Vets
appalled at 'Muslim Brotherhood float', City
allows CAIR entry in Veterans Day parade, by Leo Hohmann, 10/30/15, WND
Oklahoma’s Muslim community is breaking new ground. For the
first time, they will have a float in the Veterans Day Parade in downtown
Tulsa, and a local newspaper reports that not all parade participants are happy
about it. Namely, U.S. military veterans.
“It’s something we have been wanting
to do for years,” Adam Soltani, executive director of the Oklahoma Chapter of
the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told
the Tulsa World.
Soltani said the float is sponsored by CAIR-Oklahoma but
will “represent the Oklahoma Muslim community, which is a very diverse
community of people from all walks of life, immigrants, indigenous people.”
Like in most states, the vast majority of Muslims in Oklahoma
are immigrants, not “indigenous people,” say those who follow the U.S.
immigration and refugee trends.
Because of the U.S. refugee resettlement program, the Muslim
communities are no longer concentrated just in large cities like New York, Los
Angeles, Boston and Chicago. These communities are increasingly being “seeded”
by the U.S. State Department in smaller communities in middle America such as
Twin Falls, Idaho; Dodge City, Kansas; Spartanburg, South Carolina; Bowling
Green, Kentucky; and Tulsa, Oklahoma.
According to U.S. government databases, 2,483 refugees from
Muslim countries have been sent from United Nations camps directly to Oklahoma
since January 2002, the earliest date for which data is available online. This
also does not include any Muslim immigrants who have entered the U.S. on work
or student visas, which likely would encompass several thousand more at major
Oklahoma universities.
CAIR does its best to project an image of American Muslims
being well integrated and loyal Americans.
“We support all veterans, and we support our country, so I
don’t see why anyone should have any concerns about CAIR being involved (in the
Veterans Day parade),” Soltani told the World.
“We are an American Muslim organization, and American
Muslims support their government, support their country and definitely support
our troops who are working to defend our constitutional rights and our
freedoms,” he added.
Soltani said many U.S. Muslims have served in the armed
forces and that two veterans are on the CAIR-Oklahoma board.
Veterans push back
But Larry Williamson, a member of the Tulsa 912 Project, a
conservative organization, told the World it is “atrocious” to ask veterans to
“march alongside people who represent our enemies in a current war.”
“I believe all American entrants who the parade is intended
to honor should be made aware as soon as possible that they are being asked to
share their honor with the Muslim Brotherhood, sworn enemy of the United States
and our ally Israel and an enemy in our current war on the Islamic jihad in
which American soldiers are fighting and dying,” he said in a letter to the
Tulsa World.
Making matters worse for Williamson, he told the World his
Tulsa 912 Project float is scheduled to be in line right next to the CAIR float
in the parade.
“I’m not a spokesman for Tulsa 912, but I won’t march
alongside the Muslim Brotherhood,” he told the newspaper.
Williams refers to CAIR as the “Muslim Brotherhood” because
of documents filed in court records from the Holy Land Foundation trial naming
CAIR as a Brotherhood front group.
The ‘Muslim Mafia’
Williamson told the World the FBI has identified CAIR as an
arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America. CAIR has consistently stated it has
no connections with any terrorist groups yet the United Arab Emirates and other
Arab countries have included it on their terrorist watch-list and banned its
members from entering their nations.
As WND
has reported, 14 former CAIR officials have been
investigated or charged in cases involving terrorist activity. See WND’s Rogue’s Gallery of terror-tied CAIR
officials.
As former FBI agent Mike Rolf acknowledges in his book,
“Muslim Mafia,” “CAIR has had a number of people in positions of power within
the organization that have been directly connected to terrorism and have either
been prosecuted or thrown out of the country.”
According to another FBI veteran familiar with recent and
ongoing cases involving CAIR officials, “Their offices have been a turnstile
for terrorists and their supporters.”
Patsy Varnell, vice president of the Tulsa Veterans Day
Parade Association, confirmed to the World that CAIR-Oklahoma’s application to
be in the parade has been approved. “The parade is nonreligious,” she said. “We
feel that we are exercising the rights established by the Constitution of
freedom of speech, and this group has the right to participate. We do not want
any problems, but we have to be fair to everybody,” Varnell said.
Ronda Vuillemont-Smith, president and founder of the Tulsa
912 Project, said the group is not asking that CAIR be removed from the parade
but that parade organizers “be honest and open and let people know that they
are in.”
“My concern is that the parade committee was trying to keep
this information out of the public eye,” she said.
http://www.wnd.com/2015/10/vets-appalled-at-muslim-brotherhood-float/
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