We'll start with a few quick bullets on their record, which includes the following unpleasantries:

* Apologizing for killers such as Hamas (a group associated with the murder of 7 Americans) and Usama bin Ladin (charged with the devastation of September 11, 2001).

* Helping promote terrorism: In the words of Steve Pomerantz., a former Chief of Counterterrorism for the FBI, "CAIR, its leaders, and its activities, effectively give aid to international terrorist groups."

* Intimidation of patriotic Muslims who disagree with CAIR's militant agenda: In one case (Sheikh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani), the FBI has looked into charges that he received death threats after renouncing the chauvinists. In another (Khalid Durán), CAIR's attack on a writer led to a death edict against him - which CAIR has never denounced (Here for details on this latter case).

* Associating with terrorism: Siraj Wahaj, a potential unindicted co-conspirator in the World Trade Center bombing of 1993, sits on its advisory board.

* Bias against women: When a prosecutor in Cleveland argued that two Muslim men had engaged in the "honor killing" of their female cousin, CAIR accused him of "ethnic and religious stereotyping" and demanded he be investigated.

* Sponsorship of blatant antisemitism: At a May 1998 rally at Brooklyn College co-sponsored by CAIR, one speaker referred to Jews as "descendants of the apes."

In short, CAIR represents not the great civilization of Islam but a radical utopian movement originating in the Middle East that seeks to impose its ways on the United States. Americans should consider themselves warned: a new danger exists in their midst.

AS Daniel Pipes has said, CAIR is particularly worrisome because it claims to be nothing but a mild public affairs organization promoting "interest and understanding among the general public with regards to Islam and Muslims in North America," and is widely seen as such. However, in fact, it is radical to the core; to quote its chairman, Omar M. Ahmad (as reported by the San Ramon Valley Herald in July 1998), "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran . . . should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth."

CAIR's Ibrahim Hooper is a Muslim convert, Islamist apologist, and former ABC affiliate news producer named Doug Hooper, who, prior to converting to Islam, also made news when he was quoted by the Minneapolis Star Tribune as wanting to see the United States governed by sharia law.

From our November 24, 2004 post entitled, "Let's Say It, "CAIR is a Terrorist Front Organization," With A Dangerous Agenda For America," we have more:

CAIR was founded in part with seed money from the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, a Specially Designated Global Terrorist organization that has been indicted for providing material support to Hamas. CAIR has also accepted substantial donations from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal as well as the World Assembly of Muslim Youth and the International Islamic Relief Organization, two Saudi-funded, Wahhabist groups.

Two of CAIR's founding members, Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmad, both previously worked for the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), a group which has "acted in support of" Hamas, according to a federal judge's August 2002 ruling. Tellingly, during a 1994 speech at Florida's Barry University, Awad, who is now CAIR's Executive Director, stated, "I am in support of the Hamas movement."

In addition, former CAIR employee Randall "Ismail" Royer was sentenced to 20 years in prison last April for "participation in a network of militant jihadists centered in Northern Virginia," according to the Department of Justice. And Ghasan Elashi, the founding board member of CAIR's Texas chapter, was convicted of violating the Libyan Sanctions Regulations in July 2004 and has also been indicted for providing material support to Hamas.

Much of this information--which, incidentally, only begins to scratch the surface of CAIR's radical activities--is readily available online.

In the Frontpagemagazine.com article entitled "Bad Day For CAIR," Evan McCormick wrote:

September 10th, 2003 will forever be remembered as a grim day for the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). On that day, the eve of the second anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, CAIR faced up to its own terrorist connections. It ran away from testifying before an influential Senate panel that heard a barrage of incriminating evidence about the group and its connections. It saw one of its former officials plead guilty to terrorist-related crimes in Federal Court. And, it was stood up by two Department of Justice officials at an immigration symposium in Florida. CAIR should find it hard to recover from this string of defeats.

Last Wednesday, The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security held the second in a series of hearings aimed at examining Saudi Arabia's role in exporting Islamic extremism abroad. The hearing, titled "Two Years After 9/11": Connecting the Dots, was focused on the prevalence of the radical Wahhabi Islamic sect among Muslim political groups in the U.S. CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad and Chairman Omar Ahmed were invited to testify at the hearing, but both declined to attend. In their absence and in front of their empty witness chair - the committee heard compelling evidence that Saudi Arabia financially and ideologically supports a network of American organizations that act as the defenders, financiers, and front groups of international terrorists. CAIR has been a major player in this network since its creation in 1994, with a particularl soft spot for the suicide-bombing death squads of Hamas.

Senators turned out in force to connect the dots between CAIR and the deviant Islamic extremism that led to the vicious attacks of 9/11. In his opening statement, Chairman Jon Kyl said, "a small group of organizations based in the U.S. with Saudi backing and support, is well advanced in its four- decade effort to control Islam in America -from mosques, universities and community centers to our prisons and even within our military. Moderate Muslims who love America and want to be part of our great country are being forced out of those institutions."

Senator Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat who has been steadfast in his efforts to uncover the nexus of Hamas front groups in the U.S., was ruthless in his portrayal of CAIR as part of an international terror network. In his opening remarks, Senator Schumer stated that prominent members of CAIR referring specifically to Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmedhave intimate links with Hamas. Later, he remarked that we know [CAIR] has ties to terrorism."

Even Senator Richard Durbin, who has made common cause with some of America's Wahhabi-backed groups, came down hard on CAIR. In his final comments he conceded that CAIR is unusual in its extreme rhetoric and its associations with groups that are suspect, and requested that the committee seek the testimony of mainstream Muslim groups in its place in the future.

CAIR's affinity for terrorist causes is well documented in the press. At a 1994 meeting at Barry University, Nihad Awad stated succinctly, I am a supporter of the Hamas movement. Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper has defended Saudi Arabias financial aid to families of Palestinian suicide bombers. In recent months, three CAIR officials were indicted on terrorism-related charges. Source...

You'll find more on the Islamic fascists at CAIR, here, and especially at "The real CAIR."

Given all of this, why in the hell should anyone give a Tinker's Damn what the Islamic fascist, anti-free speech, terrorist-supporting bastards at CAIR have to say - or CNN either, if they collaborate with and/or support CAIR and its agenda?

Related: New York Post - "THE JIHAD ON KING"