Anti-CAIR

We are a group of concerned Americans dedicated to eliminating the
Islamist terrorist threat to the United States Constitution.

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  *CAIR Backs Down From Anti-CAIR

In brief, Whitehead won a sweet victory, while CAIR suffered a humiliating defeat ...In anticipation of a court hearing regarding discovery, Rubinstein filed papers in the Virginia Circuit Court in October 2005 and December 2005 alleging extensive links between CAIR’s organizers and control group with Hamas and other foreign and domestic Islamists. Among other things, these papers alleged: CAIR’s lineage goes back to a key Hamas leader (Musa Abu Marzook), and that CAIR has long been connected with, and “exploited” the 9/11 attacks to raise money for the Holy Land Foundation, a Hamas front group. CAIR is heavily supported, financially and otherwise, by suspect Saudi and UAE-based individuals and groups. CAIR states that the U.S. judicial system has been “kidnapped by Israeli interests,”... In March 2006, shortly before a scheduled court hearing to decide on several of Whitehead’s requests (compelling CAIR to disclose its financial data, to answer questions about its relationship with Hamas and other Islamists, and to provide information regarding its leaders’ activities and intentions), the case was settled and then dismissed with prejudice by stipulation (meaning, the plaintiff has agreed to forever drop all of the claims that were in, or could have been in, the complaint) ... According to CAIR’s own analysis of Whitehead’s initial statements, they “impute the commission of a criminal offense” by CAIR, in that these suggest CAIR “actively supports” terrorists, and advocates the “overthrow” of the U.S. Constitution in favor of Islamic law. It bears noting that none of these words were found to be false, they were not retracted, and they remain posted on Anti-CAIR’s website ...

*Anti-CAIR Report* CAIR Created For Hamas
An FBI Investigation Reveals CAIR's Founder Omar Ahmad  "A Leader Of The Palestinian Committee"
The Truth exposed by FBI investigations that snared CAIR founder and Chairman Emeritus Omar Ahmad -
a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood's clandestine "Palestine Committee" - and partner Nihad Awad, flies in the face of CAIR's denials...

*CAIR: Fort Hood Co-Conspirator
Thanks to CAIR, 42 brave American Soldiers were gunned down by an Islamic nut in Texas. That’s right, thanks to CAIR...

* FBI's Miller Speaks On Breaking Ties With CAIR And CAIR Chapters
"I think there is something disingenuous about the idea of a representative of CAIR saying, 'We don't know what this is about.'"... "During the Holyland Foundation trial, evidence was brought to bear that two of the founding members of CAIR - who were still in those positions at the time - were related to Hamas organizers, and the question that was raised was, 'Is CAIR going to be an appropriate liaison partner for the FBI if the two founding members who are still in place are maintaining that relationship with Hamas, a designated terrorist group...'"

*FBI: CAIR Is A Front Group

FBI Special Agent Lara Burns was going over more transcripts from the Philadelphia meeting -- the 1993 gathering of Holy Land officials and Hamas sympathizers that the government contends was meant to brainstorm ways to downplay the Foundations extremist ties -- when talked turned to a passage from defendant Shukri Abu Baker. He is quoted on the wiretap transcript talking about how it would be beneficial to have more traditional, secular American organizations to help spread the Islamist message. He and others envisioned an "alternative" organization "which can benefit from a new atmosphere, one whose Islamic hue is not very conspicuous," according to the transcript. Prosecutor Barry Jonas asked Burns whether any groups formed after the Philadelphia gathering fit this mold. "CAIR," she said...

*CAIR Listed On Palestine Committee Meeting Agenda (HLF Trial Evidence)
"Future Suggestions To Develop Work Of The Following Organizations: IAP HLF UASR CAIR"

*FBI Cuts Off CAIR Over Hamas Questions

The decision to end contacts with CAIR was made quietly last summer as federal prosecutors prepared for a second trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), an Islamic charity accused of providing money and political support to the terrorist group Hamas..."[I]f CAIR wishes to pursue an outreach relationship with the FBI, certain issues must be addressed to the satisfaction of the FBI..."

*FBI Letter To Senators Schumer, Kyl, Coburn
"Until We Can Resolve Whether There Continues To Be A Connection Between CAIR Or It's Executives And Hamas, The FBI Does Not View CAIR As An Appropriate Liaison Partner..."

*Senators Schumer, Kyl, Coburn, Support FBI Severing CAIR Ties
"We Certainly Support That Action"

*Congressman Frank Wolf On The House Floor Asks - Who Is CAIR?
"Given CAIR’s genesis, its associations with known terrorist entities and individuals, and its tactics...their cries of victimization and accusations of religious bigotry appear disingenuous..."

*Congress Gets The Memo On CAIR - "Beware Of CAIR"
[A] "Dear Colleague" letter sent out to every House member warns lawmakers and their staffs to "think twice" about meeting with CAIR officials...

*Holy Land Foundation Defendants Guilty On All Counts
"By funneling millions of dollars to Hamas, this organization and its leaders believed that it could help those who resort to violence to support their cause," ... "All Americans should thank the Justice Department for their aggressive and tenacious pursuit of this group and its leaders."

*Bill Whittle Interview (video): "The Islamic Infiltration"
Former FBI Agent says "CAIR Is A Hamas Entity... It Is Hamas"

*Muslim Woman On Northwest Flight 253
"I'm always standing up for rights and privacy concerns, but now I hope that body scans will be mandatory"... "Balanced against national security, it's worth the invasion of privacy. And I acknowledge the fact that there has to be attention paid to Muslims."

*CAIR-Texas Founder and "Palestine Committee" Associate of CAIR's Omar Ahmad Ghassan Elashi Sentenced To 65 Years For Aiding Hamas Terrorists. "Your function in life was raising money to support Hamas,"..."You stated it was to help people, but the motive was to support Hamas," the judge said. "You state that you are innocent, but the evidence shows the opposite."

*Terrorist Supporting Front Group CAIR Wants Investigation Into FBI Shooting Of Pistol-Packing Cleric Who Fired On FBI Agents During Arrest
Investigate "Whether Abdullah shot the FBI canine as an act of self-defense..."

*CAIR Denies Omar Ahmad's Departure Has Anything To Do With Hamas Ties
Evidence presented in October at a trial in Texas of the largest Islamic charity in the country, the Holy Land Foundation, suggested that Ahmad and Nihad Awad, the current executive director of CAIR, attended a meeting with supporters of Hamas in 1993 -- two years before Hamas was designated a terrorist group.
"These allegations are old. They have been around for almost two decades," said Ibrahim Hooper, a CAIR spokesman. "Fifteen years is a long time to be on the board of any organization, and this is just a natural transition."

*Nihad Awad, Youth Exploiter
CAIR's Top Radical Terrorist Supporter & Shameless Exploiter Of Muslim Youth For Islamist Propaganda States: "Many of young people are vulnerable to being preyed on..." (See 1 & 2 )

*CAIR "Not Consulted" And Seething Over Tampa Mayor's CAIR Shut Out
Panting CAIR Stooge says Mayor Iorio made her decision in the matter without "consulting them", and the group will seek a meeting with her to discuss it...Mayor acted on evidence presented showing CAIR's direct ties to Hamas...

*"CAIR Out! Doublespeak Out!"
Family & Friends Of Killed Somali Teen Protests CAIR For Hampering FBI Investigation Of Disappearances: "We don't want anyone to come into our community and tell us to shut up,"... "They are supporting the groups we suspect of recruiting our kids ... We refuse to be silent."

*What’s The Truth About CAIR?

Cindy Crenshaw, president of Oklahomans Against CAIR Hate, called for the condemnation of CAIR after a former CAIR leader was deported...she wants Oklahomans to know the truth about CAIR, that it is a hate group like the Ku Klux Klan. “I love America and don’t want to sit back and watch enemies destroy my country, both from the inside and out,”... she wants Americans to do their own research on CAIR and its alleged ties to terrorism.

*Seething CAIR Says Congressman's Remarks An "Attack On Islam"

"It is outrageous and very sad that a representative of the people would partake in an attack against a global faith," said Ahmed Rehab

*CAIR's Nihad Awad "Radioactive", Should Not Have Attended Obama Meeting

"A second meeting participant speaking on condition on anonymity said he was stunned to learn that [CAIR Executive Director Nihad] Awad and Bray had been invited to an event where Obama representatives would be present. The participant said Awad and Bray are considered politically 'radioactive.'

*Documents Detail Hamas Support Within U.S.
The 1991 bylaws of a group called the Palestine Committee say it was created to be the highest authority on "work for the Palestinian cause on the American front." The committee was led by Mousa Abu Marzook, ... The committee oversaw a number of past and current Muslim organizations in the United States. One was Holy Land, which was shut down in December 2001 and accused of being a fund-raising front for Hamas ... And a third was the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR,... For the first time, evidence in the case put CAIR’s founder, Nihad Awad, at a Philadelphia meeting of alleged Hamas supporters that was secretly watched and recorded by the FBI ...

*[CAIR] "Conspired ... To Support Terrorists"

 In the instant case, striking CAIR's name from the attachment to the Trial Brief will not prevent its conspiratorial involvement with HLF, and others affiliated with Hamas, from becoming a matter of public record. That has already occurred as a consequence of the presentation of evidence at trial ... [I]n their assessment of evidence, CAIR "conspired with other affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood to support terrorists."...

*Fact-Checking The Mosque Infiltration Kerfuffle (CAIR/AMT Deception?)
Rather than praising law enforcement for rooting out a would-be terrorist from their community, Islamist groups are casting FBI efforts - the use of an informant inside mosques - as an assault on the civil liberties of all Muslim Americans ... Niazi is accused of failing to disclose his links to designated terrorist organizations, lying to officials about his travels to Pakistan, suspected of illegally structuring financial transactions to avoid law enforcement detection ...FBI agents in California sent an informant into an Irvine mosque to record conversations with Niazi...

