“False Assumption” That Islam is Linked to 9/11 Says CAIR; Tea Party Behind Muslim Hatred
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a so-called Muslim civil rights organization linked to the Islamist terrorist group Hamas, is once again claiming that Islam had nothing to do with the terrorist attacks against America on 9/11, and recently suggested that the Tea Party was behind “hate vandalism” and Islamophobic attacks against Muslims across the country.
As reported by Matt Cover at CNSNews.com, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad told reporters at a press conference on Wednesday that “the Tea Party and the Republican Party have given the green light” for the harassment and hatred of Muslims in America.
“[W]e used to deal with individual cases of Islamophobia, harassments, and discrimination against Muslims,” Awad said. “Today, and in the past few months – almost maybe one year, we can say one year — we have seen an organized effort, we have seen organizations built to fight the presence of Muslims in the United States and to deny Muslims’ right to freedom of expression, freedom of religion, and even to be an elected official.”
“[Y]es it is a mid-term election year, and unfortunately the Tea Party and the Republican Party have given the green light for these people to defame and stereotype Muslims, and unfortunately as we’ve said, these have led to violence against Muslims,” Awad went on to say.
CAIR’s communications director Ibrahim Hooper also linked the Tea Party to anti-Muslim attacks.
“We’ve seen a really strong uptick in Islamophobia recently – primarily sparked by the controversy over the Manhattan Islamic center,” Hooper said at the press conference. “We’ve seen hate vandalism at mosques in California; in Tennessee, we had an arson attack; at a mosque in Arlington, Texas, we had an arson attack; and something that wasn’t even reported nationwide, in May we had a bomb attack at a mosque in Jacksonville, Florida”.
“The question is, why?” Hooper asked. “Is it tied to the November elections? Is it tied to the rise of the Tea Party movement? Is it tied to the economy?”
“I think it’s pretty clear that it’s been sparked…by these hate groups and their opposition to the Islamic community center in Manhattan,” Hooper said.
According to Cover, Hooper dodged questions about whether CAIR agreed with the Ground Zero Mosque planner, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who said that America was an “accessory to the crime” of 9/11, and that Osama bin Laden was “made in the USA” in a CBS “60 Minutes” interview.
Awad also told reporters that the 9/11 terrorist attacks, conducted by radical Muslims, were in no way connected to the religion of Islam.
“[W]e totally reject the false assumption that our faith, Islam, has to do anything with 9/11,” Awad said. “So submitting to this false assumption is really condemning our own faith in the 9/11 attacks and this is really a collective guilt that we do not submit to.”
Awad made similar comments last month in an interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly.
In that interview, Awad repeated the false notion that no link exists between Islam and 9/11, and said that he is “sick and tired of condemning” Muslim terrorists.
CAIR’s assertion that Islam had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks is completely false and targets the insanity level in terms of denial.
The 9/11 terrorists, like most terrorists, all believed themselves to be good followers of Islam. As I and others have argued, they are in fact followers of a totalitarian ideology known as Islamism.
Even if you separate the religion of Islam from the ideology of Islamism, there is still a link to Islam that goes back hundreds of years.
There are a brave few in the Muslim community who embrace this reality and are working to expel the Islamist ideology from their religion, but CAIR accepts Islamism and promotes it through their organization.
While Awad may be “sick and tired” of condemning the Islamists who murder Americans at home and overseas, American citizens are sick and tired of not hearing Muslims condemn such radicalism enough.
As for the Tea Party linkage, it has been my personal experience with Hooper that he simply hates conservatives and the Tea Party in general, even before the false claims made Wednesday.
