My latest in PJ Media:
The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is enraged that among the featured speakers at CPAC this year is Scott Presler, the noted gay pro-Trump activist, even though he isn’t speaking about jihad terrorism. For CAIR, as for the Left in general, it isn’t enough that Presler isn’t speaking about the religion no one is allowed to criticize; they believe that he has criticized it in the past, and so he must be canceled forever.
“Journalist” Matthew Moyer wrote in the Orlando Weekly Thursday that “another speaker on the lineup for the conservative mega-gathering CPAC is getting some unwelcome spotlight for anti-Muslim statements and activity, and this is only scratching the surface of the extreme ideologies being trotted out at this week’s event in Orlando.”
CAIR’s Director of Government Affairs Robert S. McCaw is quoted in a demanding mood: “CPAC organizers should immediately drop anti-Muslim activist Scott Presler, who has actively worked to promote conspiracy theories about American Muslims and Islam. Presler’s reported role in supporting the January 6 insurrection is enough to disqualify him from being offered a credible speaking platform.”
That McCaw refers to the January 6 Capitol riot as an “insurrection” is an index of how dishonest he is, and the rest of the article is no better. “CAIR points out,” Moyer dutifully notes, “that Presler had been involved with ‘ACT for America’ from 2017-2018 as an organizer. The Southern Poverty Law Center has characterized that organization as ‘an anti-Muslim hate group because it pushes wild anti-Muslim conspiracy theories, denigrates American Muslims and deliberately conflates mainstream and radical Islam.’”
This article is a textbook example of media propaganda. First, smear opposition to jihad violence and Sharia oppression as “anti-Muslim.” Invoke the discredited far-left smear propaganda organization the Southern Poverty Law Center as if it were an infallible and impartial authority on what constitutes a “hate group.” Present the SPLC’s smears without any substantiating evidence, as if they were unquestionable fact. Throw in the word “extreme,” so as to abet the growing campaign to portray all dissent from the far-left agenda as terrorism.
There is more. Read the rest here.
Mike says
I’ve read and heard Scott for a couple years now and I’ve never heard Scott say any such words
but Islam and CAIR on the other hand can’t make the same claim about people around the world
CAIR’s member preach hate of Jews, Gays (which Scott is) push gays off the highest place, Christens and all Non be leavers.
Islam only pushes smoke screens to cover there hate of everyone else
mortimer says
Smoke screen? Sharia laws ‘HUDUD’ punishments OPENLY condemn homosexuality and sentences them to death.
Hudud Punishment for Gays: http://sunnah.com/tirmidhi/17/40
17 The Book on Legal Punishments (Al-Hudud)(24)
Chapter: What Has Been Related About The Punishment Of The Sodomite (24)
باب مَا جَاءَ فِي حَدِّ اللُّوطِيِّ
Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas:
That the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “Whomever you find doing the actions of the people of Lut then kill the one doing it, and the one it is done to.”
dannyboy998 says
Act for America is not a threat to CAIR Islam or Muhammed, from what we’ve seen and heard from Act is Islam is a religion of peace and we must reach out to our Muslim community to help fight radical Islam..All of which is supporting CAIR along with the reality Act has pushed Islam as a religion of peace and radical Islam is their concern meaning Act is not familiar that there is only one Islam….no radical, moderate or reformed Islam…Washington continues with Islam is a religion of peace, how long has Act been in Washington educating political leaders their understanding of Islam…
gravenimage says
What? Act for America was founded by Anti-Jihadist Brigitte Gabriel, and the claim that she says that Islam is a religion of peace is very much mistaken. Are you thinking of some other organization?
I could cite many quotes from Gabiel, but this is probably the most salient:
“Islam has created and unleashed an uncontrollable wave of hatred and rage on the world, and we must brace ourselves for the consequences. Going forward we must realize that the portent behind the terrorist attacks is the purest form of what the Prophet Mohammed created. It’s not radical Islam. It’s what Islam is at its core.”
maria says
Brigitte Gabriel, Mr Scott and all brave people who love America, freedom and fight against the muslim murderers whose organization is CAIR should get Nobel peace prize.
CAIR should be forbidden and thrown ou from the US
Joeyn says
Brigitte Gabriel, the founder of Act for America is another brave truth-speaker I truly admire. These Islamists and their organizations like CAIR cannot handle the truth and have to use the term hate-speech to supress it. Their only mode of survival is by propagating lies.Truly thankful for those like Robert Spencer, Scot Pressler and Brigitte Gabriel who courageously keep speaking the truth on Islam and Leftism no matter what.
Terry Gain says
GI
Perhaps dannyboy is confusing Act For America with Organizing For Action.
john smith says
Gravenimage, your last paragraph is a classic;
“Islam has created and unleashed an uncontrollable wave of hatred and rage on the world,and we must brace ourselves for the consequences. Going forward we must realise that the portent behind the terrorist attacks is the purest form of what the Prophet Mohammed created. It’s what Islam is at its core.”