*CAIR Terror Symp Dawud Walid's Amazing Claim
"Some women may not report crimes to police over fears they may later be asked to remove their veil in court"

*CAIR Frontman Larry Shaw Takes Credit For Lowered Oil Prices:
"Where do you think that came from?" ..."You draw your own conclusions," ... "I think maybe in that sense it might have been a benefit and a service for me having been there to speak to the king's advisors and his minister, in a way that they would understand it."

*The Islamic Center of Hate in the U.S.A.
Before (CAIR Chairman) Senator Larry Shaw begins focusing on Sudan, he should first “clean” his own house... he allows violent Islamic material from Sudan to be taught to the children in Raleigh, NC.

*Radio Broadcast  On Muhammad Upsets CAIR
"I am a former Muslim,"..."I know exactly what I am talking about. These are the things we were taught as children. We are quoting the Quran and the Hadiths, and if the Muslims have a problem with that then they have a problem with their own book..."

*CAIR Exec's Telling Interview
"[W]e should not blame the United States alone for the 11 September 2001 attacks,"... Before founding CAIR, Awad, in his capacity as Public Relations director for IAP, famously wrote a letter to the American Muslim periodical, The Message, excoriating the publication its use of the word "Israel." Awad wrote that he hoped it was merely "the result of an oversight," and that the magazine would "return to the terminology ‘Occupied Palestine' to refer to that Holy Land"...

*Case Closed - Government Documents Reveal CAIR Is Hamas

Court documents name the Council on American Islamic Relations, CAIR as being among "individuals/entities who are and/or were members of the US Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee and/or its organizations." In a precedent setting revelation, the government's trial brief sets forth in great detail incontestable evidence linking CAIR to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. According to documents seized from co-conspirator Ismail Elbarrasse, there is a straight line of associations going from Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and terminating with the Islamic Association for Palestine, CAIR's immediate antecedent ... Such excuses will no longer pass muster, the court documents and evidentiary materials that have been amassed for use in the Holy Land Foundation case now prove beyond all doubt that CAIR is Hamas. The evidence developed by Federal law enforcement places CAIR within a top down hierarchical arrangement of terror supporters ...

*The Last Days Of CAIR
"CAIR is a criminal organization and its days are numbered. The Holy Land Foundation conviction was a serious blow... When we get into discovery, we will follow the path chosen by those sued by CAIR and who simply wanted the nightmare to end. In this case, we are CAIR’s worst nightmare..."

*CAIR Named As "Unindicted Co-Conspirator"
Prosecutors applied the label of "unindicted co-conspirator" to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America, and the North American Islamic Trust in connection with a trial planned in Texas next month for five officials of a defunct charity, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development ... The document gave scant details, but prosecutors described CAIR as a present or past member of "the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee and/or its organizations."... However, Mr. McGonigle reported that records showed that the foundation sometimes singled out the families of Hamas "martyrs" for assistance. Mr. McGonigle's lawyer said his client could be targeted by terrorists if he forced to testify. "A journalist who is perceived to have acted as an agent for the U.S. Government will almost inevitably be placed at a substantially greater risk when on assignment in the Middle East," ...

*Myrick Takes Aim At Terror
Among her goals is to investigate Muslim military and prison chaplains who were approved by a man now in prison for funding terrorism, and examine the nonprofit status of an organization partially fundedby Saudis. That group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, says her assumptions are wrong and agendas like hers move Muslim bashing into the mainstream. "It sounds like your usual  laundry list of talking points you can see on anti-Muslim hate sites on the Internet," ... Myrick's 10-point plan includes: Investigate all military chaplains endorsed by Abdurahman Alamoudi, who was imprisoned for funding a terrorist organization. Investigate all prison chaplains endorsed by Alamoudi. Investigate the selection processof Arabic translators working for the Pentagon and the FBI. Examine the nonprofit status of the Council on American-Islamic Relations ...

*CAIR's True Color's
The following report shows the consistent support CAIR officials have shown for Hamas, Hizballah and other radicals and their refusal to condemn terrorist attacks and suicide bombings by those groups...

*CAIR Identified By FBI As Part Of Muslim Brotherhood's "Palestine Committee"

Both Omar Ahmed and Nihad Awad, CAIR co-founders who today serve as CAIR’s chairman emeritus and executive director, respectively, were also listed as individual members the Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee in America.

*CAIR Trains FBI Agents As New Report Cites Links To Terror
"CAIR consistently deceives the American public, law enforcement and politicians, portraying itself as a moderate and independent organization,"..."But its own records, statements and other documents tell a different story which the public deserves to know." ...There is one non-profit, Anti-CAIR, founded by Andrew Whitehead, which devotes all of its energies to exposing what it considers CAIR's shady practices. It was Anti-CAIR that publicized the fact that a link on CAIR's website soliciting donations for New York firefighters actually took contributors to the home page for Holy Land--the accused backer of Hamas..

CAIR-Canada's Lawsuit Against Former CSIS Official Dismissed
It is for others to decide why CAIR-CAN balked at the prospect of proceeding to trial. It is unknown whether this unease stemmed from concern about the detailed review and disclosures that would derive from such proceedings ... People of good faith must look carefully at the broader implications of all of this. In their Statement of Claim, CAIR-CAN chose to construe my question about its relationship with US CAIR, as implying that: [CAIR-CAN is an Islamist, extremist sympathetic group in Canada supporting terrorism; Sheema Khan is an individual supporting Islamic, extremist causes, including the support of terrorism; CAIR-CAN is a subsidiary of its parent organization, CAIR, which itself is an organization supporting terrorism and run by individuals convicted of terrorist­ related offences. CAIR-CAN and CAIR share a common and inter-related goal of fostering their extremist views, and of supporting terrorism to achieve their objectives; CAIR-CAN and Sheema Khan falsely and fraudulently misrepresent themselves as moderate representatives of Muslim interests; CAIR-CAN and Sheema Khan are frightening moderate Islamists, and are driving young people into extremism] ...

*CAIR Called 'Turnstile' For Terrorist Suspects
Muthanna al-Hanooti: The CAIR director's home was raided last year by FBI agents in connection with an active terrorism investigation. Agents also searched the offices of his advocacy group, Focus on Advocacy and Advancement of International Relations ... Laura Jaghlit: A civil-rights coordinator for CAIR, her Washington-area home was raided by federal agents after 9/11 as part of an investigation into terrorist financing, money laundering and tax fraud. Her husband Mohammed Jaghlit, a key leader in the Saudi-backed SAAR network, is a target of the still-active probe ... Abdurahman Alamoudi: Another CAIR director, he is serving 23 years in federal prison for plotting terrorism. Alamoudi, who was caught on tape complaining bin Laden hadn't killed enough Americans in the U.S. embassy bombings in Africa, was one of al-Qaida's top fund-raisers in America ... Mohamed Nimer: CAIR's current research director also served as a board director for UASR, the strategic arm for Hamas in the U.S.... Siraj Wahhaj: A member of CAIR's board of advisers, Wahhaj was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The radical Brooklyn imam was close to convicted terrorist Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, and defended him during his trial...

*Government Reminds Court Of CAIR/MAS Ties To Terrorists
CAIR was listed among "entities who are and/or were members of the US Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee." Then, when the group petitioned to remove its name from that list, prosecutors said such relief "will not prevent its conspiratorial involvement with HLF, and others affiliated with Hamas, from becoming a matter of public record."  Now, in a federal court filing from December, federal prosecutors have described CAIR as "having conspired with other affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood to support terrorists." The government also stated that "proof that the conspirators used deception to conceal from the American public their connections to terrorists was introduced" in the Dallas Holy Land Foundation trial last year and the Chicago trial of the Hamas men in 2006 ... Federal prosecutors used their response to the brief to remind the court of the both organizations' questionable stand on the issue of terrorism itself ... (Federal Court Filing)

*HLF's Financial Support of CAIR Garners New Scrutiny
When it was formed, CAIR was helped out by $5,000 from HLF ... "This is an outright lie," Awad said. "Our organization did not receive any seed money from HLFRD. CAIR raises its own funds and we challenge Mr. Emerson to provide even a shred of evidence to support his ridiculous claim." Emerson did better than that. Through Epstein, he provided the Senate committee with HLF's original seed money to CAIR, drawn on a Saudi Arabian bank account ... Awad's testimony wasn't the first time CAIR denied the HLF support. Earlier in 2003, during a deposition for a civil case, CAIR co-founder and then-chairman Omar Ahmad was asked, "Did they [HLF] give you any money to help start CAIR?" He responded unequivocally, "No." ... Awad then attempted to minimize the significance of the CAIR/HLF money trail: "HLF was not indicted for any criminal activity at the time of its donation in 1994 and its assets were frozen by the Justice Department seven years later in December 2001." He added that HLF's "relatively small donation" came "seven years before any wrongdoing was attributed to Holy Land Foundation." Transcripts from government surveillance tapes make clear, however, that CAIR's founders were fully aware of the support HLF leaders voiced for Hamas well before accepting the money...

*Legal Jihad: How Islamist 'Lawfare' Is Stifling Western Free Speech On Radical Islam

One of the major proponents of Islamist lawfare in the US is the Washington-based Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), an unindicted co-conspirator in a terror financing case and self-described representative of the American Muslim population...

