Ibrahim Hooper
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Ibrahim Hooper (né Douglas Hooper) is the National Communications Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Washington D.C.-based Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization.
At the time known as Doug Hooper, he worked as a news producer in the late 80s and early 90s at KSTP-TV, the ABC affiliate in Minneapolis.
Hooper is a convert to Islam.
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"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, Mr. Hooper said he did "not include rallies.") [[1]]
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- ^ Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 4, 1993
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