In yet another example of the deepening anti-Muslim sentiment in the GOP, the keynote speaker for a recent Idaho Republican Party fundraiser was a noted anti-Muslim activist from neighboring Washington. Pastor Shahram Hadian said he converted to Christianity during his childhood and now claims to be an expert on Islam. He unsuccessfully ran as a Republican candidate for state legislature last November and also targeted customers of a café whose employees delivered coffee wearing bikinis by taking their photos and posting their names online.
Hadian has addressed local Republican groups and a chapter of the staunchly anti-Muslim group ACT! for America on "how Islam is a political ideology focused on establishing oppressive Islamic law (Shar'ia) in every country, including America." Hadian claims that "Shar'ia law has already infiltrated some of our local, state, and federal governmental laws and policies here in the U.S." because of "political correctness and liberal ideology that is sympathetic to Shar'ia law."
Leading politicians including Governor Butch Otter, US Senator Mike Crapo and freshmen congressman Raul Labrador were also present at the gathering. The Coeur d'Alene Press reports:
rest at http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/idaho-gop-hosts-anti-muslim-activist
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