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The South Florida leader of the Council on Islamic-American Relations said Wednesday that Congressman Allen West's comments about Islam are inaccurate and irresponsible.
Nezar Hamze, executive director of Pembroke Pines-based CAIR in South Florida, faulted West for "participating in basically an Islam bashing or propagating his twisted views or understanding if Islam."
Hamze was responding to comments West made Wednesday in Washington, where he hosted the screening of a film designed to oppose the construction of a mosque near the Ground Zero site in New York where the World Trade Center towers used to stand.