Council on American-Islamic Relations: Tear Down Every Confederate Memorial

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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), America’s largest Muslim civil rights group, is calling on state and local governments all over the United States to tear down all monuments and memorials commemorating Confederate leaders and the short-lived Confederate States of America.

CAIR joined several groups asking for the removal of Confederate memorials in the wake of a “Unite the Right” white supremacist rally that turned violent over the weekend. At the Charlottesville, Va. rally, James Alex Fields, a rally attendee, allegedly plowed his grey Dodge Challenger through a large group of people on a pedestrian mall. One woman, Heather Heyer, died in the incident. About 20 other people suffered injuries.

Nihad Awad, CAIR’s national executive director, urged state and local governments to erase every symbol and every vestige of Confederate history immediately.

“A fitting response to the deadly terror attack on anti-racist protesters in Charlottesville would be for officials in states and cities nationwide to immediately announce that every street, every school, every flag, and every public memorial honoring those who took up arms in defense of white supremacy and slavery will be removed or have its name changed to instead honor those who fought for civil rights,” Awad said in a statement to The Daily Caller.

 

http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/15/council-on-american-islamic-relations-tear-down-every-confederate-memorial/

 

 

If only they had such a response for every time an Islamic terrorist kills people.

 

Just terrorists supporting other terrorists.

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55 minutes ago, IAMX said:

http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/15/council-on-american-islamic-relations-tear-down-every-confederate-memorial/

 

 

If only they had such a response for every time an Islamic terrorist kills people.

 

Just terrorists supporting other terrorists.

Also what's next after that, Washington or Jefferson Monuments? Come on really. We fought a Civil War to end slavery all the while the Arab Slave trade was by all accounts still going up until the 60's, not to mention what's going on today in North Africa and using migrants as Modern Day Slaves. 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/10/libya-public-slave-auctions-un-migration

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/04/iom-african-migrants-traded-libya-slave-markets-170411141809641.html

 

Edited August 15, 2017 by cyberfx1024

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1 minute ago, cyberfx1024 said:

Also what's next after that, Washington, Jefferson Monuments? Come on really. We fought a Civil War to end slavery all the while the Arab Slave trade was by all accounts still going up until the 60's, not to mention what's going on today in North Africa and using migrants as Modern Day Slaves. 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/10/libya-public-slave-auctions-un-migration

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/04/iom-african-migrants-traded-libya-slave-markets-170411141809641.html

 

Hey, if the police don't want to go protect monuments I'm sure there are some nationalist groups that would be glad to step in and do it for them. I support that idea 100%. 

Edited August 15, 2017 by IAMX

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35 minutes ago, Ban Hammer said:

I wonder which one of us has the bigger meme image folders. 

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On the one hand, I agree that the Civil War monuments aren't inherently a problem for most. They memorialize a horriffic but important moment in our shared history. The issue is that some people are of the belief that they honor individuals most decidedly fighting for the morally wrong side, but whom some people believe are fallen heros who deserved victory, and thus are seen as some sort of shrine to people possessed of similar beliefs to the Nazi's, Fascists and White Supremacist types leading the torchlight parade this weekend.

 

There is a valid argument the memorials are of historical significance. I get that.

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CAIR has long been a supporter of groups like Hamas and any moderate Muslim will be wise to distance themselves as much as possible from this organization if they want anyone to take their "moderate" status seriously.

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5 hours ago, ready4ONE said:

On the one hand, I agree that the Civil War monuments aren't inherently a problem for most. They memorialize a horriffic but important moment in our shared history. The issue is that some people are of the belief that they honor individuals most decidedly fighting for the morally wrong side, but whom some people believe are fallen heros who deserved victory, and thus are seen as some sort of shrine to people possessed of similar beliefs to the Nazi's, Fascists and White Supremacist types leading the torchlight parade this weekend.

 

There is a valid argument the memorials are of historical significance. I get that.

Yep.

 

Honestly, it's just sad altogether. It makes absolutely no sense to try to erase one of the most decisive eras in American history. You can't know American history or government if you don't know or understand the civil war. On the other hand, it's extremely difficult not to when you get neo-nazi trash using them as some sort of martyr shrines.

 

That being said, I cannot take CAIR seriously when I haven't seen any push from CAIR to erase all history related to 1,000 years of the Arab slave trade.

Edited August 16, 2017 by JayJayH

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