{"id":3325,"date":"2010-04-22T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T04:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=3325"},"modified":"2010-06-25T12:13:42","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T16:13:42","slug":"cair-asks-pentagon-to-disinvite-franklin-graham-pentagon-bows-to-cair-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=3325","title":{"rendered":"CAIR Asks Pentagon to Disinvite Franklin Graham; Pentagon bows to CAIR pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Political Influence Operation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> April 22, 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On April 22 CAIR issued an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/note.php?note_id=386224164441\" target=\"_blank\">action alert<\/a> urging the Pentagon to disinvite speaker Rev.  Franklin Graham from a special day of prayer.\u00a0 CAIR urged the public to contact the Pentagon&#8217;s public affairs office to express concerns about &#8220;a person with such Islamophobic views speaking to military personnel.&#8221;\u00a0 On the same day Rev. Graham announced that he had indeed been disinvited by the army.\u00a0 CAIR <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cair.com\/ArticleDetails.aspx?ArticleID=26373&amp;&amp;name=n&amp;&amp;currPage=1\" target=\"_blank\">applauded<\/a> the decision.<\/p>\n<p>Congressman Jack Kingston (R-GA) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/64724\" target=\"_blank\">called for hearings<\/a> into the Pentagon&#8217;s &#8220;politically correct&#8221; decision on this matter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Actions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On June 1 the Center for Security Policy sent a <a href=\"..\/?p=3527\">letter to  the Rev. Franklin  Graham<\/a> concerning CAIR\u2019s  unregistered foreign  agent status,   identifying their attempt to exclude Graham from the  Pentagon prayer service as a foreign  influence operation.\u00a0   A copy of  the letter was also sent to Bureau  Chief Heather Hunt of the   Foreign  Agents Registration Unit at the  Department of Justice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Documentation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/downloads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/CAIR_Action_Alert_04-22-10.pdf');\" href=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/CAIR_Action_Alert_04-22-10.pdf\">CAIR   action alert dated April 22, 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/downloads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/CSP_Letter_to_Franklin_Graham.pdf');\" href=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/CSP_Letter_to_Franklin_Graham.pdf\">CSP  Letter to Franklin Graham<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/downloads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/CSP_Letter_to_FARA_06-01-10.pdf');\" href=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/CSP_Letter_to_FARA_06-01-10.pdf\">CSP Letter  to Foreign Agents Registration Unit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Influence Operation Date: April 22, 2010 Description: On April 22 CAIR issued an action alert urging the Pentagon to disinvite speaker Rev. Franklin Graham from a special day of prayer.\u00a0 CAIR urged the public to contact the Pentagon&#8217;s public affairs office to express concerns about &#8220;a person with such Islamophobic views speaking to military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,226,125,122,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-115","category-io-clergy","category-federal-agencies","category-islamophobia","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=3325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}