Rep. Moran’s appearance at CAIR event disturbing When I called Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., to express my extreme distress that he was giving the keynote address to the 17th annual Council of American-Islamic Relations Conference in Crystal City, a condescending staff person in his office tried to placate me, saying that “Islam is a religion of peace, and Congressman Moran is reaching out to our Islamic neighbors to discuss freedom and democracy.”