http:\/\/www.cairobservatory.org<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nThe Center, and a growing number of national security experts, \u00a0have concluded based on overwhelming evidence that CAIR should register under FARA and report their activities as a foreign agent to the American public.<\/p>\n
Investigative Report: CAIR\u2019s 2010 \u201cSummer of Censorship Campaign\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\nCSP\u2019s investigation into CAIR\u2019s intimidation and censorship campaign revealed at least six cases of political coercion, including the censorship attempt against Senator Schumer, in the past forty-five days:<\/p>\n
\n- CAIR issued a press release urging the Pentagon to disinvite the Rev. Franklin Graham from speaking at a National Day of Prayer Event scheduled for May 6, and called on the public to prevent \u201ca person with such Islamophobic views speaking to military personnel.\u201d\u00a0 Rev. Graham was indeed disinvited by the Army and CAIR applauded the decision.\u00a0 Shunned by the Pentagon, Graham was invited to speak on Capitol Hill instead.\u00a0 CAIR once again issued a press release urging congressional sponsors to disinvite Rev. Graham.\u00a0 CAIR National Legislative Director Corey Saylor referred to Graham as an \u201cIslamophobe\u201d bringing a \u201cmessage of religious intolerance.\u201d\u00a0 Graham persevered despite CAIR\u2019s attacks, praying instead in the Pentagon parking lot and at the official Capitol Hill event later that day.\u00a0 Outside the Pentagon Graham stated, \u201cI\u2019m happy for the Muslims that celebrate Ramadan here. I\u2019m happy for them to celebrate prayer services here, but as a Christian, why can\u2019t I have same right?\u201d<\/li>\n
- On May 8 CAIR called on national Republican leaders to repudiate campaign advertisements released by Florida GOP congressional candidate Dan Fanelli.\u00a0 CAIR said the ads \u201cadvocate racial profiling and promote Islamophobia.\u201d\u00a0 CAIR\u2019s Corey Saylor called the ads \u201coutrageously racist and Islamophobic\u201d and called on local, state and national GOP leaders to condemn \u201csuch racist and un-American campaign tactics.\u201d\u00a0 One of Fanelli\u2019s ads showed two men discussing a terror plot in Arabic, and in another ad he said he would keep terrorists away from airplanes.\u00a0 Fanelli refused to back down on his concerns about terrorism and homeland security and continued his campaign.<\/li>\n
- In March 2010 CAIR had called for a probe of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) to investigate a report of \u201canti-Islam bias\u201d in the NCIS\u2019s training of security personnel.\u00a0 CAIR expressed concern that \u201cmilitary, security and law enforcement personnel nationwide may be receiving agenda-driven Islamophobic training.\u201d\u00a0 In response to CAIR\u2019s demands, NCIS Director Mark Clookie sent a letter to CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad which CAIR claimed stated that the film \u201cObsession\u201d should not have been used in training.\u00a0 On May 11 CAIR publicized excerpts they alleged came from the letter.<\/li>\n
- On May 14 the Connecticut chapter of CAIR called on state Republican leaders to repudiate statements made by congressional candidate Rick Torres during a primary debate. CAIR\u2019s press release described Torres\u2019 remarks as \u201cracist,\u201d \u201canti-Muslim,\u201d \u201cintolerant,\u201d and \u201cIslamophobic.\u201d\u00a0 CAIR also attributed a May 10 bomb attack on a Florida mosque to a \u201cgrowing atmosphere of anti-Muslim sentiment nationwide that results from Islamophobic statements like those made by Torres.\u201d\u00a0 Among the statements which CAIR found objectionable; Torres \u201cwants America’s mosques and Imams to openly condemn terrorists’ actions.\u201d\u00a0 Torres acknowledged that his comments sound blunt: \u201cWe can be grown up about this, or we can be politically correct about it.\u00a0 I don\u2019t mean to say all Muslims are radicals but they are here and we have to know which ones they are.\u201d\u00a0 Former Muslims United Board Member Jerry Gordon described Torres, the son of a Cuban immigrant, as a \u201chero to former Muslims.\u201d<\/li>\n
