White House volunteer 'misled' about talk show [uh-huh]

WaPo ^ | 10/24/09

[NativeNewYorker]

A Muslim member of President Obama's faith council says she was misled about the nature of a British TV talk show on which she was recently interviewed. It was hosted by a representative of Hizb ut-Tahrir, which the State Department has condemned for an anti-Semitic, anti-Western ideology that officials said might indirectly generate support for terrorism.

Dalia Mogahed, senior analyst for the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, did a phone interview on the Oct. 8 show. It was hosted by a member of the group, Ibtihal Bsis Ismail, and featured as another guest the group's women's media representative, Nazreen Nawaz.

Mogahed said Friday that she did not know about the affiliation of Nawaz until Nawaz was introduced on air, and only learned later about Ismail's association with Hizb ut-Tahrir (Party of Emancipation).

[Carley]

I believe her........

not

[La Lydia]

Me thinks she doth protest too much.

In its latest annual report, "Country Reports on Terrorism," the State Department said that although it has no evidence that Hizb ut-Tahrir has committed acts of international terrorism, the group has publicly called on Muslims to travel to Iraq and Afghanistan to fight coalition forces.

[poobear]

At this point if a Muslim is moving their mouths these days, they're lying. Kind of like our _resident.

[boomop1]

They are all liars.

[Tarpon]

Thought it was a safe place to let it let hang out did we ...

You notice haw many times our so-called president’s people misspeak and are just joking around on the air?

[paulycy]

It all fits.

[nodumbblonde]

Supposedly the most tech-savvy group to ever inhabit the White House and they’ve never heard of Google?

[Thinkin]

“A Muslim member of President Obama’s faith council “

that’s all that neds to be said......

[Thinkin]

“A Muslim member of President Obama’s faith council “

that’s all that needs to be said......

[BunnySlippers]

Looks like the Washington Post has found a tasty nugget.

[Holding Our Breath]

Of course they’ve heard of google. One of their own left google to work at the WH!

[La Lydia]

I am not so sure. You can’t tell from this article whether the Post found out about it, and called her, or if her organization called the Post about it, preemptively, to avoid an even nastier story by some other news organization. Creative butt-covering.

[BunnySlippers]

Well, a tasty nugget if they’d run with it but they are safely under Axelrod’s wing.

I see US News & World report has it too apparently. We’ll see if it has legs:

http://news.google.com/news/more?um=1&cf=all&ned=us&cf=all&ncl=dmibuioOAeiONjMgYlYY6UcWXwlCM

[italianquaker]

Add 1 to the odumbo enemy list

[Crim]

“I don’t regret anything I said,” she said. “My regret is that I went on the show.”

I believe her....this is the truth...she regrets she outed herself...not what she said..

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

SEE Front Page Article:

Does Sharia Law Promote Women’s Rights? – by Cinnamon Stillwell

http://frontpagemag.com/2009/10/20/does-sharia-law-promote-women%E2%80%99s-rights-by-cinnamon-stillwell/

“Yet, according to a survey conducted by Dalia Mogahed, executive director and senior analyst of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies and appointee to President Obama’s Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, the two are closely intertwined. Her survey alleges that a majority of Muslim women believe sharia law should either be the primary source or one source of legislation in their countries, while viewing Western personal freedoms as harmful to women.

She also defended Islam’s “strict regulations in terms of social laws” and expressed admiration for precisely those features of Islamic law that most oppress women:

…men and women cannot socialize, they cannot be alone together…in terms of lowering the gaze, all of these things, the dress code, they’re all there to insure that there’s a healthy cooperation so that men and women can focus at the job at hand.

In the face of this vigorous defense of sharia law and strident condemnation of secular democracy, Washington insider Mogahed said not a word.

Only when prompted to comment directly on one of Nawaz’s diatribes on the fictional caliphate did Mogahed finally speak, and then she restated the results of the Gallup poll in such a way as to provide backhanded support for Nawaz’s Islamist views. As she put it:

What Muslims around the world tell us they believe is that the key to progress is attachment to their spiritual and moral values. They really do see, many of them, that Islam offers a solution for their problems and they see Islam as their society’s greatest asset. When we asked people what they admired most about the Muslim world, what they tell us is their attachment to Islam, Islamic values, value of hospitality, the value of family. So I think that whereas people around the world do feel that the problems are diverse, many of them do mention Islam as a part of that solution, and when we ask people what can Muslims do to help themselves, one of the most frequent responses is for them to unify and another is for them to follow Islam and make it a greater and more authentic part of their lives.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

"You better 'splain this, Lucy!"

"Uh.. I was misled?"

"OK, Honey."

"Real.. er, I mean thanks, Ricky."

[Bluebeard16]

There were Roma’s dancing, singing, hugging and kissing Muslim’s, and just partying away. I stopped a Roma, curious for an explanation, and she tells me the muslim’s have finally saved us from being considered the scum of the earth.

[ViLaLuz]

Taqqiya alert! Taqqiya alert!