John R. Houk
© October 17, 2013
Yesterday I posted on the battle of wills between Rep. Michele Bachmann and CAIR-MN (and CAIR national for that matter). In doing some precursory research on Rep. Bachmann accusing Muslim Mosques in America of being primarily financed by foreign nations with ties to violent Radical Islam. Rep. Bachmann points to Saudi Arabia and Qatar in which Wahhabi Islam is enshrined as the rule of law and which spouts the exact same theopolitical ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). AND CAIR-MN is whining (probably) because CAIR and numerous other Muslim-American organizations as well as individuals of political power can be directly linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) had its name associated with now defunct Holy Land Foundation (HLF). The HLF is defunct because its operating officers have been convicted of funneling Muslim-American donations to the Muslim Brotherhood-connected Islamic terrorist organization known as Hamas. The Department of State lists Hamas as a terrorist organization. Hamas’ sole reason to exist is NOT just to establish a new Muslim-Arab State to be called Palestine, rather Hamas’ raison d'être is to destroy Israel and kill Jews. The insidious transnational web of the Muslim Brotherhood in one of many of Muslim-American organizations can thus be described like this: CAIR-MB-Hamas. No matter how you look at that it is an Islamic Terrorist support scheme between CAIR and Hamas.
Since the days of the HLF convictions for funding Hamas more and more public information has come to light about CAIR receiving funding from foreign entities which is illegal since CAIR is not registered as a representative foreign agent. Under it non-profit status it is illegal for CAIR to receive foreign funds and the IRS not be notified from whence the money came from. So what did CAIR do?
CAIR began establishing phony coney groups in an attempt to legitimize foreign donations without revealing the origin of money. Of interest in particular of CAIR dividing its non-profit status into two organizations. CAIR began using names such as Washington Trust Foundation (WTF) and the CAIR-Action Network:
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The scheme works like this:
CAIR is registered as a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization. The IRS says this is for social welfare organizations and that can include “organizations that engage in substantial lobbying activities.” Donors to this type of non-profit do not have to be disclosed.
In June 2013, CAIR changed its name to Washington Trust Foundation, Inc. Another previous name it used was CAIR-Action Network.
In 2005, CAIR sets up CAIR Foundation, Inc. and it receives its 501(c)(3) non-profit two years later. The IRS says these are charitable organizations that are prohibited from campaign activity. Its donors are disclosed and receive tax deductions.
This second organization did not file the required IRS forms from 2008-2010 and lost its non-profit status in 2011. In 2013, its status was revised and it changed its name to CAIR-Action Network, Inc.
The Daily Caller explains that it is legal for an organization to have two different types of non-profit entities, but they must be strictly separated. In CAIR’s case, they function as one.
To disguise its foreign donors, the financier writes a check to “CAIR” without specifying which entity. The funds are placed in the CAIR/Washington Trust Foundation account so the original source can be hidden.
From there, the money goes to the CAIR Foundation. As explained, donors to this non-profit must be disclosed but the original sources are hidden by routing the donation this way. In a single 5-year period, the CAIR-Action Network transferred $1.8 million to the CAIR Foundation.
… (READ ENTIRETY - Report: CAIR Engaged in Money-Laundering to Hide Foreign Donors; By Ryan Mauro; Clarion Project; 9/23/13)
Keeping this all in mind I found an excellent webpage disseminating information on the Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim-American organizations, and most emphasized organization is CAIR and the MB infiltration into the USA including the government. The website is put out as akdart.com and seems to be operated by Andrew K. Dart. I don’t know if A.K. Dart is an actual name or a pseudonym. A cursory Google search turned up nothing on the person and loads on articles – mostly from akdart.com – written by Dart. At the end of an article attributed to Andrew K. Dart at the Canada Free Press is a one sentence profile at the end entitled “Here Comes the Odometer Tax” and posted on 3/30/11:
“Andrew K. Dart is a broadcast engineer in Dallas, Texas, and is also the editor of akdart.com.”
I became weary of searching so if anyone knows any pertinent profile info about Dart let me know in the comment section. I would love to know more about a guy that gathers such great info.
At any rate below is an info page on the nefarious operations of Muslim Brotherhood activities in America emphasizing CAIR. The info is quite lengthy so really, take a couple of days to become knowledgeable.
JRH 10/17/13
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CAIR, ISNA, NAIT and the Muslim Brotherhood
Organizations that deserve more scrutiny than they usually get
No Author Listed but Presumably Andrew K. Dart
Last Updated: October 15, 2013.
The organizations discussed on this page apparently have two common goals: the manipulation of the American news media and the suppression of any criticism of Islam. They portray Muslims as the victims of 9/11/2001 rather than the perpetrators.
It is amazing to see that even after the September 11th attacks, which were apparently carried out by Muslims, any criticism of Islam is still considered "islamophobia". After all, phobia = fear = terror. Isn't terror what terrorists want? If islamophobia exists, the Islamic terrorists are to blame.
It is amazing to see that even after the September 11th attacks, which were apparently carried out by Muslims, any criticism of Islam is still considered "islamophobia". After all, phobia = fear = terror. Isn't terror what terrorists want? If islamophobia exists, the Islamic terrorists are to blame.
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Extortion — The Brotherhood's M-O. When not pretending to distance themselves from flat-out terrorist outfits like al Qaeda (the better to have Kool-Aid gulpers at the White House regard them as "moderates"), the Brothers leverage the atmosphere of intimidation created by violent jihad to advance the stealth jihad. Where necessary, the Brothers — while piously disavowing violence — will stoke the violence themselves. Remember, the Hamas terrorist organization is the Muslim Brotherhood — the global organization's self-proclaimed Palestinian branch whose support has been a top priority of the Brotherhood's international franchises (very much including in the United States) since Hamas's inception.
Dangerous Times: The Crisis-Monger. The Center for Policy Studies has now exposed secret money streams from the Muslim Brotherhood to the Democrats. That hidden flow of cash explains everything that made no sense before, going back to 9/11/01. The MBs run layers of shell corporations to hide money for the Democrats from the IRS — which isn't looking very hard. The Clinton Center is one major conduit. The Obama campaign is another.
Burning CAIR's Islamophobia Report. Does CAIR seek to suppress the free speech of any group with which it disagrees? Why does CAIR label speech it disagrees with as "Islamophobic"? One could literally write a book critiquing the intellectual shortcomings of the 148-page report. Certainly not written at the reading level of "The 9/11 Commission Report," it reads more along the lines of a 7th Grade English paper derived from the Cliff Notes version of a Dr. Seuss book. To frame their thesis, CAIR lumps a number of individuals and organizations into an "American Islamophobia network." Sounds ominous, doesn't it?
Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrates Clinton Camp, FBI Offices. As Cairo bans the radical Muslim Brotherhood and jails thousands of its leaders, the terror-supporting group is making deeper inroads into our own government. The extent of the Brotherhood's influence on operations — within the State Department and even the FBI — is stunning and demands further investigation.
CAIR collects millions from foreign donors thanks to non-profit shell game. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) conceals donations from overseas through a series of shell organizations, according to documents from court actions involving the Muslim advocacy group. Since its founding in 1994, CAIR has presented itself to American Muslims and the media as a single organization centered on American concerns. But it shows a different face to the IRS, with multiple corporate entities that conceal the large financial donations that come to CAIR from Middle East sources.
FBI Instructed to Break Rules Banning Interactions With Terrorist Co-Conspirator CAIR. CAIR was determined to be related to the web of terrorist financing during the Holy Land Foundation trials in Dallas, a trial which resulted in guilty verdicts. Afterwards, the FBI issued a blanket policy: no cooperation in the field with CAIR. But the FBI's Office of Public Affairs issued instructions to ignore the policy. Why are DOJ press flunkies in Washington, D.C. issuing directives to FBI field offices about how to deal with CAIR? The answer to this question lies at the heart of the scandal, demonstrating that the politicized lawlessness of the Eric Holder Justice Department now is affecting the FBI.
CAIR Denounces Wide Range of Critics as 'Islamophobes' in New Report. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) released a report titled "Legislating Fear — Islamophobia and its Impact in the United States" on Thursday [9/19/2013]. The report profiles and accuses several individuals, websites, organizations of being anti-Islamic and spreading so called "Islamophobia" throughout the United States. The controversial organization, that was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the U.S. government's 2007 Holy Land Foundation trial and reportedly built ties with the current administration is hitting back at its critics in this report.
Muslim Brotherhood Official, Former Clinton Foundation Employee Arrested. A senior Muslim Brotherhood official who, until recently, had been employed by the William J. Clinton Foundation was arrested in Cairo on Tuesday [9/17/2013] and charged with inciting violence. Gehad el-Haddad served as one of the Muslim Brotherhood's top communications officials until Egyptian security forces seized him as part of a wider crackdown on officials loyal to ousted former President Mohamed Morsi.
Clinton Muslim Brotherhood Operative Arrested in Egypt. The arrest of Gehad el-Haddad for inciting violence is a sobering reminder not just of how close Hillary Clinton's network is to the brutal Muslim Brotherhood, the Left's favorite Islamofascist cell, but also of the extent to which Islamist enemies of the United States have infiltrated the American political establishment.
The Clintons Employ Muslim Brotherhood Officials? You Can't Be Serious. I don't know who is more shocked about this, me or Huma Abedin, but it turns out that a former top Clinton Foundation official is also ... a senior Muslim Brotherhood official who has just been arrested for — you'll never guess — inciting violence in Egypt. Not to worry, I'm sure it was only moderate violence.
Does the Qur'an Teach Hate? On September 11, 2013, a public information officer for Palm Beach County, Florida named John Jamason posted a message on his personal Facebook page: "Never forget. There is no such thing as radical Islam. All Islam is radical. There may be Muslims who don't practice their religion, much like others. The Quran is a book that preaches hate." The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) immediately complained, and demanded that the county turn over to them everything that Jamason had written from a county computer over the previous month. [...] Left unexamined in the controversy was whether or not what Jamason said was true.
Muslim Brotherhood's World Domination Blueprint. From its inception in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood has been the subject of persecution due to its commitment to a single goal — transitioning the world into an Islamic empire.
Egyptian Pol: 'Very Strong Perception' Obama Backs Muslim Brotherhood. Speaking on August 22, the head of Egypt's Social Democratic Party Mohamed Abou El-Ghar said: "America is losing Egypt... There is a very strong perception that they are supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and they are against other parties." El-Ghar said this perception began growing when Senator John McCain (R-AZ) met with representatives from the Muslim Brotherhood in February 2012 but would not meet with representatives from other parties.
Moderate Islamists? Really? [Scroll down] Anyone notice one of the key problematic words? It's "moderate" — especially when connected with Islamists. (One of the others is "democratic" — especially when democracy leads straight to the Muslim Brotherhood.) There is nothing moderate about the Muslim Brotherhood. Now, to be clear, they may not be as immediately or as indiscriminately violent as al-Qaeda, but Andrew McCarthy refers to the Brothers as "Muslim supremacists" for a reason.
What Is the Difference Between 'Extremist' and 'Moderate' Muslim Brothers? It is iron dogma for the politically correct establishment in the U.S. that "moderate Muslims," which for that establishment includes every last Muslim in the U.S., abhor and despise "extremists," whom they don't even consider Muslims, and whose violence and supremacism they reject. That's the story, anyway.
Not a Legitimate Party. I find it absolutely bizarre how little attention is paid to the fundamental nature of the Muslim Brotherhood. It is not a legitimate political party. Its objects are not consistent with democracy or democratic goals. It is, as Steve Hayward concisely commented, "a fascist political faction with murderous intent. Full stop." Its goal is the (re)establishment of an Islamic caliphate.
Obama's Strange Love Affair with the Muslim Brotherhood. It's hard to fathom how or why our administration ever thought the Muslim Brotherhood saw democracy as other than a means to an end — and a particularly repellent one at that — in the first place. It's not as if the MB is subtle. They have proclaimed who they are since their founding by Hasan al Banna in 1928 and have not wavered in any significant way since in their global jihadist goals.
