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Anti-CAIR
We are a group of concerned Americans dedicated to eliminating the
Islamist
terrorist threat to the United States Constitution.
We believe that the Council on American-Islamic Relations, (CAIR), is a clear and present danger
to our Constitution and our way of life. We
will continue to expose CAIR's involvement in supporting Islamist terrorists, terrorist-sponsoring organizations
and groups in the United States.
(Founded April
2003)
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Email Anti-CAIR: ajwhitehead@anti-cair-net.org
Introducing:
The Council on American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR)
*“I swear by Allah
that war is deception,”...“We are fighting our enemy with a kind heart
... Deceive, camouflage, pretend that you’re
leaving
while you’re walking that way. Deceive your enemy ...”
*"Politics Is A
Completion Of War"
*“In my opinion, we must form a new organization for activism which will be
neutral because we are placed in a corner, we are place in a corner.
It is known who we are, we are marked and I believe that there should
be
a new neutral
organization which works on both sides"
-
The Philadelphia Meeting -
(Click Here To Read)
Omar
Ahmad
(Click
Photo)
Co-Founder of the Council on
American-Islamic Relations
President
and CEO of Silicon Expert Technologies.
Former Islamic
Association for
Palestine (IAP) Officer.
Omar Ahmad was captured on FBI
surveillance
tapes at Hamas meetings in the U.S.A. during 1993 explaining that the
IAP could not, for political reasons,
admit its
support for Hamas, and then
discussing how the Hamas agenda could be
cloaked and
advanced. Omar Ahmad's airfare
and hotel bills for this meeting were paid for by the Holy Land
Foundation
"Those who stay in
America should be open to society without melting,
keeping Mosques open so anyone can come and learn about Islam. If you
choose to live here, you have a responsibility to deliver the message
of Islam ... Islam isn't in America to be equal
to
any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book
of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the
only accepted religion on Earth."
"Fighting for freedom, fighting for Islam,
that is not suicide," ...
"They kill themselves for Islam."
(Ahmad Praising Suicide Bombers)
"Registering
an organization is easy. I can register 100 organizations
in 100 cities
in one day ..."I mean, we don't really have available
people whom we could dedicate
for the work we want to hide ..."
"
Politics is a completion of War "
Nihad
Awad
(Click
Photo)
Co-Founder
and CAIR Executive Director
Former
Public Relations Director for the
Islamic Association for
Palestine (IAP)
A
Palestinian born in Jordan and now a
U.S. citizen.
Identified participating at a 1993 Hamas meeting in the United States
"I am in support of
the Hamas movement."
"We Should Not Blame The United States
Alone For The 11 September 2001 Attacks"
"Our administration has the
burden of proving otherwise.”
(Awad's
response to muslim accusations that federal raids
were a War against Islam and Muslims)
"Address people according to their minds. When I speak with the
American,
I speak with someone who
doesn't know anything."
"If you love
Israel, you're OK ... If that is the litmus test, no American Muslim
and no
freedom-loving person is going to pass that test."
Ibrahim
Hooper
(Click
Photo)
CAIR
Spokesperson
Former
Employee Islamic
Association for
Palestine (IAP)
"CAIR
does not support these groups publicly."
(Hooper
comments on
CAIR's record of supporting
Hamas,
Hezbullah and
other official terrorist groups)
"I
wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of
the United States to be
Islamic sometime in the future...But I'm not going to
do anything
violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through
education."
Mousa
Abu Marzook
Islamic Association
for Palestine (IAP) Founder
Parent organization of the
Council on American-Islamic Relations
Officially
Designated Terrorist and Fugitive from Justice.
(IAP
was found Liable for aiding
and abetting Hamas in the murder of a 17-year-old American)
"Israel will exist and
will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it,
just as it obliterated others before it" - Hamas Charter
Senior
Hamas member Marzook conspired with Omar
Ahmad, Nihad Awad, and others to establish what the
United States government has termed “front organizations” to support
and advance the interests of Hamas and radical Islam in the United
States. IAP provided the
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) with employees, funding,
operational
expertise, and ideological guidance.
" ...
probable cause exists that Abu Marzook knew of Hamas's plan to carry
out violent, murderous attacks, that he selected the leadership and
supplied the money to enable the attacks to take place, and that such
attacks were, therefore, a foreseeable consequence
of the conspiracy."
(Judge Kevin Duffy on Marzook)
Ahmed Rehab
(Click
Photo)
CAIR National
Strategic
Communications Director
"CAIR is not a front for Hamas,
Hezbollah, or any other foreign group,
nor has it ever been. CAIR is an
independent American institution,
established by Americans ..."
"Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmad have never been
members of
or associated with or tied to Hamas"
Corey Saylor
(Click
Photo)
CAIR
Director Of Government Affairs
"Some people try to hold us responsible
for the actions of people that
are associated with our
organization. That’s
absolutely ludicrous …
you don’t hold all of Enron responsible for what Ken Lay did."
(Click Photo)
Razi Hashmi
Director of CAIR-Oklahoma
"We Have No Ties To Any Terrorist Organization"
Ahmed Bedier
(Click Photo)
(Former)
CAIR-Florida
Communications Director
"We are to the
American Muslim community what the NAACP is to blacks
in America. If you attack us, you are attacking the Muslim
community
and the religion of Islam in this country." (Mpls
Star-Trib -10/24/06)
"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."
