The academics are in terror and full submission mode. It is “bigotry” and “hatred” to tell the truth about jihad terror and Islamic supremacism. The freedom of speech is everywhere in retreat, while most Americans are too distracted, lazy, or unaware of the implications to notice or care. This scenario is a recipe for authoritarianism and thought control. Probably at that point some of the Leftist intelligentsia that has aided and abetted this will wake up. But by then it will be too late.
Videos thanks to Pamela Geller, who has good observations on Hooper’s appearances here and here.
“Too many still fear offending Islam,” by Michael Coren for QMI Agency, April 11:
A couple of years ago I received an accusatory e-mail from someone named Ibrahim Hooper, one of the main media faces of the Washington, D.C.-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). He’s a white convert to Islam and looks more like an angry mall cop than a devout Muslim.
His letter was brief and typical and I ignored it. Hard to ignore Hooper though, as he is ubiquitous on American TV.
And there I was on Wednesday night, lying in bed in my Sacramento hotel room drinking wine, eating a ham sandwich, having earlier been to the city’s delightful Catholic cathedral, watching Fox News as Hooper shouted at the highly intelligent Megyn Kelly when she questioned his attacks on the heroic Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
The reason? Ali, a victim of genital mutilation, a first-hand witness in Somalia and the Islamic diaspora of Muslim misogyny and the author of several books exposing the reality of Islamic attitudes, had been subjected to yet another example of liberal cowardice and hypocrisy.
Brandeis University, founded in part to counter Jewish quotas, anti-Semitism and racism, initially decided to give Ali an honorary degree for her work on behalf of Muslim women, but then withdrew the offer after pressure, largely from CAIR.
Thus Hooper desperately trying to defend his untenable position against Megyn Kelly, whom he tried to interrupt and silence whenever she made a compelling point. But she’s a strong woman, not beaten into submission, does not live in a society run by sharia law, and she exposed Hooper for what he is.
There is now a great deal of pushback at Brandeis and elsewhere in the liberal academic establishment, but those in power are still terrified of offending Islam. That’s odd, in that honour killing is still overwhelmingly an Islamic issue, women still have very few rights in Muslim states, rape victims are still punished in large parts of the Middle East, women are still forced to cover their entire bodies in thick, dark cloth in scorching heat in much of the Islamic world and gender equality simply does not exist within Muslim culture, theology and jurisprudence.
So why would universities, newspapers, think-tanks and political parties founded on liberalism, feminism and secularism not only refuse to counter Islamic radicalism but deny that it was in any way contrary to modern values and virtues?
Simple. Because they are frightened of being accused of Islamophobia and racism, because they do not want to ally themselves in any way with conservatives who are brave enough to stand up to jihadism, because they often hate the west and Christianity and perceive Islam to be counter to both, and because they embrace the racism of lowered expectations.
Trendy denial plays well at book launches and fashionable dinner parties and those who attend never see the degradation and desperation of the women of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Iran. Complacency is a terrible thing.
Louis Brandeis of the eponymous university once said, “Sunlight is the best disinfectant.” How right he was. But there’s a great deal of darkness clouding the minds of those now at his college and in so many other places where they really should know better.
gfmucci says
It is the same way in the great majority of churches. See, hear, speak no evil and no evil will exist is the mantra. How delusional. And suicidal.
Defcon 4 says
It goes well beyond see, hear, speak no evil in some churches. I had a friend whose church was involved in an inter-faith lie session w/muslo-nazis. When he objected to the lies being spewed to his congregation by a muslo-nazi, about islam — he was told to remain silent or be ejected.
JS says
Hooper said that he wanted to show the world the true face of peaceful Islam. Well… If that’s what peaceful means then I must be POTUS… Hey Mr. Hooper, in case you don’t notice, actions speak louder than words. .. Salut to Ms. Kelly!
Tradewinds says
There is no peaceful Islam. A contradiction in terms. Hooper is as much a propagandist as Goebbels.
mortimer says
Megyn Kelly should be given an award for outstanding journalism and Fox should be complimented for standing for freedom.