Islamic group says UCF professor promotes anti-Muslim hate. The Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is accusing a UCF professor of teaching anti-Muslim bigotry. Officials with the group sent a complaint to the University of Central Florida asking it to review the content of professor Jonathan Matusitz's courses. Matusitz, 36, has taught several communication classes at UCF, including one called Terrorism and Communication and another on intercultural communication.
Islamizing the Public Schools. The Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is pressuring public schools in this country to make special accommodations for Muslim students and to deny comparable accommodations for students of other faiths. For example, CAIR's instructional material for teachers entitled "An Educator's Guide to Islamic Religious Practices" advises schools to permit Muslim students who wish to attend Friday congregational worship (known as Jum'ah) to "request a temporary release from school."
CAIR pushes 'hijab friendly' policy in American prisons. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is working to make American prisons more "hijab-friendly," according to a report from Al Arabiya. "I'm working on several pending cases in different states... and I'm in touch with an attorney for the Department of Justice's Office of Civil Rights," Nadhira al-Khalili, legal counsel for CAIR, told the Saudi-owned news outlet. The goal for CAIR is to make the hijab a permissible, official staple of Muslim women's attire, including for photos, in prisons nationwide.
CAIR Lectures US: Boston Jihadis Weren't Influenced By Islam! In the wake of revelations that the Boston Marathon Bombers were engaged in Jihad, or holy war, CAIR held a press conference in Chicago today [4/19/2013] to remind Americans that this has nothing to do with Islam.
Largest U.S. Muslim Group Features Terror in Flagship Publication. The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) is the largest Muslim organization in the United States and Canada. It encompasses youth movements — including the largest Islamic collegiate group, the Muslim Students Association (MSA) — as well as hundreds of mosques throughout North America. ISNA issues a bi-monthly publication titled Islamic Horizons. At face value, the magazine seems innocuous. However, it is filled with features and advertisements linked to radical Islamic thought and activity.
White House Partners with Muslim Brotherhood Front. The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a group with Muslim Brotherhood origins and an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror-financing trial, recently toured the White House and met with multiple officials. According to the group, Paul Monteiro, Associate Director of the Office of Public Engagement, "cited ISNA as his primary means of outreach to the American Muslim community."
The spook who couldn't see the perils of jihad. On Feb. 13, 2010, [John] Brennan gave a speech at the New York University School of Law that was organized by ISNA, using it as a platform to again argue that we should not identify our enemy using the religious term "jihad." The tragic irony is that Mr. Brennan decided to make his case for not conflating jihad and violence at an event organized by the very same ISNA that has explicitly used the religious term "jihad" to support violence. In December 1986, ISNA's official magazine "Islamic Horizons" ran an article proclaiming that "jihad of the sword is the actual taking up of arms against the evil situation with the intention of changing it," that "anyone killed in jihad is rewarded with Paradise," and that "a believer who participates in jihad is superior to a believer who does not."
Mohamed Morsi Is a Scandal Bigger than Benghazi. It's no news that Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood is an extremist, anti-Semitic monstrosity. [...] Obama's top intelligence people have been assuring us that the Brotherhood is a moderate, secular, heterogeneous organization and a prospective American partner, for example, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper last year. Republican congressmen like Michele Bachmann who objected to administration coddling of the Brotherhood have been vilified as extremists by the mainstream of their own party. On the strength of a 2010 video tape long known to specialists, the establishment has suddenly discovered that this moderate, secular organization is a nest of Jew-hating vipers.
Fraud and Racketeering at CAIR. The Islamist tentacles of the Muslim Brotherhood are every bit as unethical and as abusive as their parent organization. In Australia the country's leading Islamic group is under investigation for not only defrauding the Australian government, but for also defrauding its own associated Muslim schools.
Jihad is 'getting to a better place,' says CAIR campaign. An Islamic-advocacy group linked to terrorism is launching a public-relations campaign to argue that jihad doesn't mean Islamic holy war, but instead a "concerted effort ... with the purpose of getting to a better place." However, the campaign, which is being launched Dec. 14 by an affiliate of the Council on American Islamic Relations, isn't a formal religious declaration by United States or Arab Islamic authorities, and it does clash with orthodox judgments dating back 1,400 years to the beginning of Islam.
Benghazi explained, Part III. The so-called "Arab Spring" is an initiative by Obama and his foreign policy advisers, Clinton, in her capacity of Secretary of State, and others including some of the most powerful people in the world. International bankers, the power brokers and string pullers. It is a plan to reshape the Middle East and North Africa, and change the geopolitical balance of power. It's not about some feel-good mission to free the oppressed. Never was. It's about the U.S., through the CIA, using groups ideologically aligned to al Qaeda aligned to overthrow various Middle East nations to install regimes controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Pelosi holds secret fundraiser with Islamists, Hamas-linked groups. Democratic leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi headlined a high-dollar fundraiser in May that was attended by U.S.-based Islamist groups and individuals linked by the U.S. government to the Hamas jihad group and to the Egypt-based Muslim Brotherhood movement. The donors at the undisclosed May 16 event included Nihad Awad, the co-founder of the Council on American Islamic Relations, according to data provided by the nonpartisan Investigative Project on Terrorism.
Nancy Pelosi's Secret CAIR Fundraiser. For Pelosi to appear at a fundraiser with Nihad Awad is as revolting, and should be as newsworthy, as if she had appeared at a fundraiser with David Duke or Bull Connor. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR operatives have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups.
Report: Islamist radicals find warm welcome in Obama White House. White House visitor records show that administration officials have hosted numerous White House meetings with a series of U.S.-based Muslim political groups that have close ties to jihadi groups and push to reduce anti-terrorism investigations. The visits were discovered by the Investigative Project on Terrorism, which compared the Obama White House's visitor records with its database of Islamist advocacy groups. For example, the records show that officials from the Council on American Islamic Relations have visited the White House 20 times, according to the organization's report.
Radical Extremists Visiting The White House? Steve Emerson and John Rossomondo have studied White House visitor logs, and compared them to lists of known radical extremists.
A Red Carpet for Radicals at the White House. A year-long investigation by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has found that scores of known radical Islamists made hundreds of visits to the Obama White House, meeting with top administration officials. Court documents and other records have identified many of these visitors as belonging to groups serving as fronts for the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and other Islamic militant organizations. The IPT made the discovery combing through millions of White House visitor log entries.
Behind the Veil of Islam: The Grand Jihad. A foreign enemy is undermining America. An organization founded in Egypt in 1928, sworn to eradicate democracy, is working to raise their black flag over America and every other nation in the world. With plans to destroy our Constitution, it has infiltrated the highest levels of government, defense, and law enforcement. Bearded and robed, it walks the streets of our cities and lurks in hostile ghettos. It is the Muslim Brotherhood. Why does the Obama administration refuse to even name it?
Huma Abedin's Muslim Minority Affairs — It's Not Just a Journal. "Assimilation is a crime against humanity." So said Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Islamic supremacist who is both prime minister of Turkey and a close chum of President Obama. The assertion ought to be infamous. But this is, after all, Islam we are talking about — meaning, we are not talking about it. You won't read it in the American media, nor will you hear it from our bipartisan Beltway profiles in courage. Both the Obama Left and the Republican establishment are deeply invested in the fantasy that Erdogan, like Islam itself, is our moderate ally — ironic, given that Erdogan himself is profoundly offended at the very suggestion that there is such a thing as "moderate Islam."
Security clearance compromise for Islam. A magician typically succeeds when the attention of the audience is diverted from his main activity onto some distraction. President Obama has raised this sort of deflection into a political art form. Take, for example, the matter of revelations by five members of Congress and the Center for Security Policy that there appear to be a number [of] individuals working for or with the Obama administration with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. The possibility that their influence may be helping to shape U.S. policy in ways that increasingly align it with the demands, ambitions and goals of the Brotherhood and other Islamists is a national security problem of the first order.
Huma Abedin's Ties to Muslim Brotherhood Deeper Than Rep. Bachmann Suspected. Rep. Michele Bachmann's concerns about Sec. of State Clinton's Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin have been openly criticized by many, yet disproved by none. Far from it in fact, as the alleged ties between Huma's family and the Muslim Brotherhood have been broadly substantiated.
Romney Urged to Address Muslim Brotherhood Infiltration. It is a subject that Mitt Romney and Barack Obama don't want to talk about. But former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy on Wednesday [8/8/2012] offered a virtual indictment of top State Department official Huma Abedin as a security risk and said that Obama's embrace of the anti-American Muslim Brotherhood constitutes a national security crisis and should be a major campaign issue.
To Vet or Not to Vet Huma Abedin. In light of Rabbi David Saperstein's recent condemnation of Michele Bachmann's concerns about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's closest aide, Huma Abedin, it is important to offer proof that Bachmann's concerns both are appropriate and are not emblematic of a witch hunt. This proof is offered in the very detailed-oriented work of Andrew Bostom. His recent 9,000-word article offers a comprehensive overview of the interlocking ties among Muslim Brotherhood operatives and proves that the Abedin family has very close and personal ties to the Brotherhood. Thus, an investigation that would include "subpoena power and access to classified materials" is very much in order.
Obama Administration Paves the Way for Sharia Law. Last October, at George Washington University, there was a meeting between DOJ officials, including [Thomas] Perez, and Islamist advocates against free speech. Representatives from the Islamist side included Mohamed Magid, president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). The ISNA was an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding trial in 2008, as well as functioning as a Muslim Brotherhood Front.
"Islamic Democracy" Does Not Make Statesmen Out of Terrorists — Or Politics Out of Jihad. The Obama administration will not explain how it came to issue a visa to Hani Nour Eldin, a known member of the Egyptian terrorist organization Ga'amat al-Islamia, the Islamic Group (IG). The explanation is not forthcoming because what it portends is even more sinister than this one infuriating incident. To call the IG a "terrorist organization" is not just purple prose. The IG is a terrorist organization that has carried out actual mass-murder attacks. There is a formal legal process under which such groups are "designated" as terrorist organizations. The IG has long been formally designated under that process.
Where is Huma Abedin's Security Clearance Form? The head of the Soros-funded Center for American Progress (CAP) is defending controversial State Department official Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who is suspected of playing a role in Obama Administration "engagement" with the anti-American Muslim Brotherhood. Neera Tanden, president and CEO of CAP and Counselor for CAP's Action Fund, has sent out an email defending Abedin and asking that Rep. Michele Bachmann be thrown off the House Intelligence Committee for asking questions about the vetting process that Abedin was supposed to go through.
Why Is the Pentagon Listening to Hamas-Linked CAIR? Recently the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) asked the Defense Department to drop yet another counter-terror trainer: the Iranian ex-Muslim Reza Kahlili. Surprisingly enough in this hyper-politically correct age, when it seems as if the Obama administration cannot accommodate Islamic supremacist demands fast enough, the Pentagon refused to budge. This was widely hailed as a rare defeat for CAIR; unfortunately, it is nothing of the kind, and manifests the deeper problem that currently besets the Defense Department and the entire Washington establishment.
Why Michele Bachmann Is Right About Keith Ellison. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has accused Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN) of having a "long record of being associated" with the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim Brotherhood. Evoking the days of McCarthyism, a common charge being leveled at Bachmann these days, Ellison responded: "I am not now, nor have I ever been, associated with the Muslim Brotherhood." He accused Bachmann of religious bigotry.
Proof that Huma Abedin Has Muslim Brotherhood Connections. Michele Bachmann and four other Republican congressional representatives requested "that no Muslim Brotherhood-associated entity or individual [be] placed into a position of honor or trust within the programs and operations of the Department of State unless he or she has publicly condemned and disclaimed the previously stated goals of the Muslim Brotherhood." At no time did these congressional representatives imply that Huma Abedin, Deputy Chief of Staff for the State Department, was "part of a nefarious conspiracy."
Is Huma Abedin the New Alger Hiss? Is Huma Abedin to the Muslim Brotherhood what Alger Hiss was to the Soviet Union? Why are Republican Senator John McCain, Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rodgers (R-MI) acting in the growing Abedin controversy as Washington Establishment Democrats of the 1940s did in the Hiss episode? Which is to say, writing off the dangers of a foreign enemy whose goal is to infiltrate the U.S. government — because, well, the people in question are part of the Washington Establishment?
