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Steven Emerson,
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May 26, 2015
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CAIR's
Ayloush Considers Hizballah "Terrorists" in Syria, But Not Israel
by IPT News • May 26, 2015 at
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The head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Los Angeles
office, Hussam Ayloush, continues to exhibit double standards when it comes
to Israel's terrorist enemies. Ayloush openly calls Hizballah's fighters as
"terrorists" when referring to the group's involvement in the
Syrian civil war, however avoids invoking the "terrorist" label
when Hizballah intentionally kills Israeli civilians.
"#Nasrallah, hiding like a rat, sends his #Hizbullah terrorists to
die while killing Syrians, just to help the Assad tyrant," Ayloush tweeted
Sunday.
He was responding to a commentary by the National Coalition of Syrian
Revolution and Opposition Forces, which claims that Hizballah's leader
Hassan Nasrallah is fighting an "immoral" and "losing"
battle against Syria's rebels.
"[Has] Nasrallah lost his senses or is it just cheap talk when he
compares resisting the Israeli occupation to fighting against the rebels in
Syria?" Badr Jamous asks in the commentary.
Ayloush clearly agrees that Hizballah's involvement in Syria is immoral
and considers Hizballah "terrorists" only because of his
anti-Assad view. But his criticism was absent when Hizballah fired rockets
at Israeli civilian communities in 2006 or after any of the Lebanese-based
terrorist groups attacks against Israel.
By avoiding reference to Hizballah as a terrorist organization in
context of its violent operations against Israel, Ayloush is arguably
justifying terrorism that targets the Jewish state.
Ayloush has avoided condemning terrorist organizations targeting
Israelis in the past.
In 2013, Ayloush was confronted outside a CAIR-LA annual fundraising banquet
and asked to condemn Hamas terrorism. Ayloush issued a standard CAIR response saying that he condemns
"any group...who engages in the harming of civilians, innocent
people."
He avoided addressing Hamas specifically and then proceeded to claim
that his "civil rights organization" refrained from providing any
comments related to Middle East developments.
"But as a civil rights organization we're not here in the business
of being dragged into the Middle East affairs and the conflicts of the
Middle East," Ayloush said. "We are an American
organization." The question itself is "not acceptable," and
"proves that you have nothing but bigotry in you."
Such a heated response is full of hypocrisy, especially considering that
CAIR consistently condemns Israel's counterterrorism operations.
During a 2008 press conference, Ayloush demanded that the U.S. "government take immediate
steps to end the immoral and illegal Israeli bombardment of Gaza."
Hamas, again, is never mentioned despite incessant rocket fire that
sparked the conflict.
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