Ibrahim Hooper

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Ibrahim Hooper (aka Doug Hooper) Bosnian American convert to Islam who is the National Communications Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Washington D.C.-based Muslim advocacy organization.

During the late 80s and early 90s at KSTP-TV, Hooper, then known as "Doug" worked as a news producer in the the ABC affiliate in Minneapolis.

1 Views
2 Controversy
3 External links
4 References

[edit] Views

"I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future. But I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through education." ^[1]

Ibrahim Hooper has said that in 20 years worth of trips to mosques, "I've never heard violence preached; I've never heard anti-Semitism or anti-Americanism preached." When asked in a subsequent interview if this statement also holds true for any Muslim events, conferences and rallies he said, "in fact, if I had heard that I would have called them on the carpet and asked them why they're saying such hate-filled, divisive things." In a follow-up conversation, however, Mr. Hooper said he did "not include rallies. ^[2]

On the Tucker Carlson Show on MSNBC Ibrahim Hooper stated that "To my knowledge we don't take money from anyone in Saudi Arabia" but the facts are they have.

[edit] Controversy

In late 2003, Hooper threatened "Muslim punk" writer Michael Muhammad Knight with legal action for satirizing him in articles. In response, Knight challenged Hooper to a wrestling match. [2] In 2006, Knight staged the match at a taqwacore punk show in Lexington, Massachussetts, with a friend portraying Hooper. During the match, "Hooper" used a Saudi Arabian flag to choke Knight and attempted to staple it to his arm. Knight defeated Hooper with the "camel clutch" and then delivered a monologue in which he said that at one time, he could have had Hooper's role in the Muslim community, and that by defeating Hooper, he had destroyed the better part of himself (an allusion to their shared background as white converts to Islam). Video of the match was posted at MuslimWakeUp, a progressive Islamic website. [3]