*CAIR Vs. NYPD
Radicalization in the West met with enthusiastic approval from anti-extremist, moderate Muslims, but with predictable condemnation from the "Wahhabi lobby" represented by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its allies ... The radical Muslim response to the NYPD report predictably employed the pretexts of alleged "profiling" and "inappropriate" criteria. But the report did not embody "profiling;" rather, it was an academic-style work based on open source documents and serious expertise, and utilized a case study approach drawing on terrorism incidents abroad ... But for Islamists in America, charges of "profiling" and "inappropriate" methods are the preferred reply to critical discussion of almost all significant matters.... According to the radicals, they themselves represent the Muslim mainstream, their practices and beliefs are harmless, and any questioning of them amounts to persecution. Unfortunately for the extremists, many Muslims disagree with them, considering them a deviant phenomenon, their habits and views distorted, and their worldwide quest for domination worthy of decided opposition ... Her involvement in CAIR's counter-attack on the NYPD demonstrates otherwise ... Debbie Almontaser appears to be a classic "stealth Islamist," and KGIA looks like just the kind of radicalizing effort it was said to be by its critics ... Shia Muslim community leaders in New York have expressed their opposition to the campaign and their support for the police, and have refused to sign the letter ...

*Savage vs. CAIR: The Battle Over Free Speech

But rather than taking CAIR's boycott lying down, Savage is fighting back, in court. Represented by his lawyer, Daniel A. Horowitz, Savage is suing CAIR primarily for copyright infringement. According to the text of the lawsuit, which is posted at Savage's Web site, CAIR "misappropriated" his work by posting the four-minute segment in question at its Web site and including it in outreach and fundraising efforts. Taking it a step further, the lawsuit accuses CAIR of misrepresenting itself as a "civil rights organization" and of "advocating a specific political agenda that is directly opposed to the existence of a free society." While the copyright infringement charges against CAIR may or may not pan out, the broader implications could end up holding the most weight ...

*Congressional Paul Revere Warns Nation About Islamofascist Threat
We have 118 members — both Democrats and Republicans. The threat we face from radical Islamofascists is not a partisan issue ... The radical Islamofascists have told us how they intend to infiltrate all areas of our society and use the freedoms that are guaranteed under our Constitution to eventually Islamize our country, eliminate our Constitution and enact Shariah law ... I know of some Muslim nongovernmental organizations that are doing good things, such as the Islamic Supreme Council of America, the American Islamic Congress and the American Islamic Forum for Democracy. However, groups such as Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and others have a proven record of senior officials being indicted and either imprisoned or deported from the U.S. Just to name a few: Ghassan Elashi, a founding board member of CAIR, is serving 80 months in prison; Randall "Ismail" Royer, the communications director for CAIR, is serving 20 years in prison; and Bassam Khafagi, the director of CAIR's community relations, has been arrested and deported. There was a lot of evidence presented at the recent Holy Land Foundation trial, which exposed CAIR, ISNA and others as front groups for the Muslim Brotherhood ...We need to shed the veil of political correctness that shields government officials from speaking out against them...

Daniel Pipes? Enough, Already!
What is it about Mr. Pipes that makes Mr. Ibrahim Hooper (CAIR Spokesperson) swoon at the very mention of his name?  What is so frightening about Mr. Pipes? Has he advocated violence and supported terrorist murders like Mr. Ahmad and Mr. Hooper?   Does Mr. Pipes advocate blowing up buses, like Mr. Ahmad and Mr. Hooper have?  Has Mr. Pipes fought the FBI to stop them from investigating Islamist terrorists, like Mr. Ahmad and Mr. Hooper have?  Has Mr. Pipes blamed every single offense against Jews (no matter how big or small) on “Anti-Jewish” bigotry by Americans as Mr. Ahmad and Mr. Hooper have for Muslims?...Mr. Ahmad and Mr. Hooper are self-serving prostitutes to the Anti-American, Anti-Freedom cult that is Wahabbi Islam.  For either of these “men” to self-appoint themselves as leaders of the Islamic faith is a grave insult to peaceful followers of Islam....

*CAIR Executive Director Placed at HAMAS Meeting
On the telephone, three men discussed who should be invited to join them in a meeting to discuss what to do next. The call included Omar Ahmad (CAIR’s chairman emeritus), who at the time served at President of the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), Shukri Abu Baker, President of the Holy Land Foundation and one of the defendants now on trial, and Abdelhaleem al-Ashqar, the Executive Director of a HAMAS-linked charity known as the Al Aqsa Educational Fund. They discussed inviting people from the “Union,” a code reference to the IAP. They mentioned “Akram,” “Abdul Rahman” and “Nihad.” In 1993, Nihad Awad was the spokesman and public relations director for the IAP. During that same telephone conversation, the men on the telephone call referred to Nihad's work in "media." Shukri Abu Bakr mentioned "a full article in Dallas Morning News...and every few lines: Mr. Nihad said this and that...." The Dallas Morning News did publish an article that day. It ran under the headline "Dallas' Mideast Observers Warn of Conflict Ahead." It extensively quoted "Nihad Awad, spokesman for the Dallas-based Islamic Association of Palestine." ...

*CAIR: Youngest Member of Hamas Family Tree
What has so far gone unnoticed, though, is one last organization on this list that the Committee hoped to establish in the future. As stated in the bylaws, this organization would handle “issues relating to political work and foreign relations”: It is a committee which operates through the Association [IAP] for now. It is hoped that it will become an official organization for political work and its headquarters will be in Washington, God’s willing. It represents the political aspect to support the cause politically on the American front.  An organization headquartered in Washington, DC, tasked with political activism, born out of the IAP? Maybe a vague reference at first glance, but growing evidence points to the identity of the mystery organization listed in the bylaws as the youngest in the family of HAMAS front groups founded on American soil. Fast forward to July 30, 1994, just weeks after the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) was founded. A Palestine Committee meeting agenda lists several issues to be discussed, including a review of the reports of the “working organizations.” Listed among these organizations right beside HLF, IAP, and UASR – all members of the Palestine Committee as listed in the bylaws – is the word “CAIR." The same CAIR that is headquartered in Washington, and whose co-founders - executive director Nihad Awad and chairman emeritus Omar Ahmad - served as president and public relations director, respectively, of the IAP ...

*From HLF To Hamas: A Modern Parallel
Ahmad, for his part, announced his maximalist intentions, stating, "We've always demanded the 1948 territories," code for the destruction of Israel and its replacement with an Islamist state, but signaled his unwillingness to go public with his views for fear of damaging his movement's position, stating, "No, we didn't say that to the Americans." Despite the less than optimal outcome of the HLF trial, and while the defendants await a decision by the prosecutors regarding a retrial, another opportunity has presented itself to compare the mindset of the HLF defendants with those of Hamas. Later this month, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are planning to meet in Annapolis, Maryland for a conference designed to push the Middle East peace process forward. Not to be dissuaded, and very much in the mold of the 1993 Philadelphia meeting, Hamas is planning a "rejectionist" conference in Damascus, inviting all Palestinian hard-liners and terrorist groups, to coincide with the official Annapolis event. Current Hamas Deputy Political Bureau Chief Mousa Abu Marzook, himself very much a part of the HLF trial, said the reasoning behind the conference was, "to send a clear message to the international community and the United States that Abu Mazen (Abbas) does not represent the Palestinian people in these negotiations," an unsurprising position for a top Hamas official. But Hamas' positions are hardly limited to determining who is allowed to speak for Palestinians. The Hamas Charter states, "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it" ...

*Holy Land Trial Revealed A Covert Islamist Agenda
[T]he evidence shows "definitive proof that CAIR, ISNA, ICNA and all the Muslim Brotherhood groups in this country came here with a markedly different purpose from what they claim, and they have gone through decades of deceit to conceal their true identities and purposes."... Earlier this month in Washington, a handful of prominent Muslims gathered to explain to an American audience why the Muslim Brotherhood was a clear and present danger both to American Muslims and the nation. Naser Khader, a Muslim parliamentarian from Denmark living under death threat for speaking out against Islamic radicals, even called U.S. government officials "useful idiots" for continuing to succor extremists ...Turkish-born Zeyno Baran, a Hudson Institute scholar who advises the Pentagon and other federal agencies, called the Brotherhood affiliates "a fifth column of activists working to undermine the foundation of America." Ms. Baran, a Muslim who defends democratic secularism, blasted the U.S. government for working with CAIR, ISNA and the rest, saying official recognition legitimizes these groups among the wider Muslim community. One cost of the American mainstream's refusal to call out these front groups, she warned, is giving carte blanche to Islamists who want to quietly radicalize all American Muslims, starting with students. If we want to avoid the kind of social conflict tearing up Britain, Ms. Baran said, we must wake up and challenge these closet Islamists publicly and not fall for their rhetoric of victimization ...

*CAIR Goes Back To School
One of the new educational warlords these unsuspecting Somali families are encountering is Ahmad Al-Akhras, CAIR national vice chairman, who is listed as one of the incorporators of both charter schools, and who is listed as the treasurer of  International Academy. Joining him on the board of both schools is Abukar Arman, the Somali terror apologist who was recently forced to resign from the Central Ohio Homeland Security oversight board ... Ahmad Al-Akhras is one of Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman’s closest advisors, and Coleman has rewarded his political partner by appointing him to the city’s Community Relations Commission, along with several other city government boards and working groups. This despite the public support that Al-Akhras has given to two convicted Columbus-area Al-Qaeda operatives, another who was recently indicted for supporting terrorist activity, and his self-described longtime friendship with convicted and deported Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative, Fawaz Damra, who received considerable support from CAIR-OH and the national organization prior to his deportation ... Another indicator of the partisan political and sectarian use of these schools is in an anti-Israel “teach-in” sponsored by CAIR-OH held at International Academy in September 2006, entitled “Palestine 101”. The event was co-sponsored by a number of Marxist and extremist organizations: The Committee for Justice in Palestine, International Socialist Union, World Can’t Wait-Columbus, and Not In Our Name-Columbus. CAIR national official and school treasurer Ahmad Al-Akhras served as one of the panelists ...

