Rep. Sue Myrick responds to attacks from CAIR

[Warrior-Mentor]

Rep. Sue Myrick op-ed:

Last week, I held a press conference on Capitol Hill attended by three of my colleagues in the House of Representatives to call for a federal investigation (s) into a non-profit group called the Council on American Islamic Relations (C.A.I.R.)

Here are the facts:

1. CAIR has documented ties to the terrorist organization HAMAS. This is stated fact by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

In an April 28, 2009 letter to US Senator Jon Kyl, the FBI wrote the following:

“As you know, CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development in the United States v. Holy Land Foundation et al. (Cr. No. 3:04-240-P (N.D.TX.). During that trial, evidence was introduced that demonstrated a relationship among CAIR, individual CAIR founders (including its current President Emeritus and its Executive Director) and the Palestinian Committee. Evidence was also introduced that demonstrated a relationship between the Palestinian Committee and HAMAS, which was designated a terrorist organization in 1995. In light of that evidence, the FBI suspended all formal contacts between CAIR and the FBI.”

In case you are not familiar with the Holy Land trial referenced above, it was a Dallas, Texas trial that ended with guilty verdicts on 108 counts of funneling money ($12 million) to HAMAS.

2. The purpose of our press conference was to make public an internal CAIR memo that documented CAIR's stated goal of placing CAIR interns in the offices of members of Congress, especially the members who serve on the Homeland Security, Judiciary and Intelligence Committees. Let me be clear here, CAIR, a group whom the FBI says is affiliated with the terrorist group HAMAS, is trying to place their interns in the offices of those members who serve on the three committees that handle national security related issues. National Security is the first responsibility of the federal government.

3. Following our press conference, CAIR, immediately labeled we four members as bigots and started their public relations campaign to discredit us by claiming that we were against Muslims working on Capitol Hill. We never said that. At no time during our press conference did we even insinuate that we were investigating Muslims being interns on Capitol Hill.

Go to http://www.youtube.com/suemyricknc09 and watch the press conference yourself.

Our focus was and is on CAIR and CAIR alone, not Muslims.

Likewise CAIR tried to make this a Republican vs. Democrat thing, because the four members at the press conference happened to be Republican.

How then does CAIR explain Democrat Senator Charles Schumer’s call earlier this year for a government-wide ban on CAIR in the federal government due to their ties to HAMAS? Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer has likewise made public her opinions of CAIR and any Google search will find her remarks.

4. CAIR is spending time, money and energy to position themselves as the spokespeople for the moderate Muslim community. Problem is CAIR is not a moderate Muslim organization. It is a radical front group for HAMAS. So who is CAIR competing with for this designation? The real moderate Muslim groups/individuals in America.

Groups and individuals like the following who are committed to countering Islamist extremism:

Dr. Hedieh Mirahmadi – President World Organization for Resource Development and Education (WORDE)
Zeyno Baran – Director for the Center for Eurasian Policy at the Hudson Institute
Farid Ghadry – President of the Reform Party of Syria
Manda Zand Ervin – Founder and director of the Alliance of Iranian Women
Omran Salman – Arab Reformists Project, 'Aafaq (Arabic for “horizons”).
Dr. Zuhdi Jasser – American Islamic Forum for Democracy
Karim Bromund – Director of Inter-Religious Affairs for the Islamic Supreme Council of America

I SUPPORT the Muslim individuals and groups mentioned above. These groups renounce terrorists and their radical ideology. They are trying their hardest to be heard and recognized in America, but are being overshadowed and out-funded by CAIR. Today, when something happens that impacts the Muslim community, the media calls CAIR (an unindicted co-conspirator to terrorism and a HAMAS front group) for comment on behalf of American Muslims.

What an insult the media is performing on the Muslim community. Instead they should be calling Muslim groups/individuals like those named above. This is part of the reason we are focusing our attention on CAIR and exposing them for who they are. For one they pose a threat to our national security, and two, they deny the ability of legitimate Muslim groups to gain credibility.

5. In July of this year I held a summit on Capitol Hill where I introduced the leaders of eight moderate Muslim organizations to the heads of several US Agencies, Members of Congress and congressional staff. For example, they met with representatives from the State Department, USAID, Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense.

How can I be against Muslims working on Capitol Hill and hold such an event?

