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Sunday, September 04, 2005 

CAIR: the enemy of free speech in America

Joel Mowbray discusses how CAIR, which led to the firing of Michael Graham from ABC's WMAL station last month, is becoming one of the most repugnant enemies of freedom of speech in the United States. (Hat tip: Neal Boortz.)
In fairness to WMAL, it isn’t the first conservative media outlet to bow to CAIR pressure. National Review (where this columnist once worked) earlier this year removed a book from its online bookstore deemed “bigoted” and “anti-Muslim hate” by CAIR after the group sent a threatening letter to major advertiser Boeing—which sells planes to many wealthy Arabs.

The threat of public controversy is apparently so strong that major media outlets—the top conservative talk station in the nation’s capital and the nation’s premier conservative publication—are fleeing from rather than fighting an organization replete with ripe targets.

Take your pick: CAIR’s radical roots essentially as an offshoot of a rabidly anti-Semitic organization long viewed as Hamas’ biggest political booster in the U.S., its co-founder Omar Ahmad praising suicide bombers who “kill themselves for Islam” in November 1999 (according to a transcript provided by the Investigative Project), or its repeated failure to specifically condemn radical Islam or terrorist organizations Hamas and Hezbollah, dismissing requests to do so as a “game.”

CAIR’s key to success in spite of its ugly history is an odd combination of finesse and noise. Realizing that it needs to pass itself off as moderate, CAIR has become the master of making even intelligent people believe that they’ve condemned something when they haven’t.
The threat letter that CAIR sent to Boeing: was it what I think it was? There's no definate way to tell just now, but even so, it appears that here too, as with the awful Disney corporation, we have a case of a company that values Arab advertisers and their money above all.

This sort of thing cannot go on. Advertisers cannot continue to rely upon Arab business sources for moneymaking if said sources are in any ways from bigoted backgrounds, as CAIR themselves certainly seems to imply. Those concerned can certainly, if anything, try to avoid doing business with Boeing in order to protest.

And as for CAIR themselves, if the media were smart, they'd take on this bigoted organization itself in order to expose its own acts of hatred as listed above, and that includes of course even their support for Hamas.

(Topic also at Basil's Blog.)

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