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Jan. 23, 2003
CCA RAPPED FOR PLANNING
'HATE-FEST'
 

The Christian Coalition of America president Roberta Combs says her group is sponsoring a symposium to educate "Christians of faith and interested Americans about the true nature of Islam." Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, ridicules that claim, saying the two million-member CCA is planning nothing more than an "Islamophobic hate-fest."

Awad believes the speakers lined up by CCA for the Feb. 15 Washington, D.C., event will only "serve to increase unthinking hatred directed at Islam and the American Muslim community."


CCA president Roberta Combs

CCA speakers include Daniel Pipes, columnist for the New York Post and Jerusalem Post, and director of the Middle East Forum; Joseph Farah, editor of WorldNet Daily.com; and Labib Mikhail, who has written more than 60 books on Islam and Christianity.

Pipes, according to a CAIR statement, wrote in the Jewish World Review that American Muslims represent a threat to the U.S. because they want to turn this country into a Muslim state. Farah wrote that "Islam has been at war with the West, with Christianity, with Judaism ever since the days of Muhammad. Mikhail believes the Koran "condones racism, violence, terrorism and killing of Jews and Christians in the name of Allah."

His latest book, "Islam, Muhammad and the Koran," has chapters entitled "Islam is not a religion of peace," and "Islam is not a divine religion."

CAIR has called on the CCA to offer more "accurate and balanced" presentations to the symposium. Combs, who recently returned from a pilgrimage to Israel and the occupied territories, says the symposium will discuss topics such as "Christian persecution in Arab countries," "war on Iraq," "Arab-Israeli conflict," and "Islam on Terrorism."

Ronn Torossian, who recently set up 5W PR in New York, is her PR rep. He also represents the Zionist Organization of America.

 
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