An extraordinary article in today’s Sunday Independent discusses the intimidatory actions by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). The report says that the climate of fear among the military, law-enforcers, policy-makers, the media, opinion-formers and many ordinary citizens has been caused by actions of CAIR, which is dedicated to Muslim empowerment, receives substantial funding from Arab governments and has been accused by federal prosecutors of funnelling money to Hamas.
So effective and ruthless is CAIR that anyone in authority worries before doing anything that can be misrepresented as anti-Muslim and lead to lawsuits citing religious or racial discrimination.
And here is a clear example of how this intimidation borne of victimhood works: