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Should You Care about CAIR?
I almost added a tag to the title above, however it was too long, but it went like this: “Should You Care about CAIR? …………. Who cares, Bush Lied (didn’t he)? I’ll just start by saying up front that CAIR (acronym for the Council on American-Islamic Relations pronounced care) is an American Islamic terrorism sympathizer and supporter at the least. I believe that any balanced perspective this group concludes that they are Anti-American liars and terrorism apologists. Even internally their membership rolls have dwindled to extremely financially unstable levels. [Okay, now those of you that tend to automatically debate any sober and realistic view of the radical quarters of Islam can begin sharpening your pencils because it is by far more important to try and justify your hate for the Bush administration on any point than to grid yourselves for the battle we confront against the terrorist organizations of the world.]
Why do I say this? You may just think of my musings as some type of racial or more accurately religious prejudice. I wondered about that myself and after some soul searching I have concluded that the word prejudice is a totally inappropriate perspective of my views. Prejudice means to pre-judge without consideration of the circumstances or facts. The appropriate Webster definition of this word is “an adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge.” In all honesty, although I have been a supporter of Israel since the 1960’s it wasn’t based on religious or racial perspectives. The Arabs and the Jews are all Semitic people and I merely attributed the never-ending conflict between them as essentially being internecine over territorial disputes (though their animosity seems to run much deeper). Of late my viewpoint has been molded by the nature of the world wide “Islamic Jihad” as they like to reference it brought into shocking clarity on 911. So the accusation of being prejudice, though an interesting way to argue facts, does not come to bear here.
I sometimes think that the world in large part and American’s in particular are living a bit of “Ozzie and Harriet” fantasy about this war on terrorism. This phrase “war on terrorism” is scoffed in many more liberal American circles, but you come to this concept when you recognize that the antecedent of this is the “war of terrorism.” This is a war that has been waged against the U.S. for quite some time over recent decades that we failed to address properly (especially in the 1990’s) and hence encouraged further adventurism by the terrorists. I guess we can all agree on that since they have stated as much.
I understand that CAIR is a spin-off of the defunct Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP) which was founded by Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook and former university professor Sami al-Arian (Sami who I am sure you have seen in recent years on television as an ever so temperate voice for Muslims until he pled guilty last year of conspiracy to support and aid the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in return for the Justice Department dropping 8 additional charges). Sami is in jail as I write this blog entry.
As to CAIR the successor organization, a number of its staffers have been convicted of terrorism related charges. Although CAIR’s founder Omar Ahmad denies it, Lisa Gardiner, a reporter for California’s Fremont Argus news claims with 100% certainty that he made the following quote to Muslims: “they are in America not to assimilate but to help assert Islam’s rule over the country.”
Lately CAIR has been supporting the “Flying Imams” (sounds like a Circus act and if it weren’t so deadly serious I would attribute it to that myself). This is the story about the six praying Imams that were removed from an American flight last year after complaints by other travelers. If anyone doesn’t recognize this as a shakedown of our security system must be on drugs or has an agenda sympathetic to the Imams themselves.
The U.S. Government has asked Americans to be alert for any possible terrorist activity and report such to the authorities. Well they did on this flight and have been sued by the Imams through the support of CAIR for violating their rights. I’m not going to detail here the litany of very suspicious activity that provoked this response by other passengers, but if you haven’t heard before or feel this is acceptable behavior I’d like to know that point as well if you decided to comment on this post.
Any way………recently there was homeland security legislation that was hotly debated in Congress with the hot provision being that desire to exempt the “John Doe” samaritan from lawsuits for fulfilling their civic duty and reporting suspicious behavior. Although this passed, it did so only after significantly watering down this provision in order to gain the support of enough Democrats to pass this legislation. That’s right, the Congressional Democrats were totally against this reasonable man protection. CAIR has stated correctly that the protection afforded by this legislation requires such informers to act in good faith and I personally heard their spokesman Ibrahim Hooper HERE state that it means to them that they will still be able to sue and bring the person to court to establish the “good faith” intent. You should follow this You Tube link to hear the contorted reasoning of CAIR. This is essentially CAIR’s way of chilling the American Citizens from being so diligent and discourage reporting of suspicious activity.
