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Few Muslims pursuing elected office this year, many fear Sept. 11 backlash.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
SAN JOSE, Calif. _ The number of Muslims running for elective office across the United States has dropped by 85 percent in two years because potential candidates fear the post-Sept. 11 anti-Muslim backlash would doom their campaigns.
That's the conclusion reached by the Newark, Calif.-based American Muslim Alliance, the nation's largest Muslim political organization, which found the number of Muslim candidates dropped from about 700 in 2000 to about 100 this year.
"People are still pointing fingers at us," said Sayed Inamdar, a retired Bechtel engineer and Indian-born president of California's Islamic Society of East Bay. "We have to be sure we are also in the limelight and explain to people that we highly deplore it and are not connected to that."
Inamdar is one of a handful of San Francisco Bay Area Muslims defying the national trend by running for office in November_he is seeking a seat on Fremont's Washington ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Few Muslims pursuing elected office this year, many fear Sept. 11...