Posted on 06/03/2009 4:15:59 PM PDT by pissant
JERUSALEM – President Obama should act against the "denigration" of Islam in newspaper columns, on talk radio and in religious sermons nationwide, the national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, wrote in a letter to the president.
As Obama prepares for his much anticipated address to the Muslim world tomorrow, CAIR offered the president some tips on how to better foster dialogue and understanding with Islam.
"Prior to the 9/11 attacks, Islamophobia of the type we see today was at the margins of public discourse," wrote CAIR's Nihad Awad.
"Unfortunately, today it is quite common to see and hear the faith of Islam denigrated in newspaper columns, on talk radio and in religious sermons nationwide. Few in the Muslim world will listen to our calls for openness and reform while the faith they hold dear is being vilified," he wrote.
Awad called for Obama to act on the issue.
"Silence on this growing phenomenon is un-American and betrays the values of inclusiveness and religious tolerance that we all hold dear."
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
Hey diaperhead, ever hear of the First Amendment? Didn't think so.
So the boy-lovin’ bare-hand-wipin-butt Moon-God worshippers doh’t like being talked about?
Or else what?
So... in the form of religious tolerance... we need to ban free speech from the pulpits? Ooookay.
“President Obama should act against the “denigration” of Islam in newspaper columns, on talk radio and in religious sermons nationwide,”
The have not changed since the 7th century and will not so you have to change for them.
You put a clean child in a room with a dirty child and the dirty one never gets cleaner.
Obama’s masters now giving him orders.
When CAIR has fixed Pakistan and Afghanistan, then they may be allowed to have some cred here in the US.
When are those CAIR members hitting the fed pen?
If only we could identify the connection.
“All written and spoken word will now have to be ran though CAIR and if it does not meet their correct standards all people anywhere and in anyway tied to the work in question will be killed and the problem will cease to exist, any non adherence to the policy will be reason enough to attack the U.S. A. in any and all ways possible.”
Would this not sound like a talking point of some politicians??
Islam is not the truth, so why worry about it? It is not the only fairy tale out there.
By all means, must not let the truth about Islam get out.
Awad appears to be totally disinterested in the Bill of Rights. He should be DEPORTED immediately.
“Or else what?”
Or else muslims won’t be tolerant of us. As if they would be anyway. This is the whole problem with the open-arms diplomatic strategy. Ignoring for a moment the question of whether it is in fact true that a significant number of Americans hate muslims or a significant number of muslims hate Americans, or that the minority on both sides that do are the nub of the problem. People dislike eachother for reasons, and they aren’t likely to change because individuals on one side or another are magnanimous. I’ve rarely seen instances of magnanimity actually changing history.
What matters most is picking allies and recognizing enemies, not changing hearts and minds, which was always B.S.
I’m LMAO about a Moslem thinking he’s going to get somewhere with a black President by using that “denigration” word ~ Accountants don’t get away with “niggardly” either!
Hey CAIR, any of your boys shoot up any military recruiters today?
0bama’s assault on the Constitution will get to the First Amendment in due course. Until then, CAIR can go pound sand.
It’s time to take back the country.
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