GOP women’s board resigns in Alamogordo over Muslim remarks
A Majority of crimes happen when good people do nothing about it, rapes in the subways, in the bars have occurred in presences of many a good for nothing people.
So what if they are Muslims? So what if they are African Americans, so what if they are Baptist? If you allow prejudice towards one, it is bound to go to others and some day to you.
I am proud of these GOP women for standing up. The process of fixing our party begins tonight and hope the public flushes out all the bad boys and the bad girls. I will do my part in bringing moderation and common sense to the GOP.
Mike Ghouse
Moderate Republican
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GOP women’s board resigns in Alamogordo over Muslim remarks
From the Current-Argus
Article Launched: 11/04/2008 11:13:04 AM MST
ALAMOGORDO — The head of the Republican Women of Otero County refused to resign after calling Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama a ”Muslim socialist” — so the rest of the group’s board quit, the county GOP chairwoman says.
Marcia Stirman, a 56-year-old interior decorator, wrote a letter published Oct. 21 in the Alamogordo Daily News in which she wrote, ”I believe Muslims are our enemies.”
The letter prompted a quick response from the New Mexico Republican Party, which said she does not speak for the party and that her comments do not reflect its values and beliefs.
The executive board of the Otero County Republican Party and the Republican Women of Otero County asked Stirman to resign last week, county GOP Chairwoman Sassy Tinling said.
Stirman refused, and Tinling said the rest of the board of the Republican Women’s group immediately gave their resignations to Stirman.
Tinling also said the county party’s executive committee ”has chosen to disassociate itself from the RWOOC as it exists today” and that the Otero County GOP will no longer recognize Stirman’s position on its board.
While people are entitled to their opinion, when they head an organization their views reflect on the entire group, she said.
”It is unfortunate that Mrs. Stirman used the RPOC and RWOOC as a conduit for her personal views,” said Tinling, who apologized on behalf of the Republican Party of Otero County and its board ”to anyone offended by Mrs. Stirman’s comments.”
Stirman said last week her comments have been misunderstood. She said she never meant to suggest all Muslims are enemies of the U.S., only those ”who are trying to kill us.”
She added: ”Can you say that all Christians are good? Absolutely not.”
Stirman said she regrets that the executive committee disassociated itself from the women’s group, which has set elections for officers Wednesday.
”There has been a long standing cooperation between the two groups,” she said. ”I have great respect for all Republicans, as I share core values with many of them.”
Although Obama has professed his Christianity repeatedly and explained how his Christian faith shapes his politics, he battled Internet-fueled rumors throughout the campaign that he is Muslim.