Absolutely 100% spot on.
gravenimage says
Thanks, Maria, Joeyn, Terry, and John.
KrisLJ says
In the words of the late, great Christopher Hitchens on the religion of Islam, in its entirety….
” Don’t waste my time. It’s Bulls@#t! ”
We still miss ya Hitch!!!
gravenimage says
I miss him as well.
James Lincoln says
So do I, gravenimage – because Christopher Hitchens forced one to *think*.
And I’m a devout Christian…
mortimer says
Unlike the Post-modernists of today, Hitchens engaged in debate with people who differed, rather than taking a position above the fray as BigTech does now along with their jihadist allies.
gravenimage says
+1
gravenimage says
CAIR Demands CPAC Cancel ‘Anti-Muslim’ Speaker Scott Presler
………………..
I hope that CPAC tells CAIR to take a long walk off a short pier…
MS MADELEINE says
Islam is the most intolerant major religion in the world. The chutzpah these groups have to object to people who merely point this out, is truly breath taking.
John Forbes says
NEVER EVER cancel anyone on behalf of C.A.I.R! They are the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD & are pushing for SHARIA!
Jayell says
What sort of ‘relations’ does a ‘Council on Islamic-American Relations’ to have in mind if it has such little respect for the right of the ‘American’ half of the equation to express opinions it might not like?
James Lincoln says
Jayell,
Spot-on.
CAIR wants the American half of the equation to be sharia compliant…
mortimer says
Gay people know that it isn’t a ‘PHOBIA’ when people are actually trying to kill you for being gay. It’s called a ‘REASONABLE FEAR’.
Robert S. McCaw’s whitewashed versions of Islam contradict actual Sharia law. Islam just isn’t a matter of popular votes or popular practices. Islam is what Sharia law says it is.
Andrew Blackadder says
It always appears these days that it islamic morons and their Far left friends that wish to cancel anybody and everybody that calls them out on their bullshit, however I never hear of anybody that is Pro Trump, or anywhere near The Right, wishing to cancel anybody, but rather seems to wish only to engage in dialog with them, but I guess muslims and The Left dont seem to have an argument whatsoever.
Imagine an openly Gay America guy being against the teachings of islam… Go figure huh?.
Terry Gain says
Yes. One of the differences between the left and the right is the right’s preference for dialogue and the left’s preference for censorship, of which cancellation is but one form. I would like to know what this reporter and the CAIR propagandist mean by “wild conspiracy theories”.
James Lincoln says
Correct, Andrew.
When you know that you cannot effectively defend your position on merit, the only alternative is to cancel the other side.
Specifically…
The tenants of islam – as well as the Democratic Party – are indefensible, ergo, cancel culture…
gravenimage says
Very much agree, James.
One small point–it is “tenets”, not “tenants”–a common mistake.
–pedantic gravenimage
James Lincoln says
You are correct, gravenimage!
I use DragonDictate – and it has trouble with homonyms!
gravenimage says
Thanks, James.
notnolib says
If the terrorists at the terror organization CAIR doesn’t like someone…..I like them.
The terrorists at the terror organization CAIR should be treated as terrorists…..but ONLY because they are terrorists.
Terry Gain says
notnolib
Islam is best fought with the truth. In fact, Islam has no defense against the truth. I do not believe CAIR, advocates terror, per se. It does advocate Islam which has a doctrine and history of terror. One can argue that ultimately there is no difference, but it is counterproductive to give CAIR ammunition. It’s promotion of Islam is sufficient to oppose it given that Islam is a totalitarian, supremacist, political ideology posing as an irrational religion. Islam has no place in the free world because it is opposed to freedom of speech, freedom of religion, gender equality and equality of citizenship. And Islam believes gender orientation is a matter of choice and homosexuals should be punished for being the way God made them.
James Lincoln says
Terry Gain,
Maybe I missed this in your post, but would you agree that CAIR “aids and abets” islamic terrorism?
gravenimage says
Agree–I think CAIR is too slick to openly advocate Jihad terror–but they certainly abet its use.
somehistory says
https://thegoptimes.com/unhinged-leftists-attack-christian-faith-of-trump-supporters/?utm_source
One of the people quoted by those making this “unhinged attack.”
“Author Cites Un-Indicted Terror Co-Conspirator CAIR As Source On “Using Christianity to Justify Hate”
“To back up this baffling assertion that conservatives are using their Christian faith to forward a message of “hate” USA Today writer Trevor Hughes quoted and cited Edward Ahmed Mitchell, deputy executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations… on purpose. This is a group that is confirmed as an unindicted co-conspirator of Islamist Terrorism. As a judge found “ample evidence to establish the association” of the organization with Hamas, a known terrorist organization and with a defunct charity convicted in the terrorism support case, the Holy Land Foundation.
