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CAIR Proposes World Islamophobia Report
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| January 14, 2005
| Islam Online
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 CAIRs 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.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 24; cair; cairlies; cavingin; clashofcivilizations; dhimmi; fox; globaljihad; islam; muslims; religionofpeace; rop; taqiyya; trop
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To: hineybona
Thge American government stopped communists from immigrating into this country. Are Muslims more or less dangerous?
61
posted on
01/15/2005 11:41:23 AM PST
by
GarySpFc
(Sneakypete, De Oppresso Liber)
To: FormerACLUmember
Horrifying list. I will take the liberty of adding the Beslan school slaughter.
To: Land_of_Lincoln_John
63
posted on
01/15/2005 11:56:32 AM PST
by
spodefly
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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John; weenie; broadsword; ariamne; pbrown; Happy2BMe; CHARLITE; Former Dodger
How dare Fox and the writers of "24" insinuate that an American-Muslim family could be working as a terrorist sleeper cell in this country!
It is so unfair! What will Americans think of them?
So, who is it OK to portray as "bad" guys?
White American men? Italians? Blacks living in the ghetto? Germans? Jews? Christians?
The followers of Islam will not allow you to question what it teaches,believes, or practices. We are to ignore the evidence we see all around us of the "religion" of peace. Its followers do not have the choice or opportunity to hear and decide for themselves if they would like to embrace another religion.
If you dare speak out or question their motives or beliefs....well, look what what happened to Theo Van Gogh for exposing how women are treated.He was brutally murdered in broad daylight with a letter attached to his body warning others of meeting the same fate.
When a "religion" will not allow exposure of its teachings, and when you can't question, discuss or criticize it with out the threat of being beheaded...well, I think that speaks for itself.
No Public Service Announcement is going to be persuasive enough to change my opinion of Islam.
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posted on
01/15/2005 12:03:05 PM PST
by
jan in Colorado
(The Truth will set you free.)
To: airborne
I don't have a fear of Islam. I have a dislike of Islam.Oh, your dislike must be an attempt to hide the fact that you are really a Muslim inside.
That's what so-called homophobia is supposed to be all about. CAIR's choice of that politically correct but inapplicable term just shows what propagandists they are.
To: spodefly
Maybe we should run a PSA showing all those pictures "spodefly" just posted.
No words necessary!
Sickening.
But don't dare criticize Isalm! A religion of love and peace.
66
posted on
01/15/2005 12:10:34 PM PST
by
jan in Colorado
(The Truth will set you free.)
To: jan in Colorado
So, who is it OK to portray as "bad" guys? Straight white Christian males.
67
posted on
01/15/2005 12:11:12 PM PST
by
spodefly
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To: spodefly
68
posted on
01/15/2005 12:12:02 PM PST
by
petercooper
(Liberalism = Idealism; Conservativism = Realism)
To: spodefly
Religion of Peace!
69
posted on
01/15/2005 12:12:25 PM PST
by
petercooper
(Liberalism = Idealism; Conservativism = Realism)
To: spodefly
LOL
Of course.
They are the MOST despicable of all, after all!
70
posted on
01/15/2005 12:13:16 PM PST
by
jan in Colorado
(The Truth will set you free.)
To: spodefly; TonyOBrienUK
Too bad these photos for the most part can only be found here. Good post.
To: Land_of_Lincoln_John
Gee, Islamo-facists certainly are getting touchy aren't they. They immigrate to every country on the face of the earth, then declare it to be a Nation of Islam, murdering those who disagree, or just happen to be in their way and become
sensitive when we point it out.
Absolutely every where, in every country on earth, where there is violence (Northern Ireland the exception) Muslim extremists are the ones doing the agitating and killing.
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posted on
01/15/2005 12:18:50 PM PST
by
zerosix
To: Land_of_Lincoln_John
I'll read when Christians can openly practice and evangelize in Saudi Arabia.
Until such time, they can BIOTA.
73
posted on
01/15/2005 12:20:41 PM PST
by
Caipirabob
(Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
To: Land_of_Lincoln_John
.