Wellington says
Megyn Kelly devastated Ibrahim Hooper (the second segment was even better than the first). Of course, the devastation was aided by the extremely boorish and stupid behavior by Hooper himself. I loved the closing comment by Kelly to the effect that Brandeis University and CAIR stand shoulder to shoulder with each other. How true and how condemning of Brandeis it is.
Jay Boo says
Ibraham ‘Goober’ tried the usual stunts that leave leftist media like National Public Radio fawning with baskets of apologies should they dare to ask even the most innocuous type of question.
Defcon 4 says
NPR should just call themselves what they are: Al Jazeera radio.
canto28 says
Everyone at Fox is missing Hooper’s point (albeit a bad one) and do not address it (they can’t within PC bounds). Ali Ayaan Hirsi opposes Islam itself and considers it a very evil force that must be opposed (intellectual “war”), as CAIR’s Hooper correctly indicated. The point is that she doesn’t hide behind the adjective “radical” – as all politically correct spokespersons must – because she knows what she is talking about.
She knows that the source of all of the oppression and cruel abuse of women shown in that Honor Diaries film (not to mention violent jihad, death to apostates and blasphemers, etc.) is in fact rooted in Islam itself (not “radical” Islam, Islam is already radical), even if not all Muslims approve of these cruelties. You can see the sources of these evils for yourself in the Qur’an, the Hadiths and the biography of Muhammad. For ex.
According to the Qur’an (Surah 33:21), Muhammad is the pattern of conduct for Muslims. But Muhammad himself married a child-bride:
Sahih al-Bukhari 3896—Narrated
Hisham’s father: Khadija died three years before the Prophet departed to
Al-Madina. He stayed there for two years or so and then he wrote the marriage
(wedding) contract with Aishah when she was a girl of six years of age, and
he consummated that marriage when she was nine years old.
Q4:34 Men have authority over women, because god has made the one superior to the other.
Q4:35 As for those women from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and
send then to beds apart and beat them.
To mention a few sources.
PRCS says
Bravo to FoxNews, in general, for their increasingly open activism in this regard.
Now, when they finally realize that the true problem is NOT “radical” Islam but Orthodox Islam–as it’s written, amputations and all–I will really applaud them.
Though they appear well intentioned, cast members of “RedEye” and “The Five”, for example, in their recent, more vocal criticism of Islam’s brutality and misogyny, still draw the “we know what we’re talking about” line between “radical Islam” and everyday, “one of the world’s great religions”, Islam.
In noting that knowledge is just a Google search away, Andrea Tantaros, who seems the most informed about Islam, then asserted several times that Ayaan Hirsi Ali said that “We are at war with “radical” Islam.”
I get the idea that FoxNews’ management is holding them back just a bit.
Canto28 says
Yes, held back, I suspect. I would not be surprised if each of The Five or even Megyn Kelly were expressly forbidden to bring a Qur’an (or Hadith or Mo bio ) and read from it. It would be a logical thing to do in response to the likes of Hooper but they never do it.
Veracious_one says
Old man Hooper tried to use the old Islamic “drown ’em out” trick to avoid actual debate….he can’t handle the truth…
Champ ✿ says
Brava, Megyn!!! …I just love her and she’s such a tough tiger–oh, and beautiful, too!
Yeah those two interviews were very enlightening. And Megyn really summed it up at the end of the second interview by stating that ‘brandies university can take comfort in knowing that they stand shoulder-to-shoulder with you can cair’ …something along those lines.
Indeed, they can take comfort in knowing that they stand shoulder-to-shoulder with an organization with *terrorist connections*! Very bold and brave of you to point out this truth about cair, Megyn! It’s takes courage to stand up to these evil thugs with big mouths and deep pockets.
My, hooper is such a lost cause serving and defending an evil cause: islam. And the sound of his whining, high-pitched voice nearly drove me insane.
Davegreybeard says
Aye Champ, a beautiful, tough tiger she is, she is magnificent!
