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CAIR attacks Trump’s defense of Jews on campus on grounds of “free speech”

Dec 14, 2019 8:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

As reported by the New York Times:

As the poison of anti-Semitism spreads with dangerous violence throughout Europe, the Middle East, and even here at home — most recently in a horrific attack on Tuesday in Jersey City — President Trump is taking meaningful action to crush this evil.

On Wednesday, the president will sign an executive order to combat the rise of anti-Semitism on American college campuses. As a grandchild of Holocaust survivors, I understand the horrors of anti-Semitism. I could not be more proud of President Trump’s new policy.

But get this! Suddenly CAIR, which just called upon Amazon, Google and Barnes and Noble to remove “all white supremacist and pro-confederate digital audio books and related social media ads,” supports the freedom of speech:

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)…. pledged to oppose an executive order signed by President Trump that attempts to suppress academic freedom by conflating the vile bigotry of anti-Semitism with First Amendment-protected criticism of the Israeli government’s human rights abuses against Palestinians.

CAIR chapters across the country intend to work with local allies, students and educators to protect free speech and academic freedom from the Trump administration’s use of the executive order.

It doesn’t seem to matter how much this unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case contradicts itself. A certain segment of society remains its servant and believes its propaganda,  surrendering to its “Islamophobia” battering ram that is intended to destroy the freedom of speech. CAIR aims to silence critics of Islam as it advances its goals.

The mission of Hamas — to which CAIR is linked — is to delegitimize the state of Israel and ultimately destroy it, in accordance with the Hamas charter. Those who support CAIR are facilitating that goal.

“CAIR Pledges to Counter Trump’s Unconstitutional Attempt to Silence Campus Criticism of Israeli Human Rights Abuses,” CAIR Press Release, December 11, 2019:

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today pledged to oppose an executive order signed by President Trump that attempts to suppress academic freedom by conflating the vile bigotry of anti-Semitism with First Amendment-protected criticism of the Israeli government’s human rights abuses against Palestinians.

CAIR chapters across the country intend to work with local allies, students and educators to protect free speech and academic freedom from the Trump administration’s use of the executive order.

In a statement, CAIR National Deputy Executive Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell, Esq. said:

“President Trump’s attempt to punish free speech on college campuses by conflating the vile bigotry of anti-Semitism with criticism of the Israeli government’s human rights abuses against Palestinians is as unconstitutional as it is offensive.

“If President Trump truly wants to confront anti-Semitism, he should start with himself and the white supremacists employed and empowered by his administration. Just days ago, President Trump once again engaged in anti-Semitism by claiming that American Jews would vote for him to protect their wealth, and that some American Jews are insufficiently loyal to Israel.

“Students, academics and universities have every legal and moral right to criticize, condemn and even boycott foreign nations that violate human rights — including the Israeli government — and we intend to do everything we can to protect academic freedom from the impact of this executive order.”….

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  1. notnolib says

    Dec 14, 2019 at 8:56 am

    CAIR is a terrorist organization. It’s members, officers, and supporters are terrorists. They should be treated as terrorists.

    They are really against Trump’s EO, as they see it as a violation not of free speech (which they oppose anyway), but as one of “religious freedom”. How can they be muslim if they can’t denigrate and / or kill Jews? It’s one of the main features of islam as spelled out in their terror guide the koran, as shat by mohammed into the arabian sands.

  2. ElderlyZionist says

    Dec 14, 2019 at 8:56 am

    Don’t say nothin’ bad about my Koran!
    Oh no!
    Don’t say nothin’ bad about my Koran!
    Oh don’cha know,
    Don’t say nothin’ bad about my Koran!
    I love it so!
    Don’t say nothin’ bad about my Koran!
    It’s true! It’s true to me!
    So kuffar, you better shut your mouth!

