Hamas-linked CAIR rep blames conservative media for rise in "Islamophobia"

There are just two problems with this: the negative perceptions that people may have of Islam originate not with conservative media, but with the hateful and violent actions that Muslims do in the name of Islam; and there is no actual rise in "Islamophobia." But Hamas-linked CAIR plays the victimhood card wherever and whenever it can, because victim status means political clout in 21st-century America.

"CAIR Rep Blames Conservative Media for Rise in 'Islamophobia,'" from IPT News, January 9:

Fox News and conservative media outlets are perpetuating an Islamophobic narrative that leads to a rise in anti-Muslim hate crimes, an attorney for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), alleged in a recent interview with Russian Television (RT).

"There are people who are professionals whose main job is to say and do negative things about and against Muslims, these people have been now given wider stages, have been given more time on the air, on news media," CAIR legal counsel Nadhira Al-Khalili said. "For example, Fox News, as the gentleman stated before, has now been featuring many more Islamophobes than they ever had in the past, and we believe that the media has a direct correlation to the things that are happening in real life."

While there have been isolated attacks on Muslims by deranged individuals, law enforcement data fails to show the kind of alarming spike in attacks Al-Khalili and CAIR want people to believe is taking place.

From this, she jumps to a theory that there "is a small group of people who are profiting" by perpetuating bigotry against Muslims so that the American people will buy into the narrative and support Congressional funding for the expansion of the U.S. military and drone strikes to combat "the other."

Khalili states "Muslims are being portrayed as 'the other.'"

This type of sentiment illustrates CAIR's strategy – to propagate that the United States, the West, and key individuals are perpetuating a war on Islam, as opposed to a radical fringe of Islamists who exploit the religion for political goals.

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Non-Muslims have every reason to be wary of that which is Islamic.

In fact any non-Muslim who has studied the vile koran and mad dog mohamets sunnah would have to be an outright fool not to be wary of what islamic theology contains.

The only thing responsable for the spread of so-called islamophobia is islam itself and no other

The only thing responsable for the spread of so-called islamophobia is islam itself and no other

Our leadership doesn't fear Islam enough and lets in thousands a month.

It was the leader of the group of nazis which trained the muslim brotherhood (Adolf Hitler) who said if you are going to tell a lie, tell it big enough so the masses won't doubt it.

Muslims are not considered as "the other", they WANT to be other and then complain about being seen as other ...

Since Russia has it's own problems with Islamic terrorism, I doubt that much of the RT audience
were buying into CAIR BS...Certainly not Belsan survivors...

Well I blame the MSM and the rezident and and for being infidelaphobes, but no ones a listening anymore, CAIR has so many on the short and curly list because of the lack of education and propaganda blarney,
love all except the savages( no NOT American Indians, not even a thought except that one post a few weeks ago)
CKinfidel

I've been "blocked" from Abby Martin's Facebook page. Oh well. However I was able to post a few things on RT "News" Facebook page, (for as long as that lasts), like Ankara's Unacknowledged Genocide Turkey, Past and Future by Efraim Karsh and an exerpt from a letter I wrote:

Letter Re Murtaza Hussain Al-Jazeera Article 1-3-13

“Anti-Muslim violence spiralling out of control in America”


“This includes a string of murders specifically targeting Middle Eastern storekeepers”

I went to the “Middle Eastern” link Hussain hi-lites in his article.

In the picture of those at the funeral; What are those things those people are wearing on their heads? Gee, they look like those Marmaluke hats the Jews wear... ...oops. Sorry. “Yarmulke” or “Kippah”.

And what do the cops say in the article?

“NYPD spokesman Paul Browne was hesitant to link the killings to a bias against Middle Easterners, saying the evidence so far does not support the theory.”

And what's this?:

“Vahidipour, 78, a devout Jew from Iran”

And this:

“On Aug. 6, Isaac Kadare, 59, also from Egypt but of Jewish faith, was discovered shot in the head and slashed in the neck in his Bensonhurst store, Amazing 99 Cent Deal.”

I don't see that fact that Jews were murdered in this article.

And the picture they have of the suspect; Is it... …I'm not sure. Is that a White Supremist Skinhead? With a swastika tattooed on his face? Nooo. Gee. It looks like a black guy.

And I'm wondering how well adjusted mentally this guy will turn out to be. Like the deranged woman who pushed that man in front of the commuter train. Who was obviously MENTALLY ILL!!!!

It's incredible how... ….wait a minute. Let me check this out. Nope. Had to make sure; I was wondering if he cited Anders Brevik like so many Looney Toons. And Al-Jazeera being LoonWatch's big brother well.... ….at least he didn't stoop that low.

Anyway THAT's the example he chooses to use as THE example of “out of control anti-Muslim violence.” (It's that “violence” part that really cracks me up.)

Let's see; Hussain sites “FBI statistics” through his link “nearing record highs”. Which is nothing but a link to another biased article with this quote:

“FBI’s latest statistics show anti-Muslim crimes in 2011 dipped only slightly from that recent peak”

Which, when I hit the link, has NO mention of “anti-Muslim crimes”. (See what's happenin' here?) If you're going to “quote” something, at least have THOSE WORDS at the end of the link.
As it happens I did go to the links for 2002, 2010 and 2011 on the FBI site.

This is what I found as I spot-checked the “crimes against” catagories:

In 2002 statistics showed that in 2002 there were:

170 crimes of bias against “Islamic” victims.

And 1,039 bias crimes against Jewish victims.

In 2010 of the 1,552 victims of “Hate Crimes” 67% were Jewish and 12.7% were Islamic.

In 2011 of the 1,480 victims of “Hate Crimes” 63.2% were Jewish and 12.5% were Islamic.

Who are the real victims here... ...statistically?

While looking up “Yarmulke” in Nathan Ausabel's “The Book of Jewish Knowledge” I came across some information on Jewish “martyrdom”. Now here are some horrific “statistics. All through history Jews have been hounded and tormented. And it's the Muslims who have inflicted some of the worst attrocities. Read “Slavery, Terrorism and Islam” by Peter Hammond. He's got a few statistics in his book as well. Regarding this thing called “jihad”.

I'll let you work out the “out of the hundreds of millions of Americans” so on and so forth.

The thing is, yet again, it's not “hate-mongers” or “Islamophopes” who give us reasons to distrust Muslims. It's Islam itself! Because all they can do is lie and hype anything that MIGHT be the truth. The bottom line is that this entire article is a fraud. Whenever someone starts screaming about “anti-Muslim” this or that I keep thinking about those others who try to mislead you by ommiting those inconvenient facts; like there were JEWISH victims who were murdered by a BLACK GUY!!!

Or that Jews are ten times more likely to be a victim of a “hate crime” than Arabs will ever be.

And to quote The Southern Poverty Law Center about anything... ….puh-leeeeze!

Here are some books. That's if I get by the Al-Jazeera Censors.

Oh, but before I do that:

Islamists Project Islam's Worst Traits onto Christians by Raymond Ibrahim
raymondibrahim-com/9669/islamists-project-islam-worst-traits-onto

Muslims Project Islam's Worst Traits onto Israel and the Jews by Raymond Ibrahim
raymondibrahim-com/8348/muslims-project-islam-worst-traits-onto-israel


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