Posted on 03/17/2016 3:32:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Retired Lieutenant General William G. "Jerry" Boykin says '[Islam] should not be protected under the First Amendment,' there should be 'no mosques in America'
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to drop designated hate group leader Frank Gaffney Jr., retired Lieutenant General William G. "Jerry" Boykin and other Islamophobes as foreign policy advisers.
In a statement, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said: "Who a candidate picks for his or her advisers says volumes about that candidate's worldview. By choosing infamous Islamophobes as foreign policy advisers, Senator Cruz indicates that he subscribes to their conspiratorial worldview and to the anti-Muslim bigotry that would inevitably shape their policy recommendations. We ask Senator Cruz to drop any adviser who has a past history of promoting conspiracy theories or religious bigotry."
MSNBC's Chris Matthews has referred to Gaffney as "one of the country's leading anti-Muslim conspiracy theorists."
Gaffney's organization, the Center for Security Policy (CSP), has been designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Cruz's list of foreign policy advisers reportedly also includes two people who work for Gaffney's organization - Fred Fleitz and Clare Lopez.
SPLC Profile: Frank Gaffney Jr. https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/frank-gaffney-jr
SPLC Designated Hate Groups: Center for Security Policy https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map
CAIR Islamophobia Watch: Clare Lopez http://www.islamophobia.org/islamophobic-individuals/clare-lopez.html
CAIR details Gaffney's and the Center for Security Policy's role in America's Islamophobia network in its report, "Legislating Fear: Islamophobia and its Impact in the United States," and on its website, Islamophobia.org.
SEE: Legislating Fear: Islamophobia and its Impact in the United States https://www.cair.com/islamophobia/legislating-fear-2013-report.html
CAIR Islamophobia Monitor: Frank Gaffney (Center for Security Policy, founder and president) http://www.islamophobia.org/islamophobic-individuals/frank-gaffney.html
Gaffney is a key promoter of the bizarre conspiracy theory that Muslims in public service are infiltrating the government on behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood.
He has questioned "whether Mr. Obama is a natural born citizen of the United States," claimed the Missile Defense Agency logo is part of a "worrying pattern of official U.S. submission to Islam," claimed an aide to Hillary Clinton was a secret Muslim Brotherhood operative, was a key witness for the plaintiffs in a controversial lawsuit seeking to block construction of a Tennessee mosque, promoted the debunked claim that Dearborn, Mich., is a "ghetto enclave in which it's Muslim-only," and hosted "white supremacist" Jared Taylor on his "Secure Freedom" radio program.
Gaffney's staff attorney, David Yerushalmi, has advocated outlawing the practice of Islam in America and is the key promoter of anti-Islam bills in state legislatures nationwide, including one being voted on today by the Idaho legislature.
Idaho's Foreign Law Ban: Solution in Search of Problem? http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/politics-blog/article66591667.html
When leading GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump proposed a ban on all Muslims entering the United States, he quoted from a sham survey commissioned by Gaffney's organization.
Also on Cruz's list is Andrew McCarthy, who has echoed Gaffney's view that Muslims are seeking to impose Islamic law in America, and retired Lieutenant General William G. "Jerry" Boykin, who has stated that "[Islam] should not be protected under the First Amendment," that there should be "no mosques in America" and that there can be no interfaith dialogue or cooperation between Muslims and Christians.
CAIR Islamophobia Monitor: William Boykin http://www.islamophobia.org/islamophobic-individuals/william-boykin.html
In 2012, CAIR welcomed Boykin's withdrawal from a prayer breakfast at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point following a controversy over his bigoted views.
CAIR is America's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.
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CONTACT: CAIR Government Affairs Manager Robert McCaw, 202-742-6448, rmccaw@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-744-7726, ihooper@cair.com; CAIR Communications Coordinator Nabeelah Naeem, 202-341-4171, nnaeem@cair.com
To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cair-asks-ted-cruz-to-drop-hate-group-leader-gaffney-discredited-general-other-islamophobes-as-national-security-advisers-300237969.html
SOURCE Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
What do you call the TPA cloture vote and continuing TPP support?
Dear Sen. Cruz:
As someone who voted for you last week, I would sincerely request that you disown and denounce any “requests” from CAIR, which is to Islamist terrorism what the Bunds were to Nazi terrorism. You may, if you wish, tell them to go to hell, since, unless they repent and come to Christ as you and I were led by the grace of God to do, they will be going there anyway.
Thank you for your consideration in this matter.
Sincerely,
Chajin
Reagan supported both. Was he a conservative or no?
Let’s see....CAIR doesn’t like Cruz.....hmmm.....
Pretty sure that’s a good thing.
Ted do not go down this path. CAIR is not a true USA institution, it is an enemy of our nation, its laws and USAians.
“The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization” and Muslim Brotherhood affiliate called on Cruz to be a good dhimmi and get rid of people who tell the truth about Islam ...
“Gaffney’s staff attorney, David Yerushalmi, has advocated outlawing the practice of Islam in America and is the key promoter of anti-Islam bills in state legislatures nationwide, including one being voted on today by the Idaho legislature.”
Question is, how do you do it when the first amendment forbids Congress to pass any laws restricting the EXERCISE of religion?
Ditto. Gotta like the company he keeps.
This is one reason why trump won’t release the names of his foreign policy group. Why should he? Nobody will be happy. Cruz found that out.
Mi don’t know the people involved but if Cruz just comes right out and tells CAIR to “shove it” ( and get the hell out of USA) — he will be elected by a landslide! This is a wonderful opportunity for him if he’s got guts enough to take it
the Center for Security Policy (CSP), has been designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
Sounds like an endorsement to me.
We’ll see what Ted does.
Math CAIR should convince mosques to drop Christianophobes and Jewophobes from mosque membership.
Never trust your cellphones autocorrect.
Setting their sites on your boy are they? Enjoy the ride. I’m sure his racist views will be well exploited.
I barely have a cellphone and have never posted anything to FreeRepublic from it.
I liked Reagan a lot, voted for him twice but he was not as conservative as some make him out to be. For example, on gun rights he wasn’t particularly conservative. TPA is an end run around the constitution and should not be allowed. I know the SCOTUS disagrees with me, but they also disagree with me on abortion, homo marriage, Obamacare, Kelo, etc. and I don’t think they are right on those issues either. As far as I know they didn’t have TPP up for a vote in 1988, did they? Did Reagan read the whole bill before he decided he liked it?
As I figured.
Yes it is and they will trot out everything they have on him or people around him.
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