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Hamas-linked CAIR’s Hooper demands Muslim vloggers apologize for hoax video

Oct 21, 2014 8:48 pm By Robert Spencer

ibrahim-hooperOh, this is rich. Ibrahim “Honest Ibe” Hooper of Hamas-linked CAIR is enraged that Adam Saleh and Sheikh Akbar fabricated their video purporting to show a New York City police officer profiling Muslims. Hooper is afraid that Saleh and Akbar will give the Muslim victimhood industry a bad name: “He fears that the next time a Muslim calls in a hate crime, others will claim they were faking it.”

Not to worry, Ibrahim. Many people already suspect that Muslim hate crime claims are fake because of the deceptions and half-truths retailed by your organization. Here is an excerpt from a May 2005 article, “CAIR’s Hate Crimes Nonsense,” by Daniel Pipes and Sharon Chadha:

  • CAIR cites the July 9, 2004 case of apparent arson at a Muslim-owned grocery store in Everett, Washington. But investigators quickly determined that Mirza Akram, the store’s operator, staged the arson to avoid meeting his scheduled payments and to collect on an insurance policy. Although Akram’s antics were long ago exposed as a fraud, CAIR continues to list this case as an anti-Muslim hate crime.
  • CAIR also states that “a Muslim-owned market was burned down in Texas” on August 6, 2004. But already a month later, the owner was arrested for having set fire to his own business. Why does CAIR include this incident in its report?
  • CAIR lists the March 2005 lawsuit filed by the Salmi family for the firebombing of their family van as one example of a hate crime report it received in 2004. However, the crime named in the lawsuit occurred in March 2003, was already reported by CAIR in 2003, and should not have been tabulated again in the 2004 report.
  • CAIR reports that “a home-made bomb exploded outside of the Champions Mosque in the Houston suburb of Spring, Texas,” staking its claim on eyewitness reports that on July 4, 2004, “two white males” were seen placing the bomb. We inquired about the incident and found that Spring’s sheriff department could not locate any police files about an explosion. Further inquiries to the mosque and an e-mail to CAIR both went unanswered. There is scant evidence that any crime even occurred.
  • CAIR notes that “investigators in Massachusetts are still investigating a potential hate-motivated arson against the Al-Baqi Islamic Center in Springfield.” However the case was long ago ruled a simple robbery, news that even CAIR’s own website has posted. The Associated Press reported on January 21, 2005, that prosecutors determined the fire was set by teen-age boys “who broke into the Al-Baqi mosque to steal money and candy, then set the fire to cover their tracks.” The boys, they clarified, “weren’t motivated by hatred toward Muslims.”
  • CAIR describes what happened to a Muslim family in Tucson, Arizona: “bullet shots pierced their home as they ate dinner in October 2004” and two months later their truck was smashed and vandalized. But the only evidence that either incident was motivated by hate of Muslims is the Dehdashti family itself, not the police. Detective Frank Rovi of Pima County Sheriff’s Department, who handled the shooting investigation, said that according to the neighbors, the desert area by the Dehdashti house was often used for target practice. Neither incident was classified as a hate crime and both cases were closed by February 2005, long before the CAIR report went to press.

Of twenty “anti-Muslim hate crimes” in 2004 that CAIR describes, at least six are invalid – and further research could likely find problems with the other fourteen instances.

Nor is this the first unreliable CAIR report; earlier ones were just as bad. Speaking about the 1996 CAIR report, terrorism expert Steven Emerson noted in congressional testimony that “a large proportion of the complaints have been found to be fabricated, manufactured, distorted or outside standard definitions of hate crimes.” The 1996 report included the arrest of Musa Abu Marzouk, a Hamas leader, and the trial of Omar Abdul-Rahman, the blind sheikh and ringleader of the foiled “Day of Terror” plot to blow up New York City landmarks.

So people have known for over nine years that Hamas-linked CAIR’s claims about hate crimes against Muslims are untrustworthy. Hamas-linked CAIR is far more responsible than Adam Saleh and Sheikh Akbar are for people not trusting reports of anti-Muslim hate crimes.

“Muslim Vloggers Come Clean About Staged Stop-And-Frisk Video (UDPATE [sic]),” by Carol Kuruvilla, Huffington Post, October 21, 2014:

UPDATE 2: Oct. 21 — Vloggers Adam Saleh and Sheikh Akbar have come clean with a statement admitting that their viral video was staged:

“This video is a Dramatization of previous events that occurred with us in our tradition clothing while filming in NYC. This video is not against the NYPD, it’s just an example of what we have to go through sometimes when filming in NYC. This is to raise awareness for Racial Profiling,” the vloggers wrote.

Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR’s national communications director, said that the organization is demanding a straightforward apology from the pair, adding that the vloggers’ actions were “unacceptable and irresponsible,” and potentially damaging to the Muslim community. He fears that the next time a Muslim calls in a hate crime, others will claim they were faking it.

“Muslims are already under the microscope and to do this just to gain some cheap publicity is totally unacceptable,” Hooper told The Huffington Post.