She gives heart to all of us who slog along, trying to “get through” to our somnolent fellow Infidels.
Sure, the matter of “radical Islam” vs. “moderate Islam” needs to be exposed for the sham that it is, as it is really nothing more than a smoke screen for Jihadis to hide behind.
But I’ve got a real feeling that Miss Meagan is not done with this.
What a gorgeous, brave heroine God has given us.
Champ ♥ says
True, Davegreybeard! …great comment, my friend 🙂
duh_swami says
When Kelly discussed this with Bill O. Bill made it clear that the abuses of women only happen in some Islamic countries, but not all of them. While they acknowledge the abuses, they neglect to say where those abuses come from and what drives them. They stop short of actually identifying Islam as the culprit.
Wellington says
I agree with you, duh_swami, that Kelly and O’Reilly (and others at Fox) do stop short of blaming Islam per se but I suspect they’re only one or two steps from doing so. I see it as a matter of when and not if, though sooner from Kelly I would hazard then from O’Reilly, who tries to be “fair and balanced” at times to a reductio ad absurdum level. But, even so, Kelly and O’Reilly say enough already that people watching can easily draw their own conclusions that there’s something deeply wrong with Islam, all of it.
Champ ✿ says
hooper is such a brazen HYPOCRITE!!
He’s looking for *hate* everywhere else, but it’s right there within the pages of the unholy quran: which teaches hatred for Jews and Christians–in particular–and hatred for all non-believers.
Jay Boo says
@Champ
What Islamists hate most of all is (mirrors).
It is not possible to demonize Islam more than Islam does by itself.
Champ ✿ says
True, Jay Boo …and mohammedans look foolish defending the indefensible: evil islam.
Defcon 4 says
@Champ
Which is precisely why all criticism (whether erudite and polite or not) is outlawed in all islamic-fascist states.
ApolloSpeaks says
WHERE WILL BRANDEIS DRAW THE LINE
on being pressured by Islamist thugs? If today they can force it to cancel honoring Ayaan Ali, tomorrow they’ll force it to change its name because Louis Brandeis was a Jew and Zionist leader-an offense to Islam.
Click http://www.apollospeaks.com for more on this subject.
dumbledoresarmy says
Here’s an idea that should be put, point blank, to Fox TV.
On 2 November the tenth anniversary of the assassination of Theo Van Gogh by a pious mohammedthug who desired to impose on Theo Van Gogh the standard sharia punishment for ‘blasphemy’ .
A fitting way to remember and honor him would be to run a special evening program.
A screening of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s and Theo Van Gogh’s short – and very arty and elegant – film on the religiously-sanctioned-and-mandated oppression of women within Islam, “Submission”. Unexpurgated. English subtitles.
It would be introduced by Ms Ali, who would be given about ten minutes to do the following: give a brief eulogy for her late friend, Mr Van Gogh, and explain how and why the film was made…and to explain to the audience why it was that an orthodox Muslim would feel entitled to kill Van Gogh and why other Muslims would approve of the killing.
After the film, Ms Ali would be joined in the studio – preferably in an elegant living-room setting, with tea and coffee and little cakes provided – by other women – three apostates, two Christians and a Jew – for a symposium on the subject of Islamic oppression of women and riff about other issues, such as the blasphemy law and the apostasy law.
Taslima Nasreen, Nonie Darwish and Wafa Sultan would be the ex-Muslims – two being atheists like Ayaan, and Nonie having converted to Christianity; Brigitte Gabriel and Rosemary Sookhdeo the Christians; and Phyllis Chesler the Jew (who in her youth, as the wife of a plausible and charming Afghan Muslim, experienced purdah firsthand in 1960s Afghanistan).
It would make good TV. The Somali, the Bengali, the Egyptian, the Syrian, the Lebanese, the Jewish American who has lived in Kabul and has done sterling work on the subject of honor murders and how they differ from ordinary domestic / family violence, and the New Zealander [Mrs Sookhdeo] who has spent most of her life in the UK observing sharia creep first-hand…as the wife of an ex-Muslim now-Christian mission priest in difficult urban parishes. All of them intelligent, articulate, passionate, courageous.
