Edward Durr has been well played, and has complacently allowed it to happen. 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.
So why is Durr giving them an apology, or talking to them at all?
Also: was Muhammad a pedophile? The case can certainly be made from Islamic texts that state Muhammad consummated his marriage with a nine-year-old girl when he was 54. Because of his status as the “excellent example” (cf. Qur’an 33:21) for Muslims to follow, this has caused child marriage to be acceptable in many areas of the Islamic world, notably Afghanistan, where nearly all girls at third grade age and older are married.
Durr has already shown himself to be weak and easily manipulated. Another worthless politician.
“‘I feel like throwing up’: GOP trucker who defeated Democrat NJ senate president with $200 campaign admits to being overwhelmed by his victory and meets with Muslim leaders to apologize for calling Prophet Muhammad a ‘pedophile,'” by Brian Stieglitz, DailyMail.com, November 11, 2021:
A New Jersey trucker who shot to a shock victory in the state’s senatorial elections has told of his shock at winning, as he met with Muslim leaders to apologize for a 2019 tweet calling the Prophet Mohammed a ‘pedophile.’
Ed Durr, 58, who claimed to have spent less than $200 on a campaign that ousted one of the most powerful political figures in New Jersey politics, spoke to reporters after Democrat favorite and incumbent Steve Sweeney conceded the race on Wednesday.
Durr, who is a Republican, said, ‘I feel like I’m about to throw up. This is all new to me. It’s all overwhelming, but I am very happy that the voters selected me. I’m going to earn that vote and I’m going to prove them right.’
Even before being sworn in, however, Durr had some explaining to do over a series of inflammatory social media posts, specifically one from 2019 that read, ‘Mohammed [sic] was a pedophile! Islam is a false religion! Only fools follow muslim teachings! It is a cult of hate!’
After the tweet surfaced following his election win, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called on Durr to either denounce Islamophobia or resign as senator. Durr met with leaders from CAIR’s New Jersey chapter on Wednesday night for two hours, after which he addressed his tweet in a news conference, ABC 6 reported.
‘I stand against Islamophobia and all forms of hate and do commit to that,’ he said. Asked what he was thinking when he made the tweet, Durr said ‘I could not recall. I don’t even remember what I had for dinner last week.’
Durr and CAIR leaders appeared to have progress during their talk, as Durr added, ‘We got to get the sense of each other. I think that’s the real key to everything. As long as you know someone it’s hard to hate someone.’
Selaedin Maksut, of CAIR New Jersey, accepted Durr’s commitment before adding, ‘Hate speech is that which leads to violence and that has to end. That type of rhetoric cannot come from someone who has such a high responsibility.’
Durr acknowledged his social media posts in a news conference following Sweeney’s concession and said, ‘You get behind the keyboard, you don’t see a person and you don’t consider the other person. I just wrote something that I don’t mean to offend anybody.’
He also released a statement last Friday that read, ‘I’m a passionate guy and I sometimes say things in the heat of the moment. If I said things in the past that hurt anybody’s feelings, I sincerely apologize.’
He continued, ‘I support everybody’s right to worship in any manner they choose and to worship the God of their choice. I support all people and I support everybody’s rights. That’s what I am here to do, work for the people and support their rights,’
Gloucester County GOP Chairwoman Jacci Vigilante also defended Durr in a new conference and said, ‘I never thought he had a social media history. Those tweets, when they were made public yesterday, they were out there. Ed is a passionate guy. He was a little bit of a keyboard warrior at the time.’
She added, ‘Certainly he’s made an apology. He didn’t intend to offend anyone’s religion and certainly believes that everyone has the right to practice their religion of their choice…He is a big defender of the First Amendment and the Constitution of the United States. So you know, has he made a mistake in the past? Absolutely. Does it define who he is? Absolutely not.’
