CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY NIXES
'ANTI-ISLAM' EVENT FOR TERROR-TIED GROUP, Muslims
complained GOP candidate's summit 'who's who of Islamophobes' by Art Moore,
1/12/18 WND
An evangelical university in
Tennessee canceled a summit on Islam hosted by a Republican candidate for
governor in response to criticism that the speakers were anti-Muslim.
The Homeland Security Summit,
scheduled for Jan. 25 at Trevecca Nazarene University, was to feature speakers
such as political-Islam scholar Bill French (a.k.a. Bill Warner), former DHS
and NYPD counter-terrorism trainer Cathy Hinners and former FBI
counter-terrorism agent John Guandolo.
Ibrahim Hooper, the chief spokesman
for the Council on American-Islamic Relations – a Washington, D.C.-based group
designated by an Arab Gulf state as a terrorist organization – condemned the
speakers as a “who’s who of Islamophobes,” according to The Tennessean
newspaper in Nashville.
“The themes are always the same –
Muslims are about to take over the country and install Shariah
in place of the Constitution, and mosques are hotbeds of extremism,” Hooper
said.
However, CAIR was a spin-off of a
group that, according to FBI wiretap evidence, was a front for the Muslim
Brotherhood. CAIR itself was designated by the Department of Justice as an
unindicted co-conspirator in a plot to fund Hamas. CAIR also was designated
by the
United Arab Emirates as a terrorist organization. The group has sued a co-author of a WND Books
exposé, “Muslim
Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That’s Conspiring to Islamize America,” which documented the group’s ties to the Muslim
Brotherhood.
French, The Tennessean reported,
tweeted Thursday that the summit, hosted by former state senator Mae Beavers,
“has now been cancelled thanks to the stealthy work” of CAIR and the Southern
Poverty Law Center.
Trevecca spokeswoman Mandy Crow told
the Nashville paper the event appears to have an agenda beyond a political
campaign. Crow argued that agenda would distract from the university’s
commitment to community building, education and
support of diverse enrollment.
Beavers, a graduate of Trevecca and
one of five major Republicans and two Democrats running for governor, said
Trevecca “abandoned biblical principles in order embrace political correctness.”
The gubernatorial candidate told
the Tennessee Star the “best indication that
the Homeland Security Summit we were hosting is both necessary and important
is the fact that CAIR doesn’t like it.”
“CAIR consistently opposes efforts
to improve our security and protect our communities from the terror attacks
that are the weapon of choice of radical political Islam,” she said.
“Being the target of criticism from
CAIR is a badge of honor, particularly when they never find any basis to
criticize any other Republican candidates for governor who all apparently meet
with the approval of CAIR,” said Beavers.
WND
reported in 2011 a conference in Nashville on
countering the rise of Shariah in the United States was forced to find a new
venue after threats of violence from Muslims caused the host hotel to cancel.
Comments
State
legislatures need to ban Sharia law in their states.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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