{"id":15805,"date":"2012-10-05T11:55:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T15:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15805"},"modified":"2012-10-05T11:55:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T15:55:44","slug":"the-foxes-are-watching-the-chickens-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15805","title":{"rendered":"The Foxes Are Watching The Chickens Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the <a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/state-stands-by-its-man\/\">Washington Free Beacon<\/a> reported that the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Department of State\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8941666667,-77.0483333333&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8941666667,-77.0483333333 (United%20States%20Department%20of%20State)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">U. S. State Department<\/a> has selected Salam al-Marayati, founder of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Muslim Public Affairs Council\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mpac.org\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Muslim Public Affairs Council<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpac.org\/programs\/government-relations\/mpac-represents-us-government-at-human-rights-conference.php\">MPAC<\/a>), to participate in a human rights forum in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Poland\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=52.2166666667,21.0333333333&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=52.2166666667,21.0333333333 (Poland)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">Poland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Al-Marayati has been a vociferous critic of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Israel\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=31.7833333333,35.2166666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=31.7833333333,35.2166666667 (Israel)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">Israel<\/a>, once suggesting that Israel should be put \u201con the suspect list\u201d for the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"9\/11 Attacks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/9-11-attacks\" rel=\"historycom\" target=\"_blank\">Sept. 11, 2001<\/a>, terrorist attacks. His organization, MPAC, has requested that militant groups <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Hamas\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hamas\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Hamas<\/a> and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Hezbollah\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hezbollah\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Hezbollah<\/a> be removed from the list of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">United States<\/a>-designated terrorist groups.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Al-Marayati\u2019s inclusion in the U.S. delegation attracted the ire of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Judaism\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Judaism\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Jewish<\/a> leaders and others who feel he is the wrong person to represent America at a forum focusing on human rights and tolerance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The State Department stood by al-Marayati Thursday, telling the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> that the Israel critic is \u201cvalued and highly credible.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please follow the above link to the Washington Free Beacon to read the entire story. Sometimes I wonder who the State Department is working for.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=9739c5af-a09b-46c7-8085-dfd9e5cfbced\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the Washington Free Beacon reported that the U. S. State Department has selected Salam al-Marayati, founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), to participate in a human rights forum in Poland. The article reports: Al-Marayati has been a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15805\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4087,90,302,86,4085,4086,345,285],"class_list":["post-15805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-al-marayati","tag-hamas","tag-hezbollah","tag-israel","tag-muslim-public-affair-council","tag-poland","tag-september-11-attacks","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15807,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15805\/revisions\/15807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}