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Daily Caller barred from CAIR press conference on Islamist attacks in Egypt, Libya

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WASHINGTON — The Council on American-Islamic Relations blocked a Daily Caller reporter from access to the group’s press conference Wednesday afternoon, accusing the outlet of being a “hate group.”

The noon press conference was scheduled to address Islamist attacks on American embassies in Egypt and Libya Tuesday night.

After a CAIR staffer reviewed the credentials of TheDC’s reporter, he handed the card to Ibrahim Hooper, the group’s communications director.

Hooper smirked and told the reporter, “The Daily Caller is not a news outlet, it is a hate group. You cannot come in.”

When pressed, Hooper again denied the reporter access to the press conference, but provided no basis for his accusation.

Reached via phone, Hooper again provided no explanation for the claim, saying only, “you’re not a news site, you’re an anti-Muslim hate site.”

“We have any number of press people. In fact, we often have press people who are highly critical, or ask tough questions,” Hooper went on. “But people who report for propagandist, anti-Muslim hate sites are not journalists.”

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  1. Xavier

    September 12th, 2012

    Thank SPLC for paving the way!

    By the way I have personally been declared a hate group.

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  2. grayscape

    September 12th, 2012

    It’s the same as Nazis calling Jews a hate group.

    We could kick these motherfuckers out of our country….but that would be RAAAACIST….and being called that scares us more than death itself.

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  3. MaryfromMarin

    September 12th, 2012

    Congratulations, @Xavier! Proud of you! May it happen to all of us.

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  4. Pearl Clutcher

    September 12th, 2012

    Ok, I just read a consiprisy theory , some believe that the taliban created the movie to create a justification to riot? Seriously, isn’t this part of the plot from one of the funniest films “An American Carol”? I need to have in rotation An American Carol and Team America on the t.v and take a break for this news cycle because I can not stomach much more of the left’s talking heads.

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  5. muhammad is Obama's mamma

    September 12th, 2012

    Ibrahim Hooper C.A.I.R. (Crazy Ass Islamics Rioting) communications director said, “anybody who reports the truth about islam is not a journalist. Prepare to die yankee, running dog, imperialist swine, infidel!!
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    I declare myself a love group, because I love to hate 7th century savagery masquerading as “The Religion of Pieces”. Your head is over here, your left foot is over there, your right hand is being eaten by a dog, your torso is flopping around like a craniumless chicken. The “Religion of Pieces” strikes again.

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  6. FreeMan & Sarah on Vacation

    September 12th, 2012

    To all CAIR supporters and asshole islame muslims all over the world, this is for you.

    You owe John Christopher Stevens his life back FUCKERS!

    You can all die and it wouldn’t be enough to bring back one dog.

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  7. RANDO

    September 12th, 2012

    Well, I reckon I’m a hate group too.

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  8. Unneutral

    September 12th, 2012

    Give’em my number, I’ll show them what real islamic hate sounds like.
    Notice the lower case letters in islamic.

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  9. tripseven

    September 12th, 2012

    Hate is a God given emotion…careful what you wish CAIR!

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  10. tripseven

    September 12th, 2012

    Crap…wish for

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  11. ovah heah

    September 12th, 2012

    bangers and maaaaasssh, blokes. believe that Andy McCarthey’s got strate away….

    you’ll find out

    http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/316633

    No, It’s Sharia and the Assault on U.S. Missions

    I could not more vigorously disagree with my friend Daniel Pipes, who disappointingly lays fault for yesterday’s carnage at the feet of Reverend Terry Jones. In essence, Daniel — like much of the progressive, bipartisan U.S. ruling class — adopts the reasoning of Muslim Brotherhood jurist Yusuf Qaradawi, who admonishes that women who fail to conform to fundamentalist Islam’s restrictive sartorial standards have only themselves to blame when they get raped.
    [...]
    Understand that Islam, particularly as Islamic supremacists interpret it, is not merely a religion; it is a totalitarian ideology that has some spiritual principles, which make up a small subset of the belief system. Blasphemy is not applied only to the spiritual principles — say, to the oneness of Allah, and the like. The speech prohibition applies across the board to all Islamic doctrine. You’ve got a problem with a woman’s court testimony being worth only half of a man’s? Blasphemy! You’ve got a problem with needing four male witnesses to prove rape? Blasphemy! You’ve got a problem with the death penalty for homosexuals? With stoning for adulterers? With scourging for the consumption of alcohol? Blasphemy, blasphemy, blasphemy!

    That’s what causes the rioting and murder. The “blasphemers” are only a pretext. What causes this is the indoctrination of Muslim populations in an evil ideology that justifies savagery over nonsense. That’s the proximate cause. If you want to look at a material cause beyond the proximate cause, the place to start would be American officials like the ones Daniel cites with seeming approval: David Petraeus, Robert Gates, Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama — and I’d add Lindsey Graham to the list. They are the officials who condemned Terry Jones’s exercise of free speech — book burning — because, as Daniel gently puts it, they were “worried it would lead to Muslim violence against Americans.” That is shameful. What “leads to Muslim violence” is the toxic combination of Islamic teaching that violence is the appropriate response to even minor insults and the dhimmified superpower’s acquiescence in this barbarism.

    krikey

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  12. Bob M.

    September 12th, 2012

    “The Council on American-Islamic Relations blocked a Daily Caller reporter from access to the group’s press conference Wednesday afternoon, accusing the outlet of being a “hate group.””

    Ya’ know what I hate?

    When idiots like this wear a condom on their head, yet manage to reproduce anyways. >:-(

    Oh yeah – I also hate when Presbyterians and Methodists fly planeloads of civilians into the Word Trade Center towers.

    Wait… – what? :oops:

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  13. GW Bear

    September 12th, 2012

    Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

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  14. simply enraged

    September 12th, 2012

    K T A!!!

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  15. Major Mal function

    September 12th, 2012

    Muslims shouldn’t drive cabs. They should work in movie theaters because every damn one of them is a projectionist.

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  16. Ray

    September 13th, 2012

    Hey I am also a one-man hate group. I hate CAIR. F**K ISLAM! Mohammed can suck a stale fart out of Moosehell Obanga’s rectum with a tiny coffee stir.

    If my comment offends you…. GOOD! It’s what I intended!

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  17. MsMossberg

    September 13th, 2012

    Cyrus Mc Goldrick-CAIR NY- recently blasted me via Twitter that CAIR does not comment on the politics of other countries. I think I’ll pay him a Twitter visit.

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