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Friday, May 25, 2007

Terrific piece by Patrick Poole on just how little of even the American Muslim Community CAIR actually represents: CAIR by the Numbers

...their new 2006 Annual Report and their recently posted 2005 IRS Form 990 shows that CAIR continues to hemorrhage members. Whereas my estimates for 2004 showed that based on their membership receipts in that period they had approximately 4,761 dues-paying members, in 2005 their membership plummeted dramatically to an estimated 2,615. This puts CAIR on the same comparative membership level as the American Indian Kaw Nation in Kansas, the Cleveland Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, the Society for News Design, the University of Texas Longhorn Alumni Band, and the South Dakota chapter of the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB), none of whom are consulted near as frequently by Beltway politicians or sought after for comment by the media establishment as CAIR.

The steep decline in CAIR membership is directly correlated in membership receipts (line 3 of the Form 990), which dropped off from $119,029 in 2004 to $65,377 – a decrease of $53,652, or almost half (45 percent) of the previous year’s membership revenues. If this trend continues at the same pace, their 2006 Form 990 numbers will show $29,419 in membership revenues, representing only 1,177 members, roughly comparable to the membership of the Genealogical Society of Rockingham County, Virginia and the Garden Club of Tacoma, Washington – neither of which has a Washington DC lobbying office...

There's much more.

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At a dinner hosted by CAIR, Board Vice-Chair Ahmad Al-Akhras and Executive Director Nihad Awad welcome former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami to speak on the importance of civilizational dialogue. [From the Table of Contents of CAIR's Annual Report.]

Via Miss Kelly, who also discusses CAIR's inflated population figures: CAIR Estimate of American Muslims Off by 6 Million

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