For Immediate Release
CAIR Department to Monitor and Combat Islamophobia Director Corey Saylor, 202-384-8857, csaylor@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-744-7726, ihooper@cair.com; CAIR Communications Manager Amina Rubin, 202-341-4171, arubin@cair.com
CAIR Questions Presidential Hopeful Jindal’s Repetition of Discredited Muslim ‘No-Go Zone’ Claim
WASHINGTON – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today questioned why Louisiana Governor and presidential hopeful Bobby Jindal would repeat the now-discredited and universally mocked claim that Muslims in Europe have set up so-called “no-go zones” that people of other faiths and police are not allowed to enter.
In a speech delivered today in London, Jindal claimed, “non-assimilationist Muslims establish enclaves and carry out as much of Sharia law as they can without regard for the laws of the democratic countries which provided them a new home.” He added that “it is startling to think that any country would allow, even unofficially, for a so-called ‘no-go zone.'”
SEE: Bobby Jindal Says West Allows Muslims to Set Up ‘No-Go Zones’
When pressed to provide examples of “no-go zones,” Jindal could not offer specifics to support his claim.
CNN: Bobby Jindal Invokes ‘No-Go Zones’ in London Speech
Over the weekend, Fox News was forced to apologize several times for a similar “no-go zone” claim made by self-proclaimed terrorism ‘expert’ Steven Emerson. In response to Emerson’s claim, British Prime Minister David Cameron said: “Frankly I choked on my porridge and thought it must be April’s Fools Day. This guy is clearly a complete idiot.”
CAIR: Fox News Apologizes for False Claims of Muslim-Only Areas in England and France (NY Times)
Video: Fox News Admits There is No Such Thing as Muslim ‘No-Go-Zones’ in Europe
Video: Fox’s Judge Jeanine Has to Apologize for Steven Emerson’s False ‘No-Go-Zone’ Claim
Video: Fox News Apologizes Again, This Time for Fake Muslim ‘No-Go-Zone’ Map
“It is sad that competition for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination is kicking off with Muslim bashing,” said Corey Saylor, director of CAIR’s Department to Monitor and Combat Islamophobia. “Governor Jindal’s decision to repeat the already discredited no-go zone allegation is embarrassing to our nation and to his potential presidential campaign.”
CAIR is America’s largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.
CAIR is America’s largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.
MLK Day: where did people say they would not want to live near “another race?”
World’s most and least racially tolerant countries
The US is now among the best!
CLICKME for article in Washington Post
Excerpts from Washington Post
ORIGINAL PAPER
Respondents, picking from a list, chose “people of a different race.” The more frequently that people in a given country say they don’t want neighbors from other races, the economists reasoned, the less racially tolerant you could call that society…
• Anglo and Latin countries most tolerant. People in the survey were most likely to embrace a racially diverse neighbor in the United Kingdom and its Anglo former colonies (the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) and in Latin America. The only real exceptions were oil-rich Venezuela, where income inequality sometimes breaks along racial lines, and the Dominican Republic, perhaps because of its adjacency to troubled Haiti. Scandinavian countries also scored high.
• India and Jordan by far the least tolerant. In only two of 81 surveyed countries, more than 40 percent of respondents said they would not want a neighbor of a different race. This included 43.5 percent of Indians and 51.4 percent of Jordanians. Surprisingly Pakistan appeared tolerant … as also seen in Bangladesh.
• France appeared to be one of the least racially tolerant countries on the continent, with 22.7 percent saying they didn’t want a neighbor of another race.
• The Middle East not so tolerant. Immigration is also a big issue in this region, particularly in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, which often absorb economic migrants from poorer neighbors.
• Israel and most of Black Africa were not studied. (ed .. political correctness?) South Africa, however, was very tolerant suggesting that Mandela has had a lasting effect.
• Pakistan, remarkably tolerant, also an outlier. Although the country has a number of factors that coincide with racial intolerance – sectarian violence, its location in the least-tolerant region of the world, low economic and human development indices – only 6.5 percent of Pakistanis objected to a neighbor of a different race. This would appear to suggest Pakistanis are more racially tolerant than even the Germans or the Dutch.
• Asian countries are very intolerant. Nations with complicated histories with one another, showed more skepticism of diversity. (For example,) more than one in three South Koreans said they do not want a neighbor of a different race. This may have to do with Korea’s particular view of its own racial-national identity as unique – studied by scholars such as B.R. Myers – and with the influx of Southeast Asian neighbors and the nation’s long-held tensions with Japan.
• Correction: This post originally indicated that, according to the World Values Survey, 71.7 percent of Bangladeshis and 71.8 percent of Hong Kongers had said that they would not want a neighbor of a different race. In fact, those numbers appear to be substantially lower, 28.3 percent and 26.8 percent, respectively. In both cases, World Values appears to have erroneously posted the incorrect data on its Web site. Ashirul Amin, posting at the Tufts University Fletcher School’s emerging markets blog, looked into the data for Bangladesh and discovered the mistake. My thanks to Amin, who is Bangladeshi and was able to read the original questionnaire, for pointing this out. His analysis is worth reading in full.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Quotes of the Founders
“The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature; and if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. Although the detail of the formation of the American governments is at present little known or regarded either in Europe or in America, it may hereafter become an object of curiosity. It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.”
~John Adams, “A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America” 1787-1788