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While there's no doubt that, in the months to come, scores of writers will devote scores of articles and blog posts to commemorating the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, I'd like to observe a far less-remembered 10-year anniversary: the campaign waged by prominent U.S. Arab-American organizations to whitewash Muslim terror in the months preceding 9/11.
Obviously, this is not an anniversary that U.S. Arab and Muslim groups are eager to recall. But, as organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) have become more prominent (and vocal) in the years following 9/11, it might be instructive to examine how, in the months leading up to the worst attack on U.S. soil in the history of this nation, organizations like CAIR were doing their part to keep us less safe, and less informed.
I should start by noting that, in its official report, the nonpartisan 9/11 Commission took the U.S. media to task for downplaying the threat posed by Muslim terror in the years prior to 9/11. In the commission's view, the whitewashing and soft-peddling of the reality of Muslim terror directly helped put this country at risk.