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My latest in PJ Media:
The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is enraged that among the featured speakers at CPAC this year is Scott Presler, the noted gay pro-Trump activist, even though he isn’t speaking about jihad terrorism. For CAIR, as for the Left in general, it isn’t enough that Presler isn’t speaking about the religion no one is allowed to criticize; they believe that he has criticized it in the past, and so he must be canceled forever.
“Journalist” Matthew Moyer wrote in the Orlando Weekly Thursday that “another speaker on the lineup for the conservative mega-gathering CPAC is getting some unwelcome spotlight for anti-Muslim statements and activity, and this is only scratching the surface of the extreme ideologies being trotted out at this week’s event in Orlando.”
CAIR’s Director of Government Affairs Robert S. McCaw is quoted in a demanding mood: “CPAC organizers should immediately drop anti-Muslim activist Scott Presler, who has actively worked to promote conspiracy theories about American Muslims and Islam. Presler’s reported role in supporting the January 6 insurrection is enough to disqualify him from being offered a credible speaking platform.”
That McCaw refers to the January 6 Capitol riot as an “insurrection” is an index of how dishonest he is, and the rest of the article is no better. “CAIR points out,” Moyer dutifully notes, “that Presler had been involved with ‘ACT for America’ from 2017-2018 as an organizer. The Southern Poverty Law Center has characterized that organization as ‘an anti-Muslim hate group because it pushes wild anti-Muslim conspiracy theories, denigrates American Muslims and deliberately conflates mainstream and radical Islam.’”
This article is a textbook example of media propaganda. First, smear opposition to jihad violence and Sharia oppression as “anti-Muslim.” Invoke the discredited far-left smear propaganda organization the Southern Poverty Law Center as if it were an infallible and impartial authority on what constitutes a “hate group.” Present the SPLC’s smears without any substantiating evidence, as if they were unquestionable fact. Throw in the word “extreme,” so as to abet the growing campaign to portray all dissent from the far-left agenda as terrorism.
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