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Minnesota: Hamas-linked CAIR succeeds in pushing St. Paul City Council to declare government of India “Islamophobic”

MAY 25, 2020 4:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER40 COMMENTS

It is extremely unlikely that any member of the St. Paul City Council knows or cares that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), erroneously referred to in the article below as the Council on Islamic Relations, is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR officials have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim “Honest Ibe” Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements about how Islamic law should be imposed in the U.S. (Ahmad denies this, but the original reporter stands by her story.) CAIR chapters frequently distribute pamphlets telling Muslims not to cooperate with law enforcement. CAIR has opposed virtually every anti-terror measure that has been proposed or implemented and has been declared a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates. CAIR’s Hussam Ayloush in 2017 called for the overthrow of the U.S. government. CAIR’s national outreach manager is an open supporter of Hamas.

St. Paul City Council is also here accepting as accurate the highly tendentious and propagandistic version of events in Kashmir that Hamas-linked CAIR and its allies fed them. Did they bother to consider seriously the concerns of the Hindu groups who protested? Almost certainly not. To have done so would have been “Islamophobic.”

“St. Paul City Council approves measure declaring Indian government Islamophobic,” by Joey Peters, Sahan Journal, May 20, 2020 (thanks to Henry):

After delaying a vote for two weeks, the St. Paul City Council approved a measure denouncing India’s prime minister and ruling political party for its “Islamophobic” and “exclusionary ideology.”

While gaining support from organizations like the Minnesota chapter of the Council on Islamic Relations [sic], World Without Genocide at Mitchell Hamline School of Law and Amnesty International, the measure drew opposition from groups like the Hindu American Foundation, the India Association of Minnesota and the Alliance for Persecuted Peoples Worldwide.

The symbolic resolution passed on a 5-0 vote with Council President Amy Brendmoen and Council Member Chris Tolbert abstaining. Both cited the complex nature of political affairs in India and the amount of concern they heard from members of the local Indian American community, but also the council’s “shared values” that oppose discrimination against religious minorities.

“I am not ready to vote for this today, but I certainly don’t want to vote against it,” Brendmoen said.

Tolbert said his office had received 1,400 emails on the matter and that he didn’t have enough time to absorb the issue and talk to enough people to hear their concerns. At the same time, he said he didn’t want to downplay an issue of international human rights….