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| Central Ohio becomes front line in Hamas-linked CAIR's fight for popular support |
| 2016-11-18 |
| [Jihad Watch] The Columbus, Ohio chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is soliciting the public for any perceived instances of Islamic hate, with assurances of support from the local media and city lawmakers. The appeal comes on the heels of a landslide electoral victory for Donald Trump, whose administration CAIR believes will be "packed with anti-Muslim bigots." "Anti-Moslem" is CAIR-speak for "non-Moslem." CAIR Columbus has stated that verbal assaults against Muslims have risen exponentially since Trump became the president-elect. The allegations of Trump-inspired hate, coordinated and reported directly by CAIR and often without any corresponding police reporting, come as Trump indicates support for a bill that will ostensibly name the Muslim Brotherhood, with which CAIR has been linked, as a terrorist group. CAIR enjoys the complicity of the city of Columbus in its campaign to highlight Islamophobia. City council members did CAIR’s bidding by passing a resolution condemning Islamophobia. Even Ohio State University, the pride of Columbus and a huge influence on local politics, has bowed to prevailing trends and added its support to CAIR. When CAIR complained of two incidents in which women wearing head scarves were allegedly threatened on campus, Ohio State President Michael Drake responded by publishing an open letter condemning such assaults. Yet criminal charges were not filed in either case, and it appears that only one of the victims was an actual student at the university. A virtual immigration nexus exists between Columbus and Somalia that has led to the fact that now the Midwestern town houses the country’s second largest concentration of Somalis. Since then, Columbus has been no stranger to terrorist activity. CAIR Columbus supporters have expressed outrage over the conviction and imprisonment of local Muslims who in 2002 plotted to bomb a Columbus-area mall. Nuradin Abdi, Iyman Faris, and Christopher Paul are known al-Qaeda operatives who each served time for their participation in plots that targeted a variety of public gathering places around the country and in Ohio. On February 11, 2016, local Somali Mohamed Barry attacked four people at a Columbus establishment, the Nazareth Restaurant. CBS News and many other media outlets were quick to call the assault a "lone wolf terrorist attack" in an attempt to distinguish Barry from other violent Islamic jihadists. Journalists refused to name a motive for the attacks, even though Barry returned to the restaurant and began attacking customers with a machete after he was told, upon inquiring, that the owner hailed from Israel. CAIR has been extremely successful in Ohio and elsewhere at dissuading the public from associating Islam with terror attacks. Barry was given the benefit of the doubt by the media regarding his intentions, though the same cannot be said of allegations of attacks initiated by Muslims. These receive the weakest attention and scrutiny from not just the mainstream media, but also from the the highest political office in the land. President Barack Obama urged the nation to show restraint to Muslims following the San Bernardino massacre that killed 14 Americans in December of 2015. Con't. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 CAIR = MB = Banned |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2016-11-18 12:05 |
| #2 An unfortunate decision. As you recall CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial. Maybe some of this will be cleaned up in a new administration. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-11-18 10:58 |
| #1 Coincidentally, Columbus is the bed bug capitol of the US. |
| Posted by: jvalentour 2016-11-18 08:24 |