We have right to know truth about CAIR

Conventional wisdom would dictate if you, your group-organization and/or religion as a whole were viewed with contempt by some, skepticism by many and distrust by nearly all, it would be prudent to try to diffuse ill-will.

But said logic is not part of a reasoned thought process when it comes to the Council on American-Islamic Relations – at least, it doesn't appear to be part of Ibrahim Hooper's, their director of communication.

Appearing on my talk show "Straight Talk with Mychal Massie," Mr. Hooper displayed the character of a petulant child as he feigned indignation so as to cut short the interview that would have forced him to articulate the truth of his position.

In less than five minutes of air time, the person responsible for putting forth a favorable presentation of CAIR hung up, leaving the audience with nothing to warrant a change in opinion of him, his organization or his religion.

I had assured the gentleman prior to his agreeing to appear that I would not seek to embarrass or diminish him, but I also assured him I would ask straightforward questions. His rhetoric almost immediately degenerated into a puerile phonemic tirade, with him accusing me of "advocating genocide" and of saying "every Muslim on the planet is a member of terrorist organization." He fomented: "You'd kill me, you'd kill my family, you'd kill every member of my mosque ..." – none of which had I even remotely suggested. I submit he is in a much better position to know who within his element is a terrorist than I.

CAIR and Mr. Hooper have an obligation to prove senators like Dick Durbin, D-Ill., wrong when he says: "[CAIR is] unusual in its extreme rhetoric and its associations with groups that are suspect." And Sen. Chuck Schumer, when he says: "We know [CAIR] has ties to terrorism."

CAIR and Hooper have an obligation to the citizens of America and those who lost loved ones on 9-11 to explain why CAIR refused to endorse a rally against terror sponsored by the Free Muslims and 80 other supporting organizations. If as Hooper and CAIR want people to believe Muslims are a pastoral, homogenic group wishing no one harm, why are they not shouting this at every opportunity?

Hooper played the victim more adroitly than Maxine Waters, D-Calif., or Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. But Americans do not want a "victim," they want answers to their lingering questions about CAIR. Perhaps WMAL Radio, its owners ABC-Disney and its sponsors may capitulate, roll over and beg "please don't hurt us," but the majority of America would not be inclined to fault program host Michael Graham when he postulated Islam was "a terrorist organization" that is "at war with America."

Hooper took offense when I pointed out that of the 400-plus recognized terrorist groups in the world, over 90 percent were Islamist groups. (Peaceful religion is not spelled I-s-l-a-m). But the fact remains it isn't the Amish, the Mennonites or the Seventh Day Adventists who are beheading innocent people and murdering innocent women and children – it is Muslims. It was not the Methodists who celebrated the dastardly attacks of 9-11 during candlelight vigils on certain college campuses – it was Muslims.

CAIR may think it fair to accuse anyone who questions, doubts or seeks validation of their integrity of suggesting every Muslim is a terrorist. But in reality, it is fair to raise the question of how a devout Muslim can also be a loyal citizen of an infidel state like America.

CAIR may back a fatwa against terror along with other Muslim leaders, groups and institutions – they may say that Islam condemns violence against innocent lives and civilians. But they don't say whether or not those innocent lives are Baptist, Buddhist, Pentecostal or other Muslims. That distinction is not made.

America has a right to know why members of CAIR's leadership have been deported and convicted of pro-terrorist crimes. Is it wrong to question why in America they need a civil-rights organization to funnel money through?

The Black Panthers may have tried to co-opt Dr. King's non-violent message, but there is a reason Dr. King is celebrated by the overwhelming majority today, while Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale are on police blotters.

Hooper has an obligation to publicly denounce Muslim hatred toward the West. He has an obligation to openly and unambiguously renounce every form of barbaric terrorism. He has an obligation to shed all vestiges of doubt pursuant to where Muslim loyalties lie in America.

Dr. King never acknowledged the Black Panthers and Black Muslims as legitimate. Hooper and CAIR would do well by encouraging Muslims to help the London Police, to share information about bin Laden's whereabouts and to condemn immediately all who practice anti-Semitism.

