Posted on 01/15/2005 8:55:12 AM PST by Land_of_Lincoln_John
WASHINGTON, January 14 (IslamOnline.net) - The largest US Muslim civil liberties called on the State Department to issue a report on Islamophobia across the world, as American Muslims have complained of more anti-Islam TV rants.
The proposal was made when the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and several other Muslim and Arab-American groups met Thursday, January 13, with top State Department officials to discuss a number of issues related to American foreign policy, according to CAIR’s Web site.
CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad presented in the meeting -- attended by Assistant Secretary Patricia de Stacy Harrison, Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher and Ambassador William Burns -- a proposal for cooperative efforts to challenge both Islamophobia and anti-Americanism.
The proposal includes such measures as producing a report on the growing phenomenon of Islamophobia, conferences in this country and in the Muslim world to discuss both Islamophobia and Anti-Americanism and domestic and international “goodwill ambassadors” who can speak about both topics.
“By challenging anti-Muslim bigotry, we can help reduce anti-American attitudes in the Islamic world.
“And by having American Muslims speak out in support of their nation's values, while at the same time maintaining essential credibility on issues of importance to Muslims worldwide, we undercut growing Islamophobic views in our society,” read the report, carried by the group in a press release Thursday.
Awad described the meeting as “open and forward-looking.”
Anti-Semitism
The meeting came after the State Department released its first report on global anti-Semitism January 5, taking a country-by-country survey of anti-Semitism worldwide from July 2003, to December 15, 2004.
The report was mandated by the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act, which was approved by US President George W. Bush in October.
Influential Jewish leaders applauded the move, saying the very fact that Congress enacted legislation requiring the State Department to issue annual reports is “extremely important and highly significant.”
CAIR is America's largest Muslim civil liberties group, having 30 offices and chapters nationwide and in Canada.
Pro-Islam Spots
CAIR said in earlier reports and surveys that attacks against Muslims have been on the rise in the United States since the 9/11/2001 deadly attacks.
The recent slur against Muslims was carried in the Fox TV hit show “24”, which featured an upper-middle class Muslim family operating as a sleeper “terrorist cell”.
In the drama, premiered Monday, January 9, the Muslim mother poisons her son's non-Muslim girlfriend because it was feared the girl could jeopardize the terrorists' plan.
The Fox television network said it would provide its stations with TV spots that portray Muslims in a favorable way after it received complaints for featuring followers of Islam as terrorists on the television show.
A Fox spokesman was quoted by Reuters Friday, January 14, as saying it would provide public service announcements sponsored by CAIR to its affiliate stations.
The move was in response to the Islamic council's complaints about the show.
“What we are hoping to do is to try and mitigate the damages of the stereotypes because it can bring real-life consequences on American Muslims and their lives here,” said Rabiah Ahmed, spokeswoman for the Islamic group.
Citing a public opinion survey conducted by Cornell University last year, Ahmed said television influences viewers' perceptions of Muslims.
“There aren't any positive or even neutral portrayals of Muslims on TV; whenever Muslims or Arabs are portrayed it is always in a stereotypical way,” she said.
“What we are hoping to do is to try and mitigate the damages of the stereotypes because it can bring real-life consequences on American Muslims and their lives here,” said Ahmed.
“When average Americans don't have any personal interaction with Muslims, whether it be at work or at school, they base their perception of Islam and Muslims from what they see on TV,” she added.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan opened in December a seminar on combating Islamophobia through education, inclusion and example.
Annan also warned in an earlier black-tie dinner at the UN headquarters in January that Islamophobia poses a challenge to the spirit that he said unites peoples across the globe.
He said that since the 9/11 attacks “many Muslims, particularly in the West, have found themselves the objects of suspicion, harassment and discrimination.”
“Too many people see Islam as a monolith and as intrinsically opposed to the West. Caricature remains widespread and the gulf of ignorance is dangerously deep.”
Why is the US state department meeting with groups that have ties to terrorists? I do not care what Muslims think or want. They have made themselves the enemy. They should convert or leave.
So, it's the state department job to monitor the world? And television? Alrighty then....
CAIR lays the terror attacks of 09-11 at the feet of Islamophobic Americans
They may as well say.....we had it coming....
CAIR is a Saudi Wahhabi front group...
imo
CAIR is simply an old fashioned front group for al Queda, misusing our laws and freedoms to sabotage the War on Terror. It is modeled after the old Stalinist front groups. The IslamoFascist CAIR must be exposed and destroyed if our democracy is to survive.
How about a world wide Islamofascist butchery report???
"By challenging anti-Muslim bigotry, we can help reduce anti-American attitudes in the Islamic world."
Could someone please direct me to a list of links showing articles where the "good" Muslims from around the globe are standing up in solidarity, denouncing the "bad" Muslims and jihadists that are within their midst?
Anyone? Anyone? Didn't think so...
Henceforth whenever kooks come out criticizing age old American traditions and normal society, we can accuse them of suffering from "nominaphobia" and label them as nominaphobes.
ping
Fresh from the Sudan, with bloody strings of human flesh stuck in their teeth, members of CAIR complain about people who fear Islam.
LOL. In some black way, this truly did cause me to laugh outloud.
"CAIR Proposes World Islamophobia Report"\
CAIR has it's work cut out for it...only their fellow-travelers in the Mainstream Media
can counter the truth of racical Islam being spread via the alternative channels such
as the Internet.
Such as: Hamas, Al-Aksa Matyrs Brigade, Osama Bin Laden, an Ayatollah from Iran, Zarqawi, Muqtada Al Sadr, Lewis Farakhan...
Ah, the list goes on. So much goodwill in the Muslim world! :)
How about a Christophobia report first?
Who is "Ibrahim Hooper"?
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