Ibrahim Hooper Quotes
When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.
Hooper, Ibrahim. Quoted in "Muslims feel 'under siege' in Trump's America." CNN, 28 Feb. 2017.
He was a brutal, sadistic war criminal who was assassinated by one of his many enemies in 2000 before he could be brought to trial.
This quotation is used by many to illustrate the discrimination that Muslims face in America. The President and almost all other national leaders rejected ideas like this.
Strictly anti-Islamic discrimination is not racism as Muslems are represented in every race and nationality in the world.
In the middle of 2010, this organization was running public utility bus ads in major American cities.
At the time, General Flynn was campaigning as a part of the Donald Trump Campaign Team. There was a great deal of Islamaphobia and Flynn and Trump thoght that given the history of Radical Islamic Brutality and Gross Violence, the rear was reasonable. Critics however pointed out that while some Southernors were still violent White Supremicists leaders should not encoruage a fear of Southerners. They argue that the fear should be of extreme radical Muslims, and not Muslims in general. The generalization of fear to all people of any group for the actions of a small subset of the group is actually dangerous and leads to prejudice, feal, hate and often violence such as when many American Blacks feared all pol;ice in the beginning of the 21st century becasue dozens of police officers short and killed unarmed black men,, or the West Cast American fear of the Japanese in WWII, or the terrible result--the Holocaust-- of many Germans' fear and hate of Jews for the "trangressions" of some. All human groups have some bad souls within the greater body of good people--including Muslims.
Ibrahim Hooper (born Douglas Hooper) is the National Communications Director and spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Washington D.C.-based Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization.
