CAIR’s Threat to National Security
Hussam Ayloush, head of CAIR-California, is associating with and praising some of the world's most notorious supporters of terror.
CAIR leader Hussam Ayloush is on a crusade against the FBI; he’s upset by how the government agency fights terrorism. What he’s not upset by are the terrorists who threaten America and America’s allies.
It’s a pattern by Mr. Ayloush that could easily lead one to believe he is a threat himself.
Hussam Ayloush is the executive director of the California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-California), also known as CAIR-Southern California or CAIR-Los Angeles. He has held the position since at least 2001. Between then and now Ayloush, while appearing to be a moderate, has been associated with extremists who convey hatred and violence.
In December 2001, CAIR-California’s website published a photo taken in Los Angeles of Ayloush shoulder-to-shoulder with the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Yusuf al-Qaradawi. This was two years after al-Qaradawi had been banned from entering the United States.
Al-Qaradawi, whom the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) refers to as the “theologian of terror,” has incited violence against Jews, endorsed suicide bombings, called for homosexuals to be put to death, voiced his support for various terrorist organizations, called for the destruction of the state of Israel, and sanctioned attacks against U.S. troops abroad.
As reported by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) in November 2002 — again, after al-Qaradawi had been banned from the U.S. — Ayloush venerated him as a “scholar.” He stated:
Several people were asking about the eligibility claim for CAIR. And according to many scholars including Yusuf Qaradawi, basically this is one of the venues of zakat (charity) for your money as vis a vis basically educating about Islam in America and the West.
Al-Qaradawi is not the only threat to the U.S. whom Ayloush has described as a scholar. He said the same of Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood operative Wagdy Ghoneim, after Ghoneim was arrested in November 2004 on an immigration violation. Ayloush stated, “Wagdy Ghoneim is a highly regarded religious scholar who gives speeches around the country.” According to the State Department, his sermons targeted Jews, Christians, and the West. Ghoneim, who was then a mosque leader in California, would soon be deported to Qatar.
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1. Steve DeMarcus:Looks like they need to deport more of these guys. They should not be in this country if they have disagreements with our culture.
Sep 9, 2009 - 4:40 am 2. dad:CAIR is basally a civilian antagonist expeditionary force attempting to pave the way for Global Islamic Theocracy, they use our own freedoms to nurture the weeds of Islam in our American garden.
Sep 9, 2009 - 5:18 am 3. genghis:I just do not understand how anybody could disparage a representative of the largest peace loving religion in the world. In our culture getting stoned is pleasurable. In his, it is fatal. In our culture a show of hands is a function of democracy. In his, it is the prescribed punishment for theft. In our country, murder is a felony. In his, honor killing is a guiding principle. But hey, who are we to judge.
Sep 9, 2009 - 6:02 am 4. Xe:Nothing short of a full blown global propaganda campaign aimed at educating people about islamists and attacking islamist ideology will solve this global islamist crisis. All these muslim brotherhood linked groups will continue to spread their evil ideology until we rise to defeat them intellectually just like we did communism and facism. Our very civilization is at stake.
Sep 9, 2009 - 9:20 am 5. infidel4life:CAIR is a probing tool, so brilliantly explained by Baron Bodissey
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/09/barking-up-wrong-tree.html
Reading that article helps put into perspective all the islamic organizations attempts to get minor concessions left and right, all in an attempt to push their agenda ever so slightly further.
Sep 9, 2009 - 12:13 pm 6. Leatherneck:Don’t worry, CAIR already knows it is an enemy of these United States.
Sep 9, 2009 - 1:50 pm 7. ehunter:Cant we stop appeasing? Cant we stop trying to be all things to all people? There are groups and cultures that simply do not fit. There are no
Sep 9, 2009 - 3:55 pm 8. Don:safe muslims..only walking time bombs with shorter or longer fuses.
CAIR is in full support of the ummah no matter what. If it involves a Muslim, CAIR is on their side, period. Terrorist…doesn’t matter. CAIR follows the Koran’s Golden Rule of supporting the ummah and fellow Muslims no matter what. There are NO Muslim terrorits, only those fighting for Islam, jihad. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, a Muslim can do wrong.
