How American Muslims plan to counter post-Paris backlash

[RandomGuy]

Muslim leaders in the United States said Monday they will mount a multifaceted campaign to counter what they call an unprecedented rise in Islamophobia, triggered by recent terrorist attacks and inflammatory political rhetoric.

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The effort comes out of a meeting Sunday of about 100 Muslim leaders who gathered in Sterling, Va. The campaign will include efforts to register 1 million additional Muslim voters before the 2016 election, more fully engage young Muslims in mainstream communities, and forge stronger alliances with civil rights and interfaith groups.

The impetus for the gathering of US Muslim leaders was “the unprecedented rise in violent incidents targeting American Muslims in the wake of the Paris terror attacks and the San Bernardino [California] killings and recent inflammatory anti-Muslim rhetoric and political incitement,” said Oussama Jammal, secretary general of the US Council of Muslim Organizations.

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“ISIS leaders know that they cannot destroy the United States. What they hope to do is to divide the American people and scare us,” said Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), using a common acronym for the Islamic State.

Hate crimes against Muslim Americans and mosques across the US have tripled since the terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, according to a study by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University that was first published by The New York Times.

Since the Nov. 13 Paris attacks, there were 38 anti-Islamic attacks in the US, including violence against hijab-wearing students, death threats at Islamic-owned companies, as well as arson and vandalism at mosques, the California State study found.

The level of violence against Muslims is not as high as immediately after the 9/11 attacks, the Cal State researchers found. At that time, there were hundreds of attacks against Muslims.

President Obama, in an interview conducted with NPR released Monday morning, spoke of the need to calm the fears of the American people regarding the power of Islamic State or or ISIL, as he refers to it.

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The president admitted that his administration could have done more to tamp down the public’s concerns. “There is a legitimate criticism of what I've been doing and our administration has been doing in the sense that we haven't … on a regular basis … described all the work that we've been doing for more than a year now to defeat ISIL.”

The role of Muslims has been a major topic recently in the presidential campaign. After the San Bernardino attack, Donald Trump called for a temporary ban on Muslims who are not US citizens entering the United States until the government can “figure out what is going on.”

In Saturday evening’s Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton said, “I worry greatly that the rhetoric coming from the Republicans, particularly Donald Trump, is sending a message to Muslims here in the United States and literally around the world that there is a clash of civilizations … that there is some kind of Western plot or even war against Islam, which then I believe fans the flames of radicalization."

Muslim officials speaking at Monday’s press conference cautioned that many of their organizations had a tax status that barred them from directly or indirectly participating in any political campaign.

However, CAIR executive Mr. Awad said of candidate Trump’s language about Muslims: “he knows better” and added, “we feel the heat.”

The Muslim officials said a key component of their work together would be finding ways to counter the appeal of ISIS among young American Muslims. “We have to do a better job of reaching out to our young people from the pulpits of the mosques in America and teaching them how they can avoid the seductive approaches that are found on the internet from groups like ISIS and others,” said Imam Johari Abdul-Malik, governmental affairs director for the Muslim Alliance in North America.

“We believe that the issue is bigger than ISIS. It is a conspiracy to take advantage of our young people and we are redoubling our efforts as a community,” Mr. Abdul-Malik said.

http://news.yahoo.com/american-muslims-plan-counter-post-paris-backlash-204551246.html

[TheSanityAnnex]

Muslim leaders in the United States said Monday they will mount a multifaceted campaign to counter what they call an unprecedented rise in Islamophobia, triggered by recent terrorist attacks and inflammatory political rhetoric.

Related Stories

The effort comes out of a meeting Sunday of about 100 Muslim leaders who gathered in Sterling, Va. The campaign will include efforts to register 1 million additional Muslim voters before the 2016 election, more fully engage young Muslims in mainstream communities, and forge stronger alliances with civil rights and interfaith groups.

The impetus for the gathering of US Muslim leaders was “the unprecedented rise in violent incidents targeting American Muslims in the wake of the Paris terror attacks and the San Bernardino [California] killings and recent inflammatory anti-Muslim rhetoric and political incitement,” said Oussama Jammal, secretary general of the US Council of Muslim Organizations.

Recommended: Sunni and Shiite Islam: Do you know the difference? Take our quiz.

“ISIS leaders know that they cannot destroy the United States. What they hope to do is to divide the American people and scare us,” said Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), using a common acronym for the Islamic State.

Hate crimes against Muslim Americans and mosques across the US have tripled since the terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, according to a study by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University that was first published by The New York Times.

Since the Nov. 13 Paris attacks, there were 38 anti-Islamic attacks in the US, including violence against hijab-wearing students, death threats at Islamic-owned companies, as well as arson and vandalism at mosques, the California State study found.

The level of violence against Muslims is not as high as immediately after the 9/11 attacks, the Cal State researchers found. At that time, there were hundreds of attacks against Muslims.

