Here is a good example of how the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) uses spurious claims of victimhood in order to deflect attention away from the root causes of the 9/11 attacks, and of Islamic jihad terrorism in general. Note that Amr Shabaik of CAIR-LA doesn’t provide any actual evidence for the assertion that Muslim students are “vulnerable” or would be “marginalized” by honest discussion of what happened on September 11, 2001. All he offers are feelings: “The survey, conducted by CAIR California in 2018-2019, revealed that nearly 1 in 3 Muslim students do not feel safe, welcomed and respected at school, with 29.35% of students reporting that school staff made offensive comments about Islam or Muslims at school.”
The possibility that many Muslim students do not feel safe, welcomed or respected doesn’t actually tell us anything about the behavior of administrators or students. All it tells us is that many Muslim students do not feel safe, welcomed or respected. Their feelings may be entirely unjustified by the reality of the situation. Also, “29.35% of students” claim “that school staff made offensive comments about Islam or Muslims at school.” Offensive in whose eyes? Since Hamas-linked CAIR and so many other Muslim groups claim that any honest examination of the motivating ideology behind jihad terrorism is offensive, it is impossible to know whether the school staff really said something genuinely offensive, or simply made an accurate observation about Islam.
In any case, by advancing the wholly spurious claim that Muslim students are endangered by discussion of 9/11 that examines the role of Islamic doctrine in the events of that day, Hamas-linked CAIR clearly endeavors to shut down that discussion. Who benefits from that? What would be the result of students having no idea why the hijackers attacked on 9/11? They would be more complacent regarding the jihad threat than they might be otherwise. Apparently, that is what CAIR wants.
This is a tried-and-true tactic. Many times when I have spoken around the country, at colleges and universities and elsewhere, local Muslims or Muslim students have claimed that they feel “endangered” or “threatened” by my presence. This is utterly absurd, as I have never called for, approved of, or applauded any violence, and if the Muslims in question aren’t jihadis or Sharia supremacists, I’m not talking about them anyway. But this tactic intimidates many cowardly non-Muslims into canceling such events, and that’s the goal from the start.
“CAIR-LA Encourages Educators to Discuss the Anniversary of 9/11 Without Marginalizing Already Vulnerable Muslim Students,” by Ayan Ajeen, Hamas-linked CAIR, September 10, 2020:
(LOS ANGELES, CA – 9/10/2020) – The Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) today announced it sent a letter to school districts and universities throughout the Greater Los Angeles area to encourage educators to promote diversity, inclusivity and mutual understanding when discussing the anniversary of September 11, 2001 (“9/11”).
In the letter dated Sept. 4, CAIR-LA Civil Rights Managing Attorney Amr Shabaik wrote:
“The tragic events of 9/11 exposed and widened society’s divisions and made the global community even more precarious as it pertains to the cooperative nature of nations and the rule of international law.
“Since then, federal, state, and local governments have all tried numerous methods with varying degrees of success to address America’s unresolved issues of racial, ethnic, and religious bias in order to reconcile our nation with its foundational values, such as religious freedom, diversity, and serving the world as a country of financial opportunity and political refuge.
“Many attempts also have been made by school administrators, district boards, and other nonprofit organizations to address and improve our nation’s loss of purpose and degrading culture. Unfortunately, despite their good intentions, some educators may be unaware of the biases that they impart upon their students.
To safeguard against such implicit or explicit biases in classrooms, we recommend proactively training your educators to facilitate a neutral lesson plan that teaches students about 9/11 in a nuanced way that does not conflate the entire religion of Islam with the tragic events of 9/11.”
READ: Letter to School re: 9/11
CAIR-LA also provided a list of educational resources for educators to supplement their lesson plans. Provided in those resources are recommended steps for instructor to take, including:
- Being sensitive to the religious diversity in your classroom and choose your language carefully when referring to the perpetrators. Educators should be mindful of stereotyping the Muslim community and how this could have an impact upon students.
- Being sensitive to the visual materials – photos, videos, audio – and their emotional nature and potential impact upon students. Choose materials that clearly meet the goals and objectives of the lesson.
- Instructors should avoid articulating their personal political beliefs about 9/11.
- Being sensitive to the vulnerability of students who have a history of trauma in their own lives and how they may connect this event to their personal experiences.
