CAIR tackles Little Green Footballs with FBI call

Here we go again with CAIR.  This time they are attacking Little Green Footballs for a few comments readers allegedly made after a post about a gigantic Islamic prayer tower being erected in St. Louis.  CAIR asked the FBI to investigate these comments and refers to Little Green Football as a hate site in their press release. 

Little Green Footballs is not a hate site - far from it.  Does it bring to its reader's attention the infiltration of our country by Islamists and the like?  Is it aware of the dangers of an Islamic caliphate like President Bush and even far-left socialist-leaning Barack Obama have said?  You bet. 

I would expect a group more aligned with the Islamic global world than America to issue such a one-sided hateful press release.  If I've learned anything about CAIR is that civil liberties is a one-way street with them.  There's plenty to know about the Council of American Islamic Relations and other questionable players of the Islamic world and their ultimate goals which I attempt to track here.  It's a work in progress but it paints a pretty unmistakable picture.

Perhaps we should cut them some slack today, though.  They may have lashed out because of the stinging defeat of their ACLU-backed domestic spy lawsuit thrown-out by the Supreme Court today.  Or that their tax-exempt status with the IRS is now a notch less than what it was  - possibly affecting their ability to lobby.  What am I thinking?  CAIR would have pounced, regardless.  Can you imagine these people reading through several thousand comments on LGF daily?  Geez.  They are trying to act like the sharia police of America.  Oh, I'm so scared - I'm shivering.

CAIR, do you spend any time tracking down and reporting hateful comments on jihadist websites from those who want to destroy America and its citizens? 

LGF

Update 2/19/08. 12 PM:  LGF wrote about the local one-sided sloppy coverage of CAIR's press release.  As I understand it, CAIR did not contact LGF about the comments they believed offensive prior to them contacting the FBI.  It figures.

You can watch the local CBS video of the story here.

The American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Tuesday asked the FBI to investigate the apparent threats that were posted on an anti-Muslim internet site. (They mean Little Green Footballs)

Why don't we all consider sending a polite e-mail to the local CBS affiliate KMOV-TV about the one-sidedness of their story:    news@kmov.com

CAIR is calling the comments threats directed against the mosque but in the comments I read they only mentioned the free standing 107 ft tall tower never the mosque, at all.  But CAIR, apparently, is trying to make this into something much bigger...

"The apparent threats come following a recent arson attack on a Tennessee mosque allegedly by three members of the "Christian Identity" movement and a fire-bomb attack on a Minnesota Muslim business."  CAIR said in their press release

Because of similar bias-related incidents nationwide, CAIR is urging Muslim individuals and institutions to review security procedures using advice contained in its "Muslim Community Safety Kit."  SEE: CAIR Muslim Community Safety Kit

Update 1/19/08, 2 PM:  LGF posted a series of e-mails received from reporter, Tim Townsend, of St. Louis Today who did an article on CAIR's press-release which prompted me to write the following e-mail to Arnie Robbins, Editor, arobbins@post-dispatch, of St. Louis Today.

Your reporter Tim Townsend did an article today that only told one side of a much, much bigger story.

When the subject of the report contacted your reporter, he got the following e-mail replies which are now posted on one of the largest read blogs in the world, Little Green Footballs.

Your paper and especially your reporter look very bad. His responses to Mr. Johnson are not worthy of a reporter.  It's unprofessional, like his article.

I'm appalled.

Sincerely,

B. L. Eave

zTruth

Comments

[Jim]

Let me add here that the reporter in question is friend of the local CAIR chapter which has been reported.

[Johnny]

Excellent point. Long live America and what it stands for.

[SenatorMark4]

There are three legs, to my mind, that must be supported in order for America to recognize our partners in freedom, those that deserve our support. One, the ability to vote out the tax man every two years. Two, freedom of speech. Three, freedeom of religion. Otherwise, their people deserve what they tolerate.