Isn’t this going a bit far afield?

Robert Spencer has an article at FrontPage Magazine condemning the Council on American Islamic Relations for declining to condemn Pakistan’s banning of Spencer’s book, The Truth about Muhammad. He says that since CAIR claims to be a civil rights organization, it ought to rush to attack censorship anywhere.

Of all the things that one can think of that are objectionable about CAIR,—its links with terrorism, jihadism, and the Muslim agenda to subdue America, as well as its unstinting efforts to delegitimize any and all anti-terrorism security measures—how high on the list would be CAIR’s failure to criticize a Muslim country for failing to embrace some Adlai Stevenson-like notion of an international human right of free speech? Pace Spencer, the problem with CAIR is not that it doesn’t conform to his post World War II liberal ideal of the equal rights and dignity of all human beings; the problem with CAIR is that it wants to destroy us.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at January 16, 2007 11:27 AM | Send