CAIR Files FEC Complaint

Update: Guess there's no such thing as free speech in the Detroit Free Press anymore. They rejected the advert, too.

Not content that a growing number of newspapers are refusing to circulate an advert for the movie Obsession, the latest report indicates CAIR has filed an FEC complaint - link below. Evidently the saying of the word jihad prior to an election being politically incorrect isn't enough. CAIR wants to make it illegal, as well.

Despite the perilous state of American newspapers, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch advertising department took an ethical stand and refused to distribute the DVD of a film that for two years has troubled American Muslims.

The film, called “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West,” was distributed to an estimated 28 million people via 70 American newspapers, primarily in states crucial to the coming presidential election. The only other newspaper reported to have refused the DVD was the News & Record in Greensboro, NC.

This latest via MarketWatch. More at link.

WASHINGTON, DC, Sep 23, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today announced that it has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) over the distribution of an anti-Muslim film to 28 million homes in presidential election swing states.

The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is urging the FEC to investigate whether the Clarion Fund, a non-profit organization that distributed DVDs containing "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West," is really a front for an Israel-based group seeking to help Sen. John McCain win the U.S. presidential election. (No information about a board of directors, staff or even a physical address is offered on the fund's website.)

In its complaint to the FEC, CAIR wrote in part:

"The Clarion Fund recently financed the distribution of some 28 million DVDs containing the film 'Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West' in what many political analysts describe as 'swing' states in the upcoming presidential elections. Those same analysts say the distribution of the 'Obsession' DVD was designed to benefit a particular presidential candidate, namely Sen. John McCain...

Comments

[joeb]

I live in Va. and this DVD came in my mail or with the newspaper. I can't remember which but I watched it and thought it was very good.
People need to be reminded over and over we are in a holy war with radical Islamic terrorists. And they certainly consider themselves to be in a jihad against us.

[joeb]

If it came with my newspaper that means that it came with our Washington Post. Interesting that the Washington Post agreed to send it.

[dm60462]

At least CAIR came clean that they are shilling for Obama.

[dm60462]

And I just sent a PayPal donation to the Clarion Fund.

[SacTownMan]

A message for the Jihadist's at CAIR.

We will not forget 9/11 no matter how hard you try!

This documentary was well made and spot on. Does the truth hurt so much that you need to hide from the fact that there are millions of your fellow zealots that just happen to hate our guts!

How come I didn't get a copy? I keep getting those damn AOL CD's all of the time!

[Lala]

Has CAIR said exactly how this DVD helps McCain?

[Bleepless]

Has anyone approached ACLU? Odds are, they would swoon over the reactionaries, but it can't hurt to ask. Even if they said no, it would be a telling incident.

[seekeronos]

Obama would do better to distance himself from CAIR, especially if he wants to shake that Muslim connection which still sticks in the back of MANY people's minds.