By William Mayer and Beila Rabinowitz
September 5, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - MPAC, the Muslim Public Affairs Council is engaging in what has become standard fare for Islamist organizations; when the facts are inconvenient, simply lie about them and rely on the MSM not to be overly inquisitive.
In a September 2 PR statement dealing with the release of Dr. Sami Al-Arian, MPAC claimed:
September 5, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - MPAC, the Muslim Public Affairs Council is engaging in what has become standard fare for Islamist organizations; when the facts are inconvenient, simply lie about them and rely on the MSM not to be overly inquisitive.
In a September 2 PR statement dealing with the release of Dr. Sami Al-Arian, MPAC claimed:
The Muslim Public Affairs Council today welcomed the release of former professor Sami Al-Arian from federal custody ... Since his arrest five years ago, Al-Arian's case has become an example of what many American Muslims perceived to be numerous post-9/11 political persecutions of individuals using tactics that amount to little more than guilt by association ... In April 2006, Dr. Al-Arian pleaded guilty to a single non-terrorism related count of conspiracy and agreed to be deported."However, the facts of the Al-Arian case bear no resemblance to MPAC's version of the story. Read more ...
[source, MPAC website, http://www.mpac.org/article.php?id=686]
Source: PipeLineNews.org