A group of about 50 Muslims from South Florida is embarking this morning on a trip to Tallahassee, where it will have secret meetings with state policymakers. It's called "Muslim Day," and the Lake Worth-based Florida Security Council says we freedom-loving Americans should be very afraid.
Summoning my courage, I placed a phone call yesterday to one of the organizers of the trip, Muhammed Malik, the new executive director of this region's Council on American-Islamic Relations. In short order, Malik confessed his nefarious plan: the group, consisting mostly of Muslim middle school, high school, and college students, wanted to talk to state officials about tuition costs at Florida universities, about health care and immigration.
Wait. That's not nefarious at all! According to the Florida Security Council, CAIR's mission is to "Islamicize" America.
Malik told me that the doctrine he knows forbids people of the faith from pressuring non-Muslims to convert. The idea that CAIR aims to "impose sharia law" on the United States, as Florida Security Council claims, is "ridiculous," says Malik. He adds: "They're marginalizing Muslim people and using fear to whip up unjustified anger."
But that's not the mission statement of the Florida Security Council. As you can see from its website, the council exists for "Securing Florida Against Terror."
And surely, the best way to prevent Muslims from committing terrorism is to stage protests when Muslim Americans have a meeting, as occurred this past weekend. Then in the days before Muslim American students head to the state capital, it's wise to release a video like the one below, full of all kinds of paranoid possibilities about a Muslim master plan.
