Thread by @ACLU

Mike Pompeo, when asked about his bigotry towards Muslims: “Look at my record.”

We did: aclu.org/blog/religious…

Before leading the CIA, Pompeo was a member of Congress, where he used his position to smear Muslims as a threat not only to security but also to Christianity.

While running for his seat, Pompeo even promoted an article ridiculing his Indian-American campaign rival as a “turban-topper,” for which he eventually apologized.

Then-congressman Pompeo partnered with groups well known for their religious bigotry and discriminatory policies like ACT for America and the Center for Security Policy.

In 2015, Pompeo was interviewed by Frank Gaffney, the president of CSP and an activist who promotes conspiracy theories that there are secret Muslim plots to take power over everything from the Missile Defense Agency to the internet.

Pompeo agreed with the baseless statement that President Obama has “an affinity for, if not the violent beheading & crucifixions & slaying of Christians & all that, but at least for the cause for which these guys are engaged in such activities, the raising up of the Muslim Ummah”