{"id":234,"date":"2004-08-18T01:21:19","date_gmt":"2004-08-18T06:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=234"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:18","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:18","slug":"pakistani_made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/18\/pakistani_made\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani made out to be the new Willie Horton"},"content":{"rendered":"

A candidate in a North Carolina Republican congressional primary baselessly calls Pakistani immigrant Kamran Akhtar a terrorist (via Shashwati’s Blog<\/a>). Here’s what the TV ad says<\/a>:<\/p>

“When Vernon said our unguarded Mexican border was a threat to our national security, the liberals laughed… They’re not laughing anymore. This is Pakistani terrorist Kamran Akhtar. He got arrested videotaping targets in Charlotte, North Carolina. He came here illegally, across our Mexican border… I’m Vernon Robinson and I approve this message because Akhtar didn’t come here to live the American dream. He came here to kill you.<\/B> In Congress, I will shut that border down.”<\/p><\/blockquote>

Here’s what law enforcement says<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n

Last month, 35-year-old Kamran Akhtar was arrested while filming Charlotte’s downtown skyline… A high-ranking law enforcement official in New York said investigators there view Kamran Akhtar as a “video buff” with no links to terrorism…<\/nitf> “At this point, there is nothing to connect this individual to any terrorist plot or organization,” Beatty [North Carolina’s head of homeland security]<\/nitf> said Wednesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Vernon Robinson’s primary opponent, Republican Virginia Foxx, complained: Robinson is pulling accusations out of his colon<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Update:<\/strong> Robinson lost his primary<\/a> to Foxx today, so his ad smacks of a last-minute Hail Mary. But he had 45% of the vote, which is just scary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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