Sep 10, 2009 - 4:36 am 9. Judy, NYC:if we didn[’t have obamboozler as president, we wouldn’t have CAIR here or any of the other muslim crap that is as much a fifth column as nazis marching in yorkville. i sure hope we can stand this another 3 years and four months.
Sep 12, 2009 - 6:30 pm 10. Lewis:Their time is coming. CAIR and their fellow travelers will bring us great sorrow, death, and pain. But we will respond. We will be tardy, we will cower for while, but the fist will clench and we will crush them and their foreign sponsors. I pray for the the leader (not the Obama fool) and the day of victory.
Sep 24, 2009 - 10:37 pm 11. Glen Kemp:As a Christian who supports the rights of Jews and the nation of Israel, I abhor and detest the great lie called Islam. I do not hate nor detest Muslims, though I do distrust them for what they believe. It is their so-called faith that I find deplorable. Islam is responsible for most of the terrorism that has occurred in my lifetime, and it descriminates against and persecutes non-believers (called “infidels”). Islam does not recognize Israel as a nation, and Muhammed turned against Jews when they refused to acknowledge him as a prophet (they were formerly called “people of the Book” but along with Christians, were later called pigs and monkeys). Islam is Satanic, and it is high time that America take a stand against Islam. It is our duty to expose Islam for the what it really is – Satan’s false religion designed to supplant and destroy Judaism and Christianity.
Sep 26, 2009 - 3:02 am 12. dafasdf:your web site is full of crap and lies
Oct 10, 2009 - 5:16 pm 13. Anonymous:Jawhar Sadallah Badran
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Badran, Jawhar S., 50, of South Palm Beach, died Monday. December 29, 2008
Hudson Memorial Chapel, Delray Beach.
“And as for those who are slain in God’s cause, Never will He let their deeds go to waste:
He will guide them [in the hereafter as well], And will set their hearts at rest, and will admit
them to the paradise which He has promised them.”
The Quran, Surah 47: 4-6
In light of this Quranic scripture, Allah, God, put to rest Jawhar “Joe” Sadallah Badran’s
heart. That heart began its 50 year journey in Florida (Tallahassee) and 2, 144, 163,600 billion
beats and 41,878,195 million gallons of blood later ended that journey where it began, in Florida
(just a few miles south, in Delray Beach). Jawhar was a Floridian, a native-born Floridian. Jawhar
was a southerner; a real Southern Gentleman. Jawhar was an American; a native-born American.
Jawhar was a Palestinian Muslim; a native-born Palestinian Muslim in exile. Jawhar was, above
all, a Human Being; a child of the omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, and omnificent God:
Nothing more; Nothing less!
Mr. Jawhar “Joe” Sadallah Badran died in Delray Beach, Florida on Monday afternoon,
December 29, 2008 and was buried according to Islamic practice in the Islamic Cemetery of
Gastonia, North Carolina on Thursday, January 1, 2009, New Years Day. According to this
practice, Joe’s body was wrapped only in white linens, buried touching the earth, without of a
coffin, placed on his right side facing Mecca, and draped with his self-made Palestinian flag.
(January 1st was also the birthday of his eldest sister, Zahira Badran.) The official cause of death:
Cardiac Arrest / Heart Attack. A Palestinian Arab American, fluent in Arabic and eloquent in
English, Mr. Badran died both in the state (Florida) and country (United States of America) in
which he was born, lived, loved, worshipped, and worked (as a Commodities Trader – Stocks).
Mr. Badran was the second of five children, and only boy, born to Mr. Sadallah Badran and Mrs.
Khaldiya Kayed Badran, in Tallahassee, Florida, on September 11, 1958. He was the proud uncle
of six nieces and nephews: Samar Dahir, Leena Barghouthi, Muhannad Barghouthi, Jenine
Barghouthi, Feras Shammout and Nader Shammout. Their mothers, Joe’s sisters, are: Zahira
Sadallah Badran, Linda Sadallah Badran, Reema Sadallah Badran and Khulood Sadallah Badran.
