True to form for the mainstream media, Matt Pearce and Kurtis Lee are completely uncritical regarding CAIR’s self-description. Would they repeat without caveat or opposing voice the self-description of the American Freedom Defense Initiative? What do you think?
Also, they don’t deem it fit to print the fact that 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 a poster telling Muslims not to talk to the FBI, and its Tampa chapter distributed pamphlets counseling the same silence and non-cooperation with law enforcement. CAIR has opposed every anti-terror measure that has ever been proposed or implemented.
Then, displaying his typical brazen chutzpah, Awad says: “I’m really angry that despite all the work that we have been doing in our communities to serve the nation, we are treated with suspicion.” All the work Hamas-linked CAIR has done in Muslim communities has been designed to obstruct counter-terror efforts, not to aid them, and to stigmatize and demonize all those who oppose jihad terror as “bigots” and “Islamophobes.” No wonder there is suspicion.
It is also ridiculous for the Los Angeles Times to be aiding and abetting Hamas-linked CAIR’s claim to be a “civil rights” organization because opposing jihad terror is not a civil rights issue. No one with any sense wants to take away civil rights from Muslims or anyone else. The scrutiny of Muslim communities is about preventing another jihad terror attack, and that is all it is about. If Awad were really interested in preventing jihad terror attacks, he would be applauding counter-terror efforts, not trying to block them.
“The new civil rights leaders: Emerging voices in the 21st century,” by Matt Pearce and Kurtis Lee, Los Angeles Times, March 5, 2015:
Some of the concerns are old — voting rights, police misconduct, racial profiling. Others — such as trans rights and access to technology — are more recent. Much in the spirit of activists who pushed for civil rights a half century ago, a new generation is fighting battles old and new. A sampling of these emerging leaders across the country:…
“Despite all the work that we have been doing in our communities to serve the nation, we are treated with suspicion.”
Nihad AwadExecutive director and co-founder, Council on American-Islamic Relations
Age: 53
Washington, D.C.
CAIR is the nation’s most prominent Islamic advocacy organization, making Awad, its leader, one of America’s foremost Muslim voices in the years since the Sept. 11 attacks. The group monitors hate crimes and discrimination against Muslim Americans and pushes news releases and action alerts on issues affecting Muslims.
Awad has been an outspoken opponent of blanket surveillance of Muslims, and his own email account was allegedly tracked by the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation between 2006 and 2008, according to documents leaked by Edward Snowden.
“I’m outraged as an American citizen that my government, after decades of civil rights struggle, still spies on political activists and civil right activists and leaders,” Awad told the Intercept, the news organization that broke the story. “I’m really angry that despite all the work that we have been doing in our communities to serve the nation, we are treated with suspicion.”…
Angemon says
cs says
Also be a big pretender, like this guy is.
mortimer says
He’s pretending not to be a terrorism enabler.
Jerry says
So what?
So does HBO!
mariam rove says
we are treated with suspicion. Are you kidding? How else should we view your terrorist asses then? with roses and velvet? m
Papa Whiskey says
Awad and his ilk are snivel-rights leaders. They snivel, declare they’re right, and expect the world to fall in behind them.
jihad3tracker says
If you want to drain a few quarts from their clueless ocean, here are contact paths : matt.pierce@latimes AND kurtis.lee@latimes
But remember that Nihad Awad or his fellow frat boys ( ” We do not have the testicles for real jihad” ) have probably already given them the “You are going to get lots of mail from Islamophobes” routine.
Abu Obeida says
I’m sure one day he will be exposed for what he is, just like the other “human rights activist” Asim Qureshi.
mortimer says
Human rights? Misogyny, supremacism and repression of free expression are human rights?
Only in Islamic Newspeak!
Muslims consider themselves the Master Religion which may not be MENTIONED by kafirs, let alone criticized!
Islam is totalitarian and Nihad Awad is an apologist for supremacism.
Abu Obeida says
I’m sure one day he will be exposed for what he really is, just like Asim Qureshi, who happens to be a “human rights activist”.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
What do you think?
I think Marshall McLuhan was right, that the rise of electronic media has caused the emotive to trump the factual, the medium is the message and oh it feels so to hurt for poor Awad, who wears the impermeable moral armor of Martin Luther King, struggling to overcome the Jim Crow besetting Moslems. Awad has Unicorns galloping through the fields in the search for freedom and fair treatment, and Awad has a dream just like MLK, but his looks considerably different, false premises and all.
