Calif. Republican Smears Arab-American Libertarian Congressman as ‘al Qaeda’s best friend’

Juan Cole 05/09/2014

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Calif. Republican calls Arab-American colleague ‘al Qaeda’s best friend’ in Congress (via Raw Story )

Michigan Republican Rep. Justin Amash found himself the target of intra-party criticism again, as a California colleague accused him of not being serious about his position and lying about the country’s surveillance policies in an interview published…

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page