Two TV newscasts about the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations show a number of qualities that are present in almost all of CAIR’s TV appearances.
- CAIR is on TV every day. If it misses a day, it will be on two, three, or four times or more on the following day. Last year, CAIR was on TV over 440 times.
- When CAIR is on TV, it is always positive coverage. None of the hundreds and hundreds of yearly presentations of CAIR in the TV news are even mildly critical of the group.
- There is always something wrong, obscured, or misrepresented in the broadcast.
- The TV reports often recite CAIR press releases almost word for word.
This Monday KDFW broadcast begins by showing us still images of people wearing hairnets in a large room.
On the 911 national day of service today, the DFW chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations spent the afternoon working to help feed the hungry here in north Texas. Volunteers packed more than 100,000 meals and care packages. Their mission? To protect civil rights, enhance understanding of Islam, promote justice, and empower American Muslims.
It might take more than one viewing to realize that CAIR isn’t feeding anybody. CAIR reps are only stuffing the packages on behalf of another organization, U.S. Hunger, which KDFW never mentions even once in the broadcast. By practically reading word for word from CAIR’s press release, KDFW has produced a commercial for CAIR.
On the same day that CAIR was upstaging U.S. Hunger in Texas, KOVR, the CBS affiliate in Sacramento, California, was running the heartwarming story of Saeeda Islam’s acceptance into Yale University.
The reporter reads the details to us as if he were reading a bedtime story.
Saeeda Islam’s reality seemed only possible in a dream.
He then goes on to tell us about her humble origins in South Stockton as the daughter of a Pakistani father and Mexican mother, who now dwells among “the most brilliant minds in the world.” At Yale, we are told, Saeeda will pursue her “goal of studying her own identity as a Mexican and Pakistani American.”
Just before the end of the news segment, the station shows a picture of Saeeda speaking through a PA unit behind a CAIR banner, flanked by CAIR-Sacramento Executive Director Basim Elkarra.
That’s right, Saeeda is an activist and former employee of CAIR, as CAIR-Sacramento’s Programs Coordinator.
Was a CAIR press release about the very obscure Saeeda Islam the inspiration for this KOVR story?
It is broadcasts like these that make one wonder if CAIR is giving stations money to get on their shows, a possibility that newsrooms around the country insist is completely out of the question.
Very well, but that is exactly what it looks like. If you had a product or service you wanted to promote on TV, you would kill to have the kind of access CAIR is apparently receiving for free. According to Guidestar, CAIR had a media analyst appraise their access to the media at $143 million, and that is just one year. (Look under What have they accomplished so far and what’s next?)
Here is CAIR’s National Communications Director gleefully sharing statistics on the attention CAIR receives in the media. This is to be understood in the context of a complete lack of balanced coverage concerning CAIR in the last five and a half years. There is absolutely zero objective journalism about CAIR done on TV.
Like a sundial tracing the movement of the sun across the sky, one can see America’s branch of Hamas steadily advance in society. The time to complain about it is now, before it gets too dark.
somehistory says
the rats who don’t *care* will be all over this: after all, this family is “vegetarian”…Dominoes didn’t sent someone to their house to “investigate,” and they are going to sue.
“Muslim Family ‘Violated’ By Domino’s Pizza”
“After buying a vegetarian pizza, a Muslim household was horrified to find that they’d consumed pork sausage, not discovering till it was far too late. In spite of Domino’s providing an apology, complete refund, and totally free pizza, the household states it’s unsatisfactory.
Craving pizza, Sami Khan and his household chose to buy takeout from a regional Domino’s in Exeter, England. Upon putting their order, they took care to guarantee that they were getting a meatless vegetarian supreme pizza, complete with mushrooms, corn, and peppers.
Upon delivery, the hungry household of five dug in, eating some of their meal only to stop when Sami ominously revealed that one of the pizza pies had a “funny taste” to it. It was only after he carefully checked the meal that he recognized the few bites he’d taken in had not just breached his vegetarian way of life but likewise violated his religious beliefs.
In an outrage over the incident, Ambia Khan quickly went to the media to expose the event. Reporters hungry for a story were eager to record her woeful lamentations of her husband’s experience, describing that it isn’t simply a case of unintentionally eating meat, but a severe disobedience of their Islamic faith.
