CAIR outraged by sheriff warning of 'Islamic jihadists'

Denton County, Texas, Sheriff Tracy Murphree (KDFW-TV, Dallas-Fort Worth)

After the Manchester terror attack in which 22 people were killed and 59 injured, a Texas sheriff urged the citizens under his watch to "pay attention" to what is happening in Europe, because the ideology behind the threat to the continent is active in the United States as well.

While many citizens of Denton County, north of Dallas, expressed appreciation for the warning by Sheriff Tracy Murphree, an Islamic group that regards itself as "moderate," casting its role in the U.S. as a defender of the civil rights of Muslims, expressed outrage, noted author Robert Spencer on his Jihad Watch blog.

The Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations issued a statement calling on Murphree "to reaffirm his pledge, and that of his officers, to serve and protect all Denton County residents regardless of their faith, ethnicity or national origin."

“We are concerned that someone obligated to provide equal justice for all holds such inaccurate, stereotypical and divisive views,” said CAIR-DFW Civil Rights Director Nikiya Natale.

CAIR, regarded by the FBI as a front group for Hamas, was named by the Justice Department as an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas-funding case and desginated by a Gulf Arab state as a terrorist organization.

Murphree posted his exhortation on Facebook Monday night.

"Pay attention to what you see in Manchester England tonight. Pay attention to what is happening in Europe. This is what happens when you disarm your citizens. When you open your borders without the proper vetting," he wrote.

The sheriff warned against allowing "political correctness to dictate how you respond to an enemy that wants to kill you."

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He said the left "tells us we must submit and accept these radical beliefs and bend over backwards to make sure we don’t hurt anybody’s feelings."

"Folks this is an enemy hell bent on killing you. Committed to forcing you to convert or die. This enemy will strap bombs to their own body and blow themselves up killing children. I’m sick of it. You better wake up America. While you are distracted by the media and the crying of the left, Islamic Jihadist are among us and want to kill you," Murphree wrote.

"What will it take? This happening at a concert in Dallas or a school in Denton County? If we don’t do something quick this country will die of political correctness and the fear that someone’s feelings may be hurt. It may very well be too late for Europe."

Murphree told the local NBC affiliate he stands behind his Facebook post.

"We need to be realistic about the world we live in," he said.

Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer commented that CAIR's response "is extremely odd, since ostensibly CAIR is a 'moderate' group that rejects all the acts committed by Muslims that Murphree enumerates as 'extremism' stemming from a 'hijacking' of the Islamic faith."

"Isn’t Hamas-linked CAIR against saying 'convert or die' to infidels, and treating women as property, and killing gays and women and Christians with impunity? Apparently not," said Spencer.

CAIR has sued the authors of a WND Books exposé, "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America," which documented the group's radical ties. A trial in the case is expected to commence this fall.

According to evidence entered in the Hamas terror-financing case, CAIR was founded by figures associated with Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, the worldwide movement that has stated its intent to transform the U.S. into an Islamic state. The Justice Department later designated CAIR as an unindicted co-conspirator in the case. More than a dozen CAIR leaders have been charged or convicted of terrorism-related crimes.

An FBI chart obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request shows connections between CAIR and Hamas.

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