{"id":2847,"date":"2008-10-20T14:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T19:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=2847"},"modified":"2008-10-20T14:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T19:00:01","slug":"standing_up_to_hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2008\/10\/standing_up_to_hate\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2008: Standing up to hate"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altmuslim.com\/ee_images\/muslim_mccain_rally.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\">\n<div class=\"caption\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p>\nWhen three people handed out \u201cObama for Change\u201d bumper stickers at a John McCain rally in Woodbridge, Virginia, many passers by noticed that they featured a Communist sickle and hammer and the Islamic crescent, accusing Barack Obama of being a socialist with ties to radical Islam. Several of the McCain supporters, Muslim and Christian alike, angrily berated those distributing the stickers until they got fed up and left. More proof that Muslim involvement at all levels \u2013 and all sides \u2013 of the political system helps call Islamophobic bluffs wherever they pop up. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americannewsproject.com%2Fvideos%2F158\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">More here\u2026<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before you generalize about Republicans, watch a group of Muslim (and Christian) McCain fans shoo away some anti-Muslim activists at a campaign rally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-visions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Election 2008: Standing up to hate<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Before you generalize about Republicans, watch a group of Muslim (and Christian) McCain fans shoo away some anti-Muslim activists at a campaign rally.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2008\/10\/standing_up_to_hate\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Election 2008: Standing up to hate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Before you generalize about Republicans, watch a group of Muslim (and Christian) McCain fans shoo away some anti-Muslim activists at a campaign rally.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2008\/10\/standing_up_to_hate\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"altmuslim\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-10-20T19:00:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.altmuslim.com\/ee_images\/muslim_mccain_rally.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Guest Contributor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Guest Contributor\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2008\/10\/standing_up_to_hate\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2008\/10\/standing_up_to_hate\/\",\"name\":\"Election 2008: Standing up to hate\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2008-10-20T19:00:01+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2008-10-20T19:00:01+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#\/schema\/person\/2869b699bf0e57982cb1f212243705f2\"},\"description\":\"Before you generalize about Republicans, watch a group of Muslim (and Christian) McCain fans shoo away some anti-Muslim activists at a campaign rally.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2008\/10\/standing_up_to_hate\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2008\/10\/standing_up_to_hate\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2008\/10\/standing_up_to_hate\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Election 2008: Standing up to hate\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/\",\"name\":\"altmuslim\",\"description\":\"Global perspectives on Muslim life, politics &amp; 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