Ex-CAIR Chairman: FBI Should Shut Down the Organization
The Council on American-Islamic relations has existed in America as a fifth column terror support network.
CAIR was founded by leaders of the American propaganda wing of Hamas, the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP). In an article in the February-March 2000 issue of The Link entitled “Muslim-Americans in Mainstream America,” CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad stated, “[Then-IAP President] Omar [Ahmad] suggested to me that we leave the IAP and concentrate on combating anti-Muslim discrimination nationwide. … In June 1994, we used a modest donation as a starting budget to open the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Washington, D.C.”
A July 1994 document issued shortly after CAIR’s creation was placed into evidence at the first HLF trial. It showed that CAIR was established as part of Mousa Abu Marzook’s American Palestine Committee. At the time, Marzook was the global head of Hamas, and the committee’s mission — amongst other pro-Hamas matters — was to raise funds for Hamas from American shores. CAIR has had a number of terror-related representatives who were deported from or who are serving jail sentences in the United States:
- Randall Todd “Ismail” Royer was convicted of working with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) — the group responsible for the 2008 Mumbai attacks — in a plot to murder Americans and Indians overseas. Ten days before Royer was due to lead a September 24, 2001, press conference as CAIR’s national civil rights coordinator, he was in contact with LeT. And just two days prior to the press conference, Royer had an AK-47-style rifle and 219 rounds of ammunition in his car.
- Less than a year after listing his occupation on a political donation as “CAIR/Director” (Northern Virginia), Abdurahman Alamoudi became part of a Libyan plot to assassinate Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah. Alamoudi helped recruit participants and assisted in the transfer of hundreds of thousands of dollars to finance the operation.
- Ghassan Elashi — a founder of CAIR’s Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas chapter and a chairman of CAIR’s parent organization, the IAP — was one of the defendants at the HLF trial and was found guilty on all charges.
- In September 2003, Bassem Khafagi pled guilty to bank and visa fraud and was later deported to Egypt. According to the Associated Press, at the time of his arrest he was CAIR’s community affairs director.
- Rabih Haddad, a CAIR-Michigan fundraiser, was arrested on December 14, 2001, the same day that the Global Relief Foundation (GRF) — the organization he co-founded — was shut down by the U.S. government for financing Hamas and al-Qaeda. On July 14, 2003, he was deported to Lebanon.
CAIR has existed in America as a fifth column terror support network with clear connections to the terrorist organizations themselves. There is overwhelming evidence that proves CAIR has the “terrorist ties” that Ahmed spoke of in his articles for the Observer and the Post. Whether or not Ahmed wants CAIR to be shut down, his challenge to the FBI is a legitimate one that should be taken seriously.
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Joe Kaufman is the chairman of Americans Against Hate and the founder of CAIR Watch.
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17 Comments
1. dad:CAIR is nothing but a pro-Islamic Neanderthal, pro-sharia piece of garbage that is looking to spread the Mohammad’s death cult to every corner of the globe.
Apr 3, 2009 - 4:30 am 2. elvis:Great piece! Keep them coming. No one seems to know about this travesty.
Apr 3, 2009 - 4:37 am 3. Bruce:Don’t you suppose the FBI has so thoroughly infiltrated the organization that they see it as their most valuable listening post or watch tower to use against domestic terrorists?
One would hope so. But with the lockstep progressives of our civil service one should also suspect that any infiltrators would come from the corps of jihadists who already have infiltrated our government. IOW, like Bullwinkle’s anti-anti-anti-anti-missile-missile-missles, our anti-terror campaign got lost before it started.
Apr 3, 2009 - 6:21 am 4. Rational Joe:Let us be C.A.I.R free forever
I propose F.A.I.R (Freedom from American-Islamic Relations), it is always good to be F.A.I.R.
Apr 3, 2009 - 7:51 am 5. Mark in Dayton:No gov’t organization – local, state, federal- should treat with CAIR in any manner, shape or form. Unless it is to cursh an organization bent on the overthrow of the US Constitution.
Has anyone else noticed how stupid so many of our elected officials are? By that I mean, so many of them are oblivious to the threat posed to our way of life by the ideology of islam and the deceitful people who follow it?
