{"id":4539,"date":"2010-07-15T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T04:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4539"},"modified":"2010-07-28T13:49:16","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T17:49:16","slug":"cair-condemns-tea-party-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4539","title":{"rendered":"CAIR backs NAACP &#8220;racism&#8221; resolution on Tea Party Movement; adds &#8220;Islamophobia&#8221; to the agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Political Influence Operation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: July 15, 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On July 15, 2010, CAIR leaders joined the NAACP in criticizing the Tea Party Movement for failing to \u201crepudiate elements within the movement who use racist or bigoted language.\u201d\u00a0 CAIR Director of Communications, Ibrahim Hooper said, &#8220;If the Tea Party wishes to be taken seriously by mainstream Americans, it must repudiate all those who express or promote extremist, racist or bigoted views while claiming to be affiliated with the movement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hooper made clear that &#8220;Islamophobic&#8221; elements should be included in the condemnation. \u00a0 He went on to specifically name a number of\u00a0these &#8216;Islamophobic\u2019 perpetrators inncluding former congressman Tom Tancredo and Tennessee congressional candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4382\">Lou Ann Zelenik<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/cair-backs-naacp-resolution-on-tea-party-racism-98532894.html\">http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/cair-backs-naacp-resolution-on-tea-party-racism-98532894.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/naacp.pdf\">(PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Influence Operation Date: July 15, 2010 Description: On July 15, 2010, CAIR leaders joined the NAACP in criticizing the Tea Party Movement for failing to \u201crepudiate elements within the movement who use racist or bigoted language.\u201d\u00a0 CAIR Director of Communications, Ibrahim Hooper said, &#8220;If the Tea Party wishes to be taken seriously by mainstream [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,123,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-115","category-elected-officials","category-islamophobia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}