Posted on 06/30/2009 7:19:32 AM PDT by ncfool
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), whose officials in the past have been convicted for being associated with Muslim terrorist groups, said it will announce at a news conference Tuesday that it is launching an “education campaign” and will distribute 100,000 copies of the Koran to local, state and national leaders. The books will provide an English translation and commentary.
CAIR said the distribution is prompted by U.S. President Barack Obama’s recent speech in Cairo, in which he said he wants to reach out to Muslims throughout the world. He praised the Muslim community in the U.S, whose values he said incorporate tenets of Islam. President Obama, whose father was a Muslim, quoted the Koran four times in his speech in Cairo and used the word “violence” instead of “terror” in his reference to extremists.
"Through this ground-breaking outreach initiative, we hope not only to educate policy-makers and opinion leaders about Islam, but also to provide an opportunity for American Muslims to reach out to their fellow citizens of other faiths," said CAIR board chairman, North Carolina State Senator Larry Shaw.
However, the New York-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has charged that CAIR is a product of the Islamic Association for Palestine, and other media have accused it of promoting militant Muslim views.
CAIR previously has been funded in part by the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, some of whose former officials recently were convicted for funneling money to terrorist groups.
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Socialists like Hitler and Stalin engage in book burning, but if I was given a Koran I’d be using it to light my grill, and I’d be serving pork spare-ribs that day.
What did he say about the death sentence on non-muslims who'd dare visit the segregated Islamic supremacist city of Mecca (the one every good muslim bows in allegiance to 5 times a day every day)?
NOTHING.
Why the F*** are they being urged to push their bastard religion on us, if this were someone handing out Bibles they’d go out of their minds!
Step back, look at the BIG picture (as big as we humans can see, at least),
and you’ll see two sides. One has Bibles, one opposes bibles.
CAIR = Muslim Brotherhood = Saudi Arabia = someone’s bosses
They whack us and we bow and submit.
The terrorists won.
When we toppled Saddam, one thing that we should have imposed on Iraq's new constitution is acknowledgment that man had a freedom of religion.
How many of the world's 1 billion muslims even had a choice in that decision?
You’re right, I also noticed immediately after the attacks that the lefties were primed. I remember one young girl, a University student, asked me condescendingly, when I was commenting on the attacks, “Do you even know what Jihad means?”.....I pointed at the television screen which was showing the planes crashing into the towers. She said, “You’re so ignorant!” I said, “and you’re so blind”. Little leftist, brainwashed bitch.
I wonder if someone can use one to make an ‘art’ exhipit by puttin it in a jar of urine?
“Piss Koran” sounds like a nice display to go alongside “Piss Christ” exhibit in the GOVERNMENT SPOONSORED MUSEUM IN NEW YORK
What did she have to say about the Egypt Air pilot who intentionally dove his plane into the Atlantic shouting “Allah Akbar”?
Oh, well that’s the act of a lone madman of course.
The declarations in our Constitution do not just apply to our view of America, they are a worldview.
The powers of government are limited. We have basic rights that are bestowed on us “by God”.
MAN cannot take them away. Among them are the right to say and believe what we want.
Islamic laws discriminate against non-muslims. There should be no acknowlegement of Islamic theocracy.
President Obama SHOULD have reached out to the religious minorities who live in Islamic majority nations.
Let’s hope it doesn’t come to what’s in your picture, but train them for it nonetheless.
Battles are ugly when women fight - CS Lewis.
Maybe Marilyn Manson can stand on stage tearing out pages from a koran as he did in civic auditoriums using a bible.
I wonder how they hold up to .38 specials.
Instead he wished them away as well as Mohammedans who may not like the morality police with statements like “just because a woman chooses to cover her head does not make her less equal”. Even the sorry liberal media should be ashamed of themselves for not raising Hell over his Cairo speech.
Can’t wait until these start showing up in dumpsters and public restrooms.
Then the one will have yet more to apologize for
He says that they CHOOSE to dress that way. Why did Hillary cover he head when she went to the mosque? She doesn't do that in the US.
Why didn't Michelle Obama join her husband for his jaunt through the muslim ruled Middle East? She could've "chosen" to cover her head too and to walk behind her husband.
Nope, she skipped out and joined him for the subsequent leg of the tour through Europe.
Acorn was what I was thinking too.
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