In FrontPage this morning, I discuss what should be a media firestorm surrounding Nancy Pelosi, but is not and will not be:
Neil Munro at The Daily Caller
reported Friday that “Democratic leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi headlined a
high-dollar fundraiser in May that was attended by U.S.-based Islamist
groups and individuals linked by the U.S. government to the Hamas jihad
group and to the Egypt-based Muslim Brotherhood movement. The donors at
the undisclosed May 16 event included Nihad Awad, the co-founder of the
Council on American Islamic Relations, according to data provided by the
nonpartisan Investigative Project on Terrorism.”For Pelosi to appear at a fundraiser with Nihad Awad is as revolting,
and should be as newsworthy, as if she had appeared at a fundraiser
with David Duke or Bull Connor. The Council on American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR) is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case “” so named by the Justice Department. CAIR operatives have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR”s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements. Its California chapter distributed posters telling Muslims not to talk to the FBI.With a rap sheet like that, every self-respecting politician on both
sides of the aisle should shun CAIR. Yet the political Left is so
corrupt and willfully blind about the threat of the global jihad and
Islamic supremacism that it is unlikely Pelosi hesitated even for a
moment to appear at the fundraiser. And if she did, her suspicions would
likely have been assuaged by the fact that, from her perspective, Awad
and Hamas-linked CAIR had all the right enemies: “right-wing
extremists,” Christians, Zionists, even Christian Zionists. The
mainstream media likewise treat this Hamas-tainted group as if it were
the respectable civil rights organization it portrays itself to be in
its propaganda — and since they also portray Pelosi as if she were a
political figure worthy of respect, it is not surprising that she would
subscribe to the same view of CAIR that they have.