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The Council on American-Islamic Relations
CAIR Outrage of
the Week
January 05, 2008 Terror Financiers Win - CAIR Celebrates This week CAIR actually celebrated the overturning of a $156 million judgment against the Islamic "charities" that funded the terrorists who murdered a 17-year-old American at a bus stop in Israel by shooting him in the head. Words can hardly describe our disgust at this, and the fact that CAIR would openly celebrate the freedom from accountability on the part of Islamic charities that finance terror is simply jaw-dropping. CAIR's sister organization, the Hamas terror group, was behind the 1996 killing of David Boim, which might explain the giddiness. Then again, any day that a Muslim can get away with killing a Jew seems to be a good day for CAIR. As CAIR's own prophet Muhammad once put it, "Kill any Jew that falls into your power!" (Ibn Ishaq 554)
December 22, 2007 CAIR's Teddy Bear Taqiyya CAIR's Ibrahim Hooper served up a shovelful of taqiyya in response to Sudan's imprisonment of a teacher over the naming of a stuffed teddy bear. Fortunately the editor of TheReligionofPeace.com was there to dig out the truth:
December 08, 2007 CAIR's Basim Elkarra Fails to Get Memo CAIR's Sacramento director is currently trying to raise a fuss over a "death threat" supposedly received in November. Apparently Basim Elkarra didn't get the memo, because last month we found out that at least one death threat against Muslims (sent to us) was actually being generated by one of CAIR's own associates, the "Reverend" Jim Sutter, whom the organization continues to promote.
December 01, 2007 CAIR Battles Free Speech with Intimidation CAIR tells us that the United States has a PR problem in the Islamic world. Thanks to the nearly constant string of terror attacks, and the indifference of groups like CAIR, Islam also has a PR problem in America. Interestingly, CAIR proposes radically different remedies for each problem. Although CAIR is highly critical of the US, under the pretext that it makes us a better nation, the “civil rights” organization has been doing its best to shut down critics of Islam. The latest victim is talk show host, Michael Savage, whom CAIR is trying to force off the air through a campaign of intimidation against his advertisers. Regardless of whether one agrees with Savage on other issues, it should at least be obvious that a terror-linked Islamic supremacist organization is probably the worst choice for determining what viewpoints the rest of us are allowed to consider. In America, we battle free speech with free speech, not intimidation. If Islam can’t compete in the critical arena, then there is most certainly a reason for it.
November 17, 2007 10,000 Terror Attacks: CAIR Doesn't Care This week TheReligionofPeace.com documented the 10,000th deadly terror attack perpetrated in the name of Islam since 9/11. In typical fashion, CAIR's biggest concern for the week, however, was a 6th grader who had been bullied at school! It is
this remarkable moral blind spot that generally distinguishes devout
Muslims from the rest of humanity - the stunning inability to empathize
with the suffering endured by those outside the faith at the hands of
Islamic radicals.
November 10, 2007 CAIR's Death Threat Hoax This week's outrage arose quite by chance. It's not everyday that we receive a death threat against Muslims. In fact, in six years of our involvement in anti-Jihad activities we have never even heard from someone who hated all Muslims, much less wanted to kill them randomly. So when our editor received an e-mail from an unknown person claiming to be recruiting degenerates for bombing and shooting attacks against Muslims and mosques, he naturally reported the matter to the FBI and to CAIR. As it turned out, however, CAIR was less than eager to escalate the matter. How come? You can read about it here: CAIR and It's Con Artist
November 3, 2007 CAIR Plays the Race Card, Ignores Racial Genocide Oh how fun it is when CAIR acts sanctimoniously about race relations in the United States! This week, CAIR brought us the “plight” of a 17-year-old African-American, whose ordeal consisted of watching a teacher write the N-word on a chalkboard while discussing a Mark Twain book (the expletive was not directed at anyone in the room). We have no problem with the girl’s complaint, but we object to the way CAIR exploits people of African descent for their own cause, while doing nothing to help those truly in need. This “civil rights” wannabe has stayed absolutely quiet as hundreds of thousands of black Africans in Darfur have been massacred in the name of Jihad – merely because they are being killed by Arab Muslims. Ironically, these true victims of racism, who barely survive in camps and squalor, share CAIR’s religion. Unfortunately, they are the wrong race for the Arab-centric organization... and all the window-dressing in the world will never change the way it truly prioritizes black Muslims.
