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Home Front: Politix
US Muslims bring voter registration to mosques
2006-09-30
DALLAS - American Muslims are setting up voter registration booths in mosques across the United States, echoing a tactic employed by evangelical Christians to support conservative Republican candidates. Their target: close contests where Muslim voters could make a difference. “We have set up booths in 150 mosques across the country in the past two weeks,” said Mukit Hossain, a political consultant to the Muslim American Society which is behind the drive.

The booths have a computer monitor with a link to a Web site to enable Muslims to register on line during Friday prayers.

Hossain said about 10,000 were estimated to have been registered to date but he expected “tens of thousands” more to be signed up before crucial midterm elections on Nov. 7 that will decide which party controls Congress during President George W. Bush’s final two years in office.
Posted by:Steve White

#17  Voter registration is okay. Want cannot be done is political advocacy for a candidate or a party.

Then again, nothing is ever said, when a Democrat candidate/politician 'preaches politics' in a church...
Posted by: Pappy   2006-09-30 20:05  

#16  "voter registration booths in mosques"
So, they can do this without jeopardizing their tax-exempt status?
Posted by: Darrell   2006-09-30 17:46  

#15  # 11 -- Gasoline rationed and at $20 a gallon along with a major economic depression would probably change things in the US, but no one knows just what kind of change it would be.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2006-09-30 16:50  

#14  Texas, Dallas, Houston..etc. are INFESTED with Muslims. This is one of the places they are settling them as they import them. It is a concentrated effort, we are mostly lost. The leftist rot is deeply entrenched everywhere. Nothing short of revolt will change things, and no one believes there is a problem.
Posted by: NoBeards   2006-09-30 16:31  

#13  Mooslums in Texas, how sad this nation of our's is.
Posted by: Icerigger   2006-09-30 16:10  

#12  Some good 527 advertising opportunities here. If the muzzies want to block vote, they'd better be ready for the consequences
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-09-30 15:59  

#11  "Just don't fool yourselves that stupidity is an exclusively Democratic domain."

Of course it isn't; Republican politicians are, after all, politicians and they, too, are susceptible to temptations to suck up to whatever Muslim constituents are in their districts.

Nevertheless, it is the Democratic Party which has honed to a fine art the business of cultivating "poor helpless oppressed victim" groups and pandering to them in exchange for votes; and it is Muslims who are the world's champion professional victims.

With Democrats in power, every American Muslim-- not just Mumia abu Jamal-- will have Ed Asner pimping for him.

Posted by: Dave D.   2006-09-30 15:30  

#10  Beware the malevolent confluence of interests between American Muslims and the Democratic Party, fueled in both cases by a limitless and unprincipled thirst for raw power.

Agreed, David D., in the case of Islam, it will be the ultimate in taqqiya for them to vote democratic solely to displace replublican candidates with appeaser democrats.

Once again, I can only wonder if, in their febrile pursuit of power, the democrats will even consider who in hell they're getting into bed with for election night gains. Talk about; "Will you still respect me in the morning?" Should the democrats refuse to learn from their flirtation with the American communist party, any dalliance with Islam will assuredly leave them third degree flashburns. If ever there was, Islam is the poison apple. Tempting to those who do not know better but death to all who take a single bite.

We're about to see what happens when America's foremost panderers and the world's most accomplished self-pitiers discover one another.

It won't be pretty. Or healthy.

Speaking of ugly, try to remember that Democrats aren't the only ones who can pander to Muslims. In the aftermath of 9-11, conservative appointed UN representatives were reaching out to terrorist Iran and Lybia in order to steer wording of World Health Organization funding guidelines.

Be sure that the Democrats will be absolutely shameless about courting Muslims in their no-holds-barred pursuit of mid-term election gains, even as they totally disregard the eminent threat that the Islamic street represents. Just don't fool yourselves that stupidity is an exclusively Democratic domain.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-09-30 15:03  

#9  Already happened SS. Here in the Peoples Republic of Washington State there was an initiative and people went to their churches to get signatures. You should have heard the left and media scream!
Posted by: CrazyFool   2006-09-30 11:06  

#8  ...Muslims have more in common with the conservative republican agenda than they ever will with the democrats.

Except for hatred of Western Culture. That they can agree on.
Posted by: Parabellum   2006-09-30 10:55  

#7  Do this in an evangelical church and the Donks would be screaming 'separation of church and state'.
Posted by: Shomosh Speatch9359   2006-09-30 10:26  

#6  "In a supreme irony, Muslims have more in common with the conservative republican agenda than they ever will with the democrats."

With some parts of it, yes; but I wouldn't put my money on very many Muslims voting Republican anytime in the foreseeable future.

Beware the malevolent confluence of interests between American Muslims and the Democratic Party, fueled in both cases by a limitless and unprincipled thirst for raw power. In the former, you have the world's foremost practitioners of "strategic victimhood", whose capacity for wailing, whining, moaning, feeling sorry for themselves and blaming other people for their own failings is truly without limit; and in the latter, you have a political party which has degenerated over the last four decades to the point where it is a one-trick poney, knowing no other political game than pandering to complainers.

We're about to see what happens when America's foremost panderers and the world's most accomplished self-pitiers discover one another.

It won't be pretty. Or healthy.

Posted by: Dave D.   2006-09-30 08:37  

#5  I wonder how many of these people are legally eligible to vote (i.e. they're citizens).
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2006-09-30 07:36  

#4  This is gonna be rich. Someone needs to tell the Muslims that voting against Bush-supporting republicans will require registering with the party that vigorously supports homosexual marriage, women's rights and a host of other liberal platforms that are pure blasphemy for Islam.

In a supreme irony, Muslims have more in common with the conservative republican agenda than they ever will with the democrats. I expect to hear Muslim heads exploding like firecrackers on the Fourth of July when this finally sinks in.

Oh, and about those Muslim platform candidates. Except for Dearborn and a bare few other precincts, hell will freeze over before Islamic candidates end up claiming election night victories.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-09-30 01:39  

#3  Gotta have the stones to create and run effective ads, though. Sadly, sometimes that ingredient is missing among the pols. Dallas must've changed a LOT since I left. It was only becoming a PC-haven for blacks who were playing at Roots, y'know - wearing silly hats that emphasized their africanicityness and running for city / county offices, last I saw. Otherwise, it seemed more or less sane.
Posted by: .com   2006-09-30 01:06  

#2  I suspect the outright support of sizable muslim populations might not bring wins when the remainder of the voters learn about it. If they were supporting my opponent, I can think of two or three ads that would tie the bastard to riots, church burnings, and beheadings, along with Shari aimposed on the population. Think I'd lose? Not a chance
Posted by: Frank G   2006-09-30 00:51  

#1  This is how Dean plans on the Dhimmis taking Texas.
Posted by: .com   2006-09-30 00:18  

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