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-ŕ-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"
