In
Defense of the Constitution
News & Analysis 036/04
November 1, 2004
Convert to Islam; or Revert to Christianity?
CAIR Confused(?)…Again!
- Convert
to Islam; or Revert to Christianity? CAIR
Confused(?)…Again!
Several weeks ago, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, (CAIR)
was trumpeting the case of a young female basketball player at the
University of South Florida who had recently converted to Islam.
According to CAIR-Florida’s Communications Director, Ahmad Beider,
Andrea Armstrong was so devout that she wanted to continue playing
basketball in Islamic attire. The college was working to
accommodate her request when she quit the team as she did not want the
issue of her clothing “to cause further distraction”. She
returned home, and returned to her own Christian beliefs.
Is
this the real reason she quit the team? According
to CAIR’s Beider, it wasn’t. He was quoted as saying that
Armstrong’s real reason for leaving the team was fear; that she had
received hate-filled e-mails denouncing Islam and that she had been
followed home by a man waving a newspaper story out a car window while
she rode her scooter.
Hmmm.
This raises a question: who’s telling the truth? …young Ms.
Armstrong or Mr. Beider of “American’s premier Muslim Civil Rights
Organization”?
Was Armstrong threatened?
Let’s examine the
evidence, shall we?
1. No copies of the
hate-filled e-mails have been presented.
2. No copy of the police
report.
3. CAIR hasn’t called for
an e-mail blitz of the police/college,
asking for action to defend Armstrong from “Islamophobes”.
(Unless ACAIR missed that particular
“Action Alert”?)
…so, it would appear that Armstrong’s story seems to
be the more
credible, considering she’s speaking for herself. But, why would
an organization as reputable as CAIR make up such an easily refutable
story? Is CAIR playing that old, tired, “Woe is Islam” tune
again?
…or might CAIR lie to advance its agenda?
…and
Ms. Armstrong? She’s
back home with her
family and her
Christianity.
…and Mr. Beider, the man who was so concerned about Armstrong being the
victim of “Islamophobia”? Why, he was so concerned that he didn’t
know that she had reverted to Christianity…two weeks
before! Yup,
sure sounds like he was concerned for her, wasn’t he? Or was she
just another tool to be used, and discarded, to advance CAIR’s
agenda? How could it be that Beider didn’t bother contacting her
for two weeks, even though she was the victim of a "hate crime?"
Did his concern for her as a person end when she reaffirmed her
Christian beliefs?
…care to comment, Mr. Beider?
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