Ohio Homeland Security fired its Muslim liaison officer because he objected to its use of tax dollars to create programs “asserting that all Central Ohio Muslims and Arabs were terrorists or terrorism sympathizers … [and] included a picture of plaintiff as an example of a terrorist sympathizer,” the man says in Federal Court.
Omar Alomari was born in Jordan in 1950 and immigrated to the United States in 1978. He is Muslim and speaks seven languages, he says in his discrimination complaint against the Ohio Department of Public Safety, and three top officials or former officials. He was hired on a contract basis in November 2005 as its “multicultural relations officer,” Alomari says.
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Alomari says letters and phone calls attacked a pamphlet he had written, called “Culture Guide to Arabic and Islamic Cultures,” “including one caller comparing the guide to Nazi propaganda and another caller questioning when a guide about Christianity would be produced.”
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[He complained to his boss] to no avail, apparently. He says that when the Columbus Police Academy conducted three days of “anti-terrorist training” in early 2010, “the presenters attacked plaintiff and OHS, labeling plaintiff as a terrorist sympathizer. The presenters accused plaintiff of being a ‘suspect,’ alleged that plaintiff used his position within OHS to ‘connect with terrorists,’ and promised to ‘keep digging’ into plaintiff’s background to ‘expose’ him as a terrorist or terrorism sympathizer.”
Other=BAD!
If you voted for Bush or Obama you are a terrorist (i.e. use violence for political goals). If you support the Saudi, British, Pakistani, Burmese, Australian, Chinese, Canadian etc. etc. governments you are a terrorist. In that context it has lost much of it’s power. If you work for the government you fit the criteria, so ironically he technically is a terrorist just not in support of islamic extremists.
On a separate (and more relevant) point I would support people being able to assign their tax money to things they use or support (same amount, just allocated).
>Ya’ think he might be exaggerating, or even outright lying?
No way, he is a Muslim criticizing America’s and her law enforcement. He must be telling the truth.
Upon further research, it turns out the hole in the resume, is for a teaching position form which he was fired for violation of sexual harassment policy. Not so bad, just having affairs with students, though in this case he had a preference for married ones, and would try to get them to leave their husbands, and in one case did.
Also a problem was the listing of groups like CAIR as positive groups while DoJ and FBI consider them negatives. One of his reports had to be pulled for this reason.
Not surprising that NPR would run with this story. They were eager to take donations from people who said they wanted to implement sharia law.