re: #71 garhighway

Here’s something interesting: a Muslim tried to get membership on the Broward County Republican Executive Committee. It didn’t go well.

[Link: www.salon.com…]

Sample:

Last night, the Broward Republican Executive Committee met to consider Hamze’s application to become a voting member, a meeting that ended with him being called a “terrorist’ by hecklers and an unprecedented 158-11 vote to deny him membership.

The usually perfunctory approval process for BREC membership was changed at the meeting in order to publicly vet Hamze and to then vote on his application using a secret ballot. He was the only one of 11 candidates rejected.

But there’s no bigotry in the Republican Party. None at all.

But, seriously, why is this guy a Republican after the last 8 years of rightwing Muslim bashing? This makes less sense to me than GOProud.