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October 07, 2015 03:29 PM UTC

OF COURSE Coffman Spoke To An Anti-Muslim Hate Group

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  • by: Colorado Pols

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As the Colorado Independent’s Kyle Harris reports:

Republican Rep. Mike Coffman spoke in September at the conference of an organization that has been profiled repeatedly as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

“ACT For America is perhaps the nation’s leading Anti-Muslim hate group … extremely out there in terms of their bigotry and extremism and hate mongering,” said Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

The New York Times Magazine described the organization’s president Brigitte Gabriel, who also spoke at the conference, as follows: “She presents a portrait of Islam so thoroughly bent on destruction and domination that it is unrecognizable to those who study or practice the religion.”

Gabriel has described Arabs as “barbarians” and has said, “Every practicing Muslim is a radical Muslim.” [Pols emphasis]

Now before you make any, you know, presumptions:

Would he speak for this group, which has have given him a 100 percent grade for voting against “radical Islam,” had he been warned?

“With regard to why he spoke to this group (ACT! for America), the Congressman speaks with literally hundreds of groups every year, and very rarely agrees with every aspect of their agenda. But that doesn’t mean you don’t have a dialogue,” his spokesperson [Cinamon] Watson wrote.

As Harris recounts, Rep. Mike Coffman has made bashing so-called “radical Islam” a favorite topic in guest opinion columns and at public events. The group that Coffman spoke at, ACT! For America, appears to take it a step further by declaring all Muslims to be “radical” Muslims. It should be noted that this belief has a fair number of adherents in Colorado, as one example the openly anti-Muslim climate that pervades the Western Conservative Summit year after year–even inviting internationally-infamous anti-Muslim demagogues like Geert Wilders of the Netherlands to speak.

At a Defense Department course on Islam, in 2007, Gabriel said: “If a Muslim who has — who is — a practicing Muslim who believes the word of the Koran to be the word of Allah, who abides by Islam, who goes to mosque and prays every Friday, who prays five times a day — this practicing Muslim, who believes in the teachings of the Koran, cannot be a loyal citizen to the United States of America.”

Wow! But remember, Coffman doesn’t necessarily agree. He just gave a speech at their conference, right? After all, it’s not like Coffman has ever said anything even remotely close to what this group says, right?

Oops (see photo).

Given the substantial percentage of the Republican base who believe to this day that President Barack Obama, like Coffman said in 2012, “is just not an American,” a belief largely revolving around President Obama’s Muslim father…well, don’t you think that if Coffman meant any of those apologies, he might be a little more careful about appearing before an organization given to all-too-similar generalizations?

All we can say is, he must really be counting on that free ride from the press.

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12 thoughts on “OF COURSE Coffman Spoke To An Anti-Muslim Hate Group”

      1. Tell that to the over 35,000 Muslims living in CD6. Eritreans, Ethiopians, Somalis, Iraqis, Burmese….Aurora is like the fricking United Nations, a diverse and tolerant community of Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Jews, you name it. 

        Aurora is a refugee center. Refugees are legal immigrants, who often become citizens and vote. I had links put in for most of this, but my lousy motel wifi pooped out on my comment. 

        So if you want to know sources, ask. Or look it up. The Google is your friend. 

        Mike Coffman, you pitiful, bigoted, ignorant bottom feeder, you  blew it big time. You can't walk this one back. Morgan Carroll, time to develop a passion for East African food, if you haven't already done so. 

          1. And how many of those Hispanics, Catholics, athiests, and everyone else in CD6 will be revolted by Coffman's bigotry?

            You sound like my football player students who think that they can spread anti-Muslim stereotypes because "there aren't any Muslims here".

            My students found out differently. Hopefully, Coffman will, too.

            The real question is what the majority of good people in CD6 will allow. Will they allow their boss, their babysitter, their employees, their neighbors to be racially profiled? Will they speak out when they hear the "All Muslims are radical Muslims", when Muslims are called "barbarians", when they are told that they cannot be a good practitioner of Islam, and also a good US citizens?

            And don't hide behind Coffman, itlduso. What do you think about Muslims? What will you do when confronted by bigotry and hate?

            Will you be a "good German" and let your neighbors be victimized? Will you be silent? Will you speak out?

            2. Wow.  Apparently you failed to understand the subtlety of my original post.  We are saying the same thing!  (Me in 11 words, you in like 300 words. And, please don't reply that you only used 232 words.  No, I did not count them.)   My point was that Coffman is willing to throw overboard a small minority in his/my district to appease his GOP base.  My guess about the number of Hispanics and Muslims in the district was confirmed by my use of that "Google" thing you so kindly suggested.

              Anyhoo, of more concern to me than this silliness is the lack of response I got from my post in last Wednesday's Open Thread regarding Democrats offering real middle class tax relief.  That was something I actually researched and, I believe, will have real consequence for the election.  But, as in the past, whenever I throw out numbers there is usually crickets on this site.  Maybe I should create a diary and see what happens. 

              2. So create a diary already. If you have time to count words on these posts, you have the time to write a diary.

                And no, we're not saying the same thing at all. You're (rather gleefully) celebrating Coffman's decision to throw his Muslim constituents under the bus, and I'm saying that not throwing a religious minority under the bus is everyone's responsibility, including mine and yours.

                But perhaps that distinction is too subtle for you.

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