{"id":4285,"date":"2010-06-25T00:00:35","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T04:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4285"},"modified":"2010-07-09T14:11:41","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T18:11:41","slug":"cair-asks-gop-leadership-to-repudiate-tennessee-congressional-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4285","title":{"rendered":"CAIR asks GOP leadership to repudiate Tennessee congressional candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Political Influence Operation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Date:<\/strong> June 25, 2010<\/p>\n

Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n

CAIR called on Republican Party leaders to repudiate “Islamophobic” remarks by Tennessee GOP congressional candidate Lou Ann Zelenik who opposes the construction of a new mega-mosque complex in Murfreesboro, TN.<\/p>\n

“State and national Republican leaders must repudiate Ms. Zelenik’s extremist and un-American remarks and address the growing perception that their party promotes Islamophobia and intolerance against minorities,” said CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad.<\/p>\n

The press release went on to list several of CAIR’s recent attacks on congressional candidates, some of which are chronicled in the recent CAIR Observatory study regarding CAIR’s “Summer of Censorship.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Source(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/campaign.constantcontact.com\/render?v=001xE0bk2lrgCp<\/a><\/p>\n

(Local Backup PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n

Actions:<\/strong><\/p>\n

On June 16 the Center for Security Policy sent a letter<\/a> to\u00a0Tenessee congressional candidate, Lou Ann Zelenik,\u00a0concerning CAIR\u2019s unregistered foreign agent status. The letter identified that by\u00a0openly denouncing \u00a0Zelenik and attempting to tarnish her standing with Republican Party leaders,\u00a0CAIR’s actions\u00a0constitute a foreign influence operation.\u00a0 A copy of the letter was also sent to Bureau Chief Heather Hunt of the Foreign Agents Registration Unit at the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Political Influence Operation Date: June 25, 2010 Description: CAIR called on Republican Party leaders to repudiate “Islamophobic” remarks by Tennessee GOP congressional candidate Lou Ann Zelenik who opposes the construction of a new mega-mosque complex in Murfreesboro, TN. “State and national Republican leaders must repudiate Ms. Zelenik’s extremist and un-American remarks and address the growing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-115","category-elected-officials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}