The combined California chapters of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) are announcing that they have organized a letter campaign that has resulted in 16,000 letters to California lawmakers pushing for an end to the Israeli offensive in Gaza.
http://www.cair.com/press-center/press-releases/12619-california-muslims-send-16000-letters-to-senators-on-gaza.html
At the same time, do you think that the California CAIR chapters are organizing letter campaigns to stop the slaughter of Christians in Iraq and Syria (or anywhere else in the Islamic world)?
No.
To be fair, the national CAIR website does feature a statement about what is happening in Iraq and Syria. You have to dig for it, but here it is.
http://www.cair.com/press-center/press-releases/12551-cair-condemns-isis-violence-and-rejects-calls-to-join-extremists-fighting-abroad.html
That's it. No letter campaign.
Back in November of last year, I asked the Southern California director of CAIR, Hussam Ayloush, about this issue when he spoke in Riverside about the plight of Syrians under dictator Bashar Assad. Ayloush advocated for US military intervention in Syria. During the Q and A., I asked him why he said nothing about the plight of Christians in Syria who were fleeing for their lives from Muslim forces fighting against Assad. For that he dismissed me as a bigot (Islamophobe).
So my question to Mr Ayloush, who is arguably the most influential and important CAIR figure in California: Why do you not organize a letter-writing campaign on behalf of Christians, Yazidis and Shia being hunted down and massacred in Iraq and Syria?
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I question their number of letters. They are not known for their honesty in this or any other regard. Even so, in poll after poll, election after election, most American believe that Israel engaged in justified defense in this war with Hamas. Hamas has cheated on numerous agreed upon cease fires besides purposely targeting civilians and using civilians as shields. They are the same as ISIS.
I also found it odd that CAIR says it is opposed to the beheadings of scholars. Does that seem as though they are OK with beheadings of any other kind of human being?
What does CAIR think California lawmakers have jurisdiction over?
Hamas? Israel? The U.S. armed forces? International arms shipments? What foolish grandstanding!
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