsalan’s May 2012 column for ‘The Progressive’ magazine HERE…

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