Cair Membership Falls 90% Since 9/11 ; Critics Hit Inability to Condemn Muslim Terrorist Organizations
The Washington Times › June 12, 2007
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Membership in the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has declined more than 90 percent since the 2001 terrorist attacks, according to tax documents obtained by The Washington Times.
The number of reported members spiraled down from more than 29,000 in 2000 to fewer than 1,700 in 2006. As a result, the Muslim rights group's annual income from dues dropped from $732,765 in 2000, when yearly dues cost $25, to $58,750 last year, when the group charged $35.See the full content of this document
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Cair Membership Falls 90% Since 9/11 ; Critics Hit Inability to Condemn Muslim Terrorist Organizations
The organization instead is relying on about two dozen donors a year to contribute the majority of the money for CAIR's budget, which reached nearly $3 million last year.
Asked about the decline, Parvez Ahmed, CAIR's board chairman, pointed to the number of donors."We are proud that our grass-roots support in the American Muslim community has allowed CAIR to grow from having ...See the full content of this document
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