♻RetweetCAIR Spreads Fear About 'United 93'
Fri, May 12, 2006 at 8:26:42 am PDT
Radical Islamic front group CAIR is at it again, spreading bogus “backlash” fears about the film United 93. Apparently, Americans can’t be trusted to watch the film without getting their primitive racism stirred up.
And in an amazing coincidence, the office manager for CAIR Arizona just happened to be the target of an incident of “hate speech,” an incident she is now trumpeting to the group’s entire network: Muslims fear ‘United 93’ backlash.
A Washington-based Islamic lobby group is spreading word of an incident it says raises concerns of a backlash against Muslims prompted by the first-run film “United 93,” which recounts the hijacked flight that crashed in Pennsylvania on 9-11.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations said a middle-aged couple in Scottsdale, Ariz., who had just seen the movie approached three young Muslim women wearing head scarves Apr. 29, reported the California Aggie, the campus newspaper at the University of California, Davis.
The young women, at the Desert Ridge Marketplace, said the couple asked them if they were Muslim. The couple, indicating they had just seen the film, hurled abuse, the women said. “Take off your f——-g burqas and get the f—- out of this country. We don’t want you in this country. Go home,” the couple allegedly said.
One of the women happened to be Bushra Khan, office manager for CAIR’s Arizona chapter, who sent a message out to all 31 of the group’s offices nationwide.
Khan told the campus paper she’s concerned “United 93” — which some critics say comes too soon after 9-11 — is prompting the kind of anti-Muslim anger seen immediately after the attacks on New York City and Washington. “People’s emotions are getting flared again,” Khan said. “The couple’s verbal abuse had obviously been prompted by their associating all Muslims with those who took part in the 9-11 terror attacks.”
The spokeswoman for CAIR’s Sacramento Valley office, Dina El-Nakhal, says the incident in Arizona has affected Muslim communities nationwide.
“It certainly got us concerned,” El-Nakhal told the UC Davis paper. “People feel a sense of fear. You feel like you are being painted by a general brush.” The images in the film of terrorists as devout Muslims misrepresents the majority of Islam’s followers, she said.
The depth of CAIR’s connections to terrorism is breathtaking, yet mainstream media almost universally insist on referring to them blandly as a “civil rights group.” Here’s an excellent piece on CAIR’s radical agenda: CAIR: Islamists Fooling the Establishment.


