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Maher Hathout is going to get his award from the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission, despite everything. After all, as Commission President Adrian Dove put it the other day: "I challenge you to find another party in Los Angeles who is a practicing Muslim leader who would be less controversial." Aye, there's the rub. But why reward it?
"Controversial Muslim leader Mathout [sic] gets award despite opposition," from the Jewish Journal, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:
At a meeting that featured catcalls, standing ovations and the ejection of a disruptive audience member, Los Angeles' County Human Relations Commission voted again Monday to give an award to Dr. Maher Hathout, a local Muslim leader whose harsh rhetoric on Israel generated accusations of anti-Semitism and extremism.The four commissioners who voted in favor were outnumbered by five who abstained and four who were absent.
Hathout's victory marks the first time a Muslim-American has received the commission's award.
In what Commission President Adrian Dove called a "tough hearing," the public body ended weeks of uncertainty by reaffirming its vote to confer the John Allen Buggs Award for excellence in human relations on Hathout, despite opposition from much of the organized Jewish community. Detractors had portrayed the chairman of the Islamic Center and senior advisor to the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) as an apologist for terror and called his past criticism of Israel veiled anti-Semitism. Hathout and his supporters have countered that he supports a two-state solution, has long renounced terrorism on theological grounds and for years has worked closely with local Jewish groups to bridge the chasm between Muslims and Jews.
Five commissioners -- Donna Bojarsky, Vito Cannella, Rebecca Isaacs, Eleanor Montano and Mario Ceballos, abstained. Bojarsky, public policy consultant and founder of L.A. Works, a volunteer-service organization, is the child of a Holocaust survivor; she suggested that the honor had been tainted by the process and the controversy and that the commission should recognize Hathout's contributions by making him the keynote speaker at its Oct. 5 awards banquet.
She said she abstained because she believes to do so "was the best thing for human relations."
In a reflection of the highly charged emotions, Allyson Rowen Taylor, associate director of the American Jewish Congress Western Region, said she believes commissioners lacked the courage to vote against Hathout.
"They're afraid of the Muslim community burning cars, burning effigies and burning synagogues," Taylor said after the meeting.
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Posted by Robert at September 22, 2006 6:41 AM
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And the Moslem will happily accept the award with an oleaginous smile and a reproachful lecture, and the blue-eyed Marxist audience will applaud with self-satisfied piety (excuse my redundancy here) and the beat will go on.
Downward, towards Sharia. That would be perfidy. No, that will be perfidy.
It's been 1,396 years now, and it just doesn't end.
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at September 22, 2006 9:03 AM
Perhaps if Jews started beheading people and burning mosques and churches then LA County HRC would have withdrawn the award.
chsw
Posted by: chsw at September 22, 2006 9:24 AM
Wow ,great Muslums, get to threaten and cow Americans with the spector of violence and throwing infantile temper tanturms. What great civic and political leaders,to grovel to them.
Donna Bojarsky is a primo dihimmi, who squatted over and a took a piss all over her own people to grovel to Muslims. Allahu Akbar is the new Sieg Heil and one would think that the daughter of holocaust survivors wouldn't be so quick to embrace the Nazi's sidekicks and sucessors.
Islam is a plague, frankly in a way it would be good if they burned and wreaked stuff the U.S.
Maybe,just maybe a few of the sheeple might wake up.
at September 22, 2006 9:25 AM
Now the members of the Human Rights can feel good about themselves. "See how open minded and tolerant we are?" they can repeat to themselves internally. "Look at the good we've done to strenghten the community. We ignore no groups, no matter how questionable and dubious they may be. This will help them rid themselves of any ulterior motives they may have. We've met them more than halfway and we'll pull them over to the good side of things."
A nice fantasy. It will be good to reflect on and repeat as they drift off to sleep, replacing the fears and doubts they may have had if they'd considered the worst-case scenarios. Optimism will help them live longer, more productive lives as members of the L.A. County Human Relations Committee. They pay may not be that good, but kudos to those good folks who had a 'tough session' but fought the fight and gave the award to the token muslim leader."
Bullshit. Your hamhanded effort to flatter the muslim community into reciprocating will do nothing for the rest of us. You delude yourselves.
Posted by: A_Plague_on_Both_Houses at September 22, 2006 9:53 AM
"They're afraid of the Muslim community burning cars, burning effigies and burning synagogues," Taylor said after the meeting.
This article is a warning for anyone foolish enough to believe that what's going in Europe, the Islamization of a continent and a civilization, couldn't happen here. The same fear, the same inability to confront Islam's brutality is alive and well in the United States. Political Correctness over common sense, decency and truth.
Dhimmitude is alive and well in the USA.
Posted by: Proud Infidel at September 22, 2006 10:29 AM
I'm not so sure our police would allow muslims to destroy buildings, burn cars, and rampage through the streets, and stand by and watch muslims kill innocent people. That only happens elsewhere.
Posted by: freewoman at September 22, 2006 10:30 AM
Freewoman, don't be so sure 'it can't happen here.'
Posted by: A_Plague_on_Both_Houses at September 22, 2006 10:33 AM
Plague, the police officers I know, would NEVER stand around and let muslims destroy other people's property.
Posted by: freewoman at September 22, 2006 10:41 AM
Los Angeles has had enough rioting over several years.
