UPDATE: Thanks to American Thinker and LGF for the plugs today!Welcome to everybody joining us today from my article at FrontPage this morning, "CAIR by the Numbers", which also could have been titled, "The Incredible Shrinking CAIR". If you're here for the first time, be sure to check out the blog for Central Ohioans Against Terrorism (COAT).
The article today has a number of tasty statistical tid-bits about our favorite Islamist organization, but here's the jist:
But their new 2006 Annual Report and their recently posted 2005 IRS Form 990 shows that CAIR continues to hemorrhage members. Whereas my estimates for 2004 showed that based on their membership receipts in that period they had approximately 4,761 dues-paying members, in 2005 their membership plummeted dramatically to an estimated 2,615. This puts CAIR on the same comparative membership level as the American Indian Kaw Nation in Kansas, the Cleveland Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, the Society for News Design, the University of Texas Longhorn Alumni Band, and the South Dakota chapter of the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB), none of whom are consulted near as frequently by Beltway politicians or sought after for comment by the media establishment as CAIR.
The steep decline in CAIR membership is directly correlated in membership receipts (line 3 of the Form 990), which dropped off from $119,029 in 2004 to $65,377 – a decrease of $53,652, or almost half (45 percent) of the previous year’s membership revenues. If this trend continues at the same pace, their 2006 Form 990 numbers will show $29,419 in membership revenues, representing only 1,177 members, roughly comparable to the membership of the Genealogical Society of Rockingham County, Virginia and the Garden Club of Tacoma, Washington – neither of which has a Washington DC lobbying office.
In a previous post, "CAIR and all that", I linked to some of my previous articles on CAIR, but here's an updated list of CAIR-related pieces:
CAIR’s Grievance Theater, the Flying Imams and 9/11 (04/18/07) Did a previous CAIR lawsuit indirectly aid the 9/11 terrorists?
CAIR’s Blood Money (03/13/07) CAIR-OH hosts an unindicted co-conspirator of the 1993 WTC Bombing as its annual fundraiser banquest keynote speaker.
Numbers Don’t Lie (02/12/07) Reality doesn't quite measure up to CAIR's propaganda.
CAIR Betting on Democrats (10/27/06) Islamists put their money where their ideology is.
Agence France Presse Pushes CAIR's Fake Hate Crime Numbers (09/04/06)
CAIR, Assault and Videotape? (08/08/06) CAIR's version of "free speech".
Kafir-phobia: Americans as Violent Anti-Muslim Bigots (08/31/06) CAIR indulges in the very bigotry they attribute to others.
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1 comments:
Patrick- I think you are on to something here I posted at LGF some thoughts on the subject
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=25606#c0745
LGF friend Patrick Poole shines a bright beam of light on CAIR.
Fact 1- CAIR has less than 2700 dues paying members down almost 50% in a year!
Fact 2- This means CAIR's core support from its own constituents is way down. Either they don't represent the people they claim to represent or their target community disagrees with what they are doing.
POINT 1- With such a small membership, and CAIR is such a BIG organization (it seems to have as many employees as members!) WHERE DO THEY GET THEIR MONEY? If the members are not not supporting these characters, who is?
POINT 2- Follow the money and count noses- it is almost humanly impossible for CAIR to be as active as they are without a lot more money than they are claiming to have. They have about 40 offices all over the country plus their DC office. Offices require two things- a building and people to staff them.
Assuming an average $20,000 in rent for each non DC office and at least 2 $30000 staffers, upi have a budget of $3.2 million not counting phones, computers, printing, legal etc. Their budget would not be out of place for just their DC based advocacy operations.
Is CAIR committing fraud in its filings to the US government? On the face of these facts and their own admissions, one would be inclined to at least question how much money they are actually taking in and how much they are spending.
I have been around non-profit organizations all my life and can state with certainty that CAIR's report looks false on its face.
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