Tuesday, September 5, 2006
Speaking of CAIR's nonsense, Patrick Poole tears into an AFP report on increasing numbers of Hate Crimes against Muslims that relies on CAIR's bogus numbers: Agence France Presse Pushes CAIR's Fake Hate Crime Numbers
If you read the CAIR report that's posted on their website today you will find that all references to these hate crime hoaxes have been scrubbed, but CAIR has never changed the 2004 statistics in the report to account for these fraudulent incidents. Those statistics remain completely unchanged since the original publication of the report, and these are the very same stats parroted by AFP in the article from this weekend.
CAIR was clearly aware enough of this problematic information to scrub any mention of these incidents from the current version of the report available on their website, but careless or deceptive enough not to change the statistics. Regardless, CAIR nowhere indicates that the report has been corrected. And they are still peddling this fraudulent information to their old media allies, who appear to take any information received from CAIR at face value...
More here. [h/t: Miss Kelly]