Go to http://www.familysecuritymatters.org...pub_detail.asp and read for yourself about this summit.

See through the lies and realize what is really going on here.

We are trying to expose a HAMAS Front Group (CAIR) for who they are, and they are crying we are anti-Muslim hoping that media outlets will ignore the terrorist claim and instead pick it up as a race/religion story. When those claims don’t work, they claim it’s a Republican political thing.

Americans, on this subject we need to stop the Republican vs. Democrat, Conservative vs. Liberal, Christian vs. Muslim division and unite on one simple point…. CAIR is a front group for HAMAS. It was named as an un-indicted co-conspirator in a terrorism case that lead to 108 convictions of funneling $12 million to HAMAS. Because of the evidence produced in that case, the FBI severed all ties with them. This same CAIR, by their own admission, is trying to place people inside the offices of members of Congress who deal with national security issues (judiciary, homeland security and intelligence committees). I serve on one of those committees, Intelligence, am the co-chairwoman of the House Anti-Terrorism Caucus, and have spent the better part of the last four years working every day on terrorism related issues.

If we Americans fail to set aside our political, religious and ideological differences and unite when we encounter the enemy in such stark and plain terms, then God help us.

[JimP]

Filthy Muj are amongst us.

[SF-TX]

Anyone attend this event?

Rep. Myrick, Muslims defend, debate in testy town hall meeting
By Tim Funk
tfunk@charlotteobserver.com
Posted: Friday, Feb. 26, 2010

In a testy two-hour town hall meeting, U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick argued Thursday night that the threat of homegrown Islamist terrorism is real and defended herself against charges by local Muslims that she was spreading fear about their religion.

Using charts, maps, handouts and even a video slamming a Charlotte TV station, the Charlotte Republican told the crowd of about 175 people, most of them Muslims, that she has never condemned Islam or linked moderate Muslims with terrorism.

“I’m talking about the sympathizers and supporters of a radical agenda,” she said. “It’s not that all Muslims are bad or all Muslims are trying to do this.”

Hoping to repair her relations with a Muslim community that has taken her comments over the years as inflaming hatred, Myrick said she agreed to the town hall meeting to “build bridges” with her Muslim constituents. She invited them to join her in opposing those who she said were “trying to hijack” Islam.

Several Muslim speakers at the Government Center in uptown Charlotte commended Myrick for sponsoring the beginning of a dialogue, and invited her to follow-up sessions at mosques around town.

Still, many of the questions and comments from Muslims showed an anger that has simmered for years over often-provocative comments by Myrick, a member of the House Intelligence Committee.

In 2003, for instance, she seemed to suggest that convenience stores run by Muslims might be havens for homegrown terrorists.

Najeeb Karimi criticized the eight-term congresswoman for writing the foreword to a book – “Muslim Mafia” – whose researcher called Islam a disease. Karimi also asked Myrick why she has not been as devoted to wiping out and labeling other forms of homegrown terrorists, such as the Texas man who recently flew his plane into a federal building in Austin to protest the IRS.

“Is this terrorism?” he asked Myrick. “(Oklahoma City bomber) Timothy McVeigh? Is that Christian terrorism? . . . Islam stands for peace.”

Businessman Izzat Saymeh told Myrick that he and other Muslims “feel threatened by inflammatory rhetoric” from right-wing groups – some of whom have praised Myrick’s stands.

“It would go a long way if you would speak out against the anti-Islamic hate that’s going on in our district and elsewhere,” he said. {Any critical discussion of Islam is considered anti-Islamic hate.}

Myrick took the opportunity Thursday to explain her 2003 comment casting suspicion on convenience store operators. She said it came after a high-profile case in Charlotte that tied cigarette-smuggling and money-laundering to Hezbollah, a Lebanese military organization that the United States has labeled a terrorist group.

“So I wasn’t off the wall,” she said. “It may have come across that way, but you have to put it in context.”

Myrick also charged that the news media has distorted some of her other comments, to make them sound as if she was attacking Islam as a religion.

To try to prove her point, she had her staff show the audience a video of a WBTV news report that ran after the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas. Myrick has said the shooting bolsters her belief that some radical Muslims are infiltrating the U.S. military and government.

