Jonathan Zimmerman: Why Can't the GOP and Muslims Get Along?
Stop the spread of sharia law! Ban gay marriage and abortion!
As the 2012 elections inch closer, GOP lawmakers and
presidential hopefuls are tripping over each other to denounce
the alleged threat posed by Islam to the American body politic.
They're also trying to rally so-called values voters with
appeals to conservative cultural themes, especially on marriage
and reproduction.  Memo to Republicans: Muslims are cultural
conservatives, too. And if you can stop maligning them for a
moment, they might move over to your column.  It has happened
before. Consider American Catholics, who voted overwhelmingly
for Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, our only Catholic
president. They were also widely vilified by evangelical
Protestants, who warned that JFK would put America under the
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John a Wilson - 4/5/2011  It's that kill you thing if you aren't
Muslim. And they will come for you first