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CAIR at YouTube

Sun, Oct 1, 2006 at 2:38:23 pm PDT

Yesterday I featured a video from YouTube of a CNN report echoing CAIR talking points. I didn’t notice at the time that the video was uploaded to YouTube by a CAIR official, Ahmed Bedier.

After the LGF entry about the video, comments were posted at YouTube pointing out the Saudi influence in US mosques, and criticizing the deceptive statements made in the video by CAIR director Nihad Awad. In response, Ahmed Bedier, the owner of the video, turned off comments for the video clip and according to a reader who emailed, deleted (or had deleted) at least one comment with facts about Saudi funding of mosques.

This is how the Council on American Islamic Relations handles free speech—by shutting it down when it gets close to the truth—and it’s highly revealing to see their inability to handle criticism in a wide open forum like YouTube.

Here’s Bedier’s profile page at YouTube with links to all the taqqiya videos he’s posted: Bedier Channel. It’s a library of CAIR dissembling and victimhood, and I hope Bedier continues to post this stuff. The more people who see it the better.

UPDATE at 10/1/06 3:13:49 pm:

Joe Kaufman has an article at FrontPage on Ahmed Bedier: CAIR’s Catholic Blood Money. (Hat tip: Terp Mole.)

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1 fluffy  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 12:40:23pm

But, I thought that CAIR just wants to make sure that islam is understood.

/ya know

2 fluffy  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 12:40:58pm

Halftime

2nd?

3 fluffy  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 12:41:41pm

Stop me, before I post again!

4 MSMediacritic  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 12:42:58pm

The truth will set us free.

/so there, fluffy.

5 texanista  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 12:43:08pm

STOP FLUFFY!

6 ibmkeyboard  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 12:43:29pm
This is how the Council on American Islamic Relations handles free speech—by shutting it down when it gets close to the truth


The technican must be a Democrat.

7 fluffy  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 12:43:48pm

Thanks, MSM! The burden was getting too great.

8 fluffy  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 12:45:07pm

#5 texanista

OK, OK. You unroll the newspaper and then I'll get off the couch.

9 ibrodsky  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 12:46:00pm

CAIR: I cannot think of a group that is more deserving of being called Islamic Nazis.

10 ibmkeyboard  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 12:47:07pm

Technician

Sheesh

11 mama winger  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 12:47:55pm
I hope Bedier continues to post this stuff. The more people who see it the better.

LGF = Light Goes Forth

12 Geepers  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 12:48:19pm

The islamists want everyone to hear what they have to say.

Unless you disagree with them, then they want to shut you up, intimidate and threaten you.

As illustrated by this video by Peter Verkooijen made yesterday:

Yesterday the usual usefull idiots were "celebrating the 6th anniversary of the Intifada" with a "Stop the War Against the Arab People" rally in my neighborhood in Brooklyn. So I put on my Danish cartoon t-shirt, brought an American flag and filmed what happened.

13 ibrodsky  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 12:49:18pm

Speaking of Islamic Nazis...

Iran Set on Expanding it's Nuke Program

14 mahatma coat  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 12:50:08pm

every once in a while I get depressed about the west s pathetic response to this threat ...and every time they do something to remind me just how dim they are.

15 cbinflux  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 12:54:46pm

"Discernment" is an often used word in The Bible. That is because it's so important that as we mature we should be developing that skill/sense.

Any idiot can discern that they tell multiple and multiply self-contradicting lies each time they speak. Moonbats can too, but their agenda is too strong, too anti-American, too anti-God and country.

16 PETN Sandwich  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 12:56:15pm

Ahmed Bedier has a blog too...
[Link: ahmedbedier.blogspot.com...]

17 fluffy  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 12:56:39pm

#12 Geepers

Thanks for sharing. The voice sounds familiar. Did you 'incite violence' in Boston a couple months agao?

18 Terp Mole  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 12:58:13pm

FrontPage Magazine.com features a revealing piece on Ahmed Bedier today;

CAIR’s Catholic Blood Money

On Sunday, September 24, 2006, Ahmed Bedier led a delegation of Muslims from his organization, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), in a visit to the St. Paul’s Catholic Church of St. Petersburg, Florida. At the end of the visit, Bedier handed a check for $5000 to the pastor of St. Paul’s for the repair of churches that had been damaged recently in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, over one sentence spoken by the Pope. The money was for a good cause, but accepting the money came with a price...

You'll never guess...

19 Geepers  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:03:45pm

fluffy (#17),

I wish it were, but no.

20 Hazan-Khan-(Secret)-Apostate-In-Pakistan  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:05:13pm

What you call "freedom of speech" is actually freedom to insult, Charles. Is it right for people to insult Islam in the name of "freedom of speech"? Muslims take their religion very seriously!