Reporters asked about a series of other tweets and Facebook posts, including one that downplayed the January 6 riot in Washington as ‘not being an insurrection’ and another comparing vaccine mandates to the Holocaust. He was also branded transphobic after referring to transgender former Wikileaks prisoner Chelsea Manning as ‘she/him…shim’.
Vigilante denied that Durr, himself, made the comparison, but said that he only shared a photo drawing similarities between vaccine mandates and the genocide of the Jewish people.
‘He commented on the picture, he didn’t make the comparison,’ she said of the post, adding that he has a right to feel the way he does about the January 6 riot. ‘He’s not apologizing for the way he felt about January 6. A lot of people who feel that that was not the insurrection it was described as in the press.’
Twitter showed Friday that Durr’s account had been suspended, though it is not clear if Durr himself deactivated or deleted the account or if the social media company removed him from it….
A7E.Pilgrim says
Clearly a Paper Tiger in the finest tradition.
PRCS says
“Gloucester County GOP Chairwoman Jacci Vigilante also defended Durr in a new conference and said, ‘I never thought he had a social media history.”
In 2021? WTFO?
Mount Zion says
“If I hurt somebodys feelings I sincerely apologize”
Gosh , now I feel like throwing up too , because he won . Jacci Vigilante claims he didn’t intend to offend anyones religion . But this religion is more than worth beeing offended , just look at the persecution of non muslim in muslim dominated countries and then ; the claim that only fools follow muslim teachings , it’s a cult of hate and that Islam is a false religion is more than evident in islamic text and teaching like stoning for adultery , temporary marriages , child marriages , killing of infidels , death sentence for apostasy , keeping of sex slaves in the 20th century , i could go on and on . Also , why does he have to respond to CAIR who is the equivalent of the Fox in the chicken coop . It’s just insane .
PRCS says
“that Islam is a false religion is more than evident in islamic text and teaching”
RELIGION: the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.
Yes, it IS a religion, though awful to be sure.
Of greatest significance to those in the U.S., it is a theocracy; a system of governance that–by definition–is both antithetical to and incompatible with democracy.
Until our nation’s Durrs start asserting that unarguable truth instead of uninformed opinions about Islam, the usual suspects will continue using that mistake to their advantage.
somehistory says
Makes me want to throw up every time some idiot “apologizes” to the scum of c.a.i.rats.
If ‘o’ had not put an end to the prosecution of c.a.i.rats in 2008, those mozlums would be serving time for funding terror….all in the name of their favorite rapist, one who favored raping children, murdered many innocent people, lied about everything under the sun and the moon, stole, engaged in slavery, and used terror to get what he wanted, commanding other psychopathic slime to copy him.
This guy is just like all the others….fawning over those who should be in prison…and will end up using him to get more power over the rest of us. And it won’t keep his neck from the blade.
Yes, time to vomit.
peace says
Mohammed [sic] was a pedophile! Islam is a false religion! Only fools follow muslim teachings! It is a cult of hate!’
You can say that, it’s true, It’s not your place to apologise, mohamid was a pedophile
mortimer says
Hadiths proving Mohammed was a Pedophile:
-Mohammed sucked on the tongues of children to whom he was related:
-No less than 20 Islamic sources—such as the hadiths of Ahmad bin Hanbal—relay that “Muhammad used to suck on the tongues of boys and girls”
-A hadith relayed by Abu Hurreira (deemed an extremely reliable narrator), where Muhammad sucked on the tongues of his cousin (and future caliph) Ali’s two boys, Hassan and Hussein.
-Musnad of Ibn Hanbal: “Muhammad would not sleep until he sucked the tongue of his daughter Fatima and nuzzled his face in her bosom.”
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-Musnad Ahmad,” Hadith number: 16245, Volume Title: “The Sayings of the Syrians,” Chapter Title: “Hadith of Mu’awiya Ibn Abu Sufyan,”
-Narrated by Hisham Ibn Kasim, narrated by Huraiz, narrated by Abdul Rahman Ibn Abu Awf Al Jarashy, and narrated by Mua’wiya who said, “I saw the prophet (pbuh) sucking on the tongue or the lips of Al-Hassan son of Ali, may the prayers of Allah be upon him . For no tongue or lips that the prophet sucked on will be tormented (by hell fire).
