CAIR GOES AFTER WIESENTHAL CENTER

The radical Islamist and terror supporting group CAIR is going after the Simon Wiesenthal Center

Muslims Call on Wiesenthal Center to Repudiate Islamophobia.
ANAHEIM, Calif., Dec. 9 /PRNewswire/ — The Southern California office of Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) today called on the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles to repudiate Islamophobic comments blaming the faith of Islam for terror made at a recent conference sponsored by the center’s Canadian branch.

The comments were reportedly made by Bruce Tefft, a former CIA official, in a panel discussion on “jihad and global terrorism” co-sponsored by the Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Center at the University of Toronto. For the links between the two groups, see: http://www.wiesenthal.com/about/office_canada.cfm

Tefft reportedly made the following statements:
“Islamic terrorism is based on Islam as revealed through the Qu’ran.”
“To pretend that Islam has nothing to do with Sept. 11 is to willfully ignore the obvious and to forever misinterpret events.”
“There is no difference between Islam and Islamic fundamentalism, which is a totalitarian construct.”

In a statement issued today, CAIR-LA wrote: “We call on the Simon Wiesenthal Center to condemn these Islamophobic remarks in the strongest possible terms. Characterizing Islam and its revealed text as promoting terrorism can only lead to increased anti-Muslim prejudice and intolerance.

“As an organization that says it is committed to ‘fostering tolerance and understanding,’ the Simon Wiesenthal Center must immediately repudiate all Islamophobic rhetoric and hold its Canadian office accountable for failing to challenge the speaker’s hate-filled views.”

Here’s the article describing the remarks that pegged CAIR’s Seethe-O-Meter: Islamic terror based on Qu’ran: ex-CIA official.