Posted on 08/16/2006 8:13:49 AM PDT by radar101
Muslim leaders on Tuesday called Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger disrespectful and insulting for ignoring their request to meet about the war in Lebanon so he could explain his appearance at a rally supporting Israel that was attended by thousands.
Schwarzenegger and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa spoke at the July 23 event in front of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles building on Wilshire Boulevard.
On Aug. 6, two days after Muslim leaders held a news conference to complain that the mayor and governor had ignored several requests to talk, Villaraigosa met privately with 10 Muslim leaders and apologized for initially disregarding their invitation.
Schwarzenegger and his aides have not returned repeated phone calls asking him to explain his appearance and get the "other, equally important side" of the Lebanon-Israeli conflict, said Shakeel Syed, executive director of the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California.
"It's insulting and extremely disrespectful," Syed said. "What is appalling and disturbing is that repeatedly, public officials for the state of California and city of Los Angeles seem now to be pledging their allegiance to the state of Israel."
Salam Al-Marayati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, said Schwarzenegger has an obligation to meet with Muslim groups if he wants to understand the conflict in the Middle East and speak publicly about it.
Al-Marayati said the governor's recent actions appeared designed to appeal to pro-Israel donors during the reelection campaign.
"He is pandering," Al-Marayati said. "This is political pandering. They believe they are serving a special-interest group when they exclude us, and they need to understand that their pandering is to the detriment of California."
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I hope Ah-nuld tells them to go to hell (which most of them seem in such a hurry to get to anyway).
Muslims....the next minority....
Guess it's because he wants to victimize Islamofascists.
Gee whiz do these guys have a tin ear, and a total lack of political understanding.
Remember whent I said I'd deport you later? I lied.
How do you say "F**K OFF" in arabic???
"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Qur'an should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth"
--Omar Ahmed, Chairman of the Board of CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations), San Ramon Valley Herald, July 1998
Well, the LAT, no surprise. Always a true-blue member of the leftist, anti-American MSM. And of course, the libs will ALWAYS take the opportunity to turn the whining Muslims against Arnie -- standard ThugoRat politics.
Meanwhile, screw the Muslims. Nothing but trouble.
Muslims are upset because Arnold appeared at a pro-Israel rally?BFD.The unmitigated arrogance of muslims in this country is appaling.
Here's an idea: Build up a civilization built on thousands of years of culture and a strong set of moral values, teach your children to value a solid education, contribute countless innovations and inventions to modern society, and create a modern democratic state in the middle of the desert and then we'll listen to you.
Until then, STFU.
How do you tell the brainwashed that what they practice ain't a 'religion?'
Interesting how the article calls it the "Lebanon-Israeli" conflict instead of what it actually is, the "Hezbollah-Israeli" conflict.
Hey Syed, why don't you protest by moving your followers back to the turd world hell-holes from whence they came?
The muzzies are trying to sensitize American using social engineering tools, of which PC is one of them. Get used to it or fight it when you can.
Muslims really are a scourge on the world. Someone really needs to tell them when you renounce the killing and decide to join the modern world, maybe we'll talk, in the meantime we've about had a belly full and ya'll would be wise to shut the hell up!
The cult of the pervy prophet should learn to stifle themselves
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