CAIR Strikes Back

Not long ago I posted an Act for America alert pertaining to the FBI cutting off the advisory role of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

Act for America has sent a related alert about CAIR attempting to strike back by obfuscating CAIR’s relationship with Hamas. As should be expected they are pulling the “I am the poor victim of Islamophobic racism.”

Here is the Act for America email alert sent February 5, 2009 1:22:19 PM:

CAIR Strikes Back

Dear John, In the past seven days, evidence surfaced that the FBI was cutting off its primary contacts with CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations), after CAIR refused to address FBI questions about CAIR’s relationship to Hamas (a designated terrorist organization).

Then, five members of Congress sent a letter to other members of Congress entitled “Beware of CAIR,” citing the evidence that the FBI had severed ties with CAIR.

CAIR has responded in its predictable fashion – attack the messengers. The commentary below, from the website of SANE (Society of Americans for National Existence), includes the response letter that CAIR sent to Congresswoman Sue Myrick, co-chair of the House Anti-Terrorism Caucus. One line in CAIR’s letter is telling:

“If enduring these baseless attacks from you is part of God’s price for freedom, we embrace them.”

Playing the victim, or in this case, the martyr, is a common tactic among Islamists. In CAIR’s world, any critique or criticism of it, no matter how reasoned or documented, is anti-Muslim bigotry. For CAIR to claim that allegations against it are “baseless” is, well, baseless.

Why would the FBI finally make the decision it did to sever ties with CAIR if there was no basis for doing so? Why would the Justice Department list CAIR as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial if there was no basis for doing so? Why would an FBI agent, testifying under oath during that trial, label CAIR as a front organization for Islamist extremism if there was no basis for saying so?

The answer is they wouldn’t.

JRH 2/5/09

Muslim Passengers Booted Off Airline for Scary Conversations

I am sure CAIR will go verbal jihad contortions for the kafir worrying about the safety of their lives:

9 Muslim passengers kicked off flight after remark

WASHINGTON – Nine Muslim passengers were kicked off a flight from Washington, D.C., to Florida after other passengers reported hearing a suspicious remark about airplane security.

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"My brother and his wife were discussing some aspect of airport security," Irfan said. "The only thing my brother said was, 'Wow, the jets are right next to my window.'"

Irfan told the newspaper he thought he and the others were profiled because of their appearance. The men had beards and the women wore headscarves, traditional Muslim attire.
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"At the end of the day, people got on and made comments they shouldn't have made on the airplane, and other people heard them," Hutcheson said. "Other people heard them, misconstrued them. It just so happened these people were of Muslim faith and appearance. It escalated, it got out of hand and everyone took precautions." – Yahoo News 12:00 PM ET

This AP story goes out its way to portray the Muslims as victims painting a picture of typical Americans wearing Muslim apparel with middle to upper class jobs. Also the AP only quotes what one of the Muslim passengers had said without corroboration from the majority non-Muslim passengers who surely at least have an inkling of the radical Muslim attack of 9/11.

Maybe the Press and the Muslim family should consider a little more American assimilation and a little common sense in their choice of words because America is involved in a Global War on Terrorism (GWOT).

Also the Press should and the Muslim family need to be aware that there are websites like this and ones that are even more qualified making huge attempts to educate the American public of the incompatibility of the Islam faith (as presented by Mohammed in the Quran and tradition writings like the Hadith and Sunna) with the American way of life.

With the GWOT and the hostility of Islam the Airline did well to boot the Muslim unthinking family of the plane for the security of the rest of the passengers. The old axiom of “better safe than sorry” applies here.

So as Muslim-American organizations with Wahhabi and/or Shi’ite Twelver dough cranks up the propaganda campaign to smear the Airline and the passengers, keep my thoughts on the other side of the coin in mind.

JRH 1/3/09