- In a May 20 press release CAIR called on the organizers of the inaugural Tennessee Tea Party Convention to disinvite AtlasShrugs.com blogger Pamela Geller, also Executive Director of Stop Islamization of America (SIOA), from speaking at the event.\u00a0 CAIR described Geller as an \u201cextremist anti-Islam speaker, far-right blogger\u201d and called SIOA a \u201chate group.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cWe ask that convention organizers not legitimize Geller\u2019s extremist anti-Muslim rhetoric by offering her an official platform,\u201d said CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad.\u00a0 Awad also called on Rep. Steve King (R-IA) to cancel his scheduled keynote address to the convention if Geller was kept on the schedule.\u00a0 Neither the Tea Party nor Rep. King bowed to CAIR\u2019s demands and Geller spoke at the event as planned.\u00a0 Simon & Schuster will publish Geller\u2019s new book The Post-American Presidency<\/em> on July 27, 2010.<\/li>\n
- On June 14 CAIR accused Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who faces reelection in November, of making statements that were \u201cunconscionable, reprehensible and in blatant disregard for the sanctity of human life,\u201d and demanded he retract them. CAIR lifted a quote from Schumer\u2019s remarks at a public event on June 9 that it “makes sense” to “strangle [Gaza] economically,” while omitting the context of the statement in which Schumer made clear that his criticism was reserved for the Hamas regime and that \u201ccertainly there should be humanitarian aid and people not starving to death.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The Center for Security Policy believes that these specific acts by CAIR to pressure elected officials, congressional candidates, government agencies, party leaders, religious leaders, investigative reporters, and authors meet the definition of political influence operations under the terms of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).\u00a0 FARA is a disclosure statute that requires entities acting in the United States as agents of foreign principals in a political capacity to register and to make periodic public disclosure of their relationships.\u00a0 CSP has reported these incidents to the Foreign Agents Registration Unit at the Department of Justice as violations, because CAIR is not currently registered as a foreign agent.\u00a0 A growing number of national security experts have concluded based on overwhelming evidence that CAIR should register and report their activities as a foreign agent to the American public.<\/p>\n
CAIR Observatory Project<\/strong><\/p>\nThe Center for Security Policy\u2019s CAIR Observatory website (http:\/\/www.cairobservatory.org) presents comprehensive open-source evidence and analysis alleging that CAIR has acted as a foreign agent of Hamas\u2019 parent organization the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and other foreign principals based in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Iran and Kuwait.<\/p>\n
CAIR has received $6.4 million in cash and loans and $54.5 million in pledges from foreign principals based in those countries, has met and coordinated with those foreign principals on more than 30 occasions and engaged in more than 70 political influence operations on their behalf.<\/p>\n
CAIR and the Saudi Arabia-based Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) have an established history of collaboration regarding so-called \u201cIslamophobia.\u201d\u00a0 The OIC\u2019s \u201cTen Year Program of Action\u201d published in 2005 calls upon all states to enact laws \u201cincluding deterrent punishments\u201d to counter \u201cIslamophobia.\u201d\u00a0 According to Frank Gaffney, \u201cCAIR\u2019s efforts are the clearest manifestation of the attempt to enforce those deterrent punishments in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n
The CAIRObservatory.org website also documents ongoing meetings and coordination between high-ranking CAIR and OIC officials in the United States, Saudi Arabia, and most recently this month at an OIC conference dedicated to Dawa (Islamic missionizing) in Sao Paulo, Brazil.\u00a0 In January 2007 the OIC donated $325,000 to CAIR for the organization of a joint conference on \u201cIslamophobia\u201d in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CSP Condemns CAIR\u2019s Campaign Season Attacks on Candidates WASHINGTON DC, June 25, 2010 \u2013 The Center for Security Policy today released the results of an investigation of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) that reveals a clear pattern of intimidation \u2013 the beginning of CAIR\u2019s Summer of Censorship Campaign \u2013 to silence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3258,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4108","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4108\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}