    – Apologies to The Cookies

    • James M says

      Dec 15, 2019 at 1:27 pm

      The Quran is full of terrorism. Chapter 9 is enough to prove that. The Quran is not even good for toilet paper because it contains so many satanic verses

  3. Bxgirl says

    Dec 14, 2019 at 10:40 am

    We know that Muslims often use our freedoms in order to go against our freedoms. However, blocking speakers and listeners they don’t agree with, bodily or through noise, I’m sure is already against the law. Why are the administrations so weak, and or unthinking in this regard? And who in colleges rightly has the right to decide to BDS? And even without Trump’s wonderful executive order, BDS and it’s supporters plainly incite terrorism and the killing of all Jews in Israel. Even without this order, they should be arrested and thrown out of school because these actions aren’t protected by the First Amendment. I hope with this Order, there is vigilance and consistency in its application to take away all government funding when there is antisemitism.

    • Brian Hoff says

      Dec 14, 2019 at 2:58 pm

      You are so wrong the BDS movement doesnot jee .in Israel.

      • James Lincoln says

        Dec 14, 2019 at 5:03 pm

        Please, Brian, do yourself a favor and go back on your Thorazine.

        And take a course in English grammar…

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 14, 2019 at 10:35 pm

        “Brian Hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”–has said that when Muslim reach sufficient numbers here that they will destroy the Constitution and impose brutal Shari’ah law on us–including death for criticizing Islam.

    • PRCS says

      Dec 15, 2019 at 1:00 am

      Hitting the administrators where it hurts:

      with the taxpayer portion of their budget.

    • Brian Hoff says

      Dec 15, 2019 at 10:37 pm

      The BDS movement is constitutional legal in America.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 15, 2019 at 11:05 pm

        BDS should be denounced at every point, which is “constitutional legal” as well.

        And isn’t this odd–“Brian Hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”–has said many times that when Muslims reach sufficient numbers here in the US that they plan on destroying the Constitution and imposing brutal Shari’ah law on us. So, this Muslim thug has no interest in the sanctity of the Constitution–like so many Muslims, he only wants to use its freedoms against us.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 15, 2019 at 11:12 pm

        In addition, “DefenderofIslam” here has said that Muslims intend in crushing our freedom of speech–so, again, he his only using our freedoms to try to destroy us.

  4. Battle says

    Dec 14, 2019 at 12:41 pm

    Christine Douglas William’s hits nail on head.

  5. Battle says

    Dec 14, 2019 at 12:42 pm

    (Typo) Douglass

  6. Battle says

    Dec 14, 2019 at 12:44 pm

    Bxgirl: +100

  7. Brian Hoff says

    Dec 14, 2019 at 3:06 pm

    Canada did the right thing fireing you from the human rights panel. You believe all Muslim woman who wear the hijab are opospress.

    • FYI says

      Dec 14, 2019 at 3:57 pm

      ..Says the muslim apologist Hoff who never,ever defends his islam does he?

      Certainly not in English….

      islam is just not for intelligent people is it?It suits you of course…it always attracts a particular kind of convert I have noticed:the Theologically,Scientifically and Logically challenged.

      • Cathy says

        Dec 15, 2019 at 8:17 am

        Also communication-challenged.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 14, 2019 at 10:55 pm

      That is this story:

      “Christine Douglass-Williams: “Incalculable number of women” abused for decision to stop wearing full-body veils”

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/11/christine-douglass-williams-incalculable-number-of-women-abused-for-decision-to-stop-wearing-full-body-veils

      “DefenderofIslam” is enraged that anyone would dare expose the abuse of Muslim women who try to reject forced Islamic cover.

  8. Infidel says

    Dec 14, 2019 at 5:51 pm

    Since Muslim immigration has gone down by 90% under Trump, and would probably go down even more as Hispanics and Indians vie for visas and green cards, CAIR has less of a constituency that would allow it to project itself as ‘influential’. May that start dwindling!

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 14, 2019 at 10:58 pm

      Hear, hear, Infidel!

  9. OREN WYSOCKI says

    Dec 14, 2019 at 8:09 pm

    Isn’t the official muslim policy to oppose free speech, and forbid all criticism of islam? Shows how muslims believe they should have rights that non muslims should not have. In G-d I trust.

    • Cathy says

      Dec 15, 2019 at 8:22 am

      You got that right. Muslims have proven once again they are ignorant, brainwashed, hypocritical liars. This week they are pro-free speech, except when they’re against it. I only know of one ideology whose members have made it a crime to say anything negative about Allah or the Koran, or Islam in general. So here they go putting their feet in their mouths again, showing how vile they really are.

