by Andrew Whitehead

On Friday, September 8, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) posted an article on its web site titled, “CAIR: IN U.S. VISIT, IRAN’S KHATAMI URGES DIALOGUE”.

The article states that former Iranian President Khatami has called for a “dialogue of civilizations” among Jews, Christians, and Muslims while scolding the Bush administration for its treatment of detainees and other alleged human rights abuses.

CAIR spokesman, Ibrahim Hooper, apparently agreed that there is a need for dialogue,

“Most Americans don’t want a repeat of the Iraq fiasco. The way to prevent that is to listen to each other.”

Left unsaid is why would any civilized country have any desire to negotiate with the uncivilized barbarians currently occupying the seat of government in Iran. Did we not learn from Munich that you cannot negotiate in good faith with a government that has no respect for human rights or international norms of behaviour?

For any American administration to sit down and discuss any issue with the current Iranian regime is an insult to the dead soldiers who sacrificed so much defending our country in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Balkans.

No. It is time for America to stand with our allies and dictate terms to the Iranian government. Terms that include ending Iran’s nuclear program, stopping the flow of arms to Islamic (and other) terrorist groups, and cutting off funding to anti-Western groups.

Let us hope that CAIR’s call for “dialogue” is met with the closed fist it deserves…

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Andrew Whitehead
Director
Anti-CAIR (ACAIR)
ajwhitehead@anti-cair-net.org
www.anti-cair-net.org