Frank Gaffney Says Anti-Hate Activists Want To Execute Him With ‘Shariah Blasphemy Laws’
This weekend, a group called the Maryland Conservative Action Network is hosting a conference for Republicans and right-wing causes. One of the headline speakers is Frank Gaffney, a notorious hate preacher behind many of the anti-Muslim conspiracies now popular in some parts of the country. As Center for American Progress’s “Fear, Inc.” report revealed, well-funded Islamophobes like Gaffney have penetrated the conservative movement and the larger political discourse largely by taking a lead role in Republican groups like the one hosting him this Saturday.
Although Gaffney has enjoyed an uninterrupted platform on major media outlets, this conference, however, might be different. Former Maryland state Del. Saqib Ali (D) and activists from a number of civil rights groups in Maryland have organized a rally outside the conference. “Unfortunately, instead of inviting legitimate conservative speakers, MDCAN has instead chosen speakers who are well-known conspiracy theorists, McCarthyites, racists and anti-Muslim fanatics,” Ali wrote in a letter protesting the event.
Gaffney, whose unhinged anti-Muslim writings heavily influenced the Norway mass murderer, has responded to Ali’s rally with his signature style of paranoia:
“This is standard operating procedure for CAIR and other Muslim Brotherhood front groups,” Gaffney told TheDC in a discussion about the letter. “They are trying to impose what are known as Shariah blasphemy laws, whereby anyone who says anything critical about Islam, no matter how true, is to be silenced. It is actually a capital offense.”
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