Linda Sarsour, CAIR’s top gun Nihad Awad, and Imam
Suleiman among those arrested on Capitol Hill this week
Yesterday we learned that Muslim leaders who had once said they would open their mosques to people of all faiths escaping ICE, have changed their minds, by Ann Corcoran on March 7, 2018
Yesterday we learned that Muslim leaders who had once said they would open their mosques to people of all faiths escaping ICE, have changed their minds, by Ann Corcoran on March 7, 2018
This
story isn’t something I would normally bother posting (it is a ho-hum story),
but since I was just introduced, via NPR, to Dallas Imam Omar Suleiman yesterday I thought it was an
interesting coincidence.
I described how Suleiman so skillfully deflected and snowed the NPR
reporter. He shifted the blame to Trump and his merry band of haters when I
suspect their change of heart had more to do with realizing that having a bunch
of infidels living in their mosques could be problematic.
But
when I looked more deeply into the demonstration story this morning, I saw that one of the nine federally funded refugee
resettlement contractors—CHURCH WORLD SERVICE—was an organizer of the media
stunt making this
story very much of interest to RRW because taxpayers fund CWS to the tune of
$62 million a year!
Now here is Al-Jazeera on the demonstration: Muslim-American leaders have been arrested at the US Capitol while urging Congress
to stand against President Donald Trump’s effort to end a programme that
protects certain young immigrants.
Omar Suleiman,
Dawud Walid, Mujahid Fletcher, Talib Shareef and Nihad Awad of the Council on American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR),
Zahra Billoo and Linda
Sarsour advocated immigration reform before
getting arrested on Monday.
The
protesters participated in an act of civil disobedience at the office of the
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, demanding that he meet them
to hear their concerns. Muslim-American leaders have been arrested at the US
Capitol while urging Congress to stand against President Donald Trump’s effort
to end a program that protects certain young immigrants.
Quoting
Malcolm X, Talib Shareef of the Muslim Alliance of North America said:
“Almighty Allah has told us to stand for justice. We are not weak in faith and
we are here for a mobilization. “We stand here in the spirit of Malcolm X with
the people who are affected by these policies.”
Imam
Suleiman, who I read about yesterday, depicts himself as a moderate Imam deeply
involved in the Dallas interfaith community. But, make no mistake—it is
“white supremacy” he sees as the root of all evil (and so must Church World
Service!).
“This is creating real fear,” Suleiman said, adding that the imams are
fighting white supremacy because Islamophobia, racism and hostility against
immigrants all stem from the same roots.
CHURCH WORLD SERVICE Church World Service was
clearly an instigator of this comical demonstration. It should drive all of you crazy to know that
according to a recent accounting, they received 71% of their income from US
taxpayers—that amounted to about $62 million for the one year! They can have free speech all they want, just
not with our money! (Where is
Congress? Where is Paul Ryan allowing our money to be used for stunts like
this?)
Recently
they protested outside the White House as well, see here.
And, this is what I said in that post: If you belong to any of these churches (below)
know that Church World Service was representing you outside the White House in
January and this week at the Capitol.
Member Communions
Here
are the churches they represent:
African
Methodist Episcopal Church
Armenian
Church of America (including Diocese of California)
International
Council of Community Churches
Patriarchal
Parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in the U.S.A.
Serbian
Orthodox Church in the U.S.A. and Canada
Syrian
Orthodox Church of Antioch
Norb
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