A Closer Look at the Term ‘Islamist’ – The Takeaway

Really, it’s true. Aziz has a good post, including video, of how McCain supporters got rid of an Islamophobe from amongst them. However, The Poor Man shows us that bigotry is still part of the McCain clique. The fish stinks from the head. Update: Aziz updates his post that one of the “good guys” at the rally is prohibited from talking to the media. Abdul-Halim posts something similar. Election 2008, McCain

“If you look at the U.S., you look at who we’re electing to Congress, to the Senate—they can’t read. I’ll bet you a bunch of these people don’t have passports. We’re about to start a trade war with China if we’re not careful here, only because nobody knows where China is. Nobody knows what China is,” – New York Mayor, Michael Bloomberg. [From Quote For The Day II]

Muslim constituents repeatedly challenged Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC) at an emotional town hall meeting in Charlotte Thursday, with Myrick scrambling to distance herself from the Islam-bashing co-author of the book Muslim Mafia, whose foreword was written by the congresswoman herself. Myrick has had a tense relationship with her district’s Muslim community for many years, but it’s been aggravated recently by her campaign to investigate undercover Muslim intern “spies” on Capitol Hill. That effort arose from purported revelations in Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that’s Conspiring to Islamize America, written by Paul Sperry and David Gaubatz, with a foreword by…