Has the candidates’ personal faith become too big an issue in the presidential race?
"Questions about that are very legitimate.... And it's also appropriate for me at certain points in the conversation to say, look, that's sort of a private matter between me and my Creator.... But I think the number one issue people should make [in the] selection of the President of the United States is, 'Will this person carry on in the Judeo Christian principled tradition that has made this nation the greatest experiment in the history of mankind?'"
It doesn't seem like a Muslim candidate would do very well, according to that standard.
"I admire the Islam. There's a lot of good principles in it. I think one of the great tragedies of the 21st century is that these forces of evil have perverted what's basically an honorable religion. But, no, I just have to say in all candor that since this nation was founded primarily on Christian principles.... personally, I prefer someone who I know who has a solid grounding in my faith. But that doesn't mean that I'm sure that someone who is Muslim would not make a good president. I don't say that we would rule out under any circumstances someone of a different faith. I just would--I just feel that that's an important part of our qualifications to lead."
The Daily News immediately ran to a "Muslim rights group" leader, Ibrahim Hooper, who characteristically "ripped the Arizona Republican's remarks."
The Missing Context, which the Daily News had no interest in googling, is that the Council on American-Islamic Relations, CAIR, is an unindicted co-conspirator in the terror-support trial of five officers of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development.IPT
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"to infiltrate the U.S. political system, change Middle East policy and gradually Islamize America. At the same time, they hatched a plot to fund overseas terrorists."
IBrahim Hooper is the go-to-guy for the Islamic front group CAIR. His job is to head fake the infidel. According to the Investor's Business Daily this is how the Islamic front groups head fake the infidel:
"During a secret meeting at a Philadelphia hotel, the charity's president and other prominent Muslim leaders were recorded allegedly plotting ways to disguise payments to Hamas terrorists as charity.
"I swear by Allah that war is deception," said Shukri Abu-Baker, now on trial in the federal terror-funding case. "We are fighting our enemy with a kind heart. . . . Deceive, camouflage, pretend that you're leaving while you're walking that way. Deceive your enemy."
Another participant at the Hamas summit was the founder of the Council on American Islamic-Relations, or CAIR, the largest Muslim civil-rights group in the country and an unindicted co-conspirator in the terror-funding case.
Adding to Abu-Baker's point, Omar Ahmad compared the deception needed to fool the infidels with the head fake in basketball. "He makes a player believe that he is doing this while he does something else," Ahmad said. "I agree with you. . . . Politics is a completion of war."
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In that role, Hooper is quick to condemn U.S. law enforcement investigations into alleged terrorist financiers and supporters in America as part of a general war on Islam or as the product of "the pro-Israeli lobby."[1]
In contrast, he bristles at questions concerning CAIR's attitude toward Palestinian terrorism, most notably by Hamas. Hooper calls such questions a "game" and declared, "We're not in the business of condemning."[2]
He has criticized references to "Islamist" terrorism in the 9/11 Commission report[3] and portrayed the word "Wahhabism" is "of those terms which is invented to scare people about Muslim bogeymen. It's just all part of the extremely powerful right wing and their agenda right now to demonize Saudi Arabia and demonize anything associated with Saudi Arabia."[4]
The list of similar dissembling and apologies for extremism is long. A series of recent appearances on MSNBC's "Tucker" program with Tucker Carlson exhibits it more clearly.
On July 26, 2007, Hooper justifies a lawsuit targeting unknown travelers who reported suspicious behavior among the "flying imams" that led to their removal from a 2006 US Airways flight. The "John Doe" passengers later were dropped from the case following a backlash of criticism.
On June 28, 2007, Hooper explains how surprisingly high poll numbers showing support for Osama bin Laden in parts of the Muslim world has nothing to do with bin Laden.
On May 23, 2007, Hooper tries to minimize a Pew survey showing more than 25 percent of American Muslims under age 30 justify suicide bombings and in which more than half of all respondents doubt Muslims were involved in the 9/11 attacks.IPT
