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Baltimore Sun’s Jonathan Pitts pushes Hamas-linked CAIR effort to force Naval Academy to drop counterterror speaker

Feb 18, 2018 10:33 am By Robert Spencer

Here is yet another example of how Leftist “journalists” present news articles designed to manipulate the public into holding the views they want them to hold. The Baltimore Sun’s Jonathan M. Pitts calls Hamas-linked CAIR “the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights group.” He adds that “Guandolo frequently cites the claim that CAIR itself supports terrorism, an assertion the group has repeatedly denied,” as if Guandolo is the one making that claim, when in fact it comes from the Justice Department.

Pitts didn’t see fit to inform his readers that CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR officials 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 about how Islamic law should be imposed in the U.S. (Ahmad denies this, but the original reporter stands by her story.) CAIR chapters frequently distribute pamphlets telling Muslims not to cooperate with law enforcement. CAIR has opposed virtually every anti-terror measure that has been proposed or implemented and has been declared a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates. A CAIR operative recently called for the overthrow of the U.S. government.

If Pitts were a real journalist, he would have framed the story in exactly the opposite way: Hamas-Linked Group Tries to Force Naval Academy to Cancel Counterterror Expert. But no establishment media “reporters” would ever do that. Why not? Are they all paid off? Are they all so thoroughly indoctrinated?

“Muslim civil rights group asks Naval Academy alumni association to drop speaker,” by Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, February 16, 2018:

The nation’s largest Muslim civil rights group has called for the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association to cancel a scheduled speech by a Texas-based security professional it calls an “anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist.”

John Guandolo, a 1989 graduate of the Naval Academy, former FBI agent and frequent commentator on what he has described as “the Global Muslim Movement,” is slated to address a chapter of the alumni group at a luncheon in San Diego on Feb. 21.

The alumni group chapter describes Guandolo on its website as ”a powerful, dynamic and highly credible speaker.”

The Council on American-Islamic Relations disagrees, calling Guandolo “an infamous Islamophobe” who has made unsupported claims against a wide range of Muslim-Americans and others.

It’s not the first time CAIR has opposed an appearance by Guandolo, a former U.S. Marine. In January, Trevecca Nazarene University in Tennessee canceled a scheduled presentation by Guandolo after CAIR voiced its opposition. The Amherst County Sheriff’s Office in Virginia did the same with a scheduled speech by Chris Gaubatz, a Guandolo employee.

Gaubatz is a vice president at Understanding The Threat, the Dallas-based company Guandolo founded to provide “strategic and operational threat-focused” training to law enforcement and others interested in countering what he calls as a network of militant jihadists in the U.S.

Guandolo frequently cites the claim that CAIR itself supports terrorism, an assertion the group has repeatedly denied. He could not immediately be reached for comment….

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  1. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Feb 18, 2018 at 11:01 am

    Things just keep getting worse, There doesn’t seem be a snapping point at which this will end. We’re not allowed to openly discuss Moslems. The nbr 2 guy at the DNC is a Moslem. Huma was in the middle of heavy traffic of very classified material working for Hillary, much of it about the Global Jihad, and she’s a Moslem. They’ve got us surrounded, people since this, but the media are carefully controlled on what is said about Moslems. CAIR being an unindicted co-conspiracy is nothing compared to the contents of the Holy Ko-Ran and the Had-Deaths. But that is kept under wraps, guarded by Islam’s status as a recognized religion.

    • CRUSADER says

      Feb 18, 2018 at 11:16 am

      https://clarionproject.org/tag/cair/

      CLARION PROJECT’s archives on CAIR

    • jihad3tracker says

      Feb 18, 2018 at 3:45 pm

      Please, all JW readers — take five minutes from your spare time to leave a comment with this leftist “journalist” item. So far (3:45 PM Eastern US) there are just three. If you are totally short of time, steer readers there toward Robert’s blog here.

      • The Real World says

        Feb 19, 2018 at 10:11 am

        Sent him a private note to try and recognize his bias. He responded with a “thanks”.

        • jihad3tracker says

          Feb 19, 2018 at 4:09 pm

          Thank you — that will at least let him know we are aware of his left-leaning bias & shallow reporting.

      • J D S says

        Feb 20, 2018 at 6:56 pm

        If journalist, an i use that word lightly, aren’t for America then they are against it. ,and if one is against America Could one possibly be a TRAITOR? So called writers seem so sure of themselves but not sure what they are putting out to the public Well maybe they are sure widhin themselves.but THE MSM SEEMS NOT TO CARE THAT THEY ARE DAMAGING THEMSELVES AND AMERICA AS WELL .

