CAIR’s Firing of Juan Williams

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There are two parts to the Juan Williams story that broke last week. Part one of course involves NPR abandoning any pretense of impartiality in its rush to fire a journalist who isn’t in lockstep with their leftist worldview. But the other part of this story is just as important: the role that the Council on American Islamic Relations played in the sorry affair. CAIR’s bullying tactics were a big part of the reason that NPR took such dramatic action so quickly, without even bothering to get Williams’ side of the story. The reaction to Williams’ firing across all parts of the political spectrum has been one of disgust and anger, which isn’t exactly what CAIR bargained for. They figured they could play the victim card once more and Americans would dutifully shed crocodile tears over their plight. Now that the magnitude of the backlash against NPR is plain to see, CAIR spokesmen are trying to distance themselves from the decision. But, they can’t. This assault on free speech has CAIR’s fingerprints all over it.

On Wednesday afternoon CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad sent out a press release denouncing Williams, saying: “Such irresponsible and inflammatory comments would not be tolerated if they targeted any other racial, ethnic or religious minority, and they should not pass without action by NPR.” Soon after, NPR CEO Vivian Schiller dutifully bowed to CAIR’s harassment by terminating the network’s relationship with Juan Williams. Like most leftists, Schiller seems to laboring under the misapprehension that CAIR is what it purports to be: a civil rights organization. The truth is, of course, far more sinister.

“Although it presents itself as a civil rights group, CAIR actually has numerous links to Islamic supremacist and jihad groups,” affirms Robert Spencer of JihadWatch.org. He continues:

“CAIR founders Omar Ahmad and Niwad Awad were present at a Hamas planning meeting in Philadelphia in 1993 where they and other Hamas operatives conspired to raise funds for Hamas and to promote jihad in the Middle East. CAIR has steadfastly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. CAIR also was involved in the Flying Imams’ intimidation suit against the passengers who reported their suspicious behavior. CAIR has a long record of duplicity and deception. Although it has received millions of dollars in donations from foreign Islamic entities, it has not registered as a foreign agent as required by the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), despite spreading Islamic supremacist propaganda within the United States.”

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  • NadePaulKuciGravMcKi

    How much Neocon Mileage can FOX get out of Uncle Juan?

    • JGalvin

      Oooohhh, "Neocon"!! Weren't they associated with the Whig party?? Get contemporaneous, dude; it's almost 2011!

      • NadePaulKuciGravMcKi

        AIPAC

  • Chezwick_Mac

    "Uncle Juan" had the temerity to step off the plantation and speak his mind. For that, he had to be punished by the powers that be.

    How sad and pathetic you can only see this issue through a partisan prism. Hasn't it occurred to you that if Juan Williams can be fired for saying that Muslims make him nervous on planes, nobody – not even you, Sherlock – is safe anymore? The term is "thought crime" in case you haven't heard…and it's alive and well in the USA.

    • Lary9

      At long last…common cause. Agreed 100%.

    • NadePaulKuciGravMcKi

      answer the question
      or
      pretend to believe the official government 9/11 story

      • Chezwick_Mac

        A 9-11 Truther, eh? You're very deep!

        • NadePaulKuciGravMcKi

          president carter
          cindy sheehan
          jesse ventura
          h ross perot
          s colbert?

          • Chezwick_Mac

            My…what a credible cast of characters. You forgot Rosie O'Donnell and Ahmadinejad.

          • MixMChess

            Even far-left America-hating ideologue, Noam Chomsky has completely discredited the 9/11 truth movement. Get over yourself.

          • NadePaulKuciGravMcKi

            protecting the criminals
            MASS MURDER
            living in fear
            MixMChess

  • mario

    I get nervous when I get on a plane and there are liberals on it!

    • Lary9

      And of course we can identify liberals by their pointed heads and their cult clothing—Birkenstocks, LL Bean jeans & pullovers with Northface outerwear in winter. You can spot them anywhere.
      I say "Ban The Birkenstocks!"