Ahmad Al-Akhras
(Click photo)
CAIR
Vice-Chairman\
"Americans in general might be
more supportive of targeted attacks on
civilians,
as
part of the war on terror, than U.S. Muslims"
"What
has
happened in Somalia, for the majority of Somalis inside
and those who
are abroad, is a positive change."
Randall
"Ismail" Royer
(Click Photo)
CAIR-National
Civil
Rights Coordinator
& Communications
Specialist
*CONVICTED*
Committed
Terrorist Crimes while working for CAIR
Pled guilty to using and
discharging a firearm during, and in
relation to,
a crime of violence; and with carrying an explosive during
commission
of a felony ... admitted helping four people
gain entry to a terrorist
training camp in Pakistan operated by Lashkar-e-Taiba.
[United
States Of America V. Randall
Todd Royer (pdf)]
Ghassan Elashi
(Click Photo)
Founder Of CAIR-Texas
Chairman of Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development
*CONVICTED*
Sentenced
To 65 Years In
Federal Prison
Committed
Terrorist Crimes while working for CAIR
Tried on 21 counts of conspiracy, money laundering
and dealing
in property of a terrorist. Found
guilty on all 21 counts.
[United
States of America V. HLF (pdf)]
- Writings
About CAIR -
*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?
You might
think that with this kind of potential public relations baggage, CAIR
would be running for cover. But you would be wrong because CAIR
is not just the most respected Muslim advocacy group
in the United
States, it's also the most feared. Attack CAIR
and you could get sued or threatened with
a lawsuit or a boycott, as a
number of media entities and companies have discovered ...
*CAIR For
Governor?
This is not the only time
Congressman Davis has been associated with Al-Arian. Only one year
after the Al-Arian campaign contribution surfaced, in March of 2004,
Davis had been a featured speaker at an event sponsored by the Tampa
Bay Muslim Alliance (TBMA), an organization co-founded by Al-Arian. The
event, the Eighth Annual Islamic Charity Festival, also featured
then-candidate for U.S. Senate and former University of South Florida
(USF) President, Betty Castor. According to incorporation papers,
Al-Arian was a Director for TBMA from its June 2000 inception till the
time of his arrest. Three of the individuals that had been
involved with TBMA, during Al-Arian’s tenure, Husain Nagamia*, Rasheed
Hakki and Hakim Aquil**, are still with the group today ...
*Darfur, Sudan: “We Don't Have Enough Knowledge
Of The Situation To Make
Judgments." Why doesn’t CAIR’s voice
have the knowledge to make a judgment today? Could it be that a
racist, genocidal regime in Khartoum, being Wahhabi Arab Muslim, meets
CAIR’s approval? Is it just possible that the Darfur Muslims
“aren’t Muslim enough”? That the Darfur Muslims don’t gallop
about the hinterland murdering, raping, stealing, cutting off various
body parts, and enslaving other Muslims while spreading the “Islam is
peace” message of their Wahhabi oppressors? ... Isn’t it odd that CAIR,
“America’s premier Muslim Civil Rights Group”, will say nothing in
defense of non-violent Muslims who are being systematically “cleansed”
by militant Islamists?...
*Telephoning The Enemy
By its own court filings, then, CAIR
conclusively established its multiple communications with persons
suspected of connections with terrorists. More than merely denying
CAIR's request for GETS privileges, the American government should
consider cutting the organization's telephone lines in the event of a
national emergency ...
*FBI 'Bridges' to Terror
Starting in 1995, in his position as
chief of the FBI’s counter-terrorism section, O’Neill became absorbed
with tracking the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and his global network
of terrorists. But that search ended, shortly after a plane
slammed into the building that he was stationed at, the North Tower of
the World Trade Center. It was there that John Patrick O’Neill
lost his life, while trying to do what he did best – be a hero.
In an act that could only be seen as a way to dishonor his memory, the
organization he gave his blood and guts for took part in an event being
sponsored by one of the defendants in the lawsuit for his
murder... In
Estate
of John P. O'Neill, Sr. et al. vs. Al Baraka Investment and Development
Corporation, it is stated, “Council on American Islamic Relations
and CAIR Canada (collectively, CAIR), have aided, abetted, and
materially sponsored al Qaeda
and international terrorism …
*'Cancer
In Its Midst'
Night
after night, I see Muslim national organizations like the Council for
American-Islamic Relations,
or CAIR,
cry out over and over about anecdotal victimization while saying and
doing absolutely nothing about the most vile hate-speak and actions
toward Jews and Christians in the Muslim world. It is the most
self-serving of outrage ... When I hear a sermon in a mosque about the
horrors of Israeli occupation, I know that the political arena has
taken over the spiritual one. When I see the actions of suicide bombers
praised or excused by religious leaders, I know that this
politicization is complete. But the current Muslim leadership in groups
like CAIR
and others want only to talk of victimization. So, it is now high time
for a new movement by Muslims in America and the West ...
