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Whether by opposing mosque construction, encouraging racial profiling, or fomenting anti-immigration sentiment, right-wing politicians are lining up to bash Muslims and prove their supposed patriotism before November. Here in Pennsylvania, the extreme right has decided to attack Rep. Joe Sestak as anti-Israel just because he spoke to the Muslim American community.
The neoconservative Emergency Committee for Israel is spreading a thinly disguised version of the "Obama might be a Muslim" narrative, portraying the president — and American Muslims — as anti-Israel "others." In a vitriolic, deceitful ad that started to air this month, the group slams Sestak for speaking to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) at a Philadelphia banquet in March 2007. The ad says CAIR is an "anti-Israel organization the FBI called a front group for Hamas."
Sestak's U.S. Senate campaign has and will defend him, so I will speak up for the Philadelphia Muslim community. Neocons have defined CAIR as anti-Israel merely because it is a successful Muslim American organization. CAIR is concerned about America, not Palestine, Pakistan, or any other foreign land — unlike the Emergency Committee for Israel and its supporters, who place Israel first and America a distant second.