Thanks to the hard work of Joe Kaufman with American’s Against Hate, CAIR (or the Council on American Islamic Relations) will not be speaking to CENTCOM on January 17th as was originally planned. The Executive Director of the Tampa branch of CAIR, Ahmed Badier, was scheduled to speak on topics such as jihad, martyrdom and dhimmitude (serving as a non-Muslim under Muslim rule).

The speaking event was originally uncovered by Michael Savage on his website and radio program and Kaufman took it from there. He reminded the leaders of CENTCOM that CAIR and Badier have close ties to terrorist and have even been under investigation for financing it. The email said in part:

“[I]t would be wrong for CENTCOM to host Ahmed Bedier from CAIR this coming Tuesday, given CAIR’s extensive ties to terrorist organizations… Please reconsider allowing Mr. Bedier to speak to your personnel on Tuesday the 15th or anytime in the future. CENTCOM should be fighting terrorists, not embracing their friends.”

Great work to Kaufman and shame on Admiral Fallon for even considering this. If we are going to fight a war on terrorism, lets fight to win.