Council on American-Islamic Relations

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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is a terrorist propaganda organization based in Washington D.C. whose stated aim is to portray "a positive image of Islam" through public relations and the media. CAIR was founded by three leaders of the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), in June of 1994. CAIR's Pro-Hamas Press - Front Page Magazine, December 05, 2006

The Washington Times calls CAIR a pressure group which is "eager to pull down the nation's homeland-security procedures" [1]

CAIR leadership has been criticized for supporting Hezbollah and Hamas.[1]

The Co-founder of CAIR, Omar Ahmad, has publicly stated:

Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran ... should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth.[2]
Ahmad has said he was misquoted, but the experienced reporter and noted terror expert Daniel Pipes, who heard him say it, stands by his story's accuracy.

Spokesman Ibrahim Hooper told the Star Tribune "I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future, but I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through education."[3]

Federal Court Designation as Terrorist Group

A federal judge has determined that the Justice Department provided "ample evidence" to designate CAIR as an unindicted terrorist co-conspirator, in fact a front for Hamas. The ruling, handed down July 1, 2010, was unsealed on November 26, 2010. [4]

Controversy

There is controversy over whether they are a civil liberties group or just posing as one. [5] [6]

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