An anonymous WorldNetDaily writer was in full pro-Trump — and anti-Muslim — mode in a Dec. 18 article:
While the Council on American-Islamic Relations likes to bill itself as a Muslim “civil-rights organization,” it downplays its direct ties to the terrorist group Hamas, its lineage to the Muslim Brotherhood and its extremist history that includes dozens of its executives, board members’ and staffers’ indictments, convictions and prison sentences for terror-related crimes.
But sometimes CAIR leadership lets its guard down.
That’s what happened, apparently, in the early morning hours of Nov. 9, right after the election of Donald Trump as president became clear.
Hussam Ayloush, the long-time director of CAIR-Los Angeles, Tweeted out the following message:
“Ok, repeat after me:
“Al-Shaab yureed isqat al-nizaam.
“(Arab Spring chant)”
The second line in Arabic translates to “The people want to bring down the regime.”
“In other words, Ayloush unambiguously and directly called for the overthrow of the U.S. government,” observes scholar Daniel Pipes of Middle East Forum.
The “threat” here is rather laughable when you consider WND has effectively been calling for the overthrow of President Obama for the past eight years. And it’s done worse.
In November 2009, WND editor Joseph Farah began one of his many, many anti-Obama columns with a segment of Psalm 109: “Let his days be few; and let another take his office.”
Now, Farah probably wants you think that’s benign — a 2011 WND article mocked the idea that it could be considered a threat to Obama — but as we noted, a full reading of that psalm continues:
May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes.
May a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.
May no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his fatherless children.
May his descendants be cut off, their names blotted out from the next generation.
May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD; may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
May their sins always remain before the LORD, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
In other words, not benign. Farah clearly is wishing Obama a very severe sort of ill will, if not his death, by invoking that psalm.
We get the feeling we’re going to be spending a lot of time pointing out whenever WND whines about something happening to Trump that it did or tried to do something equivalent to Obama.