CAIR Adopts Lefty Blogosphere Tactic
Charles Johnson
Thu Sep 7, 2006 at 4:32 pm PDT • Views: 242
The Chicago Sun-Times published an unfortunately one-sided article on Monday, another dishonest smear job from the Council on American Islamic Relations on Robert Spencer and his site Jihad Watch—without giving Spencer a chance to respond, of course: Muslims see a growing media bias.
On a typical workday, Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American-Islamic Relations talks to a dozen or so print and broadcast reporters.
“The vast majority does a pretty good job and they need to be congratulated,” he said.
It’s another story when Hooper watches cable TV commentators, listens to talk radio or surfs hundreds of anti- Islamic Web sites. “The level of anti-Muslim rhetoric is growing in quantum leaps since 9/11,” he said.
Hooper and other experts addressed “Islamaphobia” in the media during a panel discussion Sunday at the Islamic Society of North America’s annual convention at the Donald E. Stevens Convention Center in Rosemont.
Web sites are especially virulent, Hooper said. Consider these comments recently posted on the blog of Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades).
Notice a pattern here? They can’t attack the blog’s owner for his statements, so they use the time-honored tactic of cherry-picking “extreme” comments from readers, completely out of context (and often distorted or misquoted), despite the clearly-worded disclaimers at Spencer’s site. It’s the same dishonest tactic that the LGF haters (you know who you are—the ones who can’t stop reading) have been using for years, and the Islamist lobby (CAIR) has now picked up on it.
Robert Spencer has a reply to Ibrahim Hooper of CAIR here: CAIR’s Hooper defames Jihad Watch in the Chicago Sun-Times.
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