Exposing CAIR as "Islamists Fooling the Establishment"

By Andrew Cochran

Daniel Pipes and Sharon Chadha have a new expose of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on the Middle East Forum site today, titled "CAIR: Islamists Fooling the Establishment." The article is an excellent profile of CAIR's very shady side, which includes former employees and board members with terrorist ties, its lack of credibility with many patriotic Muslim Americans, and its successful manipulation into a "mainstream" group in the mainstream press. This should be required reading, especially in the halls of Congress and the Executive Branch. Steven Emerson's numerous writings and testimony and those of staff at The Investigative Project are quoted and cited often in the article. Excerpts with links as added in the article:

The Department of Homeland Security refuses to deal with it. Senator Charles Schumer (Democrat, New York) describes it as an organization "which we know has ties to terrorism."...Steven Pomerantz, the FBI's former chief of counterterrorism, notes that "CAIR, its leaders, and its activities effectively give aid to international terrorist groups."...Counterterrorism expert Steven Emerson calls it "a radical fundamentalist front group for Hamas."...Randall ("Ismail") Royer, an American convert to Islam, served as CAIR's communications specialist and civil rights coordinator; today he sits in jail on terrorism-related charges...CAIR has a number of links to the terror organization Hamas, starting with the founder of its Texas chapter, Ghassan Elashi...CAIR has also consistently defended other radical Islamic terrorists. Rather than praise the conviction of the perpetrators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, it deemed this "a travesty of justice."...CAIR continues to expose its fascistic side by its repeated activities with William W. Baker, exposed as a neo-Nazi in March 2002...CAIR liked Baker's work so much, it used the title of his book, More in Common Than You Think, in one of its ad campaigns in March 2004 and as the title of an Elderhostel lecture...CAIR's decision to accept Islamic Development Bank funding is unfortunate, given the bank's role as fund manager of the Al-Quds and the Al-Aqsa Funds, established by twelve Arab countries in order to fund the Palestinian intifada and provide financial support to the families of Palestinian "martyrs."...CAIR attempts to close down public debate about itself and Islam in several ways, starting with a string of lawsuits against public and private individuals and several publications...

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