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CAIR and the AMC are not Muslim civil right organizations but front groups that are essentially apologists for Islamist Nazism and other manifestations of extremist political Islam. The fact they've had to engage in character assassination of Daniel Pipes and Steven Emerson is a testament to the true nature. Neither Pipes or Emerson have ever attacked Islam or the millions of Muslims in America and the rest of the world to abide by the precepts of their faith and who don't hate the West or engage in terrorism. Both men have simply pointed out that their are certain groups in the U.S who seek to accord respectability to a singular totalitarian interpretation of Islam that seeks to impose its doctrines on non-Muslim peoples through terror, violence, and mass murder and cow Muslim peoples to a lifetime of perpetual tyranny and socio-economic deprivation. CAIR and the AMC and similar bodies in the U.S Muslim community play just such a role and what they don't like are very brave people calling them on what they're doing. And if criticizing Muslim excesses is being anti-Muslim then a lot of good and decent Americans can never be friends of any one who is a Muslim. In our democracy fair and friendly criticism is a way of reminding people who think America isn't as good to them as it could be is that this country is successful precisely because it tolerates a wide variety of views. Advocating terror, violence, mass murder, and the destruction of America should not be ones we should ever accept as respectable or legitimate views in our national discourse. Kudos to Pipes and Emerson for pointing out the appropriate limits by which our fellow Muslim citizens like the rest of their country men must abide.