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Muslim leaders plan ‘Stand with the Prophet’ rally in Texas: Did they invite Obama?

Blaming “Islamophobes in America” for the bad rap that comes around whenever a group of Islamists worldwide commits some new blood-soaked atrocity, American Muslim leaders are gathering in Texas this weekend for a “Stand with the Prophet” conference.

Since the headlines will just be fading on the Islamist massacre in Paris on Wednesday – and who knows what stomach-turning activities might crop up before Saturday – it might be a tough sell to the uninitiated.

According to a Washington Free Beacon article by staff writer Adam Kredo, organizers of the “Stand With the Prophet in Honor and Respect” conference, planned for Saturday evening Saturday evening at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, say the media and “Islamophobes” are to blame for Islam’s reputation in the Western world.

The conference is apparently meant to change that.

And that might be possible, if it were true. But blaming Americans for having a low opinion of Islamist terror would be easier if virtually every one of them hadn’t grown up hearing a constant stream of revolting, savage stories about men murdering innocents while hollering “Allahu Akbar!”

It can make anyone jaundiced.

Terrorism expert and journalist Patrick Poole told the Free Beacon the conference is doomed to failure.

“What this conference makes clear is that the Muslim community needs to find better leadership. The jig is up on Islamic leaders who rush to the microphones to denounce terrorism, only to find they justify and support terrorism when speaking inside their mosques or conferences,” Poole said, according to the Free Beacon.

“The standard message that any terrorist yelling ‘Allahu Akbar’ has nothing to do with the Muslim community while any graffiti on a mosque is a sign of widespread ‘Islamophobia’ just isn’t selling any more,” he said.

“Rather than revising their talking points, they’re doubling down on their narrative and it will only serve to isolate the Muslim community even further.”

That’s a message the White House want to pick up on, too.

So. Your source got many facts wrong

Steven Emerson: the Fox news expert who thinks Birmingham is 'totally Muslim'

Age: definitely over 50, maybe even 60, but honestly, don’t quote me.

Appearance: frequent, apparently.

Occupation: “Internationally recognised expert on terrorism and national security”, but don’t ask me where I got that from.

Where did you get that from? His website, I think.

You don’t seem very certain. I’m careful. You can’t just make stuff up and then go spouting it in the mainstream media.

What has this Emerson been up to? He said that Birmingham was a totally Muslim city. On Fox News.

Hang on – are you sure that’s what he meant? What was the actual quote? He said: “In Britain, it’s not just no-go zones, there are actual cities like Birmingham that are totally Muslim where non-Muslims just simply don’t go in.”

Is that true? I just remember it being really hard to find parking. No, it’s not true. Muslims comprise about 22 per cent of Birmingham’s population.

I guess a guy’s entitled to make one enormous mistake on a scaremongering and frequently inaccurate TV news channel. He also said that in “parts of London, there are actual religious police that actually beat and actually wound seriously anyone who doesn’t dress according to religious Muslim attire.”

Of course. One hears of nothing else. He did acknowledge his error quickly. “I am issuing an apology and correction on my website immediately,” he wrote, “for having made this comment about the beautiful city of Birmingham.”

The what? He’s obviously never even been there! His words subsequently became the subject of much Twitter mockery under the hashtag #foxnewsfacts

Well he sounded sorry enough. Unfortunately, Mr Emerson has a reputation for making this sort of mistake. “Oklahoma City, I can tell you, is probably considered one of the largest centres of Islamic radical activity outside the Middle East,” he once said.

Sounds unlikely, but then again, I’ve never been. Unluckily for Emerson, he said it just after the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995, and just before anti-government radical Timothy McVeigh was arrested for it.

Do say: “I am not going to make any excuses. I made an inexcusable error.” – Steven Emerson

Don’t say: “Grossly inaccurate and completely unfair – there are so many, many reasons people don’t go to Birmingham.”

Your source was clearly wrong about facts. You refuse to admit your source was wrong about facts.

This is one of the reasons why Coldjoint is so ignorant.

John Boehner's concerned about jobs, security and energy

“It is inaccurate to say radical Islam is responsible for the mass murders in Paris”
Barack Obama.
Who I presume has now added the title of Grand Imam of the USA since he is such an expert on Islam, Qutb, the Ikwhan, and fundamental vs ‘other’ Islam
Of course with each day, and each event it gets harder to credit this behavior to DELUSIONAL AND ARROGANT NAIVETY.

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