Huma Abedin and the Muslim Brotherhood: Closely Connected. Senator John McCain ought to be embarrassed. So should House Speaker John Boehner and Congressman Mike Rogers, the former FBI agent who chairs the Select Committee on Intelligence. These pillars of the Republican establishment have been championing the cause of Huma Abedin, the deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Ms. Abedin's name arose, along with several others, in connection with questions pressed by five conservative House Republicans regarding Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the United States government.
Rep. Gohmert pleads for media investigation into Muslim Brotherhood influence. Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert doubled down on warnings of Muslim Brotherhood influence in America Thursday while taking a shot at the media for not investigating his claims further. The Republican suggested reporters were more interested in attacking him than assessing the merits of five letters Gohmert and four GOP colleagues — including Rep. Michele Bachmann — wrote in June. The letters ask federal inspectors general to look at U.S. officials with alleged ties to the Muslim organization — most notably State Department Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin.
Huma Abedin's Brotherhood Ties Are Not Just a Family Affair. Senator John McCain's claim that concerns about Huma Abedin are a smear based on "a few unspecified and unsubstantiated associations" proves more embarrassing by the day. In fact, to the extent it addressed Ms. Abedin, the letter sent to the State Department's inspector general by five House conservatives actually understated the case. The letter averred that Abedin "has three family members — her late father, her mother and her brother — connected to Muslim Brotherhood operatives and/or organizations." It turns out, however, that Abedin herself is directly connected to Abdullah Omar Naseef, a major Muslim Brotherhood figure involved in the financing of al-Qaeda.
FBI, DOJ Sued for Info on Mueller's Secret Meeting with Radical Islamic Organizations. I've written previously about the FBI's Muslim sensitivity training programs. WorldNetDaily has done some outstanding reporting on workshops run by the FBI that "educate" agents about Muslim customs and beliefs in an attempt to help them to "break down barriers" and foster "mutual understanding." Well, now it appears the FBI has taken another giant step down a very dangerous path with FBI Director Robert Mueller's secret meeting with radical Islamic organizations and allowing them effectively to "edit" the FBI's training manuals.
CAIR Strikes Out. It's always a happy day when would-be censors fail to silence voices they don't agree with, and it's particularly satisfying when the losers are a well-known crowd of politically correct anti-1st Amendment vigilantes. The losers in this case are the hyperactive folks over at CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and their intended victim is "Reza Kahlili," the former member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps who for some years worked inside that murderous organization on behalf of the Central Intelligence Agency.
The Unholy Trinity. The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has announced former CAIR Director Dr. Bassem Khafagi will be running for President of Egypt. Let's explore why this mainstream news non-event is such an important element of U.S. policy, both foreign and domestic.
Partners in Crime. The Islamic Society of North American (ISNA) is an organization linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. ISNA was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial, the largest terror financing trial ever held. If you go to the ISNA website, you will find a very interesting list called the Partners of ISNA.
If You See Something, Shut Up. [M. Zudi] Jasser has long argued — and he's hardly alone in this — that the leaders of some of the wealthiest and most powerful organizations that claim to represent American Muslims are not as moderate as they'd have you believe. Prominent among such organizations is CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which appears to have been the driving force behind the coverage in the Times and in the Village Voice before that.
Radical Muslims, Environmentalists, and the Green Jihad. If the entire earth is a mosque, as [Ibrahim Abdul] Matin maintains, then Allah's boundaries are boundless, and this means that simultaneously Americans must live under the theocratic dictates of Allah, and environmentalism can easily be used alongside Sharia law to help bring America to its knees under Islamic jihadist control. While many on the left would naively consider such a possibility beyond the pale, something along these lines is exactly what the Muslim Brotherhood has in mind for the future of America.
The convert-or-die religion expects tolerance.
Nancy Pelosi's Secret CAIR Fundraiser. For Pelosi to appear at a fundraiser with Nihad Awad is as revolting, and should be as newsworthy, as if she had appeared at a fundraiser with David Duke or Bull Connor. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR operatives have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups.
Report: Islamist radicals find warm welcome in Obama White House. White House visitor records show that administration officials have hosted numerous White House meetings with a series of U.S.-based Muslim political groups that have close ties to jihadi groups and push to reduce anti-terrorism investigations. The visits were discovered by the Investigative Project on Terrorism, which compared the Obama White House's visitor records with its database of Islamist advocacy groups. For example, the records show that officials from the Council on American Islamic Relations have visited the White House 20 times, according to the organization's report.
Radical Extremists Visiting The White House? Steve Emerson and John Rossomondo have studied White House visitor logs, and compared them to lists of known radical extremists.
A Red Carpet for Radicals at the White House. A year-long investigation by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has found that scores of known radical Islamists made hundreds of visits to the Obama White House, meeting with top administration officials. Court documents and other records have identified many of these visitors as belonging to groups serving as fronts for the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and other Islamic militant organizations. The IPT made the discovery combing through millions of White House visitor log entries.
Behind the Veil of Islam: The Grand Jihad. A foreign enemy is undermining America. An organization founded in Egypt in 1928, sworn to eradicate democracy, is working to raise their black flag over America and every other nation in the world. With plans to destroy our Constitution, it has infiltrated the highest levels of government, defense, and law enforcement. Bearded and robed, it walks the streets of our cities and lurks in hostile ghettos. It is the Muslim Brotherhood. Why does the Obama administration refuse to even name it?
Huma Abedin's Muslim Minority Affairs — It's Not Just a Journal. "Assimilation is a crime against humanity." So said Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Islamic supremacist who is both prime minister of Turkey and a close chum of President Obama. The assertion ought to be infamous. But this is, after all, Islam we are talking about — meaning, we are not talking about it. You won't read it in the American media, nor will you hear it from our bipartisan Beltway profiles in courage. Both the Obama Left and the Republican establishment are deeply invested in the fantasy that Erdogan, like Islam itself, is our moderate ally — ironic, given that Erdogan himself is profoundly offended at the very suggestion that there is such a thing as "moderate Islam."
Security clearance compromise for Islam. A magician typically succeeds when the attention of the audience is diverted from his main activity onto some distraction. President Obama has raised this sort of deflection into a political art form. Take, for example, the matter of revelations by five members of Congress and the Center for Security Policy that there appear to be a number [of] individuals working for or with the Obama administration with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. The possibility that their influence may be helping to shape U.S. policy in ways that increasingly align it with the demands, ambitions and goals of the Brotherhood and other Islamists is a national security problem of the first order.
Huma Abedin's Ties to Muslim Brotherhood Deeper Than Rep. Bachmann Suspected. Rep. Michele Bachmann's concerns about Sec. of State Clinton's Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin have been openly criticized by many, yet disproved by none. Far from it in fact, as the alleged ties between Huma's family and the Muslim Brotherhood have been broadly substantiated.
Romney Urged to Address Muslim Brotherhood Infiltration. It is a subject that Mitt Romney and Barack Obama don't want to talk about. But former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy on Wednesday [8/8/2012] offered a virtual indictment of top State Department official Huma Abedin as a security risk and said that Obama's embrace of the anti-American Muslim Brotherhood constitutes a national security crisis and should be a major campaign issue.
To Vet or Not to Vet Huma Abedin. In light of Rabbi David Saperstein's recent condemnation of Michele Bachmann's concerns about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's closest aide, Huma Abedin, it is important to offer proof that Bachmann's concerns both are appropriate and are not emblematic of a witch hunt. This proof is offered in the very detailed-oriented work of Andrew Bostom. His recent 9,000-word article offers a comprehensive overview of the interlocking ties among Muslim Brotherhood operatives and proves that the Abedin family has very close and personal ties to the Brotherhood. Thus, an investigation that would include "subpoena power and access to classified materials" is very much in order.
Obama Administration Paves the Way for Sharia Law. Last October, at George Washington University, there was a meeting between DOJ officials, including [Thomas] Perez, and Islamist advocates against free speech. Representatives from the Islamist side included Mohamed Magid, president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). The ISNA was an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding trial in 2008, as well as functioning as a Muslim Brotherhood Front.
"Islamic Democracy" Does Not Make Statesmen Out of Terrorists — Or Politics Out of Jihad. The Obama administration will not explain how it came to issue a visa to Hani Nour Eldin, a known member of the Egyptian terrorist organization Ga'amat al-Islamia, the Islamic Group (IG). The explanation is not forthcoming because what it portends is even more sinister than this one infuriating incident. To call the IG a "terrorist organization" is not just purple prose. The IG is a terrorist organization that has carried out actual mass-murder attacks. There is a formal legal process under which such groups are "designated" as terrorist organizations. The IG has long been formally designated under that process.
Where is Huma Abedin's Security Clearance Form? The head of the Soros-funded Center for American Progress (CAP) is defending controversial State Department official Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who is suspected of playing a role in Obama Administration "engagement" with the anti-American Muslim Brotherhood. Neera Tanden, president and CEO of CAP and Counselor for CAP's Action Fund, has sent out an email defending Abedin and asking that Rep. Michele Bachmann be thrown off the House Intelligence Committee for asking questions about the vetting process that Abedin was supposed to go through.
Why Is the Pentagon Listening to Hamas-Linked CAIR? Recently the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) asked the Defense Department to drop yet another counter-terror trainer: the Iranian ex-Muslim Reza Kahlili. Surprisingly enough in this hyper-politically correct age, when it seems as if the Obama administration cannot accommodate Islamic supremacist demands fast enough, the Pentagon refused to budge. This was widely hailed as a rare defeat for CAIR; unfortunately, it is nothing of the kind, and manifests the deeper problem that currently besets the Defense Department and the entire Washington establishment.
Why Michele Bachmann Is Right About Keith Ellison. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has accused Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN) of having a "long record of being associated" with the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim Brotherhood. Evoking the days of McCarthyism, a common charge being leveled at Bachmann these days, Ellison responded: "I am not now, nor have I ever been, associated with the Muslim Brotherhood." He accused Bachmann of religious bigotry.
Proof that Huma Abedin Has Muslim Brotherhood Connections. Michele Bachmann and four other Republican congressional representatives requested "that no Muslim Brotherhood-associated entity or individual [be] placed into a position of honor or trust within the programs and operations of the Department of State unless he or she has publicly condemned and disclaimed the previously stated goals of the Muslim Brotherhood." At no time did these congressional representatives imply that Huma Abedin, Deputy Chief of Staff for the State Department, was "part of a nefarious conspiracy."
Is Huma Abedin the New Alger Hiss? Is Huma Abedin to the Muslim Brotherhood what Alger Hiss was to the Soviet Union? Why are Republican Senator John McCain, Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rodgers (R-MI) acting in the growing Abedin controversy as Washington Establishment Democrats of the 1940s did in the Hiss episode? Which is to say, writing off the dangers of a foreign enemy whose goal is to infiltrate the U.S. government — because, well, the people in question are part of the Washington Establishment?
Huma Abedin and the Muslim Brotherhood: Closely Connected. Senator John McCain ought to be embarrassed. So should House Speaker John Boehner and Congressman Mike Rogers, the former FBI agent who chairs the Select Committee on Intelligence. These pillars of the Republican establishment have been championing the cause of Huma Abedin, the deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Ms. Abedin's name arose, along with several others, in connection with questions pressed by five conservative House Republicans regarding Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the United States government.
Rep. Gohmert pleads for media investigation into Muslim Brotherhood influence. Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert doubled down on warnings of Muslim Brotherhood influence in America Thursday while taking a shot at the media for not investigating his claims further. The Republican suggested reporters were more interested in attacking him than assessing the merits of five letters Gohmert and four GOP colleagues — including Rep. Michele Bachmann — wrote in June. The letters ask federal inspectors general to look at U.S. officials with alleged ties to the Muslim organization — most notably State Department Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin.
Huma Abedin's Brotherhood Ties Are Not Just a Family Affair. Senator John McCain's claim that concerns about Huma Abedin are a smear based on "a few unspecified and unsubstantiated associations" proves more embarrassing by the day. In fact, to the extent it addressed Ms. Abedin, the letter sent to the State Department's inspector general by five House conservatives actually understated the case. The letter averred that Abedin "has three family members — her late father, her mother and her brother — connected to Muslim Brotherhood operatives and/or organizations." It turns out, however, that Abedin herself is directly connected to Abdullah Omar Naseef, a major Muslim Brotherhood figure involved in the financing of al-Qaeda.
