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Friday, May 16, 2008 --- 50 days ago http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ray-hanania/arab-and-muslim-extremist_b_102067.htm
| How many American Muslim, Arab and Palestinian organizations and leaders denounced the declaration this week by terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden that the attacks on the World Trade Center were intended to defend the rights of the Palestinian people?
How many rose up to denounce Bin Laden's attack against Israel, saying his al-Qaeda terrorist organization is driven by the justice of the Palestinian cause?
Not one. That is shameful. That is the problem facing the Arab, Palestinian and Muslim American community. That is the challenge that undermines the ability of the Palestinian community in the West to advocate for the justice of their cause. My community leaders claim to speak out against extremism, but they do so in "unprincipled convenience."
They denounce extremism and terrorism in broad strokes and avoid the challenge of speaking out against the extremists and terrorist enablers who are in their midst, who are invited to speak at their national conferences and who hold prominent positions on their boards of directors.
It is not enough to denounce extremism and terrorism, as many Arabs, Palestinians and Muslims have insisted they have and continue to do without also pointing a finger of accountability at themselves for failing to silence the extremist activists who freely roam through out their community.
The reality, though, is that it is a ruse. The Arab American leadership is trying to play it both ways. It w ... |
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