Several people have notified me of an item entitled “Anti-Hate Blogger Slams Robert Spencer’s ‘Spin'” at CAIR’s website. CAIR has had its hounds out lately, with Ibrahim Hooper slandering me on Paula Zahn’s show, strongly implying that I wrote words that I did not write and do not believe.
Hot on the heels of that came the now-infamous bullying letter from CAIR’s lawyers, threatening Young America’s Foundation with legal action if they allowed me to speak last week (which I did). That letter contained false and defamatory charges against me, charges that the lawyers did not — and cannot — substantiate.
And now comes this, which shows that CAIR is really getting desperate. The entry on CAIR’s site contains a link to a lengthy pdf that purports to be an exposé of all my nefarious deeds. There’s just one problem: as Mary McCarthy famously said about Lillian Hellman, “Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.” This windy hit piece even gets my name wrong, and if there is even one true statement in it, I haven’t found it yet.
By posting this ludicrous piece, CAIR has signed on to the contention that Hugh Fitzgerald and I are one and the same — which will come as quite a surprise to all the people who met us both at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s Restoration Weekend last year. CAIR has likewise signed on to the pdf’s most glaring leap of logic: it contends both that I secretly support Osama bin Laden and the global jihad, and at the same time that I think all Muslims are terrorists who want to kill Americans. Can’t have your cake and eat it too, Ibrahim.
CAIR may be interested in knowing more about their new friend the “Rev.” Jim Sutter, the author of this pdf. He is a somewhat pathetic character who, according to
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