-The hadith was relayed by Abu Hurreira (deemed an extremely reliable narrator), where Muhammad sucked on the tongues of his cousin (and future caliph) Ali’s two boys, Hassan and Hussein—(they of revered Shi’a memory).
-Muhammad sucked on the tongue of his own daughter, Fatima. The Arabic word for “suck” (muss) cannot, as some apologists insist, mean anything but “suck.”
This is the same word used when discussing Muhammad’s ‘activities’ with his wives, especially his beloved child-bride, Aisha.”
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Mohammed tongue-kissed his daughter Fatima frequently
-Traditionists have also reported on the authority of ‘Ali ibn Ibrahim al-Qommi in his commentary of the Holy Qur’an, as related on the authority of the sixth Imam as-Sadiq, Ja’far ibn Muhammad (a.s.), who said:
“We were told that our forefathers said that the Messenger of Allah often indulged in kissing the mouth of Fatimah(a.s.) the mistress of the women of the world, so that `A’ishah finally protested saying, `O Messenger of Allah, I see you indulge so often in kissing the mouth of Fatimah(a.s.) and placing your tongue in her mouth.’ He answered, `Yes, O `A’ishah, when I was taken up to heaven, Gabriel took me into Paradise and brought me near the tree of Tuba (beatitude). He gave me an apple of its fruits which I ate. Thus when I returned to earth, Khadijah, conceived Fatimah(a.s.). Whenever, therefore, I yearn for Paradise, I kiss her and place my tongue in her mouth, for I find in her the fragrance of Paradise.’ ” ________________________________________
-Musnad of Ahmad bin Hanbal, which records Muhammad seeing a 2-3 year old girl in her mother’s arms. Muhammad was so “impressed” by her that he said, “By Allah, if this girl reaches marrying age and I am still alive, I will surely marry her.”
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From the Syrian Biography of Muhammad written by Al-Amin Al-Ma’moun, Chapter Title: “The first people to believe in the prophet.”
In mentioning the 10 specific qualities of the prophet, Al Zamakhshari mentioned that the prophet took charge of naming Ali and feeding him many days from his blessed saliva and having Ali SUCK ON THE PROPHET’S TONGUE.
For it was narrated by Fatimah Bint Asad, the mother of Ali – may Allah be pleased with her – who related that when she gave birth to her son, it was the prophet who named him Ali and the prophet spat in Ali’s mouth THEN ALLOWED HIM TO SUCK ON HIS TONGUE till he fell asleep.
She also said, “On a later day we requested a wet nurse for him (Ali) but he refused her breast so we called for Muhammad – pbuh – WHO PLACED HIS TONGUE IN ALI’S MOUTH and he fell asleep. This is the way it was as Allah willed it.”
-Sunan of Bin Said records Muhammad saying “I hugged so-and-so when she was a child and found that I greatly desired her.”
WHAT KIND OF MAN IS SEXUALLY AROUSED BY A LITTLE CHILD?
gravenimage says
All ugly stuff, Mortimer–and all of it as you note orthodox Islam.
john smith says
The evidence you have presented here Mortimer proves without a shadow of doubt that muhammad was an extremely perverted pedophile.
bill says
When Moham. was in control of the Arabs, he had access to any woman he chose, including slave girls,. Probably hundreds of attractive women, just like the Sultans of later Islam.
He chose a little girl. I think that shows where his sexual interests were
roberta says
From famous to infamous in 15 minutes. Call Genus Book.
He should hang himself——in effigy of course.
That’s if he doesnt die of embarrassment first.
Clifford Fodor says
I never called Mohammad a pedophile. But if I did, I wouldn’t apologize for it.
gravenimage says
NJ State Senator apologizes to Hamas-linked CAIR for calling Muhammad a pedophile
………….
