Eturnalshift wrote:
1 - CAIR didn't make any mention of the ICNA speakers so viewers wouldn't look into the speakers pasts.
2 - AIR never said why the Tea Party protest was taking place, even though it was stated by the protest organizer at the rally to protest the Imams.
How is this relevant? Are you saying that legitimizes what happened?
Eturnalshift wrote:
3 - The protest speakers said they advocated a non-violent and a non-in-your-face protest, yet CAIR didn't attempt to show that in their video.
What is shown in the video is non-violent and not-in-your-face, largely because if it wasn't, the Muslims could invoke right of self-defense and right to evict intruders by force to remove the protesters.
Eturnalshift wrote:
4 - CAIR's commentary at the start said the people in the video were part of organizations and groups; the groups have denied even knowing who they were. (It appeared as much, too, if you watch the real protest.)
5 - CAIR said one of the speakers belonged to an SPLC Hate Group, yet failed to mention one of the speakers at the event had history with part of an SPLC Hate Group as well.
Substantiate this.
Eturnalshift wrote:
6 - CAIR used excerpts from the real protest and spliced it with video from the splinter protest, trying to connect the elected officials to the splinter protest.
7 - CAIR used simple tactics in the video to make the situation look more than it really was; ie. Camera-man rushing to get behind a family walking toward the front door so it looked like the family was marching toward an angry mob... just to pull on your heart-strings.
8 - The CAIR website says, "The Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) today released a video of a rally organized by anti-Muslim bigots to protest a February fundraising event held by an American Muslim relief group for relief work and charity in the U.S."
You keep trying to create this false dichotomy between the "real" protest and the "fake" protest. Doesn't work that way. That WAS the protest, it WAS real. It wasn't "unreal". It wasn't staged, these weren't plants, it wasn't a mock-up, what is portrayed in the video was real, it happened. The moderates not shown in the video, whom you claim exist but haven't provided any proof of, don't negate the reality of the extremists we see in this one.
In any event, your claim that there was a "real" protest defies logic. We can see clearly in the video that the bigots are crowded along the fence. If they were outnumbered by moderates why did the moderates not occupy the perimeter? If they outnumbered the bigots, it would stand to reason they'd displace them amongst most of its length, and would have the sheer numbers to displace them so they wouldn't be discredited.
