{"id":3369,"date":"2010-05-04T00:00:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T04:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=3369"},"modified":"2010-05-12T11:24:17","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T15:24:17","slug":"cair-warns-against-islamophobia-in-response-to-times-square-bombing-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=3369","title":{"rendered":"CAIR warns against &#8220;Islamophobia&#8221; in response to Times Square bombing attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Political Influence Operation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> May 4, 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CAIR issued a press release in response to the May 1, 2010 attempted Times Square bombing entitled &#8220;Muslims Welcome Arrest in Times Square Bomb Plot,&#8221; which focused mainly on combating a theoretical &#8220;backlash&#8221; against Muslims than the attempted terrorist attack itself.<\/p>\n<p>CAIR said &#8220;the alleged actions of the Pakistani-American suspect are not representative of the nation&#8217;s Muslim community and <strong>urged fellow citizens not to allow the incident to be exploited to advance growing anti-Islam sentiment<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At a news conference in Washington, D.C., CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said: &#8220;<strong>Any person who is afraid to contact the authorities directly should contact CAIR<\/strong>. We will then assist these individuals in contacting relevant authorities.&#8221;\u00a0 Awad continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We urge that our fellow citizens and our nation&#8217;s leaders reject the inevitable exploitation of this incident by those individuals and groups devoted to demonizing Islam, marginalizing American Muslims and <strong>feeding the unfortunately growing Islamophobic sentiment in our society.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The release closes by urging &#8220;American Muslim individuals and institutions to protect against any possible backlash by reviewing advice on security procedures contained in CAIR&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=3365\">&#8220;Muslim Community Safety Kit.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cair.com\/ArticleDetails.aspx?ArticleID=26384&amp;&amp;name=n&amp;&amp;currPage=1\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.cair.com\/ArticleDetails.aspx?ArticleID=26384&amp;&amp;name=n&amp;&amp;currPage=1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Influence Operation Date: May 4, 2010 Description: CAIR issued a press release in response to the May 1, 2010 attempted Times Square bombing entitled &#8220;Muslims Welcome Arrest in Times Square Bomb Plot,&#8221; which focused mainly on combating a theoretical &#8220;backlash&#8221; against Muslims than the attempted terrorist attack itself. CAIR said &#8220;the alleged actions of [&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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,125,122,126,153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-115","category-federal-agencies","category-islamophobia","category-law-enforcement","category-national-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369","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=3369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}