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| CAIR Trying to Have Anti-Islamist Muslim Kicked Off Religious Freedom Panel | |
| 2014-02-16 | |
| [CNSNews] Having failed in an earlier attempt to scupper the appointment of a prominent anti-Islamist Mohammedan to a statutory international religious freedom watchdog, the Council on American-Islamic Relations ... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ... (CAIR) is actively trying to have him removed from the post. CAIR, a controversial lobby group that describes itself as "America's largest Mohammedan civil liberties and advocacy organization," wants the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) to investigate its vice-chairman, M. Zuhdi Jasser, questioning his suitability to serve on a body promoting religious freedom. CAIR has written twice in two weeks to USCIRF Chairman Robert George on the subject of Jasser, president of the non-profit American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD). On Tuesday, CAIR said AIFD receives funding from an independent foundation called the Abstraction Fund (PDF, 1.1 MB) which, it noted, also funds organizations "known for their active role in spreading anti-Islam prejudice." These other "notorious Islamophobes" benefitting from the foundation, it said, included the Center for Security Policy, a 26 year-old Washington think tank; Islam specialist Daniel Pipes' Middle East Forum; terrorism expert Steven Emerson's Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT); and Islam scholar and activist Robert Spencer's Jihad Watch.
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