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025/06  June 25, 2006

     CAIR:  Deciding Who is a Muslim?


                 

     The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has appointed itself an additional mission; deciding who may call themselves a “Muslim”.  Various law enforcement agencies recently rounded up a group of seven Miami, Florida men on terrorism charges.

     Shortly after the arrests, CAIR spokesperson Ahmed Bedier had this to say: 

"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"

     The Truth, an alien institution not quite fully understood or welcome at CAIR, may be an entirely different matter.

     From CNN news:

“Narseal Batiste, considered the recruiter of the group,
according to the document, tried to reach out to
al Qaeda by contacting someone who was an
FBI operative posing as a member of the
terrorist network.”

"Batiste allegedly told the informant that he was
organizing an Islamic army to wage a jihad
in the United States."

     From the indictment:

"The conspirators pledged an oath to al Qaeda
and supported a purported mission of al Qaeda
to destroy FBI buildings within the United States."

“…document said that Batiste wanted to "attend al Qaeda
training, along with five of his soldiers, during the
second week of April and further detailed his mission
to wage a 'full ground war' against the United States
in order to 'kill all the devils we can' ... beginning
with the destruction of the Sears Tower."

“…accuses the seven men of swearing
an oath of loyalty to al Qaeda.”

     Now that Bedier has demonstated his new-found ability to determine just who is, and who is not, a Muslim, maybe he can help point out Muslim terrorists?

     Mr. Bedier?  North America is waiting …

*UPDATE:  The alleged ringleader of a terrorist cell that planned to blow up the Sears Tower
                        in Chicago was an adherent of an obscure black Islamist sect that was first investigated
                        by America's Federal Bureau of Investigation in the 1950s, relatives said ...

Andrew Whitehead
Director
Anti-CAIR (ACAIR)
ajwhitehead@anti-cair-net.org
www.anti-cair-net.org

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