It makes me want to throw up seeing someone making abject apologies to referring to a thug who raped a nine-year-old child as a pedophile. Ed Durr was telling the truth the first time.
Notice that CAIR doesn’t even bother to adress this–this is not uncommon. We shouldn’t let them get away with this.
rubiconcrest says
Why is he afraid to tell the truth about Islam? He’s only going to offend a tiny minority ….. or so we’re continually told again and again. Maybe we’ve been told a lie.
PRCS says
“Why is he afraid to tell the truth about Islam?”
Because he’s substituting opinions for telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
The public needs to know that Islam IS a religion, though not just a religion: a theocracy.
Infidel says
Islam is a religion about as much as Communism is a religion. And a theocracy, the deities in question being Marx, Engels, Lenin and Mao
PRCS says
RELIGION: the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.
Yes, it IS a religion.
Its awful teachings, horrible practices, and incompatibility with secular, man-made law is the issue.
BexarKat says
We are “instructed” by CAIR to understand that Mohammed was a man of his time and that we should not condemn him for seducing a child as his bride, as that was common practice. Liberal American support that theory.
However, when it comes to understanding Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and Robert E. Lee, among many others were “men of their time” as well…nothing is forgiven.
gravenimage says
Not just that–the “Prophet” Muhammed is considered a model *for all time* in Islam. This is the main reason why child “marriage” is rife in the Muslim world, and efforts to legislate against it are regularly considered un-Islamic.
“Nigeria: Chief Imam of major Islamic society says Islam supports child marriage”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/nigeria-chief-imam-of-major-islamic-society-says-islam-supports-child-marriage
“Canada: Imam says 50-year-old man marrying 9-year-old girl is “legitimate” in Islam”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/10/canada-imam-says-50-year-old-man-marrying-9-year-old-girl-is-legitimate-in-islam
There are many other such stories.
PRCS says
According to them, you’re taking all this out of context, of course.
gravenimage says
Yep. This is only potentially valid if they note what the proper context *is*. But often it is just declared “out of context” with no further explanation.
somehistory says
When it comes to *offending* mozlums, it’s always about telling the truth about islam and no one should ever apologize for that.
The entire mozlum world *believes* that their idol sexually assaulted a child of six and raped a child of nine…probably was assaulting all of the time in-between…and calling it “marriage,” but when an infidel says he was a luster after children….(i don’t think it should be called pedophile because they don’t love children)…there is condemnation in the statement and that’s what offends them.
We have been lied to over and over and they want us to lie by omission and not say what a crime the raper of children committed. What he did is fine and dandy with mozlums, but they don’t want the rest of us to say what a filthy sack of dung he was for doing what he did.
PRCS says
You’re assuming that Muhammad “the prophet of Islam” actually existed.
Robert Spencer’s book “Did Muhammad Exist?: An Inquiry into Islam’s Obscure Origins―Revised and Expanded Edition” does not come to that conclusion.
Ecosse1314 says
Very true. No proof of Mecca existing before 900AD. No evidence of it ever being a trading centre.
If thats the case Mo could not have been a trader. Mo didn’t live in Mecca and almost certainly did not exist in the form that has come down to us.
somehistory says
He exists in the minds of mozlums and in the book **someone** wrote describing him, whether or not he actually lived and did all those things attributed to him.
Perhaps the filthy scum who wrote the book did those things and wanted to have others *okay* with it.
Who can really say at this point? No photographs or videos of the time.
The point I was making with my comment is that if one tells the Truth….mozlums are offended. It he didn’t live and do those things, matters not to mozlums who are offended by others condemning him for those things they believe he did.
Ecosse1314 says
That is equally true SH. No matter of historical proof will shift their mental block
PRCS says
“if one tells the Truth….mozlums are offended”
In our nation’ of 300+ million individuals, a great many follow religions–and none–which do not accept Christianity as the “Truth”.
Sorry, General Flynn, but by law–no religion can be THE national religion.
