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
do not and will not condemn any
liberation movement inside Palestine or Lebanon"
"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."
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)
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."
CAIR
Officials CONVICTED Of Terrorist Crimes
*
* * * * *
Randall
"Ismail" Royer
(Click Photo)
CAIR-National Civil
Rights Coordinator
& Communications
Specialist
*CONVICTED*
Sentenced
To 20 Years In
Federal Prison
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, the group responsible for the 2008 Mumbai jihad
massacres.
[United
States Of America V. Randall
Todd Royer]
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. CAIR's Ghassan Elashi and
his fellow
convicts tried to appeal their convictions to the Supreme Court and
were DENIED.
[United
States of America V. HLF]
- Writings
About 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...
*Is CAIR
a Terror Group?
Can [CAIR] Truly Be An Instigator Of Terrorism? CAIR
Can Rightly Be So Characterized. True, it does
not set off bombs but, as the UAE's foreign minister explains, "Our
threshold is quite low. … We cannot accept incitement or funding."
Indeed, CAIR incites, funds, and does much more vis-à-vis
terrorism...
*CAIR Founded By “Islamic
Terrorists”?
Why did CAIR drastically reduce its claims versus
Whitehead?... CAIR’s filing an amended motion has two
apparent implications: that CAIR
has tacitly acknowledged the truth of Whitehead’s deleted assertions;
and those assertions can now be repeated with legal impunity... CAIR has proven links to… Islamic
terrorists. It's easy to understand why CAIR chose to leave this
one alone, what with five current or former CAIR affiliates arrested,
convicted, or deported on terrorism-related charges...
*Why
CAIR Dropped Its Lawsuit
Against Anti-CAIR
Apparently it feared exposure that would reveal its leaders connections
to terrorist groups like Hamas... Although CAIR is legal under the
constitution, it is important to remember that the Communist party and
the neo-Nazi parties in America were legal too...
*CAIR's
Defeat A Defeat For Islamism
In America
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.
*Yes, CAIR’s Terrorist Ties Are Real
CAIR's sympathy for terrorists, and its ties
to them, are extensive, well-documented, and yes, they have resulted in
charges (and convictions).
*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...
*American
Muslims Commend FBI For Rejection
Of CAIR
We,
the undersigned American Muslims, have long known the true character of
CAIR and its allies... We observe that they denounce “terrorism” in
general terms but not the specific actions of Islamist groups like
Hamas or Hezbollah. They denounce violence but not the ideologies
behind it... We observe their commitment to radical aims, their
attempts to chill free speech by calling critics of radical Islam
“Islamophobes,” and their false, ugly accusations against moderate
American Muslims who disagree with their agenda...
*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."
*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 ...
*CAIR
Admits Officials Have Ties
to Islamist Terrorism
"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."
*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 ...
*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."
*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" ...
*NPR Slams CAIR On Bogus Hate Crimes Reporting
Reports on how some activist groups often use a
less-than-scientific
approach to obtaining statistics that support their claims about hate
crimes.
*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
“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...
*CAIR's
Kifah Mustapha Lawsuit
Questions Existence Of Palestine Committee
Yet CAIR's Founders Omar Ahmad &
Nihad Awad Are
Included On It's Phone List (#25 & #32)
List Also Includes Terrorist Musa Marzouk &
CAIR-Texas
Founder/Convict Ghassan
Elashi (pdf)
*"CAIR
Is A Hamas Entity...It Is Hamas" (Video):
The Islamic
Infiltration
Bill Whittle Interview of Former FBI
Agent: "CAIR Is A Hamas
Entity... It Is Hamas" (7:28)
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 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...
*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."
*Boston College Points
To CAIR's HAMAS Ties To
States Anti-Sharia Efforts
Also
Unacknowledged Questions With Other Major Muslim Organizations, Especially With Their Leadership
*CAIR's Nihad Awad &
Convict Ismail
Royer Attend '01 Anwar al-Awlaki Led Prayer
So if there is a distinction in the Muslim community between peaceful
Muslims and jihadists, it certainly wasn't evident at this Capitol Hill
prayer meeting, where a jihad mass murder mastermind preached the
khutba for a group containing a jihad terror plotter, two leading
"moderate" Muslim spokesmen, and a congressman's chief of staff.
*Critics: Officials Should Bypass CAIR
State
elected officials should not attend a faith-based group’s annual
event...given the FBI’s disassociation with the group
*CAIR-Texas
Founder & "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."
*The Incredible Shrinking CAIR
One
myth essential to CAIR’s illusion of credibility is the success of
their annual fundraisers. These are depicted as well-attended affairs
that raise large sums; ...Never mind that a significant source of
donations for these events apparently comes from foreign donors...
*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."
*CAIR
Islamic Supremacist Tells The
Truth About Saudi Arabia & Women
"Just
living in Saudi Arabia is not necessarily the most horrible thing,"
Dabdoub said. "I know people who lived there and liked it. I know
people who lived there and hated it. The kinds of jobs that women can
do are limited and where they can go is limited. If she's saying that
her movement and rights would be restricted, yeah, absolutely."
*"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."
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.
*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."...
*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"...
*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...
*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, others...
*CAIR Identified By FBI
As Part Of
Muslim B'hood'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.
*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.” ...
*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...
*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 ...
*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....
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."
“If [CAIR]
had any connection to any groups
that were of concern, I
personally wouldn’t be working here,”
Dawud Walid
(Click
Photo)
Director of CAIR-Michigan
Dawud Walid described
pistol-packing Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah as benevolent and simply a "very quiet" man. Killed in a
gunfight with the FBI,
Abdullah had told
followers they should not "carry a pistol if you're
going to give it up to police. You give them a bullet."(p21) Walid
made a ghoulish propaganda ploy by posting autopsy photos of Imam
Abdullah on the Internet
Dawud
Walid Fabricates Dangerous
Propaganda:
"We've
Had Mosques Burned Down"
(Audio Snip)
"We as a community should rise up and say
this Uncle Tom & Aunt Jemima
does not represent the interests of the [mosques] and Arab
organizations"
“Who Are Those Who Incurred The Wrath Of Allah?” ...
“They Are The Jews, They Are The Jews”
Muneer Awad
(Click Photo)
CAIR-NY
"CAIR, The Chapter
Of Oklahoma [Has] Existed For Slightly About Three Years, We Are Funded
Totally By Funds
That Are Raised In Okalahoma, ... If I Was Guilty Of A Crime Or Guilty Of Being Affiliated
With A Terrorist Organization, Don't You
Think Our Goverment Would Arrest Us?" (Audio 1:49)
"There has been nothing that has connected CAIR to anything
illegal. If there was anything found to be illegal they would
have been prosecuted,"
Zahra
Billoo
CAIR-SFBA Executive Director
Self-Described "Litigious, Feminist,
Hippie, Anarchist"
(Click Photo)
"What the FBI came and did was enable them to become actual
terrorists,"... "is creating these huge terror plots where they don't
exist."
Calls Ayaan Hirsi Ali
"The Perfect Aunty-Tom"