President Obama, in an interview conducted with NPR released Monday morning, spoke of the need to calm the fears of the American people regarding the power of Islamic State or or ISIL, as he refers to it.

Recommended: ISIS IN AMERICA:A seven-part series

The president admitted that his administration could have done more to tamp down the public’s concerns. “There is a legitimate criticism of what I've been doing and our administration has been doing in the sense that we haven't … on a regular basis … described all the work that we've been doing for more than a year now to defeat ISIL.”

The role of Muslims has been a major topic recently in the presidential campaign. After the San Bernardino attack, Donald Trump called for a temporary ban on Muslims who are not US citizens entering the United States until the government can “figure out what is going on.”

In Saturday evening’s Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton said, “I worry greatly that the rhetoric coming from the Republicans, particularly Donald Trump, is sending a message to Muslims here in the United States and literally around the world that there is a clash of civilizations … that there is some kind of Western plot or even war against Islam, which then I believe fans the flames of radicalization."

Muslim officials speaking at Monday’s press conference cautioned that many of their organizations had a tax status that barred them from directly or indirectly participating in any political campaign.

However, CAIR executive Mr. Awad said of candidate Trump’s language about Muslims: “he knows better” and added, “we feel the heat.”

The Muslim officials said a key component of their work together would be finding ways to counter the appeal of ISIS among young American Muslims. “We have to do a better job of reaching out to our young people from the pulpits of the mosques in America and teaching them how they can avoid the seductive approaches that are found on the internet from groups like ISIS and others,” said Imam Johari Abdul-Malik, governmental affairs director for the Muslim Alliance in North America.

“We believe that the issue is bigger than ISIS. It is a conspiracy to take advantage of our young people and we are redoubling our efforts as a community,” Mr. Abdul-Malik said.

http://news.yahoo.com/american-muslims-plan-counter-post-paris-backlash-204551246.html


Stopped reading and giving a shit after seeing CAIR's feels are hurt. Terrrorist symapthizers/supporters.

"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran … should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth"- co-founder Ahmad


didn't know RandomGuy was a sympathizer
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=6176

[clambake]

you should see what my new mossberg can do to a koran.

[TheSanityAnnex]

you should see what my new mossberg can do to a koran.

You asshole by writing this you just triggered 15 peaceful Muslims that will now pledge allegiance to ISIS.

[clambake]

15 huh?

it should be broken in when I'm finished with them.

[TheSanityAnnex]

If American Muslims wanted to really counter anti-Muslim rhetoric they'd stop letting the Muslim Brotherhood backed CAIR speak for them.

[boutons_deux]

If American Muslims wanted to really counter anti-Muslim rhetoric they'd stop letting the Muslim Brotherhood backed CAIR speak for them.

CAIR represents only a tiny fraction of US Muslims, and is strongly rejected by many Muslims.

What really depresses, pisses off any religious, racial, ethnic minority is discrimination by the majority.

And you white Christian supremacist Taliban take the lead in discriminating.

[MultiTroll]

I'm sure the US Muslims will be doing more to turn in terrorist among them, right Boo?

Since they have done so much to date.

[boutons_deux]

I'm sure the US Muslims will be doing more to turn in terrorist among them, right Boo?

Since they have done so much to date.

how many white Christian terrorists, who have slaughtered tons more Americans than Muslim terrorists, have white people turned in?

white Christians love their guns more than they love grade schoolers, movie and church goers.

and it was born-again, Bible-humping Christian dubya and dickhead who terrorized Iraq for BigOil

[DarrinS]

Ah, yes, the unprecedented rise in Islamophobia. It's real.

[MultiTroll]

how many white Christian terrorists, who have slaughtered tons more Americans than Muslim terrorists, have white people turned in?
Really. Site some examples.

And even if the numbers are higher, you are suggesting US Muslims do nothing but rather imitate the whites whom you claim have not turned people in.

[baseline bum]

CAIR represents only a tiny fraction of US Muslims, and is strongly rejected by many Muslims.

What really depresses, pisses off any religious, racial, ethnic minority is discrimination by the majority.

And you white Christian supremacist Taliban take the lead in discriminating.

You're more jeebotard then TSA is son. For example, I have never seen TSA pretend abortion clinic terrorists weren't Christians like you do.

[baseline bum]

how many white Christian terrorists, who have slaughtered tons more Americans than Muslim terrorists, have white people turned in?

Wait what, I remember you saying all the abortion clinic / Planned Parenthood terrorists weren't Christians? What the fuck son?

[boutons_deux]

Wait what, I remember you saying all the abortion clinic / Planned Parenthood terrorists weren't Christians? What the fuck son?

you remember as badly as you learn. The PP shooter was Bible-humper, and I never said he wasn't

[baseline bum]

you remember as badly as you learn. The PP shooter was Bible-humper, and I never said he wasn't

LOL you said abortion clinic bombers weren't Christians.

