CAIR is on the move to stifle free speech and has had some success by influencing our newspapers to pull advertisements promoting the movie Obsession (video clip). Now the latest report indicates CAIR has filed an FEC complaint - link below. Evidently the saying of the word JIHAD prior to an election being politically incorrect isn't enough. CAIR wants to make it illegal, as well. Now CAIR hopes to use our own institutions against us to thwart our freedoms.
This latest via MarketWatch. More at link.
WASHINGTON, DC, Sep 23, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today announced that it has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) over the distribution of an anti-Muslim film to 28 million homes in presidential election swing states.
The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is urging the FEC to investigate whether the Clarion Fund, a non-profit organization that distributed DVDs containing "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West," is really a front for an Israel-based group seeking to help Sen. John McCain win the U.S. presidential election. (No information about a board of directors, staff or even a physical address is offered on the fund's website.)
In its complaint to the FEC, CAIR wrote in part:
"The Clarion Fund recently financed the distribution of some 28 million DVDs containing the film 'Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West' in what many political analysts describe as 'swing' states in the upcoming presidential elections. Those same analysts say the distribution of the 'Obsession' DVD was designed to benefit a particular presidential candidate, namely Sen. John McCain...
You may also see the 12 minute trailer on Right Side News, in their video player (on right side of page) along with the movie FITNA.
