The Hamas-derived Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has recently made news by denouncing both the MSNBC newscaster Joy Reid and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for “Islamophobia,” among other sins. Yet such pontificating conceals that CAIR is no neutral judge of hate, but rather, as revealed in social media, is a radical group with a central focus on anti-Semitic demonization of Israel’s Jewish state.
In August, CAIR joined with other Israel-hating groups in a call to “Drop the ADL” on the basis of spurious charges. The appeal demanded that progressives “reconsider the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as a partner in social justice work.” The online appealed detailed in various ways how the ADL’s pro-Israel advocacy meant that for woke the “ADL is not an ally.”
The appeal removed the disguise once and for all for CAIR, which likes to proclaim itself as a Muslim civil rights group, but in reality has long reflected its Muslim Brotherhood roots in anti-Israel hatred. CAIR, for example, has joined allied radicals in supporting Jewish Voice for Peace’s (JVP) Deadly Exchange campaign, which demands an end to American police exchanges with Israel. This modern blood libel asserts that such training contributes to American police abuses, a controversy that the radical Black Lives Matter (BLM) has recently exploited to inflame racial and social tensions across America.
As part of this campaign, CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad repeated in a July 11 tweet the intersectional trope that the “liberation of the oppressed in America and in Palestine is intertwined.” He thereby affirmed the “truth” stated by CAIR’s New Jersey chapter executive director, Selaedin Maksut, during a July 3 “Day of Rage” rally in Bergen, New Jersey, against applying Israeli sovereignty to disputed West Bank territories. The “foot on the necks of the Black and Brown people of this nation is the same foot and the same knee that is choking the Palestinian people,” Maksut had stated.
Despite outrage from the ADL and others, Maksut remained unrepentant in his July 14 tweets. His extended quotation of his prior rally remarks contained the call “to defeat this evil that is Zionism.” “Zionism is racism,” he added, “and the same powers that oppress the ones here in America are the same powers that oppress the Palestinian people.”
That same day, a CAIR-New Jersey press release reinforced condemnation of the ADL amidst a flurry of statements from rally organizers. ADL arrangements for local “police officers to learn dehumanizing and dangerous enforcement tactics from human rights violators in the Israeli government further entrenches systemic racism in America.” “The ADL can either be a civil rights organization dedicated to countering racism, or a lobbyist group dedicated to defending a racist foreign government,” the press release concluded.
Awad continued CAIR’s anti-police bias in an August 24 tweet, the day after Kenosha, Wisconsin, police paralyzed Jacob Blake during an arrest shooting. Awad slandered the police as “thugs,” but evidence has emerged about the arrest that indicates a far more complex picture. The police had responded to a call from a woman whose home Blake had visited in violation of a restraining order stemming from a May 3 sexual assault charge. He then struggled with the arresting officers, whose Taser failed to subdue him, and then attempted to enter his car, in which he had a knife.
Awad’s calumnies against about police encompass Israel as well, as his June 23 tweet showed, in which he ranted that “Israel has murdered thousands of Palestinians.” He repeated the baseless claims of Palestinian-American Rutgers University law professor Noura Erakat that Israeli border police that day had willfully killed her cousin Ahmad during a “car accident” at an Israeli checkpoint near Jerusalem. In reality, security camera clearly showed that he had attempted a vehicular ramming attack, in which he lightly wounded one Israeli officer, before other officers shot him as he aggressively dashed from his wrecked car.
Awad’s subordinate, CAIR Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell, is no less of a radical Israel-hater, as his record makes clear. Moreover, for all of CAIR’s talk of diverse intersectionality, he remains resolutely orthodox in his Islamic theology. For instance, he celebrated in an August 31 tweet recent survey results that most Americans, parallel to Islamic teaching, reject the belief that Jesus Christ is divine.
More troubling than any such theological dispute, Mitchell reposted on August 29 to his Facebook page a tweet that day from Abdullah Ali, a professor at Berkeley, California’s Zaytuna College. Zaytuna likes to pride itself as a center of enlightened Islamic thought, but Ali ominously intoned for the nonbelievers in Islam:
To be clear: Islam doesn’t allow for a Muslim to pray that God forgive or grant heaven to a person who clearly rejects God and His messenger. Hence it is unlawful to say ‘rest in peace’ about a person who died neglecting Islam. Hoping that God might be kind to them is different.
Apparently Mitchell is just as judgmental in this life as in the afterlife, as his August 6 tweet concerning the 75th anniversary of the American atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, suggests. Most historians, supported by the overwhelming majority of American World War II veterans, have judged the nuclear strikes against Hiroshima and Nagasaki three days later in 1945 as necessary to hasten victory over a fanatical Japan. By contrast, he engaged in superficial cant that the American “government perpetrated a horrific crime against humanity.” This was a “racist act of state terrorism, not a legitimate act of war. Our nation should apologize to the Japanese people every year.”
A contemporary American veteran such as Republican Senator Tom Cotton might offer Mitchell more perspective on military affairs, but he is unlikely to listen. His July 27 tweet distorted Cotton’s recent comments about the necessity of America’s Founding Fathers compromising over the evil existence of slavery in order to create an American republic. Mitchell slandered Cotton as having justified slavery itself, such that he “should not hold public office.”
Such hateful distortions consistently lie beneath CAIR’s thin veneer as a noble civil rights organization, as a subsequent article will continue to examine.
Lightship Chaplain says
It’s tragic the U.S. no longer has internal security apparatus set up inside our Government, if it did the Muslim brotherhood, would not be in the house intelligence committee – despite numerous attempt to pass bills outing them! CAIR, Deep State Marxist spy’s, and others, cannot be rooted out as UN-Americana activities… Now the FBI is also targeted by what I like to call U.N. operatives..
At one time the American Revolution was an effective bulwark against the Socialist backed French Revolution, but over time we have been worn down to almost being ineffective to fight these Globalist Bankers: (in my opinion).
toomanyhobbies says
twitter allows them to tweet hate and threats, yet twits does nothing yet I get tagged for telling a libtard the truth… screw you twitter….
Sam I am says
The amazing thing is that he still has a twitter account.
gravenimage says
I noticed that, as well…
Politicallyincorrectistruth says
All of the two-faced, racist, hypocrites at CAIR (that want to destroy the US) should like Jews and thank them publicly, because the jewish people have contributed to humanity far more than muslims have.
Jews have won over 21% of all Nobel prizes and make up less than 0.2% of the world population….
muslims have only won 0.8% of all Nobel prizes and make up 23% of the world population.
It must REALLY upset muslims to know this when their religious cult brainwashes them to believe they are superior to non-muslims, and they should be ruling the planet. If it wasn`t for all the oil and gas money in the Middle East, muslims would still be just a bunch of goat herders.
gravenimage says
So true.
livingengine says
Although CAIR has nothing to do with the Jacob Blake story, here they are agitating the public over it just like they did with George Floyd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPCL-k60FbQ
Keith O says
Looking at the tweets and other rantings of the mouthpieces from CAIR, I do wonder if one of the conditions of entry into the organisation is that you stop taking your meds!
Walk through the door, drop your anti psychotic meds in the bin, put on your tin foil hat and get issued a new taxpayer funded prayer mat.
gravenimage says
CAIR Tweets Hate (Part One)
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Do Jihadists ever get their Twitter accounts suspended–or is that only those who stand against this savagery?
OLD GUY says
The superior muslim is like the superior snake in the grass, they will both bite you in the ASS if you stoop to their low level. CAIR the propaganda mouth piece of islamic terrorist should be listed as a terrorist organization. Oh wait if I understand this right that would make some of our elected and appointed political figures would be members of a terrorist group.