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009/04

March 19, 2004

- Senator John Kerry, Supporting CAIR?

- CAIR’s Duplicity; Condemning Terrorism/Supporting Terrorists

 

 

 

Senator John Kerry, Supporting CAIR?

     On March 17, 2004, the Weblog of Dr. Daniel Pipes, an internationally known expert on Islam tells an interesting story about the wife of presidential candidate Senator John Kerry.  Mrs. Kerry has made significant contributions to the Tides Foundation, an organization that counts the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) as one of their beneficiaries.  According to Pipes, the controversy over Mrs. Kerry’s association with the Tides Foundation has reached the point where they have had to issue a statement stating just how the money donated by the The Heinz Endowments has been spent.

     Even though it appears to be true that little of the Heinz Endowment money was sent to CAIR, a quick check of the list of organizations supported by the Tides Foundation finds CAIR, along with a veritable “who’s who” of the leftist, “progressive”, and other anti-American organizations.

     Anti-CAIR (ACAIR) believes that Senator Kerry owes the American people an explanation for his wife’s association with the Tides Foundation, specifically:

1.  Why does the Heinz Endowment find it necessary to route their donations through the Tides Foundation?  What is preventing the Heinz Endowment from making direct contributions to those groups it supports?

2.  CAIR is well known for supporting Islamic terrorist groups and individuals in the United States and overseas.  Why would the Heinz Endowment want to route donations through an organization that has any contact with the Islamist terrorism supporting CAIR?

3.  Will Senator Kerry condemn the Tides Foundation for their ties to CAIR and encourage his wife to cut off all contact between the Heinz Endowment and the Tides Foundation?


    
America does not need a presidential candidate associating in any way, even peripherally, with CAIR.  CAIR has absolutely nothing positive to add to the national discussion on any subject and deserves the universal condemnation of all Americans who fear
Islamist terrorism.

 

 



CAIR’s Duplicity; Condemning Terrorism/Supporting Terrorists

     On March 18, 2004, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) issued a press release concerning condolences sent by CAIR, and other groups, to the Spanish Ambassador over the recent terrorist bombings in Spain.

     In the press release, CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper had this to say:

"An apparent goal of the terrorists is to divide the world along religious and national lines, the most appropriate response to these vicious attacks is to strengthen and expand relations between people of all faiths and cultural origins." 

     CAIR, an organization that has seen several senior officers convicted on militant Islamist terrorism related charges, offers their condolences to the Spanish people?  CAIR, which has issued statements in support of militant Islam, now offers apologies to the victims of militant Islamist terrorism?  Is this some kind of sick joke?

     CAIR, “the U.S. section of Hamas” and clearly on the wrong side in the war on terror, tries to have it both ways: condemning terrorism in general, while failing to condemn terrorist acts committed by specific militant Islamists.  Even for CAIR, this is a new low and an insult to the recent victims of militant Islam in Madrid.

     How long must the American people listen to CAIR, the “skinheads” of the militant Islamist movement, before we rise up and demand our leaders take action against this so-called “civil rights” group?

 

 

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