October 27, 2007 CAIR Serves Taqiyya to SDSU This week CAIR served up yet another steaming pile of taqiyya, this time to an unsuspecting group of San Diego area college students, who were told that fear of Islam is based on a “fear of the unknown” (as opposed to, say, 14 centuries of all-too-tangible Jihad). The reason that Islam is a challenge to Christianity and Judaism, according to CAIR, is that the religions are so similar. Of course, that isn’t what the Qur’an says. In fact, the very first Sura establishes a sharp distinction between Islam and Christianity (as well as Judaism). As explained in Bukhari 12:749, Jews are those who “earn [Allah’s] anger” and Christians are “those who go astray.” This is significant, because these words are recited by devout Muslims in prayer each day. The very fact that CAIR can’t speak honestly about its own religion speaks poorly of it. Islam has always been the “me too” faith, trying desperately to ride the coattails of other religions, even those it explicitly despises.
October 20, 2007 CAIR Lies about Receiving Terror Financing Islam allows Muslims to lie to non-Muslims for the purpose of advancing Islam. It is a practice called, taqiyya, and CAIR practices it to the letter as demonstrated by this article: Little Green Footballs: CAIR Director Caught in a Lie The crux of the piece is that CAIR director, Nihad Awad, has routinely lied to the media about the organization ever having received money from HLF, the "charity" that also funneled money to terrorists (with CAIR's help). Although caught red-handed, we have not seen CAIR offer any sort of explanation. Non-Muslims are beneath them, of course, so they probably feel that we simply aren't worthy of such. Hey... whatever it takes to advance the cause of Islam...
October 13, 2007 CAIR Brags about Tolerance - Refuses to Practice it For some odd reason, we actually thought that CAIR might acknowledge the horrible torture and murder of a Christian man in Gaza this week. Not because the organization truly cares about the plight of religious minorities in Muslims countries (it doesn't), but because it would have been politically prudent in the very least. Rami Ayyad, a bookstore owner and activist, was not only kidnapped, beaten, stabbed and shot to death by promoters of CAIR's religion, but the crime occurred in a territory controlled by CAIR's sibling association, the Hamas Islamist party. His murder came a few days after nine other Christians were killed by a Muslim mob in Nigeria over a Muhammad cartoon (to which the victims had no connection). Since CAIR has proven ties to Hamas, and routinely warns religious minorities about "going against the mainstream" in a Muslim society, we thought that perhaps they might make an effort to distance themselves from those who merely enforce the very bigotry that this "civil rights" group preaches. But we overestimated CAIR. Instead of condemning these attacks on Christians, the organization spent the week bragging about having joined with other Muslims in sending a letter to Christian leaders calling for "mutual understanding and peace!" How typical this is of Islam, which abuses others in the name of religion, and then either ignores the victims or implies that they bear responsibility for their ordeal. In this case, CAIR manages to do both.
October 6, 2007 Jihad Means Peace (Except When it Doesn't)
This week CAIR went to bat for
Esam Omeish, the president of MAS and a former appointee to the Virginia
state immigration commission - before he was forced to resign following
the surfacing of a videotape on which he was caught exhorting
Palestinians to "Jihad." Um... putting
two and two together then, CAIR is not only justifying Palestinian
terror, but also making it that much harder to believe that Omeish
wasn't referring to violence by his remarks (as everyone else
suspects that he was). September 29, 2007 Islam Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry
We've said it before, but if
you want to understand Islam, then you need to pay attention to CAIR...
close attention. Islam apparently means never having to say you're sorry to the people you have wronged - particularly if they aren't Muslim.
A Gullibility of Convenience? Is CAIR really this gullible? For whatever reason, in its "American Muslim News" section, CAIR posted a "study" from Britain that claimed 1.25 million Iraqis have been "murdered" since the Iraq war began in 2003. Let's see... this would be one in twenty Iraqis, or nearly 800 a day - 90% of whom are "murdered" without the government, hospitals, morgues or media knowing anything at all about it. Someone must be very good at hiding dead bodies over there as well, since over 500 tons of them are disappearing each day without a trace. And, since the critical injury to death ratio is 5 to 1, this would mean that 5 million Iraqis (or 1 in 4) have suffered egregious wounds in bombings and shootings... again, with hospitals somehow managing not to know about 90% of them. Either CAIR is either extremely naive or they are pushing propaganda that they know is false (which certainly wouldn't be the first time).
September 15, 2007 CAIR's Crocodile Tears This week,
CAIR broke from a tradition of completely ignoring the anniversary of
9/11 by actually posting a handful of articles on the "event." One
condemned a new video from Osama bin Laden that praised the hijackers,
and another was intended to be an empathetic piece from CAIR director,
Danette Zaghari-Mask.
September 8, 2007 Ahmed's Awkward Extrication That great sucking sound that you heard this week was CAIR's portly director in Tampa, Ahmed Bedier, trying to free himself from the muck that he waddled into last month. When two Florida university students were arrested in South Carolina on August 4th for transporting explosives, Ahmed Bedier immediately sprang into the role of unofficial spokesperson. He hastily criticized the police for a "lack of evidence" and assured the public that these students were not troublemakers, but rather "really naive kids" who were targeted because of their "heritage and background." My what a difference one month, an array of federal bomb making charges, a recently revealed terrorist connection and one box of bullets makes! These days, Bedier is singing a far more cautionary note: "If it's clearly a pipe bomb that's a different story. Then there is cause for concern," says Bedier, who now tells us that "it's unclear what's going on." Needless to say, CAIR has also purged the front page of their site of the recent links to articles implying that these two Egyptian students were innocent victims of Islamophobia. Nevertheless, the stench remains.
September 1, 2007 Politically Correct Religious Profiling When CAIR claims to oppose religious profiling, do they really mean it? Yes, but only so long as Muslims aren't the ones doing the profiling. This week CAIR protested the practice of "patting down" turbans and headscarves at airport security checkpoints on the grounds that it is religious profiling. But, here's the problem. This also happened to be the same week in which it was confirmed that Saudia (Saudi Arabian Airlines) is actually confiscating non-Islamic religious materials from passengers. This includes Bibles, crucifixes, statues, carvings and anything with a Star of David on it. CAIR did not utter a word of protest. Can't say that we expected any better of this Islamic supremacist organization. Let's just hope more people start watching as well.
August 25, 2007 CAIR's Phony Reverend Carries the Water Pardon us for missing a week, even though it was for a good cause. Our editor was working like a dog last weekend to produce a response to the "Reverend" Jim Sutter's 63-page slur of Robert Spencer. Yes, it seems like CAIR has finally found someone to do their dirty work for them, as they quickly linked to and quoted from Sutter's piece on their website as soon as it was available. Unfortunately, they placed their already-battered credibility in the hands of a convicted felon and pathological liar. The details... for anyone who's interested: Spinning Spencer: The Rebuttal to Sutter and CAIR
August 11, 2007 Another CAIR "Flying Imams" Stunt?
As with the "Flying Imams" publicity stunt from last year, which led to
a CAIR lawsuit, the incident at Goose Creek, South Carolina over the
weekend, in which two Muslim men are under arrest for transporting what
authorities have announced are pipe bombs, may be another case of
Muslims intentionally testing the bounds of suspicious behavior to
provoke a response that can then be denounced as discrimination (by
organizations to which they conveniently have connections). August 4, 2007 CAIR Plays Sleaze Card to Smear Critic
This week, CAIR went after JIhadWatch's Robert Spencer, one of the
world's foremost critics of Islam. Not only did the organization
attempt to bully the Young Americans Foundation into
cancelling an appearance by Spencer, but CAIR spokesperson, Ibrahim
Hooper shamefully
told a CNN
audience that JihadWatch advocated "killing all Muslims."
