Meeting the Man from CAIR

In a “first” for us, we attended the United American Committee-sponsored public demonstration against “Islamo-fascism” on Saturday, 31 March 2007. Never before in our lives have we thought any “cause” was so important to the welfare of our country that we felt obliged to show our support so publicly, in person. Ordinarily, we make our contributions to “causes" through writing and publishing, as well as cash donations, but this time, we “donated” our presence, despite the cold, overcast, windy weather.

The rally took place in front of a strip mall where CAIR receives its mail at a UPS Mail Station. The strip mall is just around the corner from a major north Seattle shopping center, on a very busy street just yards from I-5. The local CAIR office is a few miles away, on a quiet street; the building where it is located cannot be identified as having anything to do with CAIR. In a city as profoundly liberal as Seattle, we wondered what it was that caused them to be so anonymous.

It was easy to find the location; the host of the gathering was near the sidewalk, holding a large “United American Committee” banner. As we left our car, we saw two police cars at the other end of the strip mall, and wondered if they were there because of us. Apparently not – within about ten minutes, they left.

We had thought that we would be the ones who had come the greatest distance, at about 45 miles away, but at least one man had come from a town about 60 miles away. Many who attended were particularly upset about the "John Doe" airline lawsuits that CAIR was supporting, to sue passengers who report behaviors such as those by the “flying imams” that caused them alarm. Everyone acknowledged that the suit was an attempt to intimidate people with legitimate concerns into silence, thus giving potential terrorists complete freedom to do whatever they wished without fear of being stopped.

Over the next 20-30 minutes, the group easily doubled or tripled in size.  People were cautious about disclosing personal information, but they were voluble about Islam and the practices of CAIR.
 
Then, to everyone's surprise, here came the Man from CAIR.

He was obviously of Arab descent, with a neatly trimmed Muslim beard.  He was also very well educated, speaking unaccented English, suggesting that he is either native born or came to America at a very early age in life.

He was unfailingly courteous and pleasant. He answered everything put to him with such smoothness and practice that he seemed to have come from acting school in which he memorized countless scripts for all occasions. Everything he said was the usual, standardized, “CAIR-speak,” and “Islam-speak.”

Getting to the “real Muslim within,” past the usual propaganda, seemed impossible. It was interesting to watch him subtly shift the subject when people tried to describe why they had developed concerns about Islam.  At least once, he started to proselytize, beginning by describing the “pillars”  in an attempt to show how benign Islam was. He looked surprised, even hurt, when people said that they could no longer trust Muslims. He asked why that would be, and when some people pointed to the world-wide violence precipitated by Muslims and indicated that they were aware of the practice of taqiyya, hudna, and kitman, as well as some mean-spirited comments about Christians and Jews in the Koran, he left briefly to get four or five paperback Korans from his car (Ali version). He handed them out, and asked if anyone could find a comment in the Koran that was hostile to Jews and Christians.

At this point, the host of the gathering stepped in and quoted the numbers of several suras that filled the bill; the young man from CAIR had no response, except to say that HE felt no animosity towards Christians and Jews. Someone else pointed out that the founder of CAIR had said that Islam was not in America to become equal, but dominant, and that some Muslim leaders had stated that the U.S. Constitution was to be replaced by the Koran. The young CAIR representative looked puzzled, and said he didn’t know of any such claims by CAIR or Muslims, and that he himself supported the Constitution. He said that CAIR had condemned violence, and asked what more could they do. Some said that their reputation was based on their behavior, and that they should change their behavior.

One lady in attendance was asked to take pictures with a disposable camera brought by the host. While she was doing this, a rather scruffy young fellow approached the group and it quickly became obvious that he was very hostile to the demonstration. He then noticed the lady taking pictures, and went over to her, loudly asking if she had taken pictures of him; she responded that she was taking pictures of the group, and that it was possible that he was in one or two of them. He then angrily demanded she give him the camera; she refused, and he approached her with his hand raised, still demanding that she give him the camera, as if to take it by force. She  told the group that she felt that his actions were threatening; when the others turned to look at what was going on, he quickly left and did not return. This was the only unpleasant incident of the afternoon.

During the time people were demonstrating, many passing cars honked their support. At least one, though, slowed down and made an obscene gesture before speeding up.

As we left, we thanked the young Man from CAIR for coming and for being so willing to talk to so many.  Although spirited, all attendees behaved as ladies and gentlemen at all times, as did the Man from CAIR. He ran after us as we left, to thank us for talking so much with him.  He told us that he and we are on the same side, and he listed being opposed to jihad and the worst aspects of Islam, and he supported patriotism, etc. We told him that, if what he says is true, then we are on the same side.  However, Muslims have taught us to mistrust each and every one of them and everything they say or write, so the Man from CAIR and his fellow Muslims would have to prove themselves through their actions.

The group was small when compared to the truly massive anti-war demonstrations and the demonstrations in favor of illegal aliens.  All of us agreed that it was very worthwhile if it raised awareness and gave passersby who shared our concerns the knowledge that they were not alone.
 
All of us were strangers when we met, but we could hardly imagine not seeing some of these folks again in the future. We think that by showing ourselves that day, we helped give “psychological permission” to others who think as we do, to make their concerns known without fear of intimidation. Even here on the “Left Coast” there are many who indicate that they understand that Islam is a threat.

George Mason and Cubed

Comments

[Eleanor]

George and Cubed - Wonderful. It's obvious that this Man from CAIR is practiced in the art of taqiyya, holy lying and kitman, misdirection in order to change the subject or confuse the Infidel.

He may be "opposed to the jihad and the worst aspects of Islam," and a "patriot," but CAIR still is against free speech and makes demands that will abrogate the Constitution. The CAIR-Man nor his oily words are not to be trusted.

[GM]

E,

This guy from CAIR behaved in a civilized and gentlemanly manner, for which we were pleased. However, he exhibited a frightening characteristic of adolescent and adult Muslims. His mind was a set of scripts. His obvious intelligence had been rerouted entirely to being a propagandist, psycho-epistemologically speaking. His independence of mind had been robbed by Islamic psycho-epistemology as had his self. He could have been a cleverly facile robot. He was, in fact, an automaton.

Islam closes off reason to Muslims at a very early age, and then it makes the Muslim disown his self. While comeback always remains a possibility, like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, because of the nature of the human mind, Muslims seldom come back to reality.

The practical result for us and for the laws of reality and reason is that Muslims for the most part cannot reason and will not. This is the source of their extreme danger to us. Their automaton minds run the Islam script, and Muslims become like the Terminator in the first of those films.

[cassandra]

We Australians love the UAC website and are planning to hold our own rally against Islamofascism in October.

Since becoming involved in exposing Islamism, I've realised how many people feel angry about what is happening to our country and the threat to our freedoms, but are scared to articulate it for fear of being labelled racist or Islamophobic.

As your writer observes, "we helped give “psychological permission” to others who think as we do, to make their concerns known without fear of intimidation".

That is the great and inspiring message of the rally.

Cassandra htp://aim