(IPT) Oh boy, was Hussam Ayloush ever mad!
Asked to condemn Hamas in 2013, Ayloush called the question “unacceptable” and lashed out at the questioner, saying it was “very shameful” and “proves that you have nothing but bigotry in you.”
Ayloush, who runs the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Los Angeles office, said “as a civil rights organization, we’re not here in the business of being dragged into the Middle East affairs and the conflicts of the Middle East. We are an American organization.”
The question was rooted in CAIR’s ties to a Hamas-support network in America, ties that prompted the FBI to cut off outreach work with CAIR more than a decade ago.
Ayloush knew that, but it was easier to browbeat the questioner than to try explaining away those connections.
