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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGeorgia GOP gubernatorial candidate poses with anti-Muslim activist
Rights group demands apology after US Republican candidate Brian Kemp posed with a well-known far-right activist.With a thumb's up, a half-hug and a smile, Georgia gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp posed for a photograph with a well-known far-right and anti-Muslim activist at a campaign event.
The far-right conspiracy theorist James Stachowiak wore a t-shirt that read, "Allah is not God, and Mohammad is not his prophet", in a photo posted on what appears to be his Twitter account on October 15.
On Friday, the Georgia chapter of the CAIR called on Kemp, a Republican who currently serves as Georgia's Secretary of State, to apologise for the photograph:
"I am rarely surprised when I see anti-Muslim bigotry these days, but Mr Kemp should apologise, meet with us and other Georgia Muslim leaders, and renounce this man's support," Edward Ahmed Mitchell, CAIR-Georgia's executive director (said).
Stachowiak, a pro-Trump activist and former police officer, has been "defaming, harassing and threatening Georgia Muslims for at least the past two years", Mitchell added.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/10/georgia-gubernatorial-candidate-poses-anti-muslim-activist-181026220648234.html
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Georgia GOP gubernatorial candidate poses with anti-Muslim activist (Original Post)
left-of-center2012
Oct 2018
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rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)1. Not surprised
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)2. That'll just attract more ignorant white wing voters for KKKemp.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)3. probably will gain him a few more votes
if he has to stop the machines changing votes