CAIR worries about “backlash” after Minnesota mall jihad, governor calls for “religious tolerance”

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/09/cair-worries-about-backlash-after-minnesota-mall-jihad-governor-calls-for-religious-tolerance

September 18, 2016 8:02 pm By Robert Spencer 92 Comments

A Muslim stabbed nine non-Muslims in a Minnesota mall, and you know what that means as far as the mainstream media is concerned: Muslims are victims. Hamas-linked CAIR has been quick to claim victim status, whining about an anti-Muslim “backlash” that seldom, if ever, materializes after Islamic jihad attacks. And Minnesota’s governor is calling for “religious and racial tolerance,” which is always demanded of the victims and targets of jihad, never of its perpetrators.

“Family ID’s attacker behind ‘potential act of terrorism’ in St. Cloud,” by Paul Walsh, Beatrice Dupuy and Brandon Stahl, Star Tribune, September 18, 2016:

…Jaylani Hussein, executive director in Minnesota of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said Sunday afternoon that “we are definitely concerned about the potential for backlash in the community, both in the immediate run and the longer term.”
Hussein went on to call the attack “an isolated incident, and we still don’t know the full facts.”…
In response to the bloodshed in St. Cloud, Gov. Dayton said he was “appalled at the terrible attacks on innocent Minnesotans in St. Cloud last night. If true that they were motivated by religious bigotry, I condemn them even more strongly. … I ask everyone in the St. Cloud area and throughout Minnesota to rise above this atrocity and act to make religious and racial tolerance one of the ways in which Minnesotans again lead our country.”…