“If we are going to have one nation under God, which we must, we have to have one religion. One nation under God, and one religion under God.”
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1459658826425249798?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1459658826425249798%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fkingdomecon.wordpress.com%2F2021%2F11%2F14%2Fmichael-flynn-wants-one-nation-under-god-i-want-one-planet-under-god%2F
Infidel says
Fine, let somebody declare that, and then see CAIR’s reaction!
PRCS says
Many have.
Robert Spencer, as but one example, has.
CAIR used to have an “Islamophobe” list of individuals and groups.
livingengine says
New Jersey has a severe CAIR problem-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAWmZYg9Ib4
John says
This man is not a politician. He probably never read things like this, but what he should’ve said was, “if my words hurt your feelings I’m sorry but I only told the truth. Everything I said is in your book.”
“You need to examine what is in your Koran: Satan’s life instruction manual. And don’t attack me for exposing what is in your hateful book.”
tgusa says
This poor guy and his apology reminds me of something I saw posted on a site I visit.
Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.
I don’t know who thought that up but we seem to be headed in that direction.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, tgusa.
notnolib says
But truth be told, mohammed was a pedophile…..at least according to muslims. He was schtuping a 9 year old girl. That makes one a pedophile.
On islam. It’s true that it’s a gutter cult, and those that follow it, gutter cultists.
On the koran. The terror guide that was shat into the arabian sands by the pedophile mohammed.
On CAIR. They’re a terrorist organization. Its members, officers and supporters are terrorists.
James Lincoln says
If Edward Durr had chosen to NOT apologize for his accurate tweet, he would have gained immense credibility with the anti-jihadists.
At the cost of, perhaps, putting himself and his family in personal danger.
Infidel says
Yeah, that’s the only justification I can think of for this apology. The first time he apologized for ‘feelings being hurt’, I was willing to grant him a carveout. But he made 2 mistakes here – first, agreeing to meet w/ CAIR at all and act as though they were a legitimate representative of muslims in America, and second, apologizing for a statement of fact
Wonder how much pressure he had from the state GOP to make this concession? Or was it just the death threats that swayed him?
OLD GUY says
CAIR supports a terrorist organization and has had close ties and members prosecuted as TERRORIST. Makes one wonder if CAIR is a terrorist organization its self? If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it just might be a duck.
Jerry says
Are you talking about the non-paedophile self appointed fake prophet, who in non-paedophile manner trafficked and “married” a six years old female toddler, unsuccessfully, but in a hugely destructive manner tried to “consumate” the “marriage” but had to delay the “consummation” until the female toddler grew up and reached the mature ripe age of nine when she became old enough to by informed and free consent for the self appointed prophet to rape her.
She was forced to remain, and, repeatedly rape by the fake prophet, until she reached the age of nineteen when he ultimately was poisoned and died in agony probably at her and another sex captive woman.
She must have been so badly torn up, internally, by the non-paedophile fake prophet that she was never able bear or give birth to children.
Bikinis not Burkas says
The fat white dwarf Muhammad was also a necrophile!
Roland says
New Jersey’s governor, Phil Murphy, said of Durr, prematurely, “this guy’s dangerous!” In NJ, CAIR leads the blind leading the blind. NJ.com (Newark Star-Ledger) censors ALL comments about Islam from its reader blogs. No quotations from the Koran by the Ifidels are permitted. No description of the Palestinian cause as a Jihad is allowed. The political class and the mainstream press are at CAIR’s disposal.
Infidel says
Phil Murphy has proved over the last 2 years who’s dangerous! From sending elderly Chinavirus infected people into nursing homes (much like Cuomo, Wolf, Whitmer and Newsome) to telling Tucker Carlson “The Constitution is above my paygrade” to his jihad in shutting down businesses, like the Atilis Gym in Bellmawr, NJ, he provides tough competition to some rogue Afghan or Yemeni who might wanna blow up casinos at Atlantic city