CAIR's Attack On Tea Party Movement Outrageous

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PHOENIX (August 6, 2010) - The Council on American Islamic Relations attacks on the Tea-Party movement are outlandish and an example of the denial in which the Islamist organization exists. In a recent article in WhoRunsGov.com Ibrahim Hooper, Executive Director of CAIR, claims that the "level of Islamophobia is 'going off the charts' recently and he thinks it's coincided with the rise of the Tea Party movement." He also in a patently political admonishment called for Democrats to "take a tougher position against the anti-Muslim sentiments that have cropped up in the debate over whether to build a mosque near Ground Zero."

There is nothing within the charters of the Tea Party movement or the vast majority of their gatherings to justify a claim that they are increasing "Islamophobia" in the United States. It is profoundly hypocritical for an organization supposedly focused on Muslim civil rights to taint an entire movement of millions of Americans with a broad brush.

CAIR prefers to stereotype and slander Americans rather than deal with our own realities as Muslims. The fact is that there has been a significant increase in the number of homegrown terror arrests in the past year. The fact is that the building of an ostentatious display of Islamist culture with unknown funding sources within shouting distance of Ground Zero demonstrates a profound lack of sensitivity. This is all amplified by a continued lack of effort by Muslim organizations to address the underlying issues of Islamist radicalization. And CAIR yet cannot comprehend why there may be ill feelings or unintentional fear towards Muslims in America. Mr. Hooper's inability to recognize that demonstrates how out of touch his clearly Islamist organization is with the American people, Muslim and Non-Muslim alike.

"There is nothing that more exemplifies the true nature of CAIR and their fellow Islamists who carry the platform of political Islam in the United States than this open admonition to the Democratic Party and their inappropriate slander of the entire Tea Party Movement," said Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD). "If CAIR was truly about the religion of Islam, spirituality and faith, they would stay above the political fray and deal with those issues which focus on Islam and the reforms we need to make our faith stronger and more modern such as pursuing the separation of mosque and state. But instead, they use the Ground Zero mosque controversy and other flash points to advance their Islamist party platform."

Last month CAIR distributed a press release calling for hate crime investigations into an arson attack upon a Georgia mosque. That attack was soon thereafter linked to a Muslim congregant of that mosque. No apology was issued to Americans. CAIRs Nihad Awad said this week on Fox's Bill O'Reilly that he was "sick and tired of the linkage of Islam to 9/11".

"Awad is in denial. There are interpretations of Islam that are obviously linked to 9-11. The righteous battle is for us Muslims to defeat those Islamic ideas that create those interpretations- political Islam. The only way to eliminate the linkage of Islam and 9/11 is for Muslims to fight the battle within the House of Islam and eliminate the ideology of political Islam," said Jasser. "Instead of throwing slanderous insults at a growing national movement of millions of tea partiers and acting like an Islamist political party by imploring "the Democrats" to buy into Muslim victimology, we need to take non-partisan anti-Islamist responsibility for reforming our faith and protecting American Muslims from the slippery slope of Islamist radicalization."

About the American Islamic Foundation for Democracy

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Saying No! to a Ground Zero Mosque

By Alan Caruba

In the August 3rd edition of The Wall Street Journal, in the Greater New York section, the lead article was “9/11 Memorial Pledged as Part of Mosque Plan.”

There already is a 9/11 memorial. It is called Ground Zero and will be incorporated into whatever structure that eventually gets built on the site.

If one continued to read the story, however, you had to jump to page A21 where side-by-side with the mosque story was one titled, “Verdict in JFK Bomb Plot”, subtitled “Jury Finds Two Guilty in Conspiracy Charges for Plan to Ignite Fuel Tanks.”

The two men found guilty were Abdul Kadir and Russell Defreitas. A third defendant, Kareem Ibrahim, was ill and didn’t go to trial with them and a fourth, Abdel Nur, took a plea deal and faces up to 15 years in prison. At no time in the body of the article is there any mention that these men are Muslims though that fact was critical to their plot.

It was noted that “the men tried to get help from al Qaeda operative Adnan Shukrijumah who was recently indicted in federal court in a plot to attack the New York City subway system with suicide bombers.”

How many Muslim plots to kill thousands of New Yorkers does it take before the plotters are identified as Muslims?

The reason why there should be no mosque built where the debris and dust of the Twin Towers showered down on the very spot is obvious to any American. It would be an obscenity.

It is obscene to wish to build a mosque within sight of where 2,700 people lost their lives in an act of Islamic terrorism, an act of war, a jihad.

How this simple fact escapes the notice of Mayor Mike Bloomberg defies understanding, but this same Mayor originally thought the failed Times Square bomb could have been placed by “somebody with a political agenda who doesn't like the health care bill or something. It could be anything.”

No, it could not be “anything”! Of the many plots hatched since 9/11, it is likely that 99.9% have been by Muslims, whether native born or immigrants.

This is not about tolerance. In New York, every Friday in several locations through the city where there are mosques that cannot accommodate all who wish to enter for prayers, the overflow fills the surrounding streets between 2 PM and 4 PM. They block traffic in ways no other group of religionists would ever be permitted. It is surreal.

There is something especially abhorrent about Mayor Bloomberg’s dazzling ignorance because as a Jew he seems to have not absorbed the lessons of history and, in particular, the Holocaust that killed six million Jews and five million Christians; nuns and priests, Lutherans, gypsies, and others swept up by the Nazi death machine.

Hannah Arendt attended the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi charged with rounding up and killing Europe’s Jews. Her book, “Eichmann and the Holocaust”, was published in 1963 and enshrined the phrase, “the banality of evil” in our modern lexicon.

For Arendt, Eichmann was a “new type of criminal, who commits his crimes under circumstances that make it well-nigh impossible for him to know or feel that he is doing wrong.” Not so new because the crimes of Islam against all who are not Islamic (and some who are thanks to the Shiite-Sunni schism) are very old and fill the headlines of today’s newspapers.

The Muslims who flew commercial airliners into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon did not think they were doing wrong. They were doing what the Koran and almost every imam with the breath to preach told them to do; they were killing infidels.

This is why a mosque within steps of Ground Zero is so inherently wrong. It says that the intended victims of Islamic domination are simply too blind to envision their fate, too fearful to confront evil, to ready to get on the next train to Auschwitz.

Alan Caruba writes a daily post at Warning Signs.
An author, business and science writer, he is the founder of The National Anxiety Center.
© Alan Caruba, 2010