The Muslim Brotherhood has taken offense at the man Sen. Ted Cruz (now a presidential candidate) has chosen as his Tennessee campaign chairman. Based on CAIR’s objections, I’ve taken a real liking to the guy.
The following press release from “the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization” and Ikhwan front was posted on Tuesday at Tom Humphrey’s blog:
CAIR urges Cruz to drop Kookogey as TN chairman
News release from Council on American-Islamic Relations:
WASHINGTON, June 9, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today urged Republican presidential candidate and Texas Senator Ted Cruz to remove Kevin Kookogey as his state chairman for Tennessee because of his longstanding support for anti-Muslim and Islamophobic causes.
“If Senator Cruz chooses to keep Mr. Kookogey on his campaign staff, it would serve as an endorsement of anti-Muslim hate,” said CAIR Government Affairs Manager Robert McCaw. “In the past few months, Senator Cruz has attended several conferences featuring notorious Islamophobes like Robert Spencer and Frank Gaffney. Despite calls to distance himself from such anti-Muslim bigots, it seems that Senator Cruz is only drawing closer to hate-mongers.”
McCaw noted that in 2012 — as chairman of the Williamson County Republican Party — Kookogey oversaw the adoption of a resolution condemning Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam for appointing a Muslim lawyer to the state’s Department of Economic and Community Development.
The resolution stated in part:
“Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam has elevated and/or afford preferential political status to Sharia adherents in Tennessee, thereby aiding and abetting the advancement of an ideology and doctrine which is wholly incompatible with the Constitution of the United States and the Tennessee Constitution.”
In 2011, the Williamson County Republican Party hosted a luncheon to honor infamous Dutch Islamophobe and far-right politician Geert Wilders. In the past, Wilders has stated “I hate Islam,” called the Quran a “fascist book” that should be banned, referred to the Prophet Mohammed as “the devil,” and proposed putting a tax on Islamic head scarves (hijab) worn by Muslim women.
In March, CAIR called on Cruz to cancel his appearance at a “New England Freedom Conference” event hosted by a group with ties to white supremacists and other anti-Muslim speakers including Robert Spencer, the co-founder of Stop Islamization of America (SIOA). SIOA has been designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Cruz attended the event.
Two weeks prior to the March conference, Cruz joined Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Penn.) at an event sponsored by Frank Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy, a key group in the U.S. Islamophobia network. Gaffney’s conspiracy theories regarding Muslim infiltration of all aspects of American life are so overblown that he was banned from attending the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2011 after accusing its top leadership of being infiltrated by Islamists.
Note: The CAIR release goes on at some length listing other matters that have drawn the group’s criticism. This posting also eliminates various links included in the online version of the release. The whole thing is HERE.
Previous post on the Kookogey appointment is HERE.
Hat tip: Vlad Tepes.
If Kookogey meets CAIR’s disapproval, that’s enough for me. He stays!
ObamaCAIR ?
Any political candidate that receives CAIR’s endorsement or approval will be dismissed outright …candidacy DOA…and never receive my vote, period. Every effort to expose such endorsement will be made post haste.
Cruz has my vote.
I heard their spokes[man] Ibrahim Hooper on the Hannity Radio show not long after 9/11 and he said that if anyone read the Koran in Arabic they would know that murder was forbidden. And yet no one called in, nor did Hannity mention, that the hijackers were Arabs, most from Saudi Arabia, and for sure had read the Koran in Arabic. CAIR is just following the lead of all Muslim leaders and lying their [fundaments] off. And the sooner we call them on it and tell them to all get lost the easier it will be to defeat them.
how about the latest option for a vehicle to election to office, Cruz control of the CAiR.
Everyone here already knows this, but somehow it just doesn’t get across to the general public: CAIR is a front for Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas is a state department listed Foreign Terrorist Organization, and their front group CAIR is listed as a terrorist organization by the UAE.
For some reason all of this is constantly shrugged off by the press. Every time a CAIR spokesperson appears on TV or is quoted in a news article they should be mentioning this. People do have a right to know exactly who is being quoted or who is speaking, yet this is constantly being ignored in the same articles that explicitly bring up the shill organization SPLC and whoever they have denounced lately.