The letter comes as polling within the Muslim American community shows a major departure from the Democratic Party over the Biden-Harris administration’s unfettered support for Israel’s war on Gaza, which they along with rights groups and legal experts view is a genocide against Palestinians.
The letter calls on Muslims to instead vote for any of the third-party candidates, including the Green Party’s Jill Stein whose support has swelled among the Muslim American community in recent weeks.
“We want to be absolutely clear: don’t stay home and skip voting. This year, make a statement by voting third party for the presidential ticket,” the letter said.
“Equally important, vote all the way down the ballot for candidates and policies that stand for truth and justice, ensuring your voice is heard at every level.”
The letter, written and released in collaboration with the Abandon Harris campaign, was signed by more than three dozen religious leaders from all around the country, including Dawud Walid, Dr Shadee Elmasry, Imam Omar Suleiman, Dr Yasir Qadhi, and Imam Tom Facchine.
The imams who have signed the letter say the calls for Muslims to uncritically support Harris is fear-mongering.
“None of this is an endorsement of Donald Trump’s vile, racist agenda, which includes advancing the apartheid and genocidal interests of a foreign state while falsely claiming to put America first,” the letter said.
“None of this is an endorsement of Donald Trump’s vile, racist agenda," afraid it is, kids. deny your vote all you want but do not pretend your intentions are valid out in the real world.
Not voting for Donald Trump isn’t an endorsement of Joe Biden’s vile, racist agenda either you white liberal piece of shit. Fuck you infantilizing people with a thousand times the blood on the line than you do. You have no fucking standing to lecture people about ‘the real world’
nobody said anything about biden being a vile racist. if that id your thought of him then it is you that is the shit you name. self righteousness is its own curse
Because none of the people you listen to actually give a shit about racism
Calling the majority of Muslim-American voters and Palestinians “kids” is wildly racist and condescending.
so you openly deny you are a CHILD of allah? pretender
I’m not Muslim. Never claimed to be.
Single issue voters and third party voters have always existed, and always will. If your political strategy is to blame them when you lose, you deserve to lose. Make a halfway decent campaign strategy. Or don’t.
Kamala knew how to get their votes, and she decided to support the continued violence instead. Maybe she had good reasons, maybe not, but it was a clear calculation and choice. Why would you insult her intelligence? Why would you undercut her campaign so close to election day? How dare you endorse Trump!
go fuck yourself with your erroneous assumptions dimwitted zealot. only ones supporting trump are people like you who withold a vote against him just because his opponent continues a policy you dont agree with. it morons like you that will ensure the fat orange fascist returns to terrorize your brothers
Reducing genocide to a simple policy that can be agreed or disagreed with is monstrous.
everything the governments dois a ‘policy’. just ask them
It’s genocide, you framed it as a choice to be agreed with or not, and not as a cruel act of inhumanity.
my policy is that you should be shot, but i’m gonna need you to ignore that and support me anyway.
it’s just a policy.