*CAIR April
Fools
Once every year, CAIR
or the Council on American-Islamic Relations gathers its followers in
various ‘hot spots’ around the nation to raise money and flaunt its
homemade status as a “civil liberties group,” in an attempt to convince
the world that they are something which they are not...Since CAIR
has been
in existence, it has lost a Civil Rights Coordinator, a
fundraiser, a Director of Community Relations,
and a founding Director
of its Texas Chapter, all through conviction or deportation. CAIR
is currently the defendant in a lawsuit put forward by the family of an
FBI agent for his murder, during the September 11th attacks on the
World Trade Center. Bringing Ahmed into its organization, the
ACLU gives CAIR
the legitimacy it both craves and needs to survive ...
*Anti-CAIR
Files
Discovery
Documents
Defendant
and Counterclaim Plaintiff Andrew Whitehead, by counsel and pursuant to
Rule 4:8 ... Ask that the Plaintiff and Counterclaim Defendant COUNCIL
ON AMERICAN - ISLAMIC RELATIONS, INC, ("CAIR")
answer the following Interrogatories in writing and under oath within
twenty-one days after receipt ...
*Hamas
and Hizzoner
The
IAP's current president, Rafeeq Jaber, was a founding director of CAIR.
Mohammed Nimer, who directs CAIR's Research Center, was on the board of
the United Association for Studies and Research, which is the strategic
arm of Hamas in the US and was founded by Hamas operative Mousa Abu
Marzook. The aforementioned Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR's Director of
Communications, also worked for the IAP....
All in
all, CAIR's dual agenda is abundantly clear: (A) to depict the United
States as a snake pit of "Islamophobes," wherein Muslims must fend for
their very lives at every moment; and (B) to promote the hateful
aspirations of our nation's deadliest enemies, radical Islamic
terrorists...
*Could CAIR
Less
In a previous column I noted my
brief, but telling run-in with a CAIR
representative on a discussion involving racial profiling after 9/11 on
a Los Angeles radio program. What always gets me going is when any,
yes, ANY fringe group tries to compare their inconvenience to what
blacks went through prior to and during the civil rights era. There is
no comparison, unless you are ready to be called a racist to make you
back down....Now while most have no problem with the understanding of
any religion, in this case it doesn't seem like dialogue was
encouraged; just demands. As far as protecting civil liberties, that
sounds nice especially considering how civil liberties are approached
in some of the countries Muslims escape to settle here...That's right;
I said it. ESCAPE...
*The Hijab That Wasn't
Indeed, much of what CAIR
produces is not all it appears to be — as was graphically illustrated
this week by a misadventure in photo retouching at CAIR’s website. A
photograph posted at CAIR’s website depicted “leaders of the interfaith
community gathered for an interfaith candlelight vigil…to mark the
fourth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks.” One of these leaders —
who appeared to be Samina Faheem Sundas, editor of the American Muslim
Voice — was standing prominently between the male speaker at the podium
and two other Muslim women. Those women were standing submissively with
hands clasped in front and eyes cast downward, hijabs showing
prominently in the picture. But there was something suspicious about
the hijab worn by the woman resembling Sundas: she wasn’t actually
wearing one. The one she had on in the picture was crudely drawn on her
head by a retoucher. What’s more, two women in the crowd also sported
drawn-on hijabs. Someone at CAIR evidently thought that posting a photo
of bareheaded women would
cast doubts upon the organization’s Islamic correctness...
*Sheik Abdul Hadi Palazzi On CAIR And Hamas
Though it claims to
represent moderate Muslims, Palazzi calls the Washington, D.C.-based
lobby group the "U.S. section of Hamas." ... CAIR president "Nihad Awad
is a leader of Hamas in the same way that Sami al-Arian was a leader of
Palestinian Islamic Jihad," ...
*CAIR's Ismail Royer Pleads
Guilty
At the time Mr. Royer
committed crimes, he was in a leadership position at
the Council on American-Islamic Relations,... It
should be noted that years earlier, as a student, Royer worked a short
period with CAIR before he joined Bosnian Forces fighting Serbs in
1994. ... We believe
we know why Mr. Royer is “persona non grata”
at CAIR, but we'd like to see the general MEDIA ask CAIR why they
have turned their backs on Ismail
Royer, and how his guilty plea affects CAIR?...
*Whose Side Is CAIR On?
CAIR has repeatedly stated in the
past that it is committed to partnering with law enforcement to battle
radical Islam. However, instead of congratulating the FBI
for capturing two Muslims who posed a threat to public safety and cast
the Muslim community in a bad
light, CAIR seems to be more concerned about "entrapment" and
"informants."... Does CAIR
believe the use of undercover agents to identify and arrest violent
extremists before they harm innocent Americans is a problem?...
*Terror in the Skies, Again? Praying In
The Skies
In an attempt to better understand a Muslim's need to pray on
airplanes, I called the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR,
and spoke with Ibrahim Hopper, director of media relations ..."If
Muslims can't pray in the bathroom," I asked, "then why did the man
tell a flight attendant he was praying in the bathroom?" "He probably
said he was getting ready
for prayer," Hopper reasoned, adding that men on the Cyprus flight were
"likely making wudu in the bathroom." Wudu is the Islamic ritual of
cleansing oneself with water before prayer. And because wudu involves
washing the body (feet, face, arms, ears, nose), Ibrahim Hopper
suggested that was why there was "bumping on the walls."... Siddiqui
elaborated: "This morning, early, I was in Indianapolis. I prayed in
the airport there. When it's time to pray, we [Muslims] pray. I
sometimes pray in my seat. Prayer can be amended on airplanes...And as
for wudu, Siddiqui clarified that "you can do that on the plane or on
the ground." So, according to a well-respected Islamic scholar, Muslims
can pray on planes without locking themselves in a bathroom and banging
on the walls. Why, then, is CAIR defending suspicious behavior in the
name of religion? And why are airlines unwilling to prosecute
passengers who disobey flight crews in the name of religion?...
