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033/05   November 19, 2005   



    CAIR:  Voters Expressing “Islamophobia”?


     CNS News published an article by Monisha Bansal on November 15, titled “Pennsylvania Voters Don’t Want to Vote at Mosque”. 

     The article, which concerns voting places in Whitehall Township, points out that many voters were uncomfortable casting their votes in a mosque.

     Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) spokesperson, had this to say about voter concerns:

"Anytime you have people objecting to a voting place merely because it's an Islamic
house of worship, I think that is a symptom of anti-Muslim prejudice… It's something that
religious and political leaders, not only in Pennsylvania, but nationwide, need to address.”

     However, what is the truth?  Consider that there are absolutely no “anti-Muslim” statements in the article.  Not one.  The voters are concerned over using a mosque as a polling place, but have expressed no concern over individual Muslims.
 
     Why is this important?

     A clue exists in a statement provided to ACAIR by Dr. Daniel Pipes:

“This is a political issue about radical Islam, not a religious one about Islam.
The fact is, some 80 percent of U.S. mosques are estimated to be in the hands of radical
Islamic leaders.  American voters are rightly concerned to be going to such a mosque
to fulfill their civic responsibility to vote. Whether or not the mosque in Whitehall Township is
radical is not something I know but, presumably, people in that community do."

     So…we have the spokesman for CAIR, an Islamic hate group clearly in the pocket of radical Wahhabi Islam telling Americans we need to address “anti-Muslim” prejudice?

     Then, we have Dr. Daniel Pipes, (and the kindest thing CAIR has said about Pipes is that he is an “Islamophobe”) correctly pointing out that Americans have a valid reason to be concerned about the activities of mosque’s in America…particularly those that may have a connection to radical Islam.

           Consider:

“At the present time, Shia and other non-Wahhabi Muslim community leaders estimate
that 80 percent of American mosques are under Wahhabi control…the main Wahhabi
ideological agency in America, the so-called Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)
has claimed that some 70 percent of American Muslims want Wahhabi teaching in their mosques.”

“Our view is that the number of mosques under Wahhabi control actually
totals at least 600 out of the official total of 1,200…”

“Wahhabi extremism continues to endanger the whole world —
Muslims and non-Muslims alike.”

     Are the concerns of voters in Whitehall justified, in light of the evidence and claims of CAIR, in that 70% of American Muslims subscribe to the extremist, bigoted, and one of the vilest of Muslim sects, Wahhabism?

     Apparently, some folks in Whitehall have expressed their concerns and their concerns are backed up by CAIR’s own data.  In this case, both CAIR and the voters are correct: the majority of mosque’s in America are radical…and Americans have a right to be concerned.

     Once again, Dr. Pipes says what many Americans believe but dare not speak.  Good for him.

     (More reading)


    


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





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