The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) ST. Louis is holding a media event on July 23, 2014 at The Seven Gables Inn in St. Louis, Missouri.  The CAIR St. Louis web page states the following regarding the event. 

• The Ramadan Iftar Press Dinner is an annual event hosted by the St. Louis Chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR-St. Louis). The purpose of this event is get members of the press and local Muslim leaders in the same room once a year. During the program CAIR-St. Louis representatives share unique advice on how to cover Islam, the American Muslim community, build contacts within local Muslim leaders, discuss trends on how the media portrays Islam, pitch insightful story ideas, and share Ramadan through breaking of the fast (iftar) and dinner.
• (This program is only open to members of the press and representatives of the Muslim community.)

Here's why many American’s are concerned about CAIR’s history and agenda:

• Omar Ahmad, Chairman and founder of the Council on American Islamic Relations, told a Muslim crowd Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.   At the Islamic Association of Palestine’s third annual convention in Chicago in November 1999, Omar Ahmad gave a speech at a youth session praising suicide bombers who kill themselves for Islam.  Fighting for freedom, fighting for Islam — that is not suicide. They kill themselves for Islam, he said.
• Nihad Awad, CAIR Executive Director, said I am in support of the Hamas movement.
• Mustafa Carroll, executive director of the Dallas-Fort Worth CAIR branch, told a crowd at a Muslim rally in Austin, Texas in 2013 If we are practicing Muslims, we are above the law of the land.
• CAIR pressured the FBI in June 2013 to stop their Most Wanted advertising campaign which helped the FBI gain information regarding the whereabouts of dangerous terrorists.  The list of CAIR officials who have made apologetic comments in the public regarding terrorists is quite extensive.
• The Council on American Islamic Relations is vigorously fighting bills in twenty state legislatures that would prohibit courts from considering provisions of foreign laws including Sharia if they are inconsistent with the United States and state constitutions.  Sharia law is antithetical to the rights and liberties afforded under the United States Constitution.
• Ghassan Elashi, founder of CAIR’s Texas chapter, in 2009 received a 65-year prison sentence for funneling over $12 million from the Islamic charity known as the Holy Land Foundation to the jihad terrorist group Hamas, which is responsible for murdering hundreds of Israeli civilians.
• Mousa Abu Marzook, a former CAIR official, was in 1995 designated by the U.S. government in 1995 as a “terrorist and Hamas leader.” He now is a Hamas leader in Syria.
• Randall Royer, CAIR’s former civil rights coordinator, in 2004 began serving a 20-year prison sentence for aiding al-Qaida and the Taliban against American troops in Afghanistan and recruiting for Lashkar e-Taiba, the jihadist group responsible for the 2008 Mumbai jihad massacres.
• Bassem Khafagi, CAIR’s former community relations director, was arrested for involvement with the Islamic Assembly of North America, which was linked to al-Qaida. After pleading guilty to visa and bank fraud charges, Khafagi was deported.
• Rabih Haddad, a former CAIR fundraiser, was deported for his work with the Global Relief Foundation (which he co-founded), a terror-financing organization.
• CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case--so named by the Justice Department during the HLF trial.

Americans who are concerned about CAIR’s history and agenda have the First Amendment Right to complain about this event and choose hoteliers who do not give place to the same.  Florida Family Association’s online campaigns have influenced the policies of other hoteliers regarding such events.

The Seven Gables Inn is a Lodging Hospitality Management (LHM) property.  Other LHM properties include:  Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark, Hilton Garden Inn St. Louis Airport, St. Louis Union Station Hotel, Doubletree St. Louis at Westport, Doubletree Collinsville, Doubletree Hotel and Conference Center Chesterfield MO, Hilton Garden Inn St. Louis/Chesterfield, Hilton Garden Inn St. Louis/O'Fallon, Hilton St. Louis Airport, Sheraton Westport Lakeside Chalet St. Louis, Sheraton Westport Plaza Tower St. Louis, Four Points by Sheraton, Fairview Heights, Holiday Inn St. Louis - Forest Park, The Chestshire St. Louis, Quality Inn Marlyand Heights and Marriott St. Louis Airport.

Florida Family Association has prepared an email for you to send to Lodging Hospitality Management officials.  Your email will not only voice concern about this important issue but it will also educate corporate officials with facts regarding CAIR's history.

The email for this article was deactivated after the even was postponed/canceled.