CAIR Moves Into Minnesota
Charles Johnson
Fri Mar 16, 2007 at 8:34 pm PDT • Views: 244
The Council on American Islamic Relations is setting up shop in Minnesota, a hotbed of recent grievance theater events: Muslim organization revives Minnesota branch.
A controversial national Islamic civil liberties organization has revived its Minnesota chapter after a series of highly publicized incidents involving Muslim taxi drivers, store clerks and airline passengers.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has 32 chapters in the United States and Canada, will open a St. Paul office this weekend, leaders said Thursday. CAIR Minnesota’s resurrection, months in the making, comes as the state’s Muslim community is being scrutinized as never before.
This week, six imams (prayer leaders) who were removed from a US Airways flight in Minneapolis in November sued the airline and the Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC). They claim they were removed because of their race and religion.
In addition, some Muslim taxi drivers who refuse to ferry alcohol and dogs are awaiting a ruling on the issue from the MAC. And some Muslim store clerks have refused to scan pork products.
The incidents have triggered widespread anger against Muslims, despite pleas for tolerance.
“Pleas for tolerance!” It’s intolerant, you see, not to tolerate Islamic intolerance and fanaticism.
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