Tampa, FL – The Tampa chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Tampa) called on a local synagogue to invite a representative of the Muslim community to offer their perspective to a speaker who claims wearing an Islamic head scarf, or hijab, is related to the “growth of terrorism.”
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CAIR-Tampa said that “inflammatory” claim about hijab could endanger the tens of thousands of Florida Muslim women who wear Islamic head scarves every day.
The speaker, Tawfik Hamid, will lecture Wednesday at Temple Beth Sholom in Sarasota, Fla. Part of Hamid’s lecture will outline the alleged role hijab plays in the “proliferation of radical Islam.” In 2007, the Detroit Free Press quoted Hamid saying that there is a “correlation between the increase in the use of the hijab, an Islamic headscarf, and the growth of terrorism.”
Wednesday’s event is sponsored by West Coast Florida Chapter of the American Jewish Committee.
They should ask him to explain the hate filled words that was captured on video by the so called peaceful muslims during the rally in Ft. Lauderdale a few weeks ago. I wonder how he will explain that away.
didnt the FBI say that they have connections with terrorist organizations soo why are we publicizing a article abt them or what they have to say????
I think a jew should be called to speak in muslem schools. Tell CAIR to stick to promoting terrorist
Perhaps they should work harder on balancing the hateful Islamic views of Jews present in every Mosque, endangering all Jews and continuing the anti-Semitic attacks, rather than one speaker decrying the hijab, which doesn’t even result in a single Jewish offense against Muslims.
The Director of Cair in South Florida wrote a very friendly letter to the Editor of a local newspaper saying such beautiful words of peace and wishing the Jewish community a happy new year !!! Imagine the surprise I had when I looked him up on anticair.com that he said the most dispiscable hate speech at many meetings and demonstrations for years. The man was a supporter of terror and suicide bombings. Cair is an organization of liars and terrorists. May Cair be outed and outlawed soon by the Govt as a terrorist organization, HKBH willing.
I think this whole argument over the hijab is ridiculous. Muslim women should feel free to wear the clothing that they feel tzniusdic in. We wouldn’t want people equating a sheitl or a tichul with terrorist or extremist leanings, would we?
The arabs are haters and yet they try to portray themselfs as rigteous
Let em come and try to explain it!
I missed the invitation CAIR extended to a Chabad shliach to come and speak at their mosque after the Mumbai atrocity.
CAIR wants to take control of every conversation and portray THEMSELVES as the victims. This is what they did after Mumbai, crying they were afraid of “backlash” that never happened.
“CAIR-Tampa said that “inflammatory” claim about hijab could endanger the tens of thousands of Florida Muslim women who wear Islamic head scarves every day.”
Hijab-wearing women are more in danger of being honor-killed by their husbands, fathers and brothers than of getting dirty looks from random infidels.
Are you suggesting that non-frumme yidden are more likely to blow themselves up on a bus or engage in some terrorist action…what nareshkeit…..this is not something to joke about
So now the “fairness” doctrine is coming to the prive sector? Obama and his hentchmen are coming for all of us. Goodbye USA, hello USSA of France!
Regardless of what Muslims may or may not say about Jews, we should not say bad about innocent Muslims- a Muslim women should be able to wear whatever she wants and not have it associated with terrorism. Should your kippar be connected to M–doff?!
Unlike a sheitel or tichel, the hijab has taken on a much more sinister meaning. It is used as a means of intimidation and subjugation of women in Muslim neighborhoods and countries. Women that choose not to wear the hijab are subject to beatings and even death. Their treatment is similar to a woman wearing shorts in Bnei Brak.