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The Real Midterm Elections Wave Wasn’t Blue—It Was Muslim
Daily Beast ^ | 11.15.18 | Dean Obeidallah

Posted on 12/07/2018 4:21:03 AM PST by SJackson

Thanks, President Trump—a record 55 Muslim Americans won office last week. A lot of them probably would never have been inspired to run without you.

The Muslims are no longer coming—they are here!

Well, in reality Muslims have been in America and contributing to it even before the nation was formed, since approximately 15 percent of the slaves from Africa were Muslim. Advertisement

But now Muslim Americans are “here” in a whole new way as a record number won their elections last Tuesday. And ironically many of these candidates were inspired to run in response to the most openly anti-Muslim president our nation has ever seen, Donald Trump.

This “Muslim wave” was led by the first Muslim American women ever elected to Congress in our nation’s history: Minnesota’s Ilhan Omar and Michigan’s Rashida Tlaib.

Omar’s story is especially inspiring given that Trump would have banned her from the country if he was in office when she was trying to immigrate here because she’s from Somalia, one of the nations listed in Trump’s Muslim ban. Now Trump will have to deal with her as a new Democratic member of Congress.

Other big winners among Muslim candidates included Keith Ellison, who became the first Muslim ever to win statewide office with his victory as Minnesota’s attorney general. In North Carolina, we saw the first Muslim American ever elected to the state Senate with the victory of 32-year-old lawyer, Mujtaba Mohammed, who is Indian-American. And there were also numerous other Muslim Americans winning elections in local races, including five Muslim American women who were elected in California’s Bay Area, from City Council to Board of Education. As the Council on American Islamic Relations noted, all told a record 55 Muslims won election last week from federal to local offices.

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1 posted on 12/07/2018 4:21:03 AM PST by SJackson
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To: SJackson

Our once fine country is FINISHED! Not JUST because of these Muslims, but all the other DREK that idiots have elected.


2 posted on 12/07/2018 4:23:19 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: SJackson

Even muzzie filth in America is now Trump’s fault!


3 posted on 12/07/2018 4:25:41 AM PST by mindburglar (Don't bother. I don't debate.)
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To: SJackson
since approximately 15 percent of the slaves from Africa were Muslim.

Where did this figure come from? Some muslim group wanting to join the grievance parade?

4 posted on 12/07/2018 4:27:53 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: SJackson

Muslims “contributing” to America?!


5 posted on 12/07/2018 4:29:24 AM PST by albie
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To: SJackson

Take a time machine back to Sept 12, 2001 and tell people that Barack Hussein Obama will be elected president in 2008 and serve 2 terms and shortly afterwards, 55 Muslims will win elective office, and anyone from 2001 would ask, “Did Saudi Arabia conquer us? How did we lose the war?”


6 posted on 12/07/2018 4:30:08 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Second Amendment be damned

We were disarmed through the public school system and the making of our kids into progressive socialists.

Channeling Kruschev

7 posted on 12/07/2018 4:36:54 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true; I have no proof .... but they're true.)
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To: SJackson

How many Christian Americans were elected? And when will that make the headlines?


8 posted on 12/07/2018 4:42:22 AM PST by Libloather (Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
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To: SJackson

Those Muslims cheat in numbers. They are very organized in crime and corruption.


9 posted on 12/07/2018 4:43:54 AM PST by MNDude (WWG1WGAalso)
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To: SJackson; All

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3710751/posts?page=5#52


10 posted on 12/07/2018 4:54:42 AM PST by mabarker1 (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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To: SJackson

What do they think of feminism and transgender issues?


11 posted on 12/07/2018 4:55:47 AM PST by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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To: piasa
Where did this figure come from? Some muslim group wanting to join the grievance parade?

I wouldn't question 15%. The number is derived from the fact that about half the areas slaves were taken from had Muslims. Africa was an early victim of Islam. You can find much higher numbers. Though they were a minority. There are a few Arabic, which are assumed Muslim, names on Revolutionary War muster roles. Slaves were not necessarily practicing their faith, particularly in multiple generations of slaves. Does any of this make the case of some sort of contribution to American culture, of course not.

12 posted on 12/07/2018 4:59:25 AM PST by SJackson (The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself)
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To: SJackson

Breeders and protectors of their fake religion


13 posted on 12/07/2018 5:00:01 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Libloather
I'm waiting for the Supreme Court Quota folks to stop whining about there being only 33% female members, and note that while 50% of America is Protestant, there is not one Protestant-raised SCOTUS Justice at the moment. There have been 113 Justices overall, and more than 70 were Protestant... but there is only 1 now... Gorsuch was raised Catholic, but currently attends an Episcopalian church.

SCOTUS already has an approximately "correct" (for the Quota Crowd) 11% Black (the US is 12.3%), and 11% Hispanic (12.6%) Bench... But 33% are Jewish (2% of the US) and 55% are Catholic (67% if you include Gorsuch), despite only 7 Catholics EVER appearing on the Bench before Scalia (only 7% of the pre-Scalia SCOTUS population, and only 22% of the US population).

14 posted on 12/07/2018 5:04:09 AM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: junta

Big time feminists. Prominent in the leadership of the Women’s March.


15 posted on 12/07/2018 5:09:41 AM PST by SJackson (The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself)
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To: ClearCase_guy

One of my friends has long said that about the election of the Dear Leader. It goes to show the level of political insanity in this country. You can’t fix stupid.


16 posted on 12/07/2018 6:27:35 AM PST by DickBrannigan ("And the fact that I haven't put a gun in my mouth, you pudding of a woman, makes me a winner!")
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To: SJackson

Repeat after me, It is all Trump’s fault...


17 posted on 12/07/2018 6:48:30 AM PST by Agatsu77
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To: SJackson

This guy has it upside-down and backwards. The election of Trump is a reaction to the immigration policies of the administrations prior. Those immigration policies brought in extremely large numbers of immigrants, many from Muslim countries like Somalia. As immigrants have done historically, they clustered in areas with people who share their ethnicity and voted for candidates that share their ethnicity. Bring in a large number of immigrants from Muslim countries, pack them into a handful of congressional districts and voila, you have a bunch of newly elected Muslim politicians... just like you have an even larger number of newly elected Hispanics.

It didn’t matter if we elected Trump or not, elected Muslims were coming. Blaming it on Trump is just a means to try and separate him from his supporters.

My problem with these pols is they bring in un-American and anti-American attitudes. If we slow down the immigration maybe we can get to the business of Americanizing the ones here before they Islamicize our country. Unfortunately the country first needs to remember what it means to be American again.


18 posted on 12/07/2018 7:27:38 AM PST by Data Miner
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To: SJackson

What are Muslims contributing other than genital mutilation and child marriage?


19 posted on 12/07/2018 8:20:04 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: SJackson

This is how it begins. They are safe from all criticism. They will not be held to account for their actions.

They swore to uphold the Constitution. They will not be doing that.


20 posted on 12/07/2018 12:37:39 PM PST by I want the USA back (There are two sexes: male (pronoun HE), and female (pronoun SHE). Denial of this is insanity.)
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