Rich Yiddele Bloomers the midget Bloomberg has iftar dinner invites CAIR members

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By Evan Gahr

   
   
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Mayor Mike's Muslim mates are no moderates


http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Guess who came to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Iftar dinner to mark the end of the Muslim holiday Ramadan.

It certainly was not Sidney Poitier.

Nobody else seems to have noticed that one of Bloomberg's guests at the dinner, where he once again slimed opponents of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero as bigots, was Zead Ramadan, board president of the New York office of the Council on American Islamic relations. And two other CAIR New York officials were on the official guest list.

Yes,that CAIR.

The organization, which terrorism expert Steve Emerson has called a "radical fundamentalist front group for Hamas."

The same CAIR that the feds named as an unindicted co-conspirator in its 2007 indictment of a Muslim charity for funneling money to Hamas.

The charity, the Holy Land Foundation, was found guilty. And the judge in the case denied CAIR's request to be taken off the list of co-conspirators.

And it's the same CAIR which Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has said, is an organization "we know has ties to terrorism."

Jewish Action Alliance founder Beth Gilinsky, who is spearheading opposition to the Islamic center, tells JewishWorldReview.com she's troubled Bloomberg would invite someone from an organization the federal government tied to terrorism. "He should know better."

But does Bloomberg know? Or does he care?

Does he vet his guests? It only takes a simple Google search to read detailed accounts of CAIR's track record. That would seem the prudent thing to do given that Steve Emerson has extensively documented the cozy relationship many Muslim-American organizations have to radical Islam.

Indeed, the dinner guest list includes other members of organizations with a similar sensibility to CAIR.

 

For example, Khaled Lamada of the Muslim American Society. According to Emerson the group has strong ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, which "has provided the ideological underpinnings for almost all modern Sunni Islamic terrorist groups."

Another definitely not Kosher Muslim American group invited to chow down with Bloomberg was the Muslim Public Affairs Council, which Emerson says has "followed a consistent pattern of defending designated terrorist organizations and their supporters, opposing U.S. counter terrorism efforts and spouting anti-Semitic rhetoric."

But ignorance is bliss. It makes a certain amount of perverse sense that Bloomberg would ignore or overlook the track record of CAIR and it's fellow travelers. He is determined to pretend that Islam has nothing to do with Islamic terrorism.

That's a neat trick. Acting that way allows him to slime opponents of the planned Islamic Center near Ground Zero as just a bunch of irrational bigots.

At his Iftar dinner Bloomberg said "Islam did not attack the World Trade Center --- Al-Qaeda did."

Islam didn't attack us on 9/11;Al Qaeda did?

Hello? Al-Qaeda is a fanatical Muslim organization. As JWR columnist Charles Krauthammer pointed out last month the 911 hijackers were not "freelance rogues."

"They were the leading, and most successful, edge of a worldwide movement of radical Islamists with cells in every continent, with worldwide financial and theological support, with a massive media and propaganda arm, and with an archipelago of local sympathizers, as in northwestern Pakistan, who protect and guard them."

CAIR strenuously denies any links to Hamas and says it does not support terrorism. But CAIR has refused to call Hamas a terrorist organization.

In any event, it's an article of faith in liberal precincts and with Bloomberg that Muslims are victims of bigotry. But who is really holding Muslim to a different standard than anyone else?

Suppose a Christian Right group was tied to violent extremists? It's a safe bet its representative wouldn't be invited by Bloomberg to celebrate the end of Easter.

And, of course, the same kinds of people who claim it's anti-Muslim bigotry to oppose the Islamic Center near Ground Zero are not shy about savaging Fox News host Glenn Beck, a person of deep religious faith, for holding his rally on the same day and place where Martin Luther King gave his famous "I have a dream" speech in 1963.

The Islamic Center proponents, far from being victimized, have generally not been subject to close media scrutiny. Time Magazine's cover story asking if the US is Islamophobic which focused on the mosque controversy. But the writer deliberately omitted from its profile of the Imam behind the Mosque the troubling fact that he refused to call Hamas a terrorist organization.

And here's something else the media should scrutinize.

It looks like CAIR and Daisy Khan, wife of the Imam behind the Islamic Center, are closely tied. Khan's group, the American Society for Muslim Advancement and CAIR's New York are both located at 475 Riverside Drive, according to their websites. CAIR at Suite 244; Khan's group 248. The exchange for both groups' phone numbers is 870.

CAIR New York offficials did not respond to requests for comment.