The April 17, 2023 broadcast of the Bay Area’s KGO ABC7 that was filed by Anser Hassan, entitled “Activist targeted in Calif police texting scandal threatens to sue ‘I feel very violated,’” is part of an ongoing scandal.
There is a great deal that is wrong with this KGO broadcast. They fall into three main categories:
- The inclusion of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations.
- The inclusion of social justice activist Shagoofa Khan.
- The advocacy journalism of Anser Hassan.
CAIR
Because text messages between Antioch police officers have somehow become public, local TV newscasters including KGO thought it would be a good idea to get the opinions of CAIR’s Zahra Billoo. CAIR has built a reputation for itself by grandstanding during media stories about high-profile police cases.
But Zahra Billoo has no business criticizing anyone or anything for bigotry. Billoo’s public statements about “Zionists” were so embarrassing even the organization she works for, CAIR itself, put her on a “sabbatical.” But she was back on the job about a month later.
CAIR is on TV every day. As of April 19, CAIR had been on TV 27 times this month. April 19 is the 109th day of the year; CAIR has been on TV 117 times in 2023. However, there has never been anything critical reported on TV about this group in the last 5½ years.
As can be seen in the following list, CAIR has attacked law enforcement officers over 30% of the time in the first half of 2023, and there will be more such attacks to come this year.
This year’s victims so far:
- Nazi Club 131
- “KKK” boots
- Art professor
- Oklahoma police
- Officer Patrick O’Donnell
- Jonathan Boone
- Shaw University
- Missouri prison
- Whole Foods
- Nazi Club 131
- Michael’s Restaurant
- Antioch Police Officers
- Mohamad Bekheet
There are over 120 examples in the last 5½ years of CAIR attacking people on TV, all with the cooperation of local newscasters.
And while TV stations may prefer to look the other way when CAIR attacks, the viewing public can’t help but notice CAIR attacking our school principals, elementary school plays, elected officials, judges, business owners, Facebook groups, children, the mentally ill, other Muslims, and more, and CAIR representatives have been doing this for years.
15 examples in 2018
20 examples in 2019
24 examples in 2020
28 examples in 2021
30 examples in 2022
There is no excuse for TV stations promoting, protecting, or facilitating CAIR’s attacks on people.
Meanwhile, most TV stations are suppressing actual news about CAIR.
- The government has produced ample evidence of CAIR’s associations with Hamas. source: legal decision of Jorge Solis see top of pg. 15, Politico
- FBI officials are on camera saying they are distancing themselves from CAIR. source: Oklahoma’s KWTV CBS9
- FBI: CAIR is a front group source: The Dallas Morning News
- During CAIR’s Zoom conference call, Nihad Awad refers to Israel as the occupation, and deputy executive director Edward Ahmed Mitchell refers to Hamas as a foreign organization.
- CAIR proves its affinity with Hamas every time Palestine enters the news. That’s when CAIR will get on TV and accuse Israel of genocide. CAIR will also organize pro-Palestine rallies that accuse Israel of a holocaust.
- CAIR is on a campaign to destroy the Terrorist Screening Database, or watchlist system. source: New York Times, Newsweek, Washington Post.
- The former executive director of CAIR-FL has resigned amid allegations of domestic abuse. source: NPR
TV stations across the country are only adding to the severity of a developing scandal when they treat CAIR as a legitimate organization and a reliable source of information.
Shagoofa Khan
Shagoofa Khan is a Community Organizer who specializes in harassing police. But she is also a little thug.
Here is she hitting someone in the face during one of her “activist” episodes.
Shagoofa was part of a group that shut down a free speech event at San Francisco’s UN Plaza back in 2020.
“We actually kicked them out,” said Shagoofa Khan, a counter protester. “They were in front of UN Plaza, they had a stage, they had a lot of police presence.”
Event organizer, Philip Anderson, cancelled the event after a “counter protester” knocked Anderson’s front teeth out.
Shagoofa says in her broadcast interview she does not hate the police, which is good news, because just imagine if she did hate them.
Well-known Antioch activist [Shagoofa Khan] charged with felony arson of police tribute at department; she says she was ‘singled out’
A prominent Antioch activist and onetime school board candidate has been charged with felony arson, after police say she was caught on police surveillance cameras setting fire to a tribute to law enforcement that had been placed at the department by the mother of a slain Pittsburg officer.
This whole news segment was about Ms. Khan threatening to file a lawsuit. But what harm has she suffered?
So far, the only statement about Ms. Khan made public in the DA’s report is this:
“Shagoofa looks like an Arabian nights—–dumpster”
Is that the trauma she is basing her “lawsuit” on?
It is going to take much more than horn-rimmed glasses and a loose-fitting sweater to convince us that Shagoofa is all that delicate.
Anser Hassan
Anser Hassan has proven himself to be a practitioner of advocacy journalism, and he frequently works with CAIR; see here, here, and here.
This is just an ongoing scandal with TV stations only now, days into the police text message story, reporting that the police have done nothing criminal or illegal. But local newscasters will still feature the Council on American-Islamic Relations in their broadcasts, because CAIR is a well-known anti-police organization. As is the media.
Golem2 says
with a name like Shagoofa…….
James Lincoln says
Golem2,
And CAIR will have you in their crosshairs if you snicker while saying it.
gravenimage says
Hamas-linked CAIR and media attack police in Antioch, California
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I live here, and this does not surprise. Sounds like some of this stuff from some Antioch police officers really was inappropriate at best, but Muslims–who embrace a creed that in intrinsically racist–weighing in here is deeply cynical. But anything to undermine Infidels defending themselves.
dazzleme says
What I don’t understand….Why in the h3ll are we Americans 🇺🇸 putting up with this???? This s OUR country and doesn’t belong to Islamist……
OLD GUY says
Unfortunately Islamic countries own a large portion of our Stock Market, Higher Education system and properties across America. Now throw in China and Europe and a host of other countries using their financial leverage and lawyers, we the American people have little chance of being heard.