In
Defense of the Constitution
News & Analysis 021/04
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CAIR, Failing to Tell the Truth? The Battle Of Fallujah
On
April 4, 2004, the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), sent out a press
release critical of American military action in
According
to CAIR:
“Hundreds of
innocent Iraqis have been killed and a number of hostages have been
taken by
insurgents. Today, the director of the main hospital in Fallujah said
at least
450 people have been killed and more than 1,000 wounded in this week's
fighting. Three Japanese hostages are being threatened with death.”
In
addition, CAIR demanded:
"The immediate
and safe release of all hostages held by Iraqi insurgents.”
"A ceasefire by all parties in
Fallujah and other Iraqi cities to allow
entry of humanitarian supplies, medical treatment for the injured and
proper
burial of the dead.”
"A complete investigation into the
bombing of the Fallujah mosque.”
"A United Nations Security Council
discussion of the crisis in
"Complete reappraisal of
”America's Muslim community stands
ready to do whatever it can to help
bring stability, freedom and true independence to the people of Iraq."
While
the killing of innocent civilians is an unfortunate side effect of all
wars,
CAIR gives the impression that American troops are rampaging barbarians
intent
on waging a holocaust on the Iraqi people. In
short, CAIR seems to confuse the
actions of American troops trying to save innocent lives, with Islamist
terrorists intent on terror-murdering as many
innocent civilians as
possible.
While
there are always two sides to any version of the truth, CAIR
consistently sides
with those who hate the
However, don’t take our word for it.
Shall
we examine the record provided by
the United Arab Emirate’s Red Crescent Society?
An
article
by
Amir Taheri run in the June
22, 2004 New York Post
(online),
refers to Muhammad
Salim al-Harthi of
"The Arab media have wildly exaggerated what happened
at Fallujah. The fighting concerned only a few districts [of the town].
There
never was any fighting on a big scale. There certainly was no clash
involving
thousands of the town's inhabitants. The number of those who died did
not
exceed 270, almost all fighters, not civilians. The resistance (i.e.
the
insurgency) was made up of former [Iraqi army] officers with a small
number of
[non-Iraq] Arabs representing Salafist [i.e. radical Islamist] groups."
So…who
do you believe? The America-haters of
CAIR, or the
people actually on the scene
who treated the injured?
It’s easy for the CAIR leadership to sit in their cozy, air
conditioned offices in Washington DC, and constantly harp about how bad
American troops treat Muslims, but how come we never hear of CAIR
actually
doing anything constructive to help the United States in the war on
terror?
For
instance:
1.
Encourage non-fundamentalist Muslims to assist the government in
translating duties?
2.
Guide young non-fundamentalist Muslims into considering joining
the
armed forces to help protect our great country?
3.
Promote vigilance within the non-fundamentalist Muslim community
with
the goal of alerting law enforcement to the militant Muslims among them?
But…what can we expect from the organization that provided
employment to convicted
Islamist terrorists? Is
it just possible that CAIR can do
nothing to help their fellow citizens because they simply do not
associate with
non-fundamentalist, terrorist Islamists?
…and what does this say about them?
Why
does CAIR hate
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may request our press releases by writing:
Andrew
Whitehead
Anti-CAIR
ajwhitehead@anti-cair-net.org
www.anti-cair-net.org
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