    • http://www.facebook.com/al-kidya al-Kidya

      I'm with you, Mario.
      Liberals make me nervous as hell.

  • kafir4life

    In a Sharia state, liberals would be the first to bite the dust..unfortunately they haven't been programmed to see this. Judging from the reaction of Whoopi and Behar towards O'Reilly on the View..they are still in KG

    • AnimalFarm

      You're so right, and that is what's so baffling. First would be the homosexuals, who would all be hanged. Then the feminists who would be stoned after being forced to bear countless children. Jews would be public enemy #1, shoot at sight, or behead, or whatever your weapon of choice is. It's not for nothing that I maintain that liberalism is a mental disease.

  • kafir4life

    muslim garb is an excellent way to identify members of the supreme RoP, islam. Identifying them is the first step. My understanding is that islam was invented by an insane peodophile named mohamat, and he "wrote" his nobel terror guide the koran in feces as ordered by his lord, satan.

    Be friendly once you've identified the wearers of the muslim garb. If you see them praying, stand over them and sing. If you're a female, do a little wiggle dance. If you're Jewish, stand over them and pray. If you're Christian, stand over them and pray. It's not illegal to stand near or pray over prostrate muslims. Make comments about the size of their posteriers. Just carry on. Speak loudly about support for Israel. Speak loudly about islamic terror.

    Now since islam is a religion of peace, don't try any of these things if you have a family.

    • AnimalFarm

      I'm afraid I would have trouble controlling my impulse of putting my boot up their a$$ while prostrate.

  • bubba4

    Really? I thought it was Soros giving them money who demanded Juan get fired.
    FPM needs to get it's conspiracy straight. Check the red fax machine…something might have come in.

    Juan Williams has been riding a fine line for years now where it applies to NPR. He has a contract waiting for him at Fox. I think Rich is being purposefully dim. This was just the last straw Rich…stop pretending it just came out of the blue.

    • http://www.lethalengagement.com/ Joseph Klein

      Bubba – You sem unable to walk and chew gum at the same time. Yes, Soros gave NPR $1.8 million and undoubtedly wanted Williams banished from his precious investment since Williams also had the temerity to appear regularly on Fox News. But CAIR did put pressure on NPR and, as Hooper admitted, was happy with the result.

      CIAR's tweet shortly after the firing: "Good News: NPR Ends Analyst’s Contract After Comments on #Muslims – http://nyti.ms/a56Cna

  • http://bloodlesslinchpinsofislamicterrorism.blogspot.com/ momo

    Sharia law fired Juan. Sharia law must be banned

  • davarino

    Juan has been riding a fine line, where it applies to NPR? NPR, the peoples radio? Bought and paid for by the citizens of the USA? NPR has a right to control what their employees think? Thats funny, and you thought we were a bunch of mind numbed robots hehehehehe

    Thanks bubba

  • Leon

    CAIR tried to fre Michael Savage a few years back as well.

  • Wesley69

    CAIR seems to have scored a victory at the expense of Juan Williams, but it comes at a price. Out of this Williams looks like a martyr sacrificed by two extremist organizations interested in their own anti-democratic agendas. And who rescues the Liberal analyst? Fox News!!!! It is good this happened near the election time because it shows voters this is what Liberal Fascists do to their own when they express opinions contrary to their organizations. Hopefully, Americans will recognize this danger and vote to stop the Liberal-Fascist agenda..

    As for Soros, he is never up front in these matters. He prefers working behind the scenes and through the numerous organizations he gives money to. He was extremely helpful in Obama’s successful campaign for the White House, a mistake that will have to wait until 2012 to correct.

    All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
    Thomas Jefferson

    • Raymond in DC

      "And who rescues the Liberal analyst? Fox News!!!!" No surprise here. Conservatives are consistently more open to discussing contrary opinions than doctrinaire leftists. I guess that makes them the real liberals!

