Bill O'Lielly Calls In The 1 & Only Member Of "American Islamic Forum For Democracy" To Back Him Up

[Turborama]

Run time: 05:20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=979ywU_YZEY   Posted on YouTube: October 16, 2010 By YouTube Member: PoliticsNewsNews Views on YouTube: 147   Posted on DU: October 16, 2010 By DU Member: Turborama Views on DU: 502

 
What a surprise! O'Lielly yet again calls in a Reich Wing Muslim who he knew would agree with him and back up his assertions!!

Guess how many members AIFD has................. 1!

Its founder, Zuhdi Jasser, the very guy O'Lielly and the rest of Faux always call in.

American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) a right-wing lobby group, founded in 2003 by M. Zuhdi Jasser.

AIFD claims to battle "Islamo-facsism" and to be "a leading voice for liberty-minded Muslims in America in the war on terror."

In the "members" section on its website, it lists only one individual -- its founder, Zuhdi Jasser, who is also "one of the founding members" of CIP, by his own account. The emergence of groups such as AIFD, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported in January 2006, has http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Daniel_Pipes">Daniel Pipes' broad endorsement. "I see the emergence of these new groups as vital to present an alternative view to Muslims," he said.

The group seems to have no support at all beyond right wing publications such as National Review Online, or the New York Sun. AIFD's raison d'etre seems to be the targetting of mainstream Muslim organizations, such as CAIR. In his critique of CAIR, Zuhdi Jasser writes:

We need to create organizations — high-profile, well-funded national organizations and think tanks — which are not afraid to identify al Qaeda, Hamas, and Hezbollah by name, and by their mission as the enemies of America.

The conflation of al Qaeda, Hamas and Hezbollah is interesting, as two of them have nothing to do with the United States; their adversary is only Israel.

More details and references: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Islamic_Forum_for_Democracy

New talking point to watch out for, if what O'Lielly said is anything to go by, Park 51 Muslim community center is now being referred to as the "World Trade Center Mosque" by Faux et al...

BTW He mentions the "problems" with living in a "Muslim majority country" at 2:16. I live in the world's largest "Muslim majority country" and I think "the Ladies on the View" would have a great time here.

[rpannier]

1. Not surprising

They call on the few scientists they can find that dispute evolution and global warming