“maybe they’re taking a page from CAIR’s playbook”
They’ve been playing the game longer than CAIR.
I think it’s a serious situation because these ‘scholars’ are and have been deceiving our policymakers for years. (much longer than CAIR)
Off topic
IRAN: KHATAMI TO MEET POPE
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Politics&loid=8.0.405136935&par=
Tehran, 16 April (AKI) - Former Iranian president Seyyed Mohammad Khatami will travel to Rome on 3 May to meet Pope Benedict XVI. Khatami’s visit was initially scheduled to take place earlier last year but was postponed after the controversial speech by the pontiff on 12 September at Germany’s Regensburg University interpreted as linking Islam to violence. The protests in the Islamic world sparked by the speech led to the postponement to 3-4 May of the seminar on inter-religious dialogue at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University which the former Iranian president was also scheduled to attend.
The seminar is being organised by the university in cooperation with the Iranian embassy to the Holy See and will be attended by leading clerics and researchers from North African countries, Lebanon and the United States.
Khatami, who was president of Iran from 1997 to 2005, is scheduled to meet Benedict early on Friday, 4 May.
On 11 March 1999, Khatami, a moderate Shiite Muslim cleric, held an historic meeting with Benedict’s predecessor, late pope John Paul II - Iran’s most senior religious leader to visit the pontiff.