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The silence from those who organized and promoted a California anti-Muslim protest that devolved into a revolting display of hatred has been deafening.

A major Muslim organization released a video compilation (no longer available) earlier this week that depicted a Feb. 13 rally in Yorba Linda promoted by several Muslim-bashing groups, conservative organizations, local and national politicians, and some Jewish leaders. Although the rally started out as a strident but peaceful protest against a Muslim fundraiser that included two highly controversial speakers, a group of about 100 protesters broke away from the main crowd and launched into a series of vicious tirades.

The video is chilling. Small children, clutching their parents鈥� hands fearfully as they arrive at the fundraiser, cower as people behind police lines wave American flags and scream, 鈥淕o back home! Go back home! Terrorists! Terrorists!鈥� A tiny girl in a pink hijab walks past the camera as a man鈥檚 voice rises above the crowd: 鈥淢uhammad was a child molester!鈥� he shouts. A woman, standing behind a police barrier, bellows at the Muslim cameraman. 鈥淵ou鈥檙e a terrorist!鈥� she screams. 鈥淕o home, go home! 鈥� Do you beat your wife, too? Are you a molester? 鈥� You beat your women, your wife and your children. Why don鈥檛 you go beat up your wife like you do every night? Why not go have sex with a 9-year-old, marry her?鈥�

The video, which also features a city councilwoman saying she knows some Marines who would be happy to send the 鈥渢errorists鈥� attending the fundraiser 鈥渢o an early meeting in paradise,鈥� has caused an outcry from progressive journalists and many others. But not elsewhere. In fact, there was a triumphal tone from many, including some who might be expected to know better. 鈥淲e protestors [sic] all represented our city well,鈥� Yorba Linda Councilman John Anderson wrote after the event.鈥� It was a 鈥渢riumph,鈥� crowed . The Jewish Journal wrote an account nine days after the rally that made no mention of the insults from speakers and other protesters, instead depicting a motherhood-and-apple-pie event populated by a wide array of people opposed to 鈥渉ate.鈥�

The fundraiser was organized by the relief arm of the New York-based Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) to raise funds for local services like women鈥檚 housing, disaster relief and funeral assistance. It quickly became controversial because its main speakers were , who has made a whole series of patently anti-Semitic comments, and Imam Siraj Wahhah, who was a character witness for a blind New York City sheikh convicted in a terror conspiracy.

Yorba Linda Mayor Nancy Rikel, responding to a raft of angry E-mails, tried unsuccessfully to get ICNA to choose new speakers. Waqas Syed, the deputy secretary general of ICNA, told Hatewatch that both speakers were told to refrain from political oratory and did, adding that the whole episode had convinced ICNA to rework the way it vets speakers. He would not condemn Ali鈥檚 anti-Semitism.

A protest against such speakers certainly seems legitimate, and even the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the group that released the Yorba Linda video this week, said clearly that it supported the speech rights of the protesters. But as the CAIR and reviewed by Hatewatch make plain, the protest went from bad to worse as Muslim families began to arrive at the fundraiser.

鈥淟et me tell you, what鈥檚 going on over there right now, make no bones about it, that is pure, unadulterated evil,鈥� Deborah Pauly, a councilwoman from nearby Villa Park, barks into the microphone in some of the more hair-raising comments of the day. 鈥淢ost Americans have no idea what鈥檚 going on right now and part of the reason why is we have been quiet. Those of us who know what鈥檚 going on have been cowed into silence out of fear. And I鈥檓 telling you we cannot afford to do that anymore. We have to go out and speak to our friends and our neighbors. We need to make sure everyone knows and I don鈥檛 even care, I don鈥檛 even care if you think I鈥檓 crazy any more. I have a beautiful daughter; I have a wonderful 19-year-old son who is a United States Marine. As a matter of fact, I know quite a few Marines who will be very happy to help these terrorists to an early meeting in paradise.鈥�

Also speaking at podium was U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-Fullerton), who attacked 鈥渕ulticulturalism鈥� because it has 鈥減aralyzed too many of our fellow citizens to make critical judgments.鈥� Another congressman, U.S. Rep. Gary Miller (R-Diamond Bar), told the crowd, 鈥淚鈥檓 proud of you. I鈥檓 proud of what you鈥檙e doing.鈥�

Some of what part of that crowd was doing was captured in CAIR鈥檚 six-minute video. They held signs and shouted at arriving families that Muhammad was a 鈥渃hild molester,鈥� a 鈥減ervert鈥� and a 鈥渇alse prophet.鈥� 鈥淭ake your Shariah,鈥� one man shouted in a reference to . 鈥淕o home. Eat sand!鈥� The crowd鈥檚 venom was not in the slightest tamped down by the many children who, obviously terrified, accompanied their parents as they made their way into the fundraiser.

Perhaps it鈥檚 not entirely surprising that the much-ballyhooed 鈥減eaceful protest鈥� went south so fast. Among those pushing the event are Brigitte Gabriel鈥檚 Muslim-bashing group (in 2009, Gabriel said the Koran motivates Muslims 鈥渢owards greater atrocities in their religious stupor鈥�); the hate group led by Geller, who has called Islam 鈥渢he most 鈥� genocidal religion in the world鈥� and said the 9/11 attackers practiced 鈥減ure Islam, original Islam鈥�; far-right websites including FreeRepublic.com and DiscoverTheNetworks.org; and a local group called 911PrincipleConservatives that is part of Fox News host 鈥檚 9/12 Project and admirers of antigovernment conspiracy-monger . Also involved, according to The Jewish Journal story, were Rabbi Dovid Eliezrie of the North County Chabad Center; the (whose leader, , belongs to a group that has described black people as a 鈥渞etrograde species of humanity鈥�); and Bikers for Christ, a motorcycle club. Rabbi Dov Fischer, heads a Modern Orthodox congregation in Irvine, also spoke.

Virtually none of these individuals or organizations has condemned the obvious racism and intolerance of many of the protesters and even the podium speakers, even as the CAIR video is viewed by hundreds of thousands of Americans. Once you see the video, you may understand why these people would all rather forget.