The leader of a Muslim advocacy group on Thursday described an attack ad that asserts that Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill supports teaching about Islam in school as "blatantly Islamophobic" and said he hopes McCaskill's opponent will condemn it.Faizan Syed, the executive director of the Missouri chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said he was "really taken aback just by how blatantly Islamophobic" the ad is. He said his group hopes to meet with McCaskill's Republican challenger, Attorney General Josh Hawley, to discuss the issue.
"Even though he's not the one that's running the ad or anything of this nature, I think any politician should publicly condemn these types of political strategy," Syed said.
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