Their fathers, Joe’s brothers-in-law, are: Nael Dahir, Eyad Barghouthi, and Bilal Shammout. In
addition to these immediate family members, Joe leaves to mourn a huge extended family
throughout the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, Dubai, Palestine (Family
ancestral village of Beiteen, known in English as Bethel), and other areas of the Middle East. And,
he leaves to mourn a host of colleagues and friends throughout Florida.
Jawhar began his journey with the Diversity Committee (School Board of Broward County)
on June 22, 2003, at Nova Southeastern University’s East Campus, following a presentation by
Diversity Committee & Multi-Ethnic Advisory Board Member Roland A. Foulkes (Panelist) during
a symposium and panel discussion of Muslims and Non-Muslims entitled, “Islam: Contribution or
Threat to American Society?” The Tri-County Women’s Islamic Committee in collaboration with
JAM (Jews, Muslims, Christians and All) and the Muslim Student Organization sponsored this
event.
He assisted Foulkes in gathering over 200 signatures for a petition against a motion
brought before the Diversity Committee by Joseph Kaufman (then-Citizens Against Hate, now
Americans Against Hate and author of the April 17, 2003 frontpagemagazine.com article,
“Bringing Islamic Extremists into Our Schools”) through two Diversity Committee members
(Ronald Gunzbuger and Steve Kane). That motion (tabled at the May 1, 2003 and June 5, 2003
meetings and withdrawn by Gunzburger at the July 10, 2003 meeting was: “That the Broward
schools prohibit any employees, officers, or spokespersons, of the Council on American Islamic
Relations (CAIR) from participating in the production of programs, videos, and other materials (of
any nature) intended to be shown to students and teachers.” Through the efforts of Jawhar and
other members of the Muslim community, nearly 100 Muslim men, women, children, brothers,
sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles attended that July 10, 2003 meeting at which the motion
was withdrawn.
From that pivotal moment, until 2004, Jawhar committed to attending nearly 100% of the
Diversity Committee monthly meetings so as to fully understand the purpose, structure and
function of the committee, prior to seeking a formal appointment by school board member Dr.
Robert Parks. Both Jawhar and the larger Muslim community, especially Broward’s Palestinian
Americans appreciated that politically courageous appointment by Dr. Parks who, at that time,
and until November 2008, was the FIRST and ONLY member of the nine person board to have
reached out to, and included this obviously and overtly and deliberately excluded segment of
Broward County.
In addition to his volunteer work on the Diversity Committee (School Board of Broward
County), Joe, as he was known by members of this committee, was Co-Chair of the Jewish – Arab
Dialogue Association (JADA) and active in the organization, Jews, Muslims, Christians and All
(JAM). On the Diversity Committee, he served this district and its students for over four years.
Between 2004 and his last meeting as a Diversity Committee member on Thursday, November 6,
2008, he contributed to the work of several sub-committees. These included: (1) Ad Hoc CCC
Conditions / Indicators Sub-Committee (2004-2005); (2) Ad Hoc Name Change Sub-Committee
(2006); (3) Nominations Sub-Committee (2007); (4) Hiring Practices Sub-Committee (Co-Chair,
2007-2008); and, (5) Ad Hoc CCC Report Response Sub-Committee (Chair, 2008). As Chair of this
last sub-committee — between September and November 2008 — Joe played a major role in
shaping that report. This is the Diversity Committee’s FIRST EVER formal written response to a
Superintendent’s CCC Lawsuit Settlement Agreement Update Report (2007-2008) and Joe helped
pioneer this pioneering initiative. Though he was no longer a member of this committee during its
December 4, 2008 meeting, Jawhar took time from his active schedule to attend that meeting and
to contribute to its work. This is as he had done nearly 2 years prior to his formal committee
appointment by School Board Member Dr. Robert Parks in 2004.
In each of these capacities, Jawhar did his homework, asked critical, and relevant
questions, challenged groupthink, and made recommendations that enhanced and advanced
equity and parity and self-representation for EVERY student, parent, citizen, and taxpayer.
