CAIR Equivocates in Fort Hood Condemnations
Editor’s Note: See NewsReal’s previous commentaries on the Fort Hood Massacre:
- Forsmark Got It Right – And It’s Not Just Olbermann
- Our Brain Dead Country
- To MSNBC the Least Important Thing about Killer Army Doctor is He was a Muslim Who Lauded Suicide Bombers: Meltdown with Keith Olbermann Part 14
- Huge Military Slaughter — But First A “Shout Out†to Obama’s Bud
It would be reassuring if Muslim organizations were more unequivocal in their condemnation of acts of violence done in the name of Islam. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) includes in its statement condemning the killings at Fort Hood, the following warning:
“Unfortunately, based on past experience, we also urge American Muslims, and those who may be perceived to be Muslim, to take appropriate precautions to protect themselves, their families and their religious institutions from possible backlash.”
This statement is designed to create and establish among Muslims the feeling they are victims within America. It also is meant to provide the basis for understanding why some lunatic who is Muslim might have reason to “snap.” This is not much different than the view, still held by a large minority of Americans (Reverend Wright anyone?) that 9/11 was simply America’s chickens coming home to roost.
This warning by CAIR is an irritant and does not belong in this press release. Hate crimes in America are virtually non-existent, relative to its size. The last year for which the FBI has detailed data is 2007. There were a total of 1477 hate crimes against religion, 1010 of which were “Anti-Jewish.” “Anti-Catholic” and Anti-Protestantâ€Â crimes totaled 129, “Anti-Muslim” crimes totaled 133, and all other religions combined totaled 241. No deaths were attributed to the victim’s religion. There were 16,000 murders in America in 2008. Bias crimes exist, but they are a sideshow. To include them in a statement condemning the murders at Fort Hood is political propaganda.
It would also be reassuring if CAIR’s statement were more specific in its condemnation. They state that
“no political or religious ideology could ever justify or excuse such wanton and indiscriminate violence.”
That’s not true. Not only can political and religious ideologies justify such violence, they do it all the time. Plus, why the generic “political or religious” passive sentence construction? Why not simply “Islam itself condemns such violenceâ€? CAIR instead says the
“American Muslim community condemns this cowardly attack.”
[Emphasis added.]
In today’s world, there are no accidents of language by sophisticated and well-funded organizations of any kind.
Yes, paranoia can strike deep. But carefully constructed statements as obvious in what they exclude as what they include, do not help matters either. CAIR, and other such groups, needs to do better than this.
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Yes, it is so wonderful that CAIR uses such occasions to promote Moslem victimhood. If any other religious groups showed narcissism in the face of such a horrific event, it would be howled off the state of public opinion. In the end, and no matter how crude it is, dawah must be performed. It is great when a religious group can claim victimhood when one of its co-religionists is responsible for over 13 dead and many wounded.
Yes, it is so wonderful that CAIR uses such occasions to promote Moslem victimhood. If any other religious groups showed narcissism in the face of such a horrific event, it would be howled off the state of public opinion. In the end, and no matter how crude it is, dawah must be performed. It is great when a religious group can claim victimhood when one of its co-religionists is responsible for over 13 dead and many wounded.
Oh please. I haven’t heard of any Muslim being attacked, etc. in the U.S. for being Muslim. What a nonsense again. “Protect yourselves against revenge that’s never coming!”
Rrright.
CAIR: an organization of extremists, by fundamentalists, for terrorists.
Oh please. I haven’t heard of any Muslim being attacked, etc. in the U.S. for being Muslim. What a nonsense again. “Protect yourselves against revenge that’s never coming!”
Rrright.
CAIR: an organization of extremists, by fundamentalists, for terrorists.
I wonder what the muslim who offer their “heart felt†sympathies for the victims say will happen to the victims of this shooting? I am sure they believe the will go to hell. thats what their relgion teaches them. What kind of hippocracy is this?
I wonder what the muslim who offer their “heart felt†sympathies for the victims say will happen to the victims of this shooting? I am sure they believe the will go to hell. thats what their relgion teaches them. What kind of hippocracy is this?
I’m Australian, and read an awful lot about you crazy Americans and gun ownership.
Muslims have every reason to be afraid. Look at the backlash against Muslims following 9/11.
Mosques burnt, Muslims assaulted and killed…Wait a minute, I think I must have been reading something else.
Joking aside, I find American tolerance for Muslims truly remarkable, given the constant attacks its citizens have
suffered at the hands of Islam since its founding. Fort Hood also demonstrated that president Obama completely
lacks moral fibre or any sense of leadership.
Thank you Mr Horowitz for your writing.
I’m Australian, and read an awful lot about you crazy Americans and gun ownership.
Muslims have every reason to be afraid. Look at the backlash against Muslims following 9/11.
Mosques burnt, Muslims assaulted and killed…Wait a minute, I think I must have been reading something else.
Joking aside, I find American tolerance for Muslims truly remarkable, given the constant attacks its citizens have
suffered at the hands of Islam since its founding. Fort Hood also demonstrated that president Obama completely
lacks moral fibre or any sense of leadership.
Thank you Mr Horowitz for your writing.