A new voting sect to purge from the rolls....

[Postman]

http://english.aljazeera.net/Articles/News/ArabWorld/USMuslim.htm

As you can see from my link, the english language version of the Al Jazeera website is up and running.

If you've read Greg Palast's book - The Best Democracy Money Can Buy- you already know about the Florida voter registration rolls that were purged of mostly black democratic voters. Let me introduce you to the next block of voters to be purged - the Muslim population.

I'd say its a safe bet that 1 million potential democratic voters are in the process of being created, with the treatment the Arab community has been receiving from Bush and co.

Stands to reason that if Diebold and Bush have their way, a consolidfation of the voting rolls would take place making it easier for the elections officials to purge the rolls of anyone who is either black, a democrat, or both and/or someone whose name sounds something like Mohammad Hussein Al Ahkbar.

Do I have proof? No. Do I trust them? No.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Ha!

There will be a lot of doctors in small towns who will be disenfranchised, then. Glad my legal name is my birth alias-it has a WASP sound to it.....

[slor]

2. Believe it or not...

I read that the chimp enjoyed a large amount of support from Arabic people in 2000 ( I know, I was stunned too ). I cannot remember where I read that, but I don't read anything that even has a whiff of pro-chimp funk about it! That said, I certainly hope that ALL those people that supported this idiot, regardless of racial or ethnic background, can discern the utter damage he has wrought on the world, and act to fix it in 2004!

[StandWatie]

3. they supposedly swung Florida for him

I know Bush didn't win Florida but the margin of their support if removed would have had Bush losing by a fairly wide margin.

on edit: it's not just Arabs, it's the Muslim vote which in America the largest group is African American (they told their fellow Muslims to get bent they weren't voting Bush) and next South Asian.

[Devlzown]

4. I'm not really surprised.

In 2000, there wasn't much talk about Arabs in the election. Sure, Bush pledged to support Israel, but so did Gore. My doctor is from Egypt and just got his citizenship this year. We never talk politics, but I could see him being an economic conservative at the very least. I'm sure he's been scared by many of his colleagues talking about the evils of socialized medicine. Many Muslims in this country are professional people and are already conservative on economic issues, if not social issues as well. I really don't know what their take is on current events, but I'm sure their opinions are complex indeed.