- Avoiding having students engage in educational activities that simulate the roles of perpetrators, bystanders, upstanders, etc.
Shabaik pointed to a recent report surveying approximately 1,500 Muslim students enrolled in public and private schools throughout the state of California.
The survey, conducted by CAIR California in 2018-2019, revealed that nearly 1 in 3 Muslim students do not feel safe, welcomed and respected at school, with 29.35% of students reporting that school staff made offensive comments about Islam or Muslims at school….
mortimer says
Do ‘vulnerable’ Muslims not have the intellectual rigor to discuss difficult or embarrassing topics? Let them grow up and become adults.
Schools … especially colleges … should not encourage their students to remain intellectual babies.
Question for Muslims on 9-11:
1) Do Islam’s source texts encourage warfare against the disbelievers for the purpose of bringing them under Islamic rule?
2) Do you believe that the supremacist concept of jihad is still valid in the 21st century? Or is supremacist jihad no longer valid in Islam?
mortimer says
QUESTION FOR MUSLIMS: ARE THE FOLLOWING QUOTES VALID TODAY?
Jihad is conducted ONCE A YEAR or TWICE a year as a duty of the Islamic Community. – (Sharia law)
From Manual of Sharia law “Fatawa Shami”:
“It is required of the Imam (leader) of the Muslims to dispatch the army routinely ONCE OR TWICE a year towards the kufr countries. It is also the duty of the Muslim public to assist the Imam in this noble cause. If the Imam does not send an army, then he will be considered sinful.” (note: “routinely”)
‘Offensive Jihad (where the enemy is attacked in his own territory)’ (Sharia law manual)
“Where the Kuffar are not gathering to fight the Muslims. The fighting becomes Fard Kifaya with the minimum requirement of appointing believers to guard borders, and the sending of an army AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR to TERRORIZE the enemies of Allah. It is a duty of upon the Imam (caliph) to assemble and send out an army unit into the land of war ONCE OR TWICE EVERY YEAR. Moreover, it is the responsibility of the Muslim population to assist him, and if he does not send an army he is in sin.” — Haashiyat Bin Aabideen 3/238
( … so … do Muslims agree or disagree with Sharia law on the topic of jihad?)
mortimer says
Does the religious duty to conduct jihad over-ride the secular duty to keep one’s oath to defend the United States and its constitution?
Keith O says
Mortimer, Allegiance to Islam overrides any other allegiances, be it to family, nation, political party or the constitution.
Also you mentioned discussing “difficult or embarrassing topics”. For the mind control gurus who are the mullah’s, anything that challenges Islam in any way must be prevented. So free thinking must be stomped on and the easiest way is to tell everyone who try’s to encourage free thought that they are being offensive, racist, islamophobic ect.
James Lincoln says
Keith O,
From a muslim point of view, islam cannot be defended using facts – therefore, any criticism of it needs to be shut down.
gravenimage says
+1
gravenimage says
All good questions for Muslims, Mortimer.
Jaladhi says
How does one discuss 9/11 with out telling who committed this atrocious act. Wasn’t it done by Muslims? I say grow up and accept the responsibility of your religion! There is no “marginalizing” of so called “vulnerable” Muslim students in learning the truth. Maybe they will learn how atrocious their religion is!
Have you noticed how it is always perpetrator of genocide is vulnerable by Muslim logic!!
Another View says
Any discussion of Islam must include the function of jihad as a defining aspect of Islam.
For example, jihad includes killing infidels (non-Muslims) wherever found. The teachings of Islam also justify throwing homosexuals off high places to die from striking the pavement below.
As another example, Sharia law includes beheading, stoning to death, and amputation of hands and feet of offenders.
According to Pew Research, most Muslims support Sharia law. The elements of this law depict Islam as a retrograde religion. The Muslims today who accept Sharia law, the Koran, and the teachings of Islam must take responsibility for their acceptance. Otherwise, they act in bad faith.
On this point, let us recall that the teachings of Islam say a Muslim can lie to another if doing so furthers the interests of Islam. So how can a non-Muslim know when a Muslim lies or tells the truth about anything?
Another View says
See more here: https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/violence.aspx
TAm says
Sharia is the way of life laid down by *allah* for all muslims to live.
