NV-AD34: Website linking Assembly candidate (D) to Taliban supporters called Islamophobic

A website launched last month by Republican Assembly candidate Brandon Davis alleges his Democratic opponent, Hanadi Nadeem, a practicing Muslim, supports and admires Taliban sympathizers — a message critics have decried as Islamophobic and xenophobic.

Featuring mugshot-esque imagery, the website points to Nadeem’s past comments on social media praising a former prime minister of Pakistan and the activities of Pakistani-American professional groups she’s worked with. It’s topped by the headline “Extreme Hanadi Nadeem” and a cutout of Nadeem wearing a hijab — something she doesn’t always wear.

Davis' campaign placed signs with similar messaging in Las Vegas’ religiously diverse Summerlin-area Assembly District 34, calling Nadeem a “far left extremist” and “bad for Nevada.” The signs point back to the website.

“This type of rhetoric, what he is doing, is really putting my life and my family and particularly the Muslim community in danger,” Nadeem said in an interview with The Nevada Independent. “This is showing intolerance … He’s just grabbing stories from one side to another side and just trying to make the connection, but there’s no connection.”



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