Our membership is increasing steadily, as is our donor base, annual budget, and attendance at CAIR events around the country promoting interfaith understanding and respect for civil liberties……..

More than one [government official] described the standards used by critics to link CAIR to terrorism as akin to McCarthyism, essentially guilt by association.

CAIR Director Ibrahim Hooper — from the article — CAIR Accuses Washington Times of ‘Agenda-Driven Reporting’

Membership is increasing? Gee Ibrahim, could we have a look at some of those numbers ? And you know, history has shown that McCarthy wasn’t all that wrong. So where is Joe McCarthy when you need him ?

So CAIR has been taqiyya-ing the number of Muslims in the US, to inflate that number and therefore CAIR’s own importance? Say it ain’t so.

Absolutely no surprise here – part of their culture. Where was/is our media to check on the numbers? Ahhh, see what Tony Blair just said about today’s media mob.

CAIR is like the Arab wing of the KKK.

Mojave Mark on June 12, 2007 at 12:40 PM

As bad as the KKK is/was, I don’t think they ever endorsed strapping explosives to children.

Ha ha ha, 60 minutes or any other liberal media outlet would never ever tell you the truth about CAIR….. :P

“CAIR, and unindicted co-conspirator of Hamas….”

and must include:

“CAIR is hardly representative of America’s 2.4 million Muslims, as they only have 1700 members. CAIR is, unfortunately, representative of those Muslims who associate with the Hamas terrorist front, and must be viewed in that light”

It was able to identify only 2.35 million Muslims — less than half the figure commonly cited by Muslim activists…
Foremost among such groups is the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which claims to represent Muslims in Washington. CAIR commissioned its own survey in 2001 and came up with 6 million to 7 million, an estimate it always touts in its press releases and on its Web site.

Whoa. Gitmo must be bigger than we thought…

You guys need to take a real good look at this website…….http://www.anti-cair-net.org/
CAIR are a bunch of terrorist and terrorist supporters…

doriangrey on June 12, 2007 at 11:28 AM

Thank you Mr. 60 minutes. :-)

Working on it.

Bryan on June 12, 2007 at 10:47 AM

Can we anticipate another official spokesman for all conservatives?

How many of those names that are ‘no longer members’ are on a watch list?

Those are EXACTLY the ones to find and keep an eye on…they went into the shadows. ( maybe we could find some illegals while there..hehe?)

Through Hot Air we have more than 1700 members in our conservative video club on YouTube. Maybe we should put “spokesmen for the entire conservative movement” based on that on our business cards and see if the news channels come running.

NOW THIS IS A GOOD IDEA!! cant be AP, he wont stand in front of a camera, but Bryan…your hired!
—This would make a good weeks worth of vents.—

CAIR’s losing members because Muslims are wary of being caught up in government scrutiny of Islamic organizations…

That’s certainly going to be CAIR’s spin on it. If this story makes it into the MSM, count on Hoop to make this very argument loud and long, followed by thousands of sympathy memberships from non-Muslim college and university students nationwide.

Bryan on June 12, 2007 at 10:47 AM

Heh.

It would be nice to know who CAIRs fat cat donors are. They’re the only ones keeping CAIR alive.

Can you say Saudi Wahabbis?

Just a guess, but I bet I’m right.

Of course the real irony is that the real supporters of CAIR is everyone that drives a car.

All well and good, but you forgot the most important part of being a truly masterful grievancemonger, the shakedown!

Bad Candy on June 12, 2007 at 10:34 AM

Working on it.

But it’s not official until one of us official spokesmen for all conservatives say it is!

Bryan on June 12, 2007 at 10:24 AM

All well and good, but you forgot the most important part of being a truly masterful grievancemonger, the shakedown!

- The Cat

The other guys donating consist of a guy from Dearborn who runs a couple of Tim Hortons doughnut joints, a guy from Bridgview who runs an Islam used auto and repair joint, and a one-eyed Imam from Walnut Creek.

Jaibones on June 12, 2007 at 10:13 AM

OK, so an auto mechanic, a doughnut shop owner, and a one-eyed Imam walk into a mosque…