THE DAILY BLADE: CAIR’s Non-Existent "Muslim Backlash"
On Wednesday, the FBI released a report detailing hate crimes that occurred in 2005. This report should drive a stake into the heart of incessant claims by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) of an anti-Muslim backlash in the US since 9/11.
Of the 1,405 victims of an anti-religion hate crime, 69.5 percent were Jewish (848 incidents resulting in 900 offenses committed against 977 victims by 364 offenders). In comparison, 10.7 percent were Muslim (128 incidents resulting in 146 offenses committed against 151 victims by 89 offenders).
In its latest "anti-Muslim backlash" report – a very wide-margin and large type compilation of he-said-she-said anecdotes and local media coverage of press conferences at which allegations are made that almost never result in arrests, trials and convictions – CAIR claimed that it "processed" (whatever that means) 1,972 civil rights complaints in 2005, and received reports of 153 anti-Muslim hate crimes complaints.
While the FBI report corroborates CAIR’s claim of anti-Muslim hate crimes, it completely discredits claims that Muslims are being targeted by hate-filled infidels (that is to say, American Christians and Jews). The incontrovertible (and inconvenient) fact is that there were seven Jews for every Muslim who was the victim of a hate crime in the US.
The Stiletto checked CAIR’s Web site today and did not find any press releases decrying the anti-Jewish backlash that the FBI report so clearly establishes.
Tort Lawyers Win One, Lose One
These two stories were posted on Law.com yesterday: "Mass. School Bans Playing Tag Over Fears of Injuries and Lawsuits" and "Plaintiffs Fail to Meet Burden in Residential-Mold Case." Now, if the tort lawyers could find a few kids who developed asthma while playing tag in moldy apartments, then they’d have a bulletproof toxic mold class action.
Update
Arizona Sued For Seizing Money Transfers To Mexico
Since 2002, Arizona has seized $17 million in Western Union money transfers to Mexico from CA, NC, IL and other states with a large population of illegal immigrants in an effort to choke off the money supply to drug runners and smugglers or illegal immigrants. Now, three plaintiffs have filed suit in federal court in Arizona to block the seizures on the grounds that the dragnet is too broad, reports The Chicago Tribune.
The plaintiffs allege that the only basis for seizing the wire transfers was that they are $1,000 or more in most cases, and that their right to due process have been violated because senders aren't adequately notified how to contest the seizures. Arizona officials dispute the allegations, noting that a state court reviews the warrant for a seizure before it is executed, and that recipients can call a bilingual hotline to find out why the transfer was intercepted.
The Chicago Tribune notes that two of the three plaintiffs are "immigrants" – but does not specify whether they are legal or illegal. If illegal, then it is arguable whether they have a right to due process under laws that apply to US citizens. But it is impossible for readers to form an opinion about whether the lawsuit has merit, because the paper has left out this crucial fact about the plaintiffs.
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February 6, 2007
The Stiletto wrote:
Definitions of terrorism are many and varied, but they have certain elements in common: using methods of intimidation, the act of terrorizing, threatened use of force or violence with the intention of intimidating, the condition/state of being terrorized. The six imams handcuffed and escorted off a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix flight last week said and did several things that fit these definitions of terrorism – therefore, they are terrorists and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. In her column on the incident, political analyst Mona Charen writes that before they boarded ...
The following is a letter from a pilot. This well spoken man, who is a pilot with American Airlines, says what is in his heart, beautifully. ... Read, absorb and pass this on.
"YOU WORRY ME!"
By American Airlines Pilot - Captain John Maniscalco
I've been trying to say this since 9-11, but you worry me. I wish you didn't. I wish when I walked down the streets of this country that I love, that your color and culture still blended with the beautiful human landscape we enjoy in this country.
But you don't blend in anymore. I notice you, and it worries me. I notice you because I can't help it anymore. People from your homelands, professing to be Muslims, have been attacking and killing my fellow citizens and our friends for more than 20 years now. I don't fully understand their grievances and hate, but I know that nothing can justify the inhumanity of their attacks.
On September 11, nineteen ARAB-MUSLIMS hijacked four jetliners in my country. They cut the throats of women in front of children and brutally stabbed to death others. They took control of those planes and crashed them into buildings killing thousands of proud fathers, loving sons, wise grandparents, elegant daughters, best friends, favorite coaches, fearless public servants, and children's mothers.
The Palestinians Celebrated, the Iraqis were overjoyed as was most of the Arab world. So, I notice you now. I don't want to be worried. I don't want to be consumed by the same rage and hate and prejudice that have destroyed the soul of these terrorists. But I need your help. As a rational American, trying to protect my country and family in an irrational and unsafe world, I must know how to tell the difference between you, and the Arab/Muslim terrorist.
How do I differentiate between the true Arab/Muslim-Americans and the Arab Muslim terrorists in our ommunities who are attending our schools, enjoying our parks, and living in OUR communities under the
protection of OUR constitution, while they plot the next attack that will slaughter these same good neighbors and children?
The events of September 11th changed the answer. It is not my responsibility to determine which of you embraces our great country, with ALL of its religions, with ALL of its different citizens, with all of its faults. It is time for every Arab/Muslim in this country to determine it for me.
I want to know, I demand to know, and I have a right to know, whether or not you love America? Do you pledge allegiance to its flag? Do you proudly display it in front of your house, or on your car? Do you
pray in your many daily prayers that Allah will bless this nation, that He will protect and prosper it? Or do you pray that Allah will destroy it in one of your Jihads? Are you thankful for the freedom that only this nation affords? A freedom that was paid for by the blood of hundreds of thousands of patriots who gave their lives for this country?
Are you?
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