FBI, DOJ Sued for Info on Mueller's Secret Meeting with Radical Islamic Organizations. I've written previously about the FBI's Muslim sensitivity training programs. WorldNetDaily has done some outstanding reporting on workshops run by the FBI that "educate" agents about Muslim customs and beliefs in an attempt to help them to "break down barriers" and foster "mutual understanding." Well, now it appears the FBI has taken another giant step down a very dangerous path with FBI Director Robert Mueller's secret meeting with radical Islamic organizations and allowing them effectively to "edit" the FBI's training manuals.
CAIR Strikes Out. It's always a happy day when would-be censors fail to silence voices they don't agree with, and it's particularly satisfying when the losers are a well-known crowd of politically correct anti-1st Amendment vigilantes. The losers in this case are the hyperactive folks over at CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and their intended victim is "Reza Kahlili," the former member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps who for some years worked inside that murderous organization on behalf of the Central Intelligence Agency.
The Unholy Trinity. The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has announced former CAIR Director Dr. Bassem Khafagi will be running for President of Egypt. Let's explore why this mainstream news non-event is such an important element of U.S. policy, both foreign and domestic.
Partners in Crime. The Islamic Society of North American (ISNA) is an organization linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. ISNA was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial, the largest terror financing trial ever held. If you go to the ISNA website, you will find a very interesting list called the Partners of ISNA.
If You See Something, Shut Up. [M. Zudi] Jasser has long argued — and he's hardly alone in this — that the leaders of some of the wealthiest and most powerful organizations that claim to represent American Muslims are not as moderate as they'd have you believe. Prominent among such organizations is CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which appears to have been the driving force behind the coverage in the Times and in the Village Voice before that.
Radical Muslims, Environmentalists, and the Green Jihad. If the entire earth is a mosque, as [Ibrahim Abdul] Matin maintains, then Allah's boundaries are boundless, and this means that simultaneously Americans must live under the theocratic dictates of Allah, and environmentalism can easily be used alongside Sharia law to help bring America to its knees under Islamic jihadist control. While many on the left would naively consider such a possibility beyond the pale, something along these lines is exactly what the Muslim Brotherhood has in mind for the future of America.
The convert-or-die religion expects tolerance.
CAIR pressures retired general, critic of Islam, to back out of West Point event. The Council on American-Islamic Relations announced Monday night [1/30/2012] that it had successfully prevented retired Lieutenant General William G. "Jerry" Boykin from speaking at an upcoming prayer breakfast at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. "We welcome Mr. Boykin's withdrawal from this event and hope that the speaker who replaces him will offer cadets a spiritual message that promotes tolerance and mutual understanding," said CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad in a statement.
Free speech — for some. According to the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), there is a grave threat to America that must be suppressed at all costs. The threat is that Lt. Gen. William G. "Jerry" Boykin might be allowed to exercise his constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech. This proposition is bizarre on multiple levels. For one, Gen. Boykin, who is a friend and greatly admired colleague of mine, is one of the United States' most accomplished and decorated military heroes. ... For another, Gen. Boykin is also an ordained minister.
Delta Force Hero Can't Speak at West Point Because of his Christian Beliefs. A three-star Army general and war hero cannot speak at West Point because he's an outspoken Christian. So the Obama administration's hostility toward religion — and especially Christians — continues even to the detriment of our men and women in uniform. ... Evidently it's not politically correct to suggest that blowing up children is the devil's work. After heavy pressure, General Boykin chose to withdraw. This soldier fears no foe, but the situation evolved in a direction where his message of faith and courage would be overshadowed by controversy to the possible detriment of the West Point cadets.
Blacklist. It often is said that our soldiers, sailors, airmen, guardsmen and Marines serve to "protect our freedoms" and "defend our liberties." All true. Now consider what took place this week at the United States Military Academy at West Point.
FBI Learning to Disconnect the Dots. A new campaign has been opened by Muslim Brotherhood front groups in the United States against federal agencies charged with conducting counterterrorism investigations. The strategic goal is to eradicate completely all references to Islam, Muslims, or the Qu'ran from training materials on violent extremism and terrorism. Spokesmen for the Ikhwan are threatening the Department of Justice to get rid of the "anti-Muslim" training materials, or else the feds can kiss all the invaluable cooperation they're getting from the "community" goodbye.
The Jihad Lawyer. The Muslim Brotherhood, according to a 2004 Chicago Tribune exposé, operates in the U.S. "under the name Muslim American Society, according to documents and interviews. One of the nation's major Islamic groups, it was incorporated in Illinois in 1993 after a contentious debate among Brotherhood members." The Muslim Brotherhood is dedicated, in its own words, according to a captured internal document, to "eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house."
Roll back the Muslim Brotherhood. In recent weeks, we have been put on notice repeatedly: Absent a fundamental course correction, America will go the way of Europe and others before it, succumbing to an insidious totalitarian doctrine known as Shariah whose purpose, in the words of its prime practitioners — the Muslim Brotherhood — is to "destroy Western civilization from within."
Does Anyone CAIR Anymore? In the '90s, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) successfully marketed itself as the largest advocacy group for Muslim-Americans, shrewdly linking its mission to that of the civil rights movement. "We are similar to a Muslim NAACP," winked spokesman Ibrahim Hooper. But the group's aims seemed less about civil rights and more about intimidating people into silence.
The CIA Should Be A Bit More CAIRless. This week, a three-day conference hosted by the CIA on "homegrown radicalization" was supposed to have taken place at CIA headquarters. It did not. The conference was abruptly canceled — or, softening the blow, "postponed." Question: Did pressure from what we might (and should) call a certain "homegrown radical" group — the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) — make this happen?
CAIR is the Great Enemy of the Truth. In its latest fundraising effort, the Council on American-Islamic Relations ("CAIR") accuses those who oppose its agenda of engaging in "fear-mongering" and spreading "misinformation" about Islam and American Muslims. The reality, however, is that it is CAIR who spreads misinformation and who engages in the tactics and politics of fear. CAIR is lying about so-called anti-Sharia initiatives — using misinformation and the politics of fear — to raise money.
The West Courts the Muslim Brotherhood — and Its Own Destruction. The suicidal side of the Western elites' pervasive tendency toward fantasy-based policy making was on full display last week when the U.S. and the European Union both announced that they were opening formal contacts with the Muslim Brotherhood, a group dedicated, in its own words, to "eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within, and sabotaging its miserable house."
Congressman calls for IRS investigation of CAIR. Virginia Republican Rep. Frank Wolf has called on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to investigate whether the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) illegally received or solicited funds from foreign governments or agents. Wolf's request comes on the heels of recent information released by the IRS that the Muslim advocacy group — and un-indicted co-conspirator in a 2007 terrorist funding trial — lost its tax-exempt status due to a repeated failure to file the necessary tax forms.
Engaging the Muslim Brotherhood? Politico reports that the Obama administration has decided to sit down with the Muslim Brotherhood. "The political landscape in Egypt has changed, and is changing ... It is in our interests to engage with all of the parties that are competing for parliament or the presidency," an official said who spoke to Reuters on the condition of anonymity. The reasoning wears thin, however, for several reasons.
CAIR Loses Tax-Exempt Status. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has lost its tax-exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service for failing to file legally required annual reports for three consecutive years, the federal agency said. CAIR is one of 275,000 groups targeted by the IRS for being out of compliance with filing requirements. "The IRS believes the vast majority of these organizations are defunct, but it also announced special steps to help any existing organizations to apply for reinstatement of their tax-exempt status," the agency said in announcing the action.
CAIR Taps Hizballah Apologist For Tampa Office. For a group which claims to stand against terrorism, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) made an odd choice for the new chief of its Tampa chapter. Hassan Shibly has a track record of defending terrorist groups and acting as an apologist for radical Islam. Following the 2006 Israel-Lebanon War, Shibly granted legitimacy to Hizballah by characterizing it as a "resistance movement" that provides valued social services to the Lebanese people. "They're absolutely not a terrorist organization," Shibly said, and "any war against them is illegitimate."
Islamic Group Asks Napolitano To Investigate 'Islamophobic' Trainers. An Islamic civil rights group is asking the Secretary of Homeland Security to investigate whether the people in charge of training national security personnel are "Islamophobic." In a letter to Janet Napolitano, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, called for an agency-wide probe to determine if the trainers "offer hostile, stereotypical and grossly inaccurate information about Muslims and Islam" as part of their training procedures.
Enabling the Muslim Brotherhood in America. The Muslim Brotherhood's mask is slipping in Egypt. Small "d" democrats there and elsewhere are alarmed by top Brotherhood officials who now aver openly what has been utterly predictable: Once in power they will impose shariah — the totalitarian, supremacist politico-military-legal program practiced in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Somalia, Sudan and increasingly elsewhere. The prospect that the most populous Arab nation — one that sits astride the strategic Suez Canal and has a vast American-supplied arsenal — is heading in such an ominous direction is made all the more remarkable since evidence continues to accumulate that the Obama administration has been enabling the rise of the Ikhwan (as the Muslim Brotherhood, or MB, is known in Arabic).
Did Obama and Holder Scuttle Terror Finance Prosecutions? A number of leaders of Islamic organizations (all of whom publicly opposed the King hearings on Muslim radicalization) were about to be indicted on terror finance support charges by the U.S. attorney's office in Dallas, which had been investigating the case for most of the past decade. But those indictments were scuttled last year at the direction of top-level political appointees within the Department of Justice (DOJ) — and possibly even the White House.
Obama Empire Strikes Back on My PJM 'Holdergate' Reporting. [Scroll down] But now we're starting to get wind of the Obama administration's response. Fearful that this could easily turn into "Holdergate," the administration is trying to spin its way out of this potential morass by returning to an old standard: WE BLAME BUSH!! That's right. The excuse they are currently floating to their friends in the establishment media to explain the decision not to prosecute CAIR officials and the other Islamic leaders implicated in the Holy Land Foundation case (all of whom had been named unindicted co-conspirators) is that the Bush administration chose not to prosecute them in 2004 and they were just reaffirming what John Ashcroft had decided way back when.
DOJ Source: Gov't Muslim 'Outreach' Jeopardized Active Terror Investigations. On the heels of last week's article by Patrick Poole, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) has sent a letter to Eric Holder this morning [4/15/2011] demanding answers as to why the Department of Justice decided not to prosecute CAIR, its co-founder Omar Ahmad, and others regarding the Holy Land Foundation case.
Why Did DOJ Drop Muslim Brotherhood Prosecutions? Muslim Brotherhood front groups — like CAIR, ISNA, NAIT and others — will now have a new reason to hate Peter King. Today, the House Homeland Security Committee chairman is demanding to know why Eric Holder's Justice Department decided not to go after the numerous unindicted coconspirators named in the largest terrorist financing trial in American history, US v Holy Land Foundation.
U.S. government has no strategy to deal with Muslim Brotherhood. The federal government has no strategy to counter the Muslim Brotherhood at home or abroad, according to the chairwoman of the House panel that oversees counterintelligence and terrorism. "The federal government does not have a comprehensive or consistent strategy for dealing with the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliated groups in America," Rep. Sue Wilkins Myrick said during a hearing Wednesday [4/13/2011]. "Nor does it have a strategy for dealing with the Brotherhood in Egypt or the greater Middle East."
The Muslim Brotherhood is by no means moderate. Coverage of the recent parliamentary elections in Egypt has largely centered on the fact that the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) rigged the election. Many have assumed, amid the descriptions of ballot stuffing, exaggerated voter turnout records, and bullying, that the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated candidates who lost are the real force behind democracy in Egypt. The assumption is not only incorrect, but also dangerous, as the Brotherhood's actual goals are directly opposed to democracy.
