This must be why liberals are so protective of Muslims. They share the same regard — make that disregard — for human life.
Hussam Ayloush, whose Twitter bio lists him as a “human rights and civil rights activist” and director of the Los Angeles chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), reacted to the crash on Christmas Day of a Russian aircraft with a callous tweet lamenting that more people had not died.
The tweet, which has since been removed, lives in retweets:
Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?
This sick bastard CAIR exec should be so ashamed. Absolute filth. @HussamA pic.twitter.com/4QMyBL00UV
— Cassandra Fairbanks (@CassandraRules) December 26, 2016
Sixty-four of the 92 individuals whose deaths Ayloush applauded were members of the Alexandrov Ensemble, a well-known choir, which was on its way to a New Year’s concert at the Hemeimeem air base in Syria’s coastal province of Latakia.
When he learned of his error, Ayloush tried to extract his foot from his mouth with a battery of concilialtory tweets:
Deleted an earlier tweet I posted abt a Russian military jet that crashed on way to Syria before knowing it included non-combatants
— Hussam Ayloush (@HussamA) December 25, 2016
While Russia engages in war crimes against innocent civilians in Syria, I would never condone/tolerate death of Russian civilians
— Hussam Ayloush (@HussamA) December 25, 2016
Every human life is sacred. If anything, Russians are also victims of this war forced on them a Syrians by Putin
— Hussam Ayloush (@HussamA) December 25, 2016
As Breitbart has noted, Ayloush is no stranger to controversy. Last year, he said the U.S. was partly to blame for the terrorist massacre in San Bernardino, which left 14 dead and dozens wounded, telling CNN:
Let’s not forget that some of our own foreign policy, as Americans, as the West, have fueled that extremism.
