Part of an effective insurgency is to have a great propaganda arm. While the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) isn’t “officially” associated with Al Qaeda, it has definitely become it’s ally. Danial Pipes, a long time critic of CAIR nails them on their true agenda which is to undermind watchfulness over Muslims and Islamic infuence in the west.

“The Republican lawmaker who sparked a storm with comments about Muslims and the need to tighten immigration laws is the latest target of an Islamic advocacy group’s “victimization game,” a political analyst said Thursday.

It’s a game that the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), has “mastered,” Daniel Pipes, a critic of the group and director of the Middle East Forum, told Cybercast News Service.

CAIR is calling on Rep. Virgil Goode (R-Va.) to apologize for writing in a letter to constituents that says, “we will have many more Muslims in the United States if we do not adopt” strict immigration policies.

Pipes said CAIR was “perpetually on the prowl for any incidence of anti-Muslim sentiment, real or imaginary, spontaneous or provoked, major or minor.”

The organization’s goal, he said, was “to make the United States like so many other countries – a place where Muslims, Islam and Islamism cannot be freely discussed.”

“It is imperative for Americans to retain their freedom of speech about Islam — as it exists in relation to other religions — and resist these many demands for remorse.”

It’s amazing that Christianity in America today suffers much more than any other religion with constant threats to the freedom to express itself, yet CAIR expends tremendous energy trying to make the criticism of Islam an “unpardonable sin”.

This of course plays well into the hands of Al Qaeda and radical Islam in general. While every Muslim isn’t a member of Al Qaeda, every member of Al Qaeda is affliated with Islam thus worthy to be under watch and carefully scrutinized.

CAIR does it’s job well in attacking those who dare to criticise Islam by political and economic pressure.

CNS provides these samples from 2006:

“Earlier this month, the group called on Wal-Mart to stop selling the “Left Behind: Eternal Forces” video game because it promoted a message of “religious intolerance.” The nation’s largest retailer is still selling the product.

In October, CAIR complained to KDWB-FM in Minnesota after the radio station broadcast a segment entitled “Muslim Jeopardy” that had such contest categories as “Infamous Infidels” and “Smells Like a Shia.” After the station managers apologized for the skit, the group thanked them for “reacting positively” to the situation.

Ken Murray, the mayor of Redding, Calif., drew the organization’s wrath in September, when he told an audience attending a 9/11 commemoration ceremony: “Either the Judeo-Christian philosophy will survive, or the Islamic philosophy will survive.” CAIR called on Californians to repudiate Murray’s comments.

The group succeeded in March in having a four-minute video entitled “Hadji Girl” pulled from the youtube.com website.

It also received an apology in February from Bill Handel of KFI-AM after the California talk show host made what it called “insensitive remarks” about a human stampede that killed more than 300 people during a pilgrimage in Mecca.

CAIR has also targeted President Bush several times during the past 12 months. In January, the group warned him to avoid using “loaded and imprecise terminology” when referring to Islam in his State of the Union address.

In August, the group criticized Bush for saying America was “at war with Islamic fascists” after U.K. authorities arrested 24 British Muslims suspected of plotting to bomb transatlantic flights. CAIR said the president’s “hot button” terminology put the name of Islam and the Muslim community at risk.”

It’s about time to call CAIR out for their true agenda which is to “soften awareness” of covert Islamic activities and to ultimately outlaw any “insolent talk” towards Islam.