July 28, 2005

Daniel Pipes: CAIR Tacitly Acknowledges It Was Founded by Islamic Terrorists

DANIEL PIPES REPORTS THAT IN MARCH 2004 an organization called Anti-CAIR was sued by CAIR for making a number of statements, including the following:

• [CAIR is an] organization founded by Hamas supporters….
• CAIR was started by Hamas members….
• CAIR … was founded by Islamic terrorists.

Then in June, 2005, CAIR filed an amended motion, dropping its objections to all three of the above claims, and retaining its objections to two additional statements. Per Daniel Pipes:

CAIR's filing an amended motion has two apparent implications: that CAIR has tacitly acknowledges the truth of Whitehead's deleted assertions; and those assertions can now be repeated with legal impunity.

LET'S SEE IF CAIR ENDORSES THIS:

U.S. Muslims issue anti-terrorism 'fatwa'

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top U.S. Muslim scholars issued a "fatwa," or religious edict, against terrorism on Thursday and called on Muslims to help authorities fight the scourge of militant violence.

... Because Islam is not based on a world-wide hierarchical structure, the edicts are not globally binding, and only affect the community whose religious leaders have issued the rulings.

This appears to be a step in the right direction. But without the unequivocal endorsement of it by major Muslim organizations such as CAIR; without extensive, prominent, and unequivocal denunciations of terrorism on the part of all Muslim leaders in America; and without the public denunciation on the part of Muslim leaders of all the imams in America who preach Jihad, and of all the mosques in America at which people are taught to hate non-Muslims -- it can be considered at most no more than a step.