Comments on: CAIR: Prostitutes for Radical Islam http://netwmd.com/blog/2006/12/30/1253 netWMD is dedicated to understanding, promoting, and protecting democracy. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:37:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on CAIR: Prostitutes for Radical Islam by: Bill Narvey http://netwmd.com/blog/2006/12/30/1253#comment-59638 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 15:29:57 +0000 http://netwmd.com/blog/2006/12/30/1253#comment-59638 Andrew Whitehead states inter alia: "CAIR is an insult to the North American Islamic community and represents a very small number of Muslims who either do not know CAIR very well or refuse to see CAIR for what it is: a malignant cancer on the Muslim community that must be destroyed." The CAIR website this New Years day boasts a membership of 25,000 and is campaigning for 25,000 more. Though their numbers may be relatively small, CAIR has inveigled its way to become an organization that has gained a significant presence and voice in America that a great many Americans have been led to believe represents the views of moderate (whatever that euphemistic meaningless adjective means) Islam. Even the American government, by communicating and consulting with CAIR in past, has lent legitimacy to CAIR. In the result, CAIR's influence on Americans, the American government and upon the entire American Muslim community extends far beyond their relatively small membership. If Whitehead is correct about CAIR's true purpose and motives, and I have every reason to believe he is, then it matters not that CAIR has a small membership for its threat to Americans is disproportionately greater than its actual size measured by active members. Add CAIR's voice, membership and influence to that of so many other Muslim organizations that actively advocate anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian, anti-Islamophobia and pro-Muslim sensitivity views, the numbers of Muslims active in that advocacy becomes far more formidable and worrisome. Further, one cannot ignore the well known efforts of the Saudis to spread their Wahabbi version of Islam in America to induce more Muslims to fundamental Islam as the Saudis practice and believe as well as to seed non-Muslim America with pro-Islamic views by means that amount to a sophisticated propaganda campaign that extends into many sectors of American society, not the least troublesome of which is through academia to reach the young and impressionable. For those like Whitehead who see CAIR as a malignant cancer that must be destroyed, it would be well to keep in mind that any efforts mounted to that end including raising America's awareness of of the threat that CAIR and these other organizations and nations such as the Saudis really represent, that CAIR is not the only radical Muslim malignant cancer in America that is deserving of such attention. Andrew Whitehead states inter alia:

“CAIR is an insult to the North American Islamic community and represents a very small number of Muslims who either do not know CAIR very well or refuse to see CAIR for what it is: a malignant cancer on the Muslim community that must be destroyed.”

The CAIR website this New Years day boasts a membership of 25,000 and is campaigning for 25,000 more.

Though their numbers may be relatively small, CAIR has inveigled its way to become an organization that has gained a significant presence and voice in America that a great many Americans have been led to believe represents the views of moderate (whatever that euphemistic meaningless adjective means) Islam. Even the American government, by communicating and consulting with CAIR in past, has lent legitimacy to CAIR.

In the result, CAIR’s influence on Americans, the American government and upon the entire American Muslim community extends far beyond their relatively small membership. If Whitehead is correct about CAIR’s true purpose and motives, and I have every reason to believe he is, then it matters not that CAIR has a small membership for its threat to Americans is disproportionately greater than its actual size measured by active members.

Add CAIR’s voice, membership and influence to that of so many other Muslim organizations that actively advocate anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian, anti-Islamophobia and pro-Muslim sensitivity views, the numbers of Muslims active in that advocacy becomes far more formidable and worrisome.

Further, one cannot ignore the well known efforts of the Saudis to spread their Wahabbi version of Islam in America to induce more Muslims to fundamental Islam as the Saudis practice and believe as well as to seed non-Muslim America with pro-Islamic views by means that amount to a sophisticated propaganda campaign that extends into many sectors of American society, not the least troublesome of which is through academia to reach the young and impressionable.

For those like Whitehead who see CAIR as a malignant cancer that must be destroyed, it would be well to keep in mind that any efforts mounted to that end including raising America’s awareness of of the threat that CAIR and these other organizations and nations such as the Saudis really represent, that CAIR is not the only radical Muslim malignant cancer in America that is deserving of such attention.

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