Islamist outfit CAIR asks USA to cease utilizing time period ‘terrorist watchlist’ because it largely includes Muslim names

The Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR), a US-based Islamist organisation with ties to the Islamic terrorist organisation Hamas, referred to as on the US authorities on Tuesday to discontinue using the time period “terrorist watchlist,” since it’s made up “almost entirely” of Arab and Muslim names.

Last week, a hacker launched a listing of names on the FBI’s secret so-called “terror watchlist.” The names have been overwhelmingly Arab and Muslim. Some have been reportedly positioned on the record as kids. 1/4

— CAIR National (@CAIRNational) January 24, 2023

“This list confirms what we already knew: after 9/11, the FBI created a Muslim registry. If the FBI is allowed to keep this discriminatory, unjust registry, it’s only a matter of time before others are targeted as well,” the Islamist organisation with terror hyperlinks wrote in a thread of tweets, accusing the Joe Biden administration of anti-Muslim bias.

“The FBI distributes this registry to tens of thousands of law enforcement agencies, hundreds of private companies, & 60+ foreign governments. We call on the Biden admin to end its dissemination. It has served no purpose other than to ruin the lives of innocent Muslims,” CAIR wrote in its subsequent tweet.

It additionally shared a hyperlink to its press launch titled, “CAIR Urges FBI to Stop Distributing Secret Terror Watchlists After Leaks Show ‘Almost Entirely Lists of Arabic and Muslim Names’.

The demand got here after a Swiss hacker, on January 20, Friday, reportedly gained entry to copies of the No-Fly List and Selectee List. These two lists are subdivisions of the US safety company FBI’s terror watchlist and the Terrorist Screening Data Set. The record, which was from 2019, contained about 1.5 million entries. 

The Islamist organisation, that obtained the record, claimed it featured primarily Muslim and Arab names and accused the FBI of intentionally focusing on the Muslim group.

“Even a cursory review of the lists shows they are both almost entirely lists of Arabic and Muslim names. Children who were at most 10 years old at the time are on the No-Fly List. A then 7-year-old is on the Selectee list,” Justin Sadowsky, Cair’s trial legal professional, mentioned in an announcement.

CAIR and its anti-India propaganda

Notably, CAIR identifies itself as a Muslim civil rights organisation within the United States that claims to guard ‘civil rights, enhance understanding of Islam, promote justice, and empower American Muslims’, The truth, nevertheless, is that CAIR is an Islamist group that has spoken towards India and Hindus on a number of events. The group has been vehemently pushing Hinduphobia and anti-Hindu propaganda in India.

Last 12 months, CAIR launched a report titled “Still Suspect: The Impact of Structural Islamophobia”, wherein it mentioned that there was an increase in discrimination towards Muslims residing within the United States.

The CAIR, in its report, claimed that it had acquired 6,720 complaints nationwide final 12 months involving a spread of points, together with immigration, journey discrimination, regulation enforcement, authorities overreach, hate and bias incidents, custody rights, college incidents, and free speech incidents.

The CAIR claimed that authorities discrimination and bias proceed to have a disproportionate impact on American Muslims and additional display that our communities proceed to be considered with suspicion. The report additionally listed the impacts of extreme structural and interpersonal Islamophobia within the United States.

Ironically, CAIR, which all the time complains about alleged Islamophobia within the United States, has been aggressively selling Hinduphobia and anti-Hindu propaganda in India. We are conscious of how CAIR had prolonged assist for the extraordinarily Hinduphobic ‘Dismantling Global Hindutva‘ convention.

Not solely this, however in December final 12 months, CAIR had reportedly taken offence on the show of the names of the LeT terrorists and scenes from the lethal 26/11 terror assault that was displayed on a cell billboard truck in New Jersey. While calling the motion of the automobile ‘deliberate and well co-ordinated’, CAIR criticised the printed of 26/11 footage as ‘messages of hate.’ This was even though the cell billboard truck didn’t show something contentious however the reality.

In January 2022, CAIR launched Hinduphobic propaganda based mostly on a report by alleged journalist Rana Ayyub. In a press launch, CAIR demanded the film theatres to not launch Sooryavanshi, a Hindi film. In the press launch, CAIR alleged the film spreads “disgusting and dangerous” anti-Muslim propaganda impressed by the fascist Hindutva motion.” 

The group has additionally referred to as for the launch of 49-year-old Pakistani terrorist Aafia Siddiqui, who’s at the moment serving 86 years in jail for attacking US Army and FBI personnel in Afghanistan.

The Islamic organisation and its hyperlink with Islamic terror outfit Hamas

It is noteworthy that CAIR has hyperlinks with the Palestinian Islamic fundamentalist terror organisation Hamas. Hamas has an extended historical past of violating human rights. Hamas is designated as a terrorist organisation by a number of international locations together with The European Union, the United States, Canada, Israel, Japan, Australia, the United Kingdom and so on.