CAIR Condemns Pentagon's Use of Dangerous Anti-Muslim 'Holy War' Rhetoric to Justify ...

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned the Pentagon’s use of dangerous anti-Muslim “holy war rhetoric” to justify bombing Iran.

One commander reportedly told non-commissioned officers at a briefing that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that President Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth.”

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CAIR also noted that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently referred to “crazy regimes like Iran, hell-bent on prophetic Islamic delusions.”

In a statement, Washington, D.C., based CAIR said:

“Every American should be deeply disturbed by the ‘holy war’ rhetoric that Secretary Hegseth, Benjamin Netanyahu and even some U.S. military commanders are reportedly using to justify the war on Iran.

“We are not surprised to see Benjamin Netanyahu once again using the biblical story of Amalek – which claims that God commanded the Israelites to murder every man, woman, child and animal in a pagan nation that attacked them – to justify Israel’s mass murder of civilians in Iran, just as it did in Gaza. It is even more unacceptable for U.S. officials and military commanders to embrace similarly dangerous rhetoric, which risks turning this illegal and deadly war into a religious war.

“Mr. Hegseth’s derisive comments about ‘Islamist prophetic delusions,’ an apparent reference to Shia beliefs about religious figures arising near the end times, was unacceptable. So is U.S. military commanders telling troops that war with Iran is a biblical step towards Armageddon.

“This illegal war must end, and so must the dangerous religious rhetoric that everyone from Pete Hegseth to Benjamin Netanyahu is using to justify it.”

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Reuters/Ipsos poll shows that only 25 percent of Americanssupport the U.S. strikes on Iran.]

Yesterday, CAIR and CAIR Action, one of the nation’s leading Muslim political organizations, released a pre-election primary survey of 1,086 registered Muslim voters from four states –** Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina, and Texas** – showing high expected turnout among Muslim voters, overwhelming opposition to a new U.S. war in the Middle East, strong disapproval of President Donald Trump, and broad unwillingness to vote for candidates who deny that genocide has occurred in Gaza.

CAIR is encouraging all Americans to contact the White House and their members of Congress to demand an end to the Trump administration’s “unnecessary, unjustified, and unconstitutional” regime-change war launched against Iran for Israel’s benefit.

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TELL CONGRESS: NO U.S. WAR WITH IRAN

Last week, CAIR urged all Americans to contact their members of Congress and demand support for the bipartisan Khanna–Massie War Powers Resolution to block President Trump from launching an unauthorized war against Iran.

Last year, CAIR also condemned Israel’s unilateral offensive strikes on Iran and called on the Trump administration to immediately halt all U.S. weapons transfers and military aid to the Netanyahu government.

CAIR previously issued a statement warning President Trump that the Netanyahu government’s insistence that the U.S. adopt a “zero-enrichment” demand in negotiations was meant to scuttle the talks and lead to war, which is exactly what happened.

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CONTACT: CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell, 404-285-9530, [email protected]; CAIR Government Affairs Director Robert McCaw, 202-742-6448, [email protected]; CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-744-7726, [email protected]; CAIR National Communications Manager Ismail Allison, 202-770-6280, [email protected]