July 28, 2007 CAIR Vows to Sue Vigilant Citizens
CAIR is vowing to keep exposing and suing Americans who report
suspicious activity involving Muslims. The organization's Ibrahim
Hooper made its intentions plain in an
interview with
Tucker Carlson on MSNBC, during which he compared "John Does" to a KKK
Grand Wizard who unfairly targets African-Americans.
July 21, 2007 CAIR Quickly Proves Critic's Point Even by its own standards last week was an unusually bloody one for the Religion of Peace. About 650 innocent people lost their lives in the name of Allah in 88 Islamic attacks across ten countries. During this carnage, a syndicated radio host named Neal Boortz took a call from a Muslim who complained that he had “insulted Islam.” Boortz, whose self-confessed style is rudeness and candor, blasted the caller and Muslims in general for not showing outrage over Islamic terrorism, but reserving their anger instead for those times when they feel their religion is insulted. So guess which event CAIR chose to condemn this week - the 83 deadly Islamic attacks or the radio host who criticizes Muslims for not being terribly bothered by it? Needless to say, CAIR dutifully stepped over 650 bodies to focus instead on the "insult" that Muslims are too self-obsessed. No doubt, the irony escapes them.
July 14, 2007 CAIR's "Good Doctor" Not So Good Our CAIR outrage of the week was put together by Patrick Poole and appears in an American Thinker article, “The Curious Links of a CAIR Doctor Who Doesn’t Support Terror.” As we noted here, it was nearly a full week before CAIR even acknowledged the London and Glasgow bomb plots. When they finally did, Dr. Asma Mobin-Uddin, a Muslim physician and CAIR executive in Ohio, was put forward to express her personal “incredulity” and “outrage” in television interviews and editorials. Lest we dared hope that Muslims might finally take responsibility for terrorism in the name of Allah, Dr. Mobin-Uddin also assured us that the bomb plots had nothing to do with Islam. (In other words, don't expect things to change). In his excellent article, however, Mr. Poole took a hard look at the good doctor’s website and found links to other sites that preach Jihad ideology and hate, such as the notorious Youssef al-Qaradawi, the cleric who sanctions suicide bombings. Even the fact that Dr. Mobin-Uddin is associated with CAIR, which has its own links to terror, calls into serious question just how sincere her “incredulity” really is!
July 7, 2007 CAIR Ignores Bomb Plot, Jumps on Cal Thomas Though
ignoring the bomb plots in London and Glasgow for an entire week (before
finally posting the official shirking of Muslim responsibility that
typically follows high-profile attacks in the West), CAIR immediately
jumped on a radio
commentary by Cal Thomas that asked how long the U.S. and Britain
would continue importing the people and ideology behind such hatred. The organization considers it a self-evident axiom that Muslims are entitled to immigrate to the West, regardless of the detrimental effect that it is obviously having on the rest of us. But, in fact, the
executive leadership of CAIR is composed primarily of first-generation Muslim
immigrants who exhibit little appreciation for their "adopted" country, and
absolutely no concern for the horrible plight of non-Muslims in their own native
Islamic lands.
June 30, 2007 Breaking News: CAIR Not Quite Human Late Friday, CAIR posted a BREAKING NEWS item on their website concerning a British Muslim. One might have thought that it concerned the events in London, which had dominated the attention of news outlets since the first explosive-laden car was found (by chance) outside a packed nightclub earlier that morning. But no. CAIR had absolutely nothing to say about the discovery of two nail-packed car bombs, designed to cause mass casualties and suffering for the cause of Allah. For Muslims like CAIR, you see, it’s all about them. Instead, these self-absorbed whiners were complaining about a British Muslim being held in detention following his arrival in Los Angeles on a flight from London only the day before. This was their “BREAKING NEWS” item… the inconvenience of one Muslim man on a day in which 1,700 innocents were targeted for death in the name of CAIR’s religion. The first rule of Islam: Muslims come first, regardless.
