old-school CAIR

Submitted by jcl (United States), Dec 10, 2011 at 08:19

Aylush the 'Sword' might also boast about the 20 million Americans who converted to Islam on Sept 12, 2001.

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1999 was a fun year.... CAIR made such little effort to hide its inner beast.

That was the year they decided to defend the two Saudis Hamdan al-Shalawi and Muhammed al-Qudhaieen, who broke into the cockpit on an America West flight from Phoenix to DC. The FBI eventually concluded that both were al-Qaeda members and that the incident was a 'dry run' in preparation for the 9/11 hijackings, to gauge aircrew response and cockpit security.

1999 was also the year that CAIR demanded the removal of CA billboards offensive to Muslims. Cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad? Nope. Way worse.... a picture of some crazy Saudi guy named Usama Bin Laden, with the headline "the sworn enemy."

Wouldn't want to offend who? One-eyed Omar? No-eyed Omar? Creepy DocZ? OBL's then-new twelve-year-old Yemeni bride?

"By placing an unidentified stereotypical picture of a Muslim with a beard and a turban, KCOP's billboard is implying that all men who look like him are like him, sworn enemies." So says CAIR's Southern California Executive Director Hussam Ayloush.

(I was thinking the billboard was a way to mock an evil, picknose coward who'd recently killed a bunch of Americans. Didn't realize he was a friend, or that Ayloush now has the monopoly on beards. Next thing you know the Germans will start protesting silly-looking hair-lip mustaches.)

1999 was also the year that CAIR suddenly expressed a new interest in the U.S. Constitution. Not to destroy it now, but to pretend to defend it, by opposing the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. After all, "An unconstitutional measure that is today used against Muslims and Arabs could one day be used against anyone in our society," said noted patriot and constitutional-law scholar, Mr. Nihad Awad.

The act was also used -- effectively -- against a bunch of executives and employees of CAIR. (Not enough, some think.)

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Who names their kid 'Sword' anymore? Why not a proper weapon? Maybe, M1 Abrams Ayloush or M4A1 Carbine Ayloush?

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