Now apologize! APOLOGIZE! NOW!


/same old argument from Muslim apologists, everytime.

21 Terp Mole  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:07:38pm

Picture of the cretinous Ahmed here (w/ Sean Hannity interview).

22 eljudio  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:10:19pm

#12 Geepers - I don't know what's scarier, the OP or the video you posted, from Brooklyn, no less!

I propose a law: all the people who are exclaiming "We are Hezbollah, We are Hamas" are immediately detained and deported to Lebanon and Palestine, respectively. With no right of return.

... first post here. Hope I got it right. :)

23 Merovign  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:11:08pm

#12 Geepers

Yeah, wish more people could see that supporting terrorism has become "protected free speech" but opposing it is "inciting a riot."

If the "gatekeepers," legal and media, don't get a frickin' clue, and real soon, everybody, and I mean everybody, is going to get a very unpleasant lesson in "things spinning out of control."

Maybe it's too late, but I hope not. Nobody will be better off if the next major attack kills a million - only suffering, worldwide suffering, will follow.

Makes me sick that pretty young lady waving her flag for baby-killers who would forbid her from pursuing her profession as a legal-system parasite that she's so proud of. Yeah, lady keep your back to those who would slit your throat for being too outspoken, and watch out for the dangerous West whose opportunities you take advantage of.

It always amazes me how people can even function, not to mention excel, at anything when their ability to judge basic facts, events, and principles is so grotesquely compromised. But I see it all the time. I guess there is an aspect of obsession to success, and obsession distorts everything.

24 mama winger  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:12:22pm

#22 eljudio

Welcome to our humble home. :)

25 Terp Mole  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:12:54pm

Here's the Reverend Gibbons taking $5000 donation from Ahmed in Jacksonville for repairs to Gaza Catholic churches.

"The act - the violence against churches - it's un-Islamic," Bedier said. "Don't associate our religion, a religion of peace, with the acts of terrorism."

Engage Jedi mind powers;

"These are not the droids you're looking for..."
26 mama winger  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:15:13pm

#25 Terp Mole

from your linked article:

"We need to look for ways to forge a bridge between Islam and Christianity," Bedier said. "As Muslims, we have to act more like Mohammed and as Christians you have to act more like Jesus."

We're doomed...

27 Geepers  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:20:40pm

eljudio (#22),

Welcome aboard.

I'm sure we could arrange any airfares necessary.

Mainly because they would all fight tooth and nail to ever go live among the people they so support.

28 6patrick6  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:21:27pm

From that article:

"We need to look for ways to forge a bridge between Islam and Christianity," Bedier said. "As Muslims, we have to act more like Mohammed and as Christians you have to act more like Jesus."

You ARE acting like Mo, and we see through your little bullshiite smokescreen...Nice try, Bedier. You may have bought off one church, don't get too smug over it.

29 MSMediacritic  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:21:34pm
"As Muslims, we have to act more like Mohammed"

Better hide the girls under 10 years old.

30 cbinflux  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:23:09pm

#29 msm

...and the boys, especially the boys.

31 Geepers  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:26:04pm

mama winger (#26),

We're doomed...

Don't kid yourself. There are plenty of people who aren't going to "turn the other cheek", ever.

32 Terp Mole  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:26:31pm
mama winger notes: "We need to look for ways to forge a bridge between Islam and Christianity," Bedier said. "As Muslims, we have to act more like Mohammed and as Christians you have to act more like Jesus."

Yeh, that's rich, ain't it. At least one local Floridian didn't drink the Kool Aid either;

Mohammed was no Jesus

Re: Two faiths share one message, Sept. 25.

I must take exception to Ahmed Bedier's statement, "As Muslims, we have to act more like Mohammed and as Christians you have to act more like Jesus."

I hope Muslims wouldn't act like Mohammed. Mohammed was a military leader who in the early stages of Islam raided caravans for food and money and established Islam through armed conflict.

The quote that the pope used is true about the advance of Islam by the sword. One can debate the Crusades and other violence in the name of Christianity and whether those who committed the violence were true Christians, just as Muslims say that terrorists are not true Muslims. But you can never equate the peace, love and self-sacrificial life of Jesus with the life and jihad methods of Mohammed.

I believe there are many peace-loving Muslims, but when Bedier said, "Don't associate our religion, a religion of peace, with the acts of terrorism," he ignores the historical record. Is Islam a religion of peace when its founder was a warrior?

Victor Trent, Clearwater

33 ggt  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:28:36pm

heh, heh, giving money to the Catholic Church does not mean you get prayers for your soul in return --nothing else.

34 ggt  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:31:51pm

someday, I'll learn what preview means . . .