Eulogies, like this one, are typically reserved for those who have died, as Jawhar has
done; who have been placed in the grave, as Jawhar has been; and who are being funeralized, as
Jawhar was on January 1. But, since March 2008, and until December 2008, when the verbal,
printed, internet-based, broadcast news-based hate-filled onslaught against Jawhar began, and
continued, by Joe Kaufman (Americans Against Hate/AHA) and Andrew Rosenkranz & David
Barkey (Anti-Defamation League/ADL), several members of the Diversity Committee and many in
the larger community were engaged, unknowingly, in a slow-motion eulogy of Jawhar.
Rarely, does one get to hear about the good that one has done, what others see that one is
doing, both in one’s own life, and in theirs, while one is able to hear those accurate, truthful, life
affirming, uplifting, edifying words. While one is alive: While one is living! Such truths of our lives
are too often shared, regrettably, when one can no longer hear them, let alone appreciate them.
That was, however, not the case with Jawhar Badran.
To those who joined Diversity Committee Chair Roland A. Foulkes in speaking truth
publicly on his behalf during consecutive meetings of the School Board of Broward County
between September and December 2008 (e.g., Mrs. Ernestine Price and Mrs. Marguerite Luster of
the Diversity Committee and the community’s Mr. Nezzar Hamze, Mr. Altaf Ali, Mr. Sofian Abdellaz
Zakkout, and Mr. Jack Lieberman), know that Jawhar wholeheartedly appreciated the time,
thought and truth spoken to 400,000 households through the Broward Education and
Communications Network/BECON on his behalf. To those who wrote letters to the editor
defending and upholding Jawhar’s character and person (e.g., Mr. Randy Fleischer of the
Broward Human Rights Board and Diversity Committee in his New Times piece), know that
Jawhar was touched and moved deeply by your words especially since they were from a Jewish
perspective. To those on the Diversity Committee who proposed unanimously passed motions to
the School Board of Broward County (e.g., Mr. Julian Gazzano and Mrs. Barbara Williamson, Mr.
Randy Fleischer and Mr. Michael Rajner) know that Jawhar was humbled at those votes on
motions that acknowledged his positive contributions to the Diversity Committee and ALL of
Broward County’s students, teachers and parents. To those who went on record with truthful,
accurate, portrayals of him in the print media (e.g., Dr. Robert Parks in the South Florida Sun-
Sentinel and the Miami Herald), Jawhar thanks you for standing up to selfish bullies, rabid
Islamophobes, their threats, their hostile directives, their smear campaigns, their character
assassinations, by rebuking and repelling such attacks.
To all of you, who slandered and libeled him, who tore him down, Jawhar said, when he
was living, “You are forgiven, and, may Allah, God, have mercy on you and yours.”
To all of you, who supported him, who built him up, Jawhar said, when he was living,
“THANK YOU and may Allah, God, bless each and every one of you.”
A TRIBUTE TO JAWHAR SADALLAH BADRAN – January 2009
by Roland A. Foulkes, RolandAFoulkes@gmail.com
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The School Board of Broward County, Florida
DIVERSITY COMMITTEE
T R I B U T E
Jawhar Sadallah Badran
September 11, 1958 – December 29, 2008
Thursday, January 8, 2009
6:30 p.m.
1st Floor Board Room
School Board of Broward County
Kathleen C. Wright Administration Building
600 South East 3rd Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
P R O G R A M
I. Welcome
II. Video Clip – Presentations before the School Board of Broward County
(Jawhar Badran and Others)
III. Eulogy – Roland A. Foulkes, Immediate Past Chair, Diversity Committee,
on behalf of Diversity Committee
IV. Individual Remembrances – Diversity Committee
V. Individual Remembrances – Dr. Robert Parks (Letter, School Board, Broward County),
Mr. James Notter (Presentation, Superintendent & Staff)
VI. Individual Remembrances – Community Members
VII. Circulation of Sympathy Cards for Signatures (To be sent to family in North Carolina)
VIII. Thank You on Behalf of the Family of Jawhar “Joe” Sadallah Badran
IX. Close
NOTE:
Throughout this Tribute, and the following Diversity Committee Business Meeting, a
Oct 15, 2009 - 11:58 amphotograph of Jawhar “Joe” Badran will remain on all monitors and on the large screen.