Lindsey Graham under pressure to apologize for posing with anti-Islam politician

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 Lindsey Graham under pressure to apologize for posing with anti-Islam politician

By Emma Dumain
September 10, 2019 05:00 AM, Updated 1 hour 33 minutes ago
 

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham is under pressure to apologize publicly for posing for a photograph over the weekend with Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician known widely for his hostility towards immigrants and Islam.

“The vile anti-Muslim bigotry spewed by Mr. Wilders stands at odds with the values of religious freedom and pluralism that Senator Graham took an oath to defend,” Robert McCaw, the government affairs director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said in a statement Monday evening.

“Senator Graham must immediately apologize for appearing in this photo and issue a strong repudiation of the vile, Islamophobic views endorsed by Mr. Wilders,” McCaw continued. “American Muslims in South Carolina and across the country will be watching.”

Read more here: https://www.heraldonline.com/news/politics-government/election/article234912412.html#storylink=cpy

[skeeter]

Bob McCaw putting 'pressure' on a US senator is so important it warrants a newspaper story.

This McCaw guy must be one important character.

[Fishrrman]

Apologize?

Lindsey, if you were smart (I know that's a loaded question), you'd spread that pic far and wide !

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

 â€œAmerican Muslims in South Carolina and across the country will be watching.”

Why are there Muslims in South Carolina?

[mountaineer]

Graham should tell CAIR if they're against it (whatever "it" is), then he's for it. And go pound sand.

[verga]

Go pound salt down a rat hole. Here is the apology, I'm sorry you are Such a precious little think skinned snowflake.