Why CAIR Merits Attention From All of Us
22nd December 2021
As we reported earlier this month, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) San Francisco director Zahra Billoo recently gave a speech in which she outlined an enemies list for Palestinian advocates.
Her list included the vast majority of American Jewry, whom she dismissed as “polite Zionists,” including people with the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish Federation, campus Hillel chapters and “Zionist synagogues.”
It’s a stunning expression of hate that, if it targeted any other minority group, would create a firestorm of controversy and generate national news.
But CAIR has yet to say a critical word about Billoo. To the contrary, it posted a statement expressing pride in “the courage she demonstrates in her civil rights work” and saying she is the victim: “we strongly condemn this online smear campaign against our sister and colleague, Zahra Billoo.”
Islam is as much an existential enemy of America as the Communist Party.