June 23, 2007 Reluctance to Take in Whining Muslims Called 'Hate Crime' Our favorite unindicted
co-conspirator has been under unusual public pressure lately, so, what
better time to break out the old standby, the annual "CAIR Civil
Rights Report," to distract some of the unwanted attention? Perhaps this is because Americans feel they've already taken in enough peevish Muslims.
June 16, 2007 CAIR Refuses to Condemn Murder of Palestinians This was a rare week in which CAIR actually condemned a terror attack (the Beirut bombing, for some reason). Of course CAIR's opinion on the sixty-five others is left somewhat up in the air, given that the face of Islam in America felt that none merited mention. Tellingly perhaps, this included no condemnation of Hamas for brutally executing Palestinian men in front of their wives and children, something that horrifies those of us in the Infidel world. One suspects that CAIR's persistent reluctance to denounce Hamas stems from the close ties between the organizations - as revealed in court last week. If Israel had executed Palestinians like this, CAIR would no doubt be having a coronary. Instead, this week the organization is far more concerned about a woman in Philadelphia not being able to wear a hijab on the job.
June 9, 2007 CAIR, the Face of Islam in America, is Hamas As if we didn't have it figured out already, this week Americans discovered for certain why CAIR refuses to condemn the Hamas terrorist organization... They’re basically blood brothers! As Daniel Pipes details in his excellent article, Case Closed - Government Documents Reveal CAIR Is Hamas, the link between CAIR and the group of cold-blooded thugs that deliberately murdered hundreds of civilians in horrible ways has now been thoroughly proven. Quite honestly, all we can say about this is, SHAME ON YOU, CAIR! You pretend to condemn terror, but you are terror. By being the face of Islam in America, you make the case that Islam doesn’t belong in America. You exist merely to deceive good people into thinking that Islam is just another religion, when, in fact, you are as comfortable with brutality in the name of Allah as the people who do the crime. You and the terrorists both serve the same ends and the same god. So, for the rest of us, as the terrorist-funded, terror-supporting CAIR continues to push Islam on America, let's connect the dots: Terror is Hamas. Hamas is CAIR. CAIR is Islam. Therefore Islam is...
June 2, 2007 CAIR Uses Veterans While Refusing to Condemn Troop Killers On Memorial Day, the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch published what seemed to be a feel-good piece entitled, "Muslims Salute Veterans." CAIR reposted part of the piece with the modified headline, "Muslims Salute Veterans, Oppose War." This less-than-subtle spin concerned an event in which a rather shadowy group called the American Muslim Coalition showed up at a Veterans hospital to serve up some barbecue... and receive a lot of national press coverage. We won't disparage the people who attended, since we don't know what their agenda may or may not be. The group is so new that it does not even have a website. Obviously, there is nothing wrong with serving veterans if there are no ulterior motives involved (as is clearly the case with CAIR) What makes this particularly outrageous to us is not that the headline and article were manipulated to suggest this was an anti-war event, but that CAIR is using veterans for PR purposes while at the same time refusing to denounce the killing of Americans in uniform.
May 26, 2007 CAIR Says Poll Showing Support for Terror is Proof of Normalcy Only days after "praising" the FBI for stopping a Muslim mass murder plot against Fort Dix, New Jersey, CAIR snapped back to form by criticizing the same FBI for supposedly "pressuring" Muslims to be informants. Unfortunately for CAIR, this also happened to be the week that Americans discovered just how deep sympathy for terrorism actually runs with their Muslim neighbors. A Pew Research poll shows that about one-third of Muslims support al-Qaeda to some extent and that 26% of younger Muslims agree with suicide bombings "in defense of Islam." Given that CAIR is dedicated to convincing Muslim-Americans that Islam needs to be defended, the organization naturally downplayed the numbers. Video posted on its own site had Ahmed Bedier claiming that [hundreds of thousands of potential terrorists] are "insignificant," while Ibrahim Hooper actually said that the poll shows Muslims "mirror the views of people of all faiths!" In our opinion, Ibrahim really needs to get out more.