On the screen was a running tally of how many times Myrick used the words “Muslim,” “Islam” or “Islamic.” Final score: Myrick never used those terms to explain what happened at Fort Hood. Others – including the reporter and anchors – used them 15 times. Each time the number grew, there was an audible ring.

At one point, Myrick had to break up a shouting match between an ex-Muslim Iranian-American who was giving a speech at the microphone and some Muslims in the crowd who objected to his linking the religion with the Taliban in Afghanistan and the “fanatical Muslims” putting down dissent in Iran.

“This is what’s wrong,” Myrick told those shouting from the gallery. “Instead of trying to have a dialogue, we start yelling.”

Most of the speakers were courteous, congratulating Myrick for appearing before them even as they criticized her views.

“No one has ever said to me ‘Blow something up.’ And if they had, I would be the first to deal with it,’” said Khalil Akbar, the imam at Masjid Ash Shaheed, a mosque. “I think you have a little bit of misinformation.”

Myrick repeatedly urged those in the audience to contact her or her office if they had grievances, including long airport waits because their common names might show up on a watch list.

After cutting off the questions with seven people still in line, Myrick turned the microphone over to Zuhdi Jasser, a Muslim physician who heads the Islamic Forum for Democracy and is a conservative political ally of Myrick’s.

He accused many moderate Muslims, including those in the audience, of being in denial about the “cancer” of radical Islam.

That was too much for Rose Hamid, former head of Muslim Women of the Carolinas.

Based on Jasser’s comments, Hamid said after the meeting: “(Myrick’s) goal was not necessarily to listen to the Muslims, but to deliver her message to the Muslims.”

Jibril Hough of the Islamic Center of Charlotte, who had suggested the town hall meeting to Myrick months ago, also criticized Jasser’s comments, but said Myrick had taken a good first step in opening dialogue with local Muslims.

Myrick agreed, calling it “a very good discussion.”

“If we don’t talk, and we don’t put things on the table,” she said, “we’ll never come to an agreement.”

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/201...efend-and.html

The caption for the attached photo:

02/25/10 Elmer Lowe of Charlotte a member of the Muslim community says he is a disabled veteran and asks Rep. Sue Myrick what is the definition of moderate and extremist at Thursday night's meeting. . Rep. Sue Myrick held a town hall meeting at the Charlotte Government Center City Council Chambers with Charlotte area Muslims at a " Conversation With America" Thursday night.

Yes, what is the definition of moderate and extremist Muslim?

[T-Rock]

Islam stands for peace.

Does it really?

General Alexander Loehr, a Lutwaffe commander, on record stated Hitler had told him that Islam was such a desirable creed the Fuehrer longed for it to become the official SS religion.

http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/200...-jihad-part-1/

I was astounded when he [Hitler] told me that he knew about my Tazkirah. The news flabbergasted me. . . I found him very congenial and piercing. He discussed Islamic Jihad with me in details. In 1930 I sent him my Isharat concerning the Khaksar movement with a picture of a spade-bearer Khaksar at the end of that book. In 1933 he started his Spade Movement.

If I had known that this was the very man who was to become Germany’s savior I would have fallen around Hitler’s neck, ….We shook hands and Hitler said, pointing to a book that was lying on the table: “I had a chance to read your al-Tazkirah.” Little did I understand at that time, what should have been clear to me when he said these words!

... It is possible that he has arrived at those means and doctrines by trial and error, but it should be absolutely clear that Mashriqi [referring to himself in the third person] has identified those means and doctrines in al-Tazkirah a full nine years and in the Isharat a full three years before the success of the Nazi movement, simply by following the shining guidance of the Holy Koran.

http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=32831
http://prophetofdoom.net/Mein_Kampf.Islam

[KLB]

Rep Myrick: "... The purpose of our press conference was to make public an internal CAIR memo that documented CAIR's stated goal of placing CAIR interns in the offices of members of Congress, especially the members who serve on the Homeland Security, Judiciary and Intelligence Committees. Let me be clear here, CAIR, a group whom the FBI says is affiliated with the terrorist group HAMAS, is trying to place their interns in the offices of those members who serve on the three committees that handle national security related issues. National Security is the first responsibility of the federal government..."

It's unbelievable that these SOB's are openly attacking members of Congress after being exposed, and that other Islamic groups are defending them. Round em up boys. I think there's still a few rooms left at Hotel Gitmo.