Hamas-linked CAIR enraged at Muslim federal judge: ‘I would much rather have a white Christian’

Judge Zahid Quraishi

Jihad Watch : The rage of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is the best endorsement Zahid Quraishi could have received. Note Zahra Billoo’s casual racism and supremacism: her use of the term “white Christian” to signify the lowest of the low is telling.

“Islamist Group Slams Presidential Appointment of First Muslim Judge to Federal Court,” by Benjamin Baird, Providence, June 23, 2021:

In a historic June 10 vote, the US Senate confirmed Judge Zahid Quraishi’s appointment to the US District Court for New Jersey, making him the first Muslim federal judge in American history. Although the nomination received bipartisan support, an unlikely source sharply criticized Quraishi’s appointment: a leading civil rights organization that claims to speak on behalf of Muslim American interests.

According to Slate, a senior leader from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was “furious” following President Joe Biden’s decision to appoint Quraishi, joining a pair of anonymous sources in protesting the nomination. “I would much rather have a white Christian judge with progressive values,” said Zahra Billoo, head of CAIR’s San Francisco branch, a supposedly non-partisan Islamic civil rights group. “It’s not enough that he is Muslim. In fact, it’s insulting,” she added.

Billoo and her allies would prefer a civil rights trailblazer, someone from an apparent “list” of “20 to 50 Muslims who have been in the fight” for social justice. CAIR’s history of civil advocacy work includes defending cop killers and terrorists, making Quraishi the “wrong” Muslim for the job. “We don’t know what his stances are on civil rights because you can’t find one article or anything that he’s written publicly about the Muslim struggle in the last 20 years post-9/11,” an unnamed Muslim politician told Slate.

A matter of pride for most civil servants, Quraishi’s history of public and military service is alarming to CAIR, which has promoted anti-government conspiracies and vilified American service members.

Specifically, Quraishi’s role as a “Detention Operations Legal Advisor” for the US Army in Iraq has “sparked concern” among CAIR officials, who issued a press release suggesting that the nominee may be guilty of underwriting prisoner abuse….