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Friday, February 1, 2008 12:00 AM

Blowback from the GOP's holy war

The 2008 Republican race has left a bitter legacy of sloganeering against Muslims. It may well haunt the party this November.
By Juan Cole

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  • Friday, February 1, 2008 09:47 AM

    Looking Backward

    The attitudes of this current crop on of Republican candidates on muslims reminds me of the nativist movement that flourished here in the early part of the nineteenth century. Then bigoted americans were reacting to the many germans entering america.

    If we don't remember our past we are bound to repeat it.

    —janinct Read janinct's other letters

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