But he won't, because he can't – the intent of Islam is for the world to be subdued under Islamic rule. And that will only come about by Shariah Law and Sudah 9:5, because a free people will not be ruled by sanguineous zealots who have nothing to offer save hatred, violence and extremism.

Mychal Massie is a nationally recognized political activist, pundit and columnist. He is host of the widely popular talk show "Straight Talk." He has appeared on the Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, Comcast Cable and talk radio programming nationwide. He is a former self-employed business owner of over 30 years and a member of the conservative public policy institute National Center for Public Policy Research-Project 21.

"Has anyone ever heard moslems in the U.S. say or sing: "Allah bless America?"

You raise an interesting question that calls for comparison.

For instance, blessing one's country and expressing gratitude for the blessings that come with living there and praying for the good health of its leaders and their ability to make wise decisions is a formal part of the Jewish Sabbath prayer service of all synagogues, from the traditional to the non-traditional. So integral is the concept of a public, communal blessing for the country to Judaism that the prayer must be said not only in Hebrew, but also in the vernacular language of the country to make sure everyone present can fully understand the meaning and embrace with gratitude the importance of what the prayer means for individuals and for the congregation as a whole.

I am less familiar with the parts of the prayer services of all Christian denominations, but can only assume from hearing invocations and speeches by Christian leaders at public events throughout my life that gratitude and prayer for one's country is a core value of all who follow the Judao-Christian tradition.

The rights of citizenship come with obligations of caring and loyalty to one's country.

Free countries can't keep absorbing internal enemies who would do them harm and expect to survive.

However, Joseph Farah, while publishing a few questionable-credibility articles, like Russian nukes in the U.S.A.,

Actually they did have "suitcase nukes" hidden here. At least according to Vasili Mitrokhin, in "The Sword And The Shield"
The Mitrokhin Archive and the secret history of the KGB.

The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB

By Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin,

New York: Basic Books, 1999, 700 pages

http://cicentre.com/BK/BOOKS_Redmond_Mitrokhin.htm

The publication of The Sword and the Shield is a landmark event. The book is more than a triumph of historiography. Behind it is Mitrokhin’s own amazing persistence and risk-taking over many years while he read KGB First Chief Directorate files and made the thousands of notes which he eventually brought to the West. The material ended up with the British and not the Americans. As the Cold War ended, the CIA’s Directorate of Operations adopted a policy that the Agency would no longer try to recruit Soviet/Russian intelligence officers. The chief of the Central Eurasia Division, who proclaimed, “The KGB is dead,” told me that “We must maintain the high moral ground.” Mitrokhin volunteered twice to the Americans, and after he was turned away, went to the British. They handled the case brilliantly and exploited the information internationally to the great benefit of MI-6 and the British Government in general.

It is probably a good thing that the information went to the British and thus to Professor Andrew, chairman of the History Department at Cambridge. He is uniquely qualified and motivated as a scholar to deal with it. He has no equal in America. His counterparts at Yale, Ohio State, and Stanford specialize, respectively, in Religious Studies, Women’s Studies, and Early Modern Europe and Women’s Studies.

Professor Andrew has done a superb job in taking Mitrokhin’s material, much of it fragmentary, and combining it with hundreds of other sources to draw to full, coherent picture. (The bibliography is more than 12 pages long, and the footnotes number almost 1,000.) For instance, in the chapter on the Magnificent Five,” Andrew combines Mitrokhin’s notes with about 30 other sources ranging from Vienna city police records to Kim Philby’s own self-serving, KGB-inspired autobiography. This approach, used throughout the book, represents outstanding scholarship, which allows Mitrokhin’s massive detail to illuminate and expand on, sometimes with stunning new data, what has been written, or simply previously suspected. An excellent example is the brief section on the Soviet illegal Rudolph Abel, which combines Mitrokhin’s data with information published about him in the West. Abel was lionized as a heroic master spy in the West; according to Mitrokhin’s data, however, he apparently accomplished little.

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