Robert Spencer is main speaker for upcoming Islamophobic campus tour
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) revealed today that the main speaker for
an upcoming series of "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week" lectures at
university campuses nationwide recently offered a keynote address at a
European gathering that included representatives of racist or "neo-Nazi"
political parties.
Author Robert Spencer, who is scheduled to appear beginning next week
at universities such as Brown, DePaul and Dartmouth, is regarded by
American Muslims as one of the nation's worst Islamophobes. His virulently
anti-Islam website promotes the idea that life for Muslims in the West
should be made so difficult that they will leave.
Spencer recently spoke at a so-called "Counterjihad Brussels 2007"
conference in Belgiumattended by those with links to far-right parties such
as Filip Dewinter of Vlaams Belang (Belgium) and Ted Ekeroth of
Sverigedemokraterna (Sweden). Both parties have been accused of either
having a racist platform, a neo-Nazi past or having links to neo-Nazis and
other racists.
Vlaams Belang is the successor to the Vlaams Blok party, which was
banned in 2004 for being an illegal racist political faction. (Vlaams
Belang's founders were Nazi collaborators in World War II.)
Of Sverigedemokraterna, the International Herald Tribune wrote:
"Sverigedemokraterna, or the Sweden Democrats, have been part of this
country's political landscape for almost 20 years, but they were considered
too close to the Nazi-inspired far-right to contend for large numbers of
votes." (7/7/06)
SEE: European Organizations Gather in Brusselsto Organize Resistance to
Islamization and Shariah (PLEASE NOTE: due to length of URL, please cut and
paste into browser)
http://www.vigilantfreedom.org/910blog/2007/10/20/european-organization
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gather-in-brussels-to-organize-resistance-to-islamization-and-shariah/
SEE: Court Rules Vlaams Blok is Racist
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3994867.stm
Robert Spencer's Jihad Watch Board Vice President "Hugh Fitzgerald"
wrote on that hate site: "Only one group, only one belief-system,
distinguishes itself by appearing incapable of fitting in. And that is
Muslims, and Islam ... if one really knew what Islam contained ... then how
could any decent person remain a Muslim?"
He also recommended that western nations be "Islam-proofed the way a
house is child-proofed," compared Muslims to Nazis and urged that they be
boycotted: "[I]t should not be hard to find ways to limit the spread or
practice of Islam. And if in addition to whatever local, state and federal
government officials do, private parties simply conduct their own boycott
of goods and services offered by Muslims, in the same way that they would
have refused to buy, in 1938, a German Voigtlander camera..."
Other speakers on the "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week" tour include Ann
Coulter, who refers to Muslims as "rag heads," and Daniel Pipes, a
supporter of the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II and of
the views of French racist Jean-Marie Le Pen.
"All those who value religious tolerance and diversity should be
concerned about the growing links between European racists and American
Islamophobes," said CAIR Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper.
Publicity for the tour got off to a bad start when it was revealed that
the poster promoting the campus events used a photograph that purportedly
showed a Muslim woman being stoned to death, but which was in fact an image
from a fictional movie.
CAIR, America's largest Islamic civil liberties group, has 33 offices
and chapters nationwide and in Canada. Its mission is to enhance the
understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties,
empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and
mutual understanding.
CAIR National Communications Director
Ibrahim Hooper
202-488-8787 or 202-744-7726
E-Mail: ihooper@cair.com
CAIR Communications Coordinator
Rabiah Ahmed
202-488-8787 or 202-439-1441
E-Mail: rahmed@cair.com
CAIR Communications Coordinator
Amina Rubin
202-488-8787 or 202-341-4171
E-Mail: arubin@cair.com
SOURCE The Council on American-Islamic Relations
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CONTACT:
Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR National Communications
Director, +1-202-488-8787, +1-202-744-7726, ihooper@cair.com, or
Rabiah Ahmed, CAIR Communications Coordinator, +1-202-488-8787,
+1-202-439-1441, rahmed@cair.com, or Amina Rubin, CAIR
Communications Coordinator, +1-202-488-8787, +1-202-341-4171,
arubin@cair.com, all of The Council on American-Islamic Relations
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