An interfaith group of religious leaders has sent a letter to freshman
Republican Allen West of Florida, calling him to apologize for anti-
Islam remarks he made recently on an episode of "The Shalom Show."
On the program, he said that his congressional colleague Keith
Ellison, who is one of two Muslim members of Congress, is the
"antithesis of the principles on which this country was established."
The signatories to the letter include the Rev. Welton Gaddy, President
of the Interfaith Alliance; Rabbi Jack Moline, Director of Public
Policy for The Rabbinical Assembly; Rabbi David Saperstein, Director
and Counsel of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, and the
Rev. J. Brent Walker, Executive Director, Baptist Joint Committee for
Religious Liberty.
From the letter:
In a recent interview with the "Shalom Show," you underscored that
your mission is to represent and uphold the values of your
constituents; this is an unquestionably noble goal. However, your
subsequent statement that Representative Keith Ellison, one of your
colleagues in the House of Representatives, is the "antithesis of the
principles on which this country was established" because he is
Muslim, shows a frightening lack of understanding for these values.
Regardless of the specific "principles" you intended to reference, it
is an indisputable fact that one of those principles is religious
freedom for all, memorialized in the United States Constitution—
including, of course, Article VI's prohibition on any religious test
for public office. Your remarks disrespect not only your Muslim
colleagues in the Congress, but also all of your constituents of the
Muslim faith. This is neither appropriate, nor true to the American
values that you reference.
Regrettably, this is just the latest example of your tendency to
offer intemperate comments about Islam. At a town hall meeting during
your campaign, you characterized Islam as America's enemy and
asserted, "Islam is a totalitarian, theocratic political ideology; it
is not a religion." Such untrue and inflammatory remarks intensify an
unsettling trend of anti-Muslim rhetoric and fear in our country. They
are also likely to confuse your constituents as to the differences
between radical, Islamic extremists and non-violent adherents to
Islam. Many peaceable Muslims live in your district and two serve
alongside you in the House of Representatives. At a time when
Islamophobia is on the rise, it is the responsibility of our elected
officials to promote dialogue, understanding and civility in the
public forum.
The whole video is here. Notably, it also includes West's views on the
two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict: "we cannot create
another state, a quote, unquote Palestinian state, that would be
nothing but another terrorist state."
West, who went on to extol American exceptionalism in the interview,
was fined by the U.S. military in 2003 for his involvement in the use
of "improper methods" to get information from an Iraqi detainee that
military prosecutors said amounted to torture. West retired for the
military and first ran for Congress last year.
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west is zionist kook.
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