The mainstream press regularly refers to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as a civil rights group. CAIR holds itself out as America’s foremost Islamic civil rights organization. The Star Tribune recently described CAIR as “a Muslim advocacy group,” whatever that means.

CAIR executive director Nihad Awad celebrated the Hamas 10/7 massacre at the 16th Annual American Muslims for Palestine jamboree in Chicago on November 24. The Middle East Media Research Institute — the invaluable MEMRI — posted the video that caught Awad in the act of being himself, as they used to put it on Candid Camera. If you haven’t seen it before, you can find the video here. ...

None of this should come as a surprise. In Chapter Eight of The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America, Andrew McCarthy recounted the origins and purposes of CAIR as well as its roots in the Muslim Brotherhood’s Hamas-support network.