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Home Front: WoT
CAIR Applauds FBI Efforts to Thwart Fort Dix Attack
2007-05-09
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 5/8/07) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today applauded efforts by federal law enforcement authorities that apparently thwarted a planned attack on Fort Dix in New Jersey.

In a statement, the Washington-based Islamic civil rights and advocacy group said:

"Based on the information gathered in this case, it seems clear that a potentially deadly attack has been averted. We applaud the FBI for its efforts and repeat the American Muslim community's condemnation and repudiation of all those who would plan or carry out acts of terror while falsely claiming their actions have religious justification.

"We continue to urge American Muslims to be vigilant in reporting any suspected criminal activities that could harm the safety and security of our nation."

CAIR also requested that media outlets and public officials refrain from linking this case to the faith of Islam. The council asked mosques and Islamic institutions in New Jersey and nationwide to report any incidents of anti-Muslim backlash.

Along with innumerable condemnations of terror, CAIR has in the past launched an online petition drive called "Not in the Name of Islam," initiated a television public service announcement campaign of that same name and coordinated a "fatwa," or Islamic religious ruling, against terrorism and religious extremism.
CAIR is beginning to figure out what a PR disaster they've had by screeching 'discrimination' every time a Muslim jihadi wannabe gets arrested in America. They've noticed that most people hear about such an arrest, nod their heads and grimly think, "good, let that bastard rot in prison forever", and go on about their business. What CAIR is doing now is damage control.
Posted by:Delphi2005

#7  CAIR also requested that media outlets and public officials refrain from linking this case to the faith of Islam.

This is like the White Citizens' Council asking that Klan lynchings not be linked to White supremacy. Most White supremacists are, after all, peaceful and law abiding. We condemn those who commit such heinous acts and falsely claim to have a racial motivation. To stigmatize the White supremacist community only breeds more terrorists.
Posted by: Baba Tutu   2007-05-09 22:06  

#6  It's beyond me why CAIR still even exists after the Anti-CAIR lawsuit proved them to be a terrorist organization.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-05-09 19:59  

#5  CAIR Applauds FBI Efforts to Thwart Fort Dix Attack, BUT ...

There, fixed it for ya.
Posted by: DMFD   2007-05-09 19:42  

#4  In the Fort Dix case, what the jihadis did was clearly illegal.

I'd phrase it as "not illegal". And that's just because we nobody's been obviously killed. Yet.

And even if I were a terrorist organization trying to masquerade as CAIR an advocacy group, sometimes you gotta pay the devil his due so you have at claim to legitimacy, however tenuous, to people on the outside to maintain deniability.
Posted by: gorb   2007-05-09 16:15  

#3  FBI: Clerk 'unsung hero' in Fort Dix plot
WASHINGTON — An alert store clerk suspicious of a videotape exposed the plan of six aspiring Islamic holy warriors who were plotting to attack Fort Dix in New Jersey with assault weapons, the FBI said Tuesday.

Link
Posted by: Delphi2005   2007-05-09 15:29  

#2  [The Imams' Flying Legal Circus] could have been an attack, or a probe of security for a future attack
or even a means of trying--via lawsuit--to chill the participation of Concerned Citizens toward reported behavior that looks plain odd.

Thanks to the clerk who spotted this and said "These guys ain't right."

Thanks to the US Attorney for the District of New Jersey for his diligence.

Thanks to any of the state and local police forces who worked with the FBI.

Nice job all around.
Posted by: eLarson   2007-05-09 15:12  

#1  I think one thing that is clear here, is that this was clearly an out and out terrorist attack, unlike the Flying Imams case. There, it could have been an attack, or a probe of security for a future attack, but the Flying Imams did nothing illegal. In the Fort Dix case, what the jihadis did was clearly illegal.
Of course, CAIR's real advice to the jihadis will be "next time be more careful so you don't get caught"
Posted by: Rambler   2007-05-09 14:49  

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