The article below says that it’s good that California proclaims a American Muslim Appreciation and Awareness Month, and is just annoyed that the honorees are all jihad allies and enablers. In reality, however, the entire endeavor is an exercise in shallow Islamopandering that is designed to feed the false narrative that Muslims in the U.S. (and specifically in California, of all places) are suffering from widespread “Islamophobia,” harassment, and discrimination. It’s no surprise that CAIR and MAS would end up being honored, because they’re the groups most concerned with furthering that false narrative.
CAIR officials have refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. 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. A CAIR operative has called for the overthrow of the U.S. government.
The Muslim American Society is the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States.
“In recent years, the U.S. Brotherhood operated under the name Muslim American Society, according to documents and interviews. One of the nation’s major Islamic groups, it was incorporated in Illinois in 1993 after a contentious debate among Brotherhood members.” — Chicago Tribune, 2004.
Muslim Brotherhood organizations in the United States are dedicated, according to a captured internal document, to “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within, and sabotaging its miserable house.”
“California Assembly Looks to Honor State’s Most Radical Islamists,” by Benjamin Baird, Focus On Western Islamism, July 20, 2023:
On July 13, the California State Assembly introduced a resolution commemorating August as “American Muslim Appreciation and Awareness Month.” House Resolution No.52 (HR 52) honors the “cultural traditions” of some 1 million Muslim Americans who call California home, and the charitable contributions that Muslims have bestowed upon “people of all faiths and backgrounds in California.”
So far, so good. However, the bill follows this introduction with a praiseful list of “prominent Muslim figures who continue to make significant contributions to the State of California and the United States.” With few exceptions, the state’s honorees hail from Sunni Islamist backgrounds, possessing alarming track records of bigotry and extremism, and even fostering disturbing links to foreign terrorist groups and jihadist movements….
Former State Assembly Member Bill Quirk first introduced legislation honoring California Muslims in 2016. The inaugural bill made sweeping statements about the “rich history” and “invaluable contributions of Muslim Americans in California and across the country,” without identifying any specific community members.
Later iterations of the legislation named specific Muslim achievers, while mostly straying from controversial public figures. A Nobel Prize winner, an Academy Award-winning actor, a county judge, and a saber fencer were honored in multiple bills between 2017 and 2022.
Last year, Quirk retired, and sponsorship of the annual resolution celebrating Muslim achievements was passed to Assembly Member Eloise Reyes (D-50), an influential Democratic leader from the lower chamber. Reyes removed the familiar list of honorees, who were selected from a diverse set of professions and charitable undertakings, and replaced them almost exclusively with Sunni Islamists.
Perhaps the most notorious Islamist institution to appear in the 2023 resolution is the California branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CA), which the bill praises for its “legal services and advocacy” on behalf of Muslims and other minorities. In a 2007 trial, CAIR was listed as an unindicted conspirator involved in fundraising for Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist group, and a total of seven senior CAIR employees have been convicted or deported for serious terrorism-related offenses.
A June 2023 Investigative Project on Terrorism report documents a culture of anti-Semitism at the so-called civil advocacy organization, providing dozens of examples of overtly bigoted statements and anti-Jewish tropes from CAIR staff. Leaders of the California branch feature prominently in the report.
For example, CAIR-CA Director Hussam Ayloush has equated Israel’s military to ISIS on multiple occasions and called for Israel’s “murderous” government to be “terminated.” Zahra Billoo, who leads the San Francisco chapter, has repeatedly bashed “apartheid Israel,” while warning against cooperation with mainstream Jewish American community groups, which she calls “polite Zionists.”
In 2008, federal prosecutors referred to a second group identified in HR 52, the Muslim American Society (MAS), as “the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America.”
Along with CAIR, the United Arab Emirates designated MAS as a terrorist entity in 2014, citing the groups’ links to violent Muslim Brotherhood factions responsible for death and destruction throughout the Middle East….
Wellington says
California not long ago was the beacon of America, America at its best in the most extraordinary country on Earth, the land of destiny and what freedom could accomplish when unleashed.
No longer. California is now the worst of states, even worse than New York and Massachusetts, which is saying something. California is now the weakest link in America remaining America, contra it formerly being the strongest link.
You can thank the Left for this. You bet you can. A Left which destroys everything it touches—marriage, education, patriotism, energy, gender, common sense, an accurate historical record—yes, everything.
And the “leader” in this “effort” in California and throughout America? Why, it is the Democratic Party and which political party is now in the process of destroying America, aided by surrogates like the MSM and the now putrid public educational system.
To the extent that the Democratic Party continues in power, to that very extent is traditional America, which is to say America at its best, still in jeopardy. No patriotic American has any business remaining a Democrat. No exceptions. None. I’m sick of the excuses asserting otherwise.
Might as well defend Islam as defend the Democratic Party of the USA. Might as well be a Muslim who thinks Islam can reform as someone still clinging to the Democratic Party who believes said party can rectify itself. It can’t, anymore than Islam can. Yes, it has become this rotten and thus beyond redemption.
mariar says
Yes agree
And most people, and enterprises and all federal offices should be move out of California
James Lincoln says
Wellington says,
“No patriotic American has any business remaining a Democrat. No exceptions. None.”
Very tragically correct.
DazzleMe says
And California wonders why everyone is leaving, imagine that??