Posted on 03/07/2017 1:50:23 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Two days before the Trump administration rolled out the new version of what critics call a Muslim ban, Vermont Democrats elected the nation's first Muslim state party chairman.
Faisal Gill, who was elected Saturday, said the decision of the Democratic State Committee to name him interim chair is a clear rebuke of Trump.
"To have a Muslim and immigrant to be the state party chair sends a really strong message to Trump and his type of politics that this is not where the country is at," he told NBC News.
The White House released a new executive order Monday restricting travel from six Muslim-majority countries after a federal court halted an earlier version. Trump says the move is necessary for security, but Gill and other critics say it's merely an attempt to legally discriminate against Muslims....
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Faisal Gill was born in Karachi, Pakistan in 1972 and emigrated to the United States in 1980. . . . In 2003, Gill served as a spokesman for the American Muslim Council, an organization founded by Abdurahman Alamoudi to encourage Muslim political participation. al-Alamoudi was sentenced to 23 years in federal prison for bringing over one million dollars in cash provided by the Libyan government into the U.S. . . . After being appointed by George W. Bush as a policy director for the Department of Homeland Security, Gill was investigated by officials in connection to al-Amoudi but was ultimately cleared by a polygraph test and allowed to resume work. [2] However, anti-Islamic pundit Frank Gaffney led a public campaign to discredit Gill, highlighting the brief inquiry into Gill’s AMC connections and soliciting letters from Congressional Republicans calling for an investigation . . .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faisal_Gill
Really stupid people. They do not want to believe that Islam is a threat to their existence.
Welcome to the Vermont Democrat Party, featuring Ben & Achmed’s halal ice cream.
Combined PING! and DANG!
This is not even an elected position with the government, like dog catcher or city councilman, this is just an appointment within a political party.
This sends a clear message that the Democrats are so scared of Trump that they don’t know what to do. Electing a Muslim animal to lead their Party is insane given the fact that they are already sinking.
You clowns up there sent a message alright....you just verified my tagline.
The insanity of liberalism raises it’s ugly head every single day.
And we’re supposed to coexist with these imbeciles????
All in the terror language. Not a meesage of peace but one of attack on Trump, inviting terrorists
Jew?
We had Debbie.
Woman in Starbucks today with a big white button that said “Keep Our Muslim Neighbors Safe.” That’s to stop all the terrorist attacks by non-Muslims against Muslims I guess.
Not only Sanders, but Dean, Leahy, and Jeffords. The whole state is a mental ward.
Well isn’t that special. They cut their nose off. Their daughters will be married to bearded men. How special.
Yup...as they continue their anti-American and anti-Western culture ways.
The Left and Islam are on the same side.
And that’s not America’s side, imo.
Now THAT’s how you win back the working class whites!
Keep it up, Dems!
Its Vermont, who cares.
Sounds like a message to any reasonable-thinking Democrat that it is time to get out of the party. It is beyond redeemable.
Aw, jeez. So now Ben and Jerry won’t make bacon-flavored ice cream?
“I swear, those people in Vermont just get dumber by the day.”
They really do.
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