{"id":3607,"date":"2010-06-04T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T04:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=3607"},"modified":"2010-06-09T13:53:47","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T17:53:47","slug":"cair-outlines-foreign-policy-and-national-security-agenda-for-u-s-on-anniversary-of-obama-cairo-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=3607","title":{"rendered":"CAIR outlines foreign policy and national security agenda for U.S. on anniversary of Obama Cairo speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Political Influence Operation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> June 4, 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On June 4 CAIR held a press conference in Washington, D.C. offering a \u201cmixed review\u201d of the Obama administration\u2019s policies toward the Muslim world in the year since the president delivered a landmark speech to the Muslim world in Cairo.\u00a0 Executive Director Nihad Awad expressed concern that \u201cnational security issues are being used as a cover for the erosion of American Muslim civil liberties.\u201d\u00a0 The CAIR statement also called on the president to nominate members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board and push Congress to pass the End Racial Profiling Act, and also urged the Department of Justice to update its 2005 report on the FBI&#8217;s use of confidential informants.<\/p>\n<p>On the international front Awad decried the \u201cescalating\u201d violence of U.S. operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan saying that \u201cWe should address the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan based on a reduction in our nation&#8217;s intervention and on increased support for indigenous solutions.\u201d Awad also called on the government to \u201cdemand\u201d an end to Israel\u2019s blockade of Gaza.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/cair-offers-mixed-review-of-presidents-cairo-address-results-95623684.html\">http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/cair-offers-mixed-review-of-presidents-cairo-address-results-95623684.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Cairo-address.pdf\">(PDF)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Influence Operation Date: June 4, 2010 Description: On June 4 CAIR held a press conference in Washington, D.C. offering a \u201cmixed review\u201d of the Obama administration\u2019s policies toward the Muslim world in the year since the president delivered a landmark speech to the Muslim world in Cairo.\u00a0 Executive Director Nihad Awad expressed concern that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[115,123,125,128,121,112,124,153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-115","category-elected-officials","category-federal-agencies","category-foreign-policy","category-iraq","category-israel","category-military","category-national-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}