Land_of_Lincoln_John,
It's simple: Moslems and Palestinians are the Gutter-Dogs of Humanity.
Moslems and Palestinians breed like sub-human vermin, then sacrifice their own children to become "Human Bombs", killing others' Children in the process.
Moslems and Palestinians are typical of the Arab mental squalor that's condemned entire sub-continents to vast cesspools of poverty, disease, and brutal ignorance.
Moslem and Palestinian Women are worthy of the Enslavement in which they and their Babies suffer eternal damnation, at the hands of Pseudo-Men whose Barbarism is only exceeded by their Pathetic Depravity towards the Moslem Boys playing at the local Mosque.
Moslem and Palestinian Women could have rebelled against their Depraved Male Slave-Masters decades ago, as did their Asian and Western European sisters. But the Arab's racial cowardice (genetically inbred over the centuries) condemns Arab Men and Children to flee from genuine Honor just as disease flees from Penicillin.
Why does the entire Civilized World turn away in disgust at Moslems and Palestinians ?
Because even the monstrously evil Bolsheviks and Nazis had the courage to fight their enemies as Men, face-to-face, eyeball-to-eyeball.
Because even the deranged Japanese Kamikaze Pilots of World War II mustered the honor of a suicide-death in the face of Open Battle.
Accordingly, even fifty (50) years after World War II, American, Japanese, British, German and Russian soldiers will even toast together the mutual memory of their fallen comrades, because all were imbued with the Singular Honor of Men who Sacrificed Their Lives (on the field of battle) for their respective nations.
Moslems and Palestinians ? They cannot even comprehend such Honor.
It's as foreign to Moslems and Palestinians as America's Bill of Rights and the God-Ordained Right of Women to enjoy the blessings of life and family, without living as Dowry Slaves in the Shadow of Fear of being Burned at the Stake to satisfy the Satanic Monsters lurking in the Soul of every Islamic man.
Have I made my Point ?
Patton@Bastogne Free Republic Member since 1998.
General George S. Patton Jr. Website
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To: SupplySider
Oh, your dislike must be an attempt to hide the fact that you are really a Muslim inside. That's what so-called homophobia is supposed to be all about.
Nope.Don't like homosexuals pretending to be normal and I don't like Islamic murderers pretemding to be peaceful.
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posted on
01/15/2005 12:47:43 PM PST
by
airborne
(Dear Lord, please be with my family in Iraq. Keep them close to You and safely in Your arms.)
To: spodefly
I hate to say it, because of the gruesome nature of your post, but it a true work of art. When I look at it, my heart changes. I see an even deeper truth about the greatest source of the evil and violence and slavery and deceit in the world today.
Hang on to that post.
I wish it could be shown in full color and on a full page in newspapers across the world.
Your post is the true face of Islam...this is a picture of the world ruled by Islam.
This is the face of true evil.
76
posted on
01/15/2005 12:55:43 PM PST
by
weenie
(Islam is as "...dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog." -- Churchill)
To: jan in Colorado
Thx for the ping, Jan. There are great things on this thread. Keep spreading the word.
77
posted on
01/15/2005 1:04:55 PM PST
by
weenie
(Islam is as "...dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog." -- Churchill)
To: weenie
Thanks. Their's is a culture bathed in blood and bomb-blasts, and the assholes at CAIR just want us to overlook what our lying eyes are telling us and believe they are the soul of peace and goodwill.
Ibriham Hooper and Omar Ahmed are liars, propagandists, and terrorist sympathizers. They are fooling no one but those that wish to be fooled.
78
posted on
01/15/2005 1:08:29 PM PST
by
spodefly
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To: spodefly
Ibriham Hooper and Omar Ahmed are liars...You can see in their faces that they are liars.
79
posted on
01/15/2005 1:12:42 PM PST
by
weenie
(Islam is as "...dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog." -- Churchill)
To: spodefly
I wish these could be dropped at the DU site.Then they will know why Islam has to be destroyed instead of protected.
80
posted on
01/15/2005 1:24:50 PM PST
by
processing please hold
(Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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