Don't Let CAIR off the Hook for Its Role in the Colleyville Hostage Crisis

[Mosby]

As Saturday Shabbat services were about to start, a man showed up to a Colleyville, Texas synagogue with a gun. His name was Malik Faisal Akram, and his goal was to take those in Congregation Beth Israel—a rabbi and three other Jews—hostage. He believed this would put pressure on American authorities to free Aafia Siddiqui, a terrorist convicted of trying to kill American military officers.

Why did he choose a synagogue? First, Siddiqui openly blamed Jewish individuals and the State of Israel for her 86-year prison sentence. When she was put on trial for grabbing the M4 rifle of a U.S. Army officer and opening fire on the members of the U.S. Armed Forces interrogating her for her ties to al-Qaeda, she had one demand as to the nature of her interrogators: no Jews.

https://www.newsweek.com/dont-let-cair-off-hook-its-role-colleyville-hostage-crisis-opinion-1670123

[JustAnotherGen]

1. On point

Meanwhile, CAIR had come to the staunch defense of other notable antisemites, including the very bigot at the basis of this weekend's Texas synagogue attack. CAIR's Dallas-Fort Worth chapter had campaigned for Siddiqui's release, calling her conviction "one of the greatest examples of injustice in U.S. history."

The dots are not too difficult to connect. When you say Jewish institutions are evil because of an association with Israel, you put a target on all Jews; when you put a target on synagogues, your followers will go to synagogues with guns.

If CAIR is not willing to honor the humanity of all Americans - and to see all Americans including Americans who are JEWISH as human beings -

Then perhaps the Southern Poverty Law Center needs to be contacted. I'm going to do so. There is no difference between what that woman said and what David Duke or Louis Farrakhan say. Not one freaking difference.

[JudyM]

2. This is important, if not central, to the attack.

Last month, the executive director of CAIR in San Francisco, lawyer Zahra Billoo, told the annual conference of American Muslims for Palestine to monitor even "polite Zionists," including the Anti-Defamation League, Jewish Federation chapters, Hillel and "Zionist synagogues."

"They are not your friends," Billoo said, referring to Jewish houses of faiths as "enemies" of the Muslim community.

And this was applauded by CAIR. This should not go unexplored during the investigation.

[Behind the Aegis]

3. Then there is this...

Muslim group, CAIR, accuses Jewish charities of funding Islamophobia

Charitable foundations with ties to Jewish federations and Jewish families feature prominently in a new report about the flow of tax-deductible donations to organizations that a leading Muslim civil rights lobby has identified as “anti-Muslim groups.”

Titled “Islamophobia in the Mainstream,” the report was published Tuesday by CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a civil rights group and political lobby that is harshly critical of Israel.

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At least five funders on CAIR’s list are explicitly Jewish and direct their funds according to the wishes of their donors. Several others are private family foundations also known for supporting Jewish and Israel causes.

The five are donor-advised funds affiliated with Jewish federations in New York, Boston, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area — the biggest Jewish communities in the United States.

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The CAIR report came out Tuesday, January 11th.