Grizalltheway wrote:Alright, I did my homework. Now, it's time for you to ask every practicing and non-practicing Muslim in the country whether or not they were offended in any way by King's hearings. Or, I guess you could continue to be your pompous, know-it-all self, and tell them exactly how they should feel about it.
So, all this time you had nothing, but were blowing hard.
then, when pressed, you come up with the two links above?
The first one has nothing to do with facts...ZERO.
Just a bunch of people with opinions...none of them with anything specific from the hearings that they bring to the conversation. The irony of that piece is that it ends with the hope that the hearings start a dialogue between Muslims and others.
So, thanks for nothing.
On to the second link...the committee state that CAIR has helped fund extremists (true) and “an attempt to stifle debate and obstruct cooperation with law enforcement."
Well, from the writer of your own link,
"CAIR has had a tense relationship with the F.B.I. and on occasion has urged Muslims not to talk to law enforcement officials without a lawyer present, a caution Mr. Awad said was very much in keeping with the American system of justice. “As a civil rights organization,” he said, “we have the difficult job of encouraging constitutionally informed cooperation with law enforcement.”
"CAIR, along with other advocacy groups, has complained about the F.B.I.’s use of informers who pose as militants from Al Qaeda or similar groups, saying the government uses them in effect to draw young Muslim men into militancy."
Right. We didn't even need the commission...CAIR has the answer...it is the US Government's own FBI that draws young Muslim men into militancy.
And some of CAIR's leaders have questionable pasts...according to the FBI - you know, the guys you have said have been doing a good job so far...the same guys luring Muslims into militancy.
So, in the end, the best you could do was to pull up a link with no facts...and then pull up one that mentions tense relations, but some cooperation, between CAIR and the FBI (once again, those guys who you say are doing such a great job).
seems as though the commission is asking fair questions. And, as happens in any commission, there is a little debate back and forth on some details...but NO ONE has said they don't think extremism is not a growing potential problem in the US. In fact, as evidenced by the link noting the startling number of Muslim extremists that have been caught recently, it IS in FACT getting worse.
Yet you don't want anyone to talk about it. Are you sure you aren't a member of the Catholic diocese?
By the way, instead of reacting calmly and opening a dialogue, the liberals close their minds and let their emotions rule their response. From your own link:
"But he faulted CAIR for its energetic attacks on Mr. King and his hearing, saying that like the Republican congressman, the group used the conflict over the hearing to rally its own political base.
“My criticism is that CAIR could have helped bring down the temperature,” Mr. Ahmed said. “It shouldn’t present such a starkly polarized picture. That just widens the gap between Muslims and non-Muslims.”
Seems as though CAIR really doesn't care.
Way to go Grizfail!
