Islamic Double Standard or Double Speak?

While looking for Internet citations on Yasir Arafat's comparison of the Oslo Accords with the Treaty of Hudaibiya for use in my discussion of Islamist Expedience, I came across an interesting controversy involving Congressman Jim Saxton and the Council on Islamic Relations (CAIR).

Saxton made reference to Islamic expediency and the Treaty of Hudaibiya in a 1998 internet article. CAIR responded with outrage and initiated a campaign to force an apology. The CAIR press release is interesting for it's scrubbed-for-Western-consumption interpretation of the circumstances surrounding the Treaty of Hudaibiya and the conquest of Mecca. Read the CAIR materials but keep in mind that Bernard Lewis, the preeminent living scholar of the Middle East, holds that an oft used doctrine of expediency grew out of the traditional (i.e. not-scrubbed-for-Western-consumption) Islamic understanding of the Treaty of Hudaibiya.

Perhaps more revealing of the truth, is CAIR's failure to demand an apology from Yasir Arafat for his reference to Islamic expediency and the Treaty of Hudaibiya.