Tea Partiers Harass Sheriff For Hiring Muslim Deputy, Egged On By Talk Show Host
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Gee, I wonder where all this hate is coming from.
A group of Florida citizens, egged on by a local radio host, are calling for the resignation of the Broward County sheriff for hiring — and then refusing to fire — a Muslim deputy who is also the director at the Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, WPLG reports.
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel has been under attack for months over the hiring of Deputy Nezar Hamze, whom detractors have taken to calling “Deputy Hamas.”
“I hate Islam. Islam is evil,” local anti-Islamic activist David Rosenthal explained. “Ideally, I would ban Islam in the United States. I am against Sharia-compliant Muslims having any position in government, law enforcement or the schools.”
Rosenthal is not alone in his hatred of Muslims, with WFTL radio host Joyce Kaufman criticizing the hiring of Hamze on her show, and writing a scathing post online at LeoAffairs.com, that has received over 70,000 views.
The attacks on Hamze and Sheriff Israel go back to October when activists and Florida Tea Party members held a rally calling for both men to step down.
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