The White House Islamic envoy and a smelly whitewash
Someone is lying here about whether President Obama’s Islamic envoy defended jihadi professor Sami al-Arian. You be the judge. Via CNS:
A Washington-based publication said Tuesday that it incorrectly quoted President Barack Obama’s newly appointed envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference as saying in 2004 that an American who aided a Palestinian terrorist group was the victim of “politically motivated persecutions.”
The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA) was responding to queries about why an archived story quoting Rashad Hussain as making the controversial comments was altered years later.
WRMEA News Editor and Executive Director Delinda Hanley denied there was a “cover-up,” and implied that anti-Muslim discrimination was behind the fact this was now being raised.
The anti-Muslim card: Always the first and last refuse of grievance-mongering scoundrels. Mix in “blame the intern:”
CNSNews.com reported earlier that Hussain was quoted in a November 2004 WRMEA article as telling a Muslim students’ event in Chicago that the situation facing Sami al-Arian – a university professor then in custody and later convicted and jailed for conspiring to aid a Palestinian terrorist group – was “politically motivated” and a means “to squash dissent.”
It was also reported that the WRMEA article was amended – at least three years later, according to an Internet archive site – with the paragraphs quoting Hussain removed (see the original and revised pages).
Responding to queries first sent on Sunday, Hanley said Tuesday that the comments attributed to Hussain were actually made by another person attending the event in Chicago, Sami al-Arian’s daughter, Laila al-Arian.
Hanley said an “intern” who attended the event and wrote the story had made an “error.” When this was discovered, the quotes were deleted, she said.
Not so fast, grievance-monger:
“When I worked as a reporter at WRMEA, I understood how important it was to quote the right person, and accurately,” Shereen Kandil said. “I have never mixed my sources and wouldn’t have quoted Rashad Hussain if it came from Laila al-Arian.”
“If the editors from WRMEA felt they wanted to remove Rashad Hussain from the article, my assumption is that they did it for reasons other than what you’re saying,” she said. “They never once contacted me about an ‘error’ they claim I made.”
Kandil also said that at the time the story was published, she had completed her internship and had been a full-time WRMEA staff member for five months.
‘A simple error, no big cover-up’
Hanley conceded later on Tuesday that she may have made a mistake, but denied that there was a cover-up.
CNS contacted Ms. al-Arian, Hussain, and the State Department for comment. No response yet. But they did say this:
Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Philip Crowley, who is traveling with Hussain and Clinton, referred queries to the White House.
Crowley said Hussain had been “very well received” during the visits to Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
I’m sure he was.
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Glenn Beck SHOULD concentrate on things like this rather than Bush & Obama are the same crap that he continues.
Often in cases like this a video recording suddenly appears.
Outstanding work Michelle!!
The internet will save democracy somehow. These lying SOB’s cannot just do this, and be confident they will get away with it.
Now let’s see how long it takes for Obama to have this fellow resign *crickets chirping*
Obama is just knee-deep in Islamists and anti-semites, not just socialists, racists, and home-grown terrorist Maoists. Unsurprising as he has apparently been surrounded by similar scum all his life.
Now they are becoming even less reticent about their real politics, although the cover-up for Rashad Hussain seems to suggest that even the Obama crew understands that there is a limit to how much of this stuff they c an flaunt. They still need to lie at some point about how radical they are.
Someone has to tell these people to put the race card back in the deck.
A mistake that was discovered and rectified years later, hmmmm. Rewrite history much?
Pacifism,playing patty-cake, and enabling radical Islam, that is the ticket!
Can a courageous Congressman bring this issue to light and stop this train? (Senator Demint or Senator Brown, are you reading this?).
An oxymoron if I ever heard one. This Congress has as much balls as the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders.
The Obama administration has been tainted with corruption, favoritism, cronyism, and every other “ism” you can think of since day one. He’s lied not once but many times. Once a liar, always a liar.
Why else would he surround himself with these type of people if he didn’t feel the most comfortable around them?
I’d be the most surprised if he selected an advisor that was of sound character and a person of integrity an no signs of idealogical extremism.
Glenn Beck’s point that indeed the Politically Correct response to the islamist fifth column was part and parcel of President Bushes ingrained Progressiveness. The same is true with spending, debt and government programs. I am indeed sorry to say that President Bush, a thoroughly decent man, laid the ground work of much of Obamas shenanigans.
When would be Conservatives go half way with the Left they are never able to show where the Left goes half way with us–they always want more. Beck does indeed have a point that needs to be hammered home: Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, Obama seems to have been the Perfect Storm for our destruction.
The re-writting of Rashad Hussain’s quote very much sounds like the Ministry of Truth from 1984 doesn’t it?
We are on our own.
As Mr Savage always calls them…..
….The enemy within.
Elections matter.
Congrats! Michelle – the king maker. Waiting for New Air!
sbw999:
A girl can hope, can’t she, in this hopychangy year of Democratic decline.
P.S. Congratulations, Michelle!
Read what our founders thought of Islam. Jefferson had that Koran in his collection for purposes of knowing his enemy, not any kind of admiration for it.
Islam is incompatable with Western civilization. The Koran says so.
On February 17th, 2010 at 8:47 am, novaculus said:
Just how radical are Obama and his friends? Friends like the Marxist, unrepentent terrorist Bill Ayers who bombed the U.S. Capitol, gave his children Islamic names, and just so happened to have the following words printed in a famous newspaper on the same day and in the city that was bombed by hijacked airliners: “I don’t regret setting bombs. I think we didn’t do enough.”
How many more dots do you need before you “Connect the dots…”
On February 17th, 2010 at 10:24 am, Virginia Patriot said:
Absolutely! Yet Obama and Keith Ellison have misrepresented the meaning and significance of Jefferson’s Koran.
The Barbary Powers War lasted thirty-two years, involved six years of active overseas warfare against Muslim terrorists, and spanned four U. S. presidencies: those of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison.
Absolutely!
Glenn can’t be everywhere at once. Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs have this covered. Atlas Shrugs goes into detail of the evil of the OIC.
On February 17th, 2010 at 11:29 am, RTater said:
The OIC has 57 member states.
Hmmm… where have I heard “57 states” before?
Coincidence? Are there any coincidences?
Of course Saudi Arabia likes this guy, he is one of them in our gubmint.
An interesting Ghetto Party by u cal/san diego in honor of Black History Month shows a serious pushback on the majority after 50 years of affirmative action anti white male gubmint policies.
I heard a commercial seeking employees from a company, and it ended with “we are an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer.” Either one or the other is true, but they are mutually exclusive in concept, so they can’t possibly be equally true.
Not in politics.
OT – Hey, hey, if I was choosing sides I’d pick any and all of them over Tony Romo. Sorry, back to the discussion…
So many Hussains in this government – can we number them for clarity?
Oh no! Someone is accusing Americans of being anti-Muslim. The horror!
I admit it. I’m anti-Muslim. Actually, I’m anti-anything that is anti-American and I’m anti-anyone that supports or approves of killing Americans and destroying our way of life.
Hey you! Mr. or Mrs. Muslim in the United States. I am 100% against you if you are in any way, shape, or form against the United States. I’m against your sharia law. I’m against your fraud mohammad prophet that says it’s okay to murder in his name. I’m against your jihadist pals, imams, leaders, etc. Can I make it any more clear? And I don’t feel bad about that at all.
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Where is my offical gubmint envoy to my Christian group?
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Some religions are more equal than others. Or they have friends like Comrade Obama (PBUH) in high places.
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John Bibb
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