Trouble brewing; will likely be handled with CAIR

Not too long after the controversy about Ocean City’s prayer breakfast stirred up accusations of Islam-bashing from certain quarters, even when it turned out to be much ado about nothing, we may hear from CAIR and its liberal allies once again once word gets out that the Delmarva Republican Women are hosting a “Voices Against Sharia” meeting on March 31. Two of the featured speakers are Manda Zand Ervin and Catherine Mann-Grandy.

This is from Ervin’s bio at the American Islamic Leadership Coalition:

She is the founder and president of the Alliance of Iranian Women, a group which has deep connections within the Iranian diaspora and within Iran.

As the head of the Alliance of Iranian Women, Manda Ervin works to bring the West’s attention to the plight of Iranian women under Islamic Sharia laws.  On September of 2009 she was invited to the G-8 International Conference on Violence Against Women, at the Italian Foreign Ministry headquarters in Rome, Italy, where she was the featured speaker on Iran. She almost single-handedly gathered the support to pass a 2003 U.S. Senate Resolution on the human rights of the women of Iran. Manda is frequently consulted by Members of Congress considering resolutions and legislation on Iran policy and human rights.

She was a refugee who escaped Iran in the wake of the Islamic revolution in 1980 and became an American citizen in 1983.

Perhaps more controversial as a speaker is Mann-Grandy, whose husband (and former Congressman) Fred Grandy formerly hosted a radio program on WMAL in Washington. Allegedly it was Mann-Grandy’s frequent appearances on the show warning about the dangers of radical Islam which caused the show’s demise. While Grandy couldn’t speak about the situation, Catherine Mann-Grandy certainly said her piece:

Obviously this is a little bit of a different tack the Delamrva Republican Women are taking than the usual speeches from elected officials which tend to punctuate meetings of party faithful. Yet the show is slated to go on on March 31 in the Assateague Room of the Ocean Pines Community Center, beginning at 1 p.m. A $10 admission charge is shown, presumably for the light refreshments afterward.

I’ll have more on this as the date draws near.

Author: Michael

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