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024/06  June 15. 2006
 


     USMC Brass Agree with Terrorist Supporting Group?

     On June 12, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) issued a press release calling on the Pentagon and Congress to investigate a music video.

     The video refers to the fighting in Iraq and describes a fictional event.  The Daily News of Jackson, N.C., tells Marine Cpl. Joshua Beliles' side of the story.

“Belile, a 23-year-old who lives in Jacksonville and serves
with Marine Light/Attack Helicopter Squadron 167, said
the song was meant only as a joke, based on lines from
“Team America: World Police” and that he apologizes
to people who may have been offended by the lyrics.”

     CAIR has called for an investigation over a JOKE made by an off-duty Marine. This is nothing more than cheap theatrical agitprop being used to cause harm to the United States and the U.S. Marine Corps.
 
     CAIR Executive Director, Nihad Awad:

"Given the recent allegations that U.S. Marines massacred
Iraqi civilians in Haditha and other areas, we need to
determine if this video is what it purports to be …
the inappropriate actions of a few individuals should
not be allowed to tarnish the reputation of all American
military personnel."

     We remind our readers that CAIR has fought, with the ACLU and other anti-American groups, every common-sense attempt by the people of North America to protect themselves from Islamist terrorism.  In addition, CAIR is quick to announce every alleged atrocity committed by our troops and implies, by monotonous repetition, that the charges are true.  In those cases where the charges are later disproven, what do we hear from CAIR?  Silence. 

     Call it what you will, but the fact remains that our armed forces are engaged in a war in Iraq.  No matter how the mainstream press wants to color it, the reality is that we are in a war to the death with radical Islam and Iraq/Afghanistan are just the latest manifestations in this centuries-long confrontation with a hateful ideology, an ideology so warped, so sick, so perverted, that it actually encouranges children to aspire to be “martyrs” in the name of its prophet while claiming a commandment from god to commit the most evil and vile of terrorist acts.

     If this isn’t bad enough, we now have the U.S. Marine Corps leadership making common cause with one of the main supporters of Islamist terror in North America.

     From a statement by Lieutenant Colonel Scott Fazekas:

“We agree with the executive director of the Council on
American-Islamic Relations that the inappropriate actions
of a few individuals should not tarnish the reputation
of all American military personnel."

     The United States Marine Corps, the elite amphibious force, the “Always Faithful”, the proud force that the President has on speed-dial and calls first when our great nation is in peril, agrees with a statement issued by a group that supports those very terrorists that are killing our Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan? 

     What about Nihad Awad?  Well, he’s publically stated his support for Hamas and has spewed rhetoric in front of the flag of Hizbullah. The same Hizbullah that terror murdered over 200 Marines in Beruit.

Awad

      Have we Americans forgotten our dead Marines so soon?  Have we forgiven Hizbullah?
 
     Nihad Awad represents a group founded by Islamist terrorists, supported by Islamist terrorists, that has had (and probably still does) Islamist terrorists on staff.  But we won’t read about that in CAIR or U.S. Marine Corps press releases, will we?

     Why are the Marines listening to him?

     When I was younger, we had a retort we used when someone said something we didn’t agree with, it was:  “Go tell it to the Marines”…it’s a sad day for all Americans when the Marine Corps leadership issues statements in support of CAIR.  Just what kind of signal does this send to Marines in the trenches when their Leadership issues statements supporting the very people who may wish them dead?


     HAVE WE TRULY GONE MAD ...?
   



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



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