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November 14, 2009
CAIR Proud of Its Media Influence
Posted by The MaryHunter at November 14, 2009 7:58 PM
The Council on American-Islamic Relations boasts of how it was out front in condemning the Ft. Hood terrorist massacre:
In a fundraising letter, CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad told potential donors that within hours of the attack by a Muslim Army major, the Washington, D.C.-based group issued a statement of condemnation to thousands of local, national and international media outlets.
"Perhaps you saw CAIR spokespeople interviewed on MSNBC's Hardball or on PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, CNN, MSNBC, or the BBC," Awad writes. "Or maybe you read CAIR quotes in the Washington Post, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, or USA Today."
"Our tone and immediate response is paying off," Awad said in the fundraising appeal. "Major media acknowledged the strong statement that American Muslims issued condemning the Fort Hood attack. On CNN, Anderson Cooper reported that CAIR 'reacted to the shooting spree, condemning the attack in the strongest terms possible.' On MSNBC's 'Hardball,' Chris Matthews noted that CAIR was 'quick to condemn the massacre.'"
Proud as punch they are, it seems.
But wait, wasn't CAIR named in 2008 as an unindicted co-conspirator in what amounted to the largest terrorism-finance case in U.S. history? And isn't there FBI evidence that Awad himself has direct ties to Hamas, indeed, one of the top Hamas operatives in the US?
Oh yea, it's that CAIR. Just in October, a new book came out with details:
D.C.-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, is not the beneficent Muslim civil-rights group it claims to be. Indisputable evidence now demonstrates CAIR and other "mainstream" Islamic groups are acting as fronts for a well-funded conspiracy of the Muslim Brotherhood – the parent of al-Qaida and Hamas – to infiltrate and destroy the American system.
And aren't CAIR leaders including their communications director Ibrahim Hooper, on record as wanting America to become a Muslim country?
"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," Hooper told the Minneapolis Star Tribune in 1993. "But I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through education."
Whew, I'm glad we have that all straight. Then again, perhaps another Muslim public relations group the State-Run Media should consider listening to is Muslims Against Sharia.
On a tip from SK.
