The Republican Party is drawing criticism in Kansas for sending out mailers that feature an ISIS fighter holding an automatic rifle. In the background, an ISIS flag waves beside a rural windmill. The mailer reads simply, “Have you met the new neighbors?”
Clay Barker is the executive director of the Kansas Republican Party. He confirmed to The Wichita Eaglethat the mailers are being sent out across the Sunflower State. “It’s a positive issue for Republicans,” he said.
But others have taken a different view, in a state where the wounds are still fresh from the arrest of three white nationalists last month in Garden City. The three bombers had been planning a mass murder of Muslims in the rural community. Robert McCraw, director of government affairs for the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Washington, D.C., said “this flier verges on incitement of violence to Muslims.”