  • Cuban Refugee

    Congress must defund NPR — all Americans' tax dollars should not be feeding an institution whose programming is aimed toward a minority of left of center listeners — especially now that America's enemy, George Soros, has his grubby hands in the mix. There is already enough unchecked brain washing taking place in our schools; we do not need commentators on NPR to reinforce it. Stop Shari'ah Law in its tracks before it sullies and perverts U.S. courts as it has England's. CAIR is a protagonist for Shari'ah as surely as NPR. If both of these diabolical entities continue their assault on our freedoms, the day will come when U.S. citizens will be fearful of expressing their opinions in their own living rooms. With the firing of Juan Williams, and many other recent injustices, e.g., the New Black Panther trial, we have crossed the threshhold of a soft tyranny, and are now on a slippery slope to full-blown communism.

  • Ret. Marine

    Agreed good ole Juan has been riding this fine line for many years. Hey Juan, you can't have it both ways. He has been shilling for the "won" since this pretender came on the American political scene. Every one knows the drill, say it often, even though a lie, it will become the truth, somehow.

    Fat chance. This had the making of the CAIR sedition organization hands all over it from the start. What would anyone want to guess they claimed that the muslims are a great resource for NPS, any takers. Just like the numbers they keep touting out that there are 6-million muslims in these States, when in reality, the US census bureau correctly puts that number at 2-3million at most. Because many are here illegally not unlike the voters of the pretender, many were here illegally as well and they dare not give the true numbers for fear that many may catch on to the fraud. CAIR often uses the same play book as the illegal minorities do. Same end game rules being applied here.

    • steven L

      If I read you well, you oppose those who try to be fair and balanced

  • SoundDoc

    It is just another tightening of the noose by the Islamic beast machine, aka creeping Sharia. When TRUTH is rejected, what's left. Judgement is upon us. America flourished under the laws of the living Yahweh. If you do not like it now, watch the UK and see what is coming here unless we repent as God warned; 2Ch 7:14 "if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

  • Carolyn

    Why doesn't FARA get after CAIR for not registering as foreign agent? Why is our government so lax? Is there a fly in the buttermilk?

    • ajnn

      yes !!!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.therepublicrevealed.com/ Victor Laslow

    What does the acronym NPR spell out?
    Could it be Nationalist Progressive Reports?
    We welcome Juan Williams back to the real world.
    Even though he is a liberal, he is the only liberal who has ever brought about an intelligent debate and was capable of reaching both sides, this is something the progressives can not tolerate just as Obama rejected all the Republican subjections for the Health care law.
    The Republic Revealed is a research and social political web site for a free America
    2010 The year we take back Washington
    2012 The year we take back our country

    • PW Virginia USA

      how about National Propaganda Radio

  • http://madaboutmahound.blogspot.com/ Gary Rumain

    Williams needs to lawyer up and sue NPR for every cent its got. I know its not got much, but it will serve its purpose.

    • http://foraff.org Pat English

      Perhaps he could also sue for Defamation of Character and add CAIR as a co-defendant!!

  • http://foraff.org Pat English

    I am disgusted with NPR for firing Williams. However, there is a good side to this! Americans are beginning to wake up to the real truth. CAIR is a dangerous political movement that uses every option to limit our Freedom of Speech. After seeing what Europe has gone through with Geert Wilders, it seems the US is the only country in the world with Freedom of Speech and we must protect this right at all costs.

    • Raymond in DC

      I wish I could believe that "Americans are beginning to wake up to the real truth." That's hard to do when much of the media avoids disseminating the truth. I haven't seen one news program that's mentioned either Soros or CAIR in its coverage of this debacle. NPR, of course, was silent on the issue of outsider influence, but so was ABC, CBS and NBC.

      What I enjoyed was the local NPR station during "pledge week" nervously insisting that the firing was an NPR decision, that they had nothing to do with it!

  • tagalog

    Good question, lisag: where indeed IS President Obama on this issue? When it was Louis Gates our esteemed President didn't hesitate to jump on the Cambridge P.D. and their stupidity. In the campaign leading up to the 2008 election, Candidate Obama was quick to characterize the hicks of Pennsylvania for clinging to their guns and God, and hating those who were not like them. So where is Barry now?

