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005/05      Feb. 11, 2005



- CAIR & The Saudi Hate Connection

     On January 28, 2005, the Freedom Houses’ Center for Religious Freedom issued a report that is of concern to all Americans who are rightfully alarmed over the influence of Saudi Arabian sponsored hate literature so prevalent in American mosques today.

     The Dallas Morning News carried an interesting article on the Freedom House report.

     Needless to say, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has received funding over the years with donations from Saudi individuals and organizations, had their spokesman, Ibrahim Hooper, ready with an explanation excusing this hate speech:

"The majority of the stuff they picked is in Arabic, a language that most people in
mosques don't read, and I think we can rely on the common sense and good judgment
of the American Muslim community that, if they are reading hate-filled rhetoric,
they would remove it."
 
 
      Really?
 
      How does Dougie "Ibrahim" Hooper know the language "most people" in mosques read?  There are many Arab speakers who use mosques in the U.S. - is it Doug's position these people are illiterate?  Are we to understand CAIR would have no problem with a Christian church, built with funds provided by a foreign government with a proven record of funding, supporting, or justifying terrorism, providing its worshippers with written material that called for killing Muslims as long as it was printed in Spanish? 

      Would CAIR be silent to this? 

      Somehow, we don’t think so. 

      Instead, we think you would see Doug Hooper on television, complaining about the "intimidation" of poor Muslims by "racist" Christians, and speaking in fevered terms about their fear and intimidation and "Islamophobia."

      The religious leader (Imam Kavakci) of the Richardson, Texas mosque in the column admitted that some Saudi-supplied material does end up in his mosque, but defended his actions this way: 

"I am not a police chief. I am not a district attorney.  I am a religious guy... 
The Saudi approach is a problem, it’s a problem for me, here.” 


      ... Sure, it is a real problem for him. But not so much of a problem that he took this Saudi garbage off his shelves.



      So, the religious leader of a house of worship fails to defend God’s house from hate and CAIR gives him a pass?

      To ensure we are perfectly clear regarding our opinion on this point: The Freedom House report provides evidence that mosques in our country are run by people who are either willing dupes of Wahhabi hate or complicit in this hate - and CAIR, once again, rises to the defense of hate.

      When will we hold CAIR, and those who hate us,  to the same standards as we hold the rest of civilized society?





Andrew Whitehead
Director
Anti-CAIR (ACAIR)
ajwhitehead@anti-cair-net.org
www.anti-cair-net.org




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