The leader of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) laid out a plan to elect at least 40 members of the group to Congress in the next 10 years.
In a recent sermon reported by MEMRI, CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad said, “We can have in ten years, at least 40-50 members of Congress, in the U.S. Congress.”
He claimed that the United States has “deeply rooted” Islamophobia “in culture, in academia, in Hollywood, in the portrayal of Islam.”
“For hundreds of years, Islam has been denigrated, the Prophet has been smeared and defamed in books and textbooks that were taught in public schools, that Allah be praised, we have been working to eliminate and change,” he said.
Awad urged Muslims to be “scientific,” meaning that culture has created ideas, films, and attitudes “designed to portray you as the villain.”
“If we commit to do this, four years from now, the Muslim community will have 4,000 new journalists, we will have 4,000 filmmakers, 4,000 lawyers, 4,000 students of political science, 4,000 students of history. The next year we will have another 4,000,” he said. These people will “design our image, they will protect the truth and the news, most likely many of these people will run for public office and they will become lawmakers.”
Following the October 7 attack on Israel, CAIR released a statement in support of the “Palestinian people’s right to freedom and calling for an end to the Israeli occupation.”
