CAIR regularly claims to speak for all Muslims in America -- over 8 million of them, depending on who you ask. They claim vast political power and use their claims of 8 million Muslims to bully local, state, and federal governments into doing their bidding. They use their claims when they are offended to claim that 8 million people are offended. But how many Muslims really actually support CAIR?

FrontPage magazine outlines the various factual arguments that support the idea that there are instead only 1-2 million Muslims in America, not 8+ million. CAIR doesn't care. They need to claim large numbers, so they can bully governments and businesses.

Even more telling, look at the numbers when it comes to those who actually support CAIR:

# An inspection of CAIR’s most recent publicly available IRS Form 990 (2004) shows for that year they received $119,029 in membership dues for that year (line 3). But at $25 per membership (the current rate is $35), that would mean that in 2004, CAIR only had 4,761 dues-paying members – less than 5,000 members out of 8 million Muslims in America. This would mean that CAIR only represents 1 out of every 1,680 Muslims. Even if a lower 6 million Muslim population figure were assumed, CAIR would still only be able to claim representation for 1 out of every 1,260 Muslims for that year.

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