On November 24, 2004 I wrote a post titled, "Let's Say It, "CAIR is a Terrorist Front Organization," With A Dangerous Agenda For America," and offered substantial documentation and links to support my statement. In my post I linked to an article in the Middle East Quarterly by Khalid Durán titled "How CAIR Put My Life in Peril." He says that:

CAIR is the principle front organization of a coalition of Islamist (or fundamentalist Muslim) groups that have taken root in America over the past two decades. Most are spin-offs of the Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP), such as the American Muslims for Jerusalem, the Holy Land Foundation, and the Islamic Institute. These are extreme groups, and some have even come under federal investigation for alleged support of Middle Eastern terrorism. But CAIR's mission has differed from the others: its special assignment is the insinuation of the Islamist agenda into mainstream American politics. Like the many front organizations established by the Soviet Union in its heyday, CAIR works to give a "white bread" image to advocates of illiberal and even radical ideas.

The "Wahhabi Lobby" -- an assemblage of groupings, headed by the Hamas- and Saudi-backed Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) -- controls the public life of many American Sunnis. It demands certification as moderate, but not in recognition of real moderation or loyalty to the American constitutional tradition. Instead, their demand for recognition and respect is a preemptive strike to shield them from a proper understanding and appreciation of their tactics and aims.

And how does the CAIR gang react when a moderate Muslim activist raises a dissenting voice? It betrays its guilt: accused of extremism, CAIR reacts by the extremist methods of menace and hate-mongering.

As pointed out by Schwartz, numerous "community" periodicals of radical ideology and extremism like Muslim Voice have been established around the U.S., are distributed free in mosques and Islamic schools, and are often the only media read by the Muslim rank-and-file.

In tandem, CAIR utilizes the camouflage of an alleged civil rights organization to enforce political and social submission to the dictates of the primitive clerics in the Saudi kingdom. So, why should this be encouraged in America? As Joseph Farah has written, CAIR (and organizations like them) is not what it seems - not what it pretends to be. We need to realize that CAIR and other Muslim groups dominated by Islamist extremism are not groups fighting for equal rights for Muslim-Americans. They are not groups trying to protect the interests of Muslims in America. They are not groups promoting human rights for anyone.

They are groups whose real mission is changing the very character of America - remaking it in the image of the Islamo-fascists who fund them from Saudi Arabia and elsewhere. They are about having you and me live under Sharia law, and in submission to their interpretation of Islam.

So why is it that Muslims aren't speaking out about this themselves, in spite of the threat from CAIR and their ilk? And don't you think it's time to make our politicians aware of this issue, and do everything in our power to make it the "talk of the town" in each or our communities?

Related: Anti -CAIR, In defense of the Constitution.

Yes, that is the question you ask, why is it that Muslims aren't speaking out? Well, you could say that four years since 911 without speaking out speaks out loudly. They agree with that day's action? Schwartz is a Muslim who speaks out but..