Joe Kaufman
Focus on Western Islamism, Feb. 26, 2024
“All they can do is throw money at things,” he said. “Bribing, bribing, bribing … Who do they have on their side? It’s anyone they have been able to purchase. It’s elected officials. It’s media outlets. Show me where the Palestinian savagery is. Show me! You can’t show me,” Fahmy concluded.”
An embattled Muslim nonprofit that increasingly finds itself isolated and pushed out of social and political circles for its extremist views has found a welcoming reception in the Philadelphia suburb of Springfield Township, Pennsylvania. On March 2, the Springfield Country Club will play host to the Philadelphia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a group steeped in antisemitism that is accused of harboring links to Hamas, the terrorist organization that carried out the October 7 massacre in Israel.
True to form, CAIR-Philadelphia’s 17th annual banquet, titled, “Safe, Seen, and Valued: CAIR-Philadelphia’s Communal Vision 2024,” will feature keynote speeches from a radical cleric who has demonized Jews and repeated Hamas propaganda. Even the comic relief, a Muslim comedian known to frequent the Islamist speaking circuit, has made genocidal threats to so-called Palestine’s “oppressors.”
Democratic Rep. Summer Lee (PA), a member of the progressive House “squad,” will deliver “special remarks” at CAIR’s fundraiser, despite taking heat from her Jewish constituents for failing to support policies that allow Israel “to protect its citizens against Hamas.” Her re-election bid is being financed by some of Hamas’s most prolific defenders in the United States, including CAIR’s top leader.
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