Cal Thomas v. CAIR et al

By Douglas Farah

An interesting brouhaha developed over the July 4 holiday when Cal Thomas chose to speak out on WTOP on CAIR and the other Muslim Brotherhood groups operating in the United States. CAIR cried foul, as it is wont to do, and demanded listener reactions.

A source at WTOP reports that they have moved beyond the brief tempest after determining that email generated in response to CAIR's caviling demands for an attack campaign ran 10-to-1 in favor of Cal Thomas. Perhaps CAIR underestimated Americans' commitment to free speech, or they overestimated the willingness of listeners to pay much attention to a group now formally named as an un-indicted co-conspirator in yet another Federal terrorism trial and a U.S. body of the Muslim Brotherhood. Or both.

In any event, NY Times columnist Tom Friedman and 3-time Pulitzer winner, writing on July 4th, made some of the same points and used the same "cancer" metaphor.

1) As CAIR is the initiator of the complaint against Cal Thomas, it deserves first mention.

CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a current ongoing Federal terrorism trial (“United States v. Holy Land Foundation”). CAIR has had several of its founders, directors, officials and staff indicted, arrested, convicted or listed as unindicted co-conspirators in a number of terror trials over the past decade-plus. CAIR's paid staff, nationwide numbers in the dozens, (they claim 70 on their website) consequently, the number of its persons in the federal criminal system, even before the present trial, is remarkable, both as a percentage and as an absolute figure. It has attacked these cases and defended the charged, and subsequently convicted, terrorists as victims of “Islamophobia” “Jewish” judges, and the failed U.S. justice system (beginning with the World Trade Center 1993 bombing leader, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, aka “the Blind Sheikh”).

Moreover, CAIR is designated by the U.S. Department of Justice in its indictment as a U.S. member of the Muslim Brotherhood. (See my previous post here.

The Brotherhood is the founding leader of modern Islamist extremism and the precursor group for today’s violent Islamist groups, notably Al Qaeda, Hamas, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, etc.The Brotherhood, or Ikhwan, has as its ultimate goal the establishment of a global caliphate, starting with the formerly claimed Muslim lands stretching from Spain to Indonesia, and thence beyond. My full blog is here.

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