YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE THIS – AT 6:10 P.M. ET:  At a time when we're concerned about extremism, volatile speech, and potential violence, this story appears.  It's from Fox News.  I'd love to know if anyone else will have the guts to run it:

The Council on American-Islamic Relations said it will remove a poster from the group's website promoting an upcoming conference that encourages people not to talk to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The poster, which appeared on the website of CAIR’s California chapter, features a sinister-looking FBI agent with the headlines “Build a Wall of Resistance” and “Don’t Talk to the FBI.” The poster was designed in the late 1970s or early 1980s and has been reproduced by various groups and activists since then in response to alleged harassment by the FBI and to protest grand jury subpoenas.

“I think it’s subject to misinterpretation,” spokesman Ibrahim Hooper told Fox News Radio when speaking about the poster. “We decided out of extreme caution to take it down.”

The poster was promoting a conference called “FBI Raids and Grand Jury Subpoenas: Know Your Rights and Defend Our Communities.” The keynote speaker is Hatem Abudayyeh, identified by CAIR as an activist and Palestinian community leader whose home was allegedly raided by federal agents in September.

The conference is scheduled for Feb. 9 at the East Side Cultural Center in Oakland.

Hooper conceded the poster “crosses the line,” but refused to renounce the artwork and blamed critics for fomenting what he called a manufactured controversy.

COMMENT:  Manufactured controversy?  Really?  A poster tells Muslims not to cooperate with law enforcement, when human life might be at stake, and that's a manufactured controversy?

I suppose the usual suspects will crawl out of the woodwork to denounce those who protested the poster as "Islamophobic," but it won't wash. 

By the way, CAIR is often described by the fashion plates of the mainstream media as "moderate."  Remarkable, isn't it?

January 13, 2011