Alert the media! The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has filed another lawsuit!
WPVI in Philadelphia covered CAIR’s press conference announcing its latest legal crusade. This time, CAIR is representing Keziah Ridgeway in her fight against alleged unlawful discrimination and retaliation for her “Palestinian views.”
That may be what the lawsuit says it’s about, but Ms. Ridgeway herself is about something else entirely.
The misspellings are preserved in the excerpts that follow — consider them a built-in footnote on the intellectual rigor of CAIR’s legal filings. According to the lawsuit:
. . . in November 2023, a colleague reached out to Ridgeway with a professional development teaching opportunity (PD) on How to teach the Genocide in Palestine in the classroom.
Upon information and belief, the District Chair of the Social Studies Department approved the PD.
Within 24 hours of approval of the PD, Pro-Isreal and Jewish faculty, staff, and members of the community objected, and The District required ‘genocide’ be removed from the title of the PD. Ridgeway agreed to the change, but inexplicabley, the District subsequently cancelled the PD.
“Pro-Isreal.” “Inexplicabley.” Indeed.
Keziah Ridgeway is not some noble civil rights figure — she’s a radical activist posing as a teacher, determined to inject her worldview into classrooms. Her students love her, of course. They always do. Cult leaders tend to get five-star reviews from the newly initiated.
In another gem, Ridgeway is pictured holding two pro-Nazi books, as proudly as a showcase model on the Price is Right.
This would be ironic, if irony hadn’t already been clubbed to death by CAIR’s hypocrisy. This is the same CAIR that will trip over a microphone to denounce the faintest whiff of white supremacy — unless it’s repackaged with a keffiyeh and a slogan about decolonization.
Apparently, to some, Israel (or “Isreal”) is the new Nazi Germany.
Understandably, a group of Jewish parents banded together to bring Ridgeway’s conduct to the school district’s attention. And Ridgeway, in turn, began searching for her critics — eventually discovering the Jewish Families Alliance (JFA) social media page.
Though she appeared calm and composed at CAIR’s press conference, Ridgeway is fully capable of letting the mask slip. She warned JFA that she would “fight back” and ominously quoted, “It’s no fun when the rabbit’s got the gun.” Later, she casually asked online if anyone knew of a black-owned gun store, adding, “Asking for a friend.”
That was the last straw. The Jewish Families Alliance filed a formal complaint. Ridgeway was suspended.
CAIR’s transmogrification of Ridgeway into a civil rights martyr is part of a larger strategy: obscure the atrocities of October 7, replace them with tales of Israeli oppression, and rebrand extremism as activism. It’s a clever trick — a PR makeover worthy of a Hollywood agent.
Apparently, anything is forgivable if you fly the Palestinian flag high enough. You can brawl with police. You can fire a teacher for failing to praise Hamas. You can even sneak Nazism into public school curricula — all under the comforting blanket of “free speech.”
Which brings us to a legal flashback.
In National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie (1977), the Supreme Court didn’t say Nazis were good — it said even hateful speech is protected by the First Amendment, unless it crosses very narrow lines. So, yes, the Nazis marched, even though through Chicago, instead. But the key distinction? Everyone knew they were Nazis. No one confused them for civil rights activists.
Today, we have widespread support for Hamas, served up as “pro-Palestinian advocacy.” This isn’t just offensive. It’s dangerous. The line between free speech and national security is starting to blur — and if don’t start calling support for “Palestine” what it is, we’ll wake up one day to find both have disappeared entirely.
SKA says
CAIR’s sloppy misspellings are not mere innocent mistakes. From dealing with foreign-born Muslim students at the university level I have found that there is sometimes a deliberate resistance to adhere to correct and consistent spelling conventions. Often a student named “Muhammad” might spell his name “Mohamed” on one occasion and “Mohammed” or “Mohammad” on other occasions. It is as if to say “the English transliteration is insignificant- only the Arabic script spelling is of value.” I think deliberate dispelling were also means of testing a faculty member’s willingness to pander to Muslim students by tolerating lax spelling in a way they would not tolerate the same misspelling by a native speaker of English. When the faculty member tolerates bad spelling then the student can push other boundaries like plagiarism: “But in my culture we honor others by repeating their words” (while not indicating the source of the lifted material. To be blunt of these are just ways of their pissing upon the hated infidel culture. And spelling “Isreal” instead of “Israel” is another way of avoiding saying the hated name correctly.
Larry Estavan says
That is very interesting.
I have noticed CAIR spokespeople engaging in what I thought were affectations.
For example, despite have been a public speaker in the English language for decades Nihad Awad still cannot pronounce the word “learn” He says “lairn” instead.
Here is just one of many other examples, from Texas where CAIR spox Shaimaa Zayan, talks about someone “snitching” the hijab off of a woman. This woman has been in the country for years, and has even been a math teacher, in English, for ten years. –
https://youtu.be/1TKfADTK5Bg?si=EwMlWzFX8Lk2RwUq&t=184
It is hard for me to believe this isn’t a deliberate affection.
somehistory says
It seems as if you have hit on something…..that is core to islime. A refusal to acknowledge any thing, nor show respect for anything not having to do with their evil belief system.
Students don’t have respect for teachers; defendants don’t have respect for the law, court or judges; males have no respect for females; and on and on.
It sounds as if your students have the attitude of ‘you can’t make me because I’m mozlum.’
I have no respect for them or their belief. …islime, and mozlum ..both .are unworthy.
somehistory says
One can even carry banners about Oct 7, which everyone knows by now what hamas did, call it “resistance” and people will rise up to support what hamas did.
Things have changed a whole lot since the nazi’s marched in IL. Back then, the public recognized evil when they saw and heard. Now, even if they recognize it, they don’t call it like it is….they say it’s good.
Isaiah wrote about them. “Woe to those putting evil for good, bitter for sweet and darkness for light.”
They are doing those three things; and more. Woe is on the way.
James Lincoln says
somehistory says,
“Things have changed a whole lot since the nazi’s marched in IL. Back then, the public recognized evil when they saw and heard.”
If they had today’s Western “mentality”, the allies would not have won World War II.
Patrick says
What’s being taught and programmed is Islam/Hamas/jihad. CAIR promotes and propagandizes for clients, to ensure an Islamic outcome beneficial to Islam, serve as a brainwashing technique. Most colleges and universities receive funding from Qatar, allow Muslim instructors to brainwash students, over time, the universities and students become Islamisized, mimic jihadi dress and support their actions/agenda.
gravenimage says
Hamas-linked CAIR Defends a Pro-Hamas Activist
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Of course they do–Jihadists defend Jihadists preaching the kidnapping, rape, and murder of Infidels.