CAIR regarding Sears Tower plotters: "Refrain from calling them Muslims"

Part time human resource consultants (see the post two down from this one) CAIR, also advises the mainstream media on what to call terrorism suspects, as Aaron Hanscom writes in today's FrontPage Magazine:

Planning to murder innocent Americans in the name of radical Islam doesn't necessarily make one a Muslim terrorist. At least that was the opinion expressed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) after last month's arrests of seven black men in Miami for plotting to blow up the Sears Tower and the FBI headquarters in Miami.

"Given that the reported beliefs of this bizarre group have nothing to do with Islam, we ask members of the media to refrain from calling them Muslims," read a statement from Ahmed Bedier, Director of CAIR Florida chapter.

In fact, the men arrested were members of the "Seas of David" religious group, an Islamic sect that follows the tenets of the Moorish Science Temple of America. According to The Daily Telegraph, the Moorish Temple believes that all black people are born as Muslims and descended from the Moors. The Nation of Islam evolved from the Moorish Temple, which was founded in 1913 by Noble Drew Ali. Ali worked as a circus magician before "We study Allah and the worship of the regular Bible."

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CAIR, a supposedly moderate Muslim civil-rights group, has a history of making apologies for radical Islam. After the September 11 attacks, CAIR representatives often refused to blame Osama bin Laden because it would "simplify the situation." CAIR even looks out for Islamic radicals on "24," had to read a disclaimer before an episode that noted its terrorists were Muslims in order to appease CAIR, which felt that the show could "cast a shadow of suspicion over ordinary American Muslims and could increase Islamophobic stereotyping and bias." CAIR would have more success in that department if its own member weren't supporters of terrorism themselves. Ghassan Elashi, the founder of the Texas chapter of CAIR, was convicted of supporting Hamas in 2005.

Unfortunately in regards to the cause of honest public discourse, the mainstream media pretty much bows down to CAIR's demands. And the MSM continues to lose audience, one person at a time....and big media barons can't figure out why.

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