DNC's Islamic Speaker unindicted co-conspirator in terrorism trial

What is this about -- an unindicted co-conspirator in terrorism is going to be a keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention??? Fox News has the story, but in what I consider poor reporting, I never heard them say the individual's name -- Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of North America ... ISNA is an unindicted co-conspirator in Holy Land Foundation trial.

From Boker tov, Boulder:

That name Ingrid Mattson sure rang a bell.

The president of the Islamic Society of North America warned last night that American Jews who ally with right-wing Christians to oppose Muslim organizations are pursuing a high-risk strategy that could backfire.

Speaking at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, at an event sponsored by the school and four Muslim student organizations, Ingrid Mattson, a Canadian-born convert from Roman Catholicism who became the Islamic society's first woman president last year, said that many American Jews have an existential fear that Muslims are anti-Israel.

Such fear leads Jews to ally with Christian fundamentalists who are supportive of Israel and critical of Islam, she said.

"Right-wing Christians are very risky allies for American Jews," Mattson said, "because they [the Christians] are really anti-Semitic. They do not like Jews" and enter into the alliance on the basis of fundamentalist beliefs that it would be desirable for all Jews to return to Israel. She suggested that fundamentalist Christians might turn against Jews or that there could be backlash from ordinary Americans against Jewish and fundamentalist Christian supporters of Israel.

A perfect face to help lead an interfaith ceremony, no?  (continue reading)

A current list of speakers as of August 19, 2008, is listed here.

 What does the DNC have to say??? Nothing more than McCain is using this as a scare tactic in the election and that ISNA has been praised by some media as an inter-faith organization.  (wow, that takes some real stretching of the truth). 

 If the democrats are so concerned about Barack Hussein Obama's 'Muslim connections', why in the world would they request this man to be a keynote speaker???  One has to as the question.

Could it be because the Muslims are for Obam???, that C.A.I.R. is for Obama???.  that Obama has been taking illegal campaign funds from Palestinians???,  ....

Earlier Obama's Muslim Outreach Coordinator resigned under very suspicious circumstances:

Mazen Asbahi, the attorney who had volunteered as Barack Obama's outreach coordinator to Muslim and Arab-Americans, has resigned after accusations of ties to Jamal Said, an imam at a fundamentalist mosque in Illinois. Asbahi briefly sat on the board of Allied Assets Advisors Fund with Said in 2000.

yaman's amateur ramblings, a Syrian student in the U.S., remarks on the Obama campaign's failure to reach out to Muslim and Arab-American voters  (more at Voices without Votes)

Then we have this: "Obama's kin to burnish American image at convention".  So they think that Obama's American image NEEDS fixing???

aWhen the Democratic Party's presidential convention opens on Monday in Denver, Colorado, Barack Obama's wife Michelle, her basketball-coach brother and Obama's half-sister will provide the opening act.  [snip] 

"I'm asking a lot of the American people, and I know that," Obama told The New York Times recently. "My biography is not typical of a modern American president."

No Kidding!

Comments

[Katie]

As a Jew I know who the real anti-Semites are. And it isn't the Christian community. It is the Muslims. For every time one of their "speakers" open their mouths out comes the familiar cry: "Kill the Jews!"

This is a disgrace, but it is to be expected from Barack Hussein Obama. The man who was raised as a Muslim, raised by anti-Semitic parents to hate all the Jews, worshiped at the feet of Jeremiah Wright who praised those who would finish the job that Hitler started and who married a self-centered, bigoted, bitch called Michelle.

Oh I know who my enemies are. And they aren't the Christians. Not now.

Excuse the profanity.

[Maggie M. Thornton]

"...society's first woman president last year, said that many American Jews have an existential fear that Muslims are anti-Israel."

This wins the understatement of the century award.

I could never figure out why he needed a Muslim co-ordinator. Does McCain have one? Has anyone in past Presidential races had one. Maybe they have....

I'm glad to see this. It's just one more reveal. I wonder when they'll announce their Zionist speaker?

I had not heard this Debbie. Good catch.

Maggie
Maggie's Notebook

[A.C. McCloud]

Will she speak before or after the flag-burning ceremony?

[sam*i*am]

you have to wonder, do the democrats just wake up every morning and say" hmm wonder what we can do for the republicans today?"

[CKA in Red State USA]

Yet another one-finger salute to America from the Demockacrats.

They're no longer shy about showing their contempt for our country.

Nor do they hide the most obvious fact that they have become our enemy.

What they're doing is not just in poor taste, but has the stench of sedition in it.

[CKA in Red State USA]

Katie, with respects, Christians have not been the enemies of the Jews.

But the enemy of both Christian and Jews has been Islam, since its inception.

[Debbie]

CKA in Red State USA:

That's great. You have to wonder what they are thinking, with the polls so close, virtually tied.

sam*i*am:

Just think what they could do if Obama gets elected!

A.C. McCloud:

Don't give them any ideas.

Maggie:

No Muslim coordinator for McCain as far as I know.

Katie:

Profanity excused this time, these people must have lost their minds.

[Skunkfeathers]

Why am I not surprised by this revelation? Because Oblahblah is raking in cash from Islamofascists on the Internet.

Anything -- including selling out the Constitution -- to win for the liberals/progressives.

[prying1]

Quote from Ingrid Mattson:

"Right-wing Christians are very risky allies for American Jews," Mattson said, "because they [the Christians] are really anti-Semitic. They do not like Jews" and enter into the alliance on the basis of fundamentalist beliefs that it would be desirable for all Jews to return to Israel. She suggested that fundamentalist Christians might turn against Jews or that there could be backlash from ordinary Americans against Jewish and fundamentalist Christian supporters of Israel."

What a bunch of Hooey! But smart too. - Tell the Jewish people that Christians are selfish, misguided and have ulterior motives in their relationships with Jews. - "Drive a wedge in the midst of your enemies." - Which to me means this woman is an enemy to both Christians and Jews.

This does come from someone who belongs to a religion that has some members slashing throats, beheading innocent people, attacking embassies, bombing pizza parlors, and murdering their daughters and sons in the name of their god.

As a Christian I know I'm not anti-Semitic. Can't think of anyone in my church that is. I've met a few but they are few and far between and am told by a Book I trust to pray for peace in Jerusalem.

Which group is it that prays for blood to flow in the streets of Jerusalem?

[Americaneocon]

Sponsored by the MSA? That's a sure giveaway!

What a disaster ... not your father's Democratic Party!

[Justa Dog]

This is what the New Democrat Party is all about - building up the Islamic forces while diminishing the Christian influence in society.

(as well as going after the Muslim vote)