  2. Emilie Green says

    Feb 18, 2018 at 11:05 am

    ”as if Guandolo is the one making that claim, when in fact it comes from the Justice Department”

    And Pitts could further verify that fact if he actually practiced journalism and not propaganda by reading the Qur’an and its multiple exhortations to subdue the non-Muslim, even to the point of death.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 18, 2018 at 6:59 pm

      And here’s Pitts, inveighing against Anti-Jihadist Daniel Pipes:

      “Controversial critic of ‘militant Islam’ to address Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs”

      http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-controversial-islam-speaker-20180117-story.html

      Note that he does not even want “militant Islam” to be criticized.

  3. CRUSADER says

    Feb 18, 2018 at 11:13 am

    “Putting Freedom Back on the Offensive, Where It Belongs!”

    — Understanding the Threat

    https://www.understandingthethreat.com

    Anchors Aweigh,
    Three Cheers for
    John Guandolo !

    Hip Hip Hooyah!

  4. Seth says

    Feb 18, 2018 at 11:33 am

    Jonathan is the pits.

  5. Niemoller says

    Feb 18, 2018 at 11:57 am

    First we came for the…
    –Patterned on “First they came…” by Martin Niemöller

    First we came for the Americans who flew the stars and stripes, and I DID shout out — 
    Because I was anti-American and burned that flag.

    Then we came for the conservative Christians and Jews, and I DID shout out — 
    Because I felt an extreme, albeit unexamined, hostility toward Judeo-Christian culture.

    Then we came for conservative-types in general, and I DID shout out — 
    Because I was not the least bit like Republicans, or so I thought.

    Then we came for the so-called liberal straight white males, and I DID shout out — 
    Because liberal straight white males were hypocrites; their DNA, an abomination.

    Then we came for the secular critics of social justice, and I DID shout out — 
    Because I hated the critics of social justice; they were on the wrong side of history.

    Then we came for the richest one percent, and I DID shout out — 
    Because I envied the one percenters; they represented privilege and oppression.

    Then we came for random ideological enemies, and I DID shout out — 
    Because I was too woke to be listed with that ignorant trash.

    Then the totalitarian states, sadistic jihadists, ethno-socialist states, ultra-violent narcos and mercenaries from failed states — once allies all, or so I thought — started the global genocide wars, and I realized I had already helped kill those who’d fight for me.

    Finally, suddenly, mercifully, I awoke from my woke nightmare; that’s when I really began to think clearly and maturely for the first time in my short life…

  6. elee says

    Feb 18, 2018 at 1:06 pm

    Any honest Muslim is debarred from military service: “Oh ye who believe, if you obey those who have disbelieved, they will cause you to revert to disbelief.” Kor’an 3:150 & see also 3:101 among others. We already know what happens when a single Muslim sleeper acts on this command with the weapons we’ve given him. What happens when Muslim service personnel with their weapons conspire to heed the command?

    Oh and……honest or otherwise, Muslims know that “war is deception” and that they are commanded to wage war until the last kafir dies. Don’t expect them to disqualify themselves from access to our weapons.

  7. underbed cat says

    Feb 18, 2018 at 1:57 pm

    President Trump requested that the King of Saudi Arabia push out the jihad terrorists as if it were a radicalized separate entity from the teaching of the mosque, and not straight from the words of the Quran. I wonder if the President had been informed, about the spread of Islam in the U.S. by mosques, that has deceived many ( which I thought he was aware of) since it is an obligation of all Muslims to present it as a religion of peace, instead of a warfare doctrine, the dialogue might have taken a different route and the growing threat within our borders of the mosques spreading the doctrine could start at home. He would have to remove the sharia influence from our intelligence agency since they advise that jihad is not taught in the mosques and the declarations of war or jihad do not originate from the mosques. This misinformation warfare is clever and limits the effectiveness of the U.S to push away isis or Islamic sharia terror and all the organizations that promote, aid and work to entraps us in endless war, while the enemy is sending their soldiers to our land as a refugee that is a clever invasion of the enemy we face. The truth must be acknowledged we need to understand this threat.

