If CAIR's selling it, don't buy it

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Editor's note: Edited and resubmitted on June 24, 2006.

The Council on American Islamic Relations has announced that they will be taking on the task of "launching a massive $50 million media campaign involving television, radio and newspapers as part of its five-year program to create a better understanding of Islam and Muslims in the US."

Oh, goodie. When you hear these advertisements telling you how wonderful Islam is, consider the source. This is similar to a couple of years ago when the Saudis were running commercials in the American media trying to pass themselves off as a friend and ally of the United States.

This bunch has contributed nothing positive to this country, and their tactics have been nothing short of shameful.

From the column: "Elaborating on the CAIR campaign to dispel misunderstandings of Islam and Muslims, Nihad Awad, CAIR executive director, said that his group proposes to spend $10 million annually for five years in a media campaign. He said that CAIR would also recruit volunteers and produce educational material as part of its initiative."

What misunderstandings of Islam?

From my 6/21/2006 column on JihadWatch.org
jihadwatch.org/archives

• "Slay the idolaters" Qur'an 9:5



• “The spoils of war belong to Allah and his messenger" Qur'an 8:1



• “I will cast terror into the hearts of the unbelievers" Qur'an 8:12



• "You will soon be invited to fight against a nation of mighty prowess. Fight them until they submit" Qur'an 48:16



• "Strike off their heads" Qur'an 8:12



• "Besiege them" Qur'an 9:5



• "Strike off every fingertip of them" Qur'an 8:12



• "Fight with them until there is no more persecution and religion should be only for Allah" Qur'an 8:39



• "Fight those who do not believe in Allah" Qur'an 9:29



• "Urge the believers to war" Qur'an 8:65



• "Until they pay the tax, acknowledge superiority, and are in a state of subjection" Qur'an 9.29



• "Permission to fight is given to those upon whom war is made because they are oppressed" Qur'an 22:39



• "Take them captives" Qur'an 9:5



• "So when you battle the unbelievers, then smite their necks until you have overcome them, and then make them prisoners" Qur'an 47:4



• "Fighting is enjoined on you, and it is an object of dislike to you; and it may be that you dislike a thing while it is good for you" Qur'an 22:16



• "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and his messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is that they should be killed or crucified, or their hands and feet should be cut off on opposite sides, or they should be imprisoned" Qur'an 5:33



• "Lie in wait for them in every ambush" Qur'an 9:5

These Qur'an verses should be reiterated to every American and Westerner at every opportunity. And no, these Suras are not being taken "out of context". Since they feel that we're all just Islamophobes who don't understand "true Islam", would they like to explain the ongoing arrests of Muslims in the United States who have plotted attacks against the nation? The number of these arrests keeps increasing, yet the Islamists want to "educate" us.

Give us a break, and stop insulting our intelligence.

Here's a suggestion for CAIR. How about you take some of that 50 million dollars and distribute it to the families of 9/11 victims, and to the families of the sailors that were killed on the U.S.S. Cole, and the families of the people that were killed in the U.S. Embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya (All killed by readers of the Qur'an), then take the rest of the money and buy body armor for American troops over in the Middle East who fight so clowns such as yourselves can retain your right to attempt to push your seventh century belief system at the West.

And how does the Council on American Islamic Relations intend to fund this campain?

From the column: “We are planning to meet (Saudi) Prince Alwaleed ibn Talal for his financial support to our project. He has been generous in the past,” he (Awad) added.

Yes, he certainly has.

Referenced columns:
Media Campaign in US to Dispel Islamophobia:

Freedom House Report

Robert Spencer: The Hijab that wasn't.....

Daniel Pipes and Sharon Chadha: CAIR: Islamists Fooling the Establishment

Daniel Pipes and Sharon Chadha: CAIR's Hate Crimes Nonsense

Jihad terror suspects arrested in Miami housing project

http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/728