Posted on 11/09/2009 1:09:40 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Building on the theme in President Obama’s Cairo speech of demonstrating respect for Islam by respecting U.S. Muslim communities, this morning Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano swore in Kareem Shora, the national executive director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, to a position on the Homeland Security Advisory Council, an outside-the-department group of national security experts that advises the secretary. (Members include 9/11 Commissioner Lee Hamilton and New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.) As far as I can tell, Shora is the first Arab rights or Muslim rights advocate on the panel.
At the swearing-in ceremony in Albequerque, Shora, who was born in Damascus, mentioned that he watched Obama’s Cairo speech with his immigrant father, who teared up when he heard Obama’s message of reconciliation.
“I’m here to add to the diversity of the council and glad for the opportunity to do so,” Shora said. Then he, and the rest of the panel, heard recommendations about how to guard against spillover violence from the drug gangs in Mexico.
He seems to have a spot on the Obama Blog:
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There has been some pressure on Arab- and Muslim-American groups to respond to the recent cover of The New Yorker, which satirizes the bigotry and fear-mongering at the heart of anti-Obama media campaigns that seek to “smear” the candidate by implying that he is Muslim. The cover depicts presidential hopefuls Barack and Michelle Obama in the oval office. Barack, dressed in traditional Muslim religious clothing while Michelle sports a 60’s afro alá Angela Davis, fatigues, combat boots, and a machine gun slung Rambo-style over her back. A portrait of Osama Bin Laden holds a place of honor over the mantel while the Stars and Stripes crackle in the fire place.
Do we understand that this cover was intended as a satirical commentary on vicious racially and religiously motivated hate campaigns intended to frighten white America away from a minority candidate? Yes, we do. Do we believe that regardless of the artists’ intentions there is some concern that the imagery could overpower the commentary and reinforce the fears and prejudices it was meant to critique? Yes, we do. But can we look past the noise about whether or not The New Yorker cover is offensive, a red-herring issue with fairly predictable responses on all sides, to deeper questions such as “Why is the label, ‘Muslim,’ such a powerful and popular a weapon against Obama” and “What should the Obama camp be doing, rather than denouncing a magazine cover?” Yes, we can. Read More »
Why do I suddenly not feel safe anymore?
Nope - this is the Muslim Brotherhood aka Saudi Arabia in control of your country.
I think the Fort Hood Major Hassan attended some event which likely involved this Advisory group...my brain cells are a bit cloudy after reading so much in the last few days....and I was up late last night.
Expect riots; expect violence; expect arson; expect deaths.
Did you really feel safe before?
They elected our enemy to lead our nation.
I wonder how they're liking all that hope and change now?
NO CLUE WHATSOEVER about how the free press works in the country. I am sure they are planning to shut down all “offending” publications. And I am sure Obama is looking for ways to shut down “offending” publications.
I sense a trend.
Well read further...he also has moved people into the Pentagon.
Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left (Paperback)
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Review
An original look at those who want us to fail in the Middle East, both at home and abroad. The -- Davis Hanson, Author, Ripples of Battle
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By Kat Bakhu (Albuquerque, NM United States) - See all my reviews
I had long wondered why people on the Left had the propensity to speak more positively about people who would slit their throats than they do about their own country, which affords them more freedom and opportunity than anywhere else. David Horowitz has answered that question thoroughly and convincingly in his Unholy Alliance. Where I felt bewildered and confused, I now feel crystal clear. Unholy Alliance is such a great book.
It begins with the leftist movements at the beginning of the 20th Century, and works its way up to the present day, exploring the anti-American attitude of these movements in detail. Horowitz shows that the enemies of the US back then are largely the same group today, operating under the same misperceptions, making the same mistakes, and pursuing the same impossible utopia.
I asked you per private message to take me off your ping list. It’s overwhelming my ping box.
Thanks and cheers.
Arabs don’t get rights. Neither do Muslims. Get ‘em all out of this country before we get like England! What did we fight the Revolutionary war for, anyway?
We do not have a problem defending Muslim rights in this country. These are efforts by the Democrats to get Muslim votes. National security is secondary to their political advantage.
The list, ping
I’m slow and will be offline for a little while today. Here is some info—not sure it’s what you’re looking for.
Fort Hood guman had told US military colleagues that infidels should have their throats cut Excerpt from thread: Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the gunman who killed 13 at America’s Fort Hood military base, once gave a lecture to other doctors in which he said non-believers should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats. He also told colleagues at America’s top military hospital that non-Muslims were infidels condemned to hell who should be set on fire. The outburst came during an hour-long talk Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, gave on the Koran in front of dozens of other doctors at Walter Reed Army Medical Centre in Washington DC, where he worked for six years before arriving at Fort Hood in July
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