Thursday, June 18, 2009

Colson - Who Speaks for the Scimitar

Charles Colson discusses important matters regarding who speaks for the Scimitar in the United States.

If you watch or read a report on Islam or Muslims in the United States, you will probably come across the acronym CAIR, which stands for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. CAIR is the unofficial voice of Islam in America, mostly because government officials and the media treat it as such.

This leads to the question: Should they? My friend Congressman Frank Wolf says “no,” and he has very good reasons—as he told Congress last Friday.

Wolf’s interest in CAIR was piqued when he learned that the FBI had severed “its once-close ties with” CAIR “amid mounting evidence that it has links to a support network for Hamas.” Since Hamas “is on the current list of U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations,” such an allegation, if proven, wouldn’t only warrant the severing of ties, it would also call CAIR’s credibility into question.

That’s because, as Tawik Hamad, a former “Islamist extremist,” wrote in the Wall Street Journal, CAIR persistently accuses it opponents of “Islamophobia.” But if they have ties to Islamic groups, then these accusations can rightly be called a smoke screen ...

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