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019/07  November 22, 2007



     CAIR: “Labeled”

     The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), has petitioned a court to have the label of “un-indicted co-conspirator” removed. CAIR, among many other Islamist groups, was labeled an un-indicted co-conspirator in the recent Holy Land Foundation (HLF) trial held in Texas.

     CAIR wrote to House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers asking for help in pressuring the Justice Department to remove the designation. CAIR is also asking why the Justice Department publicly named all 306 co-conspirators in the HLF indictment.

     CAIR, the nation’s premier apologist for Islamist terror and Islamist terrorists, is upset because the government made the very obvious connection between CAIR and terrorism.

     The only mystery here is why it took the government so long to acknowledge what has been common knowledge for many years.

     CAIR goes on to complain that the designation of un-indicted co-conspirator interferes with its ability to qualify for government funds for outreach programs as pending 2008 legislation would block the Justice Department from providing funds to any group or person identified as a criminal un-indicted co-conspirator.

     Imagine that! It will take a federal law to implement common sense – that the government should not be providing money to a criminal un-indicted co-conspirator. Is this to mean that current law allows the Justice Department to provide funds to such groups or persons?

     CAIR’s letter to Conyers alluded to a civil rights connection by saying, “…you remember many of these abusive practices from the McCarthy era and the civil rights movement.”

     CAIR, once again, attempts to tie Muslims into America’s Civil Rights era, completely overlooking the fact that Muslims in America come in all colors and that the Civil Rights era was a justified struggle by black Americans for civil rights. Is CAIR being disingenuous by preying on Congressman Conyers African-American Ancestry?

     Let’s hope that Conyers rightfully rejects CAIR’s ridiculous comparison.

     While it may be too soon to figure out what Representative Conyers will do on behalf of CAIR, perhaps he will listen to the words of Sue Myrick, Representative of North Carolina, when she responded to some questions put to her by noted author Paul Sperry in the on-line edition of Investor’s Business Daily:

     (Note: Rep. Myrick is founder of the House Anti-Terrorism/Jihad Caucus,
                a group made up of 118 Democrat and Republican Representatives)

IBD: What persuaded you to start the Anti-Terrorism/Jihad Caucus, and
what do you hope to accomplish?

Myrick: I decided to start the caucus out of a deep frustration,
because President Bush does not talk to the American people about the
long-term threat of radical Islamofascism infiltration in America. Since 9/11,
I've tried to get the president and several members of hisadministration
to talk to the American people about the dangerous enemy that we're facing.

IBD: Are there any Muslim groups with which federal or other government
officials — as well as businesses and nonprofits — should think twice about
doing outreach or interfaith activities?

Myrick: 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 ...





     What does Myrick know that Conyers may not?

     Let’s hope that Myrick makes the time to bring Conyers up to speed about CAIR and CAIR’s ties to Islamist terrorists and terrorist groups.
  
    Congressman Conyers should do the right thing and place CAIR’s letter where it belongs, ... in the trash can. CAIR is not deserving of a response from a member of the People’s Congress on stationary paid for by the people.

     We’re sure we speak for the majority of Americans when we say we look forward to the day when the “un” is removed from CAIR’s well-deserved title of “un-indicted criminal co-conspirator” ...

Andrew Whitehead
Director
Anti-CAIR
ajwhitehead@anti-cair-net.org
www.anti-cair-net.org


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