*Why CAIR Dropped Its Lawsuit
In court, CAIR was asked to admit that "Hamas murdered innocent civilians" to which it replied: "Objection, calls for legal conclusion..." Questioned as to whether CAIR has had "one or more communications with Abu Musa Marzook?" The plaintiff's reply was, "To be subject to plaintiff's motion for Protective Order...," restricting the response to Whitehead's counsel. Called to confirm Article Seven of the Hamas Charter which states that "the Hamas has been looking forward to implementing Allah's promise whatever time it might take. The Prophet, peace be upon him, said: The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews, until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!" CAIR again refused to respond by stating: "CAIR objects because the Hamas Charter speaks for itself and because the Plainiff is without means to obtain current, accurate, and reliable copy of the Hamas Charter." ...

*The Towering Evidence Against the Holy Land Foundation
McGonigle held three interviews in his time in Gaza.  The first two were with known Hamas leaders, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and Mahmud Zahar (unindicted co-conspirators to this case), who both told McGonigle that they knew nothing of the HLF.  From there, McGonigle made an unannounced visit to the Holy Land Foundation office in Gaza where he met with Asaad Abu Sharkh and Muhammad Muharam - (unindicted co-conspirators as part of Hamas’ social infrastructure in the Palestinian territories in this case).  They discussed the HLF charitable activities throughout the region and, most importantly, how they were in no way involved with Hamas ... Then, the prosecution played an audio tape which was intercepted on December 2, 1999 - the date in which McGonigle was present in Gaza and was speaking with the Gaza HLF office.  This conversation took place between Shukri Abu Baker, the HLF CEO in Richardson, Texas, and Mohammad Muharam, the Gaza office director.  Muharam had called Baker immediately following McGonigle’s visit to advise him of the situation.  They discussed that McGonigle could not be trusted because he was part of the Jewish lobby.  Muharam advised Baker that McGonigle wanted to speak to some of the people HLF was helping in Gaza and Baker stressed to Muharam that under no circumstances should he be taken to visit the families of the martyrs or prisoners in Israeli jails who were receiving HLF aid ... One of the most enlightening examples of evidence was a phonebook belonging to Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook found at the home of one his former assistants.  Nearly 30 names from Marzook’s phonebook matched up with the HLF’s overseas speakers list ...

*CAIR “Affiliated With” Hamas
In addition to picking apart the arguments laid out in CAIR’s brief piece by piece, the government set an important precedent, officially and definitively linking CAIR to Hamas, writing: "In the instant case, striking CAIR’s name from the attachment to the Trial Brief will not prevent its conspiratorial involvement with HLF, and others affiliated with Hamas, from becoming a matter of public record. That has already occurred as a consequence of the presentation of evidence at trial."... The government also argues some legal basics, that CAIR has no standing to petition its removal from the list of unindicted co-conspirators since the list is not directly pertinent to the “actual, ongoing controversy” of HLF’s criminal trial, basically that, by filing the brief, CAIR has not acted as a “friend of the court,” but rather only out of self interest, and that, in the brief, CAIR has failed to show any injury as a result of its inclusion on the list of unindicted co-conspirators ...

*CAIR's Islamism Revealed
Will CAIR acknowledge that counter-terrorism is a greater public responsibility to the organized American Muslim community than the obsession with the protection of our civil rights? Is it not the primary role of Muslim American organizations to lead the ideological war against radical Islamists? Isn’t this the number one issue on the mind of most Americans in 2007? Non-Muslims can do nothing to deconstruct this poisonous ideology. Our fellow Americans living in fear for their security are looking for us to lead this fight. The credibility of Muslims is suffering deeply as a result of the complete denial of this responsibility by groups like CAIR. In fact, there may be no better way to preserve our rights than by leading an ideological movement against political Islam and militant Islamism ... The Washington Times piece about CAIR was not a hit-piece nor was it anti-Muslim or anti-Islamic. It begins the long overdue debate about the agenda of organizations like CAIR and where they stand with regard to political Islam and these questions. Soon, mainstream media and government leaders are going to need finally to begin to ignore the intimidation tactics of organizations like CAIR and to engage political Islam...

*The CAIR-U.A.E. Connection
The United Arab Emirates recently announced on its official government website that it has set up an endowment serving as a source of income for CAIR. The amount of the funding is undisclosed, but sources say it will be enough to help CAIR finance the construction of a new $24 million office building and a planned $50 million public-relations campaign aimed at repairing Islam's -- and the UAE's -- image in America ...In a press statement he issued after 9-11, Hooper flatly asserted: "We do not support directly or indirectly or receive support from any overseas group or government." He has claimed CAIR receives its funding from member dues. In fact, CAIR not only receives support from the UAE, but also from interests based in Saudi Arabia ...To help assuage skeptics, CAIR has enlisted the help of former Republican congressman Paul Findley, a well-known apologist for Islam who happens to do business in the Middle East...

*Accommodation As An Islamist Political Instrument
This behavior and Islamist commentary which exploits personal practices of the Muslim faith in order to make public statements and impose the mandates of one’s personal faith upon general society is classical behavior for Islamists. We saw it with the flying imams and now we see it with demands for the accommodation of an entire school time schedule for Muslim prayer obligations ... Islamist organizations, like CAIR who never met a demand from rigid Muslims they didn’t like, will continue to demand ‘logistical requirements of faith’ all the while intimidating non-Muslims into allowing them to control public spaces and times. Whether cabbies in Minnesota, children at San Diego schools, or women at Michigan fitness clubs, the Islamist agenda is transparent. It’s all about accommodation with no sense of moderation. Necessary for the validity of these demands of accommodation is a deeply rigid uncompromising interpretation of Islam—salafism and Wahhabism. Flexibility and moderation would make these demands generally disappear ...

*What CAIR-Saudi Connection?
Carlson challenged Hooper on CAIR's receiving money from the Saudi government. Hooper declared: "To my knowledge we don't take money from the government of Saudi Arabia." ... Does he mean that they don't take money from the Saudi government, but from individual Saudis? Or that CAIR may take money from the Saudi government, but if it does, no one is telling Ibrahim? ... American Libraries gratefully reported in February 2003 that Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal donated $500,000 to a CAIR project that aims to put Wahhabi Islamic reading materials in public libraries across the United States ... World Association for Muslim Youth (WAMY) – a government-funded organization responsible for radical, Wahhabi proselytizing and recruitment – gave financial support for a 2002 CAIR weekly advertising campaign in American publications. This gift to CAIR alone was valued at $1.04 million ...

*Al-Qaida Angle Emerges in CAIR-Tied Terror Case
CAIR has repeatedly denied any association with Hamas. But don't believe it, says retired FBI special agent John Vincent, who has worked Hamas cases in Chicago, where IAP is based. "There is no question CAIR supports Hamas," ... Even more disturbing are the links that CAIR's forerunner, IAP, has maintained with al-Qaida. In 1989, IAP dedicated its annual convention to the late Abudullah Azzam, the fiery Palestinian cleric and mentor of Osama bin Laden. And newspapers published by IAP have often contained articles praising Azzam, who called for bloody jihad against Israel and its supporters ... Awad helped edit the IAP rags before co-founding CAIR ... Ahmad, in fact, is a longtime member and leader of the large Wahhabi mosque -called the Muslim Community Association,, or MCA - which last decade also raised thousands of dollars for a special invited guest: Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, the second in command to bin Laden ... Holy Land Foundation's El-Mezain last decade told an audience at an Islamic conference in Los Angeles that he had raised nearly $2 million for Hamas inside the U.S. The keynote speaker at the MAYA conference, Sheikh Muhammed Siyam, told the crowd: "Finish off the Israelis. Kill them all. Exterminate them. No peace ever." ... After 9/11, an Al-Qaida operative by the name of Ahmed Omar Abu Ali participated in paramilitary training exercises with members of the Virginia Jihad Network-whose convicted ringleader was none other than CAIR's civil-rights coordinator. The ringleader, Randall "Ismail" Royer, worked out of CAIR's Washington, D.C., headquarters. His pal Abu Ali recently was convicted of plotting to assassinate Bush ...

*Ahmad Al-Akhras: Getting by With a Little Help From His (Terrorist) Friends

Some of his other friends, however, are not so fashionable; for instance, his friend Christopher Paul, who was indicted in April as part of an active al-Qaeda cell in Columbus. Paul was planning to kill Americans at European resorts and attacking US military installations overseas ... Al-Akhras’ friend Abdi was charged with plotting to blow up a Columbus-area shopping mall, providing material aid to al-Qaeda, and falsifying virtually every element on his asylum application. Abdi is also accused on lying on a 1999 visa application to fly to Germany and Saudi Arabia, when in fact he was traveling to Ogaden, Ethiopia for terrorist training ...

*CAIR: Islamism Is Islam
This seems to be more than just Ahmed changing the words to hide the truth from the readers, something that Ahmed’s organization, CAIR, does frequently.  What he was saying, just as in the previous statements equating Hamas with Muslim religious groups, was that Islamism, a fanatic political movement, is the same as Islam, that they are interchangeable with one another. What we also learn from this is that Ahmed, himself, is a radical Muslim, because, whether what he said was true or not, only a Muslim that has been radicalized would formulate such equations regarding his/her Islamic faith.  There is no surprise with this, though, as Ahmed is the leader of an organization that has intimate ties to Hamas, an organization that was created by a Hamas front, an organization that solicited money for Hamas charities, an organization whose Executive Director said he supports Hamas, an organization that had one of its leaders convicted for Hamas-related crimes, and an organization that repeatedly refuses to condemn Hamas as a terrorist group.

*CAIR Membership Falls 90% Since 9/11
The number of reported members spiraled down from more than 29,000 in 2000 to fewer than 1,700 in 2006. As a result, the Muslim rights group's annual income from dues dropped from $732,765 in 2000, when yearly dues cost $25, to $58,750 last year, when the group charged $35.  The organization instead is relying on about two dozen individual donors a year ... "This is the untold story in the myth that CAIR represents the American Muslim population. They only represent their membership and donors," ... A February press release from CAIR's Chicago office says it met with Homeland Security immigration officials and made an agreement to "conduct sensitivity training to [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] officers and possibly prison personnel." Homeland Security officials deny such claims ... "The department does not have a formalized relationship with that particular organization," said one Homeland Security official ... "It is not uncommon for that particular organization to issue a press release attempting to overstate their interaction with the department," ...

