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

Washington Times ^

[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.

[PsyOp]

Perhaps if they did not keep trotting out “Jabba-the-Nut” (aka Ibrahim Hooper) as their spokeperson they would have better luck. The dude looks like he could suck a Twinkie through a garden hose.

Religion of murder affiliation aside, who would want to belong to any organization for which he was the public mouth-piece?

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[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

You can only hope SD. But the way this administration bends over for them, I am still not convinced?

[george76]

These non profits likely make huge profits.

They just have an IRS pass to avoid paying taxes. Plus they can dump lots of perks into ‘expenses.’

[Danae]

LOL Me too!!

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

CAIR’s budget, which reached nearly $3 million last year.”

You'd think that one good, loooooooong lawsuit would deplete this in a hurry?

[ViLaLuz]

Don’t forget to add the ACLU to that list.

[CPT Clay]

Why do they get so much press?

Free Republic is larger.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Bump.

[Don Corleone]

It only takes ONE!

[Bahbah]

The organization instead is relying on about two dozen individual donors a year to contribute the majority of the money

Who are they?

[jocon307]

I guess there really are some “moderate” Muslims after all.

[RaceBannon]

That means most of them went into hiding

[thebaron512]

It would be better if they were put all in jail for their roles in supporting terrorism.

[happygrl]

Are there 7 million American Muslims or is this a number Islamists have invented to inflate their political importance?

No, and yes the Muslims have inflated their number to increase their political importance.

The recent Pew Trust poll had the numbers at around 2.5 million, as I recall.

[FARS]

Tickling my memory somewhere is a vast and expensive new headquarters for them being built in Dubai? $300 million or something like that?

[Anti-Bubba182]

What angers me is that every time the Muslim population is mentioned on TV they use the 7 million figure without ever questioning whether it is true. This particular article on CAIR and many others ar trivial compared to the Islamic population lie. I think a lot of articles are made by Islamists simply to use the 7 million figure.

[Cowboy Bob]

...when yearly dues cost $25, to $58,750 last year, when the group charged $35.

Just curious...what does someone get for their $35 in dues?

[daku]

this is indicative of US (Muslim) citizens perception of the reality that we are winning the war

it will not be portrayed as such by the msm

this can be a good thing, or a very good thing

[Salem]

The intrepid Joe Kaufman at CAIR Watch bears the majority of credit for taking the wind out of these people's sails.

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