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Pennsylvania: US Senator Bob Casey and state reps organize events on “Islamophobia” with Hamas-linked CAIR

Jun 30, 2019 11:16 am By Robert Spencer

Would Casey and the state representatives co-organized events with a Nazi group? What’s the difference? 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. CAIR’s Hussam Ayloush in 2017 called for the overthrow of the U.S. government. CAIR’s national outreach manager is an open supporter of Hamas.

Casey is a Democrat, but there are plenty of Republican Useful Idiots as well. That any American politician of any political camp would appear at any function of this unsavory group speaks to the confusion of our age, and of how casual U.S. officials have become in their acceptance of hatred for the country they are supposed to be serving.

“Pennsylvania Officials Join Bigoted CAIR for ‘Islamophobia’ Events,” by Steven Emerson, IPT News, June 27, 2019:

Last week, the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) identified charitable organizations that recently showcased radical Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) activists with a history of bigoted and anti-Semitic views. Philanthropic organizations and foundations should be held accountable for failing to do their due diligence and looking into the backgrounds of the members they promote publicly. U.S. politicians, however, must be held to an even higher standard while representing their constituencies.

Unfortunately, state and local officials participated in several events co-hosted by CAIR’s Philadelphia chapter (CAIR-PA) earlier this month.

On June 6, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., organized a town hall meeting at Dickinson College and invited CAIR-PA Advisory Board member Aaysha Noor to moderate, according to a CAIR-PA update. Another town hall, taking place June 13 in Devon, Pa., “was co-sponsored by the offices of [state] Rep. Joe Webster and Rep. Melissa Shusterman.” On June 19, CAIR-PA co-hosted a second town hall meeting in Carlisle, Pa. including state representatives Movita Johnson-Harrell and Patty Kim. Both meetings focused on “Islamophobia” and condemning anti-Muslim bigotry.

Either these politicians support CAIR’s radical agenda, or their staff failed to do their homework on the organization. Like other U.S.-based Islamists, CAIR-PA’s leaders have a long history of making bigoted allegations.

In a 2010 op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Moein Khawaja, then executive director of CAIR-Philadelphia, leveled dual allegiance accusations at a pro-Israel lobby group. Khawaja argued that “CAIR is concerned about America, not Palestine, Pakistan, or any other foreign land – unlike the Emergency Committee for Israel and its supporters, who place Israel first and America a distant second.”

This view is similar to recent comments by U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who leveled dual loyalty allegations against American supporters of Israel. Accusing Jews of holding more allegiance to the Jewish state than to their home nation is a form of anti-Semitism.

In addition, Khawaja’s claim about CAIR’s focus is false. CAIR and its officials routinely insert the organization into the debate over Israel and Palestine. After angrily rejecting a question about Hamas in 2013 as a bigoted effort to drag CAIR “into the Middle East affairs,” CAIR-Los Angeles leader Hussam Ayloush attacked Mayor Eric Garcetti for endorsing the U.S. decision to move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The move was offensive “not only to the 12 million Palestinian Christians and Muslims, but also to the 1.8 billion Muslims worldwide,” Ayloush said last month.

CAIR-PA’s current executive director, Jacob Bender, has since issued some outlandish statements of his own in recent years. For over a year, Israeli forces have been containing violent demonstrations on the Israel-Gaza border, which continue to this day. The vast majority of the Palestinian casualties in these confrontations are either formal members or affiliates of terrorist organizations like Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. In fact, Hamas is in complete control of the tempo fueling these violent protests. Yet Bender, like other Hamas apologists, frames the ongoing border conflict as an Israeli “massacre.”

“Here in the US, however, Israel’s massacre is met with either silence, or worse, open support for Israel in driving back what they deem to be barbaric Arab hordes bent upon visiting another Holocaust upon the innocent Jews and their ‘Jewish State.’ Shockingly, many Israelis and their supporters in the US are almost euphoric at the number of Arab dead,” Bender wrote in May 2018.

Without any evidence, Bender claims that many pro-Israel supporters are elated when presented with Palestinian deaths. This is a bigoted assumption that blanketly paints pro-Israel Americans as evil. Bender has not rescinded his initial statement after Palestinian terrorist leaders acknowledged that most of the casualties were their operatives.

It’s tough to hear how Bender “wanted to play a role as a bridge builder” when he has a history of demonizing the Jewish state and its supporters.

In a 2014 letter, Bender explained that he works for CAIR “because this is a courageous organization that repeatedly denounces injustice and violence around the world, no matter the victim, no matter the perpetrator. Whether it is ISIS beheading American journalists in Iraq, or Israeli troops killing hundreds of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, or the Taliban murdering over 150 school children in Pakistan.”