So few of our elected reps realy get it. Amazing.
Apr 3, 2009 - 9:29 am 6. Christopher Logan:Still many of our politicians bow down to CAIR.
Apr 3, 2009 - 10:46 am 7. AlanABQ:I think you’re all being intolerant of CAIR. It’s their belief that we should convert or die, as commanded by MooHamEd’s little book of acceptable atrocities, and anything to the contrary of what Islam wants is hate speech. We are, after all, just a nation of dhimmis who ought to be paying our infidel tax to them at the very least.
Is that clear? Free speech is the real enemy.
Apr 3, 2009 - 1:08 pm 8. Listen up:CAIR is a front for terrorist seeking to destroy America from within. Their operation is directed to use the laws of America as tools, actually weapons to spread their vile agenda. Because America is a tolerant nation CAIR exploits this tolerance for their gain. Either our elected officials are too dumb to see the danger or are afraid to get “muddied” by the liberal media for opposing these thugs.
Apr 3, 2009 - 6:37 pm 9. MiamaMan:I think we should behead CAIR.
Apr 3, 2009 - 7:53 pm 10. Christopher Smith:@8 It is so wierd to hear this. CAIR is very active in Orlando and has participated in every single community event, the people who show up and help are always so nice and they donate money like candy, their scholarship programs are generous to a fault giving almost 10 million in college scholarships to kids in the Pine Hills area (the East St. Louis of Orlando) for them to go to private schools and/or college.
It’s odd to hear that a group that has done nothing but help Orlando is secretly trying to destroy it.
Needless to say it’s hard for me to believe.
Apr 3, 2009 - 8:19 pm 11. Oscar the Grump:Watch out now you’re messin with Prez Obama’s good friends, he be angry.
Apr 5, 2009 - 5:38 pm 12. Blackwater:CAIR is a front for the Muslim Brotherhood. A racist islamist imperialist jihadist organization. They’re a 5th column if there ever was one.
Apr 6, 2009 - 2:43 am 13. Juke:Just tell the government that CAIR is full of white Mormons, they’ll go after them in a second.
Apr 6, 2009 - 5:03 am 14. BobNweave:10 — as a character in a John Le Carre novel responds to a similar point, “in our buisiness, we call it a good cover”. Where does the money they hand out come from?
Joe K — you go, Joe, we read the book and you come out on top (apologies to Tim Rice)
Apr 6, 2009 - 9:23 am 15. Klem:The headline is completely misleading. Why are you spreading hate and misinformation? Don’t you want American Muslim organizations to cooperate with the FBI?
Apr 7, 2009 - 2:17 am 16. IdontCARE:CARE is an International danger
Apr 17, 2009 - 6:27 am 17. Muslim:Ahmed wrote in the Observer piece, “If CAIR has ‘terrorist ties,’ as Reps. Sue Myrick and Patrick McHenry of North Carolina and Paul Broun of Georgia claim it does, then the FBI should not be ‘limiting’ contact with CAIR, but rather should shut the organization down.” He then made a similar statement in an article he penned for the Huffington Post: “If CAIR has ‘terrorist ties’ as some members of Congress claim then the FBI should shut CAIR down.” If the government were to take Ahmed’s challenge seriously, CAIR would no longer exist.
The title is a huge distortion on the statement that the this ex chairman said. If in fact it is linked to terrorism then shut it down. But a quick check onto their website shows that it is in fact there and you can see that they are clearly anti-terrorism and anti-hate. It’s a strange strange thing. Nobody talks about anything without at least having some level of expertise. To hate islam without really knowing or understanding it is completely unfair and biased. Our Quran teaches us there is NO COMPULSION IN RELIGION. Do as you please, we are only here as messengers to you. Check this link if you dare (http://www.themodernreligion.com/terror/terrorism_verses1.htm).
Furthermore, how can muslims hate and kill jews and christians. If you look into the history of Islam, muslims have fought in the defence of Jews and have seeked shelter in Abyssinia (a christian state at the time) in it’s early beginnings. Examine the pact that was made with the jews here(again if you dare, if you don’t have the courage to face the truth, thats your own issue, but I tried to tell you!): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Medina
May 15, 2009 - 11:15 pm