{"id":4916,"date":"2010-10-11T00:00:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T04:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4916"},"modified":"2010-10-13T16:57:21","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T20:57:21","slug":"cair-launches-islamaphobia-department-to-match-the-oic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4916","title":{"rendered":"CAIR launches Islamaphobia Department to match the OIC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamaphobia Influence Operation<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> October 11, 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At its annual banquet, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad announced to launch an &#8220;Islamophobia Department&#8221; as a response to the &#8220;[&#8230;] small but vocal group of bigots and hate-mongers  manufacture an atmosphere of anti-Islam hysteria through smear campaigns  that rely on distortions, misinformation and outright falsehoods,&#8221; said  Awad. &#8220;We have witnessed this un-American phenomenon before in the  targeting of Jews, Catholics, African-Americans, Japanese-Americans,  Native-Americans, and others. American Muslims are but the latest  minority to feel the sting of prejudice and hate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will take joint efforts by people of goodwill of all faiths to challenge this epidemic of hate,&#8221; said Awad.<\/p>\n<p>CAIR&#8217;s Islamaphobia Department is an equivalent to Organization of the Islamic Conference&#8217;s (OIC) Islamaphobia Observatory. Awad emphasized as early as 2007 that CAIR is ready <a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=1649\">&#8220;to extend all possible assistance to the OIC including sharing their report on Islmophobia.&#8221;<\/a> In a meeting with the Secretary General of the OIC, Awad pointed out that <a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=1649\">&#8220;[t]he CAIR\u2019S officials pointed finger at the Jewish organizations accusing  them of building a theory that Muslim Americans are engaged in a  conspiracy to overthrow the US constitution. He cited this false  allegation as an act of Islamophobia.<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/cair-launches-islamophobia-dept-at-sold-out-banquet-104707559.html\">http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/cair-launches-islamophobia-dept-at-sold-out-banquet-104707559.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Islamaphobia-Department.pdf\">(PDF Backup)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamaphobia Influence Operation Date: October 11, 2010 Description: At its annual banquet, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad announced to launch an &#8220;Islamophobia Department&#8221; as a response to the &#8220;[&#8230;] small but vocal group of bigots and hate-mongers manufacture an atmosphere of anti-Islam hysteria through smear campaigns that rely on distortions, misinformation and outright falsehoods,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[115,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-115","category-islamophobia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}