Ibrahim Hooper wants you to put down that Mr. Potato Head
David Skinner of the Weekly Standard sees CAIR's latest "hate crimes" report for what it is: "cheap agitprop." (Thanks to LGF)
THIS WEEK the Council on American-Islamic Relations released its annual report "The Status of Muslim Civil Rights in the United States 2004." Newspapers (the Washington Post in particular) dutifully gave prominent play to CAIR's claim that hate crimes against Muslims increased 70 percent in 2003. Little skepticism, however, was applied to CAIR's shoddy information-gathering or its politicized interpretation of the "data." ...We live in a society of singular, hair-trigger sensitivity to slight, and CAIR is situated at the wacky, exteroceptors end of such interaction. Long before a painful stimulus registers in the reasoning parts of the brain, this hysterical organization screams bloody bias.
Media credulousness is perhaps the strongest evidence that American society is wallowing in gentleness. When someone claims to have been wounded, journalists (the great Victorian Gentleman in Tom Wolfe's classic formulation) don't question the witness. Even when the witness clearly has an axe to grind, as CAIR does. Yet common sense begs us to look askance at the evidence gathered by CAIR, which relies entirely on self-reporting.
CAIR's form for reporting an bias incident is available online. Although the instructions emphasize contacting the police first, and suggest enclosing official supporting documentation, it's not even clear how one would do so. The annual report seldom references such documentation. Which is not surprising, given how CAIR's information-gathering process works: If someone merely emails CAIR with a message to the effect that they were the victim of bias, another "hate crime" is tallied, no matter its seriousness or credibility.
It's almost humorous what tiny offenses pass as worthy of complaint in the CAIR report. That a student at the University of Houston "saw flyers and posters with false and degrading statements about the Qur'an and the prophet Muhammad" is apparently a civil rights matter. That a College Republican at Roger Williams in Rhode Island wrote in a student publication that "a true Muslim is taught to slay infidels" is treated with similar gravity.
Several of the report's examples of anti-Muslim rhetoric (the only prominent ones come from Dr. Laura and Paul Harvey, the latter of which was followed by an apology) hinge on whether or not Islam promotes killing. But this is even a subject of debate within Islam. Also, that the question should be taken up with some interest by outsiders is, again, neither a civil rights matter nor evidence of hatred or bias. The issue is merely relevant to why al Qaeda and other Islamofacist organizations are at war with the United States. And, to put it tamely, it does not speak well of CAIR (or its purported constituents) that the organization does its level-best to close off such discussions.
None of the press coverage on CAIR's report gives readers a sense of its patchwork quality. Although undermining the USA Patriot Act is the most important item on CAIR's agenda, the report dismisses the legislation in about four paragraphs giving a distorted picture of controversial Section 215. Nor do the authors note when their evidence contradicts their thesis of increasing bias and decreasing vigilance against bias: In the same section where its truncated discussion of the Patriot Act appears, the CAIR report discusses two cases of government bias in which the rights of Muslims were loudly and effectively defended.
In one, the right of a Philadelphia police officer to wear her hijab to work was successfully defended by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In the other case, a judge was forced to apologize and resign for suggesting a Muslim appearing in his court was a terrorist. The report's appendix, too, contains another such story in which a Muslim county employee was allowed to keep his job even though his Friday prayer obligations kept him out of the office all afternoon. The situation was resolved; the employee doesn't need to be in the office and, it seems, doesn't need to make up the hours. "I'm really pleased with result," the employee told a California paper. "They [the county] treated me with a lot of respect."
NOWHERE does the report's lack of rigorousness show more clearly than in the section titled "Sample Cases." "On February 28th," reads the very first item listed as a hate crime, "two unknown males assaulted a Muslim student at Georgia Tech in Atlanta at night. The attackers beat him for no apparent reason and did not attempt to rob him." Which means there is "no apparent reason" to call it a hate crime. Under the same heading are listed several instances of minor vandalism, broken windows, graffiti, a defaced "Iraqi display case" at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Muslim Students Association.
