WND EXCLUSIVE
CAIR MOURNS FOR 'TERROR APOLOGIST'
Voice of Islamic 'moderation' pushed State Department to back extremists
Hailed as an interfaith “pioneer,” Maher Hathout of the Council on Foreign Affairs and the Islamic Center of Southern California was widely touted as a voice of moderation and opponent of Islamic extremism.
Except when he was convincing federal officials to support terrorists or spewing hatred against Israel, charges a report from The Investigative Project on Terrorism, or IPT.
When Hathout, co-founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, or MPAC, passed away Saturday, the praise from multiple sources was effusive.
In his life, he had won awards for “peacemaking” and was a frequent guest on Capitol Hill and at the State Department. He even became the first Muslim to give the invocation prayer at a national political convention, when he blessed the Democratic convention in 2000 in Los Angeles.
“He was a voice of moderation,” the Rev. George Regas, former pastor at All Saints Episcopal church in Pasadena, told Los Angeles Times. “The strongest voice speaking out against what the terrorists were trying to say.”
Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, proclaimed, “Dr. Hathout, through his tireless community service and visionary leadership, serves as a model for the American Muslim community and for all Americans who seek a society based on justice, tolerance and mutual understanding.”
IPT, however, called CAIR’s “model for the American Muslim community” an “apologist for extremism.”
According to an IPT report, Hathout delivered a lecture at the State Department in 1997 in which he praised Islamic “reformists,” specifically Hassan al-Banna, Rashid Ghannoushi and Hassan al-Turabi. He claimed these men advocated a pluralistic society that would work for peace and justice for all.
Hassan al-Banna, however, is the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, a primary instigator of the Palestinian conflict and the man IPT says gave the Brotherhood their motto,
“God is our purpose, the Prophet our leader, the Quran our constitution, jihad our way and dying for Allah our supreme objective.”
Al-Banna was quoted in the New York Times proclaiming, “It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.”
Ghannoushi, meanwhile, was reportedly the head of Tunisia’s banned Islamic fundamentalist Al-Nahda Party and was convicted by a Tunisian court of responsibility for a bomb blast that blew the foot off a British tourist.
And al-Turabi, according to The 9/11 Commission Report, gave Osama bin Laden sanctuary in Sudan and was the head of the National Islamic Front, which the U.S. government condemned for supporting terrorism.
IPT also pointed to Hathout’s vitriol against Israel, calling it an “apartheid brutal state … of butchers,” and telling an MPAC symposium at Cal-State Fullerton, “The United States is also under Israeli occupation … [and] we have a Congress that beats the Knesset in being pro-Zionist.”
IPT is is a non-profit research group founded by award-winning journalist Steven Emerson, who has won praise as a terror expert from politicians, newspapers and former FBI officials across the political spectrum.
IPT bills itself as “the world’s most comprehensive data center on radical Islamic terrorist groups” and “a principal source of critical evidence to a wide variety of government offices and law enforcement agencies, as well as the U.S. Congress.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/01/cair-mourns-for-terror-apologist/#2E62ZecrUb7wrCHE.99My comments: Islam believes the Koran and the Koran INCITES VIOLENCE against everyone, including its own. No one is a 'moderate" who believes the Koran.
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