Ken Isaacs “faced serious charges of anti-Muslim bigotry.”
Among them: “Isaacs published numerous tweets describing Islam as an inherently violent religion, including one after the 2016 attack in the French city of Nice that said ‘Islam is not peaceful’. He has also retweeted xenophobic material, such as a post last year from Robert Spencer, the director of Jihad Watch, which argued ‘peaceful Muslims’ and ‘Jihadis’ were indistinguishable.”
This is endlessly repeated as if I had said some heinous thing. Once again I ask those who repeat it: how exactly do they distinguish jihadis from peaceful Muslims? In January 2016, Abdul Shaheed (formerly Edward Archer) shot Philadelphia police officer Jesse Hartnett multiple times at close range. He was a member of Philadelphia’s Masjid Mujahideen. Ibrahim Simpson and Nadir Soofi, who attacked our Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest in Garland, Texas in May 2015, were members in good standing of the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix. The Tsarnaev brothers, who bombed the Boston Marathon in 2013, were members of the Islamic Society of Boston, as were many other jihadists.
If it is so easy to distinguish peaceful Muslims from jihadis, why weren’t Shaheed, Simpson, Soofi, and the Tsarnaevs expelled from these mosques?
Also, it is not “xenophobic” to oppose mass migration from jihadi hotspots, and not “anti-Muslim” to oppose jihad terror and Sharia oppression of women and others — unless opposing the Nazis made one “anti-German.”
Ben Simons of AFP made no attempt, of course, to contact me for comment before including his little smear in his piece.
“Portugal’s Vitorino beats Trump pick to lead UN migration agency,” by Ben Simon, Agence-France Presse, June 29, 2018:
Decades of American leadership at the United Nations migration agency was broken on Friday as voters rejected President Donald Trump’s nominee for director general, electing Portuguese politician Antonio Vitorino instead.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) had been led by an American throughout the agency’s 67-year history with one exception from 1961 to 1969.
But Trump’s pick Ken Isaacs, an executive with the Christian charity Samaritan’s Purse who faced serious charges of anti-Muslim bigotry, proved to be an untenable choice.
Vitorino, 61, won by acclamation after Isaacs was knocked out of the race and the third candidate, current IOM deputy chief Laura Thompson, stood aside after seeing no path to victory….
But the result is a clear repudiation of Trump, whose hardline stance and inflammatory rhetoric towards migrants undermined Washington’s traditional right to choose the world’s top migration official.
Trump’s “America First” administration has also levelled ferocious attacks against multilateral bodies and core IOM functions like refugee resettlement.
Analysts had warned that voters might stick with Isaacs to avoid punishing US fundings cuts, but Trump’s posture on migration and Isaacs’s personal history appeared to sway the room.
Isaacs published numerous tweets describing Islam as an inherently violent religion, including one after the 2016 attack in the French city of Nice that said “Islam is not peaceful”.
He has also retweeted xenophobic material, such as a post last year from Robert Spencer, the director of Jihad Watch, which argued “peaceful Muslims” and “Jihadis” were indistinguishable.
Isaacs made his Twitter account private amid the uproar that followed his nomination in February, but he did not deny responsibility for any of his controversial comments.
The US nominee also refused to definitively recognise the causal link between human activity and climate change….
The US candidate to head the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Ken Isaacs has come under fire for publishing numberous tweets saying Islam is inherently a violent religion[.]