More Muslims in Congress

Perhaps lost in the focus on Barack Obama’s victory tonight in Mississippi and all the hoopla over Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s whoring, the people of Indianapolis elected only the second Muslim representative in the history of the United States. I hope that André Carson gets a committee position on the Foreign Affairs Committee. Currently, twenty-six percent of the Democrats on that committee are Jewish-Americans and zero percent are Muslim. I think we would be better served by a more balanced representation on that committee.

Author: BooMan

Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.