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guillaumeb

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Wed Apr 18, 2018, 01:36 PM Apr 2018

Good news: The blue Muslim wave: American Muslims launch political campaigns......

From the article:

The blue Muslim wave: American Muslims launch political campaigns, hope to deliver ‘sweet justice’ to Trump
More than 90 American Muslims, nearly all of them Democrats, are running for public office across the country this year. Many are young and politically inexperienced, and most are long shots. But they represent a collective gamble: that voters are so disgusted by America’s least popular president on record that they’re willing to elect members of America’s least popular religious minority group.


To read more:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-blue-muslim-wave-american-muslims-launch-political-campaigns-hope-to-deliver-sweet-justice-to-trump/2018/04/15/a8794a9c-31cc-11e8-8abc-22a366b72f2d_story.html?utm_term=.5710a45f2474

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Good news: The blue Muslim wave: American Muslims launch political campaigns...... (Original Post) guillaumeb Apr 2018 OP
"Nearly all of them democrats"? That's awesome and puzzling at the same time? rainin Apr 2018 #1
Michael Steele is a Republican. guillaumeb Apr 2018 #2

rainin

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1. "Nearly all of them democrats"? That's awesome and puzzling at the same time?
Wed Apr 18, 2018, 03:03 PM
Apr 2018

Why would a Muslim American run as a Republican? There is no place in today's republican party for women or minorities. That's just the facts.

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