How Far Will Enablers Go

How Far Will “Enablers” Go?

by Guy Rodgers, Executive Director ACT for America

“I don’t believe you.”

That’s what radio talk show host Andy Johnson said to me during an interview yesterday on his drive-time program in Jacksonville, Florida.

We were discussing the nomination of Parvez Ahmed to the Jacksonville Human Rights Commission. Ahmed is a former National Chairman of CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) who has made numerous controversial statements about convicted terrorists and the terrorist organizations Hamas and Hezbollah.

We are working feverishly with ACT! for America’s Jacksonville chapter to defeat Ahmed’s nomination to the commission.

When I stated on Johnson’s program that the Justice Department has cited CAIR as having ties to Hamas, and that CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial, Johnson said:

“I don’t believe you.”

The entire 30 minute interview consisted of me stating the facts about Ahmed’s past actions and statements, and Johnson challenging them, excusing them, justifying them, or trying to explain them away.

But for a talk show host to go so far as to intimate that I was making this information up, well, that reveals just how far “enablers” will go in their attempts to deny reality.

My response was, why would I fabricate something that could be so easily refuted if not true? A cursory online search of CAIR will provide the documentation confirming what I said.

There are many people in America who are uninformed about the many ways radical Islam and global jihad threatens America. But I’m convinced, based on past polling we have done, that most will be persuaded when they hear the facts.

Then there are the “enablers,” those who will go to any lengths to deny the facts, excuse behaviors, and try to explain away public statements of Islamists.

They do so for many reasons, such as political correctness and an unbridled obsession with tolerance and multiculturalism.

We won’t persuade them—they’ve made up their minds and won’t be confused with facts. But we must overcome them as we reach the rest of America.