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Muslim groups seek to co-opt Ferguson protests, says watchdog group
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/11/18/muslim-groups-seek-to-co-opt-ferguson-protests-says-watchdog-group/ ^

Posted on 11/18/2014 11:35:30 AM PST by MNDude

Muslim groups have stepped up efforts to co-opt protests over the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., with a drive to equate the teen’s death to the death of a radical Islamist shot during an FBI raid in 2009, a Washington-based security watchdog group is warning.

Using social media, conference calling and traditional outreach methods, leaders of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) are portraying Brown and Detroit mosque leader Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah as African-American victims of police targeting, according to the Washington-based Center for Security Policy (CSP). In a conference call organized by CAIR-linked "Muslims for Ferguson, a CAIR official called Abdullah a “Shaheed,” or martyr, and said both he and Brown were victims of a national security apparatus that had “completely gone wild” and engaged in “demonizing and criminalizing Muslims.”

“The reality is that this country, in law enforcement, be it local, state or federal law enforcement, people with guns have always seen black men and black people as threats,” Dawud Walid, executive director of CAIR’s Michigan Chapter, told the some 100 protest organizers on the call, made on the five-year anniversary of Abdullah's death and which was monitored by CS

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Michigan; US: Missouri; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cair; detroit; ferguson; fergusonactivists; islam; kenyanbornmuzzie; michigan; missouri; muslim; muslimactivists; muslims; news; waronterror
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To: caww

DAMN!

Post all the pix you run across!


81 posted on 11/18/2014 6:48:41 PM PST by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: maggief

What is really going on at this site? Is it worth the cost just to sign up a couple zerocare enrollees?


82 posted on 11/18/2014 6:50:39 PM PST by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: caww

The guys in the pic chose not to loot their firearms.


83 posted on 11/18/2014 7:37:21 PM PST by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Smokin' Joe

My Dad wuz all about Carling, back in the Daze....


84 posted on 11/18/2014 8:01:13 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

I remember the waterfall that Carling Brewery had in Natick,MA.

I never had the beer.

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85 posted on 11/18/2014 8:06:13 PM PST by Mears
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To: dforest

Pig heads are in the future...


86 posted on 11/18/2014 8:38:53 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

I preferred Ballantine or National Bohemian...


87 posted on 11/19/2014 12:25:16 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: caww

Yes.
Questions that CAIR refuses to answer:
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Pages/CAIR-Questions.htm


88 posted on 11/19/2014 1:40:59 PM PST by fivecatsandadog (OBAMA - giving us two more years of living hell.)
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To: MNDude

Ferguson, MO is an Islamic holy city.


89 posted on 11/19/2014 1:46:26 PM PST by Nachoman (libertyarmstx.com is now open!)
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