May 19, 2007 The Sound of One Hand Clapping
On Tuesday, CAIR tepidly hailed the appointment of a Muslim to the US
Commission on International Religious Freedom. This would be Talal
Eid, the former head of the Islamic Center of New England's Quincy,
Massachusetts mosque.
May 12, 2007 CAIR "Adapts" to Fort Dix Massacre Plot CAIR
began the week
whining that Muslim applicants for immigration into the U.S. are
under an added layer of scrutiny because of their religion. Three
days later they were "applauding" the FBI for arresting six such
"immigrants" looking to wage mass slaughter against the residents of
Fort Dix, New Jersey in the name of Jihad.
May 5, 2007 CAIR Blames All Muslim-on-Muslim Violence on George Bush Some 200,000 black African Muslims in Darfur have been massacred by Arab Muslims in the name of Jihad in the last four years, yet there has been nary a peep from the predominantly Arab CAIR about their plight. This week, CAIR posted an article in which it claimed to have co-sponsored a “Darfur Awareness Week” at an Ohio university campus. It’s tough to figure out what sort of “awareness” the group has in mind, however, since it steadfastly refuses to condemn the Islamic Republic of Sudan for its blatant sponsorship of the genocide. So who does CAIR blame for this Muslim on Muslim violence? Infidels, of course, and the United States in particular. According to the article, CAIR is upset that George Bush will not take action to stop the violence. Interestingly, the link to the article on their front page appeared right above another link to an article that criticized Bush for not disengaging from Iraq. In other words, CAIR is simultaneously blaming Bush for trying to stop Muslim on Muslim violence in Iraq and for not intervening to stop Muslim on Muslim violence in the Sudan!
April 28, 2007 CAIR's Exclusive Virginia Tech Donation Drive This
week CAIR helped collect money for the families of victims of the
Virginia Tech shooting... kind of. People in need are seen simply as people in need... unless it is the Religion of Peace on the giving end!
April 21, 2007 Free Speech for Me, but Not for Thee (in NY) Last week, CAIR protested an incident in which a prison chaplain in New York distributed literature that “insults Islam.” Other Muslims joined with CAIR and demanded that the Christian employee lose her job over the episode, in part because she portrayed Islam as a “false religion.” However, CAIR and its cronies apparently didn't think the process through too well, because if it isn't appropriate to distribute literature that explicitly claims another religion to be false, then the Qur’an certainly wouldn’t make the cut.The holy book of Islam not only categorizes Christianity as a false religion, but even calls for Muslims to fight the Christians until they either convert to Islam or pay the jizya. And, as for Jews... well, don't take our word for it. Read what a moderate Muslim site has to say about Jews in the Qur'an. Let's just say that if CAIR wants to keep pushing the Qur'an, then the group should learn to be more careful about pointing fingers.
April 14, 2007 Imus and Animals Say what you will about CAIR, the organization can definitely spot an opportunity. This week, the Islamic supremacist group piled on embattled radio talk show host, Don Imus, and called for him to be removed due to “promotion of hatred and intolerance.” In addition to what everyone else is talking about, CAIR provides further examples of Imus’s “hatred and intolerance,” such as an incident from 2004, in which he referred to Palestinian (terrorists) as “stinking animals.” What makes this all very interesting is that CAIR is actively promoting a book which tells us that Jews are “hypocrites,” “spreaders of falsehoods,” “wishers of evil,” “greedy,” “wicked doers,” and a “cursed” people” (along with Christians). Of course, we're speaking of the Qur’an, which, for good measure, also refers to non-Muslims as “the vilest of animals.” So deeply ingrained are the double-standards of Islam, that we have to wonder whether CAIR is even aware of the blatant hypocrisy.
