FLORIDA REPUBLICAN ATTACKED BY MUSLIM GROUP

St. Pete Times ^ | 13 April 2009 | Adam Smith

[MKAP001]

Hasner shrugs off CAIR slam

The Council on American-Islamic Relations is calling on House Majority Leader Adam Hasner to disassociate himself from a "free speech summit" he's helping host that features, among others, a controversial Dutch politician, Geert Wilders, often criticized for extremism and being anti-Islam. Wilders has likened the Koran to Mein Kampf.

“If Rep. Hasner truly wishes to represent Florida’s diverse religious and ethnic population, he should immediately disassociate himself and the state Legislature from this motley collection of Islamophobes and Muslim-bashers,” CAIR-South Florida Executive Director Altaf Ali said of Wilders and others involved in the event.

Hasner brushed off the CAIR criticism: "These are the same people who have been attacking me all session. This isn't about being anti-Islam, this is all about the right to free speech and they are trying to stifle it."

[BlueNgold]

Free speech is great, as long as you don’t have anything bad to say about us...

[the long march]

Good for HAsner. ANyone who supports Wilder and disses CAIR is aces in my book

[EagleUSA]

They are nothing but trouble. The radical left has set a fine example for these trouble-makers.

[Sunshine Sister]

Didn’t take long for these people to learn all about political correctness did it?

[ScottinVA]

Good on ya, Hasner! Now THAT’S the way to call it for what it is.

Also, when the headline caught my attention, I was about to go into a rage before I realized it was a verbal attack from CAIR.

[Frantzie]

CAIR = Saudis. They buy politicians and elections.

[rbosque]

CAIR and the rest of them can leave my country, no one invited them here.

[wardaddy]

Looks like CAIR studied ADL tactics well......the irony

[b4its2late]

CAIR can kiss my lilly white Irish ass.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

“If Rep. Hasner truly wishes to represent Florida’s diverse religious and ethnic population, he should immediately disassociate himself and the state Legislature from this motley collection of Islamophobes and Muslim-bashers,” CAIR-South Florida Executive Director Altaf Ali said of Wilders and others involved in the event.

Maybe he will when CAIR disassociates itself from terrorists and theocrats?

[bicyclerepair]

I wish Hasner was MY rep... I’m stuck with deby wastedman shlotz.

[gimme1ibertee]

Hasner brushed off the CAIR criticism:

i.e.,he could CAIR less.
That's what the general attitude should be,but there's too many cowardly suckups who will quell the whining and pouting with capitualtion.

[rusureitflies?]

Do ACORNS ever mix with CAIRS?

[rusureitflies?]

Do ACORNS ever mix with CAIRS?

[PLD]

http://www.investigativeproject.org/386/the-truth-about-cair

Kick the dunces out of America along with all the terrorist cells they support..People it is time we take this country back from these criminals that are trying to destroy America.

[stevio]

Now that’s a leader!

[GraceG]

We need to arrange a meeting.

CAIR meet Bubba, Bubba meet CAIR.

Besides that I pronounce CAIR not as “Care” but more like this “Kah-eer”. I don’t want people actually thinking that they do “care”, because they don’t.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Free speech is really not compatible with the Death Cult.

[veracious]

I admire your courange Rep. Hasner! Be of good faith.