I see the national office of the Council of American Islamic Relations weighed in on the controversy caused by their Houston Chapter after they threatened to go to the FBI over an incident at Friendswood Junior High between two students. Telling the school instead of going that route, they would be OK with just giving a presentation on Islam instead. The problem was no parental notification was given to the nearly 900 student who had to attend the mandatory 40 minute religious talk about Islam.
Below are a couple of videos of the interview with CAIR representative Ibrahim Hooper, a former employee of the Islamic Association of Palestine, which was started by Hamas operative Mousa Marzook and Sami al-Arian, and Pastor Bob Phillips of Houston on Al-Jazeera TV located in the Middle East. Al-Jazeera then posted the TV spot on YouTube. CAIR refers to the interview on their website as a discussion on Islamophobia.
Hooper even had the audacity to blame right-wing talk radio for all the fuss. Take note how Pastor Phillips kept correcting Hooper but then didn't force the issue when Hooper countered back.
At that point, Pastor Phillips said they had problems with CAIR, itself. Hooper said these kind of talking points are just false stuff. Take a little gander at the extensive history of CAIR and see all the factual information there is on CAIR. Apparently, CAIR has a problem owning up to the truth.
Hooper then referenced a recent conference in Saudi Arabia where many Muslim scholars attended as a great example of interfaith progress. One problem, though, non-Muslim were not invited to participate in the conference. A fact conveniently withheld by Hooper.
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