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Today's Photoshopping Adventure
Topic Started: Aug 12 2006, 04:18 AM (195 Views)
George K
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Finally
Comes from CAIR (the Council on American Islamic Relations).
(just had a random thought - isn't it interesting that a religion has such an orgainization? Do the Jews (as a religion), the Catholics, Hindus, Lutherans have the need for such an outfit?)

Anyhow last September, CAIR held a news briefing outside Congress to denounce terrorism.
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Lets zoom in:
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A bit more:
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Here's the original:

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Also look at the folks in the foreground. It's worth a thousand, isn't it?
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Mikhailoh
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
Jeezel. Brings to mind the old adage 'Believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see."
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Nunatax
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George K
Aug 12 2006, 04:18 AM
A bit more:
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Priceless :lol2:
You seem somewhat familiar. Have I threatened you before?
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Mikhailoh
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
Kinda looks like Donald Sutherland's face
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Axtremus
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HOLY CARP!!!
Imagine an art museum publishing a picture of the statue of David with a fig leaf photoshopped in. :D

GeorgeK
 
(...isn't it interesting that a religion has such an orgainization?...)
Yes, very interesting, but also necessary (remember gryphon used to ask "where's the outrage from the Muslims" whenever there's a terrorism incident?), and not unique. Here in my neck of the woods, the "WBZ News Radio 1030" station would broadcast messages many times a day that end with something like this: "This message was brought to you by the American Jewish Committee."

I guess both groups feel persecuted. The Muslims feel they are being persecuted since 9/11, the Jews feel they are being persecuted since, well, forever. Hence the need for "organized PR" in this land of the free. :shrug:
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Luke's Dad
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I find it interesting that CAIR has been much more vocal in denouncing Bush for using the term Islamo-Fascism than they have been in denouncing those killing innocent people in the name of Islam.
The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
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AlbertaCrude
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CAIR is active here under the name CAIR-CAN. It has its own website and publications as in the US: http://www.caircan.ca/aboutus.php

It is a lobby group not unlike B'nai Brith or Federation of Hindu Temples. I suspect that most Christian denominations use the offices of their respective synods, councils, diocese etc. to perform the same PR/lobby/advocate function.
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George K
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I'm aware of B'nai Brith and other organizations like that. Do you think that they have the political clout that CAIR seems to have? Don't know, just asking.
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AlbertaCrude
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In Canada B'nai Brith has a lot of political clout. So do the Sikh and Hindu organizations.
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Mark
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That's sad.

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JBryan
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CAIR is just the Muslim equivalent to the ADL except with a few more problems:

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    In December, 2001, Rabih Haddad, a CAIR fundraiser, was charged and deported from the United States because he was the executive director and co-founder of Global Relief Foundation, a terrorist front organization that for financing Al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.

    On December 18, 2002, Ghassan Elashi, a founding board member of CAIR-Texas and a co-founder of the Holy Land Foundation, was arrested by the FBI on charges of having ties with front groups that fund Islamic terrorism. In 2005, Elashi and two of his brothers were convicted on 21 counts of federal terrorism charges related to funding Hamas and the illegal export of electronics equipment to U.S. State Department-designated state sponsors of terrorism.

    According to the Washington Times, In January 2003, CAIR's director of community relations and founder of the Islamic Assembly of North America, Bassem Khafagi, was arrested by the FBI on charges of having ties to front groups that fund Islamist terrorism. Khafagi pleaded guilty to charges of visa and bank fraud, and agreed to be deported to Egypt.

    The Washington Times however went on to point out that CAIR could not be categorically held responsible for the independent actions of one of its members, and commended it for its condemnation of extremism and terrorism, while at the same time suggesting that "unsettling connections between certain CAIR officials and extremist groups" continued to exist and that CAIR's defense of high-ranking members convicted of terrorism amounted to a "dishonest campaign to create the sense of a widespread inquisition against Muslims and Arabs in America that simply doesn't exist."

    In August 2003, CAIR's former civil-rights coordinator, Randall "Ismail" Royer, along with ten other men known as the "Virginia jihad group" were indicted on 41 counts, including training and participating in jihad activities overseas. The group had connections with Lashkar-e-Taiba and five of them possessed AK-47-style rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. Four of the men plead guilty while the other seven were charged with 32 new counts, including conspiring to provide material support to al Qaeda and to the Taliban. He pleaded guilty and is now serving 20 years in federal prison.
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AlbertaCrude
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CAIR and its affiliate CAIR-CAN should then be liquidated.

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