Irony: CAIR Successfully Pressures Church to Cancel ‘Is Michigan Surrendering to Islam?’ Event

                   The Craven Bloomfield Hills Baptist Church

Jihad Watch : My latest at PJ Media: Eighteen years after the September 11 jihad attacks that murdered nearly three thousand people, this is where we are: the Bloomfield Hills Baptist Church in Michigan has canceled an event called “9/11 forgotten?

Is Michigan surrendering to Islam” under pressure from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a group with ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. And so the answers are clear: yes, 9/11 has been forgotten, and Michigan is indeed surrendering to Islam. The event was to feature an ex-Muslim, Shahram Hadian, speaking on “How the Interfaith Movement is Sabotaging America and the Church” and economist and investigative reporter Jim Simpson discussing “How Islam is Destroying America from Within.”

The event will go on tonight as a webinar, but it will not take place at the church, despite the fact that last week, the church’s pastor, Donald McKay, denied that it was an “anti-Muslim” event: “Islam is a growing threat in the United States of America,” said McKay. “We don’t hate Muslims, we hate the ideology they are identified with.” The distinction McKay made, however, made no difference whatsoever. Dawud Walid, executive director of CAIR’s Michigan chapter, fumed:

“We find it incredibly irresponsible for a church to invite someone who has the objective of spewing clear anti-Muslim bigotry.” Two Democratic members of the House of Representatives from Michigan, Andy Levin and Debbie Dingell, issued a joint statement admonishing the church that there is “no place for hate in Metro Detroit, in Michigan or anywhere in the United States. We implore the Bloomfield Baptist Church to forgo the anti-Muslim events planned for next week and instead recognize America’s rich cultural and religious diversity as we reflect on one of the most painful days in our country’s history and heal from recent acts of white supremacist violence.”

So evidently Walid, Levin, and Dingell believe that it is “anti-Muslim” “hatred” and “bigotry” to oppose an ideology that calls for warfare against and the subjugation of those who don’t accept it, denies the freedom of speech and equality of rights of women, and is inveterately anti-Semitic. This demonstrates clearly that all these years after 9/11, the victory of the forces of jihad is nearly complete, at least in terms of our ability to discuss the ideology of those who attacked New York City and Washington, D.C., on that day.

If Michigan and the rest of the United States have surrendered to Islam, in the sense of not being able to study the motivating ideology behind jihad terror, that surrender began on September 17, 2001, when President George W. Bush appeared at the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C., in the company of several prominent Muslim leaders, and said: “These acts of violence against innocents violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith. And it’s important for my fellow Americans to understand that….The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That’s not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don’t represent peace. They represent evil and war.”

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