Hughes wrote Ahmed Mitchell’s quote in full,
“For them, it’s just shorthand for identity,” “There absolutely is a connection between far-right political extremism and far-right religious extremism, but I doubt these people are showing up at church every Sunday and reading their Bibles.” Ahmed Mitchell continued later in the article, “You don’t have to go investigating churches. All you have to do is take seriously the violent rhetoric that’s being expressed out in the open,” he said. “The federal government, in our opinion, has never taken the threat of far-right religious extremists as seriously as they have Muslim extremists, who are far fewer.”
“The CAIR leader wasn’t the only “source” to liken Christian Trump supporters to Islamist terrorists either. Hughes wrote, “Comparisons between al-Qaida and white nationalists who profess a twisted, extreme version of Christianity are apt, said Javed Ali, a former FBI and National Security Council analyst. Terror groups such as al-Qaida and the Islamic State group have cherry-picked from Islam to justify their violent attacks, said Ali, who teaches counterterrorism at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
“They were able to turn Islam into something very dark,” he said. “I see the same thing playing out in the far-right space: These symbols are being hijacked for a completely different purpose. And it helps justify their actions.”
“Let’s take a quick look at the 1,400 some signatories of this “open letter”, because they are exactly the type of clergy you would expect: leftist activists politically opposed to Republicans and using their status as ‘ministers’ to advance their ideology.
Some Examples,
Rev. Aaron Monts– Seattle, WA
Black Lives Matter Supporter
Self-described “Activist”
“As a pastor, writer, activist, and scholar, I believe that our society and the Church are strengthened by constructive dialogue around the issues of faith and theology, justice and politics, and transparent yet gracious conversations about our shortcomings. We must be a people that thoughtfully and graciously engage in these conversations rather than shutting them down.”
Blog Writer of “Pray For Your Enemies: Donald Trump and the Coronavirus“
Blog Writer of “Letters from the CHAZ / CHOP- My experience as an interfaith chaplain inside the CHAZ / CHOP in Seattle.“
Blog Writer of “Addressing our Racist and White Supremacist Ideologies: Christian Leadership in Turbulent Times“
From Rev. Monts’ Facebook”
And there is much more in this gop.times article
gravenimage says
Just grotesque, Somehistory. Thanks for this information.
E T says
If there is one thing care is very good at, it is demanding, always demanding. My how time flies and the boys in the hood keep up on their demands.
Way back in 2008, the ISNA San Antonio, Texas, South Central Conference, Sarwat Husain, the National Board Member of CAIR said: “It is very important, media in the US is gullible. OK? And we will see, if you have something, especially as a Muslim, if you have something to say they’ll come running to you and take advantage of that.”
At the same the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood hoods / CAIR Nihad Awad said: “ Give scholarships, in 5 years you will have an army of lawyers, POLITICIANS, journalists, teachers who go to schools, universities, who can educate people about the History of Islam – the true Islam”.
Some other quotes from the Muslim Brotherhood hoods:
“Politics is a Weapon.”
Ahmed Shama, former MSA LA , 2005, “ The only obligation that we have to live in this country is Da’wa. Because , why am I saying that? Because we are paying taxes, these taxes are going to killing our Brothers and Sisters. So we better have a good justification for what we do. The end goal of everything that we are talking about is the establishment of the Islamic Form of Government”.
“Pease is the Absense of Opposition”.
“I will die to establish Islam”.
“ War is Deception”.
“Oh Allah destroy America”.
gravenimage says
Thanks, E T.
b.a. freeman says
we in western and westernized nations who are neither leftists nor muslims, being human, realize that we are not perfect; thus, we are able to forgive those who slander us or worse, because we understand that they may be starting from incorrect premises. given the readily apparent hatred of the left and of the ummah for those with whom they disagree, of course, we forgive, but do not easily accept the company of “reformed” leftists or muslims until somewhat of a track record has been established after a change in mindset. nevertheless, even when there is no change in attitude, we non-muslim non-leftists almost always strive to *NOT* slander monstrous people; instead, we simply point out true, publicly-available information about them. the truth is not slander, libel, evil, nor is it an attack; it is simply the truth.
the left and the ummah, OTOH, distort the truth and outright lie about those who oppose them. as mr. spencer points out, they wish for their opponents to be unable to earn a living, and actively work towards that goal. since he who cannot earn a living will become homeless and dependent upon others or the state, both of which will also be lobbied to prevent them from receiving help, i can only interpret this attitude as murder by collusion. neither the left nor the ummah has the political strength to enforce their desired result, but the time is coming when one or the other will, and at that point, they will begin murdering their opponents directly. since forgiveness is not in their vocabulary, they are the ones who will bear full responsibility for the coming civil wars in western and westernized nations.