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CAIR membership plummets [has declined more than 90 percent....]
Washington Times ^

Posted on 06/11/2007 2:19:15 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

CAIR membership plummets

June 11, 2007

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE / DEVELOPING: Membership in the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has declined more than 90 percent since the 2001 terrorist attacks, Audrey Hudson will report in Tuesday's editions of The Washington Times.

According to tax documents obtained by The Times, the number of reported members spiraled down from more than 29,000 in 2000 to less than 1,700 in 2006, a loss of membership that caused the Muslim rights group's annual income from dues to drop from $732,765 in 2000, when yearly dues cost $25, to $58,750 last year, when the group charged $35.

The organization instead is relying on about two dozen individual donors a year to contribute the majority of the money for CAIR's budget, which reached nearly $3 million last year.

Asked about the decline, Parvez Ahmed, CAIR board chairman, pointed to the number of individual donors to the organization.

"We are proud that our grass-roots support in the American Muslim community has allowed CAIR to grow from having eight chapters and offices in 2001 to having 33 today," Mr. Ahmed said.

The self-described civil liberties organization for Muslims seeks to portray "a positive image of Islam" through public relations and the media, but has instead alienated some by defending questionable accusations of discrimination.

Critics of the organization say they are not surprised membership is sagging, and that a recent decision by the Justice Department to name CAIR as "unindicted co-conspirators" in a federal case against another foundation charged with providing funds to a terrorist group could discourage new members.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banislam; cair; dhimmis; haha; islam; muhammadsminions; waronislam; waronislamism
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oh boo hoo
1 posted on 06/11/2007 2:19:21 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Schadenfreude


2 posted on 06/11/2007 2:20:53 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Life's a bitch...don't let one be elected president.)
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To: Keith in Iowa

>>Schadenfreude<<

Are you saying that its bad if I am pleased that CAIRs membership is declining and that their grass roots movement is being shown to be funding by a hand full of people?


3 posted on 06/11/2007 2:23:03 PM PDT by gondramB (Do not do to others as you would not wish done to yourself. Thus no murmuring will rise against you.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Now that the liquid has been drawn off, the solids can be taken to landfill?


4 posted on 06/11/2007 2:23:19 PM PDT by MarineBrat (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccination that the Church offers.)
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To: Sub-Driver

When they get down to zero then I’ll be happy.


5 posted on 06/11/2007 2:23:33 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (I'm Fred, White and Blue!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Are they afraid for their own safety or have they gone underground?


6 posted on 06/11/2007 2:25:23 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (Some people are too stupid to be ashamed.)
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To: Sub-Driver
So, who gives more - Soros or the House of Saud?
7 posted on 06/11/2007 2:26:43 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Parker v. DC: the best court decision of the year.)
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To: Sub-Driver

The organization instead is relying on about two dozen individual donors a year to contribute the majority of the money for CAIR’s budget, which reached nearly $3 million last year.

Names, we want names!

$ 3,000,000.00
-58,750.00


$ 2,941,250.00 among 24 people ?
Sure must be nice to have rich friends eh, and probably a tax write off too.


8 posted on 06/11/2007 2:26:56 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Sub-Driver
How much institutional money is propping them up?
9 posted on 06/11/2007 2:27:23 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (I buy gas for my SUV with the Carbon Offsets I sell on Ebay!)
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To: Sub-Driver

This would make it apparent to me that not all Muslims are kill crazy terrorists. Hopefully the rest will drop out and the US will investigate those few who are left and their big donations.


10 posted on 06/11/2007 2:28:43 PM PDT by sgtbono2002 (I'm gonna vote for Fred. John Bolton for VP.)
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To: K4Harty

I’d bet they are on the Treasury Watch list.......


11 posted on 06/11/2007 2:29:08 PM PDT by Sub-Driver (Proud member of the Republican wing of the Republican Party)
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To: Sub-Driver

“According to tax documents obtained by The Times, the number of reported members spiraled down from more than 29,000 in 2000 to less than 1,700 in 2006, a loss of membership that caused the Muslim rights group’s annual income from dues to drop from $732,765 in 2000, when yearly dues cost $25, to $58,750 last year, when the group charged $35.”

Ok, so they now pay their dues in cash, don’put their names on the membership rolls, and CAIR reports less income.


12 posted on 06/11/2007 2:29:16 PM PDT by AlphaOneAlpha
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To: Sub-Driver
Government Documents Reveal CAIR is Hamas - ISNA also named as unindicted co conspirator in Holy Land terror funding
13 posted on 06/11/2007 2:29:52 PM PDT by mjp (Live & let live. I don't want to live in Mexico, Marxico, or Muslimico. Statism & high taxes suck.)
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To: Sub-Driver

So then the Terrorists are losing the war.


14 posted on 06/11/2007 2:30:27 PM PDT by Radix (Claim 10 dependents on your W-2 and have the Gov't struggle to make ends meet.)
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To: Sub-Driver

There is no more deserving organization in America to see itself implode than CAIR.

Okay, the Democratic Party and Planned Parenthood should suffer the same fate..


15 posted on 06/11/2007 2:34:55 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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To: Sub-Driver

bump


16 posted on 06/11/2007 2:38:36 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (Killing all of your enemies without mercy is the only sure way of sleeping soundly at night.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Yes, but the media treats them like they are a credible civil rights organization that defends poor downtrodden members of the misunderstood death cult.


17 posted on 06/11/2007 2:38:45 PM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (expel members of the death cult)
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To: Sub-Driver

I’m glad to see that American Muslims are refusing to support this group.


18 posted on 06/11/2007 2:38:48 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Sub-Driver

I guess the ones that are left are the hard core haters. Maybe it’s time to deport them all.


19 posted on 06/11/2007 2:39:32 PM PDT by 3niner (War is one game where the home team always loses.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Sounds like the Episcopal Church.


20 posted on 06/11/2007 2:45:45 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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