{"id":81792,"date":"2015-12-09T14:45:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T22:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=81792"},"modified":"2015-12-09T14:45:54","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T22:45:54","slug":"even-after-san-bernardino-muslim-advocacy-group-gets-cold-shoulder-from-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=81792","title":{"rendered":"Even After San Bernardino, Muslim Advocacy Group Gets Cold Shoulder From Jews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/news\/326422\/cair-muslim-group-gets-cold-shoulder-from-jews\/?attribution=home-hero-item-text-1\">From the Forward<\/a>: Hours after news broke of the shooting in San Bernardino, California, a group of Muslim community leaders gathered at a press conference to deliver a harsh condemnation of the deadly attack carried out by Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik. The activists were members of the Los Angeles chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an organization that has emerged as the most prominent voice of American Muslim fighting Islamophobia and calling for multi-faith tolerance.<br \/>\nBut for most in the organized Jewish committee, CAIR is out of bounds.<br \/>\nFor Jewish groups that see building ties with the American Muslim community as a key communal interest, CAIR\u2019s position at the center of Muslim life poses awkward problems. But a mix of decades-old judicial allegations that the group has had ties with Hamas and more recent anti-Israel rhetoric from CAIR officials has served to render the group unacceptable for most Jewish organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Forward: Hours after news broke of the shooting in San Bernardino, California, a group of Muslim community leaders gathered at a press conference to deliver a harsh condemnation of the deadly attack carried out by Syed Farook and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=81792\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","category-jews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81793,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81792\/revisions\/81793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}