Had a Muslim staffer with a similar history:
The evangelical organizer who helped Michele Bachmann win the Ames Straw Poll in Iowa Saturday was previously charged with terrorism in Uganda after being arrested for possession of assault rifles and ammunition in February 2006, just days before Uganda's first multi-party elections in 20 years.
Peter E. Waldron spent 37 days in the Luriza Prison outside Kampala, where he says he was tortured, after being arrested along with six Congolese and Ugandan nationals for the weapons, which were described variously in news reports as having been found in his bedroom or a closet in his home. The charges, which could have led to life in prison, were dropped in March 2006 after a pressure campaign by Waldron's friends and colleagues and what Waldron says was the intervention of the Bush administration. He was released and deported from the east African nation, along with the Congolese.
Jim Burroway worries about the company Wardron keeps, namely Martin Ssempa, a major supporter of Uganda's "Kill The Gays" bill. Such worries, when it comes to Bachmann, are surely warranted. She uses eliminationist language about homosexuals, claiming that even the word "gay" is from Satan, she endorses homosexuality as a psychological disorder (against all mainstream psychology), is the owner of a business that allegedly "cures" gays, and forged her career by targeting this minority.
Any other minority – think of someone with a record like this of demonizing Jews or running a business to convert them to Christianity – and it's disqualifying. The gays? Background noise.
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