The mission creep of the Hamas-linked Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) was on display Saturday, when it “welcomed” the Secretary of the Interior’s decision to remove the word “squaw” from federal landmarks.
Even though CAIR has nothing to do with this, in this video one can hear the righteous indignation in the voice of CAIR’s Government Affairs Director, Robert McCaw.
This is not the first time CAIR has gotten itself onto the news in connection to something it had nothing to do with. The list of irrelevant CAIR broadcasts is long and growing longer. There are CAIR broadcasts about Pizza Hut, the Hmong people, Confederate flags, Civil War monuments, Black Lives Matter, the 1619 Project, the Atlanta Spa Shootings, and more.
If CAIR wants to support its friends and get involved in things that are important to them, that is all very well. But the fact of the matter is, that is still not the organization’s job as CAIR itself defines it. CAIR is an Islamic group that concerns itself with issues concerning Islam and Muslims. However, in the past two years, CAIR representatives seems to be operating in accord with the assumption that their opinion about anything trending in the news in relevant. Meanwhile, they avoid stories about anti-Semitic imams, honor killings, or opportunities to assist in counter-terror efforts.
Instead, they make statements on TV about the Capitol riots, Derek Chauvin, white people, Jewish misfortunes, Facebook comments, the Ku Klux Klan, Nazi music festivals, a girl’s high school softball game, etc.
It was not always like this.
A look at CAIR’s YouTube channel shows that CAIR representatives were on TV 15 times in 2007. This went up to 50 times in 2008. The following year, when the Obama administration took office, they were on 150 times. Still, their TV appearances concerned things Islamic.
It wasn’t until the George Floyd affair that CAIR’s TV appearances skyrocketed, and CAIR spokesmen began trying to cast themselves as the conscience of the nation. This was a watershed moment, because nobody pointed out the obvious, that CAIR had nothing to do with George Floyd. The public did not complain and TV stations gave CAIR free rein; CAIR reps began saying on TV that the state of Minnesota killed George Floyd. Inevitably, CAIR did one of the few things it is good at: turning the public against one man, in this case Bob Kroll, former president of the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis.
There is a context in which such disparate things as the Capitol riots, the Hmong people, and a high school girls’ softball game are united by a common theme. That would be CAIR’s disdain for America as it is currently constituted, and its desire to sow discord and division.
CAIR has not taken a sudden interest in linguistics. The Anglicization of a Native American word for which there is no universally accepted origin is what offends them.
CAIR is on TV too much. Too much in the sense that there is no balanced coverage of this group on TV. CAIR parlays the underserved legitimacy given to it by TV newscasters to get on TV again to promote itself, cause trouble, and harm people.
It is not unreasonable to surmise that CAIR seeks to become a sort of Federal Bureau of Islamic Affairs that will investigate, arrest, and prosecute individuals guilty not only of “Islamophobia,” but of any perceived or imagined offense against any real or alleged “marginalized group.”
In fact, there is support for this conclusion in Islamic scripture.
Tameem Ad-Dari reported: I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say, “This matter will certainly reach every place reached by night and day, and Allah will not leave a house or residence except that this religion will enter it, by which the honorable will be honored and the disgraceful will be disgraced. Allah will strengthen the honorable with Islam and He will disgrace the disgraceful with unbelief.”
Source: Musnad Ahmad 16509
Grade: Sahih according to Al-Haythami
Here is a Muslim invoking this passage while protesting Greet Wilders’ trip to Britain.
Unless the public begins to complain loudly that they have had enough of CAIR’s behavior on TV, this is exactly what will happen.
gravenimage says
Mission Creep: Hamas-Linked CAIR Welcomes Removal of Term ‘Squaw’ from Federal Landmarks
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I always find Muslim claims of solidarity with Native Americans particularly grotesque. What would they have done to a population they considered pagans?
Infidel says
Yeah, they’re trying to pander to them now, so that they can ‘inspire’ them to islamize later. I’m all for our government arriving at an ideal settlement w/ native tribes that consider themselves persecuted, but this is no business of CAIR or any of the other hyphenated ethnic groups that we have in this country (other than the native ones themselves)
Wellington says
+1
somehistory says
c.a.i.rats members cares for no one except themselves. They even use young mozlum girls to enrich themselves getting in front of cameras and court benches to make money for themselves.
These filthy ghouls care not one bit about the feelings of Native Americans. It’s just another opportunity to pretend to care about the treatment of others.
It’s sickening. Too bad someone with morals and information on this group of *unindicted coconspirators* in charge of news stations couldn’t out them for what they are: “Snakes in Suits.”
CogitoErgoSum says
I remember reading that the word Sioux means something like “little snakes” because the other tribes who were enemies of the Lakota thought of them as being snakes in the grass and referred to them that way. The word squaw may have been the word the men of one tribe would use to refer to the women of other tribes who were taken during raids and afterwards raped and held as slaves. The Europeans probably had no idea what some of the words they learned from the Indians really meant while the Indians had a good laugh about it – but, yeah, the Europeans always have to be the the racists and all-around bad guys.
somehistory says
I recall watching the program “500 Nations.” Each tribe had names for themselves that basically meant, “The People.”
as you say, one tribe might have a derogatory name for another….Crow was one such and the word used meant to smell bad.
Many Indian names are still in use in places like my home state, although non-native Floridians mispronounce them. But the meanings fit the locations.
A novel, “Hanta Yo” has a lot of interesting info on the Lakota Sioux and other tribes. I really enjoyed reading when it first came out.
A friend of mine, who was Black and had children he called by the word that Whites are not allowed to say,…considered a racial slur…makes me recall that people can call their own people by wordss that they don’t want others to call them.
perhaps the word squaw was one such word. It might be okay for Native Americans to call women of their tribes that, but not for others to use the term.
CogitoErgoSum says
I haven’t read “Hanta Yo.” It’s not at my local library but I found a review of it from 1980. It says the woman who wrote the book spent 30 years researching Native American culture but some members of the Lakota Sioux didn’t like her book. Seems they had a problem with the sexual stuff but admitted they did torture people and eat dogs. She responded saying they no longer think the way the people of their tribe thought a few hundred years ago. Yep, that’s probably true of about every group of people – except maybe Muslims.
Anyway, I’ll have to find a copy of the book and give it a read.
somehistory says
I didn’t care for the sexual stuff either. But overall, I thought it pretty informative. It’s a long story, but easy to read.
I hope you enjoy it.
bill carr says
So Native Americans were ‘racist’ towards other Indian tribes in the past and coincidently
the different tribes or groups in Africa are racist toward each other, so racism was not invented by white European peoples, as the CRT ‘academics’ like to tell us..
Wellington says
CAIR is in the class of holier than thou.
N.B., It’s a rotten class.
NoLibsWelcomeHere says
CAIR is a terror organization. Its officers, members and supporters are terrorists.