March 29, 2007

Irony: Muslims at CAIR Complain About Those Disturbing Public Order

How does a "civil rights" group like CAIR know when Americans make false reports with the intent to discriminate? That's easy. Any time someone urges an investigation of a Muslim, for whatever reason---DISCRIMINATION!. In the words of Dana Carvey as George Michael, It's a formula, but it works.

Scott at Powerline brings news of an interesting back and forth between CAIR and the Becket Fund. Here's part of what CAIR writes.:

I believe we can both agree that Americans do not have the right to make false reports with the intent to discriminate. It is a criminal offense that disturbs public order and creates unnecessary fear, suspicion and division in any society.
Ironic given the behavior of the 6 imams which put passengers in a near panic that their plane was about to be hijacked.

But wait, there's more:

The American Muslim community has been profiled by law enforcement in the past and has been the target of numerous false allegations made by fellow Americans with the intent to discriminate.
How, pray tell, does this "civil rights" organization know that their "fellow Americans" made "false allegations" "with the intent to discriminate"???

How about this as a motivation for those allegations against Muslims: terrorism.

Even odder and more ironic is this statement:

Making false reports of suspicious behavior with the intent to discriminate during a time of war is doubly harmful.
Also doubly harmful: acting suspiciously in a time of war when precisely 100% of the people we are fighting engage in similar behaviors!

Last bit of something-like irony, they spend a couple of paragraphs comparing the fight to exempt Muslims from common courtesy, such as, you know, scaring people on an airplane, to the civil rights movement. Also comparable to the civil rights movement to CAIR: photoshopping a scarf on to an uncovered female head at an "interfaith prayer vigil" marking the anniversary of 9/11 [pictured above right].

Anyway, you can download the entire document here. It's worth a few chuckles. The Becket Fund Response is here. And Scott's analysis is here.

For an educational video on just what types of behaviors the flying imams were engaged in, see below.

By Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. at 05:59 PM | |