'Protest over Muslim prayer nothing new for Legislature'

Posted Wed, Mar 5, 2003 at 10:36 am

Here's a followup to the story of WA legislator McMahan not attending the Muslim prayer:

She said she did it as a patriotic act to protest U.S. Muslim leaders who she said did not condemn strongly enough the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

After a barrage of media calls from around the country, McMahan issued a statement late yesterday saying her actions had been misrepresented.

"For personal reasons, I chose to remain off of the House floor during the Imam's prayer. This action was not meant to make any public statement," she said in the written statement.

"I feel like the Islamic leaders in this country have not been vocal enough in condemning what happened."

Oh, but they have! Of course, you just need to understand what they're saying, and bring a special dictionary with you to understand their "condemnations."

Comments

uberlib (not verified)

Thu, 03/06/2003 - 17:18

Boy, dis place gives me da creeps.

Dis ain't even fun.

Back to Atrios.

dimn (not verified)

Wed, 03/05/2003 - 11:07

yep, didn't want to make it public. That's why she got on Seattle radio, sat down in her office for at least two on-camera interviews and has bothered to release another public press release, thereby virtually begging for another story to get out there.

She's not hateful - she just thinks she's right.

One thing I forgot to mention when I originally posted is that - of course the Muslim voices against Sept. 11 weren't as loud -- there's not as many of them. Bush stood by an Islam leader for a photo op soon after Sept. 11. Just because they weren't invited on all the big shows immediately afterward, they were out there to be heard and it still doesn't excuse her not finding out more about this particular Iman. Her other quotes are ridiculous on their face. She seems to be saying - following Islam is unpatriotic.

[aside - to post on my site, sorry -- but the definition of Islamist is not as cut and dry as you or the other guy made it out to be. I posted such in my comments.]