The Muslim Brotherhood's History & Their Arrival in America. [Scroll down] The Brotherhood used violence against the British troops and their families. They also fought against the system in Egypt which was not adhering to Islamic Law, targeting judges and others in the government. The Egyptian government sought to identify, capture, and/or kill members of the Brotherhood. In 1948, the Muslim Brotherhood killed the Prime Minister of Egypt, and in 1949, the Egyptian security service gunned down MB founder Hassan al Banna on the streets of Cairo. This is not surprising, since violence is inherent to the MB's structure. The "Special Section" is an integral part of the Muslim Brotherhood and conducts "special work" — "military work" or violence and warfare.
Hamas-associated CAIR applauded by White House. White House officials have applauded advocacy efforts by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, even though top FBI managers refuse to meet its leaders, the council has been judged by courts to have been associated with the Islamic terror group Hamas, and several of its employees and members have been jailed or expelled for jihadi-related terrorist offenses since 2001. CAIR was publicly applauded at a Mar. 10 White House event by Valerie Jarrett, senior advisor and assistant to the president...
The Muslim Brotherhood in America: Understanding the Threat. The declaration of a global jihad from Iran in 1979 is over 30 years in our rear view mirror. The national security apparatus of the United States has spent hundreds of billions of dollars to "make America safer," yet we still have not defined our enemy — or even tried. There is no place in the national security structure which has objectively evaluated the threat doctrine of our enemy, and then created a strategic plan for victory for the United States — per U.S. warfighting doctrine. This lack of strategic understanding of the nature of the threat we face is not only costing us lives on the battlefield in wars with no realistically stated objectives, but so long as we drift aimlessly, we cannot win and we allow the enemy to move our boat as he sees fit. That is the enemy's strategy. And he is executing with great success.
King Hearings Shine Light on Muslim Evasion of Responsibility. Despite an all-out propaganda offensive by the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its useful idiots in the mainstream media, Rep. Peter King (R.-N.Y.) went ahead last week with his hearings on the radicalization of Muslims in the U.S. King had allowed himself to be cowed by his opponents, striking several useful witnesses he had originally announced he was going to call after complaints from CAIR and other Islamic supremacist pressure groups, but his hearings went wonderfully well anyway — if only in exposing the mendacity and absolute unwillingness of Muslims in America to confront Islamic jihad activity in their midst.
Peter King Hearings Highlight the Problem of CAIR in the Muslim Community. It's now painfully clear why the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) was so forcefully opposed to the House Homeland Security Committee's hearings on homegrown radicalization in the Muslim-American community. According to many speakers at the hearing, one of the major obstacles to solving the problem of homegrown Islamic radicalization appears to be Muslim-American advocacy groups like CAIR.
The OIC and the Caliphate. The Organization of the Islamic Conference is the closest thing in the modern world to a caliphate. It is composed of 57 members (56 sovereign states and the Palestinian Authority), joining voices and political heft to pursue the unitary interests of the ummah, the world's 1.4 billion Muslims. Not surprisingly, the OIC works cooperatively with the Muslim Brotherhood, the world's most extensive and important Islamist organization, and one that sees itself as the vanguard of a vast, grass-roots movement — what the Brotherhood itself calls a "civilizational" movement.
The Global Caliphate and the Universal Delusion. What is noteworthy about the beef against [Glenn] Beck is the rock-hard certitude with which his critics, Right and Left, dismiss the caliphate concept as though it were a mythological beast, not a historical system of Islamic governance still revered and yearned for by most Muslims. Speaking of Tahrir Square, a 2007 University of Maryland/WorldOpinon poll indicated that 74 percent of Egyptians favor "strict Shariah," while 67 percent favor a "caliphate" uniting all of Islam. But woe to anyone who takes notice.
Mainstreaming Radical Islam. Hard-line Islamists seek to destroy us outright and supplant our government with a global Islamic State. Exhibit A, of course, is the "Muslim Brotherhood" — a worldwide Islamofascist organization heartily embraced in recent weeks by the mainstream media and the larger "progressive" movement. The Brotherhood, in its own words, seeks to "destroy" our "Western civilization from within... so that it is eliminated and God's religion (Islam) is made victorious over all other religions."
Krauthammer Tells Inconvenient Truth About Egypt and Muslim Brotherhood Media are Ignoring. Most of the media were predictably jubilant and giddy on Friday when it was announced that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was stepping down. Acting as the voice of reason was syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer who on PBS's "Inside Washington" spoke some inconvenient truths about the Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt's similarities to pre-Islamic Revolution Iran that America's press have been dishonestly downplaying for weeks.
The Jimmy Carter Chronicles. For those of you not entirely certain about where to stand on a complex, dynamic situation in Egypt, fear no more: Jimmy Carter has waded in to add both clarity and certainty. "I think that the Muslim Brotherhood is not anything to be afraid of," Carter told a wide-eyed, admiring university audience in Austin, Texas. The man who presided over the replacement of the Shah with the world's worst theocratic-terror state confidently predicted that the Muslim Brotherhood "will be subsumed in the overwhelming demonstration of desire for freedom and democracy."
Professional Islamists. The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, or al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun, is more than a radical network, comparable to al Qaeda; more than an ideological phenomenon, like the followers of Khomeini in the 1979 Iranian Revolution; and more than a political insurgency, similar to Pakistani jihadism. It is an Egyptian Islamist subculture of great depth and influence.
Fear the Muslim Brotherhood. One might wonder how an organization can be thought to have renounced violence when it has inspired more jihadists than any other, and when its Palestinian branch, the Islamic Resistance Movement, is probably more familiar to you by the name Hamas — a terrorist organization committed by charter to the violent destruction of Israel. Indeed, in recent years, the Brotherhood (a.k.a., the Ikhwan) has enthusiastically praised jihad and even applauded — albeit in more muted tones — Osama bin Laden.
The Muslim Brotherhood's Penetration of the Obama Administration. The first thing we need to realize is that the Muslim Brotherhood operates in the United States under a variety of names and organizational umbrellas. Technically, there is no "Muslim Brotherhood" in the United States. But the Muslim American Society (MAS), the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and others are — according to a document captured in a raid and released by law enforcement in 2007 during the Holy Land Foundation Hamas funding trial) — Brotherhood-linked organizations.
Obama welcomes the Muslim Brotherhood. [Scroll down] The New York Times adds that White House staff members have "made clear that they did not rule out engagement with the Muslim Brotherhood as part of an orderly process" of transition to a new government after the departure of Mubarak. The Times helpfully explains that the Muslim Brotherhood "renounced violence years ago." Funny that the Brotherhood’s Hamas branch (i.e., "one of the the (sic) wings of the Muslim Brothers in Palestine") hasn't gotten the word.
Obama's Brotherhood Moment. Barack Obama has endorsed a role for the Muslim Brotherhood in a new, post-Mubarak government for Egypt. This should come as no surprise. Obama has behaved consistently all along, from his refusal to back the protesters in Iran, who were demonstrating against an Islamic Republic, to his backing of these protesters in Egypt, to whom he has just given a green light to establish a government that, given numerous historical precedents, will likely be the precursor to an Islamic Republic.
Obama Stands by Muslim Brotherhood Endorsement. For the first time, a U.S. government supports granting a government role to an extremist Islamic organization: the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. On Monday [1/31/2011], White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Egypt's new government will have to include a "whole host of important non-secular actors." Most prominent among these is clearly the Muslim Brotherhood — which has made Islamic world domination one of its ultimate goals.
Hamas Is the Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas's overt intervention in Egypt is an alarming development, although a predictable one. It is worth pointing out that Hamas is not merely colluding with the Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas is the Muslim Brotherhood.
Who Says Islam Is Totalitarian Doctrine? Well, Geert Wilders does, of course. As the editors point out in Monday's superb National Review Online editorial, the Dutch parliamentarian has even had the temerity to compare Islam with Nazism. Strong stuff indeed, and for speaking it, Wilders has earned the disdain not just of the usual Muslim Brotherhood satellite organizations but even of many on the political right.
Unindicted Co-conspirators. Much has been made of an appeals-court decision to expunge references to several U.S. Muslim groups from a list of unindicted co-conspirators in a terrorism-financing case. Too much, in fact. It was never about the list. It was about what evidence unmistakably tells us: The Muslim Brotherhood and its American satellites are working to undermine the United States from within and to destroy Israel by any possible means, including terrorism.
The Muslim Brotherhood: Islam's Global Challenge to the West. With branches in seventy countries and linked to major Islamic organizations, the MB has an extensive and well-financed network of educational, social, and cultural institutions which promote a strategic MB plan for Islamic dominance — not through violence, but integration, becoming part of the national social and political life, and the application of Shariah law. These connections give it access to political power and explain why it and the organizations it supports are courted by governments and NGOs.
Islamist Infiltration. The Muslim Brotherhood is leading the way for radical Muslims to infiltrate American society and government. Their goal is simple: control the United States and impose Shariah law. ... [This is] the Brotherhood's five-phase plan for dominating America:
· Phase I: Establish an elite Muslim Leadership and raise Islamicist consciousness in the community;
· Phase II: Create Islamic institutions that the leadership can control and form autonomous Muslim enclaves;
· Phase III: Infiltrate America's political and social institutions forming a shadow state; escalate conversions; manipulate mass media to remove language offensive to Islam;
· Phase IV: Open hostile public confrontation over U.S. policies, riot, make militant demands for special rights and accommodations;
· Phase V: Wage final conflict and overthrow (jihad).
According to Sperry and Gaubatz, the consensus among counterterrorism officials is that the North American Brotherhood is already in Phase III.
According to Sperry and Gaubatz, the consensus among counterterrorism officials is that the North American Brotherhood is already in Phase III.
CAIR: We Have a Problem. CAIR uses intimidation, blackmail, extortion, and any method a person can imagine to target individuals who oppose or attempt to bring forth their acts of criminal and/or unethical behavior. People should think of the Muslim Brotherhood not simply as a mob of thugs, but as a mob of thugs who provide support to Islamic based terrorist groups who have murdered and continue to murder our troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, and committed the acts against our country on 11 Sept. 2001.
Muslim Brotherly Hate: All of the problems that the world has experienced with regard to Islamic terrorists can be traced to what one man, Hassan Al-Banna, started in 1928, when he founded the secret society of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). The goal of the Brotherhood was to expel the West from the Middle East, and by doing so, reunite the Islamic world under one ruler.
The Muslim Brotherhood Inside the Conservative Movement. Our country finds itself at a troubling crossroads. We confront challenges from forces that are opposed to its very existence as the nation our founders created. These forces are secular and religious and are poised to attack the foundations of our nation both at home and abroad. In facing them conservatives have a special responsibility as a patriotic vanguard dedicated to the principles that have made America what it is, and who are willing to confront the enemies that seek to destroy her.
The Muslim Brotherhood's Penetration of the Obama Administration. The first thing we need to realize is that the Muslim Brotherhood operates in the United States under a variety of names and organizational umbrellas. Technically, there is no "Muslim Brotherhood" in the United States. But the Muslim American Society (MAS), the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and others are — according to a document captured in a raid and released by law enforcement in 2007 during the Holy Land Foundation Hamas funding trial) — Brotherhood-linked organizations.
Obama Stands by Muslim Brotherhood Endorsement. For the first time, a U.S. government supports granting a government role to an extremist Islamic organization: the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. On Monday [1/31/2011], White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Egypt's new government will have to include a "whole host of important non-secular actors." Most prominent among these is clearly the Muslim Brotherhood — which has made Islamic world domination one of its ultimate goals.
Obama welcomes the Muslim Brotherhood. [Scroll down] The New York Times adds that White House staff members have "made clear that they did not rule out engagement with the Muslim Brotherhood as part of an orderly process" of transition to a new government after the departure of Mubarak. The Times helpfully explains that the Muslim Brotherhood "renounced violence years ago." Funny that the Brotherhood’s Hamas branch (i.e., "one of the the (sic) wings of the Muslim Brothers in Palestine") hasn't gotten the word.
Obama's Brotherhood Moment. Barack Obama has endorsed a role for the Muslim Brotherhood in a new, post-Mubarak government for Egypt. This should come as no surprise. Obama has behaved consistently all along, from his refusal to back the protesters in Iran, who were demonstrating against an Islamic Republic, to his backing of these protesters in Egypt, to whom he has just given a green light to establish a government that, given numerous historical precedents, will likely be the precursor to an Islamic Republic.
