Critics of CAIR have accused it of pursuing an Islamist agenda. CAIR denies these allegations. Zuhdi Jasser, a physician and Republican politician in Arizona, has criticized CAIR and argued that its agenda is focused on "victimization". Best-selling author and prominent critic of Islam, Sam Harris, criticized CAIR by saying the organization is "an Islamist public relations firm posing as a civil-rights lobby".Sam Harris: Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks . The Huffington Post. Retrieved on March 19, 2011.
Critics of CAIR have accused it of pursuing an Islamist agenda. CAIR denies these allegations. Zuhdi Jasser a physician and Republican politician in Arizona, has criticized CAI,R and argued that its agenda is focused on "victimization". Best-selling author and prominent critic of Islam, Sam Harris, criticized CAIR by saying the organization is "an Islamist public relations firm posing as a civil-rights lobby".Sam Harris: Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks . The Huffington Post. Retrieved on March 19, 2011.