As Ann Corcoran has asked: “why, if refugees and Muslim migrants of all stripes were eager to assimilate, did they need to place their people (representing their religion) into local, state and federal government? And, just imagine…if we would blatantly say—we want Catholics, Jews, other Christians as our leaders—wouldn’t all hell break loose in the media?”
CAIR isn’t likely to have in mind patriotic American officials who happen to be Muslim, but Muslims intending to work to impose an Islamic agenda upon the U.S. Remember: CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR officials have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements about how Islamic law should be imposed in the U.S. (Ahmad denies this, but the original reporter stands by her story.) CAIR chapters frequently distribute pamphlets telling Muslims not to cooperate with law enforcement. CAIR has opposed virtually every anti-terror measure that has been proposed or implemented and has been declared a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates. CAIR’s Hussam Ayloush in 2017 called for the overthrow of the U.S. government. CAIR’s national outreach manager is an open supporter of Hamas.
“IPT Exclusive: CAIR’s Awad Describes His “Formula” for Islamist Political Power,” by Steven Emerson, IPT News, November 12, 2019:
Nihad Awad has a vision for America’s future. Awad, a co-founder and executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) calls it “the formula.”
“A strong CAIR equals a strong community,” he said Saturday during CAIR’s national fundraising banquet. “A strong community will produce a strong, and confident and successful Muslim … We are as strong as your support for CAIR.”
So I’m telling you tonight we are going to work in the next years, Inshallah (God willing], to elect at least 30 Muslims in the Congress,” he said. “This number is equivalent to our size and our potential as American Muslims. Including at least two [U.S.] senator Muslims.”
His math is a little off.
Thirty additional Muslim members of the U.S. House and Senate would constitute 5.6 percent of Congress. But that’s better than double the anticipated Muslim American population in Awad’s timeframe. According to the most recent Pew research data, there will be about 8 million American Muslims in 2050, or 2.1 percent of the total United States population.
As the community grows, it is likely more Muslim Americans will be elected to Congress as a natural progression, just like members of other immigrant communities in American history. But CAIR’s ideal is aimed primarily at elevating one kind of Muslim, conservative Sunnis, when the broader community is much more diverse, including secular, reform-minded leaders.
He also envisioned Muslim federal judges, and a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. He urged younger Muslims to “study the fields of communications, law, film making. Yes, we need our own Hollywood production studio.”
Awad’s ambitions echo much sharper language from CAIR co-founder Omar Ahmad.
“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant,” Ahmad told a 1998 audience in California.
He served as CAIR’s national board chairman until 2009. But Awad made a point of recognizing Ahmad during Saturday night’s banquet, which marked CAIR’s 25th anniversary. “May Allah bless him for planting the seed for what it will be a historic organization that made history for Muslims and other Americans,” Awad said….