NOTE: The pictures above are both CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper, of course the first being after he “Americanized” his appearance so you would be more inclined to believe his lies.
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One of my favorite topics. The insidious c.a.i.r.
c.a.i.r. (coalition of anti-American islamic ruthlessness)
Each and every American had better decide to wake up!
Before it is to late!
One thing we could note is c.a.i.r’s membership has dwindled.
Hopefully they get what is coming to them in the HLF trial!
Especially after the decidedly preposterous charges levied against the Pace University student…
VH……….Since you mention the Pace University situation [for those that dont know about the arrest of a student for putting the Koran in the toilet] I should add this point. Do you remember Robert Maplethorp’s “piss christ” photo of a Cross in the Urinal. Remember how the left defended this as a “freedom of speech” matter. I guess I forgot about that amendment to the Constitution that substituted the Speech section with the Politically Correct section……..hmm steve
http://www.cair-net.org/
- Cute little website that makes them seem like the muslim NAACP…
While:
Barbara Boxer said while discussing her decision to rescind an award given to CAIR Official, “To praise an organization because they haven’t been indicted is like somebody saying, ‘I’m not a crook’”…
Bill Shuster says that “Time & again the organization has shown itself to be nothing more than an apologist for groups bent on the destruction of Israel & Islamic domination over the West,”…
Senator Charles Schumer describes it as an organization “which we know has ties to terrorism.”…
Senator Dick Durbin observes that CAIR is “unusual in its extreme rhetoric and its associations with groups that are in the very least, suspect.”…
Steven Pomerantz, the FBI’s former chief of counterterrorism, notes that “CAIR, its leaders, and its activities effectively give aid to international terrorist groups.”…
The family of John P. O’Neill, Sr., the former FBI counterterrorism chief who perished at the World Trade Center, named CAIR in a lawsuit as having “been part of the criminal conspiracy of radical Islamic terrorism” responsible for the September 11 atrocities… Counterterrorism expert Steven Emerson calls it “a radical fundamentalist front group for Hamas.”…
I won’t even go into your bit on the congressional democrats, homeland security legislation, etc… (although I did manage to reference four or five “liberals” above :-), you know me)
We’ll just stick with, yeah, CAIR is lame.
Although, when President Bush visited the Islamic Center of Washington several days after September 11, 2001, to signal that he would not tolerate a backlash against Muslims, he invited CAIR’s executive director, Nihad Awad, to join him at the podium. Two months later, when Colin Powell hosted a Ramadan dinner, he, too, called upon CAIR as representative of Islam in America. More broadly, when the State Department seeks out Muslims to welcome foreign dignitaries, journalists, and academics, it calls upon CAIR. The organization has represented American Muslims before Congress. The National Aeronautics and Space Agency hosted CAIR’s “Sensitivity and Diversity Workshop” in an effort to harmonize space research with Muslim sensibilities.
Law-enforcement agencies in Florida, Maryland, Ohio, Michigan, New York, Arizona, California, Missouri, Texas, and Kentucky have attended CAIR’s sensitivity-training sessions. The organization boasts such tight relations with law enforcement that it claims to have even been invited to monitor police raids. In July 2004, as agents from the FBI, Internal Revenue Service, and Homeland Security descended on the Institute of Islamic and Arabic Sciences in America, a Saudi-created school in Merrifield, Virginia, a local paper reported that the FBI had informed CAIR’s legal director, Arsalan Iftikhar, that morning that the raid was going to take place.
CAIR is also a media darling. It claims to log five thousand annual mentions on newspapers, television, and radio, including some of the most prestigious media in the United States. The press dutifully quotes CAIR’s statistics, publishes its theological views, reports its opinions, rehashes its press releases, invites its staff on television, and generally dignifies its existence as a routine part of the American and Canadian political scenes.
