Today, I perused the official website of the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) to see if they had anything about the threats to the South Park creators Trey Park and Matt Stone for depicting an image of the Prophet Muhammad in a bear costume.
There was nothing. Yet CAIR spokeshole, Ibrahim Hooper, has this to say about the RevolutionMuslim group that issued the threat:
"CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper wrote off the RevolutionMuslim.com site as "an extreme fringe group that has absolutely no credibility within the Muslim community." "In fact, most Muslims suspect they were set up only to make Muslims look bad," Hooper added. "We just have very deep suspicions. They say such outrageous, irresponsible things that it almost seems like they're doing it to smear Islam."
- Steven Emerson-Investigative Project on Terrorism
You see, CAIR's website is devoted to two basic themes; American Muslims doing wonderful, mainstream activities and Muslims being the subject of discrimation. One theme that CAIR avoids is hate or violence being directed toward others by Muslims-unless the incident is so big they cannot ignore it (Ft Hood). Even then, they will find a way to spin it their own way.
Now comes this (small) group of fanatics from RevolutionMuslim, who remind us of the murder of Dutch film maker Theo Van Gogh, who made a short documentary critical of Islam's treatment of women, and as a result, was murdered-no butchered on a Dutch street by a Muslim immigrant. And these hate-filled jerks here in the States "imply" that the same will happen to the South Park creators?
Well, as the lawyers will remind us, it is all free speech-protected speech. CAIR also has the freedom of speech to make a big deal of this, put it on its website and condemn these statements in the strongest language. Instead Hooper waves it off and suggests that it's all a set up to make Muslims look bad.
Mr Hooper. It does make Muslims look bad, and you are not helping the situation.
Read more at: http://www.investigativeproject.org/1922/cairs-irresponsible-dismissal-of-the-south-park
"The founder of the group goes by the name of Yousef al-Khattab, but his real name is Joseph Cohen. He was born and raised in the United States as a Jew, and holds both American and Israeli citizenship. In the late eighties, Cohen embraced an ultra-orthodox interpretation of Judaism, and began attending a yeshiva (rabbinical school). In 1998, Cohen hearkened to the Zionist call, and packed up his bags to relocate to the Israeli Occupied Territories where he became an Israeli settler. As an ardent and extreme Zionist, Joseph Cohen fell in with the Jewish fundamentalist group Shas, an extreme right-wing political party that believes in flouting international law based on their religious beliefs. Less than three years later, Cohen “converted” to Islam, moved back to the United States, and founded the most radical Islamic group in the country. His underling Younus Muhammad–the other half of the dynamic duo–is similarly a mysterious “convert” to Islam."
ReplyDeleteOK Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteI posted your comment, but do you really expect me to read all this?
I still have a hang-up about that little Theo van Gogh thing.