{"id":15483,"date":"2014-05-07T02:07:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T02:07:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-05-07T02:07:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T02:07:33","slug":"peak-crazy-donnelly-accuses-kashkari-of-supporting-shariah-provisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2014\/05\/07\/peak-crazy-donnelly-accuses-kashkari-of-supporting-shariah-provisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Peak Crazy? Donnelly Accuses Kashkari of Supporting Shariah Provisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:colbertnation.com:03913f88-ed01-11e0-aca6-0026b9414f30\" width=\"256\" height=\"144\" align=right frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><i>Yes, that really happened<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>You knew at some point that Tim Donnelly would break out of his standard issue right-wing rhetoric to really reach for some crazy stuff. Something that would really grab attention and force Republicans to redouble their efforts to somehow make sure that he isn&#8217;t the GOP standard bearer in November. Sure, polls have him up big over former TARP administrator Neel Kashkari, but that doesn&#8217;t wipe away years of crazy. After all Donnelly is that guy \u2192<\/p>\n<p>But linking Neel Kashkari to Shariah law, can&#8217;t say that I saw that one coming. But, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tim.donnelly.12\/posts\/538879549554172?stream_ref=10\">facebook post still available today<\/a>, Donnelly links to a bizarre and factually ridiculous commentary in the Washington Times and posted the following comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Neel Kashkari supported the United States submitting to the Islamic, Shariah banking code in 2008 when he ran TARP.<br \/>\n<br \/>Shariah is &#8220;the seditious religio-political-legal code authoritative Islam seeks to impose worldwide under a global theocracy.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>This revelation is spreading fast, as people like Anita Gunn refer to Mr. Kashkari&#8217;s support of Shariah an &#8220;October Surprise&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, I don&#8217;t normally go around defending Republicans who are campaigning on shutting down high speed rail, but I think this is worth a mention. First of all, it is racist on its face. If Neel Kashkari was white, would he face this ridiculous accusation? His family comes from a tradition of Hinduism, which turns out is not a tradition that is generally friendly to Shariah, but I suppose that knowledge would require a bit of reading. This is about ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Times article itself is a joke. Kashkari and Treasury officials were actually supporting the idea of connecting the Shariah-approved financial system into the larger global finance system, not making everything submit to Shariah law. It turns out that wouldn&#8217;t really work well for our finance system anyway, as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Islamic_banking\">Islamic banking<\/a> forbids the practice of receiving interest. That&#8217;s kind of the point of Wall St., so I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ll all be converting to Islamic Banking anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>A tip of the hat to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibabuzz.com\/politics\/2014\/05\/06\/calling-bs-as-donnelly-links-kashkari-to-shariah\/\">Josh Richman<\/a> for pointing to the LA Times article where Donnelly doubled down on this crazy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Donnelly stood by his remarks late Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Given the recent stories and protests about the outrage of the discriminatory nature of Sharia law, we&#8217;re horrified that Kashkari would support Sharia anything,&#8221; he said.(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/political\/la-me-pc-donnelly-ties-gop-rival-kashkari-to-sharia-law-20140505-story.html\">LA Times<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ladies and gentlemen, this is your leading GOP gubernatorial candidate, Tim Donnelly. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:colbertnation.com:03913f88-ed01-11e0-aca6-0026b9414f30\" width=\"256\" height=\"144\" align=right frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><i>Yes, that really happened<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>You knew at some point that Tim Donnelly would break out of his standard issue right-wing rhetoric to really reach for some crazy stuff. Something that would really grab attention and force Republicans to redouble their efforts to somehow make sure that he isn&#8217;t the GOP standard bearer in November. Sure, polls have him up big over former TARP administrator Neel Kashkari, but that doesn&#8217;t wipe away years of crazy. After all Donnelly is that guy \u2192<\/p>\n<p>But linking Neel Kashkari to Shariah law, can&#8217;t say that I saw that one coming. But, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tim.donnelly.12\/posts\/538879549554172?stream_ref=10\">facebook post still available today<\/a>, Donnelly links to a bizarre and factually ridiculous commentary in the Washington Times and posted the following comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Neel Kashkari supported the United States submitting to the Islamic, Shariah banking code in 2008 when he ran TARP.<br \/>\n<br \/>Shariah is &#8220;the seditious religio-political-legal code authoritative Islam seeks to impose worldwide under a global theocracy.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>This revelation is spreading fast, as people like Anita Gunn refer to Mr. Kashkari&#8217;s support of Shariah an &#8220;October Surprise&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, I don&#8217;t normally go around defending Republicans who are campaigning on shutting down high speed rail, but I think this is worth a mention. First of all, it is racist on its face. If Neel Kashkari was white, would he face this ridiculous accusation? His family comes from a tradition of Hinduism, which turns out is not a tradition that is generally friendly to Shariah, but I suppose that knowledge would require a bit of reading. This is about ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Times article itself is a joke. Kashkari and Treasury officials were actually supporting the idea of connecting the Shariah-approved financial system into the larger global finance system, not making everything submit to Shariah law. It turns out that wouldn&#8217;t really work well for our finance system anyway, as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Islamic_banking\">Islamic banking<\/a> forbids the practice of receiving interest. That&#8217;s kind of the point of Wall St., so I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ll all be converting to Islamic Banking anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>A tip of the hat to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibabuzz.com\/politics\/2014\/05\/06\/calling-bs-as-donnelly-links-kashkari-to-shariah\/\">Josh Richman<\/a> for pointing to the LA Times article where Donnelly doubled down on this crazy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Donnelly stood by his remarks late Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Given the recent stories and protests about the outrage of the discriminatory nature of Sharia law, we&#8217;re horrified that Kashkari would support Sharia anything,&#8221; he said.(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/political\/la-me-pc-donnelly-ties-gop-rival-kashkari-to-sharia-law-20140505-story.html\">LA Times<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ladies and gentlemen, this is your leading GOP gubernatorial candidate, Tim Donnelly. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[11306,9588],"class_list":["post-15483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-11306","tag-9588"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-41J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}