*We Have Right To Know Truth About CAIR
In less than five minutes of
air time, the person responsible for putting forth a favorable
presentation of CAIR hung up, leaving the audience with nothing to
warrant a change in opinion of him, his organization or his religion. I
had assured the gentleman prior to his agreeing to appear that I would
not seek to embarrass or diminish him, but I also assured him I would
ask straightforward questions. His rhetoric almost immediately
degenerated into a puerile phonemic tirade, with him accusing me of
"advocating genocide" and of saying "every Muslim on the planet is a
member of terrorist organization." He fomented: "You'd kill me, you'd
kill my family, you'd kill every member of my mosque"... – none of
which had I even remotely suggested. I submit he is in a much better
position to know who within his element is a terrorist than I...CAIR
may think
it fair to accuse anyone who questions, doubts or seeks validation of
their integrity of suggesting every Muslim is a terrorist. But in
reality, it is fair to raise the question of how a devout Muslim
can also be a loyal citizen
of an infidel state like America...
*Michael Graham, Killed In Action
It must be said as
well that some of CAIR’s associates have gone beyond providing covering
fire in the War of Ideas for terrorists, their causes and Saudi and
other funders. In fact, three of the organization’s officials –
Ghassan Elashi, Bassem Khafagi and Randall Royer – have been arrested
in recent years and charged with direct involvement in
terrorism-related activities. CAIR’s troubling behavior and
associations precipitated a hearing of the Senate Judiciary
Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security, chaired by
Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), on the eve of the second anniversary of the
September 11, 2001 attacks. In the course of this hearing called
to explore “Terrorism: Two Years After 9/11, Connecting the Dots,”
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stated that CAIR has “intimate links with
Hamas,” and “ties to terrorism.” Even Senator Richard Durbin
(D-IL), who has long defended dubious American-Muslim organizations,
noted that CAIR is “unusual in its extreme rhetoric and its
associations with groups that are suspect.”...
*A Muslim Against Terror (& CAIR)
I denounce the
so-called Islamic organizations such as CAIR (The Council on
American-Islamic Relations), which constantly tells Muslims in America
that they are in danger from some sort of non-existent plot to defame
Islam. These fear-mongering organizations succeed because their
followers are too ignorant of their own religion and history to see
them as liars and hypocrites. CAIR should be helping
Muslims to become part of the “American Fabric,”
to co-operate, and integrate into our society. Instead, CAIR pushes
Muslims into a kind of emotional helplessness, trying to force upon
them the unpleasant gratification of feeling
themselves victims, and then filling them with a sort of lurking,
sardonic consciousness that the “victim” is stronger than the
“victimizer.” In the end they want the victims to pull down their
victimizer like a pack of hyenas on an unwary lion… America. The
victimization by America, however, is false. The real victimizer
is CAIR itself. Expose their Wahabbi Saudi backed agenda.
Muslims are not in danger from or in America.
America and Muslims are
in danger from CAIR ...
*Nihad Awad Snubs Subcommittee on Terrorism,
Technology,
and Homeland Security
CAIR Executive
Director, Mr. Nihad Awad, quotes an interview with a past director of
counterterrorism for the CIA in which the former director clearly
states that both Hamas and Islamic Jihad have an infrastructure in the
U.S. and he uses this as a defense against the accusations made by Mr.
Emerson? Is Mr. Awad implying that CAIR
approves of the presence of these two Islamist terrorist groups in the
United States? If so, Mr. Awad
seriously underestimates the amount of anger and disgust this will
engender among Americans toward both he and CAIR ... Both Hamas and
Islamic Jihad have terror murdered Americans abroad, both are present
in our country today, both are a clear and present danger to our safety
and security and yet we should accept their presence because a former
CIA counterterrorism director says, “…has never targeted Americans
here…it would be counterproductive to their cause. (T)heir focus is
Israel and occupied territories.” ...
*CAIR's Phony Fatwa
For starters, the fatwa
never defines "innocent lives" and condemns killing someone "unjustly."
This represents a hole big enough to drive a Hummer through. Terrorism
expert Steven Emerson said, "It [the fatwa] does not condemn by name
any Islamic group or leader. In short, it is a fake fatwa designed
merely to deceive the American public into believing that these groups
are moderate. In fact, officials of both organizations [FCNA and CAIR]
have been directly linked to and associated with Islamic terrorist
groups and Islamic extremist organizations. One of them is an
unindicted co-conspirator in a current terrorist case; another previous
member was a financier to al-Qaeda."..."CAIR has repeatedly attacked
the prosecutions of Islamic terrorists arrested and/or convicted since
9/11 and has attacked the government's freezing of Islamic terrorist
fronts as part of a 'war against Islam' by the United States. CAIR has
led protests against the deportation of radical Islamic clerics who
have called for jihad or who have been fundraisers for Hamas."...