April 7, 2007 CAIR Goes to the Rally - Shuns Lesson in Tolerance CAIR routinely demonizes its critics using extremely derogatory language and often pretends that Muslim-Americans are in constant physical danger from anyone who dares raise a voice against CAIR, or the poisonous brand of Islam that it represents. So, when the United American Committee held a rally against Islamic extremism last weekend in Seattle outside the offices of CAIR, one might assume that CAIR staff members would be in bunker mode, hiding under their desks and calling for police protection. Not quite. The executive director, Arsalan Bukhari, actually waded into the crowd, where he was photographed, smiling and posing for pictures with what CAIR claims are the most dangerous “Islamophobes” in America. Embarrassed by the obvious contradiction between rhetoric and reality, the national office immediately engaged in spin control, claiming that Mr. Bukhari was bravely trying to “confront bigotry,” but was met with “hostility.” You can judge for yourself. Here’s what a CAIR official looks like amidst what the organization calls the most dangerous and hostile people in America:
And here’s what an American looks like among the fundamentalists of CAIR’s religion – before being slaughtered:
So, just who is it that needs the lesson in tolerance?
March 31, 2007 Violent Qur'anic Verse Manipulated for Gullible Audience Over the last several years, CAIR has become very skilled at manipulating certain people into believing that the agenda of Islam is something other than what it is. Such was the case when CAIR’s Executive Director in Michigan, Dawud Walid, used a fragment of a Qur’anic verse to “prove” how compatible Islam is with social justice. "The Qur’an says that ‘oppression is worse than murder’,” Mr. Walid assured his gullible audience, which probably didn’t realize that this verse actually inspires terrorism. Here is the part that he left out: And slay them wherever ye catch them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out; for tumult and oppression are worse than slaughter… (Sura 2:191) Muhammad “revealed” this verse for the purpose of motivating his people to deadly attacks on Meccan merchant caravans. The “oppression” that he spoke of was the simple fact that Meccans did not want Muhammad living with them, and had forced him into exile. For CAIR to have to use a verse intended to inspire stealing and killing as the best example that the Qur’an can offer in the way of “social justice” speaks not only to the organization's disingenuousness, but to its desperation as well.
March 24, 2007 CAIR Piles on Women This was a week that saw three Buddhist women brutally gunned down in Thailand, a Christian teacher beaten to death by her Muslim students in Nigeria, and a woman and her daughter killed in their home by Islamic terrorists in Iraq. As with Zilla Huma Usman, the Pakistani woman horribly murdered by a religious extremist two weeks ago for not wearing a veil, none of these women received the least bit of sympathy from CAIR this week. Far from even acknowledging these victims of Islam, CAIR's only contribution to "Women's Week" was to attack two courageous female reformers, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Wafa Sultan. This shouldn't be surprising. Both women are prominent advocates of women’s rights in the Islamic world.CAIR calls itself a "civil rights organization," but they certainly have a twisted interpretation of what this is supposed to mean.
March 17, 2007 CAIR Terrorizes Airline Passengers In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, who could have foreseen that in just six short years, Muslim trouble-makers would be manufacturing their own victimization by intentionally frightening airline passengers with provocative behavior? Enter the Council in American-Islamic Relations, which has officially run out of real victims of anti-Muslim bigotry and must now resort to inventing them. In November of last year, six imams returning from a conference attended by anti-American terrorist sympathizers let their passions get the best of them and successfully provoked an incident on the Minneapolis tarmac. The passengers who reported the suspicious behavior are now being targeted by these imams (and their CAIR handlers) in a lawsuit with major security repercussions. CAIR feels that it is a Muslim's God-given right to scare the hell out of anyone they choose, as long as no actual violence ensues. The burden is then placed on the victim, who must weigh the actual risk to personal or public safety against the legal consequences. Will Americans put up with this... or has CAIR finally gone too far?
