Obama appoints Vicious Anti-Israel, Pro-Hamas Muslim Leader to US Delegate to Warsaw Human Rights Conference

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Anti-Israel, Pro-Hamas Muslim Leader Is US Delegate to Warsaw Human Rights Conference

His most infamous statement was during a radio interview on September 11, 2001, accusing Israel of the attack on the WTC. Lori Lowenthal Marcus, Jewish Press

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For two weeks every year, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
holds what it refers to as the world’s largest human rights and
democracy conference, called the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting.
 Organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human
Rights, this year’s meeting is taking place in Warsaw, and it began last
week.  Special attention is focused this year on freedom of religion
and belief, the rights of Roma (formerly called gypsies) women and the
rights of national minorities in OSCE countries.

The head of the U.S. delegation to the conference this year is
Ambassador Avis Bohlen, a retired foreign service officer whose career
included serving as Ambassador to Bulgaria from 1996 – 1999.

There are three public members of the U.S. delegation.  Nida Gelazis,
of the Woodrow Wilson Center, is a scholar of  international human
rights, international law and citizenship policies and protection of
national minorities.

Dr. Ethel Brooks, professor of sociology at Rutgers University, is
the second representative of the U.S.  at the conference. Brooks has
published many articles on her research areas which include child labor
in third world countries, globalization and political economies.

The third public member chosen to attend the human rights conference
as a representative of the U.S. is Salam Al-Marayati, president of the
Muslim Public Affairs Council.

While two out of three of the U.S. representatives are scholars whose
fields suggest expertise in human rights and democratization, and are
entirely consistent with the themes of the OSCE and, specifically, human
rights and democracy, Al-Marayati’s appointment raises serious
questions.

Counter-terrorism expert Steve Emerson told The Jewish Press that

Al-Marayati’s appointment is not just scandalous but also
does incalculable damage to our values as a nation whose core
principles categorically reject the legitimization of a racist supporter
of terrorism, and an incendiary proponent of paranoid conspiracies that
provides the motivation for radical Muslims to carry out terrorism.

Al-Marayati is not a scholar.  His only graduate degree is in
business and his undergraduate degree is in science.  He has been
involved with MPAC since its founding in 1986.  Without any scholarly
article to his credit, his expertise is in matters concerning the role
of Islam and Muslims in America and elsewhere.

In fact, Al-Marayati is better known, at least to members of the
American Jewish community, for his defense of those who are on the
scrutiny end of the human rights examining lens.  Perhaps his most
infamous statement was during a radio interview immediately following
the attacks by Muslim terrorists against the United States on September
11, 2001.

On that day, as the buildings were still smoldering, Al-Marayati told
radio interviewer Warren Olney on KCEW-FM’s “Which Way, LA?” in
response to questions about who might be behind the terrorist attacks,

If we’re going to look at suspects, we should look to
groups that benefit the most from these kinds of incidents, and I think
we should put the state of Israel on this list because I think this
diverts attention from what’s happening in the Palestinian territories
so that they can go on with their aggression and occupation and
apartheid policies.

While Al-Marayati is generally more in control about publicly
expressing his views regarding Israel and comporting himself in an
even-keeled manner when with civic and political leaders, there have
been many other instances in which his support for Muslims seems to
override his concern for the human rights and safety of others.

For example, at a 2005 conference held by the Islamic Society of
North America, Al-Marayati told his fellow Muslims not to respond to
requests from the FBI to work with them, saying, “we reject any efforts,
notion, suggestion that Muslims should start spying on one another.”

Even as he publicly engages in many interfaith efforts, Al-Marayati
continues to sow the seeds of division between religious groups.  In
2009 he spoke at a J Street conference, telling the audience of
 ”Palestine Now At Any Price” liberals that the absence of a Palestinian
State was the major cause for Muslim unrest in Pakistan, and that it
was “the central issue critical to the hearts and minds of all 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide.”

Al-Marayati spoke before the OSCE conference on Tuesday, October 1,
about the situation of Muslims as a religious minority in America.  He
quoted President Obama’s 2009 Cairo speech, in which he said, “‘it is
important for Western countries to avoid impeding Muslim citizens from
practicing religion as they see fit – for instance, by dictating what
clothes a Muslim woman should wear,’” and called for “governments to
‘stop targeting Muslims through legislation or policy, and instead
enshrine the ground of religion or belief as a prohibited ground of
discrimination in all realms.”

When asked to comment about Al-Marayati’s appointment to represent
the United States at a global human rights and democracy conference,
Steve Emerson, one of the premier counter-terrorism experts, and someone
who has conducted extensive research into Al-Marayati’s background,
told The Jewish Press,

For this administration to appoint to an august human
rights organization Salam Al-Marayati, who has openly supported
Hizbollah, claimed that the FBI has illegally incited Muslims on
terrorism charges because of FBI sanctioned policies of “racial
profiling,” has defended as innocent the most notorious members of Hamas
who were found guilty of laundering millions of dollars to a terrorist
group, and someone who has complained of ‘having the Holocaust shoved
down [his] throat,’ is an outrage.

Emerson suggested  that the appointment of Al-Marayati as a
representative of the U.S. at one of the world’s largest human rights
conference,

cries out for a congressional investigation of the larger
and more heinous scandal of the unprecedented degree to which the Obama
administration has embraced and collaborated with radical Muslim groups
in the U.S. whose lineage derives directly from the world wide
totalitarian Muslim Brotherhood movement.

The conference concludes at the end of this week.

Ambassador Bohlen did not respond to a request for comment by the Jewish Press.

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InfidelForLife

11 years ago

No doubt Salam Al-Marayati, as a good islamofascist, will find himself completely at home in Warsaw, the site of the great WWII slaughter on the Jews by his friends, the Nazi’s.
Obama must be proud to have such a shining beacon of savagery representing his administration.

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Brandy

11 years ago

Isn’t this somethin’? And the media won’t even question it! In fact, they probably have no idea that he was appointed. How sad is that.
Romney needs to hit all these issues.

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Breitbart Was Here

11 years ago

The Presstitutes will not cover any of this.
At what point will the people say enough?
I am confident it will be this Nov 6 2012.

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Tom Billesley

11 years ago

Give him a tour of the site of the Warsaw Ghetto,
where Jews chose not to submit but to fight.

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Canto28

11 years ago

And yet will most Jews vote for Obama because they always vote democrat? Do at least rabbis & Jewish leaders in America read and know what Obama is really about?

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Suzanne

11 years ago

Key members of the Muslim Brotherhood are within the Obama administration and are setting policy. But the MB have infiltrated both parties so the Republicans better clean house, too.

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