Solomonia: Abourezk and the ADC: Apologists for Terror

Friday, November 16, 2007

Abourezk and the ADC: Apologists for Terror

One of the most energetic opponents of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week was the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), which sent letters to the presidents of all the colleges hosting IFAW events, urging them to censor the speakers in advance and not allow the Week’s activities to go on. The ADC’s President, former U.S. Representative Mary Rose Oakar, charged in the letter that "these planned activities seek not to increase awareness, tolerance, and understanding, but instead promote intolerance, fear, and bigotry…ADC is deeply troubled by the possibility that a tiny handful of student with a narrow political agenda, backed by a well-funded special interest group, would organize this type of hateful and bigoted event on your campus. I urge you to ensure that hate speech and demonstrations of bigotry and racial and religious profiling not be tolerated on your campus."

It was ironic that the ADC would charge the Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week speakers with promoting "hate speech" and "bigotry," since the ADC itself has never hesitated to ally itself with genuine purveyors of hate speech and worse. ADC then-President Hamzi Moghrabi said in 1994: "I will not call [Hamas] a terrorist organization. I mean, I know many people in Hamas. They are very respectable…I don’t believe Hamas, as an organization, is a violent organization." This despite the "glory record" Hamas featured on its website up until just a few years ago – a record that openly celebrated the murders of innocent civilians. In 1996, Moghrabi’s successor as ADC’s President, Hala Maksoud, declared: "I find it shocking that [one] would include Hezbollah in…[an] inventory of Middle East ‘terrorist’ groups." Similarly, the ADC’s Communications Director Hussein Ibish said in 2000: "Everywhere Hezbollah fighters, derided by the Israeli and U.S. governments as ‘terrorists,’ conducted themselves in an exemplary manner."...

For video of Merrie Najimy, the Massachusetts head of the ADC, see here and here. And note the quote from Najimy at the end of this post about Mitt Romney's statements while Governor that the authorities should be keeping a close eye on mosques:

...[President of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee of Massachusetts Merrie] Najimy, who is Lebanese, said she does not think American society has "come a long way" since the attacks of four years ago...

American society hasn't come a long way???

Former post on James Aboourezk: here, and video of Abourezk on Al-Manar's terror-TV is linked to here.

Posted by Solomon at 3:01 PM on Friday, Nov 16, 2007 | Comments (2)
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#1 Bald-Headed Geek | November 17, 2007 9:20 AM

All you have to do to understand where these people are coming from is to hear one of their prime mouthpieces, Hussein Ibish (a/k/a "Insane Rubbish") spout off platitudes and nonsequiturs ad nauseum whenever he is asked for a comment. He is the classic PR guy; speaking volumes and saying nothing, opining on "terrorism" and never condemning specific terrorist acts.

BHG

#2 Muslims Against Sharia | November 25, 2007 5:44 PM

Muslims Against Sharia congratulate David Horowitz FREEDOM CENTER and Mike Adams, Tammy Bruce, Phyllis Chesler, Ann Coulter, Nonie Darwish, Greg Davis, Stephen Gale, David Horowitz, Joe Kaufman, Michael Ledeen, Michael Medved, Alan Nathan, Cyrus Nowrasteh, Daphne Patai, Daniel Pipes, Dennis Prager, Luana Saghieh, Rick Santorum, Jonathan Schanzer, Christina Sommers, Robert Spencer, Brian Sussman, Ed Turzanski, Ibn Warraq and other speakers on the success of the Islamofascism Awareness Week.

Islamofascism (or Islamism) is the main threat facing modern civilization and ignorance about this threat is astounding. We hope that this event becomes regular and reaches every campus.

A great many Westerners do not see the clear distinction between Islam and Islamism (Islamofascism). They need to understand that the difference between Islam and Islamism (Islamofascism) is the same as the difference between Christianity and Christian Identity Movement (White Supremacy Movement).

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