{"id":246,"date":"2012-07-22T20:01:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T20:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/islaminamerica\/?p=246"},"modified":"2012-07-22T20:01:37","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T20:01:37","slug":"unfair-and-misguided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/2012\/07\/22\/unfair-and-misguided\/","title":{"rendered":"“Unfair and Misguided”"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the Huffington Post<\/I> today<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“A leading Jewish organization on Friday forcefully condemned the allegations made by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and four other members of Congress that the Muslim Brotherhood is infiltrating the U.S. government.<\/p>\n

“‘These sweeping accusations by members of Congress against American citizens who are Muslim are unfair and misguided,’ Robert G. Sugarman and Abraham H. Foxman, the national chair and national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said in a statement. ‘Absent clear evidence of direct ties between these individuals and the Muslim Brotherhood, such allegations foment fear and cast the kind of suspicion that undermines rather than advances American counterterrorism efforts.'”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the Huffington Post today: “A leading Jewish organization on Friday forcefully condemned the allegations made by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and four other members of Congress that the Muslim Brotherhood is infiltrating the U.S. government. “‘These sweeping accusations by members of Congress against American citizens who are Muslim are unfair and misguided,’ Robert G.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bachmann"],"yoast_head":"\n"Unfair and Misguided" - Islam In America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/2012\/07\/22\/unfair-and-misguided\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\""Unfair and Misguided" - Islam In America\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On the Huffington Post today: “A leading Jewish organization on Friday forcefully condemned the allegations made by Rep. 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