Tuesday, September 5, 2006
CAIR is awfully upset that President Bush won't simply ignore Muslim terrorism and go back to sleep with the rest of us. They even trot out their bogus anti-Terror fatwa from the Fiqh Council of North America to prove that we shouldn't worry, cause they're taking care of it:
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 9/5/06) - A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group said today's address by President Bush on the status of America's war on terrorism "grants undeserved legitimacy to extremists."
SEE: Political Season Opens With Focus on Security (NY Times)
In a statement responding to the president's speech before the Military Officers Association of America, the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said:
"By focusing almost exclusively on the views of groups like Al-Qaeda and failing to address the concerns of the vast majority of Muslims worldwide who reject terrorism, President Bush grants undeserved legitimacy to extremists and marginalizes true moderates.
"Rather than focus on the negative messages of Al-Qaeda, the President ought to work with mainstream Muslims at home and abroad to isolate terrorists and promote a positive vision of hope, mutual respect and diplomacy.
"CAIR and other national American Muslim groups stand ready to help build bridges of understanding between America and the Islamic world."
Last year, CAIR coordinated a fatwa, or Islamic religious ruling, against terrorism and religious extremism issued by the Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA) and endorsed by hundreds of U.S. Muslim groups, leaders and institutions.
In 2004, CAIR launched an online petition drive, called " Not in the Name of Islam," designed to disassociate Islam from the violent acts of a few Muslims...
Not only was their "anti-terror" fatwa a sham (members of their Fiqh Council have very convenient definitions of the word), but their home page is trumpeting their private dinner with Mohammad Khatami even as this press release goes out:
