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.
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The actual sources of funding come from Wahabbi extremists in Saudi Arabia. CAIR is an al Queda front group.
What matters more is the actual Muslim population in the United States. Are there 7 million American Muslims or is this a number Islamists have invented to inflate their political importance?
Not so fast...this just means more Wahhabist money from Saudi and the UAE will be filling in the gap.
Islam is on the march in the US and politicians either are not aware or too scared to confront it.
Don’t get taken in. They have been downsizing themselves - on paper - to change their profile as the 900lb Islamic gorilla to a small minority activist profile.Which nobody should fear and are the “little guy” when they sue etc., etc.
From what I gather they have gone into small “technically self-functional, legally independant” regional or local “cells” to provide this “less significant, diminishing” appearance.
I’m glad to see that American Muslims are refusing to support this group.If they really are withdrawing support for the right reason -- that this group is anti-American -- then, yes, it's a good thing to see.
I wonder how many of their main donors are members of the Saudi royal family?
“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.”
“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.”
Libby gets sentenced to jail for no crime by the dangerous Fitzzy, and these 12 donors/haters of America walk free and donate money for CAIR hate crimes against America.
Like so many of these so called non profits, CAIR is a shadow organization with money and the support of the hate America Mediots in the MSM.
Two points.
1. I suspect this is simply the islamists going underground.
2. They can get plenty of cash from Saudi nobility, etc. There must be alternate sets of books.
Muslims thrive on deception. These are just more deceptions.
No, the rest of them are merely supporters, enablers and apologists for those "kill crazy terrorists".
I prefer for there to be a list of all the possible supporters of terrorism.
Cair? Who knows? I’d rather see a 90% decline in the membership of that religion of peace.
Wouldn’t surprise me that a membership with CAIR lands you on Dept of Homeland Security watchlist. AS IT SHOULD!
>>funding by a hand full of people?
I’d guess its more likely to be small business owners with clean records donating more money that they actually make... and who just happen to get money from Saudi sources.
I would think direct Saudi donation would be hazardous... but then they know they are largely exempt from U.S. pressure because we sure as heck don’t want Bin Laudin replacing the house of Saud.
Hats off to all muslim Americans who recognize this group for what it really is, an enemy of the USA.
That’s interesting FARS.
Thanks for the ping.
What good could come from the deception of a perceived lack of support?
No matter what CAIR says, the Johnny Jihads are among us.
“What good could come from the deception of a perceived lack of support?”
It takes muslims off the membership lists, if the list subjected them to scrutiny.
It makes the organization seem less important. Then it can behave more like a Trojan Horse.
Well, for one, it allows 'non' members to go on with the same crap they were busy with previously but without the nagging eye of government or neighbors being on them quite so much.
It also allows CAIR, as has been noted, to appear to be only a tiny little blip of an organization and not possibly the nasty conspirator that current court filings indicate it to be...or the beast most of us believe it to be.
Do not expect behavior, beliefs, or plans to have changed one bit - just gone to another non-profit, another form of coordination, and/or one less level of management above the loci.
I didn’t buy the numbers drop either and suspected something was “up”.
Saudi funding will cover lots of legal expenses for this group.
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