NEWSWEEK SHILLS FOR RADICAL ISLAM

Newsweek Shills for Radical Islam (Again) (LGF)
Newsweek has become the public relations arm for radical Islam. Case in point, their deceptive and ridiculous article on the Hamas funding trial in Dallas: Trial Against U.S. Muslim Charity Begins.

In their latest whitewash piece, they begin with a glowing portrait of the daughter of Ghassan Elashi (she wants to “shatter stereotypes”) and then proceed to do everything possible to cast doubt on the government’s case against the Holy Land Foundation.

And they refer to radical Islamic front groups CAIR, ISNA, and the North American Islamic Trust as “well-respected mainstream organizations.”

Many Muslims have criticized the way the Feds have pursued their case. Several well-respected national Muslim American organizations are included in a list of 300 “unindicted co-conspirators.” Among them: the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim advocacy group; the Islamic Society of North America, the country’s largest Muslim educational source, and the North American Islamic Trust, the largest holding company of deeds to hundreds of mosques, Islamic centers and schools in the United States. “We are not violent, we condemn terror in every shape or fashion,” says Khalil Meek, vice president of CAIR and president of the Muslim Legal Fund of America. “They are trying to marginalize the Muslim voice. These are mainstream, moderate, productive American Muslim institutions that are being effectively muted or stigmatized.” The government hasn’t explained why these groups are listed as co-conspirators, but it may be because Elashi also opened the Texas chapter of CAIR. Another theory is that prosecutors want to be able to include comments from leaders of those organizations without it being hearsay.

And in case you missed the opening of the article, they close with another glowing portrait of Elashi’s daughter.

No doubt such allegations incense Elashi’s daughter, Noor. In 2005, she won a prize at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference for her essay about her father’s arrest. In it, she described the early-morning pounding on the door, how her father was taken away, how he shuffled into court in an orange jumpsuit and chains. “I know my father is innocent, and that his only crimes were helping feed Palestinian orphans and being an Arab-American,” she wrote.