Islamic Group Flouts Tax-Exempt Status to Support Obama
The Islamic Circle of North America's website is pushing for Obama's reelection in 2012.
Those who saw ICNA’s convention announcement were told to go to icnase.net to register for the event. That was then. Recently, viewers of the site witnessed an entirely different message.
Up until last week, icnase.net was being used as a political campaign site for the 2012 reelection of President-elect Barack Obama. Across the top of the site’s homepage hovered an official Obama campaign banner. Also on the homepage was a video entitled “Obama 2012.” It discussed the accomplishments of the first Obama administration — how Obama made health care more affordable, how he made it easier for Americans “to live the American Dream,” and how he brought soldiers home from the war. This, while Barack Obama hasn’t even begun to serve his first term yet. The video ended with a boy on a bicycle asking the question, “Can we keep this country moving forward, if we reelect President Obama?” and a chorus of children replying, “Yes, we can.”
The registrant of icnase.net is an individual named Zakiyah Omar, an operative for the 2008 Barack Obama for President campaign. Omar is also the registrant for the website of the organization Muslim Americans for Obama ‘08, a group which held events at various Islamic extremist functions, including the 32nd Annual ICNA-MAS convention. The web host for this site and all three ICNA-SE sites is the same group, 1 & 1 Internet, Inc.
The Islamic Circle of North America, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, tax-exempt organization. According to the IRS, under its “Ban on Political Campaign Intervention,” “For an organization to be tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) it cannot participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing of statements) any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office.”
In addition, according to the IRS, “Violating this ban may result in denial or revocation of the organization’s tax-exempt status.” It is obvious that ICNA has indeed violated this ban.
ICNA has been involved in a number of terror-related issues that should, for all intents and purposes, get the organization closed down. However, it could be the unlikely subject of politics that, in the end, causes ICNA’s downfall.
If ICNA wants to participate with groups that help finance terrorism abroad, it should be held accountable. And if ICNA wants to support political candidates, it should be held accountable as well. Regardless, America’s taxpayers shouldn’t have to foot the bill.
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Joe Kaufman is the chairman of Americans Against Hate and the founder of CAIR Watch.
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1. shilor:B O has a logo that he used when running, something like a sun raising behind a rainbow. Look at the logo for this group! Can it be?
Jan 1, 2009 - 7:59 am 2. Dave:When organizations with obvious links to terrorism and violent anti-American agenda’s are fervently supporting Obama, we should all start to ask why.
If Obama goes soft on terrorism, he needs to be opposed and defeated.
Jan 1, 2009 - 9:38 am 3. shilor:took some time but was able to get a look at b o
Jan 1, 2009 - 9:50 am 4. John Galt:logo on his campaign plane
http://www.amazon.com/Gemini-Jets-Barack
this seems to of dissappeared from sites
this is a toy site, maybe couldn’t get them to take it down.
two of a feather, yeah!
A lot of the radical Muslims in American are black folk. This is a fact that is never reported by the MSM or for that matter anyone else.
So it is not surprising that the INCA would support Obama for POTUS in 2012.
Many blacks whether Muslim or not are anti-semitic. In fact next to Latinos, blacks have the 2nd highest percentage of antimsemites in America. However, not too many Latinos are Muslim, atleast not today.
Jan 1, 2009 - 12:47 pm 5. KansasGirl:Don’t forget black Muslims HATE whitey.
Jan 1, 2009 - 4:13 pm 6. Fishleg:A group of terrorists supporting a terrorist sympathizer…makes perfect sense to me, why do Oblahblah’s robots ignore it?
Jan 1, 2009 - 4:50 pm 7. Greg:I used to worry that Oabama would be soft on terrorism and maybe even appease it. My fears are receeding, though. I sense that liberals and Democrats are going to be very disappointed with Oabama´s hardline stance on terrorism and Islamic groups that try to use him. Something will happen on his watch, probably sooner rather than later, and I´m betting Oabama will surprise us and take it to them (terrorists and those who harbor them – probably Pakistan) big time, using the Bush Doctrine to do so. It will shock many, but it won´t surprise me. It may even make me want to vote for him in 2012…something I would never otherwise consider.
Jan 2, 2009 - 12:31 pm 8. blogengeezer:Shilor # 3 they took that one down also. They are destroying the evidence as fast as the newest administration comes into POWER! “POWER Just as STRONG as the Military and as well funded”.
Jan 2, 2009 - 7:56 pm 9. Berlet98:A closely-related story:
AND THE BEAT GOES ON: MULTICULTURALISM AND TERRORISM–2009
No one can ever accuse the government of the United States of having an excess of either intelligence or discretion.
The World Trade Center hasn’t even been rebuilt, in fact it’s far from being re-built, yet our State Department in 2008 extended invites to 3400 residents of nations deemed state sponsors of terrorism to come on in!
Out of a total of 50,000, Cuba, Iran, Syria, and Sudan have been allotted thousands of what are called “diversity visas” furnished to nations with low immigration numbers so that they can beef up their emigration to America. The program was mandated by our Congress and implemented by our Foggy Bottomites: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=41385.
Nowadays, it’s considered un-American to question the value of further diversification of our population despite any number of studies, and common sense, that indicate such programs are counterproductive and serve to undermine our national integrity.
Whether termed diversity or by its companion buzzword, multiculturalism, the idealistic concept and its implementation have been shown to function not as an enhancement of our melting pot of peoples but rather as a divisive construct, the effects of which is a balkanization into enclaves of foreigners who speak a language other than English and continue foreign practices, traditions, and cultures rather than seeking absorption into our general population.
See this analysis, “The Absurdity of Multiculturalism,” by Ralph S Musgrave, author and social commentator, http://ideas.repec.org/e/pmu56.html.
Writing principally for a U.K. audience, he thoroughly debunks the fatuous, and perilous, underpinnings of a theory much in vogue today but which actually serves to divide, not simply to diversify: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=41385
We are a nation built on immigration….
(Read the rest of this article @ http://genelalor.com/.)
Jan 3, 2009 - 7:57 am