*Defining Terror Down
Apparently the media elite spent too much time on the phone with CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) apologists to bother reading the FBI affidavit, which makes it clear they were motivated simply by Islamic jihad (as if that were anything new). It records the men saying they were willing to die killing infidels in the name of Allah. One asks who'll take care of his family. Not to worry, another responds, "Allah will take care of your wife and kids." They watched speeches by Osama bin Laden calling for jihad, videos of jihadi attacks, and videotaped messages from two of the 9/11 "martyrs." Yet the media would have none of it. AP quoted one of their fathers insisting his son "is not a terrorist." Of course not. He's a "mujahedeen," a freedom fighter. And we are the terrorists. A friend of his son confirmed he's a religious man, but he "wasn't violent at all." They never are — until they decide to slit your throat. CAIR immediately issued a warning to the media to "refrain from linking this case to the faith of Islam." And the media dutifully obliged. By defining terrorism down to appease such Muslim groups, they are committing professional malpractice, which is unconscionable in time of war. They're abdicating their duty to report the facts to a public still under threat of terrorism ...

*CAIR’s Grievance Theater, the Flying Imams and 9/11
Seven years earlier in November 1999, two Saudi students on an America West flight from Phoenix to Columbus were detained after landing because they had made repeated attempts to enter the cockpit area of the plane during the flight. In both cases, CAIR rose up to defend the offenders in question and engaged in their now standard grievance theater protest politics ...When it comes to the November 1999 incident, any mention of CAIR’s involvement or defense of the Saudi students has been scrubbed from the organization’s website. It’s no wonder, as the 9/11 Commission Report (page 521, footnote 60) explains that the FBI now considers the incident as a “dry run” for the 9/11 hijackings. And the two men involved? As the 9/11 Commission Report explains, Hamdan al-Shalawi was in Afghanistan in November 2000 training at an Al-Qaeda camp to launch “Khobar Tower”-type attacks against the US in Saudi Arabia, and Mohammad Al-Qadhaieen was arrested in June 2003 as a material witness in the 9/11 attacks. Both men were friends of Al-Qaeda recruiter, Zakaria Mustapha Soubra, who drove them to the airport that day in Qadhaieen’s car. Another friend of Shalawi is Ghassan al-Sharbi, another Al-Qaeda operative that would later be captured in Pakistan with high-level Al-Qaeda leader Abu Zubaida...

*CAIR And Hate Crimes Fabrication
Arson investigators have determined that the final blast that severely injured the store owner, Musa Shteiwi, and his son, Essa, was set by the pair themselves. In a performance worthy of a Darwin Award, the Shteiwis were standing in a pool of gasoline that they intended to use as an accelerant in setting their store ablaze later that night when Musa Shteiwi took a break and lit up a cigarette, igniting the gasoline prematurely and causing the blast that inflicted their injuries ... But there's more: prosecutors claim that Shteiwi had hired a former employee, Joshua Hunter, to commit the previous attacks against his store that CAIR had insisted were hate crimes committed by non-Muslim members of the Xenia community. Hunter has been jailed and charged with arson, and similar charges against Musa and Essa Shteiwi are pending until after they have recovered from their injuries ...

CAIR Chairman Elected to Board of ACLU – Florida
On March 8, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced that National Board Chairman Parvez Ahmed has been elected to the board of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida (ACLU – Florida) ... CAIR, birthed from the Islamic Association of Palestine and a front for radical Islam in the United States and Canada is unashamedly anti-American by both action and word.  CAIR has never apologized, or explained, the several Muslim criminals convicted on Islamic terrorism charges they have had on staff…how many more are waiting for their chance to attack Americans?  Which of us may be the next victim? CAIR is consistently on the wrong side in the war on Islamic terror; along with the ACLU, we can expect nothing but obstruction and opposition to common-sense initiatives to further prevent Islamic terrorist attacks on North America and deliberate attempts by both to provide extra-legal protections to Muslim terrorists. The war on Islamic terror is a black and white issue. You either stand with America or you do not. CAIR & the ACLU:  A marriage made in hell and consecrated on the bodies of dead Americans.  How many more Americans will be endangered by this alliance? To those who say that this is not an alliance between CAIR and the ACLU, ask yourself this question:  “Would the ACLU have bothered with Ahmed if he weren’t chairman of CAIR?”

*CAIR vs. Human Rights
But CAIR’s opposition to the Summit may offer one hint as to why they felt they had to leave the fold. As Tawfik Hamid, author of The Roots of Jihad, told Bedier on the Glenn Beck show, “The truth should be independent of whoever says it.” ... Shouldn’t CAIR gladly and without hesitation endorse a statement calling for protection of “sexual and gender minorities from persecution and violence” and the elimination of “sectarian education that teaches intolerance and bigotry towards non-Muslims”? Isn’t CAIR dedicated to protecting “civil liberties”? And as for the developing of “an open public sphere in which all matters may be discussed without coercion or intimidation,” wouldn’t such a public atmosphere help CAIR “encourage dialogue” and “build coalitions”? ...

*What Is CAIR Afraid Of?

CAIR declared the summit illegitimate because few of the participants are "practicing Muslims," and those who are, it claims, are merely pawns playing into the hands of "Islamophobes." "In order to have legitimate reform, you need to have the right messengers," asserted CAIR spokesman Ahmed Bedier. And who might that be? The four CAIR executives who have been successfully prosecuted on terrorism- related charges? The CAIR co-founder who said the Quran should replace the U.S. Constitution as "the highest authority in America"? ... Fittingly, CAIR's Bedier balked when summit delegate Tawfik Hamid, a former terrorist, challenged him to denounce Saudi sharia law for "killing apostates, beating women and stoning women." ... Just a handful of reformers gathered in Florida made CAIR squirm ...

*CAIR: Prostitutes For Radical Islam

Awad, true to form and right from the CAIR playbook, immediately goes on the offensive to defend CAIR’s so-called “honor”.  Awad denied the charges that CAIR has any links to terror groups and claims a “deliberate smear campaign” by individuals whom support Israel are behind efforts to smear the Muslim community and silence its voice ... we believe that the "fall in respect" by the average American for Islam as a religion can be directly tied to activities by CAIR to undermine our country, prepare North America for conversion to an Islamic thugocracy, and CAIR’s obvious ties to radical Islam ...

*Numbers Don’t Lie
An inspection of CAIR’s most recent publicly available IRS Form 990 (2004) shows for that year they received $119,029 in membership dues for that year (line 3). But at $25 per membership (the current rate is $35), that would mean that in 2004, CAIR only had 4,761 dues-paying members – less than 5,000 members out of 8 million Muslims in America. This would mean that CAIR only represents 1 out of every 1,680 Muslims. Even if a lower 6 million Muslim population figure were assumed, CAIR would still only be able to claim representation for 1 out of every 1,260 Muslims for that year ...

*Were We Unfair To CAIR?
Ibrahim Hooper Whines & Dodges the Truth  (Salon's Jake Tapper  responds)
The rest of Hooper's complaints, however, have no merit, and in fact typify the type of obfuscation CAIR regularly engages in when faced with criticism. Hooper claims I somehow have twisted his words over his inability to offer an unqualified condemnation of Osama bin Laden. He does so by -- again -- refusing to offer an unqualified condemnation of bin Laden. Hooper also never even mentions Hamas and Hezbollah, despite the fact that a major part of the story -- and point of serious concern among Muslim critics of CAIR -- is that CAIR and the AMC tacitly support these groups, which the U.S. State Department classifies as "terrorist" for killing Israeli civilians in terrorist acts and, in the case of Hezbollah, American soldiers. Also notice that Hooper continues to refuse to clarify CAIR's position on the "innocence" of the civilian victims of terrorism. Fundamentalist supporters of Hamas and Hezbollah are known to consider Jews and Israelis evil, and therefore justify murdering them, even children. They do not consider it to be terrorism. But instead of clarifying that that is not the position of CAIR, Hooper writes that that the group does not believe in a "hierarchy in which some civilian victims of terrorism are 'innocent' and others are not." Again, why the obfuscation? If CAIR believes killing civilians -- including Jewish and Israeli civilians -- is terrorism, and wrong, why not just say so? Surely most American Muslims would have no problem condemning bin Laden with no qualifications. Why can't Hooper?

*Addressing CAIR 'Empowers Islamists,' Say Moderate Muslims

We cannot blindly empower Islamists, like Gov. Ed Rendell and Rep. Joe Sestak have done, and then wonder why we are losing the ideological battle," added Zuhdi Jasser, chairman of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy. "CAIR's focus on apologetics for terrorism, victimization and minority politics is simply a distraction from their responsibility to lead the battle within the Islamic community to defeat militancy and theocracy," ... "As an American Muslim, I have significant concerns with CAIR and their less-than-transparent agenda,"... "At the core, they present themselves as a representative of a faith community, but a brief review of all their materials demonstrates a heavily political agenda long on foreign and domestic policy criticism and very short on spirituality. "These politicians legitimize their faith representation and their political representation of our faith community -- which they certainly do not for many Muslims," he added. "Those reformers who understand that the root cause of terrorism is political Islam will have no chance whatsoever to win the ideological battle over the mosque if the Islamists are repeatedly endorsed and empowered by our government." Jasser also called CAIR's condemnations of terror "empty" and "dangerously non-specific."...

