The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organization founded by Hamas to masquerade as a civil rights group, is whining again. Let us summarize. Bush promotes Islamophobia; the US has entered a war with Islam; terrorism can not be defeated; terrorism can not defeat the USA, it is but a minor nuisance; the chance of being killed by a terrorist is a minuscule 1 in 80,000; Bush has driven a wedge between Muslims and non-Muslims in America; the Administration is fear-mongering, but there is nothing to fear; America is mired in stereotypical denouncements of Islam; blah, blah, blah.

The bottom line? Don’t believe your lying eyes. Just because you see Muslims blowing up things and killing Infidels, does not absolve your ‘irrational’ fear of Muslims blowing up things. Read all about Parvez Ahmed’s seething at: CAIR blames White House for boosting ‘Islamophobia’.

A Muslim civil rights group yesterday blamed the Bush administration for promoting “Islamophobia” and said the “war on terror” won’t stop terrorists.

“The new perception is that the United States has entered a war with Islam itself,” said Parvez Ahmed, chairman of the national board of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

“Terrorism is a tactic. You cannot eradicate it by declaring a war against it. The war on terror is causing us infinitely more harm than the terrorists could have ever imagined.”

Mr. Ahmed, who spoke at a CAIR symposium at the National Press Club, said the war against terrorists is driven by an “irrational” fear that the Bush administration has inculcated in the American public. The chance of being killed in a terrorist attack, he said, is 1 in 80,000 over a lifetime.

“It is important to bear in mind that terrorists cannot destroy America,” he said, appearing on a panel discussing the symposium theme, “Attacking Islam: Implications for Social Cohesion and U.S. Relations with the Muslim World.” The U.S., he said, is too powerful and too resourceful for terrorists to defeat.

The Bush administration’s policies in Iraq have driven a deep wedge between Muslims and non-Muslims in the United States, he said.

The most interesting aspect of the story was the Administration’s reaction. They demonstrated the kind of cowardice that the Conservative base finds most repulsive. They issued a denial and groveled.

Kate Starr, a spokesman at the National Security Council, late yesterday refuted the CAIR accusation that the Bush administration foments or encourages anti-Islam sentiment, saying “this administration has worked hard to improve mutual understanding and cooperation between America and people in Muslim countries and to foster dialogue and friendship among U.S. communities of different faiths.”

She called this a point the president “underscored in his recent remarks at the Islamic Center of Washington.”