CAIR in the National Review: Crying wolf

The latest copy of the National Review showed up in my mail box yesterday. CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations, which fashions itself as something like the NAACP for Muslims, got a well-deserved thrashing in Daniel Mandel's article, Crying Wolf. Mandel refers to CAIR's 2005 civil rights report and discovers that CAIR seems to be "crying wolf" quite a bit.

An excerpt:

Fabricated incidents and frivolous complaints have abounded in these reports and others like them. For example, no fewer than five cases of arson or vandalism of Muslim businesses appear to have been the result of attempted insurance fraud on behalf of the business owners, In two cases, CAIR protested on behalf of those alleging hate crimes, Mirza Akram and Amjad Abunar, demanding investigations--and then was struck dumb when each man was charged with arson. Other incidents reported by CAIR cannot be substantiated.

Later in the same paragraph, the author cites a Springfield, MA mosque fire. The arson committed was not a hate crime, but a crude attempt to hide evidence of a burglary.

It's not online yet.

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