Here is the ninth news broadcast about a rented truck driving through the parking lot of an Islamic center while displaying images from the 2008 Mumbai jihad attacks in which 166 people were killed.
It is also the seventh time that News12 has covered this story. Although we do not know who did this, or why they did it, or what the billboard exactly said, we do know all about the reaction of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to the billboards.
- CAIR has nothing to do with this incident. It is just handling the publicity.
- Both CAIR and the Muslim Center of Middlesex County have associations with Islamic terror.
- It is CAIR that engages in coordinated acts of intimidation.
- Finally, CAIR is bringing the old animosities from India to New Jersey.
Let us fisk the responses of CAIR-NJ’s executive director Selaedin Maksut to questions from News12’s Alex Zdan.
Zdan: Do you know view this as bias intimidation?
Maksut: Bias intimidation but also a form of harassment. It is an attempt to make Muslims feel guilty for a crime they had nothing to do with. A crime that happened many years ago, and a place far from Jersey.
Neither CAIR nor the Muslim Center of Middlesex County took part in the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Nor do they live in India. However, both groups have connections to Islamic terrorism.
Before he formed CAIR, the organization’s founder and executive director Nihad Awad worked at the Islamic Association for Palestine, which was part of the Palestine Committee.
There is a mountain of evidence, including FBI wiretaps, intercepted phone conversations, written correspondence, videos, financial records, including canceled cheques and bank statements, and even family ties, the entire gamut, showing the Palestine Committee giving aid to Hamas, including money, both before 1995 and after, when Hamas was declared a terrorist group by the US government. See here.
The Islamic Association for Palestine changed its name to the American Muslims for Palestine to avoid paying a $165 million judgment against them for their role in the Hamas drive-by assassination of David Boim.
But now here is the Muslim Center of Middlesex hosting a BDS presentation given by that same American Muslims for Palestine.
The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement is a Hamas enterprise. In fact, anyone can go to the BDS website, where it says among the current members of the BDS National Committee (BNC) is the Council of National and Islamic Forces in Palestine (PNIF). Even the Wikipedia entry for PNIF shows it is comprised of various terror groups, including Hamas.
That is an awful lot of Hamas right there.
Zdan: Can you explain the significance of the 2008 attack? This was an attack by Islamist terrorists in Mumbai, India.
Maksut: Whoever the attack was by, or wherever it happened has nothing to do with what is going on in New Jersey. The Muslim centers in Piscataway, Edison, and North Brunswick should not have to face this kind of harassment for an issue that has nothing to do with them.
This does suggest someone with a guilty conscience. No one is blaming anybody for the Mumbai attacks. Apparently, CAIR et al not only has nothing to do with the Mumbai attacks, they don’t care about them, either.
Zdan: So the actual content from the truck, do you view it as something that somehow got twisted in a way designed to foster guilt or brutally intimidate people?
Maksut: It is an attempt to almost throw dirt in the face of Muslims. It is a type of harassment. It is a way to say your community, your faith is responsible for this heinous act. And, it is unjust, unfair. And, it is at its root an anti-Muslim, anti-Islamic type of hatred.
In other words, he is offended. CAIR is free to feel about the billboard truck any way they want, but there is no reason for the rest of us to become as emotional.
As a man once said, “we all have the strength to bear the misfortunes of others.” Not to minimize what happened, but just as perspective, there were no injuries, no fatalities, and no property damage. This was a very provocative act, forcing questions like: what is the meaning of this? What do you want? Is this the end of it?
However, it was not a “heinous act.” The psychopathic, LSD-fueled sexual torture and mass murder of 166 people — that’s a heinous act.
Zdan: Do you see this as part of a trend, or do you right now view this as an isolated incident even though there were three mosques?
Maksut: Unfortunately, it is a trend. And, what is happening in India is now spilling into Jersey. And, we are seeing a rise of Hindutva, or Hindu Nationalist movement that is inspiring this type of anti-Muslim hatred.
CAIR is once again finding common cause with violent Muslims. Back in August, CAIR spoiled the party by bitterly complaining that a bulldozer in an Indian Independence Day parade was a threat to Muslims. A threat known as “bulldozer” justice.
As bad as bulldozer justice may be, so far, elements of the Indian government have only used it against people such as Javeed Muhammad. If Indian news sources are to be trusted, Javeed Muhammed got bulldozer justice after trying to incite a murderous riot when someone publicly told the truth about Muhammad marrying a child.
Why would CAIR mistake Javeed Muhammad for an innocent man?
Isn’t it CAIR that is bringing the feud to New Jersey? CAIR is on TV hundreds and hundreds of times a year. How many times has a “Hindutva” representative been on TV and accused CAIR of anything?
Zdan: What is the reaction within the community, these mosques, and in general, in the state?
Maksut: I would say it is very disturbing to see that this coordinated effort taking place in our own backyard. The fact that our mosques, and our house worship, and our schools are being targeted in this way to intimidate the community is jaw dropping. And, we are pleased to say that many are coming out to condemn it. But, it is disturbing to many.
This might be a good time to bring up CAIR’s apparent policy of using their media access to attack individuals from the TV. CAIR’s targets over the years have included elementary school plays and children, the mentally ill, middle school principals, police officers, business owners, and one incitement of a terror incident, etc., etc., etc.
CAIR has the personal insight of a sociopath, and is accusing others of doing what CAIR does regularly, consistently, perennially and on TV. There are over a hundred examples of CAIR clashing with people on TV in the last five years, with 29 in this year alone. That works out to be almost three times a month for eleven months. That is what is jaw-dropping.
Zdan: Do you believe that laws were broken here?
Maksut: I would say so, bias, intimidation. Attempt to harass people. This is not acceptable.
Zdan: O.K. And, is there going to be any move like increasing security around these mosques, or just keeping a general eye out, more camera systems? Do you foresee anything like that in general?
Maksut: It is difficult, because no matter how much security you bring, or how many measures you take, or policies you introduce, you can’t stop people from doing these heinous acts. So we have to educate, we have to condemn to let the broader public know that this type of hatred has no place in our state.
Zdan: All right. Selaedin Maksut of the Council on American Islamic Relations. We will keep our viewers updated as to what happens in this investigation. But, thank you for joining us.
Maksut: Thank you for having me.
CAIR is hopeless. It will never learn, but will instead try to educate us into doing what they say. And in this crazy world today, maybe it will succeed. Nevertheless, it is getting harder and harder not to see it as an irrelevant, inept, terror-tied, racist group that is pretending to run a civil rights organization.
You do not have to take anyone’s word for that. You can see it for yourself simply by paying attention to CAIR on TV.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Indian-Americans in New Jersey should wake up and recognize that the Dems have picked the muslim side over Hindus and India. I know that they want to be influential in both parties, but the only Indian-Americans that the Dems have any use for are those who hate both their faith as well as India. Therefore, the sooner Hindus (and Jews) all leave the Dems, the better!