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Sunday, January 14, 2007 

A turning point in public acceptance of CAIR?

Joel Mowbray says in the Washington Times (via Power Line) that Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer's condemnation of CAIR a short time ago may indicate that even some Democrats are starting to wake up to what kind of bad entity CAIR really is:
CAIR claims that Mrs. Boxer succumbed to the "pro-Israel lobby," who are "anti-Muslim extremists." The reality is that Mrs. Boxer, as politically safe as any member of Congress' upper chamber, received little flack for issuing a relatively minor certificate to Mr. Elkarra. She had little to gain, and much to lose. A savvy pol, Mrs. Boxer likely realized that she would be subjected to CAIR's well-oiled attack machine.

Sure enough, CAIR unsheathed the long knives. Calls to Mrs. Boxer's office were overwhelming against her decision, and only one group, California-based Stand With Us, actually encouraged its members to support her. But ironically, in the course of disparaging Mrs. Boxer, CAIR demonstrated precisely why the senator did the right thing.

Interviewed this week by Paula Zahn on CNN, CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper let loose a grandiose fabrication:

"We practically have a rubber stamp saying, 'CAIR condemns blank act of terrorism.' We've repeatedly, consistently condemned terrorism in all its forms, including attacks on Israeli civilians by Hamas, Hezbollah. We've condemned it repeatedly."

Not true.

While CAIR did condemn one specific attack committed by Hamas -- the particularly gruesome Netanya Passover massacre in March 2002 -- it pointedly omitted any reference to the terrorist organization. (Interestingly, CAIR's press release also avoided acknowledging that the bombing occurred in "Israel," writing instead that the attack happened in "the Middle East.") As for Hezbollah, CAIR has never condemned any of that organization's many terrorist attacks. During the month-long war last summer, CAIR issued at least eight condemnations of Israel and America -- but not one of Hezbollah.

CAIR has, in fact, never condemned Hamas or Hezbollah. Given repeated opportunities to do so by outlets such as The Washington Post and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, CAIR has flatly refused to denounce either. Asked point-blank by Newsweek just last month to condemn Hamas, CAIR Executive Director and cofounder Nihad Awad demurred, dismissing the question as "the game of the pro-Israel lobby."
It's good that Boxer is acting rationally, and she did the right thing to condemn CAIR. Speaking of which, there should be a case made about the freedom to criticize religion, and that it's not the same as criticizing race.

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