Prominent Moslem organizations in this country insist vehemently that they have no sympathy for Islamofascism. Any such assertions are arrant slander, we are assured, and illustrate the persecution that Moslems endure in America.
If that is so, why are top officials of those same organizations contributing heavily to Cynthia McKinney's campaign to regain the House seat that she lost two years ago? In case you've forgotten, she accused President Bush of concealing advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks, and she and her father denounced the War on Terror as the product of a Jewish conspiracy. Not the sort of candidate to be embraced by anyone who doesn't like al-Qa'eda. One would expect pro-American Moslems to steer particularly wide of conspiracy paranoia, just as conservatives try to avoid association with skinheads.
Yet, as Daniel Pipes reports, campaign contribution reports show that candidate McKinney has gotten financial support from the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and from officers of the Arab American Institute, the Committee on American-Islamic Relations, the American Muslim Council, the Arab-American Civic Organization, the Islamic Association for Palestine, the Islamic Council of New Jersey, the Islamic Center of Long Island, the Islamic Academy of Florida, the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago and other groups. Few of these contributors live in or near Georgia, so it is fair to assume that their donations are motivated by special feelings of ideological compatibility.
The great majority of American Moslems are not, I am confident, sympathetic to Miss McKinney's extremist world view. Unhappily, radicals have long placed a high priority on capturing the leadership of "official" ethnic and religious bodies, in order to gain leverage for their subversive schemes. The rest of us, yet more unhappily, unconsciously collaborate by treating outfits like CAIR as representative of the Moslem community rather than as the fascistic cells that they truly are.
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