Posted on 08/23/2005 9:35:27 AM PDT by NavySEAL F-16
Michael Graham vs. CAIR
08/23 09:27 AM
Over at the homepage, Andrew McCarthy has a defense of Michael Graham, the ABC Radio talk show host who was fired for making the following comments:
Because of the mix of Islamic theology that rightly or wrongly is interpreted to promote violence, added to an organizational structure that allows violent radicals to operate openly in Islams name with impunity, Islam has, sadly, become a terrorist organization. It pains me to say it. But the good news is it doesnt have to stay this way, if the vast majority of Muslims who dont support terror will step forward and re-claim their religion.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations complained, and ABC fired Graham after they asked him "to retract those statements in a management-mandated, on-air apology. ABC Radio further demanded that I agree to perform what they described as 'additional outreach efforts' to those people or groups who felt offended," according to Graham. He refused.
This is not the first time CAIR has tried to silence a critic. Daniel Pipes wrote an article about a time when CAIR sued a critic and the lawsuit backfired. According to Pipes, CAIR's case collapsed after it dropped its objections to the following criticisms:
[CAIR is an] organization founded by Hamas supporters
CAIR was started by Hamas members
CAIR was founded by Islamic terrorists.
I fault Graham for a poor choice of words, but the role of violence in Islam is an important topic for debate and ABC Radio should not have fired him. Caving in to the likes of CAIR does not set a good precedent for others who want to publicly question the links between terrorism and Islam especially relevent given the new developments in the Iraqi constitution.
Brilliant post! How can we find out how much of Reuters and AFP (for example) the Saudi's own?
That's not all the Prince owns:
"And so it is that Citigroup, the world's largest financial institution, finds itself confronting the fact that a bank it partly owned and managed in Saudi Arabia may have funneled thousands of dollars to terror groups and to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers--at the behest of the Saudi royal family.
The allegations involve Saudi American Bank, also known as Samba, the Riyadh-based affiliate in which Citi had a 20% stake. In late 2002 Samba was added as a defendant in a federal lawsuit filed by relatives of Sept. 11 victims against prominent Saudis and charities to which they appeared to be connected. The suit, prosecuted by Washington, D.C. lawyer Allan Gerson, among others, alleges that Samba "participated in the fundraising campaign in Saudi Arabia for collecting donations to the heroes" of the Palestinian uprising. Samba has filed a motion to dismiss.
Now Gerson is eyeing an additional suit against Citigroup and has lined up as possible plaintiffs 450 people who have lost relatives or themselves been injured in terror attacks in Israel.
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The royal family's Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud, the world's fourth-richest man, owns $9.4 billion in Citigroup stock and a 7%-plus stake in Samba."
http://www.defenddemocracy.org/research_topics/research_topics_show.htm?doc_id=241713&attrib_id=7575
"The Financial Alliance"
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Truth vs CAIR & Saudi funding - Free Koran to show Americans" text that inspires Arabic calls to prayer, pilgrimage and Jihad"
"...CAIR's library project, begun in September 2002, was funded in part by a $500,000 donation from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. In 2001, bin Talal's $10 million donation to New York City was rejected by then-Mayor Rudolph Guiliani after the prince suggested U.S. policies in the Middle East contributed to the Sept. 11 attacks.
The Saudi-funded CAIR is a spin-off of a group described by two former FBI counterterrorism chiefs as a "front group" for the terrorist group Hamas in the U.S. Several CAIR leaders have been convicted on terror-related charges.
Anyway, I found these words on another blog and they make sense out of Islam.
Submitted by Jerrold A. Weissman, April 22, 2002
For the 'trekkie' generation out there the MUSLIM religion, and CAIR in particular are like the Star Trek nemesis, THE BORG.
The Borg society can only exist by replacing any other society with their life, religion and existence; much like Islam.
There are no accommodations there is only confrontation; the Islamists are bent on an eventual conversion, forcefully if not peacefully, of the entire human race.
Finally, Michael Graham just called it like he saw it. Like we have all seen it for years. If Micheal doesn't find work soon I will send him some support for his family of 4 children and wife. He deserves our support.
Yes, Borg is a very good metaphor for radical Islam.
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