March 10, 2007 CAIR Skewers Moderates It’s too bad that Islamic extremists don’t bother CAIR as much as do Muslims trying to make Islam into a peaceful religion. In a week in which hundreds of people were slaughtered explicitly in the name of Allah, CAIR has had harsh words only for moderates such as Wafa Sultan, Hirsi Ali, and the Secular Islam Summit – a group of diverse Muslims united in their opposition to extremism and violence in the name of their religion. In fact, CAIR is so proud of opposing peaceful moderates that it has prominently posted a video of Ahmed Bedier going after a Summit member on the Glenn Beck show. You will see no such videos of Bedier (or any of CAIR’s other leaders) attacking an Islamic radical the way that he does the unfortunate Tawfik Hamid. Bedier starts off complaining that secularists are the “wrong messengers,” and that the much-needed reform of Islam should be driven by people like himself who “love and respect” the faith. By the end of the 9-minute segment, Bedier is showing his “love and respect” for Islam by taking advantage of his opponent’s struggling language skills and hurling cheap insults at him like “Jew” and “opportunist.” It is obvious that Muslims like Ahmed Bedier enable Islamic terrorists by undermining the only legitimate opposition to them from within the faith. If reform of Islam can only be done by the likes of him, then it will surely never happen. Bedier doesn't even bother to speak out when Copts are murdered in his home country of Egypt. For his part, Glenn Beck is clearly pandering to CAIR, the organization that recently targeted him for boycott. In spite of what had just taken place in front of him, he signs off the segment by informing viewers that CAIR is just as committed to peaceful solutions as the reformers that it opposes. The organization’s tactics of intimidation have paid off handsomely. If Beck still has a backbone, then he might consider asking CAIR these questions the next time he has one of their spokespersons on his show
March 3, 2007 Islamic Jihad: CAIR Chooses Sides Sami al-Arian is a convicted supporter of the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization. He is also in the second month of a hunger strike to protest a contempt of court charge over his refusal to testify about the funding of Palestinian terrorist groups. Erez Levanon was a 42-year-old Jewish man living in the West Bank before he was brutally stabbed to death by Islamic Jihad cadres while praying by the side of the road… yes, the very same terrorist organization that al-Arian and CAIR have both gone to bat for in the past. al-Arian’s self-induced hunger strike has received daily attention and sympathetic support from CAIR, but the group adamantly refuses to condemn the murder of Levanon. CAIR’s top concern for the week seems to be an 11-year-old Canadian girl, who was told that she couldn’t play soccer while wearing a hijab. The oldest of the three children that Erez Levanon left behind is 11-years-old as well, but we don’t expect CAIR to be offering any sympathy on his behalf.
February 24, 2007 Free Speech for Me, But Not for Thee (in NC) CAIR has suddenly become
very concerned about fairness and open debate as it relates to
religion... but only where Islam will benefit, of course. CAIR has never shown the slightest
interest in advocating equal rights in Muslim countries, where religious
minorities are explicitly denied the freedom to share their faith as Muslims
are. In fact, CAIR has actively supported discrimination against
non-Muslims by promoting fatwas to that effect.
February 17, 2007 CAIR "Victimized" by Utah Shooting Four days after the fact,
CAIR is finally expressing sympathy for the victims of last week's
shooting rampage in Utah. No, not the people gunned down by an angry
Muslim, or their families... but CAIR itself! That's right. the Council
on American-Islamic Relations now suggests that it is the true victim of
the attack.
February 11, 2007 Rubber Duck Hostage Video Prompts Outrage After years of uncanny
stoicism in the face of the most atrocious videos of kidnappings and
beheadings in the name of their religion, CAIR has finally found a
hostage tape so appalling that the organization is compelled to break
its silence.
Previous (December, 2006) CAIR Denounces
Virtual Violence One image is from a bloodless
video game. The other is from video of an American
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