A Domino’s spokesperson said, “This was an innocent mistake. When the customer notified us we immediately apologized and collected the pizza to investigate further. We issued a full refund to the customer and offered to remake and deliver a fresh order.”
It looks as though the Khan household might take their complaint to a higher level, which might consist of a hefty lawsuit.”
https://newshourfirst.com/2022/09/13/muslim-family-violated-by-dominos-pizza/?utm_source=NHF%20M4BS2&utm_
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link, Somehistory.
I call bullsh*t on this story, for several reasons. One might mistake, say, a pork sausage for turkey sausage, but *no one* is going to mistake sausage for mushrooms, corn, or peppers.
Then, even by the unhinged standards of Islam it is a lie that if a Muslim accidentally takes a couple of bites of pork that this is “a severe disobedience of their Islamic faith”. It’s not. They just stop when they realize what they are eating, which they did.
Then, *very few* Muslims are vegetarian. Not impossible, certainly, but not likely, either.
I’m vegetarian and once ordered a pizza for delivery and foolishly forgot to check it before accepting it. Turns out my order was mixed up with another customer–I wound up with a pepperoni. I was disappointed–mostly at myself for not checking right away. I called the restaurant–same thing as in the story–an apology, an offer to deliver the proper order and a coupon for a free pizza in future. I said thanks, was glad I caught the problem when the restaurant was still open, and checked the order when it arrived. That was the end of it.
I never would have dreamed to trying to sue the restaurant over what was obviously a simple mix-up.
I always check a restaurant meal before eating it, for just this reason–how much more would this be the case if I were apt to “disobey my faith” if I nibbled on the wrong thing?
There was nothing for these Muslim to “expose”–except–what? That restaurant staff might have been paying more attention? Big deal. And that’s assuming that the restaurant was at fault in the first place–there is so much Islamic “Lawfare” that I would *not* make that assumption.
And listen to this absurd language–these Muslims were “outraged”–and even more ridiculous, “violated” and reduced to “woeful lamentations”.
It’s a *pizza*. Get over it.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage says,
“I never would have dreamed to trying to sue the restaurant over what was obviously a simple mix-up.”
That’s an indication of a well-adjusted and psychologically sound person.
Sami Khan, not so much…
gravenimage says
Thanks, James.
somehistory says
g, when I saw this, at the headline, I knew what was to come. It’s only their word that they ordered a veggie pizza. If the restaurant countered that, they would have been the object of even more screaming and lawfare. And I like pineapple on my pizza. If the restaurant put something other than pineapple, I’d notice it right away….before taking a bite.
mozlums **look** for opportunities to make trouble, to complain and whine and there is never enough to placate them…until they sue and get a big cash settlement.
Recently, my daughter ordered some fast food…her order included bacon…when she got off work. when she got home and was able to sit down to eat what she had ordered, she found nothing like what she had paid for and was disappointed. No bacon….and her order had been for “extra bacon.”
the next time she went to that restaurant, she told them of the mix-up and she got her next order free. with an apology. No suit, no thoughts of suit, just an initial disappointment.
but, then, she’s not mozlum.
gravenimage says
Thanks for that story about your daughter’s experience, Somehistory–yeah, there are restaurant order mix-ups all the time–just one of the minor–*very minor*–frustrations of life.
But funny how *all* of these Muslim cases seem to involve pork, which seems pretty questionable. I agree that there is a high chance that this was a set up to begin with–a chance to get money out of the “filthy Infidels”, get free publicity for Islam, and to further impose Islamic norms. I am *so* sick of this claptrap.
gravenimage says
Two Hamas-Linked CAIR Broadcasts in One Day
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More non-stop fake victim mongering and whitewash of Islam for the credulous kuffar. And the idea that this stealth Jihad has anything to do with justice is just grotesque. Good article from Larry Estavan, and great to see him contributing here again.
dazzleme says
“On the 911 national day of service today, the DFW chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations spent the afternoon working to help feed the hungry here in north Texas. Volunteers packed more than 100,000 meals and care packages. Their mission? To protect civil rights, enhance understanding of Islam, promote justice, and empower American Muslims.”
Apparently we are missing the point – they are trying to be victims and apparently on news networks, it is working. I find it making me so angry that the muslums have tried every way to destroy and kill us (9-11) and expect us to treat them like victims, I’m utterly appalled at the American people to go for this hoax.