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To: LindyBill who wrote (42393)	5/5/2004 9:57:37 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) of 793899

WHAT'S CAIR'S AGENDA? By Cori Dauber - Ranting Profs CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations, always promotes itself as a "civil rights group." Sure. It's leadership has documented ties to terrorist groups. (See also here, and especially here.) And its agenda is to promote itself as the spokesperson for Muslims in the country -- whether the Muslims in the country like it or not. Who, after all, elected CAIR? Their real agenda is to ensure that no one in public life offers any voice critical of Muslims or Islam, and to make sure that Muslims are always portrayed as victims. Michele Malkin writes today that they now have a concerted strategy in place to focus on conservative talk radio hosts. She mentions in the piece that they push the idea of big spikes in hate crimes. In fact, it's been impossible to get good figures on what constitute the basis for hate crimes data since 9/11. Are those hate crimes real physical attacks? vandalizing mosques? or leaving racist messages on answering machines? Because while all would count as "hate crimes" it's pretty clear that they don't all constitute an equal degree of harm. Meanwhile, just the other day Glenn Reynolds was posting on the question, posting both on the noted unreliability of CAIR and on the fact that according to the FBI, anti-Semitic hate crimes still outnumber anti-Muslim hate crimes roughly 10:1. But it wasn't but two or three day's ago that I was posting about a representative from CAIR in Canada who had the nerve to tell a reporter with a straight face that she knew that hate crimes were underreported by ninety percent. Knowing that which is by definition unknowable with such precision! That's a pretty good trick. This isn't to say that there aren't either civil rights violations against Muslims or hate crimes against them in this country. It is to say that if you hear facts and figures in a news story attributed to CAIR, be very, very skeptical.

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