Vijay Kumar is one of 8 Republicans running for US Congress in Tennessee's 5th CD (Nashville.) The seat is currently held by longtime incumbent Democrat Jim Cooper, a Blue Dog, but considered very vulnerable. Tennessee has moved increasingly dark red Republican in recent years, and Cooper is one of the very last Democrat hold-outs.

Kumar ran in the 2008 primaries and received nearly 1/3rd of the vote. He says now:

I am an immigrant from India who has lived in Nashville for twenty-one years... I am running again because Congress has failed to take leadership on the issues of illegal immigration, taxation, English as our official language, our economy, healthcare reform, abortion, and the War on Terror.

Kumar's top issue is opposing Radical Islam, according to IndiaWest:

Radical Islam is “more dangerous than either Nazism or Communism,” because those other ideologies “do not claim to be a religious faith.”

Radical Jihad, he added, “has been around for 1,400 years” and is a pressing threat to the American way of life.

Kumar's solution? Work with allies to stop the spread of radical islamic ideology:

"America is not alone in this struggle. We can accomplish our goals by engaging our allies. Inclusion and diplomacy should be our catchwords. We must strengthen our alliances and develop a strategy of cultural defense for Western Europe, Great Britain, India, and other nations that have been victims of Islamic terrorism..."

Watch a video presenting his views on Islamic Terorism at KumarforCongress.com