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I was planning to title this essay, “Oh Brother Waleed, Where Art Thou?” for Omar and I had not heard from him in a while. Then, at 4:41 yesterday afternoon, six minutes after CAIR pinged me with yet another zakat appeal, an email from Waleed came in. Waleed had been out of the country, ofContinue reading “Let’s agree I’m a spy. How does that help CAIR?”

by Abu Anthony Introduction                Did I confess to being a spy?                The other day I made a remarkable discovery. The first essay I ever sent Muslims, which follows this introduction, contains a curious sentence early on, which could be read in different ways. Was it an admission that I was a spy?               Continue reading “How I First Prayed with Muslims”

Introduction I must assume that most of the people employed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), or otherwise associated with the organization, are not aware of the extent of the corruption that prevails in the national office. I urge the conscientious people of CAIR and its supporters to seriously consider the credible allegations thatContinue reading “Two Years of Deception and Retaliation at CAIR”

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The above statement, attributed to Lord Acton (1834-1902) attests to the influence of circumstances on human behavior, and is validated by our experience. Countless enterprises which began with the best of intentions, have been warped and diverted by success. The temptations of power are very hardContinue reading “There is Justice yet to be Done”

At CAIR’s virtual annual banquet last night, I heard a number of speakers who are doing good work, and who are obviously enthused about it. Notable for me were two attorneys and an intern Nihad Awad conversed with. Another was a California chapter leader. Nihad spoke about a passion that drives CAIR employees. CAIR certainlyContinue reading “Just How “Powerful” Is CAIR?”

Since one day in June of 2016, when I decided to go meet some Muslims at an iftar in Denver, up through today, five years after my conversion, I have been answering concerns by well-intentioned friends about how women are treated in Islam. It is not as though the modern secular west is exemplary inContinue reading “The Place of Women in American Islam, and the Heroic Obligations of Leadership”

             Last week we saw what millions of people across the nation, acting in concert, can accomplish. Despite a relentless Oklahoma Attorney General and others who were determined to see Julius Jones die, Governor Kevin Stitt commuted his sentence. Granted, the ordeal itself was cruel and unusual for Jones, hisContinue reading “A Simple, Logical Case for an Investigation of CAIR”

Note: This post contains lengthy excerpts from three previous posts, with occasional minor changes or additions, as well as one email exchange (in Part Four) which I am publishing here for the first time. The purpose is to consolidate the internal communications of CAIR which put the lie to its claim to have conducted aContinue reading “CAIR’s Incriminating Communications”

Reading Hassan Shibly’s July 12 reply to my “incessant diatribes,” I had a Socrates moment. In Apology, Plato’s account of Socrates’ defense before the Athenian court which would condemn him to death, Socrates begins with these words:  I do not know what effect my accusers have had on you, gentlemen, but for my own partContinue reading “When Competency and High Expectations Meet Mediocrity, and Worse”

Introduction In previous posts, I have not had many nice things to say about the document CAIR produced in response to Leila Fadel’s April 15 article, published by NPR (Civil Rights Org CAIR Accused Of Ignoring Alleged Misconduct : NPR.) I never saw the initial version of that CAIR response, sent out April 16; IContinue reading “A Smoking Gun at CAIR”