“Ethnic cleansing always begins with cultural cleansing. Before the
holocaust, it was putting restrictions on Jewish literature, monuments,
and synagogues. Now, it’s putting restrictions on America’s past.”

“Muslims know that if they can destroy our monuments, they can destroy
our culture. The statues of Robert E. Lee and his confederate soldiers
serve as a reminder of the past—they remind us of the millions of men
who shed blood during the civil war. It is a part of our heritage.

Whether or not you agree with the actions of the South is beyond the
point. Monuments serve to honor our history and to protect our
culture—and the Muslim organization CAIR just announced that they want
every single one torn down.”

 

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Besides removing supposed temptations to idolatry, Islamic
supremacists want to ruin the artifacts of non-Muslim civilizations
because doing so testifies to the truth of Islam, as the Qur’an suggests
that ruins are a sign of Allah’s punishment of those who rejected his
truth:

Many were the Ways of Life that have passed away before
you: travel through the earth, and see what was the end of those who
rejected Truth. (Qur’an 3:137)

This is one of the foundations of the Islamic idea that pre-Islamic civilizations, and non-Islamic civilizations, are all jahiliyya
— the society of unbelievers, which is worthless trash. Obviously this
cuts against the idea of having some historical memory and respect for
where we have been as an aid to understanding and guiding where we may
be going. The non-Muslim past is to be regarded solely with disgust and
contempt, and the memory of it erased.

This impulse is yet another element of the alliance of Muslims such
as those of Hamas-linked CAIR and Leftists. Both demonize all
disagreement and dissent from their positions,  and do not debate their
opponents, but instead defame them as morally evil. And in this call
from Nihad Awad, Hamas-linked CAIR joins the Left in wanting all traces
that anyone ever thought differently from the acceptable current
orthodoxy be forever effaced.

“Council on American-Islamic Relations: Tear Down Every Confederate Memorial,” by Eric Owens, Daily Caller, August 15, 2017:

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR),
America’s largest Muslim civil rights group, is calling on state and
local governments all over the United States to tear down all monuments
and memorials commemorating Confederate leaders and the short-lived
Confederate States of America.

CAIR joined several groups asking for the removal of Confederate
memorials in the wake of a “Unite the Right” white supremacist rally
that turned violent over the weekend. At the Charlottesville, Va. rally,
James Alex Fields, a rally attendee, allegedly plowed his grey Dodge
Challenger through a large group of people on a pedestrian mall. One
woman, Heather Heyer, died in the incident. About 20 other people
suffered injuries.

Nihad Awad, CAIR’s national executive director, urged state and local
governments to erase every symbol and every vestige of Confederate
history immediately.

“A fitting response to the deadly terror attack on anti-racist
protesters in Charlottesville would be for officials in states and
cities nationwide to immediately announce that every street, every
school, every flag, and every public memorial honoring those who took up
arms in defense of white supremacy and slavery will be removed or have
its name changed to instead honor those who fought for civil rights,”
Awad said in a statement to The Daily Caller.

“Removal of these memorials would be a small step forward in turning
the page on the darkest period in our nation’s history,” Awad also said.

CAIR has created a template
for state governments, municipal governments and school district
officials to use for introducing resolutions seeking the removal of
Confederate memorials and other symbolism….

On Monday evening, a group of protestors toppled a monument to Confederate soldiers in Durham, North Carolina….

In 2009, CAIR was listed by the U.S. government as an unindicted co-conspirator in a scheme that provided funding to the terror group Hamas.