CAIR Urges Adoption Of Law Defining Attacks On Jews As Self-Defense

“Muslims in the US cannot fulfill their sacred duty of dominating non-Muslims in the current political and legal environment.”

Washington, May 24 – A leading advocacy group for Muslims in the US has begun lobbying legislators in several states to support the ratification of an official definition of violence directed at Jews as self-defense, thus exempting such incidents from criminal prosecution or liability.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has contacted lawmakers in California, Michigan, Oregon, and Washington State, among others, in an effort to shield its constituency from what the group calls “harassment” by the authorities and from the “Islamophobia” that characterized law enforcement. As part of the effort, explained a spokesman, the organization is pushing for the adoption of new rules governing the definition of hate crimes and the categorization of violence, to allow Muslims and their allies among anti-Israel activists greater freedom of expression. If adopted there, CAIR will pursue the same in other states.

“We see a worrisome trend in law enforcement and criminal procedure against Muslims,” explained CAIR Deputy Director Itbah al-Yahud. “Legitimate reaction to Israeli crimes against Palestinians, in the form of verbal and physical assault of Jews and their sympathizers, has for too long been seen in criminal law as a violation of those Jews’ rights, when in fact the so-called perpetrators are performing a defensive act in the name of the oppressed people of Palestine. This new law, which we have drafted, would eliminate that injustice from the state of each legislature that adopts it.”

Al-Yahud further asserted that the culture informing the default assumption of attacking Jews as wrong lies behind existing procedure, and detracts from the priority the society should he pursuing: shutting down all criticism of Islam and Muslims, by means of making “Islamophobic” rhetoric and behavior a felony. “Muslims in the US cannot fulfill their sacred duty of dominating non-Muslims in the current political and legal environment,” he lamented. “This constitutes a grave breach of Muslims’ religious rights under the First Amendment. In a Republican-controlled Congress there is no hope of a Constitutional amendment to rectify the situation, but we can and must take the battle for these rights to the state government level where possible.”

Under the proposed law, not only would attacks on Jews be legally defined as acts of self-defense, but each state that adopts it would thereby slip a backdoor provision into Constitutional law by removing from Jews the designation as “person” vis-à-vis the foundational document’s prohibition against the deprivation of a person’s “life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”

“Numerous countries have enacted such provisions, especially in the Islamic world,” continued al-Yahud. “But not only there. Such stalwarts of Western civilization as Germany adopted a redefinition of humanity to exclude Jews a mere eight decades ago. There is no reason not to follow their example, most certainly when the rights of Muslims to observe Islam as we like it taught would thereby be enhanced.”

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