Author’s Note: This week, capitulating to
Islamic-supremacist agitation led by the Council on American-Islamic Relations
(CAIR), Brandeis University reneged on its announced plan to present an
honorary degree to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the heroic human-rights activist. In my 2010
book, The Grand Jihad, I devoted a
chapter to the origins and purposes of CAIR, its roots in the Muslim
Brotherhood’s Hamas-support network, and its aim to silence critics of Islamic
supremacism. In light of the continuing success of this campaign — despite a
federal terrorism-financing prosecution that exposed CAIR’s unsavory background
— it is worth revisiting that history. What follows is an adapted excerpt from
that chapter.
In January 1993, a new, left-leaning
U.S. administration, inclined to be more sympathetic to the Islamist clause,
came to power. But before he could bat an eye, President Bill Clinton was
confronted by the murder and depraved mutilation of American soldiers in
Somalia. A few weeks later, on February 26, jihadists bombed the World Trade
Center. The public was angry and appeasing Islamists would have to wait.....To Read More.....
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