Sunday, July 09, 2006

I don't CAIR for their methods

Dr. Daniel Pipes has an excellent follow-up to my Marathon Pundit post about CAIR advising DePaul University to fire Professor Thomas Klocek over a heated discussion he had about Middle Eastern politics with a few Muslim students in 2004.

The video is here, it takes a while to download.

Here's what Pipes extracted from Grant Crowell's videotaped interview with Christina Abraham, CAIR-Chicago's civil rights coordinator and a DePaul University law student:

"We were very concerned with the situation and we did request that he be terminated." She went on to say (about 1/6th of the way in) that CAIR-Chicago suggested to DePaul that "if the investigation were to have shown that he did make these statements that and he did act this way towards the students, yes, we did suggest that they should terminate him."

Christina apparently believes in the rights of some people over the rights others.

In his same weblog entry, Pipes notes the "interest" CAIR has in the blogosphere, linking to this Little Green Footballs post:

The Council on American-Islamic Relations has begun filing complaints with the FBI about comments on this blog and others (not front page posts). I know this because I’ve spoken with two different agents recently about LGF comments that were reported to the FBI by CAIR.

Just thought you might like to know too. The premier Islamist front group is starting to go after the blogosphere, using the tools provided by our own society.

As for CAIR calling the FBI about some blog comments they didn't like, I'm not surprised. What's sad is that government resources are being wasted on such frivolous nonsense.

If CAIR notices that a commentator on a blog post makes an overtly racist or violent statement, all they have to do is to notify the blogger via e-mail. If the comment is truly objectionable, then a responsible blogger will delete it--no need to contact the FBI.

But CAIR doesn't care to do things that way.

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