Monday, April 30, 2007
A Cautionary Tale of our Times
Continuing with my theme of making up for April’s delinquency, here’s another disturbing story.
A few weeks ago, The San Francisco Chronicle ran a bizarre, largely fictional anti-Israel screed written by Omar Ahmad. At the end of the article, the newspaper identified the author:
“Omar Ahmad is the founder and chairman emeritus of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). He is the CEO of a Silicon Valley technology company.”
This identification interested me for two reasons. First, it is disconcerting to see major media outlets running posts from CAIR. CAIR is a well-known apologist for Islamic terror, funded by foreign sources unfriendly to the U.S. and the West. Ample documentation explains who CAIR really is. Nevertheless, its leaders continue to dupe major media outlets into accepting it as a valid spokes-organization for the “mainstream” American Muslim community. It is precisely this sort of misidentification that makes life difficult for people who wish to be both good Americans and good Muslims; it alienates liberal Muslims by elevating the status of soft-spoken radicals.
It was the second point of interest that motivated this posting, however: I have a friend named Omar Ahmad who heads a Silicon Valley technology company.
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