{"id":4398,"date":"2010-07-09T15:46:47","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T19:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4398"},"modified":"2010-07-12T15:03:25","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T19:03:25","slug":"cair-urges-action-from-president-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4398","title":{"rendered":"CAIR Urges Action from President Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Political Influence Operation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: July 9, 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CAIR\u2019s Nihad Awad requests that the President investigate what the organization is calling the \u201cforced exile\u201d of American Muslims overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the National Executive Director said the following,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We ask President Obama to review this disturbing new policy that denies American Muslims their constitutional rights and due process of law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition, CAIR&#8217;s National Communications Director, Ibrahim Hooper,\u00a0expressed similar sentiments during an interview with PressTV,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s a very disturbing situation and very puzzling that President Obama&#8217;s administration would come up with this kind of&#8211;apparently unconstitutional policy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The full video of this interview can be viewed below.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, this marks the 2nd time in the\u00a0past week that CAIR has posted PressTV reports on its official Youtube site. \u00a0PressTV is headquartered in Tehran, Iran and is owned by the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting.\u00a0The news station has received much criticism over the years for being anti-Semitic and for biasedly manufacturing stories.\u00a0<em>The Guardian<\/em>, a U.K. newspaper, refers to the network as &#8220;the 24 hour news channel funded by the Iranian government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/campaign.constantcontact.com\/render?v=001ncxQURES3AsR27oJK-Rej0z_7SxrBmLUUV0TI2RE-ylYpHD_3thyMDgiRbDvFp-7x6xmu4fq_KQH3GzkHJIIx6dqyLw9uw14JMi0GOnJsuWA1kcyh1hIvStIZorAWnIBjf3LDc5Jw4NZcjU2tUqxcZGWiyfxCTdatWrlcHpDUjmc5exLyNnNr6KzhMX4hPY3\">http:\/\/campaign.constantcontact.com\/render?v=<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/campaign.constantcontact.com\/render\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/exile.pdf\">(PDF) <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Video:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ngqjrlYjjH4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ngqjrlYjjH4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Influence Operation Date: July 9, 2010 Description: CAIR\u2019s Nihad Awad requests that the President investigate what the organization is calling the \u201cforced exile\u201d of American Muslims overseas. 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