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Now even the Biden regime has had enough of CAIR.
Ever since it was founded in 1994, the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), with considerable help from the establishment media and clueless law enforcement officials, has carefully cultivated an image as a legitimate civil rights advocacy organization. Nowadays, however, masks are slipping all over as open support for Hamas and gleeful antisemitism have become social contagions and are rapidly becoming normalized among leftists.
Accordingly, it was not a massive surprise when CAIR’s cofounder and longtime executive director, the taciturn and stone-faced Nihad Awad, avowed that Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre of 1,200 Israeli civilians made him “happy.” What was surprising was that this proved to be the straw that broke the camel’s back for the Biden regime in its endless courting of support from the sinister organization.
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) recently published excerpts from Awad’s Nov. 24 speech at the national convention of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) in Chicago. Awad spun the horrific Oct. 7 massacre as the action of an oppressed people striking back at their oppressor: “The people of Gaza only decided to break the siege, the walls of the concentration camp, on Oct. 7.”
He didn’t bother to explain how the inmates of this alleged “concentration camp” managed to procure the rockets that they had rained down on Israel on so many occasions before Oct. 7. Nor did he mention the fact that not just Israel but Egypt has closed its border with Gaza; might the Gazans themselves bear some of the responsibility for their unpopularity?
Awad went on to cheer the massacre itself: “And yes, I was happy to see people breaking the siege and throwing down the shackles of their own land, and walk free into their land, which they were not allowed to walk in. And yes, the people of Gaza have the right to self-defense, have the right to defend themselves, and yes, Israel, as an occupying power, does not have that right to self-defense.”
This claim that Israel does not have the right to defend itself is a new CAIR talking point; CAIR operative Hussam Ayloush (MEMRI misspells his name as Aylush) said the same thing in a Dec. 1 Friday sermon in Oklahoma City. It’s a specious argument that might impress the ignorant, but it dissolves upon a moment’s thought.
In the first place, Israel is not an occupying power in Gaza (or anywhere else, for that matter). There has not been a single Israeli in Gaza since 2005. And the idea that an occupying power has no right to self-defense is absurd. Did the Allies have no right to self-defense in Germany or Japan after World War II? Occupation is not unjust or immoral in itself, and by every standard of international law, Israel is not illegally occupying the land on which Hamas carried out its massacres on Oct. 7.
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T.jefferson says
“ Now even the Biden regime has had enough of CAIR.”
That’s ironic……. After this regime and politicians before has kissed the behinds of Muslims, have opened our borders….. Now they’ve had too much!!!!!!!
How convenient.
You made the bed no sleep on it.
Thank you all you evil traitorous politicians for allowing so much evil into the USA.
Yet, mindless Americans continue to support politicians who care nothing about the future of the once great Constitutional Republic.🇺🇸
Much can be learned about how Thomas Jefferson responded to the Barbary war.
Brenrod says
“Now even the Biden regime has had enough of CAIR.”
Where is the proof for this statement. As far as I know the US government still gives money to CAIR and appoints it to boards and commissions even a commission on anti semitism. CAIR should be designated a terror org supporting an enemy of the US.
Bexarkat says
I am quite sure there will be some backchanneling. Not too long from now Biden and Awad will kiss and make up. There were two comments of concern spoken by Awad, the first one everyone is talking about, the second comment – not so much. The second comment concerned that Palestinians “walked in their own country” for the first time, implying Israel not only does not have a right to defend itself, but does not have a right to resist.
PRCS says
All taken out of context, of course.
Jerry says
Their larger numbers are emboldening them to reveal what they are really all about.
Hoi Polloi says
The BHO 3.0 White House clock had its right twice a day moment. For the second, they’re all sound asleep and it goes unutilized. Except for Joe wandering around naked in the middle of the night and actually finding the ice cream. But it will still be wrong (24 x 60) – 2 and probably right back to licking CAIR’s feet tomorrow. The payouts are just too good.
somehistory says
I read this news on at least three different sites. One said that c.a.i.r. has been *removed* from a *list* of approved groups which the wh uses for whatever they use them for.
One pointed out how recently, mozlums had been invited for a meeting to discuss the war in Israel and had been given extra attention and promises with an apology for what biden had said.
awad and ayloush felt comfortable with that, and so took it further with the high-fiving cheer of what hamas and the ‘palestinans’ had done to the Jews. This condemnation from the WH must have felt like a little slap…or maybe they see it as something else for which to make biden apologize.
The members of c.a.i.r should be on the terror watch list. Perhaps one day soon….
In any case, awad and his henchpeople are going to reap what they have so generously sown.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Biden has had enough of CAIR? Is he sure that he can lose all those jihadist votes in Michigan and Minnesota? If those thugs don’t turn out the vote for him in those states, those voters will sit & home & both those states will flip red. Are they sure they can do w/o?
bill says
I have read this twice and I do not see anywhere what Biden or the WH has done to distnce itself
from CAIR
somehistory says
the WH removed c.a.i.r from their website and took them off the list of organizations which were supposed to help with antisemitism.
somehistory says
“Noa Tishby-cair-has-had-a-History-of-questionable Remarks”
c.a.i.r removed from wh website as a worker concerned with antisemitism
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/noa-tishby-cair-has-had-a-history-of-questionable-remarks/vi-AA1leglQ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=0ed70d0cfeef426581182009ec894e82&ei=12
Noah Andeark says
While looking to see who in the US government supports the terror org CAIR, I found a “404 page not found” while trying to bring up http://www.cair.com/about_cair/endorsements-awards-recognitions/
Then I went to the Internet wayback machine, and found the page from December 4th.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231204033532/https://www.cair.com/about_cair/endorsements-awards-recognitions/
It’s an interesting list.
James Lincoln says
But c.a.i.r. still gets federal money, tax breaks, etc., as a 501(c)(3).