Posted on 08/17/2010 2:36:07 PM PDT by mdittmar
Presidential hopeful scheduled to appear with Dutch extremist who calls for ban on Quran
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today called on former House Speaker and presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich not to speak at a rally in opposition to a planned Islamic community center in New York City featuring an anti-Islam extremist who has called for a ban on the Quran, Islam's revealed text.
CAIR said Gingrich is scheduled to appear with anti-Islam Dutch politician Geert Wilders at the September 11 rally sponsored by the hate group Stop the Islamization of America (SIOA), which is led by individuals with long histories of promoting Islamophobia.
[NOTE: Other speakers scheduled to appear at the rally include Ginny Thomas, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's wife, and controversial conservative activist Andrew Breitbart. SEE: http://tinyurl.com/2a3ghtd]
Wilders has in the past called for banning the Quran, taxing Muslim women who wear Islamic head scarves, ending immigration from Muslim countries, and prohibiting the construction of new mosques. He has said, "I hate Islam" and has called Islam's Prophet Muhammad "the devil."
"Anyone who aspires to become president of the United States should not be seen lending support to hate-mongers and Islamophobes," said CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper. "Muslim-bashing may score Mr. Gingrich some cheap political points in the current climate of anti-Islam hysteria, but if he occupied the white House, such associations would inevitably harm our nation's international image."
SEE: Newt Gingrich Compares Mosque to Nazis
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/41112.html
CAIR: What Would Bush Do About the Ground Zero Mosque?
Experts Say Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Undermines Struggle Against Extremism
http://mediamatters.org/research/201008160028
CAIR-FL: Fear-Mongering's at Its Bigoted Peak for Primaries
Conservative Muslim-Americans' Letter To GOP Leaders: Don't Bring Mosque Debate Into Elections
Hooper said SIOA's founder, Pamela Geller, has claimed that "Hitler and the Nazis were inspired by Islam" and offered rhetorical support to both accused Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadzic and slain Apartheid-era leader Eugene Terre'blanche.
SEE: How the "Ground Zero Mosque" Fear Mongering Began
Pamela Geller: The Looniest Blogger Ever
http://tinyurl.com/pamgellerloony
She has posted images on her blog that include a photoshopped photograph of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan in a Nazi uniform, another fake image of President Obama urinating on an American flag and drawings purporting to depict Islam's Prophet Muhammad as a pig. In a June 25 blog entry, Geller posted a video claiming that Muslims engage in bestiality.
SEE: Screen Shot of 'Muslim Bestiality' Post on Geller's Blog
CAIR Video: TV Host Exposes Pamela Geller's Anti-Muslim Bigotry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qRXffJ7Mg4
SIOA is an Anti-Muslim Hate Group
Fox Opens Its Airwaves to Anti-Muslim Activist Geller
http://mediamatters.org/research/201007280017
SIOA co-founder Robert Spencer has called Islam's Prophet Muhammad a "con man." The independent national media watch group Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) identified Spencer as one of "Islamophobia's Dirty Dozen" who systematically "spread fear, bigotry, and misinformation." In its report, FAIR said, "By selectively ignoring inconvenient Islamic texts and commentaries, Spencer concludes that Islam is innately extremist and violent."
SEE: FAIR Unmasks the Smearcasters - Robert Spencer
http://smearcasting.com/smear_spencer.html
The United States Patent and Trademark Office refused to grant SIOA a trademark because: "The applied-for mark refers to Muslims in a disparaging manner because by definition it implies that conversion or conformity to Islam is something that needs to be stopped or caused to cease."
SIOA, Geller and Spencer are all affiliated with another anti-Islam hate group, American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), the founder of which wrote: "[T]here are no innocent muslims. islam is subject to killing on grounds of political expediency on the same basis as islam kills its victims, and islam cannot ethically and morally claim otherwise." [Note: Grammatical errors in the original text have been maintained.]
SEE: SIOA Co-Founder: Kill Your Liberal Relatives and All Muslims
SIOA is an outgrowth of a similar group in Europe called Stop the Islamization of Europe, which seeks to block the construction of mosques on that continent and "considers Islamophobia to be the height of common sense."
CAIR is America's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.
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CONTACT: CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-488-8787 or 202-744-7726, E-Mail: ihooper@cair.com; CAIR Communications Coordinator Amina Rubin, 202-488-8787, 202-341-4171, E-Mail: arubin@cair.com
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Actually, I’ve had enough of Newt myself.
If there's one red flag in my rulebook, it's someone saying you shouldn't even talk about something.
Saudi Arabia aka CAIR will cut off Newt’s stipend and Callista will not get her new BMW. Newt is a RINO. The Saudis own all the TV networks and Wash DC. TV loves the VICTORY Mosque.
I am an official Islam hater. I hate evil. I judge a tree by its fruit. The dots are not hard to connect.
I suppose if Newt wanted to commit political suicide he could bow to CAIR.
The WTC Victory Mosque is New York’s version of the Al Aqsa Mosque on the site of the sacred Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Thank God.
Ridiculous! They can build a mosque at Ground Zero, but Newt can’t speak at a rally. Might offend their sensibilities.
The insolence of a bunch of scummy subversive primitives like CAIR to try to tell private citizens when and where they can speak. If you still need any other reason to fight Islam this should be enough.
CAIR barely has 3000 members.
They are nobodies and the MSM and FNC is stupid for giving them anything.
Why shouldn’t the mosque be an issue in the elections. We are all Americans. Maybe we don’t want to be humiliated twice.
Go NEWT.
And no, President Bush would not be in favor of a tribute to jihad.
I am a proud official islam hater. It is nothing but an evil and vile cult trying to infiltrate America.
FUBO
Islam is very easy to figure out
I don’t get the idea of not making something an issue at all. They don’t want this issue talked about—WHY?
(Yes, I do know the answer, and so do they.)
We have few issues more important than what’s behind this mosque.
Today they ask. Tomorrow they will order if we don’t stand up to their brand of tyranny.
So now CAIR is trying to dictate with whom American public figures can appear. Nice. I hope he tells them to pound sand. I am not a huge Newt supporter, but CAIR and their treasonous allies need slapped down hard.
CAIR is an Islamic Terrorist group...and if Gingrich backs down based on their threat, he is just giving de facto endorsement to Islamic Terrorism.
Geert Wilders has probably done more to out Islamic hatred...and he gets crapped on by MS Fox News, and even some of the Liberal RINOs here on FR. Wilders is not afraid to state the facts on Islam
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