  • Woofula

    A bit of an error in the last paragraph of the article…

    Megyn Kelly is a Fox News anchor.

    Megyn Fox (actually Megan) is an airhead/actress.

  • USMCSniper

    Jesse Jackson said several years ago, ““There is nothing more painful for me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery — and then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.” Fire Jesse as he strayed from the plantation.

    • ebonystone

      If I remember Jesse's remarks correctly, they were about "walking in an unfamiliar neighborhood at night and seeing a group of teenage boys coming his way, and then feeling relieved and safe when a streetlight revealed them to be white."
      Jesse tried to weasel out of his slip by saying that when he saw they were white, he realized he was in a well-policed neighborhod — as though it were only the presence of lots of cops that made white neighborhoods relatively free of muggers, rapists, and car-jackers, and had nothing to do with the character and behavior of the residents.

  • Plantation runaway

    CAIR demands, National Dhimmi Radio complies, Soros funds — an unholy trinity.

  • Greg

    Fire Nina as well. And by the way CAIR is a fraud its only purpose is to advance fundamentalist Muslim beliefs and goals.

    Oh crap I am a liberal and feel this way as well. Hey Democrats it's not the corporate money winning the GOP congressional seats it's that you guys have started acting like the GOP from years ago. I guess once you get majority you get stuck on stupid.

  • Proudscott

    CAIR: A 'civil rights' organization run by bigots who want to kill homosexuals, beat and stone women, and kill all the jews on the planet. How many other 'civil rights' organizations are also run by bigots who have no tolerance for opossing ideas? Hmmmm…NAACP, Black Caucus, every liberal in the western world, Al SHarpton, GLAAD, Jesse Jackson, the Eco-fascists, who am I missing? Help me out here

  • http://logistory.blogspot.com/ noway2no

    Am I just being paranoid or are the Muslims/Chinese/Russians/Mexicans/American Political and elite class/Globalists/United Nations out to get us?

  • Proudscott

    Great point. 'those who are supposedly in support of civil rights never step up to defend conservatives, christians, or other groups that don't hold to their ideology. Clarence Thomas was pretty clearly one of the first to be left out to dry, why wouldnt williams be left out too? Where is Obama accussing NPR of acting 'stupidly'…especially since they in fact did, when the Boston Cops were doing the right thing?

  • Lamont Carlisle

    Vivian Schiller, the C.E.O. of National Public Radio, is “Stalin in a Skirt”.

    Oh sure, she issued an apology for her quip that Juan Williams “ . . . should keep the feelings that he expressed on Fox News between him and his psychiatrist or his publicist . . . “ but the honest truth is, her prescription for a psychiatrist unmasked her Stalinist ideology.

    In the academic journal, New Scientist, Drs. David Shaw, et. al. stated: “Under Stalin, the practice of declaring dissenters insane, and committing them for indefinite periods to prison psychiatric hospitals, became widespread.”

    Vivian Schiller, with her degrees in Russian Studies from Cornell and Russian from Middlebury surely knows this. Like Joseph Stalin, Schiller believes that if you do not agree with her shallow-minded, politically-correct weltanschauung, you need the attention of a psychiatrist.

  • 080

    In Juan Williams' opinion it was his ties to Fox News that caused his firing. I don't think so. When he mentioned Muslims he crossed a line. That line is the Unholy Alliance between Radical Islam and the Left. From now on in order to be a liberal of good-standing one must respect that alliance. For details on the alliance read David Horowitz's book: Unholy Alliance. That would be an eye-opener.

  • proto

    Not a good look for NPR or CAIR.
    To sack a person for a single act of expression of an understandable emotional response instead of using it as an opportunity do say this is not our view, its irrational for these reasons etc.

    Some argue that this was the last straw. Well then NPR and CAIR are just dangerously stupid and reckless regarding the defence of freedom of speech by giving the impression that NPR is just a puppet of lobby groups or individuals. They could have just rejected to comment, and then two-three weeks later just sat down with him and said Juan and NPR are just not a good fit.

