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SENATE HEARING ON "FOREIGN TERRORISTS IN AMERICA"
(WASHINGTON, DC - 2/11/98) On February 24, the Senate Subcommittee on
Technology, Terrorism and Government Information will hold a hearing on
"Foreign Terrorists in America: Five Years After the World Trade Center
Bombing." Subcommittee members are scheduled to hear from federal law
enforcement officials as well as from "representatives of the private
sector."
Because past hearings of this type have featured Muslim bashers like Steven
Emerson, CAIR contacted the subcommittee to express American Muslim concerns
about the need for an accurate and balanced presentation. While not
revealing the names of invited speakers, subcommittee staff offered
assurances that they sought out those, including Muslims, who would offer a
factual presentation. One subcommittee representative said he was trying to
avoid a hearing that indicates "Islam equals terrorism and threat."
Despite these assurances, CAIR is concerned that the American Muslim
community be accurately and objectively portrayed. "In the past, these types
of hearings have been used as vehicles to bash Islam and Muslims. We hope
that will not happen in this hearing," said CAIR Executive Director Nihad
Awad. Awad added that previous hearings have resulted in laws and policies
such as the use of secret evidence to deport aliens, exclusion of aliens
based on mere membership in disfavored groups, wiretapping without evidence
of criminal activity, and airline passenger "profiling."
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GOOD NEWS - HONDA ALLOWS JUMAH PRAYER
Alhamdulillah, Honda of America Manufacturing, Inc. (NYSE:HMC) has agreed to
reinstate a Muslim woman who had been suspended for attending Jumah prayers.
The employee, an engineer at the automobile manufacturer's Anna, Ohio,
engine plant, reported that when her supervisor denied a request to go to
Jumah, she began attending secretly on her break while coming to work early
or staying late to make up missed work.
When her supervisors learned she had been attending the prayer, she was
suspended without pay for "disobeying instructions" and "leaving the
premises without authorization." After being contacted by CAIR, company
officials met with the employee and then agreed to the reinstatement and
accommodation. She will also be compensated for time missed.
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NASHVILLE SCHOOLS RESOLVE COMPLAINT
CAIR has announced the resolution of a religious discrimination complaint by
a female Muslim student against the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools.
The woman, a refugee from Somalia and an English as a Second Language (ESL)
student, alleged that her teacher demanded she remove her
religiously-mandated head scarf and also participate in dancing and singing
activities at the school. When the student refused on the grounds that these
activities would violate her religious beliefs, her instructor allegedly
told her not to return to class.
After being contacted by CAIR, school officials said the student would
receive a letter of apology asking her to return to class. It was also
agreed that school officials and the Nashville Department of Human Services
would meet to discuss ways of training teachers to be more sensitive to the
various cultural practices of the adult education program's increasingly
diverse student body. CAIR supplied school officials with copies of "An
Educator's Guide to Islamic Religious Practices." The guide is available for
$5 (including S/H) by contacting CAIR's publication department by phone,
mail or e-mail.
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STEVEN EMERSON IN HIS OWN WORDS
ON THE ALLEGED PLOT TO BOMB NEW YORK CITY SUBWAYS
"The US has become occupied fundamentalist territory." (The Jerusalem Post,
August 8, 1997, p. 9)
ON THE DOWNING OF TWA FLIGHT 800
Reuters news service quotes Emerson as saying he is "confident that a bomb
brought down the plane." Emerson went on to say that the crash could be a
plot by "the permanent floating (Islamic) militant international." (Reuters,
July 31, 1996)
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,
August 23, 1996)
ON THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING
"This (the bombing) was done with the intent to inflict as many casualties
as possible. That is a Middle Eastern trait." (CBS News, April 19, 1995)
"Oklahoma City, I can tell you, is probably considered one of the largest
centers of Islamic radical activity outside the Middle East." (CBS News,
April 19, 1995)
ON ISLAM
In The Jewish Monthly (March 1995), 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." He added that "Unfortunately, nearly all
(emphasis added) 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..."
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WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT STEVEN EMERSON'S WORK
"There's more than a little bigotry in Emerson's obsession with Muslim
terrorists." (EXTRA!, July/August 1995)
The Washington Post
called Emerson a "pro-Israel researcher and author." Aug. 8, 1995
The Jerusalem Post
said Emerson has "close ties to Israeli intelligence." Sept. 17, 1994
Professor Jack Shaheen, author of "The TV Arab"
In a commentary on "Jihad in America" in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, he
said: "'Jihad' is perilous television, pandering to stereotypes that feed
collective hatreds."
Investigative Reporter Robert Friedman
"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, May 15,
1995)
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 expert Vincent Cannistraro called
Emerson "dishonest" and "Joseph McCarthy-like." Forward, 1/26/96
Terrorism Expert Tony Cooper
During a televised panel discussion on the Dallas PBS affiliate following
the airing of "Jihad in America," Cooper called Emerson's PBS program
"propaganda" and said Emerson was a "stranger to the truth."
Journalist Jane Hunter
"There are thousands of ax-grinders in journalism, pushing tantalizing
stories with few verifiable facts. Most collect rejection slips, but Steven
Emerson finds one respectable media outlet after another for his work, which
is sometimes nimble in its treatment of facts, often credulous of
intelligence sources, and almost invariably supportive of the Israeli
government." (EXTRA!, October/November 1992)
Arthur Lowrie, Adjunct Professor of International Studies at the University
of South Florida
"Emerson's two main themes were that an 'Islamic Internationale' exists and
is directing an anti-Western terror campaign and that a network of Islamic
terrorist cells exists throughout the United States. He failed to provide
any hard evidence for either allegation." (Middle East Policy, 1995)
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