Thread by @JacobRubashkin

Mehmet Oz, the celebrity surgeon endorsed by Trump in Pennsylvania’s Senate race, could make history as the first Muslim US senator ever.

But one of his opponents, commentator Kathy Barnette, has a history of anti-Muslim posts on social media.

Here's a sampling...

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From 2014 to 2017, Barnette repeatedly posted on Facebook and Twitter attacking then-President Barack Obama by accusing him of being a secret Muslim and a terrorist sympathizer (also implying at one point that he was gay).

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Barnette wrote that there was "nothing rational about Islam," implied that religious freedom did not extend to Islam, and shared a post stating that “Islam should be banned in the USA.”

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At one point Barnette said that there was no such thing as a “moderate Muslim” and that ISIS was “the authentic Muslim.”

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In 2015 she shared an article stating that “pedophilia is a cornerstone of Islam.”

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Many of Barnette’s tweets originate from Facebook, and several contain links to now-deleted Facebook posts and videos. One such tweet reads “Just confronted a Muslim today” before linking to a now-deleted Facebook video (so we don't know what's in it).

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Barnette has seen a rise in the polls — notching a close second in a new Trafalgar survey — even as frontrunning candidates Oz and former hedge fund CEO Dave McCormick pump millions of dollars into their campaigns. Barnette has spent far less.

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But today's news is that Barnette will reportedly get a boost from the Club for Growth to the tune of $1 million in TV advertising. The primary is in 1 week.

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More Barnette on Muslims (from 2016):

"The mindset of a Muslim is very different from the mindset of Americans and that's the reason why we cannot fully understand the level, the depth of the depravity, the depth of the evil, because it's just not a part of the American fabric."

That's a short clip from a 15-minute speech Barnette gave about Islam and Muslims that is up on her YouTube page.

And here's Barnette likening Islam to Nazism/Stalinism.

"You are not a racist if you reject Islam or if you reject Muslims, because they are not a race of people, they are... a people that have a partiuclar view of the world. We have a right to discriminate against worldviews."