Comment by Ali Abdallah
January 10, 2011
Response to:
January 10, 2011
Response to:
"Republican Heavy Metal: The Apocalyptics," by John Feffer, Co-director, Foreign Policy in Focus, Huffington Post
Feffer blunders on many points. But he uses charges concocted by the Jihadist lobby in the US regarding Professor Walid Phares, a Romney Middle East and National Security Adviser. The Islamist lobby CAIR and Hezbollah propagandist Asad Abukhalil spread lies about the leading scholar on the Middle East, the author of the only book that predicted the Arab Spring. Obviously Phares is not an anti-Islam commentator when he is the adviser to many Muslim secular and pro democracy NGOs. Phares was a foreign affairs director for the Lebanese East Beirut free area opposing Syrian occupation and Hezbollah. Linking his name to events that occurred in 1982 while served his community as of 1986 is silly. That's what happens when ignorant American commentators, who do not speak the language of the region, messes up its history. Obviously attacking Phares is only going to lose votes for Obama, from large segments from the Lebanese, Syrian, Coptic, Assyrian, and Arab liberals in the US and shift them to the nominee in the other camp. That's what happen when apologists are manipulated by an Islamist lobby, CAIR. Obama's camp should distance itself from CAIR before it costs him millions of voters in November.
