EPSILON MAGAZINE. NOVEMBER ISSUE 2005. P 2

COMMENTARY

The ACLU and CAIR…Strange Bedfellows

By Arlene Peck, World Jewish News Agency Columnist

You know, for an intractable and barbaric group of people, who have made their dysfunctional ‘religion’ into an obsession we all have to take note of, Muslims have learned ‘the system’ pretty well. For a group of people, who say publicly that they disavow everything that ‘we’ stand for, they seem to be doing a good job of imitating us! Right down to using the system they hate to their own advantage. I have long been familiar with the expression ‘strange bedfellows’ and thought I knew what it was all about when Marilyn Monroe married Arthur Miller. Now I’m certain I know what “the enemy within” means, too. These days, when I look around for “the enemy within”, I only have to observe the actions of both CAIR and the ACLU. I find it somehow ironic, that CAIR, seemingly and allegedly the “legal arm” of HAMAS, the Islamic terrorist movement, or perhaps more broadly stated, the US-based eyes and ears of the worldwide Islamic terrorist effort, has turned into a Muslim version of our ACLU. I might not even be allowed to say what I just did, anymore, so strong is their grip on the throat of free speech. To my way of thinking, both organizations are out to destroy the American way of life. No doubt about it, the Muslim ‘refugees’ we opened our country to have learned to ‘work the system’ and they are proving to be highly adept at doing so, with the assistance of the ACLU, our government, our major corporations, a howling Katrina-wind of Muslim organizations and, not to overlook, the many sympathetic, politically correct followers every overturned rock exposes.

Under the guise of ‘freedom of speech’ and the lack of attention by many, including Congress, the FBI and many companies, in our desperate need to be politically correct, this cancer is spreading. Would you believe that workers in the benefits department at Dudley Council, West Midlands, were told to remove or cover up all pig-related items, including toys, porcelain figures, calendars and even a tissue box featuring Winnie the Pooh and Piglet. While we are in England, did you know an Ice-cream lid is now offensive!? And banned! My Lord…. Winnie the Pooh!  The Council of American-Islamic Relations has had a troubled history. They use intimidation and fear; they go for the jugular of anyone who challenges their activities. Their organization is riddled with staff members who have been indicted on, and/or convicted of, a variety of serious charges, mostly dealing with support of terrorist activities; CAIR has even been named as a defendant in a class action lawsuit stemming from the 9/11 bombings. Yet businesses who have dared to challenge them, such as Fox TV, Denny's K-Mart and others, have found themselves in our courts because of suits brought against them by CAIR. To date, Boeing, Bell, Disney (ABC), Doubletree Hotels, Los Angeles Times, MasterCard International, Burger King, Anheuser-Busch, Miller Brewing, and Seagram's, among others, have fallen into line by pulling ads found offensive by the Islamists. Two clothing businesses, Liz Claiborne and Warehouse One, withdrew or discontinued women's apparel that bore Arabic script. Nike had to build playgrounds for the Muslim community after an unintentional offence to their sensitivities. National Review had to defend itself because it ran an ad promoting a book on Mohamed; not that anything was untrue, but simply because CAIR sees parts of history as anti-Muslim rhetoric.

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