Posted November 11, 2015 9:33 PM ET; Last updated November 21, 2015 9:51 AM ET
Cambridge City Councilor Nadeem Mazen
Notice how there is no discussion of the connection between Mr. Mazen and CAIR. Not in this Boston Herald article or on any of the frequent appearances on taxpayer funded Boston PBS show broadcast on WGBH-TV, Greater Boston. This shows how controlled media is in Massachusetts, and also how clueless the population is with the many universities here. Critical thinking is not taught at Massachusetts colleges, maybe not at any American universities. Obeying authority figures and conforming is what is being taught to today's young people. The academic world is being totally dumbed down with propaganda. Same methods used with the White House covering up his past, is being used with this elected official. Does that suggest he too is promoted and supported by the Kennedy Cult?
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_politics/2015/11/cambridge_city_councilor_defends_muslims
Cambridge city councilor defends Muslims
Erica Moura
Saturday, November 21, 2015 Boston Herald
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[From article]
On the face of it, Cambridge politician Nadeem Mazen is a model citizen. He is an elected councilor, a graduate of MIT, an advocate for better education, and the founder of two successful companies.
Yet it also turns out that Mazen is a founding director of the Massachusetts chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations, a Hamas front group blacklisted by the FBI because of its terrorist connections. The Cambridge councillor, just re-elected by Cambridge voters, is an aggressive anti-police activist and one of the most vocal critics of the Justice Department’s counter-terrorism efforts in New England. Mazen has also painted secular Muslims as traitors. So, what is he doing as a twice-elected councillor of Cambridge, the city where the Boston Marathon bombers were radicalized, and where they wreaked havoc during their getaway spree?
Mazen arrived in Cambridge in the fall of 2002 to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was elected president of the MIT Muslim Students Association, under theaegis of Suheil Laher, who, it turns out, is a former Al Qaeda fundraiser. On Laher’s own website, Laher advocated jihad and raised funds for the Chechen terrorists who, in 2004, massacred over 300 first graders, their teachers and their parents at a Russian school.
After graduating, Mazen seems to have kept his Islamist sympathies out of the public eye. In 2013, courting the hipster and student vote, the “man bun”-sporting Mazen was electedon a progressive platform to Cambridge City Council.
Over the past two years, Mazen increasingly began associating with other Islamist groups and preachers. Mazen runs a group named MassMuslims, for example, which haspromoted events with Omar Suleiman, a radical Islamist preacher who describeshomosexuality as a “disease” and a “repugnant shameless sin.”
In April, Mazen’s colleague at MassMuslims, Omar Khoshafa, invited the extremist preacher Yasir Qadhi to address students at Harvard. Qadhi has claimed that “Hitler never intended to mass-destroy the Jews,” and that the Holocaust is “false propaganda.” Despite these views, Mazen’s colleague, Khoshafa, describes Yasir Qadhi as “one of the foremost Muslim-American scholars and an amazing lecturer.”
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CAIR is so toxic in American political circles that the Obama Justice Department has had aban on working with CAIR in place since 2009. After the 2008 Holy Land Foundation terrorism trial established “at least a prima facie case as to CAIR’s involvement in a conspiracy to support Hamas,” the Obama Justice Department cut all ties with the group. In 2014, the UAE designated CAIR as a terrorist organization.
The voters of Cambridge have now reelected a man who holds a leadership position in an organization shunned by the Obama administration due to its terrorist connections. It is no surprise that, since first being elected into public office, Mazen has become one of the most hostile critics of counterterrorism efforts in Massachusetts in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings.
In May, Mazen voted in committee against the Cambridge Police Department budget, taking issue with the department’s “increased militarization” and demanding it get rid of its SWAT team, which he claimed was alienating the Muslim community. The Cambridge SWAT team was among several involved in apprehending Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev after a night of gunfire and cooker-bomb explosions over a wide swath of Cambridge and nearby Watertown. Especially after the Paris attacks last week, calls to disarm police forces in the face of coordinated military-style operations by Islamic terrorists simply sound ludicrous.
To add insult to injury, an organizer who works for Mazen’s non-profit group MassMuslims recently told the Boston Globe that instead of Islamist terrorists, the whole city of Cambridge was to blame for the marathon bombings: “It’s not just Muslims, it’s everybody… There’s a collective sense of, ‘Where did we drop the ball?’”
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/11/16/hamas-on-the-charles-cambridge-ma-reelects-cair-leader-to-city-council/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Neptune+Web+E-Blast&utm_content=APT+on+Boston+Talk+Radio&utm_campaign=Kuhner+Report+Blast
HAMAS ON THE CHARLES: CAMBRIDGE, MA REELECTS CAIR LEADER TO CITY COUNCIL
by ILYA FEOKTISTOV AND SAM WESTROP
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[From article]
On the face of it, Cambridge politician Nadeem Mazen is a model citizen. He is an elected councilor, a graduate of MIT, an advocate for better education, and the founder of two successful companies.
