Law Passed > CAIR booted from state hate-crimes board for hate propaganda, lies

 

Maryland: Governor signs bill ousting Hamas-linked

CAIR from state hate crimes monitoring board

MAY 22, 2024 3:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER

Richly deserved and long overdue. In fact, the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) never should have been on the board in the first place. Also, there should be no such board. A crime is a crime. If you assault someone, you should be prosecuted. If you assault someone while calling him a racial slur, you should be prosecuted. “Hate crime” is a concept that is predicated upon the assumption that there is speech that should be prohibited. This opens the way to larger restrictions on speech, and to tyranny.

CAIR Expelled from Maryland’s Hate Crimes Commission;

MEF’s Role Revealed

Middle East Forum, May 20, 2024:

PHILADELPHIA – May 20, 2024 – Maryland Governor Wes Moore (D) signed a bill on May 16 to oust the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) from a state board that monitors hate crimes. That decision, following unanimous approval by the Maryland General Assembly, followed months of meetings, drafting, and advocacy by the Middle East Forum’s campaign arm (MEF Action).

CAIR’s Maryland director, Zainab Chaudry, posted multiple antisemitic comments to social media in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 atrocity, when Hamas slaughtered 1,200 people in Israel, including 32 Americans, and abducted relatives of Maryland residents. She compared Israel to Nazi Germany and repeated Hamas media claims that Israeli Jews were harvesting the organs of dead Palestinians.

Comparing Israel to Nazi Germany is a Satanic Reversal. Islam is the new Nazi. Claiming that they harvest organs from dead Palestinians is blood libel - an ancient Satanic scam. Islam has no use for the truth and no conscience whatsoever. 

Soon after, Maryland’s Attorney General Anthony Brown (D) temporarily suspended Chaudry from the state’s Commission on Hate Crimes Response and Prevention, on the grounds that her statements “risk disrupting the work and mission of the Commission.” Brown then had to reinstate Chaudry two weeks later, explaining that he lacked the legal authority to suspend her.

Brown’s reversal decision prompted Maryland lawmakers to introduce House Bill 763, at which point MEF Action got engaged. It met with the bill’s author, Delegate Dalya Attar (D-Baltimore City), distributed a dossier on CAIR-Maryland to key legislators, and engaged in other efforts to pass the legislation. MEF showed that Chaudry’s views reflect those of CAIR as a whole; for example, CAIR’s executive director, Nihad Awad, stated in November that he was “happy to see” Israel’s border infiltrated on Oct. 7. Therefore, we argued, replacing Chaudry with another CAIR employee would produce similarly unacceptable results….