{"id":4732,"date":"2010-08-27T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T04:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4732"},"modified":"2010-10-01T10:15:23","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T14:15:23","slug":"cair-ny-calls-governors-statement-on-muslims-grossly-misinformed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4732","title":{"rendered":"CAIR-NY calls Governor&#8217;s statement on Muslims &#8220;grossly misinformed&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Political Influence Operation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> August 27, 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to CBS New York, Gov. Paterson said: \u201cThis group who has put this mosque together, they are known as the  Suffi Muslims. This is not like the Shiites,\u201d Paterson said. \u201cThey\u2019re  almost like a hybrid, almost westernized. They are not really what I  would classify in the sort of mainland Muslim practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CAIR responded with the following:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Governor Paterson&#8217;s comments are grossly misinformed and will  be used to support the false notion that mainstream Muslims are somehow  incapable of being productive citizens,&#8221; said CAIR-NY&#8217;s Community  Affairs Director Faiza N. Ali. &#8220;Responsible leaders should refrain from  mainstreaming misinformation about Islam and instead reach out to the  Muslim community and its leaders. Of particular concern is the  governor&#8217;s derogatory description of Shia Muslims.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.cbslocal.com\/2010\/08\/26\/paterson-mosque-developers-hybrid-almost-westernized-muslims\/\">http:\/\/newyork.cbslocal.com\/2010\/08\/26\/paterson-mosque-developers-hybrid-almost-westernized-muslims\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/cbs-ny.pdf\">(Backup PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/cair-ny-calls-governors-statement-on-muslims-grossly-misinformed-101663413.html\">http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/cair-ny-calls-governors-statement-on-muslims-grossly-misinformed-101663413.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/827.pdf\">(Backup PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Influence Operation Date: August 27, 2010 Description: According to CBS New York, Gov. Paterson said: \u201cThis group who has put this mosque together, they are known as the Suffi Muslims. This is not like the Shiites,\u201d Paterson said. \u201cThey\u2019re almost like a hybrid, almost westernized. They are not really what I would classify in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[115,123,223,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-115","category-elected-officials","category-io-statelocal-government","category-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}