Right On The Right

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, which Governor Strickland was more than willing to meet with, has a record of supporting terrorism. Former Senator Fred Thompson knows this, and in his most recent editorial, he was more than willing to get tough on them:

CAIR's dues-paying membership has shrunk 90 percent since 9/11 -- from 29,000 in 2000 to only 1,700 last year. CAIR's annual income from dues plunged from $733,000 to $59,000. Clearly, America's Muslims are not supporting this group -- and I'm happy to hear about it.

Of course, every silver lining seems to have a cloud; and this cloud is that CAIR's spending is running about $3 million a year. They’ve opened 25 new chapters in major cities across the country even as their dues shrank to a pittance. The question is; who’s funding CAIR?

CAIR's not saying. The New York Times earlier this year reported that the backing is from "wealthy Persian Gulf governments" including the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Obviously, we have a bigger problem here than the one with CAIR.

I think we need to start tracing the financial trail farther back, past the terrorists and the front organizations, and to the men and women making the decisions in foreign governments. If the Saudis, our supposed allies, are funneling cash to groups funneling it to terrorists, we need to step up and play hardball with them, even if it means risking an alliance. CAIR is only one Islamofascist group involved in the problem.