In recent days, major Muslim organizations have been sounding the alarm about an apparent rise in Islamophobia, which they attribute to the Israel-Hamas war. Groups like the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) say that complaints about Islamophobic incidents have skyrocketed and, according to a CAIR staff attorney, “Muslims were painted in a negative light regarding the war.”
These cries of Islamophobia demand serious examination. First, they are linked to CAIR, a group with a checkered record not only on antisemitism—the head of one chapter made a speech last year calling Zionists “the enemy”—but also on sexual harassment and grift within the organization.
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