CAIR membership plummets

Have you been to a high school football or basketball game recently? If so, there were probably more people at that game than are members of CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations. According to the Washington Times via Pajamas Media, CAIR has just 1,700 members.

This is the same CAIR that claims to speak for the nation's "7 million Muslims," although that figure has been called into question by statisticians as being too high.

From the Washington Times:

According to tax documents obtained by The Times, the number of reported members spiraled down from more than 29,000 in 2000 to less than 1,700 in 2006, a loss of membership that caused the Muslim rights group's annual income from dues to drop from $732,765 in 2000, when yearly dues cost $25, to $58,750 last year, when the group charged $35.

The organization instead is relying on about two dozen individual donors a year to contribute the majority of the money for CAIR's budget, which reached nearly $3 million last year.

But its Capitol Hill headquarters is nice. Perhaps soon all of the members of CAIR will be able to fit into the fairly new structure on New Jersey Avenue.

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