In that statement alone, Bender reveals two of CAIR’s most prominent and disturbing worldviews. First, that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is morally equivalent to jihadist groups who indiscriminately target civilians using the most brutal methods. CAIR officials Hussam Ayloush and Zahra Billoo have repeatedly compared Americans who move to Israel and join the IDF to ISIS terrorists. Second, Bender’s argument shows that CAIR and its officials are incapable of denouncing Hamas or Hizballah as militant organizations that engage in terrorism solely because those groups’ primary targets are Israelis and Jews.

This type of sentiment should be condemned, not rewarded with ongoing political engagement from Pennsylvania officials…

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Filed Under: "Islamophobia", CAIR, Featured, Useful idiots Tagged With: Bob Casey, Joe Webster, Melissa Shusterman, Movita Johnson-Harrell, Patty Kim


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  1. pfwagner says

    Jun 30, 2019 at 11:26 am

    It’s not a phobia when they really do want to chop off your head.

    • mortimer says

      Jun 30, 2019 at 6:51 pm

      ISLAMOPHOBIA is a propaganda word whose purpose is to disarm non-Muslims ideologically and stop them from thinking clearly about jihad terrorism.

      ISLAMOPHOBIA is a Trojan-horse word or verbal trick designed to make people feel before any discussion has occurred, that it is morally wrong to discuss JIHADIC TERRORISM, in order to brush off their valid concerns about Islamic terrorism and render non-Muslims ideologically defenceless against jihadic aggression. (Note that ALL jihad is political aggression.)

      ISLAMOPHOBIA is a FALLACY IN REASONING … a TROJAN-HORSE term, a Strawman Fallacy or a Frankenword or a ‘Cheap Shot’ or a Conflation of the Legitimate Dislike of an Ideology with an Unfair Prejudice against People or the Self-Righteousness Fallacy or a Question-begging Strategy or a Definist Fallacy to Declare Victory prior to Discussion in order to Prevent all Reasoned Debate about Islamic Ideology. “Islamophobia” is a word whose aim is to stop people from thinking analytically about jihad terrorism.

      Islamophobia is a word custom-designed by the Muslim Brotherhood to prevent people from discovering Islam’s supremacist military and political agendas.

  2. Shirley Ann says

    Jun 30, 2019 at 11:35 am

    Politicians, especially American Politicians, seem to actually Court Islamist Groups in their State. Casey has an eye on his future & knows that Muslims vote as One Bloc of DEMS.
    Muslims have now reached the Stage of Demanding the Spoils of our Political System & BOY, are they LOUD ABOUT IT! Has Casey Converted to the “Religion of Peace”, Yet?

  3. Bill says

    Jun 30, 2019 at 11:53 am

    My home state is turning into a gigantic disappointment for me…

    • Carol Ricard says

      Jun 30, 2019 at 10:49 pm

      Vote the Democrats out.

    • Fightcensors says

      Jul 1, 2019 at 8:43 am

      Time to move as we did nearly 27 yrs ago over unfair business taxes. We lived there a long time and my ancestors were even asked to come to Penna by William Penn himself in 1685. With every passing census the state loses Congressional Representatives as those with a future flee to free states in the south. Sad because its a beautiful state.

  4. E T says

    Jun 30, 2019 at 12:07 pm

    Peter, Please tell me you are not Canadian.

  5. somehistory says

    Jun 30, 2019 at 12:33 pm

    These so-called “reps”…who evidently think they represent cair and are using cair to rep for them…are falling in line with satan’s goal of destroying mankind from the earth before Christ comes to take him captive.

    islam is directly from satan the devil and does his will. When satan goes, so goes his slaves.

    These meetings between satan’s slaves known for their moslimness, and the reps who are supposed to concern themselves with what is best for the citizens as a whole, make things look really dark. But the light at the end of the tunnel is the fact that the worse things look, the closer we are to Christ coming to rid the earth of satan and his scourge.

    • J D S says

      Jul 1, 2019 at 10:17 am

      Politicians who use any Muslim organization to promote their agenda to get themselves re-elected in my opinion are traitors..repeat TRAITORS…Have they not investigated these organizations…have they not investigated Islam????

      • somehistory says

        Jul 1, 2019 at 10:28 am

        cair, the mb, the msa, and all of the others, are working for the destruction of this country in order to impose their demonic code of evil which would take away our God-given freedoms supported by the Constitution.
        Anyone working with them is seeking the same goals.

  6. Wellington says

    Jun 30, 2019 at 12:44 pm

    Robert Casey Jr. primarily got elected Senator because of name recognition. His father, Robert Casey Sr., a Democrat like his son, was Governor of Pennsylvania from 1987-1995 but was just about the last very outspoken pro-life Democrat nationwide and was actually prevented from speaking at the 1992 Democratic Convention because of this (N.B., while the official position of the Republican Party on abortion is pro-life, many pro-choice Republicans have not been prevented from speaking at all kinds of conventions and meetings of Republicans).

