From SAJAforum, the newsy SAJA blog - new South Asian stuff daily:
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Mansoor Ijaz, financier and former Fox News Channel foreign affairs analyst,
has an op-ed in today's Christian Science Monitor. The piece is called "A
Muslim Belongs in the Cabinet: Muslims are Uniquely Qualified to Help Deter
Islamist Threats." Some excerpts:
>>>>
I asked Mr. Romney whether he would consider including qualified Americans of
the Islamic faith in his cabinet as advisers on national security matters,
given his position that "jihadism" is the principal foreign policy threat
facing America today. He answered, "...based on the numbers of American Muslims
[as a percentage] in our population, I cannot see that a cabinet position would
be justified. But of course, I would imagine that Muslims could serve at lower
levels of my administration."
Romney, whose Mormon faith has become the subject of heated debate in
Republican caucuses, wants America to be blind to his religious beliefs and
judge him on merit instead. Yet he seems to accept excluding Muslims because of
their religion, claiming they're too much of a minority for a post in
high-level policymaking. More ironic, that Islamic heritage is what qualifies
them to best engage America's Arab and Muslim communities and to help deter
Islamist threats.
<snip>
[Romney] and other candidates for the presidency from both political
parties, should actively begin searching for American Muslims and Arab
Americans who can serve in primary decisionmaking cabinet level posts. To do
otherwise is to risk promulgating policies that once again put the US straight
in the sights of the terrorists who seek to bring America down.
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See the full piece and listen to a 10-minute interview of Ijaz by Josh Burek,
the Monitor's opinion editor, here:
http://www.sajaforum.org/2007/11/prez-politics-m.html
What do you think? Post your comments at that link, too.
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