The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned an official Israeli government call to “remove” Muslims from Europe as another part of that terror state’s “war on Islam.”
In a post on its Arabic account, the Israeli government wrote in part: “In the year 1980, there were only fewer than a hundred mosques in Europe. As for today, there are more than 20 thousand mosques. This is the true face of colonization. And this is what is happening while Europe is oblivious and does not care about the danger…Europe must wake up and remove this fifth column.” See screenshot.
SEE: Israeli Government Social Media Urges Europe to ‘Remove’ Muslims
CAIR has in the past condemned other aspects of Israel’s war on Islam such as destruction of and attacks mosques, banning the Islamic call to prayer and desecration of the Quran, Islam’s revealed text.
In a statement, CAIR said:
“This dehumanizing and openly genocidal rhetoric by the Israeli government is just the latest example of its ongoing war on Islam. It is not only Islamophobic — it is dangerous. To label millions of peaceful Muslims in Europe as a ‘fifth column’ that must be ‘removed’ echoes some of the darkest chapters of modern history.
“It is further evidence that Israel’s war crimes against Palestinians are not isolated acts of violence, but part of a broader ideological war against Islam and Muslims globally.
“We call on all governments, human rights organizations, faith leaders, and people of conscience to unequivocally condemn this incitement to religious hatred, and to reject any attempts to scapegoat Muslim communities in Europe or anywhere else. Silence in the face of such hateful rhetoric is complicity.”
Yesterday, CAIR joined more than 100 U.S. faith-based, human rights, and civil rights organizations in sending a joint letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio calling for urgent action to secure the release of Mohammed Ibrahim, a 16-year-old Palestinian-American from Florida who has been unjustly imprisoned by Israel since February.
Earlier this week, CAIR welcomed a decision by Norway’s $2 trillion wealth fund, the world’s largest, to divest from construction equipment manufacturer Caterpillar and from five Israeli banking groups over Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
CAIR also said Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee’s statements to rabbis confuse his personal religious beliefs with U.S. foreign policy, “violate the separation of church and state and dangerously weaponize accusations of antisemitism to shield Israel and the United States from accountability for the genocide in Gaza.”
Washington, D.C., based CAIR called the Israeli military a “terrorist organization” after Israel slaughtered at least 20 people, including five journalists, in a “double tap” strike on Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza in which one bombing was followed by another to kill first responders – the so-called “double tap.”
Last week, CAIR said that the United Nations official declaration that a man-made famine is occurring in Gaza “must mark the end” of the complicity of the Trump administration and Congress in the Israeli government’s ongoing and escalating genocide.
CAIR’s mission is to protect civil rights, enhance understanding of Islam, promote justice, and empower American Muslims.
La misión de CAIR es proteger las libertades civiles, mejorar la comprensión del Islam, promover la justicia, y empoderar a los musulmanes en los Estados Unidos.
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