CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which speaks out on just about everything, everywhere that affects Muslims, has been, as far as I and Google can tell, completely silent about the situation in Iran. That’s because Iran is (yet another) public relations nightmare for “the religion of peace."
CAIR has billed itself as a Muslim ACLU, but seeks not only to defend the civil liberties of Muslims, but also to make a special place for Islam in the United States.
Fomer CAIR Chairman Omar Ahmad was quoted in 1998 as saying:
“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”
After the 1979 revolution, Iran set out to become a true Islamic theocracy, and that's what some CAIR critics say CAIR wants the United States to become.
But the Iranian theocracy is a vile, corrupt, repressive regime in which juveniles are executed, women are stoned and suspects are tortured. It’s also an economic zombie that has Iran’s large numbers of young people feeling trapped and desperate, with no future.
It's existence threatened, this Islamic theocracy has resorted to guns, clubs and razors against peaceful demonstrators demanding free elections and basic human rights.
Not a shining moment for Islam or those in this country hoping to live under an Islamic theocracy someday.
Terrorism expert and CAIR nemesis Steve Emerson writes more about CAIR's silence here.