  • http://www.CouponsForGroceriesSite.com E.S.

    Why do Lefties love CAIR? Are the Lefties willfully blind to what the front for terrorists are doing in America? I don't understand it!

  • tsusiat

    It's a good thing all this islamophobia is happening now, rather than later. Let's face it: the more civilized people know about the issue, the better for all concerned. The simple fact is that the majority of islamic nations, ie arabic countries, are tribal societies. They are where we were a thousand years ago. However, we 'learned' to socialize, to accept various notions of freedom(s) of religion, speech, along with sexual equalities. The arabs have not. Along with our socialization, we have learned to be tolerant, as tolerance is the only way for multicultural societies to survive. The arabs, with their tribal mentality, have not learned anything. And it is not up to us to spend the time and energy needed to potty train them. Put the brakes on immigration from muslim countries, as we do not need them, and certainly, the cost by far and away exceeds any benefits which their 'culture' may bring us.

  • trodaball

    CAIR is a deceptive Sharia Law-promoting illegitimate shakedown organization designed to financially harm or ruin anyone who exposes Islam for what it is, to infiltrate and influence US public policy, and to make in-roads in every possible segment of society where the ends justify the means to force submission to Islam. It should be shut down and brought up for treason. Their front purposes of " building community bridges of interfaith dialogue and cooperation " is the most thinly veiled croc of b.s. which is only believed by useful idiots and blind simpletons.

  • Vivi Andersen

    The american leftiest should, for their owen sake, remember what happend to the Iranien lefties when Khromeini took over : he killed them !

    And they had help him to power !

    but he hung and shut them where he could find them.

  • AnimalFarm

    I'll never understand for the life of me how Schiller (in this case) does the islamists' bidding, being a Jew, the most hated of infidels. Why are so many Jews liberal, and why do they side with their sworn enemies, the ones who view Jews as pigs and monkeys, the ones who will not rest until Jews and Israel are destroyed? What am I missing???

  • tweedledee

    Dear FM readers: Where's the outrage over the viewpoint-based firings of Octavia Nasr, Helen Thomas, Rick Sanchez, Eason Jordan, Peter Arnett, Phil Donahue, Ashleigh Banfield, Bill Maher, Ward Churchill, Chas Freeman, Van Jones and so many others? Is it ok to have them fired, or celebrate their firing when you don't agree with them? You enjoy wrapping yourselves in the flag of "free expression!!!" and screeching about the perils and evils of firing journalists for expressing certain viewpoints.

    • bioya1

      Easily explainable. Your list is populated by anti-American morons. They were lucky to even get a job. In this particular case we have a taxpayer supported leftist organization (N pc R) that spreads the same kind of lies the people on your list support. It only goes to prove that Liberalism is a mental disease.

      • TeamJuan

        Partisan politics is a mental disease no matter what end of the spectrum you fall into. The rabbit hole is deep and full of muck. There isn't a political party who's hands are clean.

  • jim

    Muslims who commit terror do not wear muslim dresses when they do. most hijackers looked hispanics or light skin black guys. so are you gonna get nervous each time you see a mexican or a puerto rican in a plane?
    furthermore, muslim is not a race. there are white, black, brown and asian muslims. so anybody sitting near you on a plane could be a muslim.
    uncle juan was wrong. he is another opportunist riding the islamophobia wave. he sold his soul a while ago though.

  • John of Swanland

    The USA would not let its funds be used to spread good family-planning education, so population pressure in Muslim lands makes them easy fodder for mad imams and other terror-inclining leaders. No citizenship should be allowed to any newcomer under 10 years, and only after their local area, by referendum, signifies it is willing to accept them. Repatriation ought to be offered to many groups of immigrants to the USA and other Western-style democracies, which have been committing cultural suicide for the past 60 or so years.

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    @admin: I just have to say your site is the first I’ve come across today that doesn’t have typos every other sentence. Thank you for taking the time to construct something that doesn’t look like a 6th grader put together. Sorry, just had to vent.