Lesley says
Well, he plays a civil rights leader on TV, isn’t that enough? (sarcasm)
livingengine says
CAIR DEBUNKED!
jihad3tracker says
! ! ! ! ! EXCELLENT VIDEO ! ! ! ! ! Thanks hugely . . .22 minutes of facts. The depth of information contributed by counter-jihadists who visit Robert Spencer’s resource here boggles my ancient brain.
When I think about Americans still zooming around Fantasyland (who believe ISIS are just pathologicals, skewing Allah’s priorities) commenters like livingengine are a source for hope that reality will eventually prevail.
livingengine says
Thank you for that. You might also enjoy these videos, as well.
HLFs Familial Ties to Hamas Leaders Overseas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-x5oy51O3o
The Islamic Association for Palestine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSGMVpFeKkE
The 1993 Philadelphia Meeting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4TqPZcx5IA
Thanks again!
jihad3tracker says
All leads noted — and please continue your visits here . . .
pongidae rex says
These ‘Muslim Rights’ groups wish only to serve the nation. They just can’t decide if they want it served medium-rare or well done.
jihad3tracker says
Hello P.R. — You might be channeling the late great Twilight Zone’s creative genius Rod Serling, in an episode called “To Serve Man”.
If my Swiss-cheese mind recalls correctly, that was the title of a book which aliens brought to Earth.
Their arrival got a welcoming reception by our planetary ancestors, who were just as enthusiastic about a different kind of interfaith dialogue as Bishop Robert McManus and his coterie are for success with Muslims and Christians making lovey-dovey.
However, the nobly-designated tome was actually a cookbook . . . with oodles of recipe for making Uncle Fred and Aunt Edith into delicious entrees. Neighborhood children were appetizers.
Wellington says
Again and again I detect no discernible difference between the propaganda put out by CAIR and the propaganda put out by Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Propaganda Minister. The similarity is striking. As examples: 1) repeatedly claiming victim status; 2) regularly defaming others with an eye to aggrandizement (e.g., oh, those terrible Czechs consistently doing terrible things to the poor people of German descent in the Sudetenland); 3) portraying a totalitarian ideology as something wonderful and uplifting; 4) behind the scenes doing everything possible to destroy liberty.
Islam, I would argue, is the predecessor, the godfather if you will, of modern totalitarian thought. Yes, in this particular respect Islam has been quite the pioneer. Speaking for myself, however, this is one kind of pioneering mankind would have been far better off never experiencing.
Have Islam? Then you have the spiritual (and older) version of Nazism. No wonder so many Muslims admire Adolf. No wonder too that those who cherish freedom and are truly knowledgeable about Islam despise CAIR.
Jay Boo says
Obama often extrapolates (with an Islam kiss-ass sound bite) to shamelessly insinuate a link to slavery against Christianity referring to the KKK in order to please the shit-head slave-trade religion goons at CAIR while avoiding all mention to Islam’s direct unmistakable approval of slavery.
Obama’s eager willful submission to CAIR and Islam would even make ‘Uncle Tom’ blush with embarrassment.
mortimer says
Europeans were enticed into the slave trade by Muslim African slave traders.
mortimer says
Brazen Nihad Awad has counseled Muslims not to cooperate with investigations and claims he ‘served’ his country! Absurd!
Which country does he mean? Which country does the Muslim Brotherhood serve?
Mahendra Singh says
The biggest joke of the year ! A potential Ji**di posing as a civil rights
leader, voicing the sufferings of the downtrodden masses?
Jeff says
An Islamofascist fighting for civil rights. Kind of reminds me of the “anti-fascist” fascist groups over in Europe and the fascist “occupied Palestinians”. By using words like “civil rights”, “freedom”, “equality”, “justice”, “peace”, etc… they try to disguise their true fascist nature and intent. More and more people are catching a clue.
Brian Hoff says
CAIR is than civil right group. Than Islamophobia red nech racist treaten to attack our mosque an peaceful muslim community that guy needed to be put behind bar for the rest of his life.
Western Canadian says
Even for one of your totally sub-moronic rants, this one is a real gem…. even harder to decipher than your normal sick and twisted drivel, and entirely and completely without even a tiny trace of fact, intelligence, or anything of merit. You are the perfect example of what 1400 years of inbreeding combined with jack-booted repression of anything decent or intelligent will always and without fail produce: A typical devout muslim.