Woker-than-woke Massachusetts is poised to implement the mother of all DEI initiatives: a Muslim commission that will act as a permanent state agency in order to prioritize the hiring of Muslims for positions at all levels of state government. Leftists assume that Muslims are a disadvantaged minority that needs government help to overcome “Islamophobic” discrimination, and so they don’t see any problem with this. But the constitutional issues it raises should be obvious.
Imagine if the state of, say, Florida, were planning to implement a “Christian commission” that would be devoted to facilitating the hiring of Christians for state government positions. The outcry would be immediate and intense, and the whole thing would be shut down swiftly. Yet Fox News reported Tuesday that “Massachusetts lawmakers are taking steps toward prioritizing the hiring of American Muslims for state government positions under a permanent so-called Muslim commission.”
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