Anti-CAIRs' View:
We now find
ourselves fighting a new enemy. An enemy that mocks us as they
hide behind our Constitution; an enemy, entrenched and protected by a
phalanx of attorneys and sycophants, ready to pounce at the first sign
of our weakness; an enemy that demands that
the police power of the state defend their “rights”, but would deny
these same rights to other Americans; an enemy that accepts funding and
support from foreign countries that support terrorists...We don’t
listen to the ranting of Osama Bin Laden, why must we listen to the
provocative, insulting statements of Mr. Nihad Awad?
“I support Hamas!”, ... indeed
you do, Mr. Awad and "thank you" for reminding us...
*CAIR's Chairman Omar Ahmad Denied Retraction
Once again, Mr. Ahmad is
caught telling the truth about CAIR and he doesn’t enjoy being
exposed. His attempt to seek a retraction was cut short, and we
at ACAIR look forward to Mr.
Ahmad accusing the Tri-Valley Herald of “Islamophobia” - the
standard CAIR response to reporting about topics that they
dislike....We encourage other newspapers in America to take up the
standard set by the
Tri-Valley Herald and report the truth about CAIR...
*CAIR: Refusing To Tell The Truth About Royer
On Tuesday, 15
February, the popular Fox Television program “Hannity & Colmes” had
Ahmed Bedier, Communications Director for the State of Florida Council
on American – Islamic Relations (CAIR-FL) as a guest...We believe the
facts show that Randall Royer, who recently was convicted of
terror-related activity on behalf of America's enemies, was actually
engaged in illegal, pro-Islamist terrorist activity while he was
working for CAIR...
*Preaching Violence
At the Islamic Association of
Palestine's third annual convention in Chicago in November 1999, CAIR
President Omar Ahmad gave a speech at a youth session praising
suicide bombers who "kill themselves for Islam." "Fighting for
freedom, fighting for
Islam-that is not suicide ... They
kill
themselves for Islam, ..."
*The
CAIR-Terror
Connection
Besides the Holy Land
Foundation, Ghassan Elashi was also involved with CAIR. In fact,
Elashi was one of the founding board members of CAIR’s Texas
chapter. What this means is that CAIR didn’t just stick a link to
the Holy Land Foundation on its website, but instead, CAIR was directly
linked to the Holy Land Foundation itself!...
*PC War
On Terror
It wasn't the so-called
fatwa against terrorism issued by the Fiqh Council of North America and
ballyhooed by the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). Despite
the pc-cheers, this fatwa failed to define "terrorism" and
"civilian"two key terms that other Islamic rulings have interpreted to
condone the killing of Americans and Israelis. Given the two sponsoring
groups' links to terrorist organizations (see Steven Emerson's summary
at the Counterterrorism Blog), it's worth wondering whether their fatwa
applied, for example, to "terrorism" against "civilians" fomented by
Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad ... Because CAIR -- a Hamas-linked
organization with, as Daniel Pipes recently pointed out, "five current
or former affiliates arrested,
convicted or deported on terrorism-related charges" (DanielPipes.org)
-- put pressure on the station to do so. The reaction? As of the
Saturday morning after the Thursday night Mr. Graham was
suspended, he took to his blog to thank listeners for the 10,000 emails
or so that he estimated
had been sent to the station
on his behalf. By Tuesday, he was begging people to stop: "The volume
of calls and emails is hurting the ability of some very good people to
do their jobs, and
trust me -- your message has been received."...
*CAIRing for Sami Al-Arian
And yes, Ahmed Bedier has
acted as Sami Al-Arian’s spokesman. One Google search on the
internet of both their names provides over 200 results… mostly news
stories containing quotes from Bedier about Al-Arian and his legal
troubles. He was even the motivating force in trying to get
Al-Arian’s trial moved out of Tampa!...After the event was over, I went
up to Bedier to grill him some more. One of his oversized
lackeys, Suhai, patted me on the shoulder and said that, thanks to me,
he was even more fervent in his cause. During the event, Bedier
had motioned towards Suhai to bring him a camera, so he could take
pictures of me and my colleague...
*Islamic Hall Of Shame
The game of claiming to have
condemned Islamic terrorism or even radical Islam without actually
doing so is one that has been mastered by many Muslim leaders. Ibish
mocks the idea that Nawash
is the first leader of a Muslim political organization to condemn
Islamic terrorism and radical Islam, but when he was given the chance
to do just that on CNN regarding
al-Arian’s call to jihad, Ibish actually defended the accused
terrorist. To date, Ibish has devoted more ink to attacking Nawash than
all radical Muslims—combined...
*Fake Muslim Hate Crimes: Where's The Apology, CAIR?
"Stunned?" The Muslim
lobby's gullible hate crime howlers have been duped before. Muslim
self-arsonists and self-grafitti vandals have been a recurring
post-Sept. 11 problem....Oh, and still no apology from CAIR and its ilk
for continuing to perpetuate the myth of "growing Islamophobic
prejudice" and for smearing the most tolerant nation of earth...
