CAIR continues its jihad again Congressman West and NPR is more than willing to shill for them.

(NPR) — There’s no member of the Republican freshman class in Congress more outspoken than Florida Rep. Allen West.

Since he was elected last year, West has become a strong voice on Capitol Hill for fiscal restraint, socially conservative values — and responding to the threat posed by Islamic extremists.

On the topic of Islam, West has been particularly controversial. He calls it not a religion but a “theocratic political ideology” that’s a threat to America.

Nezar Hamze, a Muslim activist in South Florida, has devoted himself to challenging West’s views. Hamze is the director of the South Florida office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR. It’s a civil rights organization headquartered in Washington that has long sought to spread information and dispel myths about Islam. . . .

Hamze has attended four of West’s town meetings and sought — unsuccessfully — to have a private discussion with him. Hamze says he wants to talk to West about the congressman’s views on Islam and discuss the larger context of the passages he sometimes quotes from the Quran.

Hamze says there’s another important topic he wants to discuss on behalf of South Florida’s estimated 100,000 Muslims.

“To make him understand that discrimination and bigotry is real. And his comments are irresponsible and it fuels that bigotry and intolerance,” Hamze says.

West declined to comment on Hamze’s charges, or on his refusal to meet with the activist. In a letter he sent to Hamze, West says he’s not anti-Islam, but he is concerned about what he calls the “radical element of Islam that presents a dangerous threat” to the U.S.

West says meeting with Hamze would be “further legitimizing an organization with questionable associations.”