CAIR: US causes terrorism (UPDATED)
Audrey Hudson and Sara Carter of the Washington Times report that CAIR spokeman Parvez Ahmed told an audience at the National Press Club that its Bush’s fault that Americans are mistrustful of Islam;
 A Muslim civil rights group yesterday blamed the Bush administration for promoting “Islamophobia” and said the “war on terror” won’t stop terrorists.
“The new perception is that the United States has entered a war with Islam itself,” said Parvez Ahmed, chairman of the national board of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
“Terrorism is a tactic. You cannot eradicate it by declaring a war against it. The war on terror is causing us infinitely more harm than the terrorists could have ever imagined.”
Yeah, that’s the ticket. Let’s ignore the dozen or so attacks on Americans and our interests throughout the world over the past decade-and-a-half. It wasn’t until we declared war on terrorists that people became aware of the plots against us – aware of the war Osama bin Laden declared against us a decade ago. Maybe there’s a perception that we’re fighting Islam because organizations like CAIR refuse to condemn terrorist attacks against the US. Think?
“It is important to bear in mind that terrorists cannot destroy America,” he said[….]Â The U.S., he said, is too powerful and too resourceful for terrorists to defeat.
So we should just sit back and let the terrorists have at us…like we did from 1993 to 2001. Yeah, no problem with that, I guess. Well, except for the people who get killed in the interim.
I guess the fact that CAIR thinks we should stop fighting the war against terrorists is enough reason to continue fighting the war against terrorists.
UPDATE: I’m listening to the Chris Core Show on WMAL (about 10 AM), and apparently Audrey Hudson, one of the writers on this Washington Times story was escorted from the press conference – she claims she was warned in advance that she wasn’t welcome. Probably because of the bang-up job she’s been doing on the Flying Imams story.
Isn’t it odd that a journalist is barred from a news event at the National Press Club – probably a news event held in the prestigious First Amendment Room on the top floor, too.Â
Hudson anounced that CAIR doesn’t tell her what her “news beat” is and she’ll continue to cover CAIR whenever the Times assigns her. Sara Carter, Hudson’s co-author of this story, just made her bones on this, her first story. Let’s see how long before CAIR bars her from their propaganda sessions.
Of course, CAIR disagrees with Hudson’s story (she says she missed only a few minutes of the end of the conference) but they refused to come on Core’s show and explain what was inaccurate about the Times story. Wonder why?Â
Category: Foreign Policy, Media, Society, Terror War
Let’s see…according to CAIR’s founder:
“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant.
The Quran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”
—CAIR Founder Omar Ahmad
Three of their officials were convicted of terror-related crimes, and there’s no doubt that the entire group should go on trial. CAIR is an al Qaida accessory and Hamas front that needs to be shut down.
Got to love the accusation from these Islamofascist pukes. We ‘create’ terrorism by fighting back? We didn’t ‘create’ a damned thing. Terrorism has been around for years. They declared war on Western civilization decades ago but until September 11th 2001, no one paid attention.
I like David Keene’s response:
“David A. Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union, said in turn as symposium panelist that while Osama bin Laden and those who commit terrorism in the name of Islam may represent no one but themselves, “those who represent Islam have an obligation to themselves, and to the faith they profess, to condemn them lest [other Muslims] suffer for their crimes.”
“If CAIR wants respect as representing the best of Islam to the West, it must shun the role of enabler by siding with the enemies of terror and intolerance wherever they are found,” Mr. Keene said. “The Muslim who attacks Jews and Christians as ‘pigs’ or ‘Crusaders’ is as responsible for the breakdown in civility in the modern world as the Christian who implies that all Muslims harbor a desire to kill a Christian or a Jew.”
I wouldn’t count on CAIR’s cooperation, since they aid and abet terrorism to begin with.