*CAIR's Shameful
Silence
CAIR’s spokesman was given the
opportunity to condemn Hamas and Islamic Jihad by the Washington
Post in November 2001. His response was
telling: “It’s not our job to go around denouncing.” Asked
a similar question about Hamas and Hezbollah by the Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette in February 2002, CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper called
such queries a
“game” and explained, “We’re not in the business of condemning.”
But
when Israel is to blame, CAIR seems to be very much “in the business of
condemning.” ...
*CAIR's War On National Review
In fact, however, The Life
and Religion of Mohammed is not “anti-Muslim hate literature.” It was
written over eighty years ago by Fr. J. L. Menezes, a Roman Catholic
priest who was a missionary in India. I have read it, and there is
nothing inflammatory or inciteful in it; in fact, it is suffused with a
pastoral love for Muslims... “Hooper said anti-Muslim rhetoric often
leads to discrimination and even violence.” Fr. Menezes calls for no
violence. Everything he says about Muhammad is, as I have shown, easily
established from Islamic sources. What this charge does is attempt to
divert attention from the real violence committed by jihadists today to
a chimera of violence against Muslims in America, and thereby silence
criticism of Islam and, in particular, investigations of the sources of
Islamic terror in the Qur’an and Sunnah...
*CAIR:
The Story, ... and the Rest
of The Story
Mr. Hemeidan should know
that the Muslim experience in America has nothing in common with the
black experience of the 60's. For him to say otherwise is an
insult to all those Americans who fought the hard battles for civil
rights....Islam in America has no one to compare with Dr. Martin Luther
King for the simple reason that Muslims are not being oppressed
anywhere in the United States today by government policy...
*What Happened To Unconditional Surrender?
As part of its
continuing disinformation campaign in America (reminiscent of Nazi,
Soviet and Japanese propaganda of the not-too-distant past), the
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is providing public
service announcements to American television stations titled "Not in
the Name of Islam."...It is helpful to quote what two prominent
senators have said about CAIR: "(CAIR is) unusual in its extreme
rhetoric and its associations with groups that are suspect," said
Richard Durbin, Illinois Democrat. "We know (CAIR) has ties to
terrorism," added Charles Schumer, New York Democrat ...What if the
"moderates" are too intimidated to speak out for fear they will be
killed? If that is the case, it is all the more reason to declare total
war on the jihadists, because that is what they have declared on us...
*CAIR's Radical Nexus
CAIR's
passionate defense of the Elashis is no coincidence. In fact, the
incestuous connections between CAIR, the Elashi family, and two key
players in Hamas's U.S. network, the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) and the
Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), are well-established. One of
the Elashi brothers, Ghassan, even helped found IAP and CAIR branch
offices in addition to serving as HLF national chairman ...These
dizzying connections were solidified in Philadelphia’s Marriot hotel in
October 1993 when—under the watchful eye of an FBI surveillance
team—Ghassan Elashi, future CAIR Chairman Omar Ahmad and leadership
from IAP, HLF, and Hamas came together to plot the direction of Hamas’s
U.S. network and develop a strategy to defeat the Oslo peace accords. Tellingly,
just a few months after the Philadelphia meeting, CAIR's current
Executive Director, Nihad Awad, stated, “I am in support of the
Hamas movement” during a speech at Florida’s Barry University...
*The
Muslim
Hate Crime That Wasn't
It certainly was a symbol --
a symbol of the knee-jerk penchant among some civil rights groups and
their enablers to cry racism, claim discrimination, and criticize U.S.
law enforcement authorities for not doing enough to stop "hate
crimes."... It turns out, you see, that the burnt Koran was left at the
mosque by - a Muslim student. The student said he placed the book
and other fire-damaged materials in a bag and left the bag at the
Islamic Center with a note, which apparently blew away."...
*CAIR's Hate Crimes Nonsense
But CAIR is part of the
Wahhabi Lobby, so (unlike the mainstream media reporters) we thought it
a good idea to take a closer look at the report. We examined in detail
some “examples of anti-Muslim hate crime reports received by CAIR in
2004,” on p. 43, plus some
“samples” on p. 53 and discovered a pattern of sloppiness,
exaggeration, and distortion: ... CAIR cites
the July 9, 2004 case of apparent arson at a Muslim-owned grocery store
in Everett, Washington. But investigators quickly determined that Mirza
Akram, the store’s operator, staged the arson to avoid meeting his
scheduled payments and to collect on an insurance policy. Although
Akram’s antics were
long ago exposed as a fraud, CAIR continues to list this case as an
anti-Muslim hate crime...
*CAIR Condemns"24"-Won't Condemn Islamic Terrorists
Instead of kudos, though, “24” has
courted considerable controversy. Making the most hay has been
CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which bills itself as
“America's largest Muslim civil liberties group.” A CAIR
spokesman complained to Entertainment Weekly, “They are creating a new
stereotype.”... What “new” stereotype? Muslims as
terrorists? Blame the news for that one. Wait, no, blame
the Jihadists the world over who still wish “death to America.” ...
