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1. Illhan Omar to a CAIR fundraiser: “CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something, and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.”
False. CAIR was founded in 1994. How can she not know this?
nypost.com/2019/04/10/dan…
False. CAIR was founded in 1994. How can she not know this?
nypost.com/2019/04/10/dan…
2. CAIR was heavily involved in American Muslim politics in 1997-2000, was part of a group that backed George W. Bush, & did media outreach with surveys of Muslim voters in 2000 meforum.org/13/how-did-mus… 
3. CAIR was already well-known enough by November 2001 to be controversial & even a basis for liberal criticism of Bush newrepublic.com/article/83799/… & washingtonpost.com/archive/politi…
4. It's one thing to be ignorant of people & groups outside your own tribe or your own corner of the world, but it is really staggering to be that wrong about the recent history of the very organization you're speaking to, which you see as a representative of your own community.