A truth of which the infidels at PEW are totally ignorant.
The conclusions presented by PEW Research are invalid
It is a requirement laid down by *allah* for muslims to submit themselves to sharia.If they do not they will be treated as infidels.
ALL muslim support sharia.
Faqi says
Well stated but in Islam taqiya applies always so its understandable
CogitoErgoSum says
This is the day when the filth of Islam leaves the greatest stench in my nostrils. I will never forget. If Muslims feel “marginalized” by that, I don’t give a damn.
Ashley says
“Some people did something.”
And that, boys and girls, is all you need to know about 9/11.
gravenimage says
That’s how Ilhan Omar would have it.
And Ashley, good to see you posting again.
Ray Jarman says
It is a furtherance in the attempt to disregard a history that the perpetrators who attacked our nation want the American people to forget. I have never witnessed anyone claiming that the Third Reich did not consist of Germans nor has anyone tried to excuse the Germans for the atrocities of the NATZIs and neither have the American people forgot that it was the Japanese who bombed Pearl Harbor. Thucydides accurately blamed the Peloponnesian War on the footsteps of Athens and Corinth and he was an Athenian. We all know that according to the vile Muhammad, “war is deceit.” Therefore, it was not Muslims that hijacked the planes that were flown into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. The tragedy in all of this is that there are many Americans who are buying into this perfidy.
No, Ilhan, it was not someone who flew into the World Trade Center and the pentagon on September 11, 2001, It was members of your religion acting in the name of your religion and all were Muslim. The Germans and Japanese have never attempted to deflect their nations’ role in WWII and it is time for Muslims to standup and take responsibility for their horrific atrocities around the world and to renounce their abominable excuse for a religion. I am no fool for I understand completely that Muslims will continue to plague the world with their actions as directed by the unholy Qur’an.
livingengine says
Here is a very brief look at CAIR’s LA report –
https://youtu.be/9RH2YAExnpc?t=426
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link.
livingengine says
How to Discuss the Anniversary of 9/11 Without Marginalizing Already Vulnerable Muslim Students
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqJkjNfKFA8
gravenimage says
Gross.
livingengine says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCeiQbuZ-RY
James Lincoln says
Tell the facts about 9/11 in a factual evidence-based way.
Facts are facts, they should not offend anyone…
DavidR says
As of 2016 a poll of Muslims showed that a whopping 4% believe Al Qaeda ran the 9/11 plot. 52% say they don’t know (or won’t admit they know), 31% said it was the U.S. itself, and only 7% think Jews did it.
That’s what U.S.students should know.
gravenimage says
+1
J Morgan says
The Muslims are vulnerable to CAIR, stepping in to speak on their behalf, that they may not question or engage in dialogue about the motivation for the attacks on 9/11. They might think of leaving such a religion that asks for violence against the majority of people on this planet. If the world population is 7.8 billion and there are 1.8 billion Muslims. That is a lot of unbelievers to conquer.
somehistory says
The typical moslim approach….using the “racist” word, when everyone knows that islam has members from all races, and islam is not a “race.” If it was really a race, there would be no winners. In fact, moslims, you are all a bunch of losers.
“promote diversity, inclusivity and mutual understanding”
Well, let us just see who that might work.
The hijackers were “diverse”…some were really ugly, and some were uglier still. Most came from saudi arabia, but some came from other places. One cannot go back in time and put a non-moslim in the group of terrorists, so it’s as “diverse” as it’s ever going to be.
“inclusivity”…not possible to “include” a non-moslim in the group as it is over and done. But, moslims could “include” themselves in the conversation just by saying, “we shouldn’t have done that awful thing and killed all those people; making widows, widowers, and orphans all for a filthy belief in a filthy devil-worship.”
“understanding.”…..well moslims, you need to “understand” just how the victims, friends, family, neighbors, co-workers, and just plain Americans and Brits feel about that day and what was done…the mass murders committed by your ilk, your “brothers,” your fellow moslims, to people who had never done anything to you and most would have welcomed moslims to work that day, or served them a meal, or driven them someplace in a cab or bus…and allowed 19 of them to get on planes and fly.
