The Arab race card has been drawn.
Posted on 12/26/2011 6:26:02 AM PST by bayouranger
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) reserves some of its harshest words for Muslims who contribute to combating radicalism and terror. This was true a decade ago, when CAIR's rhetoric endangered reform-minded Muslim Khalid Durán, and it is just as true today.
Dawud Walid, executive director of CAIR-Michigan, is the latest to carry on the trend. The Investigative Project (IPT) reports that Walid, while appearing at a November 18 rally in New York to protest the NYPD's counterterrorism tactics inside the city's Islamic community, offered this unflattering portrayal of imams and other Muslims who assist law enforcement:
These days we have Pakistani Uncle Toms, Arab Uncle Toms, we have Uncle Toms masquerading as imams, Indonesian and Malaysian Uncle Toms. And we need to call them out. And these people are trying to speak on behalf of the community. … We as a community should rise up and say this Uncle Tom and Aunt Jemima does not represent the interests of the [mosques] and Arab organizations.
Walid's remarks followed a far more personal assault launched by CAIR-Minnesota and allied entities in a letter asking police to boycott a November 10 conference in St. Paul providing education on Somali culture. Their objection: two speakers, Abdirizak Bihi and Omar Jamal, who courageously spotlight the problem of Minnesota Muslims being recruited to join al-Shabaab jihadists in Somalia; the men often charge area Muslim leaders with complicity.
The letter describes the session as "anti-Muslim and anti-Somali" — though Bihi and Jamal are Muslims of Somali descent — insists that it is biased to refer to al-Shabaab as an "Islamic extremist terrorism" group, and employs ad hominem attacks that frequently backfire by underlining CAIR's own faults. It claims that Bihi and Jamal are "unrepresentative" of the Somali community, yet CAIR-Minnesota apparently includes no Somalis on its board. It asserts that neither has "experience relevant to the topics to be presented," ignoring that Jamal works for the Somali government at the UN and Bihi's nephew died with al-Shabaab. It accuses groups linked to the men of not filing tax forms, which is precisely how CAIR lost its tax-exempt status in 2011. It also harps on their overblown legal troubles — ironic, given CAIR's history in court. The educational event took place as planned, but threats against Jamal later emerged.
In another recent case of CAIR insulting an anti-Islamist Muslim, the head of its Chicago branch, Ahmed Rehab, called Zuhdi Jasser "a sock puppet for the axis of Islamophobia" when the latter emphasized Islamist ideology during a joint interview about the Pakistani government's disposition in May. Examples from previous years can be found as well, such as when onetime CAIR-Tampa bigwig Ahmed Bedier used a 2007 television appearance with Tawfik Hamid to dismiss the reformer as out of touch because "you're not from this country."
Two lessons: First, Muslims who provide an alternative to its party line frighten CAIR and deserve support for that reason alone. Second, if CAIR is against those who are against radical Islam and its various manifestations, can there be any doubt regarding what CAIR is for?
The Arab race card has been drawn.
“CAIR Targets Muslims Who Oppose Radical Islam”
Duh. Of course they do. Intimidation is how islamists suppress opposition.
disgusting
Not suprised. CAIR will attack ANYONE who opposes them.
The only “Uncle Tom’s” I see are in CAIR.
They’re “Uncle Tom’s” to the toxic Salafist Arab supremacist ideology being peddled out of the KSA.
Every time a reformer (and there are quite a few reformers in the Islamic world) speaks up, there’s always someone from CAIR to open their piehole and say something vitriolic and asinine.
CAIR needs to be told, publicly, that they are distinctly UNREPRESENTATIVE of the Islamic community in the USA, or the world for that matter.
Perhaps inadvertently, but CAIR just admitted what they and the mosques are, terrorists supporting organizations.
CAIR is EVIL.
Really Who?
You can’t blame a Dog for acting like a Dog. nothing here to see.
Sayyid al-Qimni, Nasr Abu Zayd, Abdolkarim Soroush, Mohammed Arkoun, Mohammed Shahrour, Ahmed Subhy Mansour, Edip Yuksel, Gamal al-Banna, Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, Ahmed Al-Gubbanchi to name a few.
A really good one is Tahir ul-Qadri, a Pakistani cleric who wrote a 600 page fatwa condemning Islamic terrorism in no uncertain terms last year (2010); no ifs, ands, or buts. If you are so incline to read the entire thing, here’s a link:http://www.minhaj.org/images-db2/fatwa-eng.pdf The fanatics really hate him, largely because he exposes their arguments and justifications for the BS it really is.
Another good one is Tarek Fatah....his speech against Islamic extremism can be viewed here: http://www.livestream.com/ideacity/video?clipId=flv_fd017d81-dc18-42cc-821a-18b86fdea840 It was recorded earlier this year in 2011, and he condemns the hypocrisy of protecting radical Muslims instead of Western Civilization and its values.
There are reformers within Islam.....but the sad fact is that because extremists shriek so loudly, moderate voices get drowned out in all the noise. There are also a number of reformist organizations.
...who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time;...Thomas Jefferson--The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom
--Thomas Jefferson, 1786
Funny, I never hear him saying anything like this when he’s on local talk radio in Detroit, wonder why?
I wonder why too?
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