Thursday, April 17, 2003
Hamas front-group CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations) will apparently be involved in teaching "Diversity & Cultural Outreach" (including anti-Semitism!) in Broward County. Oy.
FrontPage magazine.com
A little over a year ago, I found myself on a radio program discussing the ramifications of September 11, 2001 with the Florida Director for CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations), Altaf Ali. Sometime during the show, I had asked him whether or not he thought the people that died in the collapse of the World Trade Center were innocent. I thought the media was delinquent in their questioning of certain Islamic groups after 9/11, giving them softball questions that any idiot could answer, like "How do you feel about the attack?" Answer: "We're against violence that targets innocent people." I wanted to know, once and for all, if any of these mainstream Muslim organizations, his included, believed that these people were in fact the "innocent" people they spoke of in their generic answer(s). I assumed these groups did not believe this to be the case.
And of course, my assumption was proven correct. Myself and the host, who was no longer willing to be impartial because of this, had to ask this question literally ten times, before Mr. Ali begrudgingly, against his own conscience, answered in the affirmative, yes, the people that died in the towers were innocent.
After this, Altaf was notably upset. He said he felt we were ganging up on him (After wavering on that question what did he expect?), so he decided to leave the show early. But before leaving, while he thought I wasn't paying attention, he swiped my notes; he put them under his black binder, so I couldn't see. "Those are mine," I said, to which he said the opposite, that they were his. "I was reading from those notes." That's my yellow highlighter that I highlighted them with," I replied, to which he begrudgingly, against his own conscience, gave me back my notes. Noticeably peeved, I asked a very inappropriate question, "Mr. Ali, does your religion tell you that it's okay to lie?"
Deception by Islamic extremists is part of the process. This particular group, CAIR, is widely reported as having been the creation of the Texas-based Islamic Association for Palestine or IAP, which is a front for the terrorist group Hamas and an organization that the United States has taken action against in its war on terror. Yet CAIR goes around masquerading as a civil rights organization, as an organization that fights against discrimination.[...]
And of course, my assumption was proven correct. Myself and the host, who was no longer willing to be impartial because of this, had to ask this question literally ten times, before Mr. Ali begrudgingly, against his own conscience, answered in the affirmative, yes, the people that died in the towers were innocent.
After this, Altaf was notably upset. He said he felt we were ganging up on him (After wavering on that question what did he expect?), so he decided to leave the show early. But before leaving, while he thought I wasn't paying attention, he swiped my notes; he put them under his black binder, so I couldn't see. "Those are mine," I said, to which he said the opposite, that they were his. "I was reading from those notes." That's my yellow highlighter that I highlighted them with," I replied, to which he begrudgingly, against his own conscience, gave me back my notes. Noticeably peeved, I asked a very inappropriate question, "Mr. Ali, does your religion tell you that it's okay to lie?"
Deception by Islamic extremists is part of the process. This particular group, CAIR, is widely reported as having been the creation of the Texas-based Islamic Association for Palestine or IAP, which is a front for the terrorist group Hamas and an organization that the United States has taken action against in its war on terror. Yet CAIR goes around masquerading as a civil rights organization, as an organization that fights against discrimination.[...]