Give them an hour – hell, give ’em two hours, and let them rip. No holds barred. Minimal editing. Encourage them to talk about their experiences, their observations, their research, their books and why they wrote them.
Mrs Sookhdeo did formal academic research into the lot of women within the Muslim enclaves in the UK; but the university under whose auspices she did that research refused to give her her degree unless she substantially modified her findings …because, you see, said findings were too damning of Islam…to which Mrs Sookhdeo basically said, well then, you’ll have to deny me the degree, because I’m not backing down, the facts are the facts. And she put her research into a handy little book, “Secrets Behind the Burqa”. Like Ali, Darwish and Sultan, Mrs Sookhdeo researched what the Islamic texts and their interpreters teach, along with looking at how it works out on the ground in practice. Incidentally, one of Mrs Sookhdeo’s daughters helped run a women’s shelter in England…and got to see just how many Muslim women flee to such shelters. Lots…a disproportionate number. Ayaan saw the same phenomenon in the Netherlands when she worked as an interpreter – women’s shelters and abortion clinics were *full* of Muslim women, while women from other backgrounds, whether native to the country or nonMuslim immigrants, were much less commonly seen.
PS It might be interesting to ask Ms Ali or Ms Sultan to tell the audience the story of Asma Bint Marwan…whose murder has been the model for the murders of so many outspoken Islamocritical women and men ever since.
desidude2 says
Mr Hooper is correct in a way. an attack on the product of islam is an attack on and condemnation of islam itself. But isn’t that most obvious? if you were going to condemn mass murder of an ethnic people, military dictatorship, and goals of world domination. Does it not make sense to condemn the philosophy behind whether it’s Naziism or communism?
Mr Hooper while we condemn the FGM, religious cleansing, sharia laws, and goals of world domination, we cannot also avoid condemning the religion of islam, which is behind this.
Bettina says
Or, if the fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree… right? I do take exception, however, to your respectful designation of Mister when applied to another sinister agent of evil. Many other appellations can be assigned to this f—face!
Guy Macher says
Spunky but unprofessional. She could have quoted from the Koran and hadiths about what is commanded by Allah, aka Satan, to happen to critics of Islam.
Bettina says
Off-Topic, but not so much — “Holy Land Foundation” /Justice Dept. Scandal:
Congressman Gohmert (R-TX), is courageously challenging Eric Holder of Justice to fork out 9,600 classified docs that Justice offered Islamic orgs linked to the Muzzie Brotherhood – behind the Holy Land Foundation front. CAIR among them. The Muzzie recipients of our largesse have been laughing for the 3 whole years that Gohmert’s been working on this. You can thank Obozo for this latest treachery! Maybe he’ll will be happy when we turn into a trembling mass of jello like the U.K!
Act for America sent me this very short YouTube video – pick it up and see Holder trying to deflect the clear message that he could be in contempt of Congress.
duh_swami says
Doug is the best thing to happen to the Anti-jihad anti-sharia movements.
He should be on TV more often, maybe FOX would hire him to do a show with Beckle.. That might be worth watching.
Bezelel says
I would love to see Megan have Pamela on next,right away, while the topic is still fresh.
livingengine says
At 6:41 Mr. Hooper says he condemns Hamas.
However, if one goes to CAIR’s website, and searches for “Hamas”, “Israel”, or “Palestine” a different picture emerges.
A search for the term “Hamas” finds the same language repeated across several different posts. There are no condemnations of Hamas without CAIR condemning Israel in the same breath.
http://www.cair.com/search-results.html?searchword=hamas&searchphrase=all&limitstart=0
A search for the term “Israel” is a different story.
