CAIR understands the important of this: it erects a firewall against the gradual implementation of Sharia. If the amendment stands, it will becpome a model nationwide and it will spur an elightened disucssion of Islam and Sharia. They want to fly under the radar.
You betcha! The long term goal of Islam is to convert America to Sharia law. Thus, all small fires like this one kindled in Oklahoma must be stomped out before, like you say, it becomes a model for all of the states...putting a choke hold on the goals of Islam in America.
It's already happened in Europe. Islam has it's eye on the big prize. USA.