Internet, talk radio blamed for 'anti-Muslim violence'

[Soldier4Christ]

Internet, talk radio blamed for 'anti-Muslim violence'
Muslim lobby group CAIR sees relationship to alleged spike in incidents


A leading U.S. Islamic lobby group blames a purported rise in anti-Muslim harassment, violence and discriminatory treatment on the Internet and talk radio.

In its annual report, the Council on American-Islamic Relations claims anti-Muslim incidents leaped 30 percent in 2005 from the previous year.

National spokesman Ibrahim Hooper told reporters the difference is due to "a rise in anti-Muslim rhetoric fed by the Internet and also on talk radio."

"You can't turn on the radio without hearing negative, bigoted comments about Islam," Hooper said.

CAIR said it received 1,972 complaints in 2005, the most since it began compiling annual reports after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. About 2,300 reports were received, the group said, but some were found to be illegitimate.

Most of the complaints, according to CAIR Legal Director Arsalan Iftikhar, were of a "due process" nature, such as racial profiling. Second were denial of religious accommodation and third were employment discrimination.

CAIR said federal authorities do a "very good job" investigating crimes with a religious bias, but there is more "resistance" at the local level.

Hooper, nevertheless, charged the federal "Patriot Act" – laws designed to give authorities more resources to fight terrorism – has targeted Muslims unfairly.

In its 2004 report, CAIR also claimed a "sharp jump" in "Islamophobic hate crimes" and blamed talk radio.

That year the group launched a campaign "designed to counter anti-Muslim hate on radio talk shows" called "Hate Hurts America."

In April 2004, CAIR accused Boston host Jay Severin of saying on his show, "I've got an idea, let's kill all Muslims." However, just days later, the Boston Globe, which published CAIR's claim, was forced to issue a retraction, admitting Severin never made the statement. Nevertheless, CAIR continued a campaign calling for Severin to be fired.

The group also targeted Washington, D.C., host Michael Graham for making an "implicit" call for violence against all Muslims by advocating the use of profiling in security policy.

CAIR also launched campaigns to elicit apologies from national radio figures Paul Harvey and Dr. Laura. Harvey backed off on his statement that Islam is "a religion which encourages killing." But Dr. Laura refused to apologize for advising a mother her daughter should go on a field trip to a mosque "only if it is one that has done its best to rout out terrorists in its midst."

CAIR is a spin-off of the Islamic Association for Palestine, identified by two former FBI counterterrorism chiefs as a "front group" for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Several CAIR leaders have been convicted on terror-related charges.

CAIR's leaders also have provided evidence the group has aims beyond civil-rights advocacy.

As WorldNetDaily reported, CAIR's chairman of the board, Omar Ahmad, was cited by a California newspaper in 1998 declaring the Quran should be America's highest authority.

He also was reported to have said Islam is not in America to be equal to any other religion but to be dominant.

CAIR's chief spokesman, Ibrahim Hooper, indicated in a 1993 interview with the Minneapolis Star Tribune that he wants to see the United States become a Muslim country.

"I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future," Hooper told the paper. "But I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through education."

[nChrist]

WOW! - We all know how radical that Paul Harvey guy is (NOT!). I'm not a mental giant, but I wonder if violent and real events every day around the world by Muslims has anything to do with folks starting to feel negative about Muslims.

It's mind boggling. The Pope makes intellectual comments about ancient literature and Muslim violence breaks out around the world. The irony here is the ancient document dealt with Muslim violence, and the protests validate the ancient document. There's also another side to this very ugly coin: does Islam show any respect to other religions, including Christianity? The answer is absolutely no.

If Christians behaved in the same manner as those in Islam, there would already be a world-wide war between Christians and Islam. But, I give thanks that Christians don't behave in this manner. We take the blasphemy of JESUS CHRIST and the total disrespect of Christianity, and what's returned to them is continued tolerance and respect, regardless of their senseless violence and killing around the world. OH, but woe to anyone who draw attention to the fact that there is senseless violence and killing around the world in the name of Islam.

This reminds me to try to find a source to listen to Paul Harvey again. I've listened to uncountable news briefs from him over the years, and telling the truth isn't being radical.

Love In Christ,
Tom

Romans 6:10-14 NASB  For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

[Soldier4Christ]

That was my thoughts when I read this brother.

muslim violence = anti-muslim sentiments


When a person looks at the amount of anti-muslim violence around the world it is very minute in comparison to the amount of muslim violence that has and is taking place right now. Just in the last week alone there has been a total of 44 separate jihad attacks, 301 people killed by jihadist and 374 people injured by them. For the entire month of August there was 209 jihad attacks, 1,030 killed and 2,337 injured.

Take note that these figures do not include Military personell but rather just the civilians that the muslims have killed.

Now what about CAIR's figures? Their figures only cover the complaints recieved of which most of them were verbal assaults against muslims not physical ones.

[nChrist]

Brother Roger,

Those numbers are horrible. I was just thinking that most of those numbers would be on our own soil if the ACLU and folks like them had their way. In all reality, it is fight them there or fight them here.

I tried to visit the CAIR web site once and decided I didn't need the aggravation.  UM??? - verbal assaults versus beheadings and bombings!