Michelle Goldberg, an opinion columnist at The New York Times called the supposed ideological alliance between Christians and Muslims on education “strange new political bedfellows,” and went on to list the right’s purported phobia of Muslims.
MSNBC peddled a similar narrative, at least twice in recent weeks, claiming the right was “recruiting” Muslims.
The claim was disputed by an executive at the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Edward Ahmed Mitchell, the national deputy director at CAIR, said, it was time for “liberal commentators” like MSNBC’s Psaki “to accept that Muslim parents are independent, intelligent people speaking for themselves.”