Fresh from it successful effort at intimidating the American Library Association into dropping a panel at which truths about Islam and jihad would have been heard, the increasingly thuggish unindicted co-conspirators at the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) are trying to strong-arm the San Diego Public Library into dropping an anti-jihad presentation.
CAIR's fear and hatred of free speech about jihad and Islamic supremacism mirrors the Organization of the Islamic Conference's international efforts to muzzle those who are telling the truth about this global effort to destroy free speech and impose a legal system that would institutionalize discrimination against women and religious minorities, and make the free exercise of the conscience a crime punishable by death.
"Library lecture drawing protest: Islamic group: Talk is tied to extremists," by Helen Gao for the San Diego Union-Tribune, August 11 (thanks to James):
SAN DIEGO — An Islamic advocacy group is protesting the San Diego Public Library's hosting of a presentation on Islam, saying the event is tied to an extremist group.“Radical Islam: Its Components and Root Causes” is scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday at the downtown Central Library.
Michael Hayutin, local director of ACT! for America, will “give a slide presentation/lecture on radical Islam and describe the threat some Americans feel that it represents,” said a news release from the library.
“It's not coincidental that stoning, honor killing, suicide bombing, prosecution of women and gays is largely coming from one sector,” Hayutin said. “The reality is it's Islamic culture around the world that's producing those terrible things.”
That's simply the truth.
The San Diego chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations sent a letter yesterday to library director Deborah Barrow asking that the library drop its sponsorship of the talk so “that local taxpayers are not made unwittingly complicit in the promotion of hatred and bigotry.”The Islamic group is not asking for the event to be canceled; it wants the library to stop publicizing it under its letterhead. The council also is proposing that the library invite a local Muslim leader to offer a “mainstream perspective” at the event.
In a letter, Edgar Hopida, director of public relations for the local chapter of the Islamic group, cited statements attributed to Brigitte Gabriel, founder of ACT!. Gabriel reportedly told , “Every practicing Muslim is radical Muslim.”
Hayutin and Kelly Cook, national field director for ACT!, said their organization's goal is to give a different perspective of Islam, which Cook said has been a “very violent geopolitical movement” throughout history.
Hayutin said he asked the library to sponsor his presentation after he attended a July 11 presentation by Hopida, “Islamophobia: Its Components, Root Causes and Remedies.”
During his talk, Hopida blamed ACT! for perpetuating Islamophobia. By his own account, he also warned the audience that books by ACT! founder Gabriel are biased.
Gabriel is the author of “Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America” and “They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It.” Gabriel, who immigrated to the United States in 1989, grew up as a Christian in Lebanon, where her home was bombed and she was injured during the Lebanese civil war.
In a statement, Gabriel said the Islamic council's criticism of ACT! has no merit given that it was an unindicted co-conspirator in a trial involving an Islamic charity called the Holy Land Foundation. In 2008, the foundation and five of its former organizers were convicted of illegally funneling more than $12 million to the Palestinian militant group Hamas. The Islamic council said it does not condone terrorism....
A typically weaselly response. So does it condemn Hamas? It didn't say. Does it consider what Hamas does to be terrorism? Of course, CAIR reps were not asked this.
Re-posting my record of the comments made to this article during our final days using IntenseDebate.
IPSOFACTO said - (quoting) " ... he also warned the audience that books by ACT! founder [Brigitte] Gabriel are biased."
As we all know the only truly unbiased book is The Holy Qu´ran. Its tenets compel Muslims to love everybody and to tolerate different oppinions and harsh critique of Islam with a smile. The religion of love and peace if I ever saw one. ;-)
-BOAKAI NGOMBU said -
I do like Pat Condell's statements [Apologists for Evil/You Tube] JW 7Aug09:
islamophobia ... cynical, manipulative lie ... induces artificial guilt ... causes us to reassess our values as prejudices.
IMNODHIMMI said - Act for America is an extremist group?