CAIR regularly participates in seminars on Islamic cultural issues for corporations and has been invited to speak at many of America’s leading universities, including Harvard, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, and Columbia. American high schools have invited CAIR to promote its agenda, as have educationally-minded senior citizens.
I cite all of this to say that they’re pretty mainstream & obviously part of the establishment…
Thus, I certainly understand your desire to post on the organization Steve.
I believe that CAIR supports Islamist terrorists, terrorist-sponsoring organizations and groups in the United States & feel that they are a massive threat to our constitution.
They have a record of supporting Hamas, Hezbullah and other official terrorist groups…
The gentleman you picture, Hooper (their “spokesperson” & ex IAP member), Is quoted as saying, “I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future… But I’m not going to do anything violent to promote that. I’m going to do it through education.”
Give me a break! Be on guard from these clowns…
M2……what do you know, like a broken clock which is correct periodiocally we agree again. And to think such a well written comment and you didn’t mention O’Reilly once.
I do believe that little foray with Bush and these creeps was a bit of a ham handed effort for Bush to show a sense of goodwill to Muslims after 911. And since you elect to not get into the tacit support of these guys by the Democratic Leadership, I’ll refrain from my arguments regarding the same……steve
Sure… I’d imagine if we hung out all day & night… we’d agree twice
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M2 …….. well you got the math right…..sc
“Barbara Boxer”
If even Barbara Boxer can recognize them for the terrorist shills they are, why is the MSM so blind to their ends? Why is the western media so in love with Islam? I suspect this hatred of G.W. Bush has made people so irrational that they embrace almost any enemy of the U.S. just to get back at Bush. Ridiculous.
John……..This is exactly a major theme of this post and others I have made. The far left is so drunk with hate for Bush that they will support anything that might make him look bad or cause him to fail. This is a dangerous situation for the country. Among other things they really don’t want our intelligent services to be anything but hamstrung. They complained that our intelligence failed us on 911 and have supported every position to insure it happens again. They do so wrapped in their phony argument of encroachment on our liberties and they cannot point to a single incident yet are willing to put the country in harms way. You can be sure they would be more supportive if the Democrats were in the White House (like they were when Bill bombed Kosovo). The problem is their partisnship on these issues is putting the country in mortal danger I BELIEVE. It wasn’t enough that Carter pratically dismantled the CIA which Reagan had to rebuild, but now they want dismantle their effectivness (so they can blame Bush’s faulty intelligence on the next occasion and deem it to be a lie)………steve
You would think that with Bush, Powell, the state dept., law enforcement, etc. being involved & to a degree “co-signing” on CAIR, the ever so liberal media would revel in the opportunity to make leadership look bad & go after the organization?
& it’s not just the “far left” that are “drunk with hate”… Mainstream America, about 75 percent of the paying attention population lie in disgust, trying to figure out what the heck they can do & in which direction they should turn in 08.
M2…….Your point about thinking the media would revel in the “co-signing” on CAIR is or would be valid but the reason they don’t is because you are trying to make more of Bush’s insignificant contact with CAIR than there is. You are also agreeing with me about the Left being “drunk with hate.” The way they are manifesting that hate has become a threat to the National Security of the country. It is not reasuring to think of them in charge of our national security so the grown ups may ultimately prevail, so I wouldn’t get my hopes up too high for 08……..steve
The far left IS certainly drunk with hate… But the mainstream is on the drunk with hate fence & real close to jumping.
& the liberal media never needs much significant to go on in any other witch hunt, why would this all of a sudden be any different?
Can’t have it both ways…
I don’t know what the heck to do in 08 so my hopes aren’t up right now at all. As you know, I believe in checks & balances…
M2……….“As you know, I believe in checks & balances…” You mean paralysis?
……steve
Hahahaahaaaa out loud…. That is true. That is so very true.
M2……happy to oblige…….sc
Hi Steve - excellent and thorough analysis. I especially liked your distinction of what prejudice really is. Sometimes we have to remind people of what words really mean.
Neil……….well thanks so much. Your opinion is valued greatly over here…….steve
Great post dad.