  8. underbed cat says

    Feb 18, 2018 at 3:37 pm

    Zakat payments began to flow during the first Obama administration.after they had been restricted, these funds were sent abroad to aid terrorist families and here to the fund influence to allow a strategic invasion, the building of mosques and Islamic schools and political muslim candidates. The” information warfare” began to spread, 9/11 faded in the minds but sporadic sharia Islamic terror raged started to erupt and the numerous muslim organizations denied the source. It was misinformation warfare and collusion of the most serious type and defended by the left who wanted to drive the narrative Islam was a race instead of a drive to bring sharia and muslim politicians to power.

  9. Karen says

    Feb 18, 2018 at 4:27 pm

    This is a great suggestion.

  10. DHazard says

    Feb 18, 2018 at 5:07 pm

    I was born in Baltimore at the time when liberals began dismantling all the values that held the world together.

    Within a short time the housing projects when up, welfare became a career choice, and black fathers disappeared from their children’s lives. Even then all the problems associated with the black “community” were blamed on other people. This, of course, led both to dependence on government and, within a generation or two, a sense of entitlement: you owe me. People in poverty were there for no fault of their own and were therefore “owed”.

    The umbrella of these do gooders has now widened to protect Muslims. One element of this virtue signalling is to shield Muslims from the truth, and to prevent non-Muslims from ever hearing the truth. Censorship is critical for the simple reason that there is no way to have a civil debate about Islam without making it look bad. Facts are the biggest enemy of Islamists and Muslims in general. They know it. They also know that there a millions of stupid idealists who will help them silence their critics.

    Combine willful ignorance, indefensible claims and self serving idealism and you have mainstream journalism. The Baltimore Sun, like so many other archaic news platforms, has stopped speaking for the working class or against real racism. It has descended into a game of power with all minorities as their pawns. They truly believe that their ideas are so superior to other ideas that silencing and criminalizing those holding opposing ideas is their “mission”. Their utopian dream for humanity has no place for facts that might reveal how shallow and authoritarian they really are.

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Feb 18, 2018 at 8:36 pm

      Great post, DH.

  11. WorkingClassPost says

    Feb 18, 2018 at 6:27 pm

    That guy looks like he’s staring into a mirror.

    What’s he doing, modelling stupid?

  12. gravenimage says

    Feb 18, 2018 at 6:38 pm

    Baltimore Sun’s Jonathan Pitts pushes Hamas-linked CAIR effort to force Naval Academy to drop counterterror speaker
    ……………………

    Because heaven forfend that the US Navy should defend against Jihad terrorism…madness.

  13. pennant8 says

    Feb 18, 2018 at 9:19 pm

    What is this, purge part 2? I’m sure this so-called journalist has no clue about purge, part 1.

  14. mortimer says

    Feb 18, 2018 at 10:12 pm

    Baltimore Sun’s Jonathan M. Pitts promotes the Egyptian version of the NAZI PARTY … the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD … without knowing its past associations and connections with Hitler.

    Furthermore, Jonathan M. Pitts has not read (let alone learned the names of) Islam’s primary source texts, and yet, preposterously, he presents himself as a SPONTANEOUS expert on Islam.

    Islam is a subject, like EGYPTOLOGY, upon which many people feel free to expectorate, but about which few in the West are well-read or well-studied.

    Pitts is an ISLAMO-UNDERACHIEVER. READ A BOOK ON THE JIHAD DOCTRINE, MR. PITTS.

    • Norger says

      Feb 19, 2018 at 3:46 pm

      That’s the one thing he’ll never do. Or if he does, he won’t report on it. The MSM’s studied ignorance of Islam, in the so-called Information Age, is just mind-boggling. One has to wonder if they are bought and paid for.

  15. underbec cat says

    Feb 19, 2018 at 5:02 pm

    Whenever you read or hear about Muslim civil rights group….take a pause. The protest of a speaker that has factual information, and the potential speaker gets discredited, why is that happening. Once you understand Islamic sharia slander laws, quite different from our slander laws defined in the U.S. where truth is not slander but in some doctrines, it is forbidden to discuss facts or ask questions or speak about any criticism of the doctrine. Truth is the new hate speech but should not apply or be acknowledged when facts are stated, same old, same old attempt to deny reality and some important information. The speaker is excellent and important. We have freedom of speech.

  16. Politicianophobia says

    Feb 19, 2018 at 8:03 pm

    The Muslim Brotherhood should be designated a terrorist group and thrown out of the USA, I have sent an email to The President, have you?

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