Rubio's just as much of an Islamaphobe as Trump

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Imraan Siddiqi @imraansiddiqi
Marco Rubio is just as garbage as Trump, Carson or Cruz.
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/marco-rubio-obama-muslims_us_56b2bf8ae4b04f9b57d879d5 …


Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) somehow found a way to criticize President Barack Obama's speech on Wednesday denouncing anti-Muslim bigotry.

Rubio, who often stresses religious liberty and his own faith on the campaign trail, said Obama's words at a Baltimore mosque were intended to divide, rather than unite, the American people.

"I'm tired of being divided against each other for political reasons like this president's done," Rubio said at a Wednesday campaign stop in Dover, New Hampshire. "Always pitting people against each other. Always! Look at today: He gave a speech at a mosque. Oh, you know, basically implying that America is discriminating against Muslims."

Rubio added: "Of course there's discrimination in America, of every kind. But the bigger issue is radical Islam. And by the way, radical Islam poses a threat to Muslims themselves. They argue that. They'll tell you that. But again, it's this constant pitting people against each other. I can't stand that. It's hurting our country badly."

In an historic visit to the Islamic Society of Baltimore, Obama, in his first visit to a mosque as president, proclaimed attacks on Islam as attacks on all faiths and urged awareness of how Islamophobia affects Muslim children. He didn't name names, but implicitly referred to Republican presidential candidates, like Donald Trump, who last year proposed a temporary ban on Muslims from entering the United States, and widespread Republican opposition to Syrian refugees, even those who are children, being allowed into the country.

“We have to reject a politics that seeks to manipulate prejudice or bias, and targets people because of religion,” Obama said, praising American Muslims and their role in U.S. history.


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[lame54]

1. Rubio is mean - I can't stand to hear him talk...

and what the hell was that 3rd place victory speech

[yeoman6987]

3. All of this will haunt them during the general

Oh they will hoof it back to the left a little but it doesn't work anymore because they run so far to the right that during the general when they temper the message they are still far right. Keep them talking.....

[COLGATE4]

4. Rubio is just another Republican 'empty suit', a fresh-faced

little conniver and schemer who has his hand out to whoever will put money in it. He has absolutely NO convictions, and is willing to do or say whatever he thinks will bring him advantage. Another DUer put it much better than I can, calling him "a shitty little weasel". Says it all.

[FSogol]

5. Exactly. He juts his jaw out and blurts out some tough sounding nonsense.

He's the most light-weight of all the GOP candidates.

[Mendocino]

2. "radical Islam"

just another RW dog whistle.

[Nye Bevan]

6. Nothing wrong with the phrase "radical Islam".

What would you call the San Bernadino terrorists other than "radical Islamists"?

[Mendocino]

7. Politics is perception

When Cruz, Rubio or Trump use it, they know far well that their target audience will see it as all Islam, they don't make the distinction.