Oklahomans Against CAIR Hate are planning to protest a Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) documentary showing this Saturday. The film, “Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think,” is free to students.
Glenn Beck recently claimed CAIR has been funding terrorists overseas. Like many of Beck’s claims, this one was seemingly devoid of facts.
However, that will not stop Oklahomans Against CAIR Hate from protesting the documentary.
To us the protest seems similar to when Westboro Baptist Church protested the Jewish high holidays in the fall at the Hillel Jewish Student organization.
Oklahomans Against CAIR Hate may be a new organization, but they are using old tactics.
Like Westboro, they are coming from out of town and protesting a group they don’t understand or identify. They are just another disruptive group doing their best to make the Midwest appear rife with ignorance.
However, from all things bad there is an opportunity for good.
Last year after Westboro protested Hillel, the Jewish Student Association hosted Commonground—event where many student organizations came together in solidarity declaring their common goals.
This would be a great chance for the Muslim Student Association to turn something negative into something positive and to capitalize on the protest as well as using the support that generally follows.
Hopefully some good can come from this unfortunate situation.
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Bubba 2 years, 4 months ago
Dear zPoof,
I challenge you to sit'n'spin!
-Bubba
zTruth 2 years, 4 months ago
The links provided are either to court documents or CAIR's own words and statements such as CAIR's Op-Ed: Sami Al-Arian Must Be Freed.
"Are there any political prisoners in the United States?" Just to pose this question may startle many Americans but the fact is that indeed there are political prisoners in this country. Dr. Sami Al-Arian is one of them..."
Al Arian was convicted for his support of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a specially designated terrorist organization.
zTruth 2 years, 4 months ago
google on the web: CAIR's support for terrorists is alarming!
I challenge the editorial board to independently verify the facts presented and then report back.
zTruth 2 years, 4 months ago
Oh, that hurts my feelings.
Come on Editorial Board read CAIR's support for terrorists is alarming!
Then step up to the plate and tell me and everybody else if anything written there is not true.
zparks 2 years, 4 months ago
YO z, You got internet over there? Since when did the uneducated racists in this country learn about that? Here I thought you all were stuck in the 18th century and obsessed with tea-bagging the enemy, not fabricating and publishing irrational hate literature. My bad.
mike 2 years, 4 months ago
zTruth...since when is everything on Google trustworthy? I'm sure I could find a webpage arguing that George Bush was good for America. But it doesn't mean it's true.
impatient_with_ignorance 2 years, 4 months ago
This is a university. Someone is presenting a documentary. They are entitled to do so, and on a university campus absolute freedom of expression should be our fundamental value. At a university, there is no need to fear any idea. Weak, incorrect, and dishonest views will fall under their own weight when thoughtful people examine the logic and evidence.
It is of course deeply suspicious when somebody wants to silence or block the expression of ANY idea. What do they really fear? And why?
Take this opposition to freedom of speech off our campus; stand on the other side of Boyd and scream and shout all you want. Thoughtful OU students already understand that you and the REV Fred Phelps are of the same ilk.
If you want to express your own views about anything, you should be welcome and free to do so on our campus, but do NOT try to prevent anyone else from expressing their views. This perverts the sacred mission of all great universities.
If zTruth and this odd assortment of Glen Beck-inspired quasi-politicians would like to express their own views (rather than try to block the presentation of views they disagree with), perhaps they could start with their answers to these questions:
(A) what should the people of Gaza do with their lives in the situation that is imposed upon them against their will?
(B) In what ways is Gaza not a concentration camp imposed by force on an ethnic group?
(C) What right does Israel have to the Occupied Territories and East Jerusalem other than the right of conquest and occupation by military force?
(D) Why is it that opposition to revisionist Likud Zionism should be called anti-semitism? The original Zionism was left-wing Labor zionism, and actually quite secular. And many devout and serious Jews were/are anti-Zionist? And (just to state the obvious) Arabs are also semitic.
(E) Have you guys ever read a serious book? Have you ever read a book that presents both sides of any argument?