CAIR blamed 9/11 on US support for Israel, recommended bin Ladens writings in back-to-school guide: Evil propaganda

Council on American-Islamic Relations, the US’s largest Muslim charity, blamed the 9/11 terror attacks on the country’s “support of Israel” and accused it of “state-sponsored Islamophobia” in its aftermath, according to since-deleted back-to-school material.The embattled nonprofit released its annual “Back to school resource guide” for K-12 students Monday, containing a link outlining the outrageous claims – but it was inexplicably yanked a day later.Screenshots obtained by The Post show the 16-page guide linked to a page that claimed the devastating Sept.11, 2001, attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans were masterminded not by Islamic terrorists but a “group self-identifying as Al Quaeda hailing from the mountains of Afghanistan.”The since-deleted school material — titled “Muslim Studies Curriculum” — said the worst terror attack on American soil was justified because of the US’s “support of Israel” – and blamed America’s involvement in the Persian Gulf War and the “vast presence” of the military across the Middle East.CAIR also blamed the US’s response for an “aggressive shift in US domestic and foreign policy” that sparked the Middle East’s War on Terror and 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, it said.Muslims were unfairly targeted by the media, the guide suggested — drawing a contrast to “white supremacists” or “extreme animal rights activists” who were purportedly spared backlash when they also used “violence to further their cause,” read the outrageous claim.Nicholas Haros Jr., who lost his mother, Frances, on 9/11 was disgusted but not shocked by the “evil propaganda.”“Israel had nothin...