{"id":4571,"date":"2010-07-25T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T04:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4571"},"modified":"2010-07-28T12:53:32","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T16:53:32","slug":"cair-calls-upon-gubernatorial-candidate-to-meet-with-local-islamic-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4571","title":{"rendered":"CAIR censures TN gubernatorial candidate for &#8220;Islamophobic&#8221; remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Political Influence Operation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> July 25, 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CAIR criticized Tennessee gubernatorial candidate Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey and called on him to meet with representatives of that state&#8217;s Islamic community after he stated his views on Islam in America.\u00a0 Responding to a citizen&#8217;s question at a campaign stop Ramsey referred to the controversy over the expansion of a  mosque in Murfreesboro stating: &#8220;You cross the line when they start trying to bring Shariah  [Islamic] law into the state of Tennessee&#8230; into the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Said CAIR National Communications  Director Ibrahim Hooper, &#8220;We see a disturbing trend in our nation in which it is suggested that  American Muslims should have fewer or more restricted constitutional  rights than citizens of other faiths.\u00a0 We urge Lt. Gov. Ramsey to meet with  representatives of the Tennessee Muslim community who can offer him  balanced and accurate information about Islam.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/cair-tenn-lt-gov-questions-muslim-religious-rights-99199469.html\">http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/cair-<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/cair-tenn-lt-gov-questions-muslim-religious-rights-99199469.html\">(PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Influence Operation Date: July 25, 2010 Description: CAIR criticized Tennessee gubernatorial candidate Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey and called on him to meet with representatives of that state&#8217;s Islamic community after he stated his views on Islam in America.\u00a0 Responding to a citizen&#8217;s question at a campaign stop Ramsey referred to the controversy over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[115,123,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-115","category-elected-officials","category-islamophobia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}