CAIR: Defending Muslim Student “Rights”?

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is claiming that local colleges are not protecting the rights of predominantly Somali Muslim college students. CAIR claims that it has received “numerous reports” by Muslim students that they are being “interrogated” by FBI agents. The students are being questioned as part of an on-going investigation into the whereabouts of several male Somali students whom have gone missing and are suspected of leaving the US to fight in Somalia’s long-running civil war.

CAIR-Minnesota (CAIR-MN) Civil Rights Director Taneeza Islam states:

“Students’ legal rights need to be upheld and they aren’t currently being afforded the only true legal protection they have when talking to the law enforcement - an attorney.”

Islam’s concern is “confirmed” by this example of the FBI’s “brutal” interrogation methods involving a Muslim student. From an article titled “Pressure By FBI Puts Somalis In Bind”:

“In December, one of her friends who works for the University of Minnesota police approached her, saying the FBI would like to talk about her organization. The agent, she said, was polite and made it clear she could refuse to talk. “He wanted to know how we got funded and what activities we do,” she said of the 20-minute interview. He also wanted to know “how some of the missing boys were involved in the organization,” she said, adding she never felt pressured.”

So, the FBI agent explained “she didn’t have to talk” and the student stated the agent was polite?

Where is the coercion? What “rights” did the FBI agent not explain?

Considering CAIR’s reputation when it comes to providing legal advice; buyer beware. In addition to the numerous proven allegations that CAIR is directly tied to Islamic terrorism and individual Islamic terrorists, CAIR has also been accused of providing shoddy legal advice to the very North American Muslim population it claims to represent and protect. (What does it say about CAIR when they apparently set off to deliberately commit fraud against American Muslims?)

So why would it “appear” that Somali Muslim students turned to CAIR for legal advice? The simple answer is —- they didn’t. Nowhere does CAIR even make the claim that CAIR supplied any legal advice to any of the students in question. Would it be outside the realm of possibility that CAIR completely fabricated the claim that “numerous” students filed complaints with them?

We also learn that apparently none of the students interviewed for the article had anything bad to say about the FBI. None of the students stated that they were abused, denied rights, or forced to answer any questions. None were taken into custody.

For instance, the opening line from the article:

“When the FBI approached the young women at the University of Minnesota, they said they didn’t mind talking.”

Does this sound like abuse, or a case where Muslim Somali students are responding to legitimate FBI concerns? ….. Just what is CAIR’s game? …