#33 should read:

heh, heh, giving money to the Catholic Church means you get prayers for your soul in return --nothing else.

It's true, individuals in the church may be bought-off. But more often then not, the money is taken and nothing is returned. Priests wrote the book on fundraising.

35 mama winger  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:32:25pm

#31 Geepers

Dang it! I knew I should have used the sarc tag! :)

36 Geepers  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:41:12pm

mama winger (#35),

Not to worry. I've never used a sarc tag.

Don't plan on starting either.

37 Terp Mole  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:48:35pm

Here's a USC wacademic parroting CAIR talking points for today's LASlimes;

Professor's Prophecy of Doom Fulfilled

Professor Richard Dekmejian, a pint-sized and bespectacled scholar barely able to see over the top of the research materials piled on his desk at USC, is delivering a good scolding from behind his bunker.

He's got nothing but backhands for President Bush, the neo-cons, the Democratic pushovers and the average Joe and Jane. All of them were such fools, he said, to have expected the war in Iraq to produce anything but chaos, death and resentment.
---
Now he's onto a pet subject — the physics of conflict, and the inevitability of blowback for decades of crawling into bed with despots in pursuit of resources like oil.

Inevitably, the author of the piece blinks;

To be honest, Dekmejian doesn't have solutions that are politically workable any time soon.

As if "solutions" have any relation to the objective of these enemies within.

38 6patrick6  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:53:47pm

Hey, Doogie, I have spent the entire weekend without wishing a delicious ham and pastrami sandwich with Swiis cheese and a heartfelt "fuck you" to you and your buddies at CAIR, the Council on Americans becoming Islamic punk-ass zealot thugs Relations.

Choke on your sammitch, Doogie. Or, you can wash it down with a nice tall Sam Adams Light, then choke on it.

39 mrsoc  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:53:48pm

"At a press conference Thursday at the Diocese of St. Petersburg, Gibbons stood next to Bedier and held his end of a large poster-board check from CAIR for $5,000 made out to The Catholic Near East Welfare Association in Washington, D.C."
Has everyone gone mad?

40 mama winger  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:56:32pm

#38 6patrick6

It's not good to hold in your feelings. Try to let it out. You'll feel better. :)

41 epg  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:58:14pm

Without seeing the actual bank records, this will have to do:

Al-Walid Bin Talal donates half a million for CAIR campaign in USA

and

Media Campaign in US to Dispel Islamophobia

It was also announced that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) would be launching a massive $50 million media campaign involving television, radio and newspapers as part of its five-year program to create a better understanding of Islam and Muslims in the US.

[...]

Elaborating on the CAIR campaign to dispel misunderstandings of Islam and Muslims, Nihad Awad, CAIR executive director, said that his group proposes to spend $10 million annually for five years in a media campaign. He said that CAIR would also recruit volunteers and produce educational material as part of its initiative.

“We are planning to meet Prince Alwaleed ibn Talal for his financial support to our project. He has been generous in the past,” he added.

42 tomilio  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:59:33pm

I love the information age. Hey, Cair, Ibrahim Hooper, we're not taking your crap anymore. you're going to find it harder and harder to hide your lies. And the harder you try, the worse you look in the eyes of the west. 9/11/01 was the beginning of your end, you'd better work harder to quiet the violence coming from your cesspools in Pakistan, Iran, etc, or you will see an end to islam in your lifetime. At least the islam that you know and love.

43 6patrick6  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 2:14:48pm

#40 mama winger ---

Yeah, I've been having these anger repression issues lately, I just don't say what I mean to say. Really should express myself more, ya know!.../

44 LSD  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 2:31:24pm

Bedier is a Islamist supremacy Punk, at best.

And a full-on Terrorist Supporter in the least.

(How's Sami doing, Ahmed?)

45 MandyManners  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 2:49:45pm

C.A.I.R., you suck. Bedier, you suck, too.

Can't turn off that comment, can you, you little fascist pig?

46 MandyManners  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 2:51:35pm

Whoops! Did I just call an Islamofascist a "pig"? PIGPIGPIGPIGPIGPIGPIGPIGPIGPIGPIGPIG

SOOO-EEE!

47 LSD  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 3:10:03pm

Here's Bedier unhinged at being exposed:

How many mosques have you attended? you're just repeating false propoganda. There is no Wahaabi views being pushed at mosques around the country. American Muslims are very diverse and that diversity if reflected in our mosques. Muslims have repeadetly denounced terrorism and terrorists

From this bit of INVESTIGATION of a mosque, we see that attending a Mosque -if you speak Arabic- is VERY revealing ...

Jihad comes to Small Town, USA

I explained that since I had quite a bit of reading to do for a class I was taking. "Can I just sit here and read?"