Quite a number of the sample cases produced by CAIR represent the kind of awkward but individually insignificant difficulties the arise from the meeting of different cultures in a pluralistic society. That a Muslim student is asked to remove her hijab for her school identification photo is not proof of discrimination; it's proof that our society hasn't figured out what to do about hijabs in official identification photos. Molehills become mountains in many other cases reported by CAIR, as when Muslim airline passengers singled out for security inspection claim, ipso facto, that they're victims of profiling.
Finally, some of CAIR's complaints don't even pass the laugh test: "A mother called CAIR California to report that on March 14th a school coach barred her daughter from participation in the badminton team because she wears a hijab." Never mind the sourcing problem--it doesn't take great powers of imagination to foresee "hijab" problems cropping up in high school sports programs. The most unintentionally funny--and weirdly sad--incident in the entire report is contained in a Newsday article included in the appendix: "A Muslim woman shopping in a Brooklyn toy store was assaulted by a man who slurred Arabs and flung a Mr. Potato Head at her, police said yesterday. The suspect's father later said his son apparently acted out of grief because a friend in Israel had been killed by a suicide bomber in Israel."
Despite itself, the CAIR report does seem to have happened onto some serious instances of bias crime, but they clearly represent only a small portion of what CAIR describes as increasing anti-Muslim activity. So until CAIR can distinguish between real crimes and flying Mr. Potato-heads, it would be best if their work were dismissed as the cheap agitprop it clearly is.
Michelle Malkin wrote an excellent article debunking some of the "hate crimes" that muslims claimed they were victims of. This article can be accessed via the archives. Malkin has requested law enforcement send her the info on some of these cases and she will investigate them.
No doubt that CAIR-Canada will soon be releasing equally misleading and garbled statistics through its front-person, Sheema Khan, who has now (incredibly) garnered herself a marquis position in the "Comments" (ie., Op-Ed) section of the Toronto Globe and Mail (self-billed as "Canada's National Newspaper").
And, yes, I'll be sending in another letter of complaint to Edward Greenspon (MOT), editor of the Globe, in protest. And, yes, the Globe will ignore my letter...
I gotta tell all of you, and I passed this on to many. I'd be leary of any information released by this clan.....
Reason #1- I don't know of anyone that's ever accused them of telling the truth.
Reason #2- A couple of months ago they had a percentage % breakdown of how American Muslims felt about the democratic candidates and who they would vote for.
To no surprise, their final tally posted on their website totaled not 100%, but 101%........So I'm very skeptical of anything that flies out of their mouthes because their own basic math skills are in question, like their integrity.
Just another attempt at portraying Muslims as victims.
Any accusation, attack, etc on a Muslim is treated as a "hate-crime" by CAIR and other such Islamo-fascist organizations. Think about Muslim and non-muslim high school students having their usual hormonal ups and downs and getting into an argument - whoops - here is a hate crime against the Muslim! Islam may NEVER be criticized by ANYONE! If it is, the one who did has commited a "hate-crime".
What is the data on suits which have been resolved to the satisfaction of the Muslim? Wearing a hijab is okay even when it may be physical safety hazard for the wearer - being absent from work for 1/10th of work week is ok - this man does not have to make up the time or have his pay lowered. WOW! I want his job!
jihan
Brigitte Bardot faces the Inquisition for writing a book that criticizes Islam:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/movies/apmovies_story.asp?category=1402&slug=Brigitte%20Bardot
Jihan
even the act of defence against islamic aggression whether it be physical or verbal is and act of aggression by the infidel!
This is evident in Bat ye ors book on dhimitued.
Jews and christians have no right of self defence.
I believe Only a sharia court has the right to defend them.
And we know what justice they dispense.
Briggite prosecuted
what chance does Oriana Fallaci have of getting her book published in france !!
