Pro-Palestinian Display Torched at UC-Irvine; CAIR-LA asks that incident be treated as hate crime

PRNewswire ^ | May 22, 2004

[veronica]

ANAHEIM, Calif., May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The Southern California office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) today called on local and national law enforcement authorities to treat an arson attack on a pro-Palestinian university display as a possible hate crime.

University of California-Irvine (UCI) students reported to CAIR-LA that the display challenging the wall Israel is building on Palestinian land was torched late Thursday or early Friday morning. The display, made of cardboard boxes and built by the Society of Arab Students (SAS), was a replica of Israel's new wall.

Display sponsors say the symbolic wall was built to demonstrate the negative impact Israel's barrier has on the daily live of Palestinians and on prospects for peace in the Middle East. The display was one of a number of activities during a Palestine awareness week organized by the Muslim Student Union (MSU).

"Because of the ethnic and religious nature of the display and its sponsors, we urge campus police and the FBI to investigate this attack as a possible hate crime," said CAIR-LA Public Relations Director Ra'id Faraj. "Muslim and Arab students should feel safe in exercising their First Amendment rights, free of intimidation or harassment."

On Thursday, the Orange County Human Relations Commission released its 2003 annual report that showed a 50 percent increase in hate incidents directed at members of the Muslim and Arab-American community. (UCI is located in Orange County.) In April, CAIR's own annual report on the status of American Muslim civil rights showed a 70 percent increase in anti-Muslim incidents nationwide in 2003.

There are an estimated 600,000 Muslims in Southern California. CAIR, America's largest Islamic civil liberties group, is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and has 26 regional offices and chapters nationwide and in Canada.

NOTE: CAIR offers an e-mail list designed to be a journalist's window to the American Muslim community. Subscribers to the list, called ISLAM-INFONET, receive news releases and other materials dealing with American Muslim positions on issues of importance to our society.

[dts32041]

You mean it didn't blow up?

[sionnsar]

"Muslim and Arab students should feel safe in exercising their First Amendment rights, free of intimidation or harassment."

Yah, but they don't seem to want to extend that to others, as noted in: Berkeley Intifada.

[Klaus D. Deore]

Muslim and Arab students should feel safe in exercising their First Amendment rights, free of intimidation or harassment."

Does that go for Jews as well?

[xm177e2]

was a replica of Israel's new wall.

No, it was a bunch of cardboard. It was not a "replica"

But still, this is unaccepable. Whoever attacked it should be shot.

ESPECIALLY if whoever shot it was an Arab trying to build up sympathy for his/her cause.

[TomGuy]

CAIR is a hate crime.

CAIR can always find something to whine about.

They learned well from the Jesse Jacksons and Rainbow Coalitions of this country.

[Reactionary]

"Whoever attacked it should be shot."

Indeed. We wouldn't want people attacking the 21st century's Nazi blood banner, now would we?

[Rome2000]

The CAIR is a terrorist front.

They are subversive.

[Rome2000]

Amin Al Husseini seen inspecting his Hanzar Division made up exclusively of Muslims, mostly from the Crotia/Bosnia/Serbia region. They actively lead the genocide against Serbs, Serbian Jews and Gypsies.

Amin Al Husseini meets with Adolf Hitler in November 1942, weeks before the decision to implement the Final Solution which sent Europe's Jews to the gas chamber. The Third Reich provided Amin Al Husseini with a salary and appointed him Head of the Hanzar SS Division. The Hanzar Division was made of Nazi Muslims and implemented the genocide of 250,000 Serbs, Gypsies and Jews during WWII.

Amin Al Husseini shown here on a Nazi poster recruiting fellow Muslims to join Hitler in the fight against the West and the Jews. His disciples today include Yasser Arafat, Saddam Hussein and the leaders of Hamas, Al Qeida and Islamic Jihad.

Amin Al Husseini, future President of the World Islamic Congress (1961) and founding father of the Arab League (1944) inspects his Muslim Nazi troops, the Hanzar Division. Amin Al Husseini making the traditional nazi salute.

Yasser Arafat became a disciple of Amin Al Husseini since the age of 17. Here: recent picture of Palestinian soldiers under the leadership of Arafat making the traditional Nazi salute.

[xm177e2]

I'm willing to bet whoever torched it was an Arab/Muslim. And whether I'm right or wrong, they still deserve to die. We deserve better. We deserve free speech on our university campuses.

[norton]

Alright,
the game's up.
I admit it,
CAIR,
I hate you.
I really, really, hate you.
Really sorry about the fire (snicker, snort),
especially since you've been so much help in our war against terrorism.
Life just ain't fair is it?
[not to incite anyone in any manner at all or anything like that...]

[veronica]

Berkeley Intifada

....A young woman in a kaffiyeh screamed up at a Jewish student significantly larger than herself. Her lips were wet with fury. "If I don't agree with you, then you call it anti-Semitism!" she shouted, as friends arrived to support her. The young man was surrounded. "You call it anti-Semitismmm!" she raged. "Why can't you tolerate anti-Semitismmm?"

[PA Engineer]

Display sponsors say the symbolic wall was built to demonstrate the negative impact Israel's barrier has on the daily live of Palestinians and on prospects for peace in the Middle East.

Why can't they work from home. I'm sure they can go to pieces just as well without any Israelis around.

[montag813]

this is so obviously a setup, and a typically Arab one--this display was torched and CAIR pushed out a press release LESS THAN 90 MINUTES AFTER! Duh, who do ya think set the fire?

[Skywalk]

My take on this incident:

"Send more Palestinians."

[Robert_Paulson2]

"Muslim and Arab students should feel safe in exercising their First Amendment rights, free of intimidation or harassment."

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no.
they shouldn't.
arab muslims are not american-muslims.
perhaps american muslims should have our bill of rights applied to them...

but not arab-muslim non-citizens on a student visa.
they prostest against our allies in the war against arabmuslim terrorists... kick em out...

[Robert_Paulson2]

well er... uh... no.
no it doesn't.

[Prime Choice]

The Southern California office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) today called on local and national law enforcement authorities to treat an arson attack on a pro-Palestinian university display as a possible hate crime.

I would be inclined to go along with this if the pro-Palestinian cretins respected other groups who say things they don't like. Considering that they typically don't, I'm not going to get worked up about their getting dished a bit of their own medicine.

[SledgeCS]

Too bad they did not torch the offices of CAIR and refuse to let any of the idiots inside run outside unless they had on a burka...

SledgeCS