An official with the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) named Zainab Chaudry was suspended from the Maryland Commission on Hate Crimes by Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown two weeks ago over some pro-Hamas comments she made on social media.
Her comments were vile. She reportedly wrote “I will never be able to understand how the world summoned up rage for 40 fake Israeli babies while completely turning a blind eye to 3,000 real Palestinian babies,” on Facebook, among other things.
Chaudry has now been reinstated to the commission.
The Washington Times reports:
Maryland attorney general reinstates CAIR-Maryland director to hate crimes panelMaryland Attorney General Anthony Brown has reinstated to the state Hate Crimes Commission a Muslim leader who had been suspended over her social media posts in support of Palestinians that had been deemed antisemitic.Mr. Brown, a Democrat, said Wednesday that he does not have the authority to suspend or remove commissioners under the panel’s enabling legislation, which he said is silent on those matters. He said his office is working on draft guidelines for personal communications by panel members and “how to balance the members’ right to freedom of speech and their roles as Commissioners” for the commission’s review.“Once the guidelines are finalized, all Commission members will be expected to comply with them and I fully anticipate that they will,” Mr. Brown said.Zainab Chaudry, director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations Maryland, was suspended from the Hate Crimes Commission after some of social media posts on the Israel-Hamas war were made public…Ms. Chaudry also posted graphics and memes comparing Israel to Nazi Germany and saying the Israel-Hamas conflict “started in 1948” when the Jewish state was established. Those posts received media coverage in the U.S. and Britain before Mr. Brown announced her suspension on Nov. 21.
According to FOX News, these are some of the other comments made by Chaudry:
In an Oct. 17 post, Chaudry wrote, “[T]hat moment when you become what you hated most,” and included two photos of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, one showing it lit up with the Israeli flag in solidarity with Israel following the attack, and another from a ceremony in 1936 when it was decorated with the flag of Nazi Germany during the Olympics that year.In another post from Nov. 6, Chaudry appeared to suggest the mere existence of Israel as a nation was the cause of the ongoing war, writing it was an “inconvenient fact.” She included an image of the words “it all started in 1948,” the year Israel was founded as a nation.Others from the weeks following the attack showed Chaudry sharing a quote celebrating “martyred Palestinians,” and a post citing what appeared to be an Islamic prophesy that said “garrisons who defend the lands of Islam will be in Ashkelon,” an Israeli city north of the Gaza Strip.
Not everyone is impressed.
Hasn’t this woman disqualified herself from serving on a ‘hate crimes’ panel?
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