Hamas-linked CAIR is getting CAIRless: this press release is riddled with errors. The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom is USCIRF, not USCIFR. The man who was beheaded in France for showing a Muhammad cartoon was Samuel Paty, not Samuel Petty (they do get it right the second time). Apparently having the establishment media and numerous gutless and/or witless government and law enforcement officials under your thumb can make you complacent enough to slight the details.
Anyway, here we go yet again: any counterterror measure, no matter how mild, is “collective punishment” of Muslims and must be ended. Hamas-linked CAIR has so consistently opposed such measures that one might get the impression that they want the jihad to advance unimpeded. Inconceivable, right?
Reminder: CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR officials have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman, Omar Ahmad, as well as its chief spokesman, Ibrahim “Honest Ibe” Hooper, have made Islamic supremacist statements about how Islamic law should be imposed in the U.S. (Ahmad denies this, but the original reporter stands by her story.)
Even worse, CAIR chapters frequently distribute pamphlets telling Muslims not to cooperate with law enforcement. CAIR has opposed virtually every anti-terror measure that has been proposed or implemented and has been declared a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates. CAIR’s Hussam Ayloush in 2017 called for the overthrow of the U.S. government. CAIR’s national outreach manager is an open supporter of Hamas.
“CAIR Calls on U.S. Religious Freedom Commission (USCIFR) [sic] to Probe France’s Anti-Religion Laws and ‘Collective Punishment’ of French Muslim Community,” by Ayan Ajeen, CAIR, October 22, 2020 (thanks to Robert):
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 10/22/20) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, has called on the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIFR) [sic] to investigate the France’s ongoing campaign of “collective punishment” against the French Muslim community, as well as France’s longstanding history of turning anti-religious bigotry into government policy.
In the days since the horrific murder of educator Samuel Petty [sic], France has arrested numerous French Muslims with no apparent connection to the crime and threatened to shut down various French Muslim organizations, including the country’s largest anti-Islamophobia group.
In a statement, CAIR Government Affairs Director Robert S. McCaw said:
“The French government has responded to the horrific murder of teacher Samuel Paty by collectively smearing and punishing the French Muslim community at-large instead of only targeting those individuals responsible for this crime. This despite the fact that the French Muslim community vocally and strongly condemned the crime.
“We encourage USCIFR to investigate and oppose the French government’s ongoing campaign of collective punishment, as well as its history of restricting freedom of religion: kicking students who wear crosses, kippas and hijabs out of school, barring public servants from wearing such signs of their faith, criminalizing religious face veils while requiring medical face masks, and arresting Muslim women for wearing full-body swimsuits at the beach, among other irrational policies.”…