By Hugh Fitzgerald
Every time the Council on American-Islamic Relations injects itself into an issue or incident, it invites the question: What is CAIR? Who have been among its founders? Who is still among its leading staff? Where does its funding come from? Where does it stand, how clearly has it expressed itself, on the use of violence as an instrument of Jihad? How clearly has CAIR urged its members to cooperate fully with the American government in its attempts to protect people from Muslim terrorists? How clearly has CAIR distanced itself from those many passages in the Qur'an, those many stories in the Hadith, those many details in the Life of Muhammad (the Sira) that would alarm any intelligent non-Muslim made aware of them?
What has CAIR done to insure that Muslims will not "interpret" those passages "incorrectly"? And do those who run, or belong to, or support CAIR really think that closer inspection of the texts, and tenets, of Islam -- which they always unwittingly invite -- are to their advantage?
Do they really think that the concerns about Islam that many Americans have will decrease if they learn more about what Islam inculcates and ignore the sentimentalism of George Bush? Bush’s messianic sentimentalism has prevented, not promoted, a correct understanding of Islam. It has led to the messes in Iraq and Afghanistan that are predicated on the baseless notion that we can "win" Muslim hearts and minds, and that if only Muslims are made prosperous, and kept together in this or that political construct, their hostility to non-Muslims (inculcated by Qur'an and reinforced by the study of the Sunnah) will somehow magically diminish. Read more ...
Every time the Council on American-Islamic Relations injects itself into an issue or incident, it invites the question: What is CAIR? Who have been among its founders? Who is still among its leading staff? Where does its funding come from? Where does it stand, how clearly has it expressed itself, on the use of violence as an instrument of Jihad? How clearly has CAIR urged its members to cooperate fully with the American government in its attempts to protect people from Muslim terrorists? How clearly has CAIR distanced itself from those many passages in the Qur'an, those many stories in the Hadith, those many details in the Life of Muhammad (the Sira) that would alarm any intelligent non-Muslim made aware of them?
What has CAIR done to insure that Muslims will not "interpret" those passages "incorrectly"? And do those who run, or belong to, or support CAIR really think that closer inspection of the texts, and tenets, of Islam -- which they always unwittingly invite -- are to their advantage?
Do they really think that the concerns about Islam that many Americans have will decrease if they learn more about what Islam inculcates and ignore the sentimentalism of George Bush? Bush’s messianic sentimentalism has prevented, not promoted, a correct understanding of Islam. It has led to the messes in Iraq and Afghanistan that are predicated on the baseless notion that we can "win" Muslim hearts and minds, and that if only Muslims are made prosperous, and kept together in this or that political construct, their hostility to non-Muslims (inculcated by Qur'an and reinforced by the study of the Sunnah) will somehow magically diminish. Read more ...
Source: Jihad Watch
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