The tiresome Muslim Brotherhood fellow travelers at CAIR are at it again. This just flopped over the e-mail transom:
U.S. Muslims to Launch Major News Media Education Campaign Journalists’ guides to be distributed to 40,000 American media professionals(WASHINGTON, D.C., 11/9/2007) On Tuesday, November 13, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will hold a noon news conference in the nation’s capital to announce the launch of a major initiative to help enhance understanding of Islam and Muslims in the news media.
Similar news conferences will be held at CAIR offices in Princeton, N.J.; San Diego, Calif.; Cleveland and Cincinnati, Ohio; Tampa, Fla.; and Dallas, Texas.
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“It is essential that all those who write about or comment on domestic and international events have access to accurate, balanced information about Islam and Muslims,” said CAIR Chief Operating Officer/Deputy Director Tahra Goraya. “Because Muslims have a duty to provide that information, we will be calling on the Islamic community to support this important initiative.”
Accurate? Balanced? Give me a break. The frustrating thing is that the 40,000 media guides that CAIR will send out will be taken seriously in US newsrooms. It's a very smart strategy from their point of view. As Husain Haqqani emphasized at last month's Washington conference on the Muslim Brotherhood, these Brotherhood fellow traveling groups have an agenda to make a highly politicized version of Islam normative in American society, and they are accomplishing it in large part by flooding the US market with Islamist publications. Dr. Haqqani told the crowd that he had been at a mosque in Auburn, Ala. not long ago, and the bookshelves were filled with Islamist literature. Saudis and others are bankrolling it. This CAIR distribution is, I would guess, no different.
CAIR exists, in my opinion, not to provide fair and balanced and accurate information, but to present their version of Islam as the normative one, and to silence any critics by smearing them as Islamophobes. Funny, though, how some things just keep slipping out beyond their ability to spin a story. Take this piece from the NYTimes this week about gay Muslims finding freedom in the US:
Hostility is rooted in the Koranic story of Lot, which parallels the biblical Sodom and Gomorrah. At Al-Tawhid Mosque in San Francisco, the imam, Hassan al-Jalal, a Yemeni with a short beard, printed a sheaf of Koranic verses that he said condemned homosexuals.“This is the main sin in Islam,” Mr. Jalal said, describing how the town housing Lot’s tribe was lifted high into the sky and then dropped, killing all in the town before they were buried under what is now the Dead Sea. “He sent the flood to clean the earth from AIDS. There were no doctors at that time, but God knew they had a virus.”
All sects mandate capital punishment, he argued, although others differ. “Sunni, Shiite, they all agree that they have to be killed. But who does it? Not me or you, only by law.”
The former head of CAIR in Dallas affirmed to me twice, in front of two different groups of journalists, that Islamic law demands that gays be put to death. To be sure, he was not the head of CAIR at the time he made those statements. Still, one wishes the news media would start asking CAIR officials, on the record, about things like this. Dig until their radicalism is exposed.
Even though CAIR offering "the" Muslim perspective is like that Protestant outfit called the "Christian Embassy" in Jerusalem acting like it represents all Christians, I've gotta say that CAIR really has its propaganda act together. Where are the competing Muslim groups of any size reaching out to the media like CAIR does?
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CAIR exists, in my opinion, not to provide fair and balanced and accurate information, but to present their version of Islam as the normative one, and to silence any critics by smearing them as Islamophobes.
Rod you are wrong.
CAIR exists to do two things:
1. Spread Taqiyyah (lies) about Islam and Muslims. Until Muslims are strong enough, they will lie about Islam and their intentions.
Infidels must not be alarmed prematurely, Islam is Religion of Peace.
Look at the biggest victim of Taqiyyah, Jorge Boosh, our first Islamic expert President.
2. Under radar continue to spread Islam in US. Keep eyes on the prize: Sharia in USA.
CAIR really has its propaganda act together. Where are the competing Muslim groups of any size reaching out to the media like CAIR does?
What exactly those competing Muslim groups will say? That Koran is wrong to demand conversion, submission or death of infidels?
That old Mo did not have sex with 6 year old?
That Koran is wrong to demand 2 dhimmi witnesses vs 1 Muslim?
That it is OK to convert out of Islam while all sources say convert must be killed?
Thing is CAIR,Hamas, Al Qaeda, etc have Islam foundation on their side. Either (non-existing) "moderate" Muslims must call for Islam Reformation and Revision of the Word of Allah, or they engage in their own version of Taqiyyah.
If we wait for "moderate" Muslims to do their thing, we might wait another 1400 years.
Correction:
Old Mo married 6 year old and had sex with her when she was 9.
education campaign aimed at the 25% of American Muslims who think suicide bombing is just dandy.
These 25% is based on public poll, presumably people give answers to persons whom they don't know. And 25% said that suicide bombing is OK.
Do you really think that 75% feel strongly that bombing is not OK? Or they just hold back their real feelings?
I don't agree with a great many positions of the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem but what an off-base insult to make any kind of comparison between them and CAIR!
You are correct to blow the whistle against this full frontal PR campaign CAIR is targeting the media with. And the problem here is that while your editors write cynical assessments of their visit with Condi, many of them will just lap up this tripe CAIR wants to sell them along with their cohorts in the national press. Forget the mountain of evidence that uncovers CAIR as the enemy spin machine--which they don't seem to be interested in investigating at all.
The press mostly saves its distrust and disdain for our own government and law enforcement while its blind trust is invested in a network of radical Islamic wolves in moderate Muslim sheep's clothing.
The press mostly saves its distrust and disdain for our own government and law enforcement while its blind trust is invested in a network of radical Islamic wolves in moderate Muslim sheep's clothing.
Oh please. "The press" is a not a monolith. Judith Miller and the NYT willinging published more of Dick Cheney's pro-government, anti-Muslim blather in one issue than all the krypto-anti-Zionist hype CAIR could hope to publish in ten years. And the same applies to the Dallas Morning News and Rod Dreher. They're both part of "the press," aren't they?
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