*Senator Barbara Boxer Recalls Award To CAIR "Activist"

Boxer’s office confirmed to NEWSWEEK that she has withdrawn a “certificate of accomplishment” to Sacramento activist Basim Elkarra after learning that he serves as an official with the Council on American -Islamic Relations (CAIR). After directing her staff to look into CAIR, Boxer “expressed concern” about some past statements and actions by the group, as well as assertions by some law enforcement officials that it “gives aid to international terrorist groups,” ... Boxer tells NEWSWEEK she never saw the letter to CAIR signed in her name or was even aware of the award to Elkarra before it was sent out. "I feel terrible about this," she says. "We just made a mistake. I was not in the loop. That was an automatic signature [on the letter]." But Boxer stands by her decision to withdraw the award and to distance herself from CAIR, saying she was influenced by previous critical statements about CAIR made by her Democratic colleagues Sens. Richard Durbin of Illinois and Charles Schumer of New York. "To praise an organization because they haven't been indicted is like somebody saying, 'I'm not a crook,'” Boxer says. “I'm going to take a lot of hits for this. But I'm just doing what I think is right." ... CAIR has formally asked for a meeting with Boxer and demanded that she withdraw the action - which one top CAIR official said smacks of “Islamophobia.” ... Boxer was unaware of the certificate to Elkarra that had been given in her name by staff members in her California office and only learned of it “when she came across a story on Horowitz’s blog,” ...  After review by her staff, Boxer was particularly concerned by claims that CAIR had refused to condemn Hamas and Hizbullah and recognize those groups as terrorist organizations,” ... [Joe] Kaufman, for his part, couldn’t be more pleased. “We are proud of Sen. Boxer,” he says. “By taking back this award, the senator has shown that she is conscious of the extreme problems that Basim Elkarra and his group, CAIR, pose to the public.” ...

*Did CAIR Founder Say Islam To Rule America? (Truth Will Not Go Away)
Muslims confront Omar Ahmad as newspaper insists report of controversial remarks accurate
Ahmad told the Muslim leaders – and WND in an interview – the attribution is a "total fabrication" and assured them the newspaper, the Fremont Argus in California, issued a "clarification" after he "challenged" reporter Lisa Gardiner. That seemed to satisfy the Muslim leaders, but Gardiner told WND she continues to stand by the story, and Editor Steve Waterhouse said he's confident she got it right. After hearing that news Thursday, one of the Muslim leaders immediately resurrected the issue with his colleagues, declaring Ahmad and CAIR need to find a way "to extinguish this fire."  "She was a good, solid reporter," Waterhouse said of Gardiner. "She was absolutely certain about what she said and what she reported." Gardiner, who now works for a non-profit group, told WND last week she's 100-percent sure Ahmad was the speaker and that he made those statements, pointing out nobody challenged the story at the time it was published eight years ago ... "I think Mr. Omar Ahmad and CAIR need to think hard and figure out a way to extinguish this fire,"... "The above statement is one of the most anti-Islamic, most arrogant, bullying statement[s] made in behalf of Islam. Let's strip this for good."... Critics of Ahmad and CAIR also have pointed to comments he made at a youth session of the Islamic Association for Palestine's annual convention in Chicago in 1999 in which he praised suicide bombers  who "kill  themselves for Islam," ... "Fighting for freedom, fighting for Islam, that is not suicide," Ahmad asserted. "They kill themselves for Islam."

*A Defeat For Islamism In America
It would be logical to assume CAIR did not want to expose its finances, its connections to foreign interests, and possibly the beliefs and intentions of its key leadership to legal process. My guess, based on the information we obtained during this case from a variety of sources, is that CAIR may have been most concerned about protecting its funding sources and its foreign backers. In truth, its leadership has been pretty open about ideology and goals ...The Whitehead case has counteracted the tactic of using U.S. courts to stifle free speech by demonstrating that the blowback from a defamation lawsuit – properly defended – is generally far worse than the harm caused by the original statements themselves...

*CAIR: Islamists Fooling the Establishment
Perhaps the most obvious problem with CAIR is the fact that at least five of its employees and board members have been arrested, convicted, deported, or otherwise linked to terrorism-related charges and activities ...CAIR has also consistently defended other radical Islamic terrorists. Rather than praise the conviction of the perpetrators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, it deemed this “a travesty of justice.”  It labeled the extradition order for suspected Hamas terrorist Mousa Abu Marzook “anti-Islamic” and “anti-American.”  CAIR has co-sponsored Yvonne Ridley, the British convert to Islam who became a Taliban enthusiast and a denier that Al-Qaeda was involved in 9-11. When four U.S. civilian contractors in Falluja were (in CAIR’s words) “ambushed in their SUV's, burned, mutilated, dragged through the streets, and then hung from a bridge spanning the Euphrates River,” CAIR issued a press release that condemned the mutilation of the corpses but stayed conspicuously silent on the actual killings ...

*Islam's Flawed Spokesmen
"There is general concern among Muslim intellectuals about how not only CAIR but some of these other organizations are claiming to speak in the name of the Muslim community, and how they're coming to be recognized by the government as spokespeople for the Muslim community in the U.S.," says Ali Asani, professor of Islamic studies at Harvard University. "That troubles people."...

*CAIR Named As Defendant In John P. O'Neill - 9/11 Lawsuit
CAIR and CAIR-Canada have, since their inception, been part of the criminal conspiracy of radical Islamic terrorism. These organizations play a unique role in the terrorist network. They emanate from the notorious HAMAS terrorist organization and like so many of the terrorism facilitating charities named and indicted by the United States government they are engaged in fund raising under the guise of assisting humanitarian causes they are, in reality, a key player in international terrorism. The unique role played by CAIR and CAIR-Canada is to manipulate the legal systems of the United States and Canada in a manner that allows them to silence critics, analysts, commentators, media organizations, and government officials by leveling false charges of discrimination, libel, slander and defamation...

*Tampa's Racist Radio
While he underhandedly exploited the occasion of the death of Dr. King to work in CAIR’s pseudo claim of anti-Muslim bigotry, most of what Bedier said was inoffensive and harmless.  But no matter the kind words, on this same radio show, another message was being sent -- that of undeniable hatred ... The other two guests were New York imam Talib Abdur-Rashid and Kentucky academic Ihsan Bagby.  Both Abdur-Rashid and Bagby are leaders of the Muslim Alliance of North America (MANA), an African- American Islamist group founded in May of 2000, in response to the arrest of cop killer H.Rap Brown, a.k.a. Jamil Al-Amin. It took little time for the MANA duo to let out invectives directed at the white community and those black Christians that they believe are tools of the whites.  The following exchange between Abdur-Rashid, Bagby and Bedier (who felt the urge to chime in with his own prejudice) took place on the radio show and exemplifies this hate talk ...

*CAIR's Al Qaeda Link Exposed
[CAIR] civil rights coordinator Randall Todd "Ismail" Royer faces federal charges that he and others "conspired to provide material support to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda organization and to his Taliban protectors in Afghanistan," according to the Washington Post. Royer is one of 11 members of an alleged "jihad network" based in northern Virginia to support al Qaeda and other Islamist terrorists. Four of the 11 already have pled guilty and are cooperating with federal authorities ...

*CAIR: The 8-Million Muslim Lie
[I]t's a wildly inflated estimate manufactured by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, something that the media could easily refute if they dared — simply by deconstructing CAIR's unscientific methodology. While the number of Muslims is growing thanks to higher birthrates and immigration, it's nowhere near CAIR's claim. Even the most generous independent estimate puts it at half that size, or 4 million ... To come up with its own figure, it hired a "respected scholar" by the name of Ihsan Bagby to lead its "study." But Bagby not only lacks independence — he's a CAIR board member — he's not even a trained demographer. Worse, he admits the number he arrived at is a "guesstimation." ...

*Kicking A CAIR Extremist Off The Human Relations Commission
Ahmad, a Phoenix-based publisher, produces two radical newspapers, the English language “Muslim Voice” and the Arabic language “Arab Voice.”  The editorial position of  both papers is unapologetically pro-Hamas, including a February 2006 editorial in the “Arab Voice” hailing Hamas’ election victory in the West Bank and Gaza ... Mr Ahmad further complains about the Treasury Department’s closing of the Hamas-linked charity, the Holy Land Foundation, whose leadership is set to go on trial next year for funneling millions of dollars to Hamas ... Ahmad ran an editorial cartoon depicting a moderate member of the Arizona Muslim community as a ravenous dog. That moderate is Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, an Arizona-based physician and activist.  And why did Ahmad's paper attack Dr. Jasser?  Because Jasser takes the time to monitor and translate Ahmad's publications and alert the local community about his fierce level of extremism ... The Arizona chapter of CAIR, along with several other pressure groups, issued a statement announcing a press conference to state their “demands,” including that the Mayor and City Council of Phoenix revoke Ahmad’s “termination and to reinstate Mr. Marwan Ahmad’s membership on the Phoenix Human Relations Commission.”...

*Sen. Boxer & CAIR Meet - Boxer's Concerns Remain
[A] spokeswoman for the California Democrat said she does not intend to give back the certificate honoring Basim Elkarra, executive director of the Sacramento chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The senator also said the concerns prompting her to rescind his service award earlier this month haven't changed ... Boxer and her staff cited concerns about CAIR's positions on terrorist groups, contending that CAIR had refused to label Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist organizations ...

