Posted on 03/25/2016 1:26:00 PM PDT by Kaslin
After the deadly attacks in Brussels, The New York Times is bringing “Islamophobia” home to describe how this will help the Democrats with Muslim voter-registration drives. A story by reporter Alan Rappeport on Friday ended with this provocative little quote from Muslim activist Reema Ahmad: “If you’re not at the dinner table, you’re on the menu.”
Republicans eat Muslims? The headline in the Times was “Feeling G.O.P. Peril, Muslims Try to Get Out Vote.”
Rappeport began:
American Muslims are watching in growing horror as Donald J. Trump and Senator Ted Cruz battle for the Republican presidential nomination, outdoing each other with provocative proposals that have included Muslim registries, immigration bans and fleets of police patrolling their neighborhoods.
With round tables, summit meetings and news releases falling on deaf ears, national advocacy groups are planning to fend off policies they consider hostile to Muslims with a more proactive strategy: driving up the Muslim vote.
Organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations, known as CAIR, the Islamic Circle of North America and the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations are encouraging mosques to turn themselves into voter registration centers before the November election so that Muslims can make their voices heard at the polls. Registration drives are expected to ramp up significantly in June, during Ramadan, when attendance at Islamic centers peaks.
''The fear and apprehension in the American Muslim community has never been at this level,'' said Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for CAIR. ''The anti-Islamic tidal wave is spurring civic participation.''
How quickly the New York Times forgets the “fear” of Muslims after the original 9/11! And then the story doubled down:
''The best answer to this anti-Muslim rhetoric is engagement in the political process,'' said Naeem Baig, the president of the Islamic Circle of North America. ''It is a matter of survival for the American Muslim community.''
Like many Muslims, Mr. Baig said that the vitriol directed at Americans who practice Islam is the worst that he can remember. Violence against Muslims and attacks on mosques increased last year, and Muslim parents say their children are being bullied at school. Even the voter registration push has drawn criticism in some circles, with websites such as Creeping Sharia lamenting greater Muslim engagement in American politics and suggesting that ''the problem with CAIR's initiative is that no one who follows the Quran can honestly claim to follow the Constitution.''
That’s pretty much the best inclusion of an “Islamophobic” viewpoint in this shamelessly CAIR-promoting story.
USA Today also promoted the CAIR agenda in a story headlined "'Islamophobia': U.S. cities face anti-Muslim backlash". Mike James and Linda Dono reported:
While brutal attacks on Muslims in the United States haven't been reported to the Council on American-Islamic Relations since the Brussels attack, bullying and hate speech are growing, said Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Washington-based civil-liberties group.
"For girls, it's pulling on the hijab and calling them terrorists, and for boys it's saying that they have a bomb in their backpack and calling them terrorists," Hooper said. Some politicians make the problems worse. "They really have mainstreamed Islamophobia."
Children hear the hate speech on TV and hear their parents agreeing with it, he said. Increasingly, they're taking the language to school.
Then CAIR’s Hassan Shibly took the cake:
The Council on American-Islamic Relations' Florida chapter has seen a fivefold increase in reports of hate incidents during 2015 compared with 2014, 26 vs. five, said Hassan Shibly, the chapter’s chief executive director. A grand majority occurred in the final two months of the year, after the Paris terrorist attacks.
“Unlike what happens after the mass shootings committed by white supremacists that happen almost daily in America, whenever an act of terrorism involves those who identify themselves as Muslims, politicians respond by calling for the curtailment or the rights of American Muslims,” he said. “Our enemies can never destroy us. We can only destroy ourselves if we allow fear and hate to turn us against each other.”
It’s obvious USA Today doesn’t fact-check their Muslim advocates. Daily mass shootings by white supremacists in America? The liberal New America Foundation claims “right-wing terrorism” like white supremacists have killed 48 Americans since 9/11, less than jihadists, they claimed. <
Muslims are a little gamey. But if you wrap them in bacon before you broil them they taste better!
Obviously BS. Muslims are not worth the effort, they’re too hard to clean.
“’’The fear and apprehension in the American Muslim community has never been at this level,’’ said Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for CAIR.”
Trump won’t let the Muslims blow us up — I can see how that would upset them...
NOT kosher!
No it’s more like Republicans eat Republicans! I’m beginning to despise the establishment!
belch!
Don’t the muslims accuse Jews of using the blood of muslim children in their cookery. So it’s just a small tweak to say the same about Republicans in order to ginn up a few riots.
"Death to America!"
The barrels of ink that decry the blow back that never seems to happen.
Liberals preening their feathers.
But Muslim meat is haram.
Weirdest
Election
Season
Ever.
Hands UP!
Don’t Shoot!!
Muslims go well with chicarrones and beer.
Muslims are great with a fine Chianti and Fava Beans.
All muslims out now.
Nothing less will restore safety to our streets.
Nope. They are bitter and nutty.
<Runs away>
“Weirdest Election Season Ever.”
I think that the battle between good and evil is closer to the surface than usual.
I don’t know how much lying is going on, but accusations of lying are flying like confetti.
Evil used somebody to put an erotic photograph in front of the country, and Evil used someone else to try and make a big deal out of a police report.
I don’t see that either one had any place in the campaign. Both things, the nudity and the report, look like tempests in teapots to me. Ho-hum.
Ben Carson said something quite profound on the radio today. He said that we need someone who is not of the “political class,” and he’s dead right. That’s why we need Trump, warts and all, past moral turpitude and all, excessive self-esteem and all.
We know that all the others are of the political class, and from that we know that all the others will stab us in the back so fast we won’t even hear the knife come out of the sheath.
Trump cares more about good and evil, about America, and about the American people than any of the others. Of course, that’s a low bar, because if we were on fire the others wouldn’t even piss on us to put it out.
No matter what you fear that Trump might do, the election of any of the others spells the end of our republic.
Not if the other is Ted Cruz, who has no interest in the end of the republic, but is keen to continue it and restore its institutions, cut off bloated and cancerous accretions (something Trump hasn't committed to do), RIF thousands and thousands of DemonRats out of the public trough, cut off the haustoria of dozens of parasitic 'Rat NGO's feeding off the public treasury, and appoint Originalist judges to the Supreme Court.
This, and much else. I admit Donald's better on immigration (so far), and I'm disappointed in Cruz's unwillingness to commit to any kind of deportation plan (even "self-deportation" by going after the hiring companies that employ illegals preferentially, of which there are a lot), but you can't say that Ted would be a worse deal for us conservatives than The Donald would be, in the White House.
Trump's the only one attempting to speak for the American people...
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