Florida GOP is ignorant and needs to get educated about Islam.quickly.
Bruce http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20061103-040907-1903r Florida GOP rejects anti-Islam remarks BROOKSVILLE, Fla., Nov. 3 (UPI) -- The Republican Party of Florida has urged County Commissioner Tom Hogan to apologize for derogatory comments regarding Muslims. State GOP Chairwoman Carole Jean Jordan said in a statement, "We cannot condone your divisive remarks," Hernando Today reported on its website Thursday. "Yes, our nation is at war with a group of individuals who twisted the Islamic faith for their own horrific purposes," the statement continued. "This does not, however, give anyone the right to paint all Muslims with a broad brush and the generalizations you made were reprehensible." Jordan recalled Hogan had already been asked to apologize and retract his statements earlier this week -- when he said he agreed with his wife's description of Islam as a "frightening" religion. "Unfortunately, you refused to do so," Jordan said. "Again we ask you to formally retract your statement and apologize for your remarks." Hogan told Hernando Today Thursday that he was not going to make any apology for his controversial remarks, or those of his wife who had written in a letter to Hernando Today that Islam was "hateful and frightening." "We have never -- neither one of us -- mentioned a political party," Hogan said. "We never made it political and now the state party is doing that. I resent it on their part. As a citizen, I've done nothing wrong at all and I don't know where all this is coming from." Jordan said in her statement that the Florida GOP supported Gov. Bush in criticizing Tom Hogan's comments. The Republican Party was "against prejudice and bigotry of any kind," she said. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