They learned from the rioting in the Rodney King case that they must nip it in the bud fast and furious and not worry about the political fallout. They made that mistake in 92' and voud never to get caught up in the politically correct crap again.
Posted by: Mackie at September 22, 2006 10:59 AM
Los Angeles is one city.
Posted by: A_Plague_on_Both_Houses at September 22, 2006 11:40 AM
Time to give the award a name.
How about the "Hitler Award", since he did so much for human relations (and is so revered in the world of Islamania)?
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at September 22, 2006 12:00 PM
"They're afraid of the Muslim community burning cars, burning effigies and burning synagogues,"
And so they positively reinforce the people who enact this atrocious behavior by giving them awards, thereby increasing the behavior?
Leaving immorality aside for the moment, this is plain stupid.
Posted by: Daisytoo at September 22, 2006 12:29 PM
freewoman, American police are not an independent source; they are scrupulously bound by city, state, and Federal rules which, since the 1970s, have effectively neutered them with regard to political correctness. They would have to deal with rioting Muslims with one hand tied behind their backs worrying about "racist" treatment, etc. (just as our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have one hand tied behind their backs).
(As with most Leftist activism, while some aspects of this process of neutering police departments were good, as there was some corruption and abuse in various police departments, the Leftist activism went way overboard; but that's what Leftist activism does in any context -- it can't help going way overboard, since the mark it is trying to hit is an unrealistic Utopia.)
Posted by: remote_control at September 22, 2006 12:33 PM
were outnumbered by five who abstained and four who were absent
That is not leadership, that is the crew abandoning ship. It's up to us passengers to fend for ourselves.
Posted by: special_guest at September 22, 2006 1:06 PM
Let them riot in LA. Let them expose themselves for what they really are. Let them put America on alert. 'Give us what we want (which is everything) or we will throw a gigantic tantrum'. Let them riot in 300 American cities like they did in France. Let our homeboys put a stop to that crap if the police wont/cant. America is not France and Americans wont put up with that sht...Not every American is a coward
like this idiot:They're afraid of the Muslim community burning cars, burning effigies and burning synagogues," Taylor said after the meeting.
Where's John Wayne and a little 'true grit'? The LA Human Rights Commission appears to have little or no grit. Fire them and hire someone with some guts...
at September 22, 2006 1:11 PM
Unfortunately, Los Angelenos seem to be catching that deadly, contagious worldwide disease: dhimmism.
The prognosis: terminal unless life-support measures are begun promptly.
Posted by: pythagoras at September 22, 2006 2:08 PM
Remote, that may be true in some instances, but I have worked with officers that wouldn't have given a second thought to putting these guys down if they were a threat to the society around them. Sure, there may be some who would loan the lighter, (just as the officers went shopping in New Orleans after the hurricane), but there are a lot of honorable officers left that know right from wrong and aren't afraid to stand up for what is right.
Posted by: freewoman at September 22, 2006 2:15 PM
duh_swami - I think that muslims in the United States would be too crafty to riot in the streets like they have in other places. They know things would be different here. I don't really think we'll have a 'New Orleans II' with a group of muslims trying to overturn the order. They may be irrational, but they aren't without animal intelligence. They won't go medieval in the U.S. They would be met in the streets with gunfire.
Maybe the one state which could have something like rioting in the streets is Michigan.
Detroit - devil's night
Dearborn - ? could be interesting when they think they have the numbers. ?
Anywhere else - I don't think so. Not openly. Attacks using various explosions & poisons and the random SUV - yes.
Posted by: A_Plague_on_Both_Houses at September 22, 2006 3:08 PM
The terrified committee, in solemn terrified conclave assembled, engaged in discussing and then voting on a Human Relations award to a malignant person who has on record engaged in charges hate-filled and false (Israel as an "apartheid state") but who, nonetheless, will be given the by-now farcical award in what will be a by-then utterly farcical ceremony.
And a photographer will capture it all, including the forced smiles and feeble bonhomie at the end. And it will be in the L.A. Times. It will be taken seriously. We will read of "this year's winner" of the Buggs Award, "for recognition" of being the only Muslim they could think of who might conceivably, if they ignored a good deal about him, be given recognition as a "tireless" (is there another kind?) toiler and healer in the interfaith community, or faith healer for short, or merely just a blah blah who has taken a blah leadership blah role or blah something blah.
Who in Hollywood is reading this? Who will help me write the script? International Creative Management, or whatever is now the very best agency, kindly have your best, and most ruthless agent, contact me through Robert. His operators are standing by.
Posted by: Hugh at September 22, 2006 3:22 PM
"there are a lot of honorable officers left that know right from wrong and aren't afraid to stand up for what is right."
Problem is, these honorable officers (who I think are the majority of American police) can easily have their lives ruined (fired, no pension, sued, maybe even imprisoned) by one small wrong step over the Politically Correct line.
Posted by: remote_control at September 22, 2006 4:57 PM
This is what happens when the populace is disarmed. They are easily cowed into submission. Let them try that shit in Texas or any other state that has concealed carry permits.
"An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject, or worse, a statistic."
at September 23, 2006 5:29 AM
I guess we know what we have to do to get respect from the left!
Posted by: crusader619 at September 23, 2006 9:04 PM
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