The full video of the speech with the full context should have been in the OP to avoid people here just focusing on what the islamophobes want you to focus on. How is any of this "
idiotic/
stupid/
asinine/
moronic" to some of you? (Vire, carlsojo, Carolina Reaper, and more)
"It doesn't matter how good you are if you, one day, find yourself in a school where other religions are talked about but when Islam is mentioned, we are only talking about terrorists. And if you say something, you're sent to the principal's office. So to me, I say raise hell. Make people uncomfortable. Because here's the truth. Far too long we've lived with the discomfort of being a second-class citizen. And frankly, I'm tired of it and every single muslim in this country should be tired of it. CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognised some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties. So you can't just say that today someone is looking at me strange, that I'm going to make myself look pleasant. You have to say this person is looking at me strange, I'm not comfortable with it, I'm going to talk to them and ask them why. Because that is a right you have. You can't hate up close. Any time you have an opportunity to go talk to someone, the chances of them hating you lessens. So that is a practice we should all adopt."
If you're not an Islamophobe, none of what she said should be controversial when you're viewing from the perspective of a few terrorists affecting millions of muslims' liberties.
The only mistake she makes is CAIR wasn't technically founded after 2001 but symbolically it was founded in response to growing islamophobia (after usually terrorists' actions) like after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing by Al Qaeda terrorists. The CAIR-Sacramento Valley chapter was founded in 2002, though.