CAIR Coming to Twin Cities
Posted by Andy on March 16th, 2007
So CAIR is coming to Minnesota, but not everyone is excited about. In fact, its only the radicals that run CAIR that are excited.
Reaction from other groups to the CAIR Minnesota revival was less than enthusiastic.
Steve Hunegs of the Jewish Community Relations Council said he hopes the local group will not push the same agenda as CAIR’s national office.
“National CAIR has given a platform to the academics who accuse our pro-Israel community of subverting and distorting American foreign policy, which is simply not true,” he said. “These accusations are an attempt to intimidate the pro-Israel community into not exercising its constitutional rights to lobby Congress and the executive branch.”
Omar Jamal, executive director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center in St. Paul, said he was dismayed by the news.
“CAIR pushes issues from the Mideast under the guise that it’s an umbrella organization for all Muslims,” he said. “But it does nothing for Somali Muslims.”
Many Somali Muslims are new immigrants who do not have the advanced language skills and education of those here longer, “so they are vulnerable to being influenced by CAIR and MAS [the Muslim American Society], which walk hand in hand,” Jamal said.
“You watch, they’ll come in here and start fundraising and it’ll all go toward pro-Middle East causes,” he said. “The individuals involved here may be moderate and want to do good, but overall, the organization wants to push its own points of view.”
Shirley disagreed, saying CAIR has helped represent a variety of Muslims on a variety of issues.
“The agenda we are pushing is a world agenda — and that’s civil rights,” she said. “And that crosses all boundaries.”
No word if Keith Ellison (D MN5) orchestrated this, but since he helped get CAIR a taxpayer funded office in the US capital to use, I’d have to say he was. He is afterall their Congressman. They are probably just coming to him so he doesn’t have to always swing by Detroit on his was back to Minnesota from DC. Its a convenience thing.
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March 16th, 2007 at 9:28 am
Hopes CAIR MN won’t push national CAIR agenda…he’s kidding, right? They’re coming here to do exactly that. MN has become the front line for CAIRs agenda and we better wake up. Kind of ironic the Jew doesn’t get it but the Somali does.
March 16th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
Drae’s absolutely right. All local chapters of CAIR will follow the national agenda and it’s time people woke up that they are not a “human rights organization” but apologists, obfuscators, and enablers for the Wahabi agenda.
I haven’t yet figured out Rep. Ellison. His relationship with Nihad Awad and Ibrahim “Doug” Hooper, two of the original founders of CAIR, goes back many years. He’s used their influence and monetary contributions for political gain. He’s either an incredible patsy or at least somewhat complicit in their goals.