CNN host returns ADL award over group's opposition to Ground Zero mosque

My comment: Fareed Zakaria or any other Muslim could never expect or hope to attain the status of Zakaria without first 'selling out' to the ADL's. It is totally out of the question that they would be accepted as such high profile reporters without first giving assurances to Jewish groups that they would lie via 'deception by omission'; i.e. they would remain silent in the face of Jewish atrocities against Muslims. Fareed is no exception. Fareed would be better off keeping the $10,000 in his pockets. But again the money is so small that Zakaria hopes to gain the Muslim trust by turning it down. By the way: what kind of people does the ADL usually give awards to? If they happen to be Muslims, they are most certainly traitors!

Fareed Zakaria left, Foxman on the right

Published 03:34 07.08.10

Fareed Zakaria returns $10,000 prize to the Anti-Defamation League over its opposition to building an Islamic Center blocks away from the former World Trade Center. The ADL announces its disappointment over the public rebuke.

By The Associated Press

Columnist and TV host Fareed Zakaria has returned a First Amendment award to the Anti-Defamation League in protest of the organization's opposition to a proposed mosque near Ground Zero, the site of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.

Zakaria, a Washington Post columnist and CNN host, has been the editor of Newsweek International, a journal with a circulation of 24 million, for almost a decade. He published a blog on Friday publicly announcing that he had returned the ADL's Hubert H. Humphrey Freedoms Prize.

Abe Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League

Photo by: AP / Corrado Giambalvo

"I was thrilled to get the award from an organization that I had long admired. But I cannot in good conscience keep it anymore. I have returned both the handsome plaque and the $10,000 honorarium that came with it. I urge the ADL to reverse its decision. Admitting an error is a small price to pay to regain a reputation."

The Anti-Defamation League said in a statement Friday that it was saddened and stunned by Zakaria's decision to return the prize they awarded him in 2005. ADL National Director Abe Foxman said he hoped that Mr. Zakaria “will come to see that ADL acted appropriately” and would reclaim the award bestowed upon him.

The ADL, a U.S. Jewish civil rights group, has said that the location of the planned mosque is counterproductive to the healing process of the families of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attack.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/cnn-host-returns-adl-award-over-group-s-opposition-to-ground-zero-mosque-1.306527