*CAIR Sponsors Terrorist Suspect/Link To Al Qaeda
While detail checking the
federal indictment of eleven Islamist terrorism suspects, ACAIR
researchers have found a link between Mr. Randall Royer and Al Qaeda
... ACAIR firmly believes that the conspirators’
alleged meeting with a BIF representative; the proven ties between BIF
and Al Qaeda, Mr. Randall "Ismail" Royers' connection to
the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), all
point to the inescapable conclusion that CAIR, at least,
colludes and operates with terrorists- and at most, actively supports
Islamist terrorism...
*Profile
Of Terror
But the case of Muslims at
the Canadian border and the ongoing political backlash demand special
attention. First, the concerns of anti-terrorism officials are
certainly warranted by the radical reputation of the RIS conference.
Second, whether or not the grievances of the victims are justified, the
involvement of CAIR and another Islamist group, the Muslim Public
Affairs Council (MPAC), points to a much larger problem: radical
Islamists seeking to exercise
influence over federal policies designed to stop terrorism. And insofar
as the security of America’s borders are concerned, such influence
cannot be tolerated...
*Jihad On Fox's "24"
Ironically,
the two groups behind this apology for the existence of “24” are the
groups that demonstrate how the American Muslim community actually does
NOT stand firmly beside their fellow Americans in denouncing and
resisting terrorism in every
form....But in the case of “24,” even Aghdashloo, an Iranian Muslim,
dismisses CAIR and MPAC.
"They think after what happened on 9/11 that we're going to forget it?"
...
*A Muslim
Scholar
Takes On CAIR
"So here
we have CAIR, representing a religion that has the presentation of
proof as a tenet in its holy book telling me that what is acceptable to
the majority must take precedence to truth. Or that the voice of the
minority must not be heard. No wonder democracy has such a problem
being accepted into their interpretation of Islam although they may
trumpet about Islam and democracy. I do not think their motives were
sinister, but I see a big problem with their approach: it means that if
the majority of Muslims think the Jews and Christians are misguided and
evil, then they must advocate that. It is similar to their position on
the woman's headcovering--which they present as "the Islamic
position."...I
feel that Muslims who choose to live in free societies must act as if
they are in free societies and not seek to subjugate those societies to
their often retrogressive and uneducated views of gender interaction,
dress codes etc."...
*CAIR's Double Standard
In
CAIR’s eyes, then, when a non-Muslim broker responds too emotionally to
terrorism, he deserves years in jail and financial ruin. But when a
Muslim broker threatens a store, he’s the innocent victim of “negative
stereotyping” who deserves release without any punishment at all. The
Ehrgott and Okashah incidents fit an ugly Islamist pattern of double
standards. Although CAIR presents itself as a civil-rights group, it is
just the opposite – an organization asserting special privileges for
Muslims and derogating the rights of others...
*The Truth About CAIR And Terrorism
Two
weeks ago, the National Post and I were served with a notice
of libel by the Canadian branch of the Council on American Islamic
Relations, or CAIR. The Post and I are not
alone. Over
the past year, CAIR's Canadian and U.S. branches have served similar
libel notices on half a dozen other individuals and organizations in
the United States and Canada. Each case has its own particular facts,
yet they are linked by a common theme...
*Why Is CAIR Suing Anti-CAIR
These statements, CAIR claims,
"are false, and were false when made." Further, Anti-CAIR made them
"with knowledge of their falsity." The statements are libelous
because "they impute the commission of a criminal offense." They
allegedly caused injury to CAIR's "standing and reputation throughout
the United States and elsewhere."...
*A Bad Day
For CAIR
The hearing,
titled “Two Years After 9/11: Connecting the Dots,” was focused on the
prevalence of the radical Wahhabi Islamic sect among Muslim political
groups in
the U.S. CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad and
Chairman Omar Ahmed were invited to testify at the hearing, but both
declined to attend. In their absence – and in front
of their empty witness chair - the
committee heard compelling evidence that Saudi Arabia financially and
ideologically supports a network of American organizations that act as
the defenders, financiers, and front groups of international terrorists.
CAIR has been a major player in
this network since its creation in 1994, with a particularly soft spot
for the suicide-bombing death squads of Hamas...
*Portrait
Of A Wahhabi
In Randall Royer we see the naked
face of Wahhabism in America: a vicious, fanatical, terrorism. After
his arrest, I and others pursued by him asked ourselves if we had
not come close to being fatal victims of his extremism. Was
he merely
harassing us, or preparing for something worse?...
As it turns out, people did attend
this dreadful event. And one of the featured speakers was
a representative from CAIR, Iyas Maleh, the President of CAIR’s
Dallas-Fort Worth
chapter. Maleh said of the June handover of sovereignty to Iraq: “Two years from now
we’ll be saying, ‘What have we done? We’ve installed a
government that the Islamic people do not see as a
legitimate government.'"...
*CAIR's
Legal Tribulations
Almost
three years after the U.S. government closed down the Holy Land
Foundation for Relief and Development, it today indicted this largest
of American Islamist "charity" organizations and charged seven of its
officers, including Chairman Ghassan Elashi, with providing more than
$12.4 million to individuals and organizations linked to Hamas from
1995 to 2001. Charges in the 42-count indictment include conspiracy,
providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization, tax
evasion, and money laundering...
CAIR's
Hooper told the Virginian-Pilot that while Whitehead is not CAIR's only
critic, "he is one of the most egregious." ...Whenever a group takes a
civil-rights stand
in the United States, Hooper said, people "will find any way they can
to oppose it. That’s just life in the big city...
