'New level of hypocrisy': Why the GOP is wooing Muslims after decades of hate

The GOP seems to be trying to use anti-LGBTQ culture wars to win over conservative Muslim Americans. “It's a new level of hypocrisy and cynicism from the right,” says Mehdi Hasan. Wajahat Ali and Michelle Goldberg join to discuss. 


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#GOP #Muslims #Republicans

[footfoot]

The Conservative Party and the Taliban have so much in common.

[DannyBPlays]

How they went from "Muslim Ban" to "We love Muslims" in 4 years is insane

[rgwak]

Gross hypocrisy isn't a bug in the republican party, it's a core feature.

[jeffreymarra]

They dont have a problem with religious freedom. The right does.

[skippysimon]

can we start calling 'the right' 'the wrong' from now on??? it's more accurate!!!

[catalinacurio]

The assumption that Muslims have short memories… 🙄

[CoreyANeal]

Give Democrats atleast a decade or two of the Senate, House, and President. And no one would vote for Republicans by the effects and benefits of the policies.

[Ueeuh]

Christian values? i'm betting that native americans have some interesting things to say about their "christian values"

[cathygamble]

The GOP have proven that they will use and step on whomever they need to to get what they want.

[pattykelly]

Wow. She LOVES bringing faiths together...as long as that coming together is to jointly hate some other group. There is no greater hate than all religions coming together to advocate against others. Absolutely disgusting and totally not surprising.

[LOdom-wsxv]

I noticed they were doing this after Saudis bought PGA.

[CoreyANeal]

Why do you think they wanted to call Obama muslim? They know how to use their thoughts of their audience against another person.

Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if the samething was what happened with Hillary Clinton and Russia or other people.

[thehellyousay]

I saw the headline and busted a gut laughing. Absolutely no shame whatsoever to be found where the Republicans roam.

[bobski]

Did she say we don’t have waves of migrants from Christian countries coming to our border? isn’t all of Latin America Christian?

[chuchvilla]

It will be a good idea to remind the American public that we are in this debt mess thanks to the remarkable incompetence of the former president. The former president racked up our debt by 25% in 4 years. That was due to the worst handling of the pandemic in the world, by playing down and mocking the threat instead of investigating. He did not close our borders in February, but it took him six months. We were the county with the most contagion and death in the world. Twice as many deaths as India, which has three times the USA population. I maintain that the GOP is not fit to govern the country. I will not get into the ridiculous decisions of the governor of my state, R. DeSantis. President Biden must stop asking for money for now. It is not the time to do so; this is the time to keep exposing the incompetence of the GOP and the danger of all the stripping of freedom, robbing women's rights, treating minorities without respect, and their stupid authoritarian agenda.

[RealJackHQ]

I guarantee once Muslim voters turn on Laura, she won’t only be “petrified, ” she will melt completely.

[gangstarapmademedoit]

As a bon Muslim (i.e. born a Muslim, no longer practice), one of my strongest arguments against friends who flirted with Trump and the like, saying they like Conservative ideologies, was pointing out that the people who perpetrated 9/11, or the ones leading most Middle East countries are CONSERVATIVE Muslims.

[drinkmorecareless]

Being an atheist in this country is so exhausting. Fools everywhere.

[emilybazer]

Wajahat Ali is just beginning to understand what it means to be American today. . . GOP will do anything to hang on the power. Anything.

[Ozzie-qwbx]

That man is the very definition of the word NAIVE. If he thinks that right wing Christian Nationalists would condone Islam in their vision of America I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell him. This is classic divide and conquer.