Muslim advocacy group says GOP state senator-elect who expressed Islamophobia in tweets ‘committed to renouncing’ hate speech during meeting

By Mirna Alsharif, CNN

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Washington (CNN)The Republican who defeated New Jersey’s state Senate president last week has “committed to renouncing” hate speech amid criticism of old tweets he posted expressing Islamophobia, a Muslim advocacy group in the state said Wednesday.

State Sen.-elect Ed Durr met with Muslim community leaders in the state on Wednesday, according to Selaedin Maksut, the executive director of the state’s chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, who told CNN that the conversation with Durr “went very well.”