Communities Get Smart about CAIR
by IPT News • Sep 14, 2011 at 1:40 pm
http://www.investigativeproject.org/3175/communities-get-smart-about-cair
Communities in Washington state and Ohio recently questioned the appropriateness of CAIR's involvement in community programs.
In Puyallup, Wash., a school district is considering whether it should allow CAIR to teach about Islam in the classroom.
"For America's sake, we don't think that it's fair that Islam gets a pass and the other religions don't, but also because CAIR is a front for the Muslim brotherhood," said a member of a local ACT! For America chapter.
"We have a real problem with organizations with ties to terrorism that come into the public schools."
One parent said that school is not the time or place to learn about religion. Dozens said that they did not believe that CAIR should teach Islam in the classroom while other religions went unrepresented.
In August, an Ohio Catholic school cancelled an interfaith event with CAIR after the school received a flood of emails advising against the partnership. School president Kirsten MacDougal said the emails were from those who follow news about CAIR's national office.
"We share the concern over safety, but it is sad that this had distracted from our positive intent on both sides," said MacDougal.
CAIR was incorporated in 1994 by three members of the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), a propaganda outlet for a U.S.-based Hamas support network. The FBI severed relations with the group three years ago after reviewing evidence from a terrorism-financing prosecution which showed CAIR's founders were part of the Hamas support network. Prosecutors cast CAIR as "a participant in an ongoing and ultimately unlawful conspiracy to support a designated terrorist organization, a conspiracy from which CAIR never withdrew."
CAIR's petition to be removed from a list of unindicted co-conspirators in the case failed. A district court judge ruled that "the government has produced ample evidence to establish the associations of CAIR…with Hamas."
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Reader comments on this item
Not quite right
Submitted by Kerry, Sep 21, 2011 18:31
I am the chapter leader in Pierce County that set up the Town Hall. There is a lot of misinformation running around the blogosphere. No schools, to our knowledge, are actually considering CAIR to come speak. CAIR did send a letter to all 295 school district superintendents asking to come during show and tell as well as make special accomodations for the Muslim students.
What we were focusing on was all the Islam in the textbooks and the Islamic activities going on in public schools such as the mosque field trips, art projects on the 5 pillars and jihad and the making students face Mecca and assume the Muslim prayer position.
We showed parents the textbooks, read the personal testimony of parents involved and also gave a brief on the ties that CAIR has to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.
This was in Pierce County not in King County which is going to take a LOT more work. But we in the ACT for America chapters have much planned and we will have more Town halls until a large number of parents know who these snakes are and what is going on in the school.
Be a part of the solution! Join ACT! for America at www.actforamerica.org or start your own chapter.
THE DEVIL THEMSELVES!
Sep 16, 2011 21:25
tHEY SHOULD NOT EVEN BE ALLOWED IN THIS COUNTRY! THEY GO AGAINST ANYTHING THAT IS AMERICAN AND PROMOTE THEIR MURDERING POLITICAL MOVE AGAINST THE WORLD!THE DEVIL THEMSELVES!
THEY FOLLOW ONLY ONE DOCTRINE AND I SEE NO OTHER!
SO THEY ARE ALL FOLLOWING THE SAME"religion"(NOT) by NO OTHER WORDS SHOWING DIFFERENT AS IN CHRISTIANITY WHERE EACH DENOMINATION HAS A SPECIFIC GUIDELINE. NONE IN CAIR!PURE PROPAGANDA!!!!!NAZI'S
CAIR and the City of Seattle / Seattle Police Department
Sep 16, 2011 09:24
It's about time someone stands up and tells the truth about CAIR. In Politically Correct Seattle, the Police Department continues to host "community meetings" with CAIR as one of the primary participants, ignoring the clearly identified linkage to terrorism.
Nobody in this city has the courage to say, "NO WAY!" Imagine that ... does it seem the "left coast" is alive and well?