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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”

Introduction What you are about to read in Part One below concerning the coverup by CAIR of Hassan Shibly’s sexual misconduct is based on a document which I recently learned was made available to the CAIR community in June of 2019. But many people who should have read it with open minds apparently did not.Continue reading “It’s Been a Long Time Coming”

In previous posts I mentioned a letter which CAIR National sent out on April 16, and which was updated on May 7, in response to Leila Fadel’s article which NPR published on April 15. As I have noted before, that letter contained blanket denials of misconduct by CAIR leaders and assertions that CAIR insists onContinue reading “With Enough Lawyers, Lies, and Money”

Sixth in a Series I try to keep up on the daily news from CAIR, most of which these days is about Palestine and Israel, of course. And naturally I more or less agree with CAIR’s positions and recommended actions on the subject. Amidst all of that, I keep hoping to find some announcement thatContinue reading “CAIR Betrays its Mission and its Donors”

Fifth in a Series In my last post I briefly discussed the April 16 letter from the CAIR National board responding to Leila Fadel’s article published by NPR the previous day. Reflecting on how that letter continued with the same sort of categorical denials contained in Fadel’s article, it is pretty clear the board isContinue reading “CAIR’s Denials, American Muslims, and the Tuskegee Airmen”