{"id":4390,"date":"2005-03-31T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2005-03-31T05:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4390"},"modified":"2010-07-09T15:21:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T19:21:35","slug":"cair-pressures-national-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4390","title":{"rendered":"CAIR Pressures National Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Political Influence Operation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: March 31, 2005<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CAIR pressures a \u201cleading conservative magazine to remove its Internet site of two books about the Islamic prophet Muhammad.\u201d According to CAIR, the books were \u2018virulently anti-Muslim\u201d and \u201cIslamophobic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To achieve its ends, CAIR sent a letter to The Boeing Company requesting that it remove its advertisements from the publication. The following is an excerpt of the letter sent by Nihad Awad, CAIR National Executive Director, to Boeing CEO, James A. Bell,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I would therefore respectfully request that Boeing address the concerns of Muslims worldwide by withdrawing its advertising support from a magazine that actively promotes anti-Muslim hate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is important to note that Boeing had just recently announced its plans to deliver the first two Boeing aircrafts to Emirates Airline, the official carrier of the UAE, a Muslim Gulf state.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than lose Boeing as an advertiser, the magazine opted to remove the books from their online store.<\/p>\n<p>Due to its\u00a0foreign ties with the UAE, CAIR was able to effectively leverage its cause.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43559\">http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43559<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/national-review.pdf\">(PDF)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Influence Operation Date: March 31, 2005 Description: CAIR pressures a \u201cleading conservative magazine to remove its Internet site of two books about the Islamic prophet Muhammad.\u201d According to CAIR, the books were \u2018virulently anti-Muslim\u201d and \u201cIslamophobic.\u201d To achieve its ends, CAIR sent a letter to The Boeing Company requesting that it remove its advertisements [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,152,122,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-13","category-corporations-political-influence-operations","category-islamophobia","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390","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=4390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}