Posted on 09/18/2006 1:35:40 PM PDT by Pyro7480
Complaints of anti-Muslim harassment, violence and discriminatory treatment registered with a national Muslim civil rights group jumped 30 percent in 2005 from the previous year, the group said today in releasing its annual report .
The 1,972 complaints made to the Council on American-Islamic Relations are the most the group has received since it began the annual reports following anti-Muslim incidents after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. The group said it actually received 2,300 reports but deemed some of them illegitimate.
The number of complaints has continually risen since 1995, but began spiking significantly in 2003, the report said. CAIR officials said the jump between 2004 and 2005 seems to be due to "a rise in anti-Muslim rhetoric fed by the Internet and also on talk radio," group spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said at a news conference. "You can't turn on the radio without hearing negative, bigoted comments about Islam."
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CAIR Blames Talk Radio
..and I blame beheading videos!
And I can't turn on TV or jump on the Internet without seeing a Muslim burning something, killing somebody, or threatening an entire religious group. What's his point?
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who cares???
If they think there was a jump in 2005, wait'll they get a measure of 2006.
***'ef 'em!
I couldn't have said it better myself.
Good. Maybe muskies will get the message.
They long for the good old days before talk radio and the Internet. Like, say, the 7th Century.
CAIR blames talk radio? Give me a BREAK. Everyone knows it's Bushs fault.
I guess the muslims would like to silence talk radio. I got news for little johnny jihad, it aint gonna happen.
"a rise in anti-Muslim rhetoric fed by the Internet and also on talk radio,"
yeah, and murdering a Nun, beheadings, and suicide bombers has nothing to do with it.
DUH
Given that they consider a dirty look "harassment" I have a hard time caring.
....well Muslims are free to move to nations (like Saudi Arabia, Iran, France) that (in the name of free speech and tolerance) don't allow anyone to criticise Islam.
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Strange... not one word from CAIR about the rocket "harrassment" of Israeli Jewish civilians...
Gee, could the anti-muslim commentary be about such things as muslims issuing death threats against the pope and rioting over Danish cartoons? Perhaps they should look in the mirror, provided mirrors do not shatter when they try that.
Get used to it, CAIR. Things will only get worse unless "moderate" muslims can control the large number of wackjobs that have "hijacked" their "religion".
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