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|title=McCain vs. Muslim Radicals
|author=Robert Spencer
|source=FrontPageMag
|date=July 23, 2008
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|extract=Muslim spokesmen in the U.S. are outraged over remarks made last Friday by '''Bud Day''', a key supporter of John McCain. Day, a much-decorated Air Force Colonel and '''Medal of Honor''' recipient who was a '''prisoner of war in Vietnam with McCain''', said during a conference call organized by the Florida Republican Party that “'''the Muslims have said either we kneel, or they’re going to kill us.” Day added: “I don’t intend to kneel, and I don’t advocate to anybody that we kneel, and John doesn’t advocate to anybody that we kneel.'''”

The reaction was swift. Saif Ishoof, president of the Center for Voter Advocacy, said that Day’s remarks were “perpetuating a form of Islamophobia.” Khaled Saffuri, the Executive Director of the Islamic Institute (which he co-founded with Grover Norquist), was also deeply offended. “‘This is as close to racist as it gets,” he declared. “These are cheap street tactics. Even if this is called a mistake or a slip of the tongue, it shows a bigger problem with '''racism'''. McCain and the Republican party should denounce this.” (Keith Olbermann also termed Day’s words “racism and religious hatred,” although neither he nor Saffuri explained what race Islam is.)

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