Posted on 01/11/2024 6:55:20 AM PST by SJackson
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Last Wednesday in Sacramento, a pro-Hamas mob crashed the state capitol and refused to leave, forcing legislators to adjourn the proceedings. Democrats had branded similar intrusions as an “insurrection,” but Gov. Gavin Newsom issued no statement. Four days later, the lead item on his press site was the link to a CNN story praising California’s gun laws. On the other hand, Gov. Newsom did take the trouble to meet with officials from the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
According to a January 4 press release, CAIR, “organized a meeting between Governor Gavin Newsom and Muslim leaders from across the state before the holiday break to discuss the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza.” Attendees included representatives from the Northern California Islamic Council, Palestinian American Medical Association, West Valley Muslim Association, Muslim Students Association West, and Shura Council of Southern California. The Muslim groups requested that Newsom support “a permanent ceasefire and a continued commitment to ensure freedom of speech, particularly in universities, as students engage in rallies.”
A statement from CAIR’s California CEO Hussam Ayloush said: “We were pleased by the Governor’s commitment to ensure his Muslim, Palestinian, and Arab constituents are heard as the violent siege on Gaza continues and that CAIR-CA had the platform to request the administration be proactive in ensuring the dignity of Palestinians. In his tenure, Governor Newsom has paved the path as a champion for civil rights, and we urge him to continue to use his voice as the leader of Californians who overwhelmingly demand a ceasefire.”
As Chuck Ross noted at the Free Beacon, Gov. Newsom’s meeting with CAIR came just weeks after the group’s leader, Nihad Awad, said he was “happy to see” the October 7 attack, a comment that “even prompted condemnation from the Biden White House.” In 2022, as Ross noted, California’s Nonprofit Security Grant Program, gave $135,000 to CAIR’s California chapter, along with $200,000 to the Islamic center in Fullerton and the Islamic Foundation of Sheikh IBN Taimmiyah in Hawthorne. The California grant program also gave $195,000 to the Islamic Center of San Diego and $198,000 to the San Ramon Valley Islamic Center.
In December, Gov. Gavin Newsom gave in to pressure from pro-Hamas demonstrators and canceled an annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony and menorah lighting that have been part of holiday activities in Sacramento since 1931. The move prompted a religious liberty law firm to brand Newsom as “the governor who stole Christmas and Hanukkah.”
In October, nearly two weeks after the 10/7 attack, Gov. Newsom visited Israel and proclaimed “my heart is heavy for all innocent people under the crushing pressure of loss and grief, no matter which side of fence they quite literally find themselves on. So as I prepare to leave, I share these words: may the memory of those who perished be a blessing to the whole world.”
At this writing, Joe Biden and Kamal Harris have not issued statements on the pro-Hamas shutdown of the California Capitol. On the other hand, in the CAIR press release on the meeting with Newsom, a figure familiar to Harris did emerge.
On December 5, 2015 in San Bernardino, American-born Syed Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik, a green-card holder born in Pakistan, murdered Robert Adams, Isaac Amianos, Bennetta Betbadal, Harry Bowman, Sierra Clayborn, Juan Espinoza, Aurora Godoy, Shannon Johnson, Larry Daniel Kaufman, Damien Meins, Tin Ngyen, Nicholas Thalasinos, Yvette Velasco, and Michael Wetzel. Kamala Harris was California’s attorney general at the time
In a December 17, 2015 statement Harris said, “we must seek justice for those who lost their lives in the recent attacks in Paris and San Bernardino.” How, exactly, the victims “lost their lives” the attorney general did not explain.
Harris warned of “the dangers of Islamophobic rhetoric” but failed to name Farook and Malik and offered no insight on what motivated the two Muslims to kill 14 people and wound more than 22 others. Their victims included African Americans, Asians and Hispanics, but no word from the attorney general whether Farook and Malik could have been motivated by racism.
