Muslim comdemnations of the September 11th attacks CAIR Web Site
"Not in the Name of Islam” petition CAIR Web Site
Jihad Watch Director comments on (CAIR) Council on American Islamic Relations
Web Site http://jihadwatch.org
Robert Spencer Article - I went on Alan Colmes’ radio show to
discuss Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s suggestion that American mosques be
wiretapped. Romney was right, I said, because American Muslims had not taken any concrete
steps to separate jihadists and those with jihadist sympathies from their ranks. Colmes
invoked in reply the condemnations of terror by the Council on American Islamic Relations
(CAIR). He chided me for not taking CAIR’s condemnation of terrorism at face value.
Yet what comes from CAIR is not always what it seems to be:
1. CAIR’s material misleads non-Muslims about Islam.
The organization explains that jihad “is a central and broad Islamic concept that
includes struggle against evil inclinations within oneself, struggle to improve the
quality of life in society, struggle in the battlefield for self-defense (e.g., - having a
standing army for national defense), or fighting against tyranny or oppression.”
Left unmentioned is the fact that throughout history, the mainstream Islamic understanding
of jihad has always included the idea of offensive war against unbelievers to spread the
hegemony of Islam. This can be readily established from all four major schools of Sunni
Muslim jurisprudence, as well as from Shi’ite sources.
2. CAIR criticizes those who tell the truth about Islam.
CAIR attacked radio host Geoff Metcalf, who had told listeners that the Koran allows
Muslims to lie to unbelievers. CAIR’s press release attacking Metcalf, however,
carefully avoids saying that what Metcalf said was false. And it wasn’t: “Let
not the believers take for friends or helpers unbelievers rather than believers. If any do
that, in nothing will there be help from Allah; except by way of precaution, that ye may
guard yourselves from them” (Koran 3:28). Koranic commentator Ibn Kathir explains
that this verse teaches that if “believers who in some areas or times fear for their
safety from the disbelievers,” they may “show friendship to the disbelievers
outwardly, but never inwardly.” That’s deception. Nor was this the only time
CAIR took someone to task for telling the truth about Islam.
3. CAIR has exaggerated data on anti-Muslim hate crimes.
According to journalist David Skinner, “It’s almost humorous what tiny offenses
pass as worthy of complaint in the CAIR report. That a student at the University of
Houston ‘saw flyers and posters with false and degrading statements about the Koran
and the prophet Muhammad’ is apparently a civil rights matter. That a College
Republican at Roger Williams in Rhode Island wrote in a student publication that ‘a
true Muslim is taught to slay infidels’ is treated with similar gravity.” Then
CAIR claims solemnly that anti-Muslim hate crimes have skyrocketed since 9/11.
4. CAIR has never come clean about itself.
Would CAIR like to see the United States become a Sharia state? CAIR board chairman Omar
Ahmad said this to a Muslim audience in 1998: “Islam isn’t in America to be
equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran should be the highest
authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth.” Ahmad has since
then claimed that he was misquoted, but the reporter who heard him stands by her story.
CAIR co-founder Nihad Awad has repeatedly declared his support for the terrorist group
Hamas. Former CAIR communications specialist Ismail Royer is in prison for his role in the
“Virginia jihad network.” Other former CAIR officials also languish in prison on
terrorism-related offenses.
Why do Colmes and others in the mainstream media and many government organizations still
give CAIR a free pass as a neutral civil rights group when its commitment to the truth is
so manifestly tenuous? The sooner Colmes and his ilk wake up to this, the safer we will
all be.
Mr. Spencer is director of Jihad Watch and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to
Islam (and the Crusades) (Regnery -- a HUMAN EVENTS sister company) and Islam Unveiled:
Disturbing Questions About the World's Fastest Growing Faith (Encounter). by Robert
Spencer Posted Sep 22, 2005
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