Get out the hip boots whenever CAIR speaks!
Posted on 07/10/2006 4:00:43 AM PDT by unionblue83
Planning to murder innocent Americans in the name of radical Islam doesn’t necessarily make one a Muslim terrorist. At least that was the opinion expressed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) after last month’s arrests of seven black men in Miami for plotting to blow up the Sears Tower and the FBI headquarters in Miami.
“Given that the reported beliefs of this bizarre group have nothing to do with Islam, we ask members of the media to refrain from calling them Muslims,” read a statement from Ahmed Bedier, Director of CAIR Florida chapter.
In fact, the men arrested were members of the “Seas of David” religious group, an Islamic sect that follows the tenets of the Moorish Science Temple of America. According to The Daily Telegraph, the Moorish Temple believes that all black people are born as Muslims and descended from the Moors. The Nation of Islam evolved from the Moorish Temple, which was founded in 1913 by Noble Drew Ali. Ali worked as a circus magician before becoming a self-proclaimed prophet and one of the first people to introduce Islam to African-Americans. A member of the “Seas of David” told CNN after the arrests that, “We study Allah and the worship of the regular Bible.”
This isn’t the first time that the Moorish Science Temple of America has run afoul of authorities. In the 1950s, the FBI investigated the Moorish Temple for disseminating anti-American propaganda. Though inconclusive, the investigations into Moorish Science resulted in a comprehensive FBI file of more than 3,000 pages. An al-Qaeda linked follower of Moorish Science, Clement Rodney Hampton-El, was convicted in 1995 for involvement in a terrorist plot against New York tunnels and landmarks.
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A rock isn't a rock, Water isn't water ect ect.
Has CAIR said that OBL shouldn't be referred to as a Muslim?
I dunno, to me there's a stink of the federal government and the Branch Davidian 'compound' about the whole thing. I suspect there may be less here than meets the eye.
I will not believe this country is serious about the WOT until I see CAIR expelled from the U.S. The fact that the national CAIR office is located 2 blocks from the Capitol building; that CAIR representatives are operating inside the Capitol is telling.
...Planning to murder innocent Americans in the name of radical Islam doesn’t necessarily make one a Muslim terrorist. ..........(?????????????????????)
WTF
Not like the Branch Davidians. In this case the government did not excercise its privilege to commit mass murder against religious oddities.
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Common knowledge and not my point.
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They aren't Moors, they're Moops.
Right on!
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