[boutons_deux]

LOL you said abortion clinic bombers weren't Christians.

Christ-like, NT Christians wouldn't murder, but American Pharisaical OT Christians love killing, bombing, hating, murdering, like the PP shooter, all for profit, and the PP shooter typified American Christian Bible-humpers.

[TheSanityAnnex]

CAIR represents many US Muslims, and is strongly rejected by only a tiny fraction of US Muslims.

FIFY

[boutons_deux]

FIFY

You Lie

[angrydude]

Christ-like, NT Christians wouldn't murder, but American Pharisaical OT Christians love killing, bombing, hating, murdering, like the PP shooter, all for profit, and the PP shooter typified American Christian Bible-humpers.

You know when you make fun of Pharisees you're being anti-Semitic don't you? Probably not.

[TheSanityAnnex]

CAIR represents only a tiny fraction of US Muslims, and is strongly rejected by many Muslims.


Why are US Muslims rejecting CAIR?

[boutons_deux]

Woes of the Pharisees
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woes_of_the_Pharisees

nothing wrong with being anti-semitic if the Semites were or are wrong.

[TheSanityAnnex]

Why are US Muslims rejecting CAIR?

[mingus]

Christ-like, NT Christians wouldn't murder, but American Pharisaical OT Christians love killing, bombing, hating, murdering, like the PP shooter, all for profit, and the PP shooter typified American Christian Bible-humpers.

One problem with you is you use an entirely different line of reasoning for Christians and Muslims. One Christian shooter typifies 50 million American Christians (I'm not even talking worldwide), two Muslim shooters tho are outliers.

It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, but whatever. You believed the same retarded shit yesterday that you believe today and will believe tomorrow.

[boutons_deux]

One problem with you is you use an entirely different line of reasoning for Christians and Muslims. One Christian shooter typifies 50 million American Christians (I'm not even talking worldwide), two Muslim shooters tho are outliers.

It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, but whatever. You believed the same retarded shit yesterday that you believe today and will believe tomorrow.

the problem with you is that You Lie

Christians disown Phelps Baptist, PP shooters, murderers of abortionists, Christian white supremacists shooters, but Christians absolutely won't allow Muslims to disown ISIS, Wahhabis, etc.

So as you Christians do to Muslims, I do to Christians: ALL of your are PP shooters, Phelps Baptists assholes.

[TheSanityAnnex]

One problem with you is you use an entirely different line of reasoning for Christians and Muslims. One Christian shooter typifies 50 million American Christians (I'm not even talking worldwide), two Muslim shooters tho are outliers.

It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, but whatever. You believed the same retarded shit yesterday that you believe today and will believe tomorrow.
http://i1311.photobucket.com/albums/s679/thefuzzylumpkins/salon_zpskqpxrxkz.png

[MultiTroll]

how many white Christian terrorists,......have white people turned in?
Here is an example from a post today:

After receiving a tip from a caller on December 17, police evacuated Celli's Richmond neighborhood

[TheSanityAnnex]

I'm sure RandomGuy or boutons will be back soon to tell us how great CAIR is

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Christ-like, NT Christians wouldn't murder, but American Pharisaical OT Christians love killing, bombing, hating, murdering, like the PP shooter, all for profit, and the PP shooter typified American Christian Bible-humpers.

b_d always splitting hairs when it comes to his demographic. Only a true christian. . . .

[boutons_deux]

I'm sure RandomGuy or boutons will be back soon to tell us how great CAIR is

You Lie

[boutons_deux]

b_d always splitting hairs when it comes to his demographic. Only a true christian. . . .

what's my demographic?

[DarrinS]

Meanwhile, in Europe, Muslim immigrants are being taught that rape is illegal. Who knew?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/norway-teaching-refugees-about-sexual-consent-a6780536.html

[boutons_deux]

Meanwhile, in Europe, Muslim immigrants are being taught that rape is illegal. Who knew?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/norway-teaching-refugees-about-sexual-consent-a6780536.html

In US, even Yalies chant "No means Yes. Yes means Anal". That "legitimate" rape is illegal in USA has really stopped raping. The Repug Rape Caucus is infamous for its pro-rape policies.

[Spurminator]

Meanwhile, in Europe, Muslim immigrants are being taught that rape is illegal. Who knew?l (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/norway-teaching-refugees-about-sexual-consent-a6780536.html)

So are American college students.

[rmt]

Most European countries have avoided such integration initiatives, fearing they may stigmatise refugees as potential rapists and fuel anti-immigration rhetoric. When the former head of the Oslo police’s violent crime department, Hanne Kristin Rohde, said in 2011 that there was a “clear statistical connection” between rapes and non-Western male migrants, she was met with hostility, she told The New York Times.

So being PC is more important that trying to educate them of what's illegal?