Constituents Confront GOP Rep. Myrick Over Muslim-Bashing At Tense Town Hall

[meegbear]

Muslim constituents repeatedly challenged Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC) at an emotional town hall meeting in Charlotte Thursday, with Myrick scrambling to distance herself from the Islam-bashing co-author of the book Muslim Mafia, whose foreword was written by the congresswoman herself.

Myrick has had a tense relationship with her district's Muslim community for many years, but it's been aggravated recently by her campaign to investigate undercover Muslim intern "spies" on Capitol Hill.

That effort arose from purported revelations in Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that's Conspiring to Islamize America, written by Paul Sperry and David Gaubatz, with a foreword by Myrick.

But when confronted by some of Gaubatz's past inflammatory statements -- particularly that Islam is a "terminal disease that once spread is hard to destroy" -- Myrick said she did not agree, later claiming that he did not even write the book that bears his name.

"The book was written by Paul Sperry, who is very well respected journalist," Myrick told one questioner, according to audio of the event obtained by TPMmuckraker.

(For the record, Sperry is a WorldNetDaily contributor who once called on America to "force-feed Taliban clerics pork rinds until they give up (Osama bin Laden's) location.")

"Gaubatz did the investigating for it," Myrick added. "And, quite frankly, Gaubatz didn't write a word of the book. And in that sense, it's kind of a shame his name is on the book because he didn't write it."

The book's cover bears the names of both Gaubatz and Sperry.

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[supernova]

1. Good. Myrick's a first order crackpot

who needs to be run out of town on the rails.