AAH Chairman Joe Kaufman has issued a press release condemning the Civil Rights Coordinator of CAIR-Los Angeles (CAIR-California), Affad Shaikh, for calling “Senator Joe Lieberman, Vice President Dick Cheney, former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, former head of the CIA James Woolsey, Peter Brookes of the Heritage Foundation, Lt. General Thomas McInerney, and Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, Neil Cavuto, Sean Hannity and Sheppard Smith as ‘Extremist Right Wing Nut cases.’”

I’d never heard of Affad Shaikh before this morning but I don’t think he’ll be used as a spokesman for CAIR again anytime soon, especially if this is the quality of his work product. First of all, using the term “extremist right wing nut cases” isn’t the way to win friends and influence people. Secondly, calling Joe Lieberman, Sheppard Smith, Bill O’Reilly and Jim Woolsey extremist right wing nut cases is wildly inaccurate. I couldn’t tell you how O’Reilly or Sheppard Smith vote. I know that Joe Lieberman isn’t an extremist right wing nut case because he’s still part of the Democratic Party.

I strongly recommend that you read the entire press release.

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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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1. As long as your reading the “entire” press release, why don’t you dig a little deeper and read what Affahd Shaikh actually says (and not just what the wing nuts at the wildly misnamed “Americans Against Hate” think he said)? Here’s one for ya:

   …because he neglected to mention the many times I talk about how atrocious the terrorists are and how Muslims need to step up and take the ideological reins away from terrorists and extremists.
   

   What a radical!

   What caught my eye here was the headline. I mean, we all know about how right-wing and nutty the people Gary Gross mentions are; where’s the news here? And yes, Lieberman is a right wing nut case, or have you forgotten that he is in lock-step with the Bush cabal? That he is now an “independent democrat” (as though that’s supposed to mean something)? That he has threatened, repeatedly, to switch his party affiliation? Yeah, Lieberman is about as much as Democrat as the lunatic Zell Miller. How is it you always refer to any republican with a brain, sense of right vs. wrong, or who wants to do the right thing for our country… a RINO? Well, Lieberman is a DINO (as in dinosaur).

   And now, an admission by Gary Gross:

   Secondly, calling Joe Lieberman, Sheppard Smith, Bill O’Reilly and Jim Woolsey extremist right wing nut cases is wildly inaccurate.

   No, not that calling these named individuals extremist right wing nut cases is inaccurate (well, because they are certifiable right wing nut cases); but that apparently omitting “… Vice President Dick Cheney, former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, Peter Brookes of the Heritage Foundation, Lt. General Thomas McInerney, and Fox News’ Neil Cavuto, [and] Sean Hannity” from his objections means they are, in fact, right wing nutcases! Finally, some sense from Minnesota!

   Finally, a minor nit to pick with Kaufman vis-à-vis the “quality of his work product” comment… irregardless is not proper usage, and makes no sense. Did Kaufman mean regardless or irrespective? No matter; Kaufman is obviously an extremist right wing nut case.

   Comment by Rocky — August 28, 2007 @ 1:38 pm

2. There ya go agin, Rocky, playin’ to your audience. Just because the left wing-nut cases want to make themselves more “centrist” by moving the centerline way to the left doesn’t make traditional conservatives “right-wing nut cases.”

   What it makes is the left fraudulent. They’re afraid to come out and tell “the people” just what they want (guvmint control of everything) and believe (people are stupid and have to be led into slavery).

   ‘Course, socialists don’t see it that way. They just see what a wonderful world it would be if only everyone would get some intellectual sense and go with the theoretical program. If socialists had a lick of sense they’d know theory has very little, if anything, to do with reality if one starts with a poor premise.

   Sorry, I’ll keep my beliefs and freedom, thank you very much.

   Comment by Carlos — August 28, 2007 @ 3:05 pm

3. I did a little checking. The blog that Mr. Kaufman links to seems to be one of six maintained by, and for, Affahd Shaikh.

   Mr. Shaikh wrote at least one online article for CAIR-CA, in 2005: but that’s not surprising, considering his political leanings.

   Putting it mildly, don’t agree with Affahd Shaikh, but I think that Mr. Kaufman could have chosen a better subject for his own anti-CAIR press release.

   Comment by Norski — August 28, 2007 @ 5:22 pm

4. The article that is being referred to is not written by Affad Shaikh, rather its written by Sandie Dolbie and he is quoted in the article.

   That might be a factual error due to the “telephone” affect of yellow journalism propagated by Kauffman and his ilk.

   Check the link on Mr. Shaikh’s blog with the article on it:

   http://affadshaikh.blogspot.com/2006/09/finding-their-voice-affad-shaikh-quoted.html

   Comment by the one who can not be named — August 29, 2007 @ 9:50 am