CAIR Says Poster Warning Against Helping FBI is Misinterpreted. The Council on American-Islamic Relations said it will remove a poster from the group's website promoting an upcoming conference that encourages people not to talk to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Don't Talk To The FBI. Fox News reports the Council on American-Islamic Relations is in hot water for a poster that spokesman Ibrahim Hooper says is "subject to misinterpretation," so they took it down out of "extreme caution." The poster in question says "Don't Talk to the FBI," and encourages the viewer to "Build a Wall of Resistance." The FBI is represented by a sinister black silhouette that looks like a cross between The Shadow and one of the characters from the "Spy vs. Spy" cartoon. That doesn't sound difficult to interpret correctly.
CAIR Urges Muslims to 'Resist' FBI Terror Probes. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) is still treated as a mainstream civil-liberties group by much of the media. Indeed, last summer, as the controversy over the Ground Zero mosque heated up, representatives of the group were regularly trotted out as the moderate and reasonable representatives of a supposedly aggrieved community. But recent activities by some of its chapters around the country are making clear that its main agenda remains rooted in its origins as a political front for an illegal group whose purpose was to raise funds for the Hamas terrorist organization.
CAIR goes after conservative blogger. The Council on American Islamic Relations is once again using the American legal system to go after one of its critics. The Muslim advocacy group is suing conservative blogger and outspoken CAIR opponent Debbie Schlussel in federal court, alleging trademark infringement for incorporating groups with similar names. U.S. District Court Judge Avern Cohn will hear arguments in Detroit, Michigan Monday to determine whether CAIR will be granted a temporary restraining order against Schlussel that will prevent her from using the names she incorporated.
Are Muslims Being Victimized In America Today? "Attacks on the American Muslim community and on Islam rose to an unprecedented level in 2010." So claimed Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), in an end-of-the-year fund-raising appeal. ... But is it true? One might get the impression from all this that Muslims were huddled in their homes, cowering in the darkness as roving bands of Islamophobes marauded outside, throttling any hapless Believers who dared to stray outside.
Muslim family claims bias at pool owned by county. The Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations filed two complaints Wednesday [12/29/2010] in Cook County Circuit Court claiming employees at a public pool discriminated against a Muslim family from Lyons based on their attire.
Radical Islam to Be Investigated: CAIR Cries Foul. Given the string of terrorist plots in the past few years that can be directly linked to radical Islam, it's reasonable for the U.S. Congress to devote some time to studying what's been going on. But, predictably, the group the mainstream media treat as the mouthpiece of American Muslims is screaming bloody murder about the prospect of such hearings. In fact, Ibrahim Hooper, the spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), said such hearings will be an "anti-Muslim witch hunt."
More states enter debate on sharia law. Muneer Awad's opponents label him "a foreigner" trying to change Oklahoma's laws. Awad, 27, a recent University of Georgia law school graduate born in Michigan, says he's standing up for the U.S. Constitution. "I'm trying to defend the First Amendment," says Awad, director of Oklahoma's chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Multiculturalism Hits The Wall. Multiculturalism has effectively controlled American security policy as regards terrorism from the very beginning. Islam, we were assured by no less a figure than George W. Bush, was "a religion of peace." Critical resources were invested in curtailing any "backlash" against American Muslims by the evil-minded white, Christian majority. Organizations of dubious provenance, such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), and the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) were appointed official representatives of American Muslims. What did these attempts to bend over backward under the prompting of an abstract academic intellectual construct accomplish?
Cut Ties To Terror. U.S. District Judge Jorge Solis has ruled there is "ample evidence" to support the Justice Department's decision to blacklist the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as unindicted co-conspirators in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation terror trial. He refused requests to strike their names from the list. At the trial, which ended in guilty verdicts on all 108 counts, FBI agents testified that ISNA, NAIT and CAIR are fronts for the federally designated terrorist group Hamas, which has murdered countless Israelis and at least 17 Americans.
Oklahoma: When Sharia comes sweeping down the plains. During the recent mid-term election, voters across the country voiced their will on more than just which politicians or political party they wanted to see in power for the next term. Voters in Oklahoma voted on whether or not Sharia, Islamic law, should or should not be used or considered within the state's court system. Seventy percent — that's right, seven out of ten Oklahoma voters — said no to Sharia and international law, and within days Oklahoma's chapter of CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, filed a lawsuit against the Oklahoma State Election Board.
CAIR vs. the FBI. On October 28, 2009, the FBI tried to arrest Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah in Dearborn. A shoot-out ensued killing a police dog and Abdullah, and immediately the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other Muslim Brotherhood-tied groups denounced the FBI and called for an independent investigation. Three reviews have now cleared the four FBI agents involved, but CAIR is still trying to portray the incident as the murder of an innocent man.
How the West is Being Lost. Formed in Egypt during the 1920s, the Muslim Brotherhood is an extremist Islamic group. Among its most revered thinkers is the martyr Sayyid Qutb who called for worldwide rejection of Western values before his 1966 execution. Ever since, his writings have radicalized Islamic thought, including that of al-Qaeda's Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri. A 2007 criminal investigation into organizers of a charitable Islamic organization's terrorist funding links yielded evidence of the Brotherhood's strategy for implementing Sharia law in the US through gradual erosion of the Constitution.
Federal Court Ruling: CAIR Must Answer to Fraud Charges. A federal judge in the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia has denied a motion to dismiss complaints by five former clients of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). CAIR is a Muslim organization previously named as a Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas front group by the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office in the federal criminal trial and conviction of a terrorist funding cell organized around one of the largest Muslim charities, the Holy Land Foundation, which raised funds for violent jihad on behalf of Hamas.
Director Mueller, Say No to CAIR. At this point, the question about CAIR should be: Why does anyone care? Care about anything CAIR officials say, that is.
Another protected minority that can't be fired?
Muslim Brotherly Hate: All of the problems that the world has experienced with regard to Islamic terrorists can be traced to what one man, Hassan Al-Banna, started in 1928, when he founded the secret society of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). The goal of the Brotherhood was to expel the West from the Middle East, and by doing so, reunite the Islamic world under one ruler.
The Muslim Brotherhood Inside the Conservative Movement. Our country finds itself at a troubling crossroads. We confront challenges from forces that are opposed to its very existence as the nation our founders created. These forces are secular and religious and are poised to attack the foundations of our nation both at home and abroad. In facing them conservatives have a special responsibility as a patriotic vanguard dedicated to the principles that have made America what it is, and who are willing to confront the enemies that seek to destroy her.
The Muslim Brotherhood's Penetration of the Obama Administration. The first thing we need to realize is that the Muslim Brotherhood operates in the United States under a variety of names and organizational umbrellas. Technically, there is no "Muslim Brotherhood" in the United States. But the Muslim American Society (MAS), the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and others are — according to a document captured in a raid and released by law enforcement in 2007 during the Holy Land Foundation Hamas funding trial) — Brotherhood-linked organizations.
Obama Stands by Muslim Brotherhood Endorsement. For the first time, a U.S. government supports granting a government role to an extremist Islamic organization: the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. On Monday [1/31/2011], White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Egypt's new government will have to include a "whole host of important non-secular actors." Most prominent among these is clearly the Muslim Brotherhood — which has made Islamic world domination one of its ultimate goals.
Obama welcomes the Muslim Brotherhood. [Scroll down] The New York Times adds that White House staff members have "made clear that they did not rule out engagement with the Muslim Brotherhood as part of an orderly process" of transition to a new government after the departure of Mubarak. The Times helpfully explains that the Muslim Brotherhood "renounced violence years ago." Funny that the Brotherhood’s Hamas branch (i.e., "one of the the (sic) wings of the Muslim Brothers in Palestine") hasn't gotten the word.
Obama's Brotherhood Moment. Barack Obama has endorsed a role for the Muslim Brotherhood in a new, post-Mubarak government for Egypt. This should come as no surprise. Obama has behaved consistently all along, from his refusal to back the protesters in Iran, who were demonstrating against an Islamic Republic, to his backing of these protesters in Egypt, to whom he has just given a green light to establish a government that, given numerous historical precedents, will likely be the precursor to an Islamic Republic.
CAIR Says Poster Warning Against Helping FBI is Misinterpreted. The Council on American-Islamic Relations said it will remove a poster from the group's website promoting an upcoming conference that encourages people not to talk to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Don't Talk To The FBI. Fox News reports the Council on American-Islamic Relations is in hot water for a poster that spokesman Ibrahim Hooper says is "subject to misinterpretation," so they took it down out of "extreme caution." The poster in question says "Don't Talk to the FBI," and encourages the viewer to "Build a Wall of Resistance." The FBI is represented by a sinister black silhouette that looks like a cross between The Shadow and one of the characters from the "Spy vs. Spy" cartoon. That doesn't sound difficult to interpret correctly.
CAIR Urges Muslims to 'Resist' FBI Terror Probes. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) is still treated as a mainstream civil-liberties group by much of the media. Indeed, last summer, as the controversy over the Ground Zero mosque heated up, representatives of the group were regularly trotted out as the moderate and reasonable representatives of a supposedly aggrieved community. But recent activities by some of its chapters around the country are making clear that its main agenda remains rooted in its origins as a political front for an illegal group whose purpose was to raise funds for the Hamas terrorist organization.
CAIR goes after conservative blogger. The Council on American Islamic Relations is once again using the American legal system to go after one of its critics. The Muslim advocacy group is suing conservative blogger and outspoken CAIR opponent Debbie Schlussel in federal court, alleging trademark infringement for incorporating groups with similar names. U.S. District Court Judge Avern Cohn will hear arguments in Detroit, Michigan Monday to determine whether CAIR will be granted a temporary restraining order against Schlussel that will prevent her from using the names she incorporated.
Are Muslims Being Victimized In America Today? "Attacks on the American Muslim community and on Islam rose to an unprecedented level in 2010." So claimed Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), in an end-of-the-year fund-raising appeal. ... But is it true? One might get the impression from all this that Muslims were huddled in their homes, cowering in the darkness as roving bands of Islamophobes marauded outside, throttling any hapless Believers who dared to stray outside.
Muslim family claims bias at pool owned by county. The Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations filed two complaints Wednesday [12/29/2010] in Cook County Circuit Court claiming employees at a public pool discriminated against a Muslim family from Lyons based on their attire.
Radical Islam to Be Investigated: CAIR Cries Foul. Given the string of terrorist plots in the past few years that can be directly linked to radical Islam, it's reasonable for the U.S. Congress to devote some time to studying what's been going on. But, predictably, the group the mainstream media treat as the mouthpiece of American Muslims is screaming bloody murder about the prospect of such hearings. In fact, Ibrahim Hooper, the spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), said such hearings will be an "anti-Muslim witch hunt."
More states enter debate on sharia law. Muneer Awad's opponents label him "a foreigner" trying to change Oklahoma's laws. Awad, 27, a recent University of Georgia law school graduate born in Michigan, says he's standing up for the U.S. Constitution. "I'm trying to defend the First Amendment," says Awad, director of Oklahoma's chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Multiculturalism Hits The Wall. Multiculturalism has effectively controlled American security policy as regards terrorism from the very beginning. Islam, we were assured by no less a figure than George W. Bush, was "a religion of peace." Critical resources were invested in curtailing any "backlash" against American Muslims by the evil-minded white, Christian majority. Organizations of dubious provenance, such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), and the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) were appointed official representatives of American Muslims. What did these attempts to bend over backward under the prompting of an abstract academic intellectual construct accomplish?
Cut Ties To Terror. U.S. District Judge Jorge Solis has ruled there is "ample evidence" to support the Justice Department's decision to blacklist the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as unindicted co-conspirators in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation terror trial. He refused requests to strike their names from the list. At the trial, which ended in guilty verdicts on all 108 counts, FBI agents testified that ISNA, NAIT and CAIR are fronts for the federally designated terrorist group Hamas, which has murdered countless Israelis and at least 17 Americans.