*CAIR Condemns Mutilation, Not Terror Murders
CAIR has declared that the militant Islamist terror murdering of
Americans is acceptable under Islam as long as the bodies are not
mutilated...How many more Americans must
die in militant Islamist attacks before Americans wake up the reality
of what CAIR supports?...
*Jihad At The St. Petersburg Times
“As an elected
official, you can’t sit down with just anybody,” says Frazier. “If
these people would have bothered to check CAIR out beforehand they
would have seen that it is a radical group. At the meeting, I made very
clear that I wasn’t talking about all Muslims. I was only talking about
CAIR. But it was absolutely unbelievable what followed.”...
*Anti-CAIR Files Response
to CAIR Lawsuit
Senior
CAIR employee Randall Todd Royer, a/k/a “Ismail” Royer (“Royer”), pled
guilty and was sentenced to twenty years in prison for participating in
a network of militant jihadists centered in Northern Virginia. He
admitted to aiding and abetting three persons who sought training in a
terrorist camp in Pakistan for the purpose of waging jihad against
American troops in Afghanistan. Royer’s illegal actions occurred while
he was employed with CAIR...
*CAIR:
"Moderate" Friends Of Terror
CAIR consistently defends other
militant Islamic terrorists too. The conviction of the perpetrators of
the 1993 World Trade Center bombing it deemed "a travesty of justice."
The conviction of Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind sheikh who planned to
blow up New York City landmarks, it called a "hate crime." The
extradition order for suspected Hamas terrorist Mousa Abu Marook it
labeled "anti-Islamic" and "anti-American."...We are
similar to a Muslim NAACP," says spokesman Ibrahim Hooper...
*Masquerading As Mainstream
"...the Council on
American-Islamic Relations, which says it was 'established to promote a
positive image of Islam and Muslims in America,' was co-founded
by Omar Ahmad, the same person who co-founded the Islamic Association
for Palestine-the Hamas front organization which
first published the Hamas charter in English - together with Hamas
Leader and Specially Designated Terrorist Mousa Abu Marzouk."...
*Dr. Parvez Ahmed, Master Of Deception
As
all Americans who are even peripherally familiar with the law know,
making untrue statements can be libelous. However, what if the
charges are true, that CAIR
does indeed support and defend Islamist terrorism? What
then? Are we to remain silent in
the face of a legal threat from CAIR officers? Just exactly what
was Dr. Ahmed’s purpose in making this statement? Is this a
veiled threat to anyone interested in investigating CAIR’s true
agenda?...
*College Students Win Battle Against CAIR
*Within
48 hours, they had coordinated with College Republican chapters across
the Capital district and had received pledges of support from numerous
campuses ...The end result? The MSA sent the Republicans
an e-mail saying that
Soloojee would not be attending the event due to some
personal reasons...
*CAIR's
"Anti-Muslim"
Hysteria
Sheikh
Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi is head of Egypt’s
Al-Azhar University,
Sunni Islam’s most prestigious establishment. Under Tantawi’s
leadership, Al-Azhar has declared jihad against the U.S.
repeatedly, and has called for suicide attacks against American forces
in Iraq.
He has called Jews “apes and pigs.” CAIR invited Tantawi to speak in
D.C. at its 10th
annual dinner ... Americans are correct to oppose
objectionable practices and ideologies in the Arab and Muslim world
that lead to terrorism and hatred. It is unfortunate that CAIR has
failed to do so...
*CAIR's War From Within
On December 4, 2003, Ibrahim Hooper faxed a letter to the office of
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, writing, “It is my unfortunate
duty to bring to your attention bigoted anti-Muslim comments sent to
our office by an officer in the U.S. military.” Hooper then listed
several comments by Captain McCall he felt were “Islamophobic.”...To
date, CAIR refuses to make public all of the exchanges that
occurred on the discussion board prior to Captain McCalls
offense to Islam...
*Muslims Condemn Terror Attacks? Really?
"The term 'civilians' does not
exist in Islamic religious law," according to Hani Al-Siba'i, head of
the Al-Maqreze Centre for Historical Studies in London ...Or this from
Syrian-born Muslim cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed: "We don't make a
distinction between civilians and non-civilians, innocents and
non-innocents. Only between Muslims and unbelievers. And the life of an
unbeliever has no value. It has no sanctity." "We will use your
democracy to destroy your
democracy."...Or this: Siraj Wahhaj was the Imam of Masjid Al-Taqwa in
Brooklyn, New York. “Take my word; if 6-8 million Muslims unite in
America, the country will come to us." ... Perchance it would be
beneficial to them if we truly were deaf. Dumb and blind too.
Unfortunately for them, we see and hear everything. This routine has
far surpassed the stage of being tiresome...
*CAIR Head Refuses To Denounce Terrorists
CAIR also claims to be a
(Muslim) civil liberties organization. As CAIR's spokesman should Mr.
Hooper not, then, offer an explanation as to why militant Islamists
appear to
be indifferent to the civil liberties of non-Muslims? If
Mr. Hooper is the communication director of CAIR, why is he so
unwilling to communicate what he meant when he said that, publicly,
CAIR
does not support terrorist groups?...
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