No wonder I cannot stand any of the Arab-American or Muslim-American organizations. Not only due to my ideological disagreements with them (most of them share the conservative social and cultural agenda of George W. Bush after all, and many bragged about campaigning for him in the last election--not that I support the Democrats mind you), but also due to their silly PR ways. Just today, one such organization, CAIR, issued a statement (I read the Arabic version) in which it calls on the US forces to end the fighting around Imam `Ali mosque because it is bad for the "image of the US in the Arab world." I kid you not. Civilians are being killed in Iraq and CAIR is worried about the US image in the Middle East. Such priorities.