Why Do Corporations and Other Entities Cave In To CAIR?

Why Do Corporations and Other Entities Cave In To CAIR?

In FrontPageMag, Daniel Pipes gives us several reasons why these and others "hustlers" are able to get the corporations to pay up.

First, to resist the Islamists means absorbing a public relations hit:
because image and reputation are so crucially important, big organizations are vulnerable to small interest groups with loud voices. No CEO wants his shareholders, his employees, his customers and his board of directors to pick up a newspaper and see a headline proclaiming that somebody is boycotting his company for being anti-Muslim.

Second (and conversely) touting one’s diversity virtues makes for positive publicity:
On the same day this week that the CIBC posted a record third-quarter loss on account of the Enron debacle -- $1.9-billion—it made room in its news release to remind people that in June, it celebrated Diversity Month for the 13th year.

Third, beyond the PR angle, looms the legal one.
In the United States, where laws are strict and juries tough, companies that lose discrimination suits in court can be forced to pay out millions. “Better to call me first than call the lawyer later,” Ms. Kaminsky said with a smile.

This disgraceful, but lucrative behavior is being used by others groups. According to Kenneth Timmerman in his book Shakedown, Jesse Jackson "developed this racket from practices on the mean streets of Chicago."

What began as street gangs intimidating local businesses ended up working with corporate boards and Wall Street. This practice has become a potent weapon in the United States and in other Western countries; Islamists are just getting started at it. Timmerman writes me that “Jackson turned the grievance industry into a lucrative money-maker for himself and his political machine; CAIR has clearly studied his tactics and is applying them with success.”

This is what political correctness and the multicultural ethos has brought us. We don't have a better society, we have fallen victims to those that simply want power and the means to wield it. It seems that we are to be at the mercy of groups and individuals we decide not to be.