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  1. Beagle says

    Oct 21, 2014 at 9:07 pm

    In fairness to Muslims, most of the ‘hate crimes’ on campus are faked too, often by the professors in various ethnic or gender disciplines. They are never punished though the police are always involved and investigations conducted. Maybe the Islamic grievance industry is merely conforming to existing norms of American leftist behavior?

    • Shane says

      Oct 22, 2014 at 10:14 am

      Islamic supremacists are allied with left wing America-haters, so it is no surprised that radical Muslims would use the left’s techniques to slander good Americans.
      Muslim of America Terrorist Training Camps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53Mu5nMVFuQ

  2. Beagle says

    Oct 21, 2014 at 9:56 pm

    IS ‘desperation’ though in mortar range of Green Zone. Mia Bloom cited as expert on suicide bombings.

    http://www.ibtimes.com/uptick-isis-car-suicide-bombs-baghdad-signals-desperation-experts-say-1708109

    US Embassy captured in a couple weeks? The experts on IS have been reliably unreliable.

  3. Truthiocity says

    Oct 21, 2014 at 9:57 pm

    Oh please. He’s just displeased that they were found out.

    • Joe Murphy says

      Oct 22, 2014 at 2:59 am

      Exactly. Apologize aloud to the infidels for making a hoax video. In your hearts, curse yourself for making such a lousy one that you were so easily fingered!

  4. Bezelel says

    Oct 21, 2014 at 10:08 pm

    Ironically the actors were hamming it up.

    • Tradewinds says

      Oct 22, 2014 at 8:36 am

      Heh!

  5. livingengine says

    Oct 21, 2014 at 10:38 pm

    I’lllllllll do the fibbin’ around here. KA-BONG!

  6. Salah says

    Oct 21, 2014 at 11:08 pm

    How is it made: Muslim Brotherhood fake video.

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2014/04/al-jazeera-busted-strong-bias-of-al.html

  7. pumbar says

    Oct 22, 2014 at 12:08 am

    They should’ve got Ben Affleck to play the cop.

    • Bezelel says

      Oct 22, 2014 at 7:09 am

      Yeah, then they could have added a molestation complaint.

  8. John Collignon says

    Oct 22, 2014 at 4:43 am

    Actually this is calling attention to racial profiling according to the perps. So…Hooper and these fellows are on the same path be it indirectly. Racial profiling should be renamed to something else like maybe…Action based reality profiling. If certain “members” of society inflict harm to the majority 90% of the time, I should think even a halfwit would see the correlation and take defensive or offensive action accordingly. But no…these hacktivists would lose no sleep over another 9/11 …..would they !?

  9. IQ al Rassooli says

    Oct 22, 2014 at 5:11 am

    Hooper is CORRECT on only one item:

    “Muslims are already under the microscope…”

    This EXACTLY where the followers of Muhammad who are infected by the most virulent virus known to mankind called Quran should be!

    ‘Muslims’ are always claiming VICTIM HOOD when in fact and reality they have been (and continue to be) the most aggressive and intolerant creature in the world!

    The levels of their hypocrisy and duplicity are obscene

    IQ al Rassooli
    Kafir & Proud!

  10. twostellas says

    Oct 22, 2014 at 8:11 am

    And don’t forget all the honor killings faked as anti-Muslim hate crimes, that went down the memory hole when exposed.

    CAIR must be worried about the guy getting arrested for impersonating a police officer, trying to run interference for him saying how mad they are and he ONLY needs to apologize to them, as if they are the authorities, so they can put this faked video down the memory hole too.

  11. Boston Tea Party says

    Oct 22, 2014 at 9:22 am

    This is completely logical once you understand the morality of Islam: anything that advances Islam is, by definition, good. Anything that hinders the spread of Islam is bad. Raping and killing infidels? Those are good things if they’re helping to spread Islam. But if those things create too much negative publicity for Islam among the infidels, and may actually be hurting the reputation of Islam? Then they become bad and Muslims will condemn them.

    Making dishonest, fraudulent videos like this one? If it serves to advance Islam, then Islam says it’s good. If the infidels discover that it’s fraudulent and then think less of Islam because of it? Then it becomes bad, and Muslims like Hooper will condemn it.

    This is the ultimate morality of Islam, which we see in countless examples.

  12. Henry says

    Oct 22, 2014 at 4:29 pm

    Dear Mr. Hooper, I’m thinking of starting a council of Infidel and Islamic relations, I guess I’ll call it CIIR. As you no doubt have heard, there have been many hate crimes perpetrated by Muslims towards Infidels over the years, with the matter only escalating. I’ve no doubt your organization will want to do all you can to help quell the rampant ‘Infidelophobia’ that’s been taking place on the part of Muslims (I’ve heard a rumour that the trouble stems from a book called the’Qur’an’, will you please look into this?).

    Let’s work together to tackle this issue and do all we can to preserve peace , harmony and co-existence between the different ‘faith’ groups.

    Looking forward to your reply,

    yours in earnest

  13. DC Watson says

    Oct 22, 2014 at 7:22 pm

    Hooper still has that big bulbous head I see. Looks like a basketball sitting on a stack of dimes.

  14. D.C. Watson says

    Oct 22, 2014 at 7:24 pm

    Look at the head on that thing. Looks like a basketball sitting on a stack of dimes.

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