    • Cathy says

      Dec 15, 2019 at 8:24 am

      Well I agreed with you and also used the word v i l e in the same sentence as m u s l i m s, and they didn’t post my comment. I didn’t know Jihad Watch was so censoring of free speech. How ironic.

  10. gravenimage says

    Dec 14, 2019 at 10:28 pm

    CAIR attacks Trump’s defense of Jews on campus on grounds of “free speech”
    ……………………

    This is grimly hilarious, given how Muslims crush freedom of speech.

  11. PRCS says

    Dec 15, 2019 at 12:47 am

    “Students, academics and universities have every legal and moral right to criticize, condemn and even boycott foreign nations that violate human rights”

    Given that Islam is so incompatible with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the OIC concocted the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam; which limits those rights to that permitted by the sharia–of which civilian criticism of government (the very core of their bogus ‘support’), gay rights, women’s rights, the right to freely apostatise, and Oh, My Allah, to blaspheme–citing but a few examples–are NOT included.

    So, CAIR should pressure students, academics and universities to criticize, condemn and even boycott foreign nations that violate human rights, beginning with:

    Egypt
    Brunei
    Malaysia
    Indonesia
    Jordan
    Mali
    The Maldives
    Pakistan
    Etc.

  12. Yabadabadoo says

    Dec 15, 2019 at 12:47 am

    I guess stating that Muhammad was a child rapist should offer than the same free speech protection they seem to care so much about.

  13. sidney penny says

    Dec 15, 2019 at 6:56 am

    I have not heard CAIR, call called upon Amazon, Google and Barnes and Noble to remove “all books that incites violence, disturbs public tranquility, promotes, on ground of religion, feelings of enmity, hatred and ill-will between different religious communities and insults other religions or religious beliefs of other communities,and related social media ads.

    Did the Quran (The Book) breach the Indian Penal Code?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Calcutta_Quran_Petition

    Chandmal Chopra tried to obtain an order banning the Koran, by filing a Writ Petition at the Calcutta High Court on 29 March 1985.

    The petition claimed that Sections 153A and 295A of the Indian Penal Code, and Section 95 of the Criminal Procedure Code were often used by Muslims to ban or proscribe publications critical of Islam, and stated that “so far it had been the privilege of the Peoples of the Book to ban and burn the sacred literature of the Pagans.”[1]

    Chandmal Chopra thought that the Koran “on grounds of religion promotes disharmony, feeling of enmity, hatred and ill-will between different religious communities and incite people to commit violence and disturb public tranquility…”

    Chandmal Chopra also included a list of several dozens of Quran verses that “promote disharmony” in his petition. The book claims that these Quran verses embody one of the main themes of the book: “Nor have these passages been culled at random from different chapters of the Quran with a view to making the book sound sinister. On the contrary, they provide an almost exhaustive list of Allah’s sayings on a subject of great significance, namely, what the believers should believe about and do to the unbelievers…”

    http://indiafacts.org/revisiting-a-classic-the-calcutta-quran-petition-book-review/

  14. janwog says

    Dec 15, 2019 at 8:42 am

    Jewphobia is the essence of CAIR because orthodox Islam is a systematic counter religion of Judaism and Christianism. The covenant Ibrahim with Allah through Ismael. our Judeochristian covenant is between the heavenly Father with Abraham through Isaac. The two covenants is just the opposite. Therefore, which god is Allah?

  15. James M says

    Dec 15, 2019 at 1:23 pm

    CAIR is funded by number 1 terror supporter Saudi Arabia. It’s mission is to destroy Israel and anyone who supports Israel including the U.S
    We support TRUMP and all Americans who do.

  16. denis says

    Dec 15, 2019 at 7:22 pm

    The biggest problem is that this attack on these women is NOT considered an attack by a Muslim because he was using his Mothers maiden name Lapine . His father was a woman hating Muslim from the middle east and was constantly beating the kid and his mother. The Canadian politicians are too cowardly to call this a terrorist attack which it really was

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