A 14-year-old speech given by GOP presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina is now under sharp focus by her fellow conservatives and an outraged chorus on social media, claiming — in accusatory fashion that the former Hewlett-Packard CEO was “praising Muslims” in her September 2001 remarks. On September 26, 2001, Fiorina addressed her employees, expressing her concern over the safety of their HP colleagues, “who are of Middle Eastern descent or who practice the Muslim religion here in the US and abroad.” In the two weeks before her speech, approximately 11 hate crimes had been perpetrated against Muslim, South Asian, and Arab Americans, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. One day after Fiorina’s speech, someone left a note reading “We’re going to kill all (expletive) Arabs” on a Yemeni-American man’s car windshield in Reedley, California. Two days later, he was shot to death. read more http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/carly-fiorina-under-fire-praising-muslims