What I want to know is why so many people are reduced to quivering jello around CAIR, islam, and muslims who are nothing more than a group of whiny, bellicose snots suffering from delusions of grandeur, gross narcissism, and persecution complex who are going to attempt to eventually browbeat America into submitting to islam.
"Newspapers (the Washington Post in particular) dutifully gave prominent play to CAIR's claim that hate crimes against Muslims increased 70 percent in 2003."
They simply need to shut the *BLEEP* up. Let's help them out with this-
www.bewareofislaminamerica.com
Hooper looks a right smug git.
The islamic political system of hate will sodomize a 5 year old, and when they are done they will blame the child, saying its the childs fault for being too cute for them to resist.
They bring their hate filled, soul-less shelves into our Christioan soceity, kill us and tell us its our fault!
Is it 70% or 121%- CAIR gives us two figures in their headline:
Anti-Muslim Incidents Jump 70 Percent in 2003
Hate crimes up 121 percent, blamed in part on Islamophobic rhetoric
It would be interesting for CAIR to supply a working definition of what it considers to be "Islamophobia." If Islam is a set of teachings, and of rules imposed on Believers, (and it is), why is it impermissible to study those teachings, to learn about those rules, to understand what they mean for non-Muslims, and what they mean, as they are worked out, to ideas of human rights, of sexual equality, of free thought, and then to draw one's own conclusions, including the conclusion that "Islam is a dangerous and totalitarian system of thought-control, and a menace to all Infidels"?
Are we required not to learn about Islam, not to observe how non-Muslims have been treated in time and space, under Muslim subjugation? Are these subjects simply forbidden?
Are Ibn Warraq, Ibn Rawandi, Ali Sina, and many tens or hundreds of thousands of people all over the world who were born into Islam, through no fault of their own, or who "reverted" (as Muslims describe those who convert) without sufficient acquaintance with its real teachings and the real beliefs of Muslims, and who have later given up Islam also guilty of "Islamophobia"? Is there some divine requirement that we should approve of this belief-system? Should we listen, in fact, to the coherent, rational, altogether believable stories of defectors from Islam as to what it is about the belief-system (the word "religion" should be used as little as possible in regard to Islam, which is so much more) that so repels and frightens them, so that they feel the need to warn others about its true nature -- both Infidels, and Muslims themselves who may not have thoroughly considered the belief-system and its necessary and deadly consequences?
Islamophobia:
1. Respect and enforcement of human rights.
2. Equality for all religions.
3. Respect and proper treatment of women.
4. Respect and responsibility to correctly teach children to grow into respectable people.
5. Refusal to bow to arrogant, stiff-necked Muslims that feel that Islam overrides any and all Constitutional law.
6. Questioning Muslim organizations with proven ties to terrorism, posing in our nation as something else for the purpose of deception and diversion as they make feeble attempts to manipulate laws with a higher goal of overthrowing Governments and replace them with Islamic Theocracy.
7. The ability to take criticism without claiming racial and religious bias.
8. Patriotism to one's nation of origin that is non-Muslim.
9. Exercising the right to protect ones self against cut throat terrorist murderers who have no regard for human life.
10. Refusing to forfeit the culture of ones own nation as immigrants from Muslim nations migrate into our homeland expecting us to adapt to their culture that they should've left back in the hellhole they left, which includes woman beating, and the horrible inability to drive a car.
11. Disagreeing with any Muslim, at any time, any place, on any issue.
12. Most importantly, the wish for peace and a harmonious life, the refusal to kill another human being in the name of God, while worshipping a true and reasonable God.
This list could most likely go on for a long time. However, the above referenced material certainly qualifies as "Islamophobia."
In truth, a phobia is defined as an unreasonable fear of something. We don't fear Islam, and "Islamophobia" has become a false accusation made toward many people.
They also throw around the word rhetoric, which has several definitions, one being "empty talk."