Harris brought along officials from the Muslim Public Affairs Council and CAIR, whose Los Angeles director Hussam Ayloush said “Islamophobic and xenophobic rhetoric by certain public figures has made Muslim communities an easy target for hate crimes.” Attorney general Harris, Ayloush added, “exemplified leadership” by addressing “the spike in hate crimes against American Muslims and other minorities.”
In similar style, CAIR’s January 4 press release condemns “all forms of Islamophobia” and claims that “hate incidents targeting the Muslim and Arab communities have been on the rise across the country since Oct. 7.” Hassan Ayloush praises Gov. Newsom as “a champion for civil rights, and we urge him to continue to use his voice as the leader of Californians who overwhelmingly demand a ceasefire.” And so on.
On the watch of Gavin Newsom, the Golden State has become CAIRlifornia, a funder and apologist of a jihadist front group “happy to see,” the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
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When the Capitol was shut down on jan 6th, it was called an “insurrection” by the left, and a “seditious criminal act of collusion”
Weird that the article doesn’t mention the left shutting down a Capitol building and preventing peopl e there from compleating their work an inssurection! Instead we have Newsome oddly coddling the “terrorists” (the left called Jan 6 protestors terrorists, so the esme can be said about cair protestors going by the lefts own standards)
Shutting down the operation of government meets the definition of insurrection. Also terrorism as the object of shutdowns of highways, airports and certainly a state capital is to impact government policy.
Except that the Jan 6 protestors didn’t shut down the Capitol, the Capitol shut down and then told cops to go open the barriers and let the protestors in. Cruz and another fella were arguing in session to stop the certification, and the left of course refused, and then shut down in order to stop Cruz and the other fella from further making their points according to a report on what happened that day (the article was posted on fr back then- I can’t remember what the title was now)- so supposedly, according to that article, it wasn’t the protestors that caused the shutdown- it was a planned deal where the left sought to entrap the right by allowing them to enter the building
Terrorism Definitions
International terrorism: Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups who are inspired by, or associated with, designated foreign terrorist organizations or nations (state-sponsored).
Domestic terrorism: Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature.
TotAlly agree on the terrorism and domestic terrorism definitions. Shutting down roads is super bad inthat if someone ismhavin a heart attack, or an ambulance is caught in the shutdown, or a house or apartnment bui,ding is on fire, and firetrucks get bogged down in the shutdown, people are going to die and those directly responsible are the domestic terrorists hat prevented the ailing people from getting needed medical attention, and firemen fro getting to a fire to help save folks and neighbors and such.
It blows my mind that our nation has tolerated mobs shutting down essential roadways, interstate highways etc. The nation is letting terrorists win, and is also stifling the rights of conservatives and such if they defend themselves against such terrorism
Also, leftist protestors have shut down Capitol bui,dings a few times after 9/11 with no repercussions to those involved. Before 9/11 code pink shut down a ca
I told building, damaged things there, and refused to leave- nothing serious ever came out of that event either.
Heck, liberal states allowed violent blm and antifa to commandeer entire city blocks, armed to the teeth, and did nothing about it, instead calling it a “mostly peaceful protest”
Our nation is under attack by the left- they are waging an all out assault on our nation, using lawfare and political pressure to pummel the right into submission (ie the Jan 6 protestors, the arrests of Gen Flynn, britebart fella, and other conservatives, labeling moms and dads as domestic terrorists for voicing their opposition to crt, on and on it goes.
Our side is winning some battles, but they are few and far between these days. (Parents are still opposing lgbtq crap,in schools, libraries etc, and in some cases winning, others are launching lawsuits agaisnt schools for pushing crt and lgbtq nonsense, and fighting for rights to refuse service which violates their religious beleifs etc- boycotts of woke crsp like with bud light, lots is being done, but much more needs to be done,
Doh, I meant after Jan 6, not 9/11, but I’m sure there were probably some that did disrupt Capitol meetings after 9/11 too
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