The Kansas Republican Party is distributing mailers depicting ISIS fighters and promising to defend the state against threats “from those who support ideologies that are in conflict with the United States Constitution and Kansas values.”
“The first step to keeping Kansas safe is to recognize who the enemy is,” says a mailer distributed by the party behalf of Republican State Rep. Joseph Scapa. “LET’S KEEP TERRORISTS OUT OF KANSAS!”
The mailer is being distributed weeks after three white men were arrested in Garden City, Kansas and charged for allegedly plotting to bomb an apartment complex where many Somali immigrants live and worship. The criminal complaint, citing a confidential source, details how the heavily armed men referred to Somalis as “cockroaches” and women dressed in traditional garb as “fucking raghead bitches.”
“The only good Muslim is a dead Muslim,” one of the suspects said, according to the complaint.
The Kansas Republican Party justifies its Islamophobic messaging on the basis of focus groups that indicated it’s a winning issue.
It’s appalling for the Kansas GOP “to falsely insinuate that the state’s Muslim population is linked to terror groups like ISIS,” McCraw added. In the wake of the Garden City charges, “this flier verges on incitement of violence to Muslims.”
https://thinkprogress.org/kansas-republicans-islamophobic-mailer-a817f39766f5#.ukjo6dxav
“The first step to keeping Kansas safe is to recognize who the enemy is,” says a mailer distributed by the party behalf of Republican State Rep. Joseph Scapa. “LET’S KEEP TERRORISTS OUT OF KANSAS!”
The mailer is being distributed weeks after three white men were arrested in Garden City, Kansas and charged for allegedly plotting to bomb an apartment complex where many Somali immigrants live and worship. The criminal complaint, citing a confidential source, details how the heavily armed men referred to Somalis as “cockroaches” and women dressed in traditional garb as “fucking raghead bitches.”
“The only good Muslim is a dead Muslim,” one of the suspects said, according to the complaint.
The Kansas Republican Party justifies its Islamophobic messaging on the basis of focus groups that indicated it’s a winning issue.
It’s appalling for the Kansas GOP “to falsely insinuate that the state’s Muslim population is linked to terror groups like ISIS,” McCraw added. In the wake of the Garden City charges, “this flier verges on incitement of violence to Muslims.”
https://thinkprogress.org/kansas-republicans-islamophobic-mailer-a817f39766f5#.ukjo6dxav
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