Georgia GOP gubernatorial candidate poses with anti-Muslim activist

Rights group demands apology after US Republican candidate Brian Kemp posed with a well-known far-right activist.

With a thumb's up, a half-hug and a smile, Georgia gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp posed for a photograph with a well-known far-right and anti-Muslim activist at a campaign event.

The far-right conspiracy theorist James Stachowiak wore a t-shirt that read, "Allah is not God, and Mohammad is not his prophet", in a photo posted on what appears to be his Twitter account on October 15.

On Friday, the Georgia chapter of the CAIR called on Kemp, a Republican who currently serves as Georgia's Secretary of State, to apologise for the photograph:

"I am rarely surprised when I see anti-Muslim bigotry these days, but Mr Kemp should apologise, meet with us and other Georgia Muslim leaders, and renounce this man's support," Edward Ahmed Mitchell, CAIR-Georgia's executive director (said).

Stachowiak, a pro-Trump activist and former police officer, has been "defaming, harassing and threatening Georgia Muslims for at least the past two years", Mitchell added.

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