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
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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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