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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSlate.com: The Islamophobe behind Trump's Hate
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/12/frank_gaffney_the_wind_beneath_donald_trump_s_islamophobia.html-snip-
In the past couple of years, the political influence of Frank Gaffney, who the Southern Poverty Law Center describes as one of Americas most notorious Islamophobes, appeared to be on the wane. In 2011, he was banned from the Conservative Political Action Conference after claiming that the Muslim Brotherhood had infiltrated the group organizing the event. The next year, Gaffney, who was advising Michele Bachmann on foreign policy, concocted a theory that the Muslim Brotherhood had penetrated the State Department via Huma Abedin, Hillary Clintons aide. When five members of Congress, including Bachmann, asked for an investigation of the conspiracy, leaders of the Republican Party, including thenHouse Speaker John Boehner, forcefully rebuked them. (Soon Bachmann would leave Congress, depriving Gaffney of an important political collaborator.) The most recent Republican nominee for president, Mitt Romney, largely refused to countenance Gaffney-style anti-Sharia conspiracy theories. Chris Christie smacked them down as well.
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Slate.com: The Islamophobe behind Trump's Hate (Original Post)
LiberalElite
Dec 2015
OP
Gaffney claims that Grover Norquist is part of the secret Muslim conspiracy.
bullwinkle428
Dec 2015
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bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)1. Gaffney claims that Grover Norquist is part of the secret Muslim conspiracy.
If anyone needs any more proof this guy went off the deep end...
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)2. .
Trajan
(19,089 posts)3. Gaffney is PNAC alumni
A complete and utter asshole ....