CAIR fires back at MSNBC host for scolding Muslims who oppose LGBTQ lessons for children: 'This is ludicrous'

A top leader of the Council on American-Islamic Relations issued a scathing response to Muslim MSNBC hosts who scolded their fellow Muslims for opposing LGBTQ lessons for their children.

Supporters of the LGBTQ movement have looked on in horror as many traditional Muslims have joined up with Christians and other religious communities to oppose the imposition of LGBTQ lessons on their children in public schools.

MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan interviewed author and activist Wajahat Ali about how Muslims can hold to their traditions without finding common cause with traditional conservatives.

"For people of conservative religious groups, from religious communities, who do not like the pace of change when it comes to things like gender, gay rights, et cetera, pride month, is there a way for them to 'defend their beliefs,' protect their traditions, religious views, moral values, through peaceful protest, whatever they want to do, without linking up arms with people who, once they're done bashing gays, will go back to bashing Muslims, or vice versa?" said Hasan to Ali.

"Is there a way to do that without allying with the GOP?" he added.

Ali went on at length to criticize Muslims for opposing LGBTQ curricula and concluded with a stern warning to the Islamic community.

"The way you're doing it now by aligning with right wing mobs that have manufactured fear and pandering against our communities is not the way and will only lead to longterm disaster for our communities, and our allies," Ali said to loud agreement from Hasan.

On Thursday, CAIR deputy director Edward Ahmed Mitchell issued his response.

"Instead of addressing the substance of the concerns that these families have raised about what's happening public schools, the likes of @mehdirhasan and @WajahatAli paint these parents as dupes being used by the political right. Other critics on the left have gone even further, accusing Muslim parents of deliberately allying with 'white supremacists,'" he wrote in a statement on Twitter.

"This is ludicrous," Mitchell retorted.

"So is implying that Muslims should not support a cause simply because rightwing activists or conservative Christians happen to support that same cause. It doesn't matter who supports a cause. What matters is whether the cause itself is just," he argued.

Mitchell went on to say that Muslims have aligned with groups they disagree with broadly whenever they advocate for true causes, "even communists hostile to Islam."

He concludes, "the mainstream of the Muslim American community will continue to independently stand up for what is right and against what is wrong, regardless of what the right or the left think."

Among the more notable re-alignment of Muslims with conservatives is the vote to ban LGBTQ flags from city-owned property by the Hamtramck City Council in Michigan. In a separate incident, a Democrat politician in Maryland accused Muslims opposed to LGBTQ instruction of being aligned with "white supremacists and outright bigots." She later apologized.

Here's more about Muslims opposing LGBTQ activism:

Council bans LGBTQ Pride Flags on city property in Hamtramckwww.youtube.com

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