THE DAILY BLADE: Hate Crime or Home-Grown Terrorism? Either Way, CAIR Doesn’t Care.
On Friday afternoon, Muslim-American Naveed Afzal Haq, 31, allegedly burst into the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, shot one woman to death with a semi-automatic pistol and wounded five others; three of them were shot in the abdomen and are in critical condition. The police are describing the deadly incident as “a hate crime” because Haq is reported to have shouted, “I'm a Muslim American; I'm angry at
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a
“We condemn this senseless attack on a religious institution and offer sincere condolences to the loved ones of those killed or injured. The American Muslim and Jewish communities must do whatever is within their power to prevent the current conflict in the
This statement is notable because it is rather uncharacteristic for the group to condemn violent acts by Muslims in the
The CAIR Web site includes a 43-page archive of press releases (30 to a page) that chronicle every instance of someone looking crosswise at a Muslim - The Stiletto methodically reviewed every page - and each such press release attempts to magnify every isolated incident into proof of pervasive anti-Muslim hatred in America.
The group has issued numerous press releases that (this is a representative sampling):
- Condemned graffiti and other vandalism of mosques, and leveled oblique accusations of arson whenever a fire occurred at a mosque (the results of the investigations the group urged the authorities to conduct are never divulged in follow-up releases);
- Detailed the results of yearly polls in which Muslims complain of post-9/11 bias (verbal abuse, religious or ethnic profiling, workplace discrimination - typically, bans on certain religious attire), government raids on Muslim families and businesses, and "voluntary" (CAIR's scare quotes) interviews by the FBI;
- Descried threatening comments posted on WorldNetDaily by readers (founded by Lebanese-American, Joseph Farah, who is
- Complained about comments made by
At least half a dozen press releases concerned slurs and epithets directed towards Muslim college students by their non-Muslim (that is to say, Infidel) peers, as well as a shoving match or two. But CAIR never issued a press release denouncing
CAIR instead issued a press release three days after the incident titled, “Two New Polls Show Negative Image of Islam In U.S.” Well, duh!
In its latest report on Muslim civil rights in the US, “Unequal Protection,” released earlier this month, CAIR cites a 49 percent increase in civil rights violations (ranging from “bigoted gestures” to “official discrimination”) reported to the group in 2004, as compared to 2003 (1,522 v. 1,019). The report also claims that, “Incidents of actual and potential violent anti-Muslim hate crimes increased 52 percent, rising to 141 reports in 2004 from 93 reports in 2003.”
But the report itself provides no corroborating evidence - such police reports and trial transcripts - for the largely anecdotal “he-said-she-said” complaints of “violent or potentially violent” hate crimes that came to CAIR's attention. And The Stiletto could not find a single press release on the CAIR Web site about a Muslim in the
Only one press release described an incident that came even remotely close to being in the same category as the murder at the Jewish center in
Apparently believing its own overwrought press releases about widespread anti-Muslim violence in the US, CAIR has published a “Muslim Community Safety Kit” to “protect” Mohammedans from murderous American Christians and Jews who have formed terror cells to plot and execute lethal attacks on them.
No, that’s not right. It's American Muslims who have formed terror cells and operate terrorist training camps in rural New York and other states, who plot to blow up bridges, landmark buildings and the New York subway system, who travel to Pakistan and Afghanistan to train as jihadis - and who protest Israel's retaliatory military strikes against Hezbollah and Hamas by killing an innocent woman whose only “crime” was to be Jewish.
The Stiletto thinks someone should come up with an “Infidel Community Safety Kit.” Oh, wait: That’s Homeland Security’s job.
Death Did Them Part – But Husband’s Divorce Took On A Life Of Its Own
Matrimonial lawyers are going where none have gone before – beyond the grave. In several instances, a spouse died in the midst of divorce proceedings – and in one PA case, the night before the papers were to be signed and notarized. The attorney in that case,
The client, dentist
The revised code did not survive its first judicial test: On Friday, Indiana County Common Pleas Judge Carol Hanna refused to grant the posthumous divorce on the grounds that granting a divorce to a dead man is “a redundant act,” and that there was no legal basis for the proceedings to outlive a divorcing spouse. Her ruling quoted from a
In an unrelated development, The Onion reports that Ken Lay’s corpse was posthumously sentenced to prison:
"Mr. Lay, given the severity and scope of your blatant disregard for the laws and ethics of business, this court has no hesitation in posthumously sentencing you to rot in a maximum-security correctional facility," Judge Sim Lake said while addressing Lay's decomposing corpse Tuesday.
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February 7, 2007
The Stiletto wrote:
Commenting on the alleged terror plot to blow up several airplanes traveling between England and the US in midair, President Bush said, it was “a stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists who will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom, to hurt our nation.” The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Washington, DC-based Islamic civil rights advocacy group, immediately jumped down the president’s throat: “We believe this is an ill-advised term and we believe that it is counter-productive to associate Islam or Muslims with ... -
February 7, 2007
The Stiletto wrote:
Columnist Kathleen Parker demolishes the usual lib arguments against profiling to zero in on the most likely perpetrators of terrorism: In the wake of last week's foiled terrorist plot to blow up 10 U.S. jetliners flying between Britain and the United States, sensible people are reconsidering our government's stubborn opposition to profiling. … Most terrorist acts of the past several decades have been perpetrated by Muslim men between the ages of 17 and 40. A complete list would fill this space, but following is a partial Islamic terrorist resume: ... -
February 7, 2007
The Stiletto wrote:
U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton sentenced Ali Asad Chandia, 29, to five years in prison for providing assistance to a terrorist organization known as the "Virginia jihad network," which used paintball games to train for a holy war. The Washington Times reports: [Chandia] was found guilty of “serving as a driver for Mohammed Ajmal Khan, a senior military leader of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, which the U.S. government designated as a terrorist organization in December 2001. He also was convicted for assisting Khan in procuring military equipment for Lashkar and giving safe harbor to Khan during Khan's visits ...
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