*A Profiling In Courage (Six "Imams" Denied)
Kudos to US Airways. Risking fines and a boycott, it did the right thing this week by removing a group of Muslim men from a flight to protect its crew and passengers ... Then there's the case of Muhammed al-Qudhaieen and Hamdan al-Shalawi, two Arizona college students removed from an America West flight after twice trying to open the cockpit. The FBI suspected it was a dry run for the 9/11 hijackings, ...  Defending them was none other than the leader of the six imams kicked off the US Airways flight this week. Turns out the students attended the Tucson, Ariz., mosque of Sheikh Omar Shahin, a Jordan native. Shahin has been the protesters' public face, ... In an Arizona Republic interview after 9/11, he acknowledged once supporting Osama bin Laden through his mosque in Tucson. FBI investigators believe bin Laden set up a base in Tucson. Hani Hanjour, who piloted the plane that hit the Pentagon, attended the Tucson mosque along with bin Laden's onetime personal secretary, according to the 9/11 Commission Report. Bin Laden's ex-logistics chief was president of the mosque before Shahin took over. "These people don't continue to come back to Arizona because they like the sunshine or they like the state," said FBI agent Kenneth Williams. "Something was established there, and it's been there for a long time." And Shahin appears to be in the middle of it ...CAIR asserts the imams are peace-loving patriots. "It's inappropriate to treat religious leaders that way," ...

*CAIR vs. DePaul
Newly released evidence has revealed that the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR) worked privately to pressure DePaul University to fire adjunct professor Thomas Klocek for telling Muslim activist students that their views on Middle-East issues were wrong.  According to a letter to DePaul’s President from CAIR’s executive director M. Yaser Tabbara, “In light of …Mr. Klocek’s biased remarks, we are requesting that the University…reprimand Mr. Klocek for his conduct by permanently dismissing him from any teaching post at DePaul University.”... John W. Mauck, attorney for Thomas Klocek, said, “These documents confirm our suspicions. Rather than protect academic freedom or even treat Thomas Klocek, a professor with a 14 year spotless track record at DePaul, the university surrendered to behind-the-scenes Muslim activist pressure. At DePaul academic freedom has been subjugated to Sharia.”...

*CAIR's Congress
Conyers has also masterminded House Resolution 288, which condemns “religious intolerance” but clearly singles out Islam as needing special protection from such criticism. It states that “it should never be official policy of the United States Government to disparage the Quran, Islam, or any religion in any way, shape, or form,” and “calls upon local, State, and Federal authorities to work to prevent bias-motivated crimes and acts against all individuals, including those of the Islamic faith.” The bill was referred to the House subcommittee on the Constitution in June 2005, but Conyers, as chairman of the Judiciary Committee, could rescue it from legislative oblivion ... William Gawthrop, former program manager for the Joint Terrorism Task Force of the Defense Department’s Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA), has noted: “There is evidence to support the contention that sources of terrorism in Islam may reside within the strategic themes of Islam,” including “the example of Muhammad, the Quran, the hadiths, Islamic law, the pillars of faith and jihad.” However, “as late as early 2006, the senior service colleges of the Department of Defense had not incorporated into their curriculum a systematic study of Muhammad as a military or political leader. As a consequence, we still do not have an in-depth understanding of the war-fighting doctrine laid down by Muhammad, how it might be applied today by an increasing number of Islamic groups, or how it might be countered.” Conyers’ resolution would effectively end any hope that the Department of Defense or any other agency would begin such study, as vitally needed as it is ...

*Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite Smacks Down CAIR's Bedier With The Truth (pdf)

When it became apparent to you that I was not willing to champion your cause in Washington, you Mr. Bedier, made the following statement, which is so outrageous I remember it almost verbatim. You told me that you had done research on me and found that I was Catholic and then went on to say, "Catholic priests pose more of a terrorism threat by having sex with young altar boys than those who flew planes into the World Trade Center."  I found the statement so bizarre that I asked you to repeat it and, without hesitation, you did. It was at that point that I stood up and told you that the meeting was over. I also pointed out the fact that the Catholic priests did not kill 3,000 innocent people, and that we knew where the guilty preists were located and they were not hiding in caves ... Mr. Bedier, in closing, I know many fine Muslims who would be well served by your resignation from the local CAIR office. Your militancy and manipulation of facts does not serve them well ...

*Boxer's Stand
Despite being founded by two self-identified supporters of Islamist terrorism and continually refusing to condemn Islamist terrorism, CAIR has not only survived, but thrived ...  CAIR claims that Mrs. Boxer succumbed to the "pro-Israel lobby," who are "anti-Muslim extremists." The reality is that Mrs. Boxer, as politically safe as any member of Congress' upper chamber, received little flack for issuing a relatively minor certificate to Mr. Elkarra. She had little to gain, and much to lose ... CAIR has, in fact, never condemned Hamas or Hezbollah. Given repeated opportunities to do so by outlets such as The Washington Post and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, CAIR has flatly refused to denounce either. Asked point-blank by Newsweek just last month to condemn Hamas, CAIR Executive Director and cofounder Nihad Awad demurred, dismissing the question as "the game of the pro-Israel lobby." ... Seeing through CAIR's tapestry of lies and deceptions is admittedly a tough task, but by no means an impossible one. Mrs. Boxer did it with little outside prodding. How many others in the media and on the left will follow suit ...?

*Keith Ellison, CAIR, And Hamas

What is so troubling about Ellison’s connection with Awad and CAIR? Mowbray quotes the assessments of two leading Democrats: Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois has declared that CAIR “is unusual in its extreme rhetoric and its association with groups that are suspect.” New York Senator Charles Schumer, once said that CAIR “has ties to terrorism” and that Ellison’s supporter Awad has “intimate connections with Hamas.” ... But of course, saying flatly that “I am in support of the Hamas movement” is not simply stating a preference for Hamas over the PLO. In any case, if Awad supported Hamas before 1994, it is useful to examine what that means. I have here preserved the old Hamas website’s “glory record” of attacks against Israelis – the terrorist organization’s own record of its murderous actions. Here are some of Hamas’ self-described exploits from before 1994 ...

*CAIR: How Close To Terrorism?
Elashi founded CAIR’s Texas chapter sometime before October 2000. (CAIR-Texas first appeared as an affiliate on the CAIR national website at that time.) Therefore, it is evident Elashi was a high-ranking CAIR official at the time he committed the pro-terrorist crimes for which he was convicted...Once again, we see that CAIR clouds the issue of its possible complicity in Islamic terrorism with none-too veiled threats against those who attempt to call them to account. Why can’t CAIR stand on the facts? Simple: the facts plainly do not support CAIR’s story... CAIR’s apparent ties to terrorism go beyond the merely rhetorical. Authorities have linked Randall Royer with al-Qaeda. On page 15 of the federal indictment of eleven Islamist terrorism suspects, it is charged ...

*Misguided Muslim Groups
Rather than just condemn the plot and address the scourge of Islamic extremism, Muslim groups such
as the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) and the Muslim American Society (MAS) sought to both legitimize terror and portray Muslims as victims ...Rather than help Muslims in America, most Muslim organizations hinder them. Self-appointed representatives downplay religious extremism and focus more on the image of Muslims rather than on the loss of innocent life. They remain silent on the assault waged on liberalism by Islamists. Most Muslims in America, though, fled the Middle East for the liberal values of their adopted country ...

Hamas For Hipsters
Ahmed Rehab has his own “reality.”  Born in Cairo, Egypt, Rehab has been inspired greatly by the violent Muslim Brotherhood organization that was established in his birthplace in 1928.  He stated as much, when he described – on his now-defunct personal website – the founder of the Brotherhood, Hassan Al Banna, as a “Contemporary Muslim Individual who influenced me” and when he labeled Brotherhood author and philosopher, Sayyid Qutb, his “Favorite Modern Personality.” ... Ahmed Rehab was also the one to break the story – through this author – that CAIR’s parent organization, the IAP, was no longer in existence.  The group had been found liable for the murder of an American boy, David Boim, during a Hamas terror operation is Israel ... Question:  How close was Rehab to the IAP – one of three American organizations to be founded by the number two leader in Hamas today, Mousa Abu Marzook – that he knew of the group’s closure before anyone else? ...

*CAIR Founded By “Islamic Terrorists”?
CAIR’s filing an amended motion has two apparent implications: that CAIR has tacitly acknowledges
the truth of Whitehead’s deleted assertions; and those assertions can now be repeated with legal impunity...These facts suggest why CAIR felt it had to drop most of its libel claims against Andrew Whitehead. Should this case go to court, we will watch with interest how Whitehead’s two remaining opinions (that CAIR is a terrorist-supporting front organization and that it seeks to overthrow the constitutional government of the United States) will fare...

*Muslims, CAIR, and the Seeing-Eye Dog Problem
Muslim taxi drivers refusing to allow the guide dogs into their cars is a recurring theme. In July 1997, for example, a New Orleans taxi driver, Mahmoud Awad, got so incensed at his passenger, Sandi Dewdney, trying to bring a dog into the cab that he physically yanked her out of it by the arm while yelling "No dog, No dog, Get out, get out." He harmed her broken wrist. To this, CAIR replied by pointing out that "the saliva of dogs invalidates the ritual purity needed for prayer" and left it to the scholars of Islam to decide whether a guide dog should be allowed in a cab. The judge, after researching Islamic attitudes and finding no support for the driver's claims, called his behavior "a total disgrace." Awad pled guilty to battery and was sentenced to 120 days of community service at the Lighthouse for the Blind ...

*Are We Ignorant Or Are They Violent?
As usual, saying anything bad about Islam means the now-expected rioting and the calling for the death to whoever spoke out of turn. Which is part of my confusion …We’re always told that Muslims mean us no harm (tell that to those in the Towers, the Pentagon, and that field in Pennsylvania). We’re always told that they’re a peaceful lot, and we just don’t understand their culture. If that’s the case, why is it whenever someone disses them or their religion of peace, love, and tolerance, they always riot, burn down buildings, and sometimes kill people? ... Madonna is currently touring the world and performing a mock crucifixion just to tick off the religious. Madonna’s been doing this for awhile, yet I don’t remember one Catholic riot occurring ...

