After years of allowing its branches to collaborate with leftists on issues related to sexuality, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is standing with conservative parents in Maryland to rally for the right to opt their children out of “LGBT” teachings they deem objectionable.
This latest development reflects a more general trend in U.S. Islamism, in which there is an increasing tendency for Islamists to partner with conservatives. Islamists now pretending to support traditional family values. CAIR leaders and other Islamists are moving away from the previous tendency to pander to leftist and “progressive” opinion for tactical reasons. Yet, as may be seen below, the situation remains in flux with some elements at the local level continuing the trend of pandering to local progressives, even as CAIR’s national leadership appears to be more openly advocating Islamist positions regarding the “LGBT” issue.
CAIR also has a close relationship with Qatar, which has given CAIR hundreds of thousands in funding. Qatar criminalizes same-sex activity with up to seven-year prison sentences, with reports of severe beatings and forced conversion therapy sessions.
CAIR’s national leaders have a history of harsh statements towards “LGBT” Americans and maintain close relationships with those who call for violence—advocating the burning of “LGBT” friendly mosques and the death penalty for homosexuals in Muslim countries.
“Don’t let CAIR’s varied, incompatible, and incoherent positions on the recent gender and LGBT debate convince you to believe that they are somehow of diverse ideology,” Jasser said “Actually, quite the contrary. It only proves that their political alignments in America and the West are simply fabricated window dressing for a Western audience. Islamism gives them the room to dissimulate publicly, and for those who don’t they pretend to take the contrarian side in American politics.”
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