.......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. http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/showthread.php?t= 114079 CAIR and the Italian-American Anti-Defamation League _____ Conservative activist David Keene appears on a panel sponsored by CAIR and makes some interesting remarks: <http://powerlineblog.com/archives/018260.php> http://powerlineblog.com/archives/018260.php Quote: When I came to Washington back in 1970, I arrived at a time of great controversy involving a group called the "Italian-American Anti-Defamation League" which billed itself as the major Italian-American civil rights organization. The League was at the time particularly upset whenever anyone mentioned the existence of the "Mafia" which they took as implying that Italian-Americans were all Mafiosos or criminals. If someone used the word in public, they were willing to stage demonstrations on the ground that its usage was racist and that, anyhow, the Mafia didn't exist. Interestingly, the press seemed to take all this seriously for a while even though everyone knew that A.) there was a mafia and B.) acknowledging its existence or admitting that it had its origins in Sicily and recruited mainly Italian-Americans in this country didn't mean that one was implying that all Italians or Italian-Americans were criminals Eventually, though, people began to ignore the League because what its leaders were insisting on as true just didn't match up very well with reality. The League became a joke to many, but others wondered why it was out trying to define the mafia out of existence and began to suspect that it was in fact little more than a front for the criminals whose very existence it denied. At the same time, many respected Italian-Americans began speaking up to say one could be proud of his or her heritage without having to deny that there are bad elements in any large group of people and that it was the obligation of those proud of their heritage to not only honor it, but to denounce those who would besmirch it. Eventually the League's leaders realized the foolishness of the position they had taken, abandoned it and went on to do much good. The controversy didn't last all that long, but it was both interesting and instructive. CAIR likes to characterize itself as the leading Muslim civil rights organization in this country and your leaders are quick to criticize anyone who in your eyes is "anti-Muslim." And there are such people out there. There are those who believe deeply that the Muslim world is tractably committed to war with the west ands that under his or her skin every Muslim is definitionally and enemy of the west. The belief is, of course, completely absurd, but it exists and should be countered, but not simply by attacking anyone and every one critical either of Islam itself or organizations and individuals who justify their actions on its basis. But let's face it, CAIR does just that. [...] some reporters have been barred by CAIR from covering this panel because by criticizing CAIR or its policies they have been condemned as anti-Muslim when they are, in fact, simply reporters doing their job. In the past, CAIR has attacked as ant-Muslim such disparate groups and organizations as The New Republic, US News & World Report, the Washington Times, the Dallas Morning News, the Tampa Tribune and even Al Gore and our Weekly Reader. The breadth of CAIR's attacks would seem to indicate that there is a widespread, deep bi-partisan conspiracy against Muslims in this country or CAIR is guilty over-reaching. I would suggest that the latter is the case.[...] 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. The Washington Post reported that CAIR in one of its annual reports on "hate crimes" directed against Muslims listed the US apprehension and imprisonment of Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman as evidence of US bias against Muslims. The question we have to ask is whether Rahman was acting in furtherance of legitimate Islamic beliefs in plotting to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993 or was he not...if he was, we all have a problem; if he wasn't why would arresting him be an anti-Muslim act? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? 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