Muslims try to quash Bush nominee (CAIR Barf Alert)

www.worldnetdaily.com ^ | April 22, 2003 | Art Moore

[conservativeinbflo.]

A controversial Islamic lobby group that casts itself as a mainstream voice for American Muslims is fiercely opposing President Bush's nomination of a leading Middle East scholar to the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace.

The Washington, D.C.-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, charges that Daniel Pipes, director of a Philadelphia-based think tank, the Middle East Forum, is an "Islamaphobe" whose views "have been instrumental in widening the divide between faiths and cultures."

Prior to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Pipes, who speaks Arabic and has a Ph.D. from Harvard, was castigated by Muslims as a racist for insisting militant Islam is a serious threat to U.S. security. Since then, he has been in regular demand as a pundit on television news programs, often explaining the distinction between militant Islam and Islam in general.

Like CAIR, however, many U.S. Muslim activist groups insist he unfairly paints Muslims in broad strokes, and on Sunday the Washington Post supported that assertion in an editorial condemning the nomination as "sort of a cruel joke."

The Post objected to Pipes' argument that since only Muslims are vulnerable to becoming militant Muslims or "Islamists," therefore Muslims should be given more scrutiny by U.S. security than others.

[conservativeinbflo.]

Of course CAIR is going to throw a stink-- Pipes has been onto their agenda from day one, and it has them scared. So naturally, they use the "bigot" defense (nevermind how staunchly anti-Semitic and anti-American groups like this are). I hope Bush pushes the nomination through.

[observer5]

Yet, still better than the Islamofashists at CAIR.

[Gefreiter]

The bigger the stink CAIR raises over this, the more convinced I am that Pipes is the right man for the job.

[joesnuffy]

The Wahhabi Lobby doesnt like being checked.......
Get used to it...or go home...

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

U.S. Institute of Peace.

George Orwell would be proud.

[Imal]

CAIR's disapproval of him recommends him for the job with greater authority than anything on his resume possibly could.

[fporretto]

Pipes is very much the right man for this job. He's been on top of the rising tide of militant Islamism for far longer than the 19 months since Black Tuesday. And he speaks clearly and unambiguously -- the mark of the man who knows his subject and is unafraid to give his opinions.

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Francis W. Porretto
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