The Council of American Islamic Relations or CAIR is having their first Goodwill Appreciation Awards Dinner August 25th in Oklahoma for 25 Oklahoma individuals who are not Muslim but have shown goodwill towards a Muslim or Islam, itself. CAIR announced a couple months ago it was opening an office in Oklahoma City so they haven't wasted any time getting their goodwill going. This all sounds fine and dandy for the community, doesn't it?
Well...Let's look into CAIR a little deeper. CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the on-going Holy Land Foundation Hama terror funding trial recently. This foundation has been called the largest Muslim charity in the U.S. and some of its associates are accused of sending money to Hamas, a terrorist organization, via some of their charities. Hamas seeks the destruction of Israel and is an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Yesterday, an FBI agent testified that CAIR Executive Director, Nihad Awad, was at a meeting with Hamas representatives in the U.S. discussing how to send more money to Hamas! Awad was not indicted in this trial, as I understand it, because, at the time, Hamas had not been declared a terror organization.
CAIR's Chairman, Omar Ahmad, was recorded in wire tapped phone calls arranging the meeting. At the time of the wiretap he was President of the Islamic Association for Palestine. Ahmad was quote in a U.S. newspaper in 1998 (view pdf file of article Download 398Ahmad)
"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominate..."
Gee, I wonder if either one of these CAIR leaders will be at the closed door dinner in Oklahoma?
I read this week, CAIR continues its on-going efforts to silence or complain about those who don't speak glowingly about them or Islam. In this instance CAIR issued a letter, through their attorney, that a program about CAIR be canceled at the Young American Foundation. I'm pleased to report their threat did not stop the program and it went on as planned.
And what about their new book called, Islamophobia and Anti-Americanism: Causes and Remedies? Yesterday, Ahmad Al-Akhras, the vice chair of CAIR, continued the "Muslims are victims" tactic in acommentary titled "Un-American intimidation tactics shall not silence Muslims."
Now who is trying to silence who?
The newsletter which announced the CAIR dinner was done by the Islamic Center of Tulsa had another item of interest:
"...the Islamic Society of North America joined the ACLU in June to send the message to our legislators that it’s time to restore our Constitution. ...They heard us, but now we need to keep up the pressure. Sr. Sheryl Siddiqui met with Sr. Ingrid Mattson, President of ISNA and several other Muslim leaders."
Oh yes, Ingrid Mattson...now what was it she said recently that caught my eye? Oh yes, it was on March 14th when she said:
"Right-wing Christians are very risky allies for American Jews," Mattson said, "because they [the Christians] are really anti-Semitic. They do not like Jews" and enter into the alliance on the basis of fundamentalist beliefs that it would be desirable for all Jews to return to Israel.She suggested that fundamentalist Christians might turn against Jews or that there could be backlash from ordinary Americans against Jewish and fundamentalist Christian supporters of Israel. Shocked? Yep, so was I.
I'm going to assume Siddiqui didn't know Ms. Mattson spoke so harshly about conservatives. But I'm sure Oklahomans would like to hear from Ms. Siddiqui or other Muslims about these comments. What's up with Mattson's remarks?