*CAIR’s Catholic Blood Money
At a press conference, on Thursday, September 21, Ahmed Bedier, the Director of CAIR’s Tampa office, and Rev. Robert Gibbons, the Vicar General of the Roman Catholic Diocese of St. Petersburg, held aloft a large poster-board check for $5000 bearing CAIR’s insignia.  The money was said to be for the half-dozen churches that had been attacked, five of which were firebombed and shot at, the other doused with gasoline and set aflame ... On September 25, on WTVT-Tampa’s ‘Your Turn with Kathy Fountain,’ Bedier lashed out at the Pope, the figure whose picture adorns the website of the CNEWA, the group CAIR is raising money through.  Bedier angrily stated, “He said his intention was to start a dialogue.  Well, if you want to start a dialogue with someone, you don’t start it off by slapping them across the face and calling them names and say, ‘Well, now let’s talk.’” It seems CAIR was acting in the same disrespectful manner towards Catholicism’s most revered, as it was accusing the Pope of acting towards Islam’s most revered  ...

*CAIR Doth Protest Too Much
As usual, CAIR is casting itself in the role of defender and spokesman for all Muslims. In so doing, it portrays the latter as a community of victims who are defamed anytime someone points out that there is an ideology - call it Islamofascism - that masquerades as a faith, yet is distinct from Islam. What utter rubbish ...By making a distinction, on the one hand, between those Muslims in America, and elsewhere, who are peaceable, law-abiding and tolerant, and, on the other, Islamofascists who are killing and intimidating them as a precursor to dominating the rest of us, Mr. Bush is doing the exact opposite of what CAIR's Ahmed claims: "equat[ing] the religion of peace [Islam] with the ugliness of fascism." He decidedly is not "feed[ing] the perception that the war on terror is actually a war on Islam." To the contrary, he is indicating that those who use Islam to justify and provide political cover for their totalitarian aggression are at odds not only with America but with Islam, itself ...

*CAIR, Assault And Videotape?
An attendee of the “Stop the Terror Rally” sponsored by the Council for America-Islamic Relations – Ohio held at the Federal Courthouse in downtown Columbus, Ohio, on Friday July 28 says she was twice assaulted by CAIR’s National Vice-Chairman, Dr. Ahmad Al-Akhras, when she asked too many questions about the organization’s apparent support for Hezbollah terrorists. Fortunately, she caught it all on tape ... At 5’3” and 100 pounds, “ciaospirit” is not a physically intimidating figure. Yet she says Dr. Al-Akhras assaulted her a second time as she was filming him as he addressed the rally ...

*A Saudi Turki in Miami [Bobs & Weaves On CAIR]

Kaufman:  Recently, you participated in an event sponsored by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), held at the Mosque Foundation, in Bridgeview, in April – Chicago… Both of these organizations are entities that have been known to have affiliations with Hamas.  As Ambassador to the United…

Prince Turki:  If they did have these affiliations with Hamas, do you think your government would let them exist?
Kaufman:  Sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t.
Prince Turki:  Believe me, if your government says they have anything to do with Hamas, they would have shut them down.
Kaufman:  These things have been reported.
Prince Turki:  Reported by whom?  Your government is the authority on these issues.  The Kingdom does not support Hamas as a terrorist organization or any otherwise.  We have not sent money to Hamas, nor do we send money to Hamas.  What we do is we support the Palestinian people.
Kaufman:  If these two organizations [CAIR and the Mosque Foundation] are found to have been supportive of Hamas, would you denounce them, like you eventually did bin Laden?
Prince Turki:  That is for your government to find out.  That is for your government to decide ...

*The ABC's Of Radical Islam
ABC then parrots the CAIR line that there are 7 million Muslims in the United States. Where did that number come from? In 2001, CAIR commissioned a survey, which fraudulently claimed, "Estimates of a total Muslim population of 6-7 million in America seem reasonable in light of the figure of 2 million Muslims who associate with a mosque." ABC, and other gullible members of the media, have uncritically swallowed and regurgitated this figure ... Last year, the Pew Center for Research conducted its own poll on American Muslims in May 2007, which stated, "The total Muslim American population is estimated at 2.35 million, .. If CAIR can't even be trusted on the most basic of figures, why trust any of their other numbers? And how can anyone trust ABC if they cite a Hamas- front group as a source rather than the Pew Center? The ABC story was linked to a Primetime broadcast in which an actor posed as a bakery shop worker who berated a Muslim customer wearing a hijab with intense bigotry. The stunt was a test to see how other customers would react ... The issue is not the sociological experiment, but the network's sanitizing and parroting of a radical Islamist organization's misleading statements. In the past year, the U.S. Justice Department tabbed CAIR as an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas funding case; described it as "affiliated with Hamas' in a related filing; and, in December asserted "CAIR conspired with other affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood to support terrorists." Only ABC can explain why it ignored these facts in buying into propaganda from a Hamas front group ...

*CAIR Fifth Columnists and Multiculturalists
In the realm of terrorism, the threat to America is not just concerning dirty bombs and terror cells.  It’s not just about planes flying into buildings or suicide vests.  No, the threat is a lot greater than that – a solid infrastructure finely cultivated into our society, paid for, at least in part, by Saudi royalty.  It was created not to promote the values of our nation, but, instead, to impose Islamic law.  A large part of that infrastructure is the Council on American-Islamic Relations or CAIR.  On one fine spring day this month, two institutions that we as Americans rely on – one from each of America’s coasts – gave CAIR the things that it so ardently craves and needs to survive -- cover and legitimization ...

*Does "Free Darfur" Harbor Genocide Supporters?
At least two organizations that labor on behalf of the persecuted people of Darfur—The Wilberforce Forum and the Institute on Religion and Democracy--declined to join the 160-member Save Darfur Coalition because of its decision to include The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR),... “Frankly, I think CAIR’s role in this is to scrub up their image. Where’s the money? Where’s the heavy lifting? I don’t see them risking their reputation and money to help the people of Darfur,” ...“They (CAIR) have worrisome ties to terror groups, and in the past they have denied the existence of slavery in Southern Sudan. That’s why we didn’t join the Coalition, ...”

*CAIR (CAIR-Canada) Loses Another Lawsuit
Through the dedication of my family and many committed civil libertarians, including courageous colleagues of Muslim background, we prevailed against CAIR-CAN and Dr. Khan.  CAIR-CAN and Dr. Khan dropped their suit, cold.  No damages, no costs, no apology, no clarification ... It is for others to decide why CAIR-CAN balked at the prospect of proceeding to trial.  It is unknown whether this unease stemmed from concern about the detailed review and disclosures that would derive from such proceedings.  Or whether the collapse of its mother organization’s US $1.35 million libel case against the American Anti-CAIR organization ,[played a part].  We do not know whether it was the unearthing of a December 2003 court document in which Dr. Khan had sworn to CAIR-CAN’s subsidiary status in relation to the troubling US CAIR group.  Perhaps it was a concern that, on the witness stand, CAIR-CAN officials would be asked to answer the questions I had asked about that relationship on CFRA radio ...

*CAIR And Islamic Jihad

Many of the blog comments offered prayers to the Wultz family.  Others dealt with the terrorist groups’ reactions to Wultz’s injuries.  In an interview with Aaron KleinWorld Net Daily, Abu Ayman, a PIJ leader, said, “Our hero believed in Allah and died while fighting for Allah but your pig was killed in a restaurant in an area full of prostitution.”  And Abu Nasser, a leader of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the other group responsible for the attack, stated, “This is a gift from Allah.  We wish this young dog will go directly with no transit to hell.”  With comments such as these and others made before them, posters on LGF were understandably upset. CAIR strangely left all of that out.  Why?

*Saudi Charity Begins...Nowhere
Instead of blaming America and the West, as CAIR constantly does, it could initiate the establishment
of a new Muslim foundation with a similar mission to that of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This new Muslim foundation could supply immunization, HIV and anti-malarial medication, and medical means to reduce cervical cancer incidence and deaths in poor Muslim countries, feed millions of refugees from Muslim atrocities in Darfur, and generally “bring innovations in health” to Third World Muslim countries ... Yet, despite all this wealth, Muslim charities do not focus on alleviating the suffering of millions of poor Muslims and provide for their economic development the way the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) does. Instead, Muslim charities, led by the Saudis, continue to pour billions into madrassas to spread Wahhabism and hatred of the West around the globe – and not only in the Muslim world ...

*The Truth About Hamas--And Its Followers
By coincidence, just as the Anti-CAIR and Harris lawsuits were being shut down, Yale University Press released the most detailed study of the Hamas terror group ever offered to readers without a security clearance. The book is Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad; the author is Matthew Levitt, the chief intelligence officer of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and one of the world's leading experts on Hamas... The Post excerpts described Hamas's indoctrination of young people, Hamas' electoral strategy in the Palestinian Authority and the close co-ordination between Hamas' social-welfare projects, its terrorism and its overall ideological mission of building a global Islamic caliphate ... Nobody associated with CAIR-Canada has been charged with any criminal misconduct. Internal CAIR-Canada documents uncovered during CAIR's litigation against the National Post suggested, however, that 70% of CAIR-Canada's revenues were forwarded to CAIR in the United States...

A Night of Hamas "Heroes"
In an article he had written for ‘The Minnesota Daily,’ an independent newspaper at the University of Minnesota where he was active at the time in the Muslim Students Association, Awad discussed his experience in Bosnia. He wrote admiringly of the soldiers of the Bosnian Army, who he said, “courageously [stood] up to the might of Serbian tanks and planes” and who “wore patches carrying the Islamic declaration of faith.” ...It was around this time that Nihad Awad got involved with the Islamic Association for Palestine, or in Awad’s words:  “After the Gulf War was over, I was offered a job with the Islamic Association for Palestine as their public relations director.”  He took the job, ... The Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP) is widely regarded as the “primary voice in the United States” of the terrorist group Hamas.  The IAP was founded by Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook, a “senior political leader” of Hamas ...

CAIR: Respected or Feared?