Here, we find much more activity, including support for the Gaza Flotilla.
http://www.cair.com/search-results.html?searchword=israel&ordering=newest&searchphrase=all&limit=20&start=40
There is never any such action from CAIR in response to Hamas. Instead, CAIR gives us this kind of thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McJVmt8QAjY&eurl=http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=CAIR&btnG=Search+News
It is hard to miss CAIR’s involving themselves with the “Irvine 11” , which was the brainchild of Muslim Students Union is a Hamas support group, as is Bazian.
http://www.cair.com/search-results.html?searchword=israel&ordering=newest&searchphrase=all&limit=20&start=20
Finally, the results from a search for “Palestine” shows us CAIR is very enthusiastic about the coming together of many of the Muslim Brotherhood, and racist Muslim groups into one group, that also includes American Muslims for Palestine.
http://www.cair.com/search-results.html?searchword=palestine&ordering=newest&searchphrase=all&limit=20
American Muslims for Palestine is a pro-Hamas group. Hatem Bazian is on their board of directors. Sheik Jamal Said, an unindicted co conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial is a featured speaker at AMP, as is Rafiq Jabbar, a co founder of CAIR.
http://www.investigativeproject.org/3346/american-muslims-for-palestine-web-of-hamas
http://conference.ampalestine.org/
For CAIR to be carrying on this way without distinguishing themselves from the Hamas connections is contrary to their claim of unequivocally condemning Hamas.
Their condemnations of Hamas are tiny, and perfunctory. Their sympathies for Hamas are glaring, and this is just what you would expect from a spin off of the Palestine Committee.
gravenimage says
Megyn Kelly rocks!
She exposed the egregious Ibrahim Hooper for the pious bullying thug that he is.
Yes, it would have been better if she had quoted the Qur’an and the Hadith and the Reliance of the Traveller and challenged Hooper specifically about why Honor Killing is “am issue”—but by the standards of the MSM this was pretty damn good. I wish we had more smart and tough journalists taking these apologists for evil to task.
I believe that the average viewer would come away from these segments with a justifiably jaundiced view of Hooper and CAIR.
gravenimage says
That should have been “an issue”.
Paleologos says
Yeah Megyn!
… a great combination of brains, beauty, and guts …
The other major cable news outlets are busy giving theory # 153 on the pinger of the missing Malaysian aircraft.
R/
Paleologos
dumbledoresarmy says
I hope that every single Jihadwatcher posting or lurking here who enjoyed watching Megyn Kelly roasting Ibrahim Hooper has written – or phoned – or emailed Megyn Kelly’s boss, Fox TV, to express their appreciation.
Real letters have the biggest impact. Phone or email, so as to get the reactions in quickly; but then follow up with “love mail” on paper.
Sujith says
Don’t get too excited on how Megyn tried to roast the vily Ibrahim Hooper . Is that a sign of Independent Journalism ?
Is she the new messiah who takes on Islam and jihadis ?
Of course not , she does what her saudi masters allow.
Saudis have had a major fall out with Muslim brotherhood after their plan to throw out the saudi and other such regimes in middle east was exposed.
So now they allow the Fake “Heroine” Megyn to take on CAIR like they could not do before.
Only Real Heroes are those who are not paid by any Muslim organisation and do it for the protection of rights of all non muslims so there won’t be civil war or Genocide of all non muslims in America and western countries in future if this is not controlled politically and socially right now.
Bezelel says
Since Megan broadcast to a global audience and put her name on it, I can’t discount her effort in any way. I think it would be prudent for her to have a personal security team after spitting in the face of the satanic bastard.
Dirka Dirka Mohammed Jihad says
CAiR the same group that tells all muslims to not talk to law enforcement or the FBI regarding ANYTHING! Yeah, they are definitely not part of the problem.
Defcon 4 says
Strange that Megyn didn’t bring up that fact (that CAIR advised muslimes not to talk to law enforcement).
laoch says
Dose any one know the email so that I can send a message to this college ?
laoch says
care is more worried about its image then about womens rights or lack there off, its a pity the news women did not push that point. And the fact that violence of women in Islam and of other religions is very a way of live in the middle east.