Jonathan Last of The Weekly Standard noticed C.A.I.R.’s polling anomalies, too:

[…]At best, these polls are like parlor games — a way for the regular devotees of a site to get to know one another better, at worst they are tools for demagoguing — something CAIR is expert at. In fact CAIR has an entire section of their website devoted to ‘Action Alerts’ where they inform their viewers to mass e-mail people who say things they find objectionable. They give out e-mail addresses and telephone numbers and encourage people to swamp elected officials and members of the media.

In its mission statement CAIR says that they are ‘dedicated to presenting an Islamic perspective on issues of importance to the American public.’ And with their little poll fiasco, they’ve certainly given us all a lesson in the ‘Islamic perspective.’

Outstanding, Mr. Last. Which reminds me: The Weekly Standard needs a blog.

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