Thanks to all the good people at @CAIR_Columbus for their invitation to this great event! As in the spring, and so now again, @MikeDeWine’s absence was noticeable and disrespectful of Ohio’s diverse communities. https://t.co/NobWadkFd5 — Rich Cordray (@RichCordray) August 27, 2018

The Left’s normalizing of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is a principal sign of the myopia and short-sightedness of our age. And the Right is just as culpable, by never making this an issue. Cordray is rebuking DeWine for not showing up; DeWine should be rebuking Cordray for showing up. Cordray’s appearance at this CAIR event should be an issue, a scandal, an outrage. But DeWine almost certainly will not do this. And why not?

Cordray should have refused CAIR’s invitation and called on the others to do so. CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR officials have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements about how Islamic law should be imposed in the U.S. (Ahmad denies this, but the original reporter stands by her story.) CAIR chapters frequently distribute pamphlets telling Muslims not to cooperate with law enforcement. CAIR has opposed virtually every anti-terror measure that has been proposed or implemented and has been declared a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates. A CAIR operative recently called for the overthrow of the U.S. government.

And all that is apparently fine with Richard Cordray.