SAY IT AIN’T SO, JACK!
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Van Helsing over at Moonbattery alerted me to this disturbing bit of news:
In perhaps the most appalling example of moonbattery ever to arise at the relatively courageous Fox, the network has agreed to pay for the sin of having dared to air a show featuring Muslim terrorists by distributing to its affiliates two propaganda pieces produced by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a fifth-column Islamist organization with terrorist links.
Who is CAIR? Professor of Mid East Studies at Harvard Daniel Pipes ticks off some interesting things that CAIR has been associated with over the last few years and tells us what’s wrong with an organization its spokesman Ibrahim Hooper describes as being “similar to a Muslim NAACP.”
For starters, it’s on the wrong side in the war on terrorism. One indication came in October 1998, when the group demanded the removal of a Los Angeles billboard describing Osama bin Laden as “the sworn enemy,” finding this depiction “offensive to Muslims.”
The same year, CAIR denied bin Laden’s responsibility for the twin East African embassy bombings. As Hooper saw it, those explosions resulted from some vague “misunderstandings of both sides.” (A New York court, however, blamed bin Laden’s side alone for the embassy blasts.)
In 2001, CAIR denied his culpability for the Sept. 11 massacre, saying only that “if [note the "if"] Osama bin Laden was behind it, we condemn him by name.” (Only in December was CAIR finally embarrassed into acknowledging his role.)
CAIR consistently defends other militant Islamic terrorists too. The conviction of the perpetrators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing it deemed “a travesty of justice.” The conviction of Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind sheikh who planned to blow up New York City landmarks, it called a “hate crime.” The extradition order for suspected Hamas terrorist Mousa Abu Marook it labeled “anti-Islamic” and “anti-American.”
Not surprisingly, CAIR also backs those who finance terrorism. When President Bush closed the Holy Land Foundation in December for collecting money he said was “used to support the Hamas terror organization,” CAIR decried his action as “unjust” and “disturbing.”
So not only is CAIR an apologist for terrorists, they’re a fundraising arm for one of the most murderous and lethal group of thugs in the world, Hamas.
Van Helsing gives us his take:
Although Fox is leaving it up to their affiliates when and even whether they will run the CAIR pieces, the fact that they feel the need to negotiate with these villains will send a chill up any sane person’s spine. It is the equivalent of agreeing to distribute SS propaganda during World War II.
Spot on. I sincerely hope the Fox affiliate here in Chicago refuses to air this claptrap. After all, Jack Bauer has enough on his plate already. It’d be a pity if we had to let him loose on his erstwhile employers for supporting the very thing he’s fighting against.