Only CAIR would think so.
-DUMBLEDORESARMY told IMNODHIMMI - Look at it this way. We now have an excellent example of what 'extremist' means in Islamspeak. It means 'someone who defends themselves against the jihad and rejects and resists the imposition of sharia'.
Sort of like the Islamspeak definition of 'terrorist'.
DUMBLEDORESARMY said - Comment for 'Hamas-linked CAIR thugs protesting against free speech yet again".
Since Brigitte Gabriel's book 'Because They Hate' has been mentioned, I would just like to say - for the benefit of anyone new to this site who may not have heard of Gabriel, or read her book - do. Get it and read it. It is well-written, an excellent read, very educational.
Indeed - I would recommend it particularly as a gift for older teenage girls, right alongside Ayaan Hirsi Ali's 'Infidel'.
They will absorb all sorts of truthful information about Islam, while enjoying the story of an adventurous and intelligent young girl growing up in the midst of 'excursions and alarums'.
LEEVY said - (quoting) " that local taxpayers are not made unwittingly complicit in the promotion of hatred and bigotry.”
it seems that CAIR is really thinking about the "taxpayers". but then do not mind our taxes going over to support terrorist loving fattah . etc.
VIRGIL said - In more sane times CAIR would have been shut down, had its assists seized, and its leaders deported back to the Middle East. It is obviously a criminal racket seeking to stifle any free discussion on Islam and its relation to jihad violence and silence any critics of Islamic supremacy. Unfortunately, in our times of political correctness and multiculturalism a thuggish group like CAIR can thrive and posses a degree of respectability.
EPISTEMOLOGY said - Does CAIR condemn HamaSS? Of course, they don't, HamaSS is an elected party in Gaza in a free and fair election, big deal. I'm so fed up by now, with our comment problems, with Mohammedans in general, and and and... I can't take them seriously any longer. They're so preposterous. In the UK they say we're taking the piss out of them, that's what I'm trying to do, but how can you take the piss out of somebody who's full of shit? The fight against windmills.
JOEBLOUGH said - "Well, we'll find out if there are any Americans, or even any men left around the San Diego library.
Hell, we'll find out if there are even any librarians."
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MIKEYMIKE said - I would love to get my hands on the strategic document from CAIR that says:
"Shut down opposing views. Do not debate. Talk to the media only. Accuse all opposing views as "bigotry" or "racism". Say you will not talk to "extremists". Marginalise those who would speak out against you."
It's the ALA all over again. And it's the same strategy.
Spencer should get on the other end of a teleprompter the next time CAIR is in the media.
ICESTAR said - This is a free speech issue. CAIR has some explaining to do. I am tired of reading about their fascist thug tactics. Some push back is in order.
Hayutin said he asked the library to sponsor his presentation after he attended a July 11 presentation by Hopida, “Islamophobia: Its Components, Root Causes and Remedies.”
So the library is being pressured to not publicly host an opposing view on Islam?
This is still the USA right? Fight back!
MBR said - "A recognition that the pen may be almost as mighty as the Islamic sword? Not yet, but they are working on it. From a just-posted CAIR release:
'CAIR: Calif. Library Asked to Drop Sponsorship of Anti-Islam Event
San Diego Public Library urged to invite Muslim speaker to offer accurate info'
Looks like this time it is Brigitte Gabriel in the firing-line. Spokesman Edgar Hopida is nothing if not brazen:
from http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/090810mu...
"Because we are strong defenders of the First amendment right to free speech, even the bigoted speech offered by groups such as Act! for America, we do not ask that the presentation be canceled.
Instead, we respectfully request that the San Diego Public Library withdraw its sponsorship of the event so that local taxpayers are not made unwittingly complicit in the promotion of hatred and bigotry. We also ask that a representative from the San Diego Muslim community be permitted to offer accurate and balanced information about Islam to those attending the event. "
Who said libraries were just dull and dusty places?"
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