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PAS : KE ARAH PEMERINTAHAN ISLAM YANG ADIL
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MUSLIM BASHER TO TESTIFY BEFORE CONGRESS ON TERRORISM
(WASHINGTON, DC - 1/20/2000) - CAIR is calling on members of the American
Muslim community to contact Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) and express their
concerns about Steven Emerson's scheduled appearance before Smith's
Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. (The subcommittee is under the
jurisdiction of the House Judiciary Committee.)
Emerson, a self-styled "terrorism expert," is best known for his discredited
1994 program "Jihad in America." Muslims say he has a long history of
defamatory and inaccurate attacks on the Islamic community in this country.
He is scheduled to testify at a January 25 subcommittee hearing on
"Terrorist Threats to the United States." (Tuesday, January 25, 2000, 9:30
a.m., 2237 Rayburn House Office Building. Open to the public. Arrive early
to be seated.)
Unfortunately, Emerson is the same "expert" who said Muslims were behind the
1995 bombing in Oklahoma City. (He said: "This [the bombing] was done with
the intent to inflict as many casualties as possible. That is a Middle
Eastern trait." "Oklahoma City, I can tell you, is probably considered one
of the largest centers of Islamic radical activity outside the Middle East."
CBS News, 4/19/95)
Emerson also wrongly attributed the 1996 downing of TWA Flight 800 to
Muslims. (Reuters news service quoted Emerson as saying that the crash could
be a plot by "the permanent floating [Islamic] militant international."
[Reuters, 7/31/96] "I have no doubt whatsoever, at this point, that it was a
bomb that brought down TWA Flight 800 - not a missile, but a bomb..." [CNBC,
RIVERA LIVE, 8/23/96)
According to a Florida newspaper editor, Emerson was also involved in the
1998 international media coverage of a defecting "senior Pakistani weapons
scientist" who claimed Pakistan was preparing for a nuclear first strike
against India. The story later turned out to be a hoax. (See: "Steven
Emerson's Crusade: Why is a journalist pushing questionable stories from
behind the scenes?" http://www.fair.org/extra/199901/emerson.html)
Emerson once referred to Islam as "genocidal." (In the March 1995 Jewish
Monthly, Emerson wrote, "The level of vitriol against Jews and Christianity
within contemporary Islam [Note he did not say "radical Islamic
fundamentalism."], unfortunately, is something that we are not totally
cognizant of...We don't want to accept it because to do so would be to
acknowledge that (Islam)...sanctions genocide, planned genocide, as part of
its religious doctrine.")
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT STEVEN EMERSON
Emerson is involved in a multi-million-dollar defamation lawsuit against a
Florida newspaper, its senior editor, and a former investigative reporter
for The Associated Press (AP). The complaint centers on allegations
published by the newspaper that two AP reporters said Emerson gave them a
document on terrorism supposedly from FBI files. The reporters said the
document was actually authored by Emerson. The lawsuit also disputes
allegations that Emerson gave false information to a Senate subcommittee
during testimony in 1998.
In a review of Emerson's book "The American House of Saud," The Economist
(2/8/86) reviewer wrote: "The conspiracy theory of history always finds
believers -- blame the Jews, or the communists, or the blacks, and thus seek
absolution. Mr. Steven Emerson...blames the Arabs..."
Late last year, Emerson was forced to retract accusations he made about a
former journalism lecturer at California State University in Hayward, Ca.
Reese Erlich, who is now an independent journalist, demanded the retraction
after Emerson made several accusations about him in a multi-page leaflet
issued in the name of The Investigative Project. The leaflet was designed to
refute materials criticizing Emerson's past work on the issue of terrorism.
In it, Emerson's organization claimed his many critics are
"conspiratorialists, terrorist apologists, anti- Semites (Reese Erlich is
Jewish) and ultra right-wing extremists." In a letter dated August 2, 1999,
Emerson wrote: "On April 22, 1998, I circulated a flyer containing rebuttal
points to material distributed about me by a group protesting my speaking
engagement. I recognize my statement about you in this material was
incorrect and mischaracterized your past activities." Along with the
retraction, Emerson agreed to pay Erlich $3,000.
"Muslims almost universally know and loath Mr. Emerson's work, calling it
biased and distorted." (The Christian Science Monitor, 1/22/96)
Leslie Gelb, President, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), called Emerson a
"grand inquisitor" for trying to censor a CFR publication. (Forward,
5/10/96)
The Jerusalem Post said Emerson has "close ties to Israeli intelligence."
(9/17/94)
"For the first forty-eight hours (after the Oklahoma City bombing), Emerson
was a fixture on radio and TV, waging jihad on Islam." (The Nation, 6/15/95)
The New York Times Book Review said Emerson's 1991 book Terrorist was
"marred by factual errors...that betray an unfamiliarity with the Middle
East and a pervasive anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian bias." (5/19/91)
Security consultant Vincent Cannistraro called Emerson "dishonest" and
"Joseph McCarthy-like." (Forward, 1/26/96) "Word has got around on what he
(Emerson) is, that he's a paid polemicist, not a journalist." (Weekly Planet
newspaper, May 1998)
In the past, Emerson has condemned almost every major American Muslim
organization: He said: "...nearly all of the Islamic organizations in the
United States that define themselves as religiously or culturally Muslim in
character have, today, been totally captured or dominated by radical
fundamentalist elements..." (Jewish Monthly, 3/95) Emerson also said:
"...the traditional immunity given to religious institutions can no longer
apply if the battle against Islamic fundamentalist terrorism is to be won."
(Detroit Free Press, 6/27/93)
IMMEDIATE ACTIONS REQUESTED:
(As always, be firm, but POLITE. Hostile comments can and will be used to
harm the image of Islam and the Muslim community.)
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