Just as Libel isn't present in true written statements, rhetoric isn't empty talk when facts are spoken.
Perhaps CAIR should stop flattering themselves into thinking everyone fears them.
That'd be like an Eagle being afraid of a worm.
If CAIR is unable to provide a proper definition of "Islamophobia", please provide them with this list at cair@cair-net.org
D.C. Watson Ohio USA
D.C.;"Islamophobia" has become a false accusation made toward many people.
I have had a few exchanges with the PC facists on this. The "racist" accusation is another firm favourite and this is all the more galling. I wasn't in favour of communism, would that make me racist towards, Chinese, N Koreans, Russians ? No, it would not. It means I do not agree with an ideology. The sooner we get Islam from behind this shield being held up by the PC facists, the sooner we will be able to confront this monster and slay it. If we don't, there really could be a massive loss of life in unexpected places.
CAIR is a front group for Militant Islam. This vile organization attempts to pass itself off as a respectable human rights organization representing the U.S. Muslim Community. CAIR's agenda must be exposed. Several members of their board of directors have been linked to terrorist organizations. Several other members have been indicted. PC has resulted in American casualties and will result in more casualties until we awaken as a nation to the dangers of Militant Islam. The enemy within is just as lethal-perhaps more so - than then the enemy without.
The Two Faces of islam
The joker, it's wild
with a pedophile leader
a lascivious old man
who in the end
couldn't get it up
so he lusted for power
instead of the woman-flower
The joker, it's two faced
with the one-war-god
who is hungry for souls
who can't be lured
into the fold
so they are cured
of their reticence
by the sword.
The warrior and his god
can't be separated,
they are two sides
of one coin
and will always be.
They are the same
and their believers
will never accept any blame.
A message for CAIR: Did it ever occur to you guys for one nanosecond that hatred and bias against islam by a non-muslim might be merited?
Did it ever occur to CAIR that non-muslims' hatred of Islamic ideology could be not only the most sensible reaction to islam but in fact the ONLY intelligent response?
Islam is the only religion to preach hatred and killing. The ONLY one.
No one must ever forget this.
Point taken bob, and agreed.
For those of you that also read the article from Michael Coren about Islam gone mad,he just returned from England with a new insight on the British Mosques and Muslims advocating terrorism and hate for Westerners. The site is www.torontosun.com and just click on the "Columnists" hypertext and near the top is access to the Saturday's article "Religion Hijacked" . Mr.Coren is a threat to the career victims that spew the same rhetoric about Palestine,the crusades,the Jewish controlled media and Banks. His radio show (www.cfrb.com) at night draws Arabs and Muslims that say things so absurd it frightens me to think these types passed the immigration requirements.
www.Caircan.ca is bigoted and antisemitic dispite the veneer projected on their web site,a recent string of fire bombings and spray painting of swastika's on homes and graveyard headstones is listed on Cair's site as "Vandalism",yet a minor fire that happened to a awning over the "Woman-Only" enterance to a Mosque is posted as a hate-crime.
Cair Canada encourages Mulims to be victims by
filling out a online report of anicdotal experiences of hurt feelings. Their site has the proof and they even produce a booklet for Muslims to avoid helping the Police in terrorism investigations,it asks visitors,immigrants and citizens to know their right to not help the Government catch Terrorists. No matter how many
Muslims get arrested for terror links they scream Islamophobia until the evidence shows guilt and then they claim the person isn't a true Muslim and cite the same old Quran stuff about "Peace and Pluralism" blah,blah,blah blah,blah blaaaaah.
I've read enough of the Quran and the history of Mohammed to know he used Allah to justify murdering non-Muslims and being blessed with a 9 year old girl to marry and have sex with.
In Canada Mohammed would be a pedophile and
dinied entry based on war crime activity,just don't tell the Muslims that,you'll get death threats by these Peace loving followers of Islam.