    Casey Jr. held two relatively insignificant state posts (Auditor General and then State Treasurer) before being elected Senator in 2006 when he ran against and defeated then Republican Senator Rick Santorum. He has won reelection twice since then. Though originally pro-life like his father and very much against most any gun control (hunting is HUGE in Pennsylvania), he has completely flipped on these issues and has voted for all kinds of pro-choice legislation and restriction on guns. In short, he has become more and more leftist over the past dozen years or so.

    Thus, it comes as no surprise that he foolishly organized the event at Dickinson College in Carlisle about that phony phenomenon called “Islamophobia.” Frankly, he’s not all that sharp and it is widely known he is not all that sharp but Pennsylvania is a purple state, neither red nor blue, and his support comes from the liberal areas of Pennsylvania which are the southeastern part of the state, Allegheny County where Pittsburgh is, and a few other counties like Lackawanna County (Casey’s home county) and Centre County which votes red because of Penn State University, my alma mater, being there and Penn State, just like most every other college and university in America, has sadly become just one more leftist institution of lower indoctrination rather than what it used to be, i.e., an institution of higher learning.

    Casey is much disliked throughout most of the state but these relatively small areas of the state have enough people in them who are Democrats or RINOs so that Pennsylvania is a real-toss up state in many elections. Trump won Pennsylvania in 2016 by taking 56 of the 67 counties in the state and he will have to do so again in 2020. Indeed, I think whoever wins Pennsylvania in 2020 will be the next President. Meanwhile, Casey Jr. has another six years to do damage to America by acting upon his now many leftist inclinations. And just imagine for a moment what he knows about Islam.

    • Sharon Mazzarini says

      Jun 30, 2019 at 1:36 pm

      Not if we recall him and his ilk.

      • Wellington says

        Jul 1, 2019 at 12:50 pm

        Lots of luck with that.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 30, 2019 at 6:46 pm

      Thanks for that background on Casey, Wellington.

  7. E T says

    Jun 30, 2019 at 12:45 pm

    There are lots of useful idiots in this world. A man where I live was totally against windmills being placed anywhere, it would be a rainy day in hell when he would support such nonsense and then he found out how much MONEY he would make if they were to put some on his property. It was absolutely amazing how fast he changed his mind. How much is your soul worth?

  8. Angemon says

    Jun 30, 2019 at 1:23 pm

    . Like other U.S.-based Islamists, CAIR-PA’s leaders have a long history of making bigoted allegations.

    Luckily for them, they have a skillful beekeeper to deal with that…

  9. mortimer says

    Jun 30, 2019 at 6:47 pm

    What does Bob Casey think about ISIS throwing gays off the roof?

  10. mortimer says

    Jun 30, 2019 at 6:54 pm

    Senator Bob Casey has joined the Islamic fifth column.

    Patriotic Americans should ensure that he is not re-elected.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 30, 2019 at 7:01 pm

      Like so many, Bob Casey seems very confused about Islam. He actually has done some good work curbing the funding of terrorism:

      “Fighting the Financing of Terrorism: A Conversation With Bob Casey”

      https://www.cfr.org/event/fighting-financing-terrorism-conversation-bob-casey

      He seems in denial that Islam has anything to do with Jihad terror.

  11. gravenimage says

    Jun 30, 2019 at 6:56 pm

    Pennsylvania: US Senator Bob Casey and state reps organize events on “Islamophobia” with Hamas-linked CAIR
    ………………….

    More suicidal insanity.

  12. tgusa says

    Jun 30, 2019 at 7:21 pm

    The Bobs of America are playing a very dangerous game. Anyone familiar with islamic doctrine knows where this is heading and the outcome will be the same as it always is.We are already seeing it happening all over the world. People like Bob think this virtue signaling will gain them votes but Bob the non muslim white guy will find that muslims will never accept him and the communities that the Bobs of America live in now will see these people as willing instruments of the jihad in America.

    When the extent of their treachery is eventually exposed I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if the Bobs of America end up with their faces on wanted posters. The Bobs of America will be blamed for what I call the great unraveling. Just look at the headlines, we are in the early stages of that unraveling right now. The Bobs are all clueless as to what they are doing and where it will lead. The actions of the Bobs of America cause me to recall what Col Kurtz said in Apocalypse Now, “I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor.”

    And for the virtue signaling pre- K leftists out there I will post something they might understand,

    Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
    Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
    All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
    Couldn’t put Humpty together again

    Its a sad state of affairs but it is what it is.

  13. Eric Jones says

    Jul 2, 2019 at 9:29 am

    Elected and appointed officials in the USA who are useful idiots of Islam should be removed from office. There are still too many Americans who do not know about the Hamas terror funding case and who the unindicted co-conspirators are.

    Eric

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