Our friends over at CAIR are at it again, this time stepping way outside to try and take a hand in the membership of a Holocaust Council.
From the CAIR press release:
An Islamic civil rights group wants a columnist who criticized Rep.-elect Keith Ellison’s decision to use the Quran during his ceremonial swearing-in next month removed from the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations said Monday that the comments by Dennis Prager, a columnist and conservative talk radio host, displayed an intolerance toward Islam that makes him an inappropriate person to serve on the memorial council.
An Islamic organization even asking such takes, in my opinion some guts. Not much brains, but defiantly some guts. Of course, this begs several questions.
Dennis Prager spoke out against the idea of allowing a congressmen take his oath on the Quran. Specifically, Prager said:
“Insofar as a member of Congress taking an oath to serve America and uphold its values is concerned, America is interested in only one book, the Bible.”
While I can see why CAIR may not like that statement, there is no dispute that Prager has a right to say it and to speak his opinion without reprocusion. This is, after all, America. There is also the fact that Pager is right - the oath of office to the American people should be taken in a manner in which we Americans feel appropriate.
Why dose CAIR think they, an Islamic organization with a doctrine which is largely anti-semitic, have any voice who can or cannot serve on a Holocaust Council?
CAIRs reasoning?
“No one who holds such bigoted, intolerant and divisive views should be in a policy-making position at a taxpayer-funded institution that seeks to educate Americans about the destructive impact hatred has had, and continues to have, on every society,” CAIR’s executive director, Nihad Awad, wrote in a letter to the council’s chairman, Fred Zeidman.
Saying that a congressmen cannot deviate from 230 years of tradition, and take an oath of office as a US Congressmen on a book other than the Bible is not bigoted, intolerant, nor divisive. The words are, typically, an overreaction to a just position shared, I believe, by the majority of Americans. If this congressmen finds it so distasteful to swear his oath of office on the Bible, then he should be looking for another job.
CAIR is not the only group coming down hard on Mr. Prager for his comments. Joining care are the likes of the Anti-Defamation League. All seem bent on calling his words “Anti-American”, and I have to ask you, what is more American than standing up for our ideals, belief, and tradition.
