This blog has slammed CAIR before as apologists for terrorism - but their conduct at the recent DC "anti-war" rally crossed even that line.
AS LGF and others who watched the rally on TV the other day report, Dr. Ghazi Khaksan, of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), took to the podium near the end of the rally to read a poem packed with criticism of the Bush administration. Near the end of his poem, Khaksan announced:
"I bring to you salaams and greetings from the Mujahadeen at CAIR."This choice of words is more than curious. Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines Mujahadeen as: "a person who wages jihad, Islamic guerilla fighters esp. in the Middle East." In December, top Al Qaeda official Sulaiman Abu Ghaith warned that "The Christian-Jewish alliance will not, God willing, be safe from attacks by the mujahadeen...." and indeed the term is used frequently by Islamofascist terrorists of all types. It does not, to my knowledge, have other meanings - certainly none that are popularly understood.
It would appear that CAIR is continuing its drift toward open support of terrorism and hostility to the USA, a road well traveled by other Islamist organizations like the American Muslim Council. Our best weapon in response is continued, focused, critical publicity. Happy to do my bit here... please spread the word.
N.B. Other moments of note from this rally included Imam Mousa Masjid Al-Islam stepping up to the podium, to lead the crowd in multiple chants of "Alhaam hu Akhbar." That the crowd actually went along with this tells you everything you need to know about the current state of the Left.
Islamism and the old defeated and failed ideology of pan-Arabism is what many Islamic groups in America are advocating. They are silent in the face of Muslim poverty, corruption, neglect of human rights, oppression of women, honor killings and the brutal and unusual punishments such as cutting off limbs, flogging and stoning. They are not using American freedoms as an opportunity to change their countries of origin, but as an opportunity to influence and change America to be like the countries they came from."