State Sen. Mallory McMorrow, in an interview on FOX 2 Detroit, says a mailer sent to her house showed Abdul beside a picture of the Twin Towers. She calls the campaign against him the most bigoted, hateful, Islamophobic she has ever seen. The message, she says, seems to be: don't trust him because of his name, because he's brown, because he's a different religion.
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- Who
- Mallory McMorrow
- Where
- interview - FOX 2 Detroit, The Pulse
- Original footage
- FOX 2 Detroit · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 58 seconds, unedited within the cut
- Plays
- 1,432 on Instagram
Read the transcript
It's beyond a distraction. They are running the most bigoted, hateful, Islamophobic campaign I've ever seen. I got a mailer to my house, which first of all the fact that it came to me means their targeting is abysmal, but it was just a picture of Abdul next to a picture of the Twin Towers. The message just seems to be don't trust this guy because of his name, because he's brown, because he's a different religion, and I'm in an interfaith marriage myself. We deal with a lot of these conversations. It's disgusting. It is disgusting in a state as beautifully diverse as Michigan to say that everything you're going through right now is because you should be afraid of somebody. It is repulsive and we have to reject it. It's been fascinating to watch. health care costs are too high, but this guy is a Muslim as if there is some kind of a connection.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.