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ALBUQUERQUE - The chairwoman of an Otero County Republican women's group on Tuesday defended a letter to the editor in which she wrote, ''I believe Muslims are our enemies.''Marcia Stirman, a 56-year-old interior decorator, also called Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama ''a Muslim socialist.''
A national Islamic group expressed outrage over Stirman's letter and called on state and national Republican Party officials to repudiate the publication of ''anti-Muslim comments.''
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Asked for a response to Awad's concerns, she said of Muslims: ''I don't trust them at all.
They've sworn across the world that they are our enemies. Why we're trying to elect one is beside me.''
Stirman said she carefully considered what she wrote in the letter, refused to apologize and defended her right to express her views.
''I still have freedom of speech and an opinion. If the Islamic group doesn't like it, well, I don't like what's going on in their camp, either,'' Stirman said.
There are also some lurvly comments, my favorite by someone aptly titled 'the Final Crusade'