(IPT) The news was so disturbing it could not go without a comment from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Auburn University’s men’s basketball team was about to embark on a 10-day trip to Israel.
They’d play some games and hold clinics with Israeli and Palestinian children. Coach Bruce Pearl emphasized the historical places the team would visit, including “where Jesus was born.” Players who wanted to would be baptized in the Jordan River just as Jesus was.
CAIR issued a statement saying the trip was a “propaganda junket … clearly designed to normalize Israeli apartheid and racial segregation” and should be canceled.
CAIR chose to make a statement about the basketball team. But when a world-renowned author is attacked on stage by an apparent radical Shia Muslim, 33 years after the Shiite Iranian theocracy issued a fatwa calling for his murder, CAIR has had little to say.
