The Council on American-Islamic Relations, described as the largest Muslim charity in the United States, attributed the Sept. 11 terror attacks to America’s “support of Israel” and accused the country of promoting “state-sponsored Islamophobia” after 9/11, according to back-to-school materials that have since been removed.
The embattled nonprofit published its annual “Back to school resource guide” for K-12 students on Monday, including a link to material containing the inflammatory assertions. By the following day, the linked content had been inexplicably taken down.
Screenshots obtained by The Post show the 16-page guide directed readers to a page claiming the devastating Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 Americans, were carried out not by Islamic terrorists but by a “group self-identifying as Al Quaeda hailing from the mountains of Afghanistan.”
The deleted school material, titled “Muslim Studies Curriculum,” said the deadliest terror attack ever committed on US soil was driven by America’s “support of Israel,” while also citing US involvement in the Persian Gulf War and the “vast presence” of American military forces across the Middle East.
CAIR’s material further claimed the US response to 9/11 produced an “aggressive shift in US domestic and foreign policy,” fueling the War on Terror in the Middle East and contributing to an “erosion of civil liberties of many Americans.”
“While Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism existed long before the 9/11 attacks, this time period marked a stark shift in US policy and state sponsored Islamophobia in the US and abroad. There was immediate backlash against anyone perceived to be Muslim” wearing traditional garb, the material stated.
The guide also suggested Muslims were unfairly singled out by the media, contrasting that treatment with “white supremacists” and “extreme animal rights activists,” who it claimed did not face the same backlash when they used “violence to further their cause.”
Nicholas Haros Jr., whose mother, Frances, was killed in the Sept. 11 attacks, said he was disgusted by what he called “evil propaganda,” though he was not surprised.
“Israel had nothing to do with 9/11,” said the outspoken kin who once blasted Rep. Ilhan Omar for her callous remarks that “some people did something” on that evil day.
“The further we get from 9/11, this new generation of kids will learn to blame our country. These kids are going to be poisoned – and that’s the intent.”
While glibly glossing over the Islamic terror responsible for the devastation of 9/11, CAIR, considered the largest Muslim civil rights group in the US, shifted focus to the aftermath, which led to “the rise in hate crimes and discrimination against American Muslim and perceived- Muslim communities.”
School lessons about 9/11 can create “a particularly dangerous time for Muslim students,” who “often experience a surge in bullying during school lessons about 9/11,” according to a press release from the beleaguered group, which has been designated a foreign terrorist organization in both Texas and Florida.
CAIR’s student resource recommendations included Osama bin Laden’s sick manifesto, “Letter to America.”
The 9/11 terror mastermind outrageously asserted, “Your law is the law of the rich and wealthy people, who hold sway in their political parties, and fund their election campaigns with their gifts. Behind them stand the Jews, who control your policies, media and economy.”
The guide distorted the origins of bin Laden, painting the arch terrorist as a one-time ally of the US in the same fight for Afghanistan against the 1980s invasion by the Soviet Union. Among the courageous “rebels” was a “man named Osama bin Laden,” who with the “people later formed the Taliban,” read a glowing description.
The movie “V for Vendetta,” about “a young woman living in a dystopian society meets a shadowy freedom fighter who is plotting to overthrow their tyrannical government,” is part of the recommended background resources.
The school guide also defended introducing foreign issues in school as a catalyst to “promote understanding.”
While ignoring the atrocities of the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7 2023, that killed 1,200 Israelis, including dozens of children, the CAIR guide also addressed how to talk to kids about “genocide” and Gaza.
When reached by The Post about whether it stands by the 9/11 document, CAIR didn’t deny pulling the hyperlink, and referred The Post to an attached note that vaguely explained changes to an earlier document.
Jewish community leaders are outraged.
“CAIR just nationalized a curriculum that refuses to call the 9/11 hijackers terrorists, assigns Osama bin Laden’s ‘Letter to America’ as high-school reading, and coaches five-year-olds on Gaza without ever naming Hamas or October 7. That is not inclusion – it’s dangerous propaganda,” railed Moshe Spern, President of United Jewish Teachers to The Post.
Founded in 1993, CAIR was linked to Hamas in 2008 when US authorities successfully prosecuted five leaders at the Holy Land Foundation For Relief and Development, a now-defunct Texas-based nonprofit, for giving more than $12 million from the US to the terror group.