Yet it also turns out that Mazen is a founding director of the Massachusetts chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations, a Hamas front group blacklisted by the FBI because of its terrorist connections. The Cambridge councillor, just re-elected by Cambridge voters, is an aggressive anti-police activist and one of the most vocal critics of the Justice Department’s counter-terrorism efforts in New England. Mazen has also painted secular Muslims as traitors. So, what is he doing as a twice-elected councillor of Cambridge, the city where the Boston Marathon bombers were radicalized, and where they wreaked havoc during their getaway spree?
Mazen arrived in Cambridge in the fall of 2002 to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was elected president of the MIT Muslim Students Association, under theaegis of Suheil Laher, who, it turns out, is a former Al Qaeda fundraiser. On Laher’s own website, Laher advocated jihad and raised funds for the Chechen terrorists who, in 2004, massacred over 300 first graders, their teachers and their parents at a Russian school.
After graduating, Mazen seems to have kept his Islamist sympathies out of the public eye. In 2013, courting the hipster and student vote, the “man bun”-sporting Mazen was electedon a progressive platform to Cambridge City Council.
Over the past two years, Mazen increasingly began associating with other Islamist groups and preachers. Mazen runs a group named MassMuslims, for example, which haspromoted events with Omar Suleiman, a radical Islamist preacher who describeshomosexuality as a “disease” and a “repugnant shameless sin.”
In April, Mazen’s colleague at MassMuslims, Omar Khoshafa, invited the extremist preacher Yasir Qadhi to address students at Harvard. Qadhi has claimed that “Hitler never intended to mass-destroy the Jews,” and that the Holocaust is “false propaganda.” Despite these views, Mazen’s colleague, Khoshafa, describes Yasir Qadhi as “one of the foremost Muslim-American scholars and an amazing lecturer.”
[. . .]
CAIR is so toxic in American political circles that the Obama Justice Department has had aban on working with CAIR in place since 2009. After the 2008 Holy Land Foundation terrorism trial established “at least a prima facie case as to CAIR’s involvement in a conspiracy to support Hamas,” the Obama Justice Department cut all ties with the group. In 2014, the UAE designated CAIR as a terrorist organization.
The voters of Cambridge have now reelected a man who holds a leadership position in an organization shunned by the Obama administration due to its terrorist connections. It is no surprise that, since first being elected into public office, Mazen has become one of the most hostile critics of counterterrorism efforts in Massachusetts in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings.
In May, Mazen voted in committee against the Cambridge Police Department budget, taking issue with the department’s “increased militarization” and demanding it get rid of its SWAT team, which he claimed was alienating the Muslim community. The Cambridge SWAT team was among several involved in apprehending Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev after a night of gunfire and cooker-bomb explosions over a wide swath of Cambridge and nearby Watertown. Especially after the Paris attacks last week, calls to disarm police forces in the face of coordinated military-style operations by Islamic terrorists simply sound ludicrous.
To add insult to injury, an organizer who works for Mazen’s non-profit group MassMuslims recently told the Boston Globe that instead of Islamist terrorists, the whole city of Cambridge was to blame for the marathon bombings: “It’s not just Muslims, it’s everybody… There’s a collective sense of, ‘Where did we drop the ball?’”
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/11/16/hamas-on-the-charles-cambridge-ma-reelects-cair-leader-to-city-council/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Neptune+Web+E-Blast&utm_content=APT+on+Boston+Talk+Radio&utm_campaign=Kuhner+Report+Blast
HAMAS ON THE CHARLES: CAMBRIDGE, MA REELECTS CAIR LEADER TO CITY COUNCIL
by ILYA FEOKTISTOV AND SAM WESTROP
16 Nov 2015
https://youtu.be/B4nVCzAJnpE
3 comments:
Roy, you posted a video whose title declares that Mazen is against secular Islamists when the quote has Mazen commenting disapprovingly on a group that is attempting to secularize Islamists. If you're going to post a video I do think you should review it first before using it to back up your attack. It makes me question whatever other facts you posted in your attack on Councilor Mazen.
The audio/video clip of Mazen objecting to opinion that Muslims in the US should be secular is not offensive at all.
US citizens and residents don't have freedom of religion? Of course they do.
I daresay there are many nominal Christians and Jews in Cambridge who never go to religious services and think of their religious attachment as somehow traditional. "Christians" who are happy to celebrate Christmas and Easter as basically secular holidays.
Same for many Jews. But if someone were to get up and announce that we SHOULD NOT go to temple or church or otherwise express our religious beliefs in an organized way we'd be outraged.
All Mazen is saying is that to pray or not pray, to keep the Ramadan fast or not is not the public's business.
For So It Seems. Criticism of the government can be considered an attack, or not. It was as I understand it, the reason for the First Amendment, to protect (speech that you hate) critical expression about the government. Mr. Nazen is an elected official. This is a matter which some people consider serious. CAIR is listed by the US Department of Justice as a having links to terror groups. If Councilor Mazen is a member (or founding member of their Massachusetts chapter as described herein) he may want to clarify his position. The video is included in the article. There was an audio link which I was unable to post. I do not know its contents. The issue is CAIR, not non practicing members of religions. Cherry picking is a favorite past time of PR flacks. Thanks for reading.
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