CAIR’s Deceptive Spin on FBI Support
Officials with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) are painting a deceptively rosy picture of the organization’s relationship with the FBI. The spin follows the group’s decision last week to remove an anti-FBI graphic posted on its San Francisco chapter’s website.
The graphic depicts a sinister-looking FBI agent walking down a street as doors slam shut. “Build a Wall of Resistance,” it reads. “Don’t Talk to the FBI.” CAIR issued a clarification statement calling it “inconsistent with CAIR’s policy of constitutionally-informed cooperation with law enforcement agencies.” The group had included the graphic as part of a “Know Your Rights” event it co-sponsored in response to several FBI raids conducted during September 2010.
Corey Saylor, CAIR’s national legislative director, said on Fox News’ O’Reilly Factor, that he is “troubled” by the media’s critical reaction. “I can speak of a number of different occasions of CAIR’s consistent policy of cooperating with law enforcement,” he said.
O’Reilly didn’t press Saylor very hard. There was no mention of CAIR’s 2009 announcement that it had joined a coalition threatening to cut ties with the FBI. Saylor also wasn’t asked about his organization’s founding executives’ ties to a U.S. Hamas support network, which resulted in the FBI suspending formal relations with CAIR.
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