Dr. Saud Anwar: Connecticut’s First Muslim Mayor
Good news for tolerance and pluralism, bad news for our counter jihad “friends.” I wonder if Pamela or Robert Spencer has had a ragegasm over this yet, as Vicious Babushka would say. They probably have, this story is a little over a week old, but I just found out about this today, so it maybe news to many of you here.
By Patch Editor Kaitlin GlanzerWhen South Windsor residents cast their votes for Dr. Saud Anwar, electing him the town’s next mayor, they likely were choosing the soft-spoken doctor and humanitarian who votes his conscience and urged the Town Council not to raise taxes when residents were struggling and families lived in the homeless shelter.
They likely were not considering that they would make history by electing the first Muslim mayor in Connecticut.
“They’re looking for the person who is going to do the best job for them with the priorities that they feel are important to them,” Anwar said Friday by phone.
Still, that South Windsor has embraced Anwar says much about them and about the United States.
“We live in the best country in the world …where everyone and anyone who follows the law is respected and can help make the country better,” Anwar said.
“The people of South Windsor are very caring, embracing individuals who respect people of all backgrounds, so my being elected is more about the people of South Windsor and less about me.”