“understanding” islam just means finding out that it is a death cult from satan the devil, it’s demonic, it’s evil, and it teaches all moslims to lie and gives them all orders to commit terrorism and murder the rest of us, just as so very many innocent people were murdered on that awful day. If one “understands” that, one does not need to “understand” how any person could willfully be a moslim and worship the devil with such fervor. Just being aware, knowing they do, is enough.
As for molsim “students,” are you including those like the guy in Florida, the moslim who took a gun to the Naval base and killed his fellow students?
Or how about the “student” at the University of Houston, Texas, who said he was going to bomb the school…is he “included” in your demand?
You have a lot of nerve, cair, to demand any such thing, and if you don’t want to hear people mourn the loos of life…caused by the likes of you…discussed with the Truth about moslims and islam being the filthly reason for it all, then you are free to get on a plane…yes, you are still allowed to fly…and leave for places where moslims are praised and celebrated with they murder others. Try pakistan.
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gravenimage says
Hamas-linked CAIR asks that 9/11 be discussed without ‘marginalizing already vulnerable Muslim students’
…………………
Just appalling. How are they “vulnerable”? Because someone may ask them why their creed is so violent? Good grief.
tim gallagher says
To me, it is amazing the way Muslims expect to somehow get away with their atrocious crimes, their endless terrorist attacks, etc, and not be called to account. If Muslims feel unwelcome or whatever, it is because at least some people are awake to what a vile and evil creed Islam is. Are Buddhist students, for example, being marginalised? I bet they are not, and , why, well, because the members of their religion don’t go around committing appallingly evil ,murderous acts the way Muslims are always doing. If only more people would actually wake up and see how evil Islam is, then Muslims would be more marginalised and deservedly so. Maybe they would “marginalised” so much that they would choose to piss off right out of our non-Muslim countries, which would be a good thing and would improve our societies no end. I honestly can’t believe how Muslims expect to get away with their terrorist crimes and expect that no one is going to call the evil maggots and their rotten ideology, Islam, to account for these evil acts.
Larry A. Singleton says
Am I missing something? Can’t find that CAIR letter to schools.
David says
We need to have the same “diversity” allowed in Saudi and Pakistan, we could have planning laws to reciprocate for each Christian Church in those countries we could allow one mosque in ours.
The best policy to promote safety of the population and also there are no vulnerable Muslim students exposed is that of Tokyo, this policy has enabled a lot more Japanese to be alive today.
Infidel Task Force says
NO!!
Tell them the truth!!
MUSLIMS terrorists flew planes into the Twin Towers and killed almost 3000 innocents!!
Tell the truth!!
David says
There it is again “Muslim students don’t feel respected”. It is time that they owned up to the fact that they were responsible for 9/11. Like the Japanese have done or WW2 and Pearl Harbor.
James Lincoln says
So according to CAIR:
“Muslim students do not feel safe, welcomed and respected at school…”
My question is, should islam itself, as a religious/political ideology, “feel” safe, welcomed and respected?
If not, with the exception of feeling “safe”, then why should its followers be welcomed and respected?
Are neo-Nazis welcomed and respected?
Am I missing something?
abad says
Schools of higher education more appropriate for Moslem students:
King Saud University
King Fahd University
King Abdulaziz University
Qassim University
University of Jeddah
Al-Mustansiriya University
Al Turath University College
Al-Nahrain University
Iraqi University
University of Baghdad
Alzahra University
Farhangian University
Fasa University
University of Isfahan
University of Tehran
Balkh University
Herat University
There are many others, too. No need for them to come to the USA for a university degree.
OTTER says
So according to CAIR discussions –words– about 9/11 are hurtful but the fact that four planes flown by mad Muslims killed nearly 3000 people should be overlooked.
Just reflect for a moment what it says about their psychology.
Muslims are incapable of seeing any fault of theirs–its always someone else’s fault, even if someone points out that they committed mass murder.
Muslims have no right to be liked, respected, deferred to, accommodated, mollified, appeased, loved, valued, feted, included, or tolerated. They are not automatically qualified to join the peaceloving mosaic of other immigrants in the US or anywhere else.
The only ‘right’ they have is to their reputation, which they have created as a direct result of their bloody actions and for which they are hated and reviled by all right thinking people in the world.
Give a mirror to a Muslim, I say.