He hesitated a moment, then agreed. I sat in the back of the room, with my book open, and made a mental note to remember to turn the pages every so often, as I listened to the speakers in Arabic.

The first speaker was the head of the Muslim Students' Association at the nearby university. Although I missed the beginning of the discussion, I caught up quickly. He was talking about the problems he had encountered on a recent trip, when TSA flagged him for extra screening. He joked about the fact that they had stopped him for extensive screening. He had anticipated that he would be screened and he had filled his carryon luggage with printouts of the Quran from the Internet, and had 15 or 16 CDs labeled in Arabic, and he had a notebook computer with him.

As he expected, he was delayed – he thought it was very amusing that while several TSA personnel were scrutinizing his personal belongings that his classmate from Jordan was able to walk through security, along with his American girlfriend, without any problems whatsoever.

One of the men said, in Arabic: "Blonde Americans are good for something!" Another man advised him to be cautious, since there was an American woman in the room. The imam spoke up and told everyone I didn't speak Arabic.

At that point, another student took the podium. His name was Khaled, and he began to recount his recent trip to New York City. Khaled and three of his companions had gone to New York for several days in January. He told of how uncomfortable his trip up to NYC had been. He felt like he was being watched, and thought he was the victim of racial profiling.

Khaled and his friends were pretty unhappy about it, and while in New York, they came up with a plan to "teach a lesson" to the passengers and crew. You can imagine the story Khaled told. He described how he and his friends whispered to each other on the flight, made simultaneous visits to the restroom, and generally tried to "spook" the other passengers. He laughed when he described how several women were in tears, and one man sitting near him was praying.

The others in the room thought the story was quite amusing, judging from the laughter. The imam stood up and told the group that this was a kind of peaceful civil disobedience that should be encouraged, and commended Khaled and his friends for their efforts.

He pointed out that it was through this kind of civil disobedience that ethnic profiling would fail.

One of the other men, Ahmed from Kuwait, gave a brief account of his friend Eyad, who had finally gone to Iraq. Ahmed was in e-mail contact with Eyad, and hoped by the following week to be able to bring them more information about the state of the "mujahideen" in Iraq.

As the meeting drew to a close, the imam gave a brief speech calling for the protection of Allah on the mujahideen fighting for Islam throughout the world, and reminded everyone that it was their duty as Muslims to continue in the path of jihad, whether it was simple efforts like those of Khaled and his friends, or the actual physical fighting of men like Eyad.

My Fellow Americans, if you know Arabic, attend a mosque and your enemy will reveal themselves ...

48 Trumanite  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 3:52:41pm

Thanks to LGF for keeping the spotlight on CAIR. CAIR urgently needs to be outed, even more urgently than Kerry needed to be outed. Blogs caused that to happen.

If something doesn't change very soon, a CAIR operative will be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

This will be not unlike the Lebanese having Hezbollah in their parliament, but, this time, it's right here, in our country.

Powerline has been on the case. Also Minnesota Democrats Exposed.

49 el greco  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 4:03:43pm

The pastor at my church is going to show the movie called: Obsession.
He is going to do it in the evening when the community can show up--and there will be discussion...lots of it.
the word is getting out about islam.
Thank God Almighty for all conservative bloggers.
I don't even look at the news anymore.

50 rtheyserius  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 5:07:09pm

Typical.

51 Stop Hillary  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 6:26:10pm

The Catholic Church in America is a bastion of LLL extemism. Charles' latest update does not suprise me at all. That part of the Catholic heirarchy that is not too busy perpetuating its homosexual abuse of minors has enough spare time to invite Islam to assist in the destruction of a core, rotten alredy from within.

Anyone expecting the Catholic Church of America to stand against the depredations of Islam is putting their faith and future security in shadows.

52 mattm  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 7:37:11pm

It is the soldier, not the reporter who gives us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet who gives us freedom of speech.
It is the CAIR official, not the goverment who removes freedom of speech.

53 Ledger1  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 8:54:09pm

It sounds like the Catholic Church and Rev. Robert Gibbons got Taqqiy’d by CAIR’s Ahmed Bedier.

Shame on the Catholic Church for accepting a token payment of $5,000 for the life of a Nun and numerous church buildings.

54 Affinity  Sun, Oct 1, 2006 9:29:46pm

Its threads like this why I visit this place on occasion. You people are absolutely hilarious.

*He turned comments off! Grrr!**

Haha..

55 BabbaZee  Mon, Oct 2, 2006 4:45:15am

#54 Affinity

YOU

are

FUNNY


pal!


AHAHHHAAAaaa

56 BabbaZee  Mon, Oct 2, 2006 4:54:24am

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