The UAE agrees with us about CAIR
This weekend, the government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) included the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on an official list of 86 terrorist organizations, making it a criminal offense to support them or even communicate with them. The move becomes less bizarre-sounding when you remember that the Gulf monarchies (accurately) perceive the Muslim Brotherhood to be just as much a threat to their established order as it is to ours.
See CAIR at #59 on the list here:
Additional sources:
- UAE lists scores of groups as ‘terrorists’
- UAE Cabinet approves list of designated terrorist organisations, groups
CAIR has already responded this morning in a mass email, as well as in a Facebook post which can be viewed here: https://www.facebook.com/CAIRNational/posts/10152537365277695
“We are seeking clarification from the government of the United Arab Emirates about this shocking and bizarre report. There is absolutely no factual basis for the inclusion CAIR and other American and European civil rights and advocacy groups on this list. Like the rest of the mainstream institutions representing the American Muslim community, CAIR’s advocacy model is the antithesis of the narrative of violent extremists.”
CAIR’s claim of nonviolent methods and the UAE’s assertion of CAIR’s terrorist status are not mutually exclusive. The rulers of the UAE know that violence is not the only, nor often the most effective, form of jihad. When will our government officials come to the same realization?
Let’s hope this is a first incremental step in convincing Western governments of threat parity among civilizational jihadist and violent jihadist groups. In the meantime, the UAE better batten down the hatches and prepare for a hailstorm of “Islamophobia” accusations.
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