Posted on 07/07/2005 12:34:02 PM PDT by doug from upland
News Releases Thursday, July 07, 2005 CAIR Condemns 'Barbaric' London Terror Attacks
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 7/7/05) - A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today condemned this morning's bomb attacks in London as "barbaric crimes."
In its statement, the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said:
"We join Americans of all faiths, and all people of conscience worldwide, in condemning these barbaric crimes that can never be justified or excused. American Muslims offer their sincere condolences to the loved ones of those who were killed or injured in today's attacks and call for the swift apprehension and punishment of the perpetrators."
The Muslim Council of Britain and other British Islamic groups issued similar condemnations of the attacks and urged Muslims to help in the recovery effort.
In 2004, CAIR launched an online petition drive, called "Not in the Name of Islam," designed to disassociate Islam from the violent acts of a few Muslims. SEE: http://www.cair-net.org/asp/article.asp?id=169&page=AA
The "Not in the Name of Islam" petition states: "We, the undersigned Muslims, wish to state clearly that those who commit acts of terror, murder and cruelty in the name of Islam are not only destroying innocent lives, but are also betraying the values of the faith they claim to represent. No injustice done to Muslims can ever justify the massacre of innocent people, and no act of terror will ever serve the cause of Islam. We repudiate and dissociate ourselves from any Muslim group or individual who commits such brutal and un-Islamic acts. We refuse to allow our faith to be held hostage by the criminal actions of a tiny minority acting outside the teachings of both the Quran and the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him."
CAIR, America's largest Muslim civil liberties group, has 31 offices and chapters nationwide and in Canada. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding. To read CAIR's Mission, Vision Statement and Core Principles, go to: http://www.cair-net.org/default.asp?Page=About
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CONTACT : Ibrahim Hooper, 202-488-8787 or 202-744-7726, E-Mail: ihooper@cair-net.org ; Rabiah Ahmed, 202-488-8787 or 202-439-1441, E-Mail: rahmed@cair-net.org
NOTE : CAIR offers an e-mail list designed to be a journalist's window to the American Muslim community. Subscribers to the list, called ISLAM-INFONET, receive news releases and other materials dealing with American Muslim positions on issues of importance to our society
Not from Scrappleface?
Are you sure it didn't say "Commends"?
What a bunch of bull. They eat this carnage up. The higher the body count the better.
Must be a different book, or sumpin.
Is this for real?
I still don't see an apology or condemnation for 9/11.
May pork be up on CAIR
Baloney. Funding Islamofascist terrorists is what CAIR does. And then they lie about it.
"I still don't see an apology or condemnation for 9/11."
Bump!
Alrighty then!
Blech.
Cut and pasted from their website.
"No injustice done to Muslims can ever justify the massacre"
This may just be the "terrorism can never be justified, BUT" escape clause which these losers and terrorist facilitators always come up with.
Observation Two:
Let them now go on to issue the exact same news release, even in harsher terms, in Arabic, and stream it throughout the Middle East, particularly in Saudi Arabia.
Yep, they always have to qualify it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1438455/posts
Many good comments on this earlier thread too...especially, quranic verses...
Let's have a fatwa declared against Osama bin Laden and all the islamic perpetrators who bring this sort of violence.
OK, CAIR, I am listening... denounce Osama and al Qaeda. In those words.
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I just spoke to Ibrahim and asked why they always have to put in the qualifier. He said that was from earlier, not from today's statement. In fairness, the statement of today was actually unequivocal.
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