(Arkansas Times) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) yesterday issued a statement calling on the Arkansas legislature to censure Sen. Jason Rapert for comments that CAIR argued “appeared to question the right of American Muslim to participate in the political process.”
Readers of the blog will be familiar with this latest brouhaha from the bumptious Rapert, who recently founded the National Association of Christian Lawmakers and has made various comments suggesting a leeriness of Muslims. In a Facebook post, he appeared to fret over high turnout among Muslims and the fact that dozens of Muslim Americans won state, local and federal office in November. Rapert asked, “Do you want them ruling everything in America?”
Here’s the response from CAIR, a national advocacy group which had done the initial poll on high Muslim turnout:
