An Anti-Muslim Witch Hunt?
Charles Johnson
Thu Apr 14, 2005 at 7:42 am PDT • Views: 386
In the wake of yesterday’s convictions of a founding member of the Council on American Islamic Relations and his brothers on terrorism charges, it’s very … revealing to take a trip down memory lane and see what Muslim groups were saying about the arrests of these people when they first happened: An anti-Muslim witch hunt?
Among the domestic web sites whose servers are currently blocked as the “investigation” continues are those of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), whose annual conference took place in Chicago this past weekend, and CAIR’s southwest office, as well as its e-mail listserv service, which the organization moved to another server.
The website of the Muslim Students Association (MSA) was also affected.
“We are one of the sites hosted by this company,” said MSA president Altaf Hussain, “and the idea is that without knowing much more we’re basically labeling it, as CAIR is, an ‘anti-Muslim witch hunt’…There are a lot of fairly benign organizations on there.”
Hussain said that MSA’s site could do nothing but wait before determining their next step.
“Do we just be patient and wait and hope that the company is reinstated, or based on what happened with Holy Land… do we see this as a much bigger and more pressured attempt from the government and [the] pro-Israel lobby to make sure that they go after and attack all web sites that support Palestinians?”
Here’s the press release from the terrorists’ front group, Infocom: National Islamic Leaders Call Government Action ‘Anti-Muslim Witch Hunt’. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.)
Frank says: