BREAKING : CAIR Demands Trump Drop Rev. Franklin Graham from Inauguration
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim-rights group designated by the Justice Department as a terrorist co-conspirator, is calling on Donald Trump to drop Rev. Franklin Graham as one of six clergy who will offer prayers at the Jan. 20 inauguration ceremony.
In a press release issued this week, CAIR referred to the son of evangelist Billy Graham as a “notorious Islamophobe”
“If President-elect Trump truly seeks to unite our nation as he promised in his acceptance speech, he will limit the list of those offering prayers at the inauguration to religious leaders who work to bring us together, not to create divisions between faiths,” said CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad. “Rev. Graham’s ill-informed and extremist views are incompatible with the Constitution and with American values of religious liberty and inclusion.”
Awad was linked to the Holy Land Foundation terror-funding case by wiretaps showing him present at a 1993 Philadelphia meeting of Hamas leaders and activists where participants hatched a plot to disguise payments to Hamas terrorists as $12 million in charitable giving. Five of the plotters were given substantial prison sentences and, as WND reported, a new Internet campaign is urging President Obama to provide clemency to the jailed leaders of the foundation before he leaves office.
This is not the first time CAIR has attempted to have Graham banned from official Washington functions. In 2010 the group celebrated its success at having Graham dropped from The National Day of Prayer at the Pentagon.
CAIR’s Awad said his organization hailed the decision “as a victory for common sense and good judgment.”
“Promoting one’s own religious beliefs is something to be defended and encouraged, but other faiths should not be attacked or misrepresented in the process,” Awad said.
Graham has been outspoken in his criticism of Islam, saying Muslims are “enslaved by Islam” and characterizing it as a “very evil and wicked religion.” Following the attack by two Muslims that left more than a 14 dead and 22 seriously injured in San Bernardino, Graham warned, “Every Muslim that comes into this country has the potential to be radicalized – and they do their killing to honor their religion and Muhammad.”
CAIR’s demand is unlikely to carry any weight with the Trump transition team. The president-elect, during his thank-you event last month in Mobile, Alabama, praised Graham and credited him for contributing to his victory.
“I want to thank so many great people, but having Franklin Graham, who was so instrumental, we won so big, with evangelical Christians, we won so big,” Trump told the crowd of 20,000.
Graham has previously prayed at the 2001 inauguration of George W. Bush and his father has prayed at the same event for other presidents, from Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton. That both Grahams have always concluded their prayers in the name of Jesus Christ — and Franklin Graham certainly will again — can only add to CAIR’s displeasure.
Ironically, CAIR’s broadside against Graham came at the same time his charitable organization, Samaritan’s Purse, was dedicating a 50-bed field hospital the group built in Mosul, Iraq.
The trauma unit constructed on the Plains of Ninevah is meant to treat the injured in the fighting being conducted by government and coalition forces against ISIS, reported the Washington Times.
“It’s a privilege to be here,” Graham said during the dedication ceremony. “As a Christian, I want all people to know about God’s love for them.”
Samaritan’s Purse was praised by Lise Grande, U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq, who noted the difficulty in finding NGOs willing to provide frontline trauma care.
“We’ve reached out to a number of organizations, asking, begging them to step forward,” she said. “Dr. Graham, Samaritan’s Purse answered that call. We can’t thank you enough.
“You built this hospital in record time. Most of all we want to thank you for saving people. Because Samaritan’s Purse is here, thousands — tens of thousands — of people will survive…”
CAIR is unlikely to be moved by Graham’s clearly un-Islamophobic charitable work in Iraq. Graham’s 2003 announcement of his group’s planned relief efforts in Iraq drew similar scorn from the U.S. Muslim group.
Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for CAIR, charged that evangelical groups use humanitarian concerns as a cover for their true motive – to convert Muslims to Christianity.
“They go after them when they’re most vulnerable and hope they can get them to leave their faith,” he told Beliefnet at the time. “It’s a very despicable practice.”
Hooper said Graham’s effort could undermine President Bush’s attempt to convince the Muslim world that the war was not against Islam.
“If it becomes generally known, it’s going to be a public relations disaster for the Bush administration,” he Hooper, who has said he wants the U.S. eventually to become a Muslim nation.
“Franklin Graham obviously thinks it is a war against Islam.”
H/T – WND
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aint gonna happen. moslim occupation of America is OVER. WE WILL SHED BLOOD FOR IT AND IT WILL BE THE BLOOD OF freedom, the blood of CHRISTIANS to defend our land.
Exactly, this is another attempt from Muslims to control americans, IT’S OVER, NO MORE!
Amen to that!✡✝
Our Constitution is a Judo/Christian law document and is NOT compatible with Islam. We WILL fight Islamic law to the end of time. It is time to NOT turn the other cheek to the Islamic aggressors and make them realize they cannot force their will on America.
We will not be Europe that surrender their country to these animals. CAIR is a terrorist organization and should be removed from this country. All refugees should be placed in a safe zone and return to their country of origin when the war is over .
Amen!!!!!
And we demand that CAIR drop the the groups Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. Both are designated terror groups.
Amen
How about take your butts out of our country and go back to your sandbox and then worship your demon Allah and do whatever the heck you want. We don’t want you here period.
Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a CAIR.
You DO NOT DEMAND ANYTHING HERE : HERE WE HAVE NO ” Rules Of Engagement ” or ” Geneva Convention ” to worry about , no politicians to tell us when or not and how . Now you ARE IN OUR YARD !
Cair makes demands on Trump? HAHAHAHA that’s a good one! I thought I read that wrong…..Well now, we the American people demand that President Trump remove you from our country and send you back to the muslim country of your choice, where you will feel comfortable and right at home, where you can practice your beloved Sharia Law, beat your wives, abuse your children and screw your goats…. Allah called, he said all believers are to return to Mecca.
Janet, SPOTON!!
I agree throw each and every one out! Have Ryan lead them home!!
janet you hit the nail head!!!!
Islam is not a religion . It is a government that makes laws that people must follow or die . The USA has a government already we don’t need 1 more .
I have a request for THE PRESIDENT ELECT, Let’s drop the members of Cair into Guantanamo, minus any frills previously allowed.
Right on karen!!!
And don’t forget the waterboarding!!!
Too bad. CAIR supports terrorists.
President Trump makes those decisions not the muslims.
I DON’T CAIR…..PACK UP YOUR TERRIOST A** AND HEAD BACK TO THE LAND OF SAND…..We are a nation under God .not Allah….smoke that and fake it home….
that’s comical….and coming from a guy whose religion openly calls for the death of all christians. Our ancestors would be so proud of us right now. SMH. Living proof that tolerance is not normally an asset.
It’s actually CAIR’s members who are ill informed, extremist, and run contrary to the U.S. Constitution. They feel that Christians have no right to share their religious beliefs with anyone, yet they openly express their hypocritical plan to force the U.S. to abandon it’s Constitution and become a highly repressed Sharia governed Muslum nation forever stuck in the 7th century. They are well known to be a subversive terrorist organization. As such, tgey and their ilk were banned from the U.S. in 1952. All of these nut jobs, including those who are converts born on American soil, shoukd be drop kicked into Saudi Arabia where they belong, and they should never again be allowed to enter the U.S. for any reason. We also need to go one step further and become energy independent, so we can cut these terrorist sponsoring nations off American and, hopefully, also European financial support. Cutting them off will have the effect liberals dream about, a forced redistribution of the wealth in these nations with their lawless elites and will kick start them back in the direction of rejoining the rest of the world in the 21st century.
Every reply that I have read are 100% right.I am proud of all your comments. Makes be proud to be an American!
I demand CAIR be declared a terrorist support organization and that all its members be place on the terror watch list……..
Yes to all of this. But one step further is to show up at their offices with signs. We need to gather as Americans and force the media to report our story on the ground.
The more they react like this the more we are going to vote for Trump in the next election…..
Muslim terrorism has been around since the days if Jefferson whim educated himself by reading the garbage Koran. They were pirates in them days, this is ridiculious, their beliefs are not at all aligned with Christian beliefs abd according to Our very own Constitution should not be allowed to settle in the US period. They are all here illegally and I want them gone asap!! I pray Trump honors our Constitution on this matter and removes their asses and put em back in the sandbox which they came from tryn to push their BS on us in Established America
Go F yourself Cair and go back to Satan’s sand box where u belong
CAIR is a TERRORIST Group with MAJOR TERRORIST ties AND the ONLY reason they are not recognized as such is because of a president that is at the VERY LEAST an ISLAMIST sympathizer AND an outspoken MUSLIM supporter. Any sane person would call him a Muslim since he did himself!
This is not the Obama White House… Who probably would have complied with CAIR. Not only will Rev Graham speak & Pray he will in the name of Jesus…and all the while in support of Israel. Cant think of anything that will piss CAIR other terror org. off more. Maybe they could have a plate of bacon hors d’oeuvres, too as the final touch.
islam is not a religion
sharia “law” is a list of Human Rights Violations
You don’t extend tolerance, inclusion, freedom of speech and religion, to a group that blatantly, violently, and unapologetically practices the opposite.
islam is Un-American.
No Refugees
Ban islam
Gitmo4BO
As for me, I’d rather see every CAIR member dropped…………with well placed .223 rounds!
Their days are numbered…….
We need to start our own CAIR:
Council on American islam REMOVAL
I’m alarmed (knowing what I know about these vermin and their dhimmi’s) that only one of the 6 is unsuitable for them. I know in the UK the church is for full on Islamification
Good luck goat humpers!!!
Who cares what “cairs” thinks or “demands” !
So, they can’t bear to have Franklin Graham as one of the clergy! Well this goes right along with Scripture in that Satan cannot tolerate the name of Jesus Christ or the power of even His name be uttered. Muslims are evil to the core. They embrace all that is evil and wicked. I say, thank God that Graham will be one of the clergy and to Jesus Christ be praise, honor and glory! Shake in your boots, Satan!
Amen Glory to God The creator of the heavens and the earth. I rebuke all of the cairs in the name of OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST . WE SHALL WALK ON SATAN AND SEND HIM STRIGHT TO HELL FROM WHERE HE COME FROM !!!!!! AMEN IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER THE SON AND THE HOLY GHOST !!!
Take your c.a.I.r back to Syria…This is our country..don’t like our ways or our religious beliefs then leave no one asked for you to be here..when you go against our beliefs and start trying to change things..then thats a good time for you to leave our country…your wasting your time and ours…America will fight you to your death…This is our country our beliefs and our roots..its in our constitution not to give into Muslims….so go the hell away..
I have a better idea. Let’s get rid of CAIR.