GOP Hillsborough court clerk candidate's letter declares Islam is 'not a religion'

[Tony_FLADEM]

TAMPA — A Republican candidate for Hillsborough Clerk of Circuit Court on Monday fired off a letter saying Islam is "not a religion" but a theocracy that is "totalitarian and littered with human rights violations."

Scott D. Barrish, a 35-year-old private security officer who previously ran unsuccessfully for the Hillsborough School Board, sent the letter to the Council of American-Islamic Relations. He signed it as a member of the Hillsborough County Republican Party's executive committee.

"Your efforts in espousing Islam in America and Florida will not succeed," Barrish wrote. "This is us vs. you. In the great words of the late President Ronald Reagan, 'I win, you lose!' "





Even Republicans running for minor offices are idiots!

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Proving he's a part of that great American Taliban.

[Ganja Ninja]

2. Yeehaw! He's a pushing all the right bottons. n/t

[qb]

3. Get that man a

:tinfoilhat:

:crazy:

[JHB]

4. Isn't CAIR one of Grover Norquist's buddies?

Fight between Reagan-worshipers.

[CurtEastPoint]

5. Typical GOP swine

[CarmanK]

6. The man is a loser, he got his headline for the locals!

Let's see how he does. He is either the outlier who is just stupid or a clever bigot who preys on "the other" in order to get elected and his constituents approve of his outspoken, though distorted, ideologies. The southern evangelicals need some one to hate this month, this year, this election cycle and Islam is the victim. There aren't many synagogues in the South, so they are easy targets. those southern baptists will just jump on the band wagon. Oh, by the way there is a revulsion of the new anti-immigration law in Alabama which would protect hispanics, who are mostly catholic, so this month they can hate Islam.

[madrchsod]

7. these guys hated the blacks and jews before the muslims became their whipping boy

well they no longer hate the jews and blacks they just tolerate them now.

[EC]

8. Man, does that quote sound juvenile.

nah, nah, I win, you lose....

[Marazinia]

9. More of this, huh?

Humans.

[tanyev]

10. He must be sorry he missed out on all the fun during the Crusades.

[Dont call me Shirley]

11. What a dumba$$