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Firebrand Muslim group CAIR should be marginalized — not given taxpayer money

Nypost · · 596 words · By CA Post Editorial Board
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6 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Gavin Newsom’s government has passed millions of state and federal dollars to CAIR.”
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Multiple web search results report that the California Department of Social Services provided approximately $41 million in funding to CAIR-CA over the last five years, noting that much of this was federal funding.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2021 California gubernatorial recall election was a special recall election that started in August 2021 and ended on September 14, 2021, when the majority of California voters chose not to recall …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_California_gubernatorial_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gavin Christopher Newsom (born October 10, 1967) is an American politician and businessman serving as the 40th governor of California since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 49t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Newsom
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gavin Newsom has served as governor of California since 2019. First elected in 2018, he survived a 2021 recall election and was re-elected to a second term in 2022.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governorship_of_Gavin_Newsom
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“it had connections with the Holy Land Foundation, which saw several leaders convicted for trying to raise money in the U.S. for Hamas.”
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Multiple sources report that CAIR was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case and that the Holy Land Foundation provided seed money for CAIR's Beltway office.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF; Arabic: مؤسسة الأرض المقدسة للإغاثة والتنمية, romanized: Muʾassasat al-ʾArḍ al-Muqaddasa li-l-ʾIghātha wa-t-Tanmiya), originally known as Occ…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Land_Foundation_for_Relie…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP), and alternately as the American Muslim Society (AMS) and American Middle Eastern League for Palestine (AMEL), was an American not-for profit organization. Estab…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Association_of_Palesti…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) is a Muslim civil rights and advocacy group. It is headquartered on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., with regional offices nationwide. Through civil r…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_American–Islamic_Re…
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“Nihad Awad, the national executive director of CAIR, claimed that he was “happy” about the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel because he saw it as Palestinians “breaking the siege” and entering “their land””
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Three independent web search results confirm that Nihad Awad stated he was 'happy' to see people 'breaking the siege' during the October 7 attacks.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nihad Awad (Arabic: نهاد عوض) is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihad_Awad
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) is a Muslim civil rights and advocacy group. It is headquartered on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., with regional offices nationwide. Through civil r…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_American–Islamic_Re…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — International reactions to the alleged persecution of Uyghurs in China have been varied.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_reactions_to_the…
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“America does not, like some Muslim countries, ban the headscarf or other expressions of Islamic faith.”
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General knowledge of U.S. constitutional law (First Amendment) and the provided Wikipedia entry on Islam in the United States support the fact that there is no national ban on headscarves or Islamic faith expressions in the U.S., unlike in some other countries.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Islam is the third-largest religion in the United States (1.3%) after Christianity (67%) and Judaism (2.4%). The 2020 United States Religion Census estimates that there are about 4,453,908 Muslim Amer…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Many forms of Islamic extremism occur within the United States. Islamic extremism is an adherence to fundamentalist interpretations of Islam, potentially including the promotion of violence to achieve…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_extremism_in_the_Unite…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a listing of notable mosques in the United States (Arabic: Masjid, Spanish: Mezquita), including Islamic places of worship that do not qualify as traditional mosques, sorted in alphabetical or…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mosques_in_the_United_…
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“American Jews were present at the creation of the United States”
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Historical records and the provided web search result regarding Jewish life in the U.S. confirm the presence of Jewish individuals during the early stages of the United States.
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web search NEUTRAL — Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jews have been present in the minds of North Carolinians beyond their numbers. The North Carolina experience is not unique among American Jews, but an argument can be made for its difference in degree…
https://archive.org/stream/downhomejewishlirogo/downhomejewi…
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web search NEUTRAL — The legal and social strictures that define White Americans, and distinguish them from persons who are not considered white by the government and society, have varied throughout the history of the Uni…
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“at a time when Islamic potentates were attacking the fledgling American merchant fleet and enslaving our sailors, demanding tribute as a condition for leaving us alone.”
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The evidence describes the Barbary States (Islamic potentates) attacking American vessels and the subsequent treaties/wars to stop the enslavement of sailors and the demand for tribute.
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web search NEUTRAL — During the early 19th century, Anglo-American relations deteriorated over a variety of reasons. British authorities begun seizing American merchant ships trading with France and its allies, which inte…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States
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web search NEUTRAL — During the American Revolutionary War, the Barbary States realized that the American vessels in the area were no longer under British protection. In 1777, the sultan of Morocco signed a treaty with th…
https://medium.com/the-history-inquiry/what-were-the-barbary…
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web search NEUTRAL — Al Jazeera investigates the shocking truth behind a deadly Israeli attack on a US naval vessel.In 1967, at the height of the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War, the Is...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx72tAWVcoM
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