Oklahoma: When Sharia comes sweeping down the plains. During the recent mid-term election, voters across the country voiced their will on more than just which politicians or political party they wanted to see in power for the next term. Voters in Oklahoma voted on whether or not Sharia, Islamic law, should or should not be used or considered within the state's court system. Seventy percent — that's right, seven out of ten Oklahoma voters — said no to Sharia and international law, and within days Oklahoma's chapter of CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, filed a lawsuit against the Oklahoma State Election Board.
CAIR vs. the FBI. On October 28, 2009, the FBI tried to arrest Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah in Dearborn. A shoot-out ensued killing a police dog and Abdullah, and immediately the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other Muslim Brotherhood-tied groups denounced the FBI and called for an independent investigation. Three reviews have now cleared the four FBI agents involved, but CAIR is still trying to portray the incident as the murder of an innocent man.
How the West is Being Lost. Formed in Egypt during the 1920s, the Muslim Brotherhood is an extremist Islamic group. Among its most revered thinkers is the martyr Sayyid Qutb who called for worldwide rejection of Western values before his 1966 execution. Ever since, his writings have radicalized Islamic thought, including that of al-Qaeda's Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri. A 2007 criminal investigation into organizers of a charitable Islamic organization's terrorist funding links yielded evidence of the Brotherhood's strategy for implementing Sharia law in the US through gradual erosion of the Constitution.
Federal Court Ruling: CAIR Must Answer to Fraud Charges. A federal judge in the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia has denied a motion to dismiss complaints by five former clients of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). CAIR is a Muslim organization previously named as a Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas front group by the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office in the federal criminal trial and conviction of a terrorist funding cell organized around one of the largest Muslim charities, the Holy Land Foundation, which raised funds for violent jihad on behalf of Hamas.
Director Mueller, Say No to CAIR. At this point, the question about CAIR should be: Why does anyone care? Care about anything CAIR officials say, that is.
Another protected minority that can't be fired?
State police sued over Muslim chaplain's dismissal. The Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) filed a discrimination lawsuit Monday [8/30/2010] against the Illinois State Police on behalf of Kifah Mustapha. State police hired Imam Kifah as its first and only Muslim chaplain.
Divine Divestment. Chicago-area United Methodists last month voted to divest from companies doing business with Israel, including Caterpillar and General Electric. A few weeks later, in July, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), whose annual convention was outside Chicago, appreciatively gave the Northern Illinois Conference of United Methodism its Interfaith Unity Award.
CAIR's Pro-Terror Red Flags. Since the Council on American-Islamic Relations or CAIR was founded in June 1994, while a handful of representatives from the group have been forthright in vocalizing their support for global terrorist organizations, the majority of the group's hierarchy has worked hard to mask this support. One such CAIR operative, Affad Shaikh, has made and continues to make this duplicitous façade a large part of his life, blurring the lines of terror support by spouting anti-Western rhetoric and propagating terror-related fanatics.
No Free Speech about Leaving Islam? Advertising on taxpayer-funded transit has become the latest free speech battleground — and the cause of freedom has just won a significant victory. The Council on American-Islamic Relations tried to defeat free speech in Miami, with the lapdog media on its side, and was just handed a major defeat.
Connect the Dots on CAIR's Foreign Funding and Lobbying. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), claims to be "America's largest Islamic civil liberties group." But that's a myth. As [reported] on BigGovernment.com last fall, only 1% of CAIR's latest reported revenues actually came from Muslim American members. Meanwhile foreign donors have given CAIR over $6,000,000 million [sic] in cash and loans, and over $50,000,000 in pledges.
CAIR Attacks the Foreign Policy Research Institute. This episode raises unsettling questions: What is CAIR doing with an "informant" inside Mason Crest Publishers? How many other publishing houses has it penetrated? And which other cultural institutions have staff more loyal to CAIR than to their employers?
Dallas Islamic leader, former CAIR board member deported. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) is likely to find itself the target of more criticism after a Dallas immigration judge ordered one of their former board members deported due to terror connections.
CAIR's Hamas Co-Conspirator Associates. Omar Ahmad's picture and bio have been removed from CAIR's national website, but his likeness has turned up on another CAIR site, a local chapter's one in California. Given CAIR's publicly known history linking the group to Hamas and given the fallout from the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) trials, one would think that CAIR would wish to shed its troubling past. With regards to Ahmad and some others, though, it seems the group has embraced it, proving that CAIR is willing to either sink or swim with its radicals.
Modesty in Islam Just a Cover-up for CAIR agenda. A Muslim woman applied for a job at Hollister, a division of Abercrombie and Fitch, in San Mateo, California back in October. She wore hijab until a division manager came in, and decided she didn't fit the A&F image, so he fired her after she refused to take off the head scarf while on the job. ... Murder, deceit, and sexual exploitation of women are allowable under Islam. Not exactly a modest and peaceful system of belief for some. CAIR really doesn't CARE about the woman in the lawsuit. It cares about spreading Islam.
Clueless About CAIR and ISNA. The issue of terrorism is broadcast every day over the airwaves. Yet, so many of our government officials are clueless about it. How else would a leader from the Islamic Society of North America and the Council on American-Islamic Relations — two groups singled out by the Justice Department for their involvement in the financing of Hamas — be invited to a sitting Governor's State of the State Address?
CAIR: Fort Hood Co-Conspirator. Suddenly CAIR, an unindicted terrorist co-conspirator, is acting like a good citizen. Suddenly it's concerned about young Muslim-American men going on jihad. Suddenly it's concerned about "certain" passages of the Quran inspiring jihadists. It's all too little, too late. Thanks to CAIR, 42 brave American soldiers were gunned down by an Islamic nut in Texas. That's right, thanks to CAIR.
CAIR's Fort Hood Idol: Following the November massacre that took place at Fort Hood, Texas and the failed terrorist plane attack by the so-called 'underpants' bomber, all eyes have been focused on Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born al-Qaeda leader who had been in contact with the perpetrators of both acts.
Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America. Through painstaking and nuanced research of internal memos and documents, the authors establish that CAIR is the ideological cousin of the notorious Muslim Brotherhood and their leadership is inextricably tied to the promulgation of an explosively violent "jihadist" agenda. Utilizing double-speak and a wide variety of cleverly devised subterfuges, CAIR manages to present itself as a law abiding, pro-American organization; however, the authors expose their unbridled mendacity in its most egregious form.
Friend of the Brotherhood? [Scroll down] More Americans are taking note of the accumulating series of statements and actions by the president that display favoritism, or worse, toward Muslims. That would be troubling enough; after all, no chief executive is supposed to support one subset of us over others. Growing numbers of our countrymen may be on to something else about the Obama presidency, however, that is even more alarming: In instance after instance, Mr. Obama seemingly has bent over backward to accommodate not just Muslim-Americans, but a deeply problematic organization — the Muslim Brotherhood (or Ikhwan) — that purports to represent their interests here.
CAIR Finally Under Investigation. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a longtime partner of the FBI in its efforts to reach out to American Muslims, now appears to be under criminal investigation by that same FBI. It's a refreshing breakthrough of sanity in the FBI's dealing with the domestic terror threat — and it came to light just as CAIR was poised to win yet another victory in its ongoing campaign of harassment and intimidation against anyone who dares draw attention to jihadist activity in the United States.
ISNA: Attitude, Not Apologies for Ft. Hood Murders. It seems strange that in today's New York Times article on the Ft. Hood shooter, Army Major Nidal Hasan, Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) president Ingrid Mattson stated, "I don't understand why the Muslim-American community has to take responsibility for him. The Army has had at least as much time and opportunity to form and shape this person as the Muslim community."
Did someone mention Fort Hood?
Somebody at Fort Hood Should be Walking the Plank. ISNA is the Muslim Brotherhood's umbrella entity for Islamist organizations in the United States. It was established in 1981 to enable Muslims in North America "to adopt Islam as a complete way of life" — i.e., to further the Brotherhood's strategy of establishing enclaves in the West that are governed by sharia.
Jihad returns to Fort Hood. Andy McCarthy, in a disturbing report, tells us that, according to his sources, the Defense Department has brought a top official of the Islamic Society of America (ISNA) to Fort Hood to lecture our troops about Islam before they deploy to Afghanistan. The ISNA official, Louay Safi, has also served as research director at the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT).
Rep. Sue Myrick Takes a Stand on Obama, Fort Hood and CAIR. The FBI has publicly stated CAIR has ties to HAMAS, a designated terrorist organization. This was clearly stated in a letter the FBI sent to Sen. Jon Kyl on April 28, 2009.
CAIR Exposed. Naturally and fully expected, CAIR is on the defensive. Instead of addressing the numerous factual pieces of intelligence showing their support of the Islamic terrorist ideology, they do exactly as their "internal documents" indicate. They begin intimidation, extortion, blackmail, and other related threats to silence their critics.
GOP lawmakers submit request to probe CAIR. In [a] letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, the House members ask the Justice Department to reveal to Congress members why CAIR was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terror finance case in U.S. history.
Republicans Call for CAIR Investigations. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a U.S. non-profit Muslim activist group associated with Islamist terrorist groups such as Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, is reeling under new allegations of highly suspect activity.
State Department's love affair with Islamists. With the United States battling Islamist extremists, making America's case to Muslims around the world has never been more of a priority for policymakers. Unfortunately, the State Department continues to take a counterproductive approach: serving as a veritable infomercial promoting Islamist organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) while giving the back of the hand to the very anti-jihadist Muslims that Washington should be cultivating.
CAIR's Threat to National Security: 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.
The ISNA Conference. Last year I attended the ISNA Conference in Ohio. There were an estimated 30,000 plus Muslims who attended the conference ... There were hundreds of vendors, and since the conference was being held only a couple of months before the 2008 Presidential Election, there was an enormous outpouring of support for Barack Obama. Non profit organizations are not supposed to favor any certain political candidate, of course. In 2008 ISNA had several booths with anti-American slogans on shirts, along with pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian, and anti-Israel garments. In addition Barack Hussein Obama material was in abundance.
A Close Look at Obama's New Islamic Partners. In response to [Jennifer] Rubin's report, Thomas Jocelyn of the Weekly Standard observed that ISNA's name has come up in a current German terror finance investigation. It is believed that the Islamic group had donated $100,000 to the Third World Relief Agency at the very same time that TWRA was funding the terror network behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
CAIR's Congressional Stooges. Seven House Democrats have written Attorney General Eric Holder invoking a list of grievances from radical Islamist groups and asking that Holder meet with representatives from those groups to hear their concerns. The grievances include the use of convicted felons as informants in mosques, alleged religious profiling of Somali Muslims in Minnesota and elsewhere and allegations that the FBI is working with foreign governments to question American citizens who are terror suspects.
Some influential Muslim groups question FBI's actions. As they sipped tea and nibbled on dates, more than 100 men and women listened to a litany of speakers sounding the same message: The FBI is not your friend. "We're here today to say our mosques are off limits," Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations for Greater Los Angeles, told the crowd last month at an Anaheim mosque.
FBI and American Muslims at odds. Law enforcement efforts to root out home-grown terrorists are jeopardized by deteriorating relations between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Muslim and Arab-American communities. The situation began last fall when the FBI quietly withdrew formal relations with all local chapters of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), one of the largest Muslim American civil rights organizations. The FBI cited "a number of distinct narrow issues" that it has refused to make public.
Ex-CAIR Chairman: FBI Should Shut Down the Organization. In January, Fox News reported that the FBI had "severed its ties" with all CAIR chapters. Now, Parvez Ahmed, the former national chairman of CAIR's board of directors, has come out with his own thoughts on punishment for the group. Ahmed served as CAIR's national chairman from May 2005 until his resignation in June 2008. His departure was not without controversy and his parting words were not complimentary.
House Leaders Wary of CAIR After FBI Shuns Islamic Advocacy Group. A leading member of the House of Representatives is asking the FBI to explain why it did not notify Congress that it had cut ties with the Council on American-Islamic Relations, as revealed by FOXNews.com last week. And several lawmakers are calling on their colleagues to "think twice" before meeting with the Islamic advocacy group, which the FBI considers a front for Islamic radicals.
Former Hamas Fundraiser to Speak at CAIR Banquet. Before the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) was closed by the U.S. government as a designated global terrorist fundraising entity just weeks after the 9/11 attacks, Monzer Taleb (aka Munzir Taleb, Monzer Talib, et al.) was part of the infamous Al-Sakhra band, which toured the U.S. raising money for the HLF and the terrorist group Hamas. Taleb was so active in his fundraising pursuits that he was personally named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the HLF terrorism finance trial, which concluded this past November with guilty verdicts on all 108 counts for the defendants.
CAIR's Credibility Takes a Hit from Holy Land Terror Trial. The public image of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), image has taken a huge blow as a result of new revelations that the FBI has severed ties with the group. The Investigative Project on Terrorism, a research organization headed by Steven Emerson, has published on its web site a letter sent in October from James E. Finch, special agent in charge of the bureau's Oklahoma operations, to local Muslims stating that the FBI would not take part in a local outreach conference because of CAIR's participation. An FBI official in Washington told Fox News last month that the agency has directed FBI field offices across the country to cut ties with local affiliates of CAIR.
E-mails from an Enemy. Given my line of work, from time to time, I get angry e-mails from people affiliated with hate and/or terror-related groups — groups that I have worked hard to expose and hopefully, one day, help to shut down. Recently, I was sent a handful of e-mails from the President of the campus chapter of the Muslim American Society (MAS on Campus) at John Jay College in New York City. The specifics contained within them were a valuable confirmation of things previously suspected to be true.
ACLU Sticks Up for Group That Funds Terrorism. Recently the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) produced a video complaining about how Muslim charitable groups have been negatively affected by the Bush administration's crackdown on terrorist charities. The ACLU chose leaders and patrons of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) to make its point. It was a poor choice, as ICNA itself has been tied to terrorist financing.
'Why Islam': Reaching Out and Preaching Hate. Since its creation, Why Islam (WI), a Muslim proselytizing project of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), has advocated a radical strain of Islam that stresses both hatred and violence. Today is no different. The group continues to verbally attack non-Muslims. And now the group is featuring a poll on its website asking if al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is innocent. The results of the poll are very disturbing.
CAIR Sex, Drugs and Profanity. CAIR-California's Affad Shaikh is a rebel Islamist. While he performs the normal extremist activities, like obsess over Israel, rail against American troops, and defend militant Islamic groups overseas, he also does many things that could be considered unbecoming of a CAIR leader, at least by CAIR's disjointed standards of conduct. Yet the group still keeps him on board.
The Hate Bus. CAIR and ICNA, two groups with documented ties to extremist groups overseas, have happened upon a new ploy to bring "non-believers" to Islam. The groups are using public transportation — subways and buses — to advertise their message. However, that message is one that is highly offensive and demeaning to those of other faiths, as it promotes Islam as a religion of superiority and spreads false information about revered Christian and Jewish figures.
The Last Days of CAIR. Four of [David Yerushalmi's] clients, who were all once clients of CAIR, have filed a federal civil complaint alleging criminal fraud and racketeering against CAIR. The lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, arises out of what we can call the Morris Days affair.
CAIR Files FEC Complaint over Obsession. Despite the fact that the film Obsession contains no political content and was made well before the 2008 election cycle began, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, those paragons of Islamic moderation and honesty, would now have you believe that the national distribution of the DVD was an Israeli plot to elect John McCain. And they've filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging just that.
CAIRing for Guantanamo. The Guantanamo Bay detention camp holds many of the world's most dangerous terrorists — individuals whose goal is to destroy America. Yet, there are some that claim the facility represents a symbol of repression against the innocent. One group in particular, CAIR or the Council on American-Islamic Relations, has been vocal in its opposition to Guantanamo.
CAIR Assassination Plot? Last month, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents stationed at the U.S./Mexico border held the Civil Rights Coordinator of CAIR-California, Affad Shaikh, and others whom he was with for questioning. The agents suspected that the group had the intention of coming to the United States to assassinate President Bush. The following will provide a detailed context for why the CBP would believe such a thing and will make the case as to why the U.S. government should not drop the issue.
CAIR vs. Human Rights: Suspicions persist about [The Council on American Islamic Relations], due not only to the terror convictions of several of its former officials and the questionable statements of some of its spokesmen, but because it always seems to be on the opposing side of anti-terror efforts, as well as of any honest attempt to examine and reform the elements of Islam that jihadists are using to justify violence today.
CAIR blames Justice for its troubles. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) says it is suffering from a decline in membership and fundraising and blames the Justice Department for listing it as an unindicted co-conspirator in a case involving a charity accused of terrorist ties.
CAIR Revealed: For the first time, evidence in a major federal terror case puts CAIR's current executive director — Nihad Awad — at a Philadelphia meeting of alleged Hamas leaders that was secretly recorded by the FBI. After the Associated Press last week reported the bombshell, CAIR denied claims of ties to Hamas. "That's one of those urban legends about CAIR," said Parvez Ahmed, CAIR's chairman. "It's fed by the right-wing, pro-Israeli blogosphere." In fact, the evidence was revealed by an FBI agent who testified at the terror-financing trial under way in Dallas.
What idiots!
Controversial Muslim group gets VIP airport security tour. The Department of Homeland Security took a Muslim group with known past ties to terror organizations on a VIP tour of security operations at the nation's busiest airport at the same time British authorities were working to break up a plot to blow up U.S. airlines.
Chicago's Hamas Youth: During the 1990s, the Hamas infrastructure within the United States was complete. It consisted of a propagation outlet, the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP); a financing wing, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF); a command center, the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR); and a defense mechanism, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Today, only the latter exists, along with a remnant of the IAP, the Mosque Foundation. Both have a presence in the Chicago area, where group and mosque are working hard to indoctrinate young Muslims into radical Islam.
CAIR Extremist to Speak on Extremism. On Tuesday, April 8, 2008, the head of the Michigan office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Dawud Walid, will be giving a speech about extremism and terrorism, at Grand Valley State University, in Allendale, Michigan, hosted by the Muslim Students Association. But how can such topics be discussed, when the speaker is a known extremist, and the organization he represents has been involved in terrorism?
No 'Islamophobia,' please. As delegates to the Republican National Convention gear up for speeches by Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin, an Islamic civil liberties group is urging the GOP candidates to stay away from Muslim-bashing and extend an olive branch to members of the faith. "We urge Senator McCain and Governor Palin to offer inclusive speeches at this week's Republican convention and ask that they both avoid divisive Islamophobic rhetoric," said Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR.
CAIR Pushes Phony Charges of Anti-Muslim Hysteria, Hate Crimes. In a series of thorough and carefully documented articles, the Investigative Project on Terrorism has detailed the sinister side of the self-proclaimed Muslim civil rights group CAIR. The tenth and final installment takes a look at CAIR's persistent — and often contrived — charges of "hate crimes" perpetrated against Muslims and supposed "anti-Muslim hysteria" rampant in this country.
A Trying Time for CAIR. It has been a bad week for the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). The group that has so successfully presented itself to law enforcement and media organizations as a Muslim civil rights group is seeing a radically different portrayal of its motives and goals coming to light in the Holy Land Foundation terror charity trial in Dallas.
Prosecutors say Texas charity hid its terrorist ties. The Holy Land Foundation presented two faces to the world, federal prosecutors said Monday [9/17/2007] as final arguments began in what is widely seen as the most important terrorist financing case ever to go to trial in the United States.
Homeland Security Implications of the Holy Land Foundation Trial. Although evidence brought forward in documents and testimony has explosive implications for US Homeland Security, the intelligence community, and every American citizen, relatively little media attention has been paid to it.
Update: Motion For Retrial. The Council on American-Islamic Relations is cheering a mistrial in a major terror case as a "stunning defeat" for the U.S. government. But the celebration may be premature.
Coming up empty. Years of federal investigation, months of sworn testimony, weeks of jury deliberation, and four days awaiting the release of a sealed verdict culminated in confusion and debacle Oct. 22. The 12-member citizen panel charged with adjudicating the largest terrorism financing case in U.S. history appeared to crumble under stacks of convoluted evidence.
CAIR Terror Ties Exposed, Again. From the Hamas ties of its founders in 1994 to its solicitous stance toward accused terrorists today, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has demonstrated that its actual mission is far removed from the civil rights advocacy it claims to pursue. Still standing as perhaps the clearest evidence of CAIR's insidious role, two key leaders of the group attended a 1993 meeting in Philadelphia called by Hamas members and supporters to devise a strategy for torpedoing the Oslo Accords aimed at Middle East peace.
Has CAIR Violated Its Non-Profit Tax Status? United States Representative and co-founder of the Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus, Sue Myrick, is one of a growing number of lawmakers to speak out against CAIR. As reported in World Net Daily, in December 2007, she stated, "Groups like CAIR have a proven record of senior officials being indicted and either imprisoned or deported from the United States."
CAIR officials getting taxpayer dollars for schools. Patrick Poole has been looking at the taxpayer-funded charter schools run by CAIR officials in Columbus, Ohio and published his report today at Front Page Magazine. There are many serious problems uncovered, including use of the schools for CAIR events, the political extremism, and possibly self-dealing.
CAIR Goes Back to School. As children all over the country prepare for the annual American rite of the beginning of school, hundreds of school children and their parents from the Columbus, Ohio Somali refugee community may be getting far less than they bargained for, as well as Ohio taxpayers.
Telephoning the Enemy: CAIR board members unapologetically have said that they intend to "educate" Americans to accept Sharia as our law!
CAIR's Congress. With the Democratic victory in the midterm elections, one big winner was the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). The American Islamic pressure group now has a chance to advance its agenda in numerous ways, with energetic water-carrying by, among others, the Speaker of the House, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and the first Muslim member of Congress.
Muslims Silence Critics. Violent reprisal has long been an occupational hazard of those who dare to question or investigate Islamic groups or criticize Islamic practices. … Much more common has been the practice of trying to intimidate critics into silence through legal threats. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has had great success with this over the years, although lately the tactic appears to be faltering.
Don't like it? Clear off, mate. Clearly, Aussies don't have a CAIR. Federal Education Minister Brendan Nelson actually said that Muslims in Australia who don't want to accept local values should leave the country.
Update:
CAIR Backs Down from Anti-CAIR. In a stunning setback, the Council on American-Islamic Relations' defamation suit against Andrew Whitehead of Anti-CAIR has been dismissed with prejudice.
Why CAIR Dropped Its Lawsuit Against Andrew Whitehead. Andrew Whitehead, a former serviceman with the U.S. Navy has a website named Anti-CAIR on which Whitehead accused CAIR of partially funding terrorist organizations. CAIR routinely tries to intimidate the likes of Whitehead in the hope of stifling any criticisms and/or allegations made against it.
CAIR's Fuzzy Math: We've been told for years that Islam is the fastest-growing religion in America, and that the size of the Muslim population here has swelled to 6 million to 7 million. A new study pops that myth.
CAIR by the Numbers: Since representatives from CAIR have identified their organization as "the Islamic NAACP", a comparison between CAIR and the NAACP might be helpful. … Even after adjusting for the population size differences between the two, CAIR's membership footprint amongst their constituency is still is only one-tenth that of the NAACP.
CAIR membership falls 90% since 9/11. Membership in the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has declined more than 90 percent since the 2001 terrorist attacks, according to tax documents obtained by The Washington Times. The number of reported members spiraled down from more than 29,000 in 2000 to fewer than 1,700 in 2006.
Telephoning the Enemy: By its own court filings, the Council on American-Islamic Relations conclusively established its multiple communications with persons suspected of connections with terrorists.
CAIR: Islamists Fooling the Establishment. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), headquartered in Washington, is perhaps the best-known and most controversial Muslim organization in North America. CAIR presents itself as an advocate for Muslims' civil rights and the spokesman for American Muslims. "We are similar to a Muslim NAACP," says its communications director, Ibrahim Hooper.
CAIR's Hate Crimes Nonsense: CAIR cites the July 9, 2004 case of apparent arson at a Muslim-owned grocery store in Everett, Washington. But investigators quickly determined that Mirza Akram, the store's operator, staged the arson to avoid meeting his scheduled payments and to collect on an insurance policy. Although Akram's antics were