Shariah foes seize on Perry's ties to Muslims

[struggle4progress]

Monday, Aug 15, 2011 14:34 ET
By Justin Elliott

... my story last week ... explored Perry's long-standing friendship with the Aga Khan, the wealthy, globe-trotting leader of the Ismaili Muslim sect, which has a small but significant population in Texas. Perry and the Aga Khan have launched two joint projects, including a program to educate Texas schoolchildren about Islamic culture and history ...

Like clockwork, two anti-Shariah figures have now penned columns attacking Perry on exactly these grounds ...

The blogger and activist Pamela Geller wrote a column for the American Thinker today declaring that "Rick Perry must not be President. Have we not had enough of this systemic sedition?" ...

Another sponsor of that coalition is WorldNetDaily, which yesterday published an attack on Perry by Joel Richardson, author of "The Islamic Antichrist: The Shocking Truth About the Real Nature of the Beast" (WND Books). He argues that Perry has been fooled by the Aga Khan, who is part of the relentless Islamic quest to conquer "the West" ...

http://www.salon.com/news/islam/?story=/politics/war_room/2011/08/15/perry_geller_gaffney

The Republican primary season may offer a great smörgåsbord of rightwing attacks by nutcases on other rightwing nutcases

[laconicsax]

1. BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

:rofl:

[Baby Bear]

2. This Makes Rick Perry Look Better

[struggle4progress]

4. Maybe. But it might suggest some of the political dynamics in Texas that will affect the

Perry campaign and the Paul campaign

The heyday of oil-pumping in Texas proper is long over, but decades before it ended smart Texas oilmen were setting their sights elsewhere, such as in the Middle East. Texas oil-industry folk certainly have extensive Middle Eastern connections: their money translates as influence in Texas, and their interests will determine the directions of their political pressure. So I would guess Perry reaching out, to a small Islamic group in Texas, probably reflects some interests of the oil-field boys there

[polichick]

3. Perfect!

[backscatter712]

5. Now for turning more people against Christian Sharia...

aka Dominionism-style Christian Law(TM)

[LeftishBrit]

6. Insane!

But anyway there is a lot in common between the real Shariah types and the Pat Robertson types.