I’d like to say this is unbelievable but unfortunately with CAIR it’s all too believable.

(IPT) — The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) campaign of discrediting critics reached a new low last week, when it called two Minneapolis activists “anti-Muslim” for their participation in a seminar which included a discussion about an Islamic terrorist group in Somalia.

Both Omar Jamal and Abdirizak Bihi are Muslims. But CAIR’s Minnesota chapter attacked them over their involvement with a seminar on Somali culture and their communities in America held Thursday in St. Paul. It was sponsored by the Center for Somalia History Studies, an organization founded earlier this year by former Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher.

The seminar, which cost $150 per person to attend, covered a wide array of topics including “Clans and Sub Clans”; “The Ethiopia Issue”; “Black Hawk Down”; “Youth Gangs”; “Transition to America” and “Somali Culture.”

One subject in particular incurred CAIR’s wrath. It was entitled, “Al Shabaab: An Islamic Extremist Terrorism Organization.” Al-Shabaab is an al-Qaida affiliate.

CAIR and nearly 30 other groups, ranging from the Minnesota chapter of the Muslim American Society to local mosques and Somali community organizations, complained that the description of al-Shabaab “fails to distinguish between Islam and terrorism.”

Minneapolis Star-Tribune columnist Jon Tevlin, who attended part of the conference, wrote that it “seemed like a pretty straight-forward history lesson.” An hour of the daylong presentation was dedicated to al-Shabaab, “but considering that 20 young Somali men have been lured from the Twin Cities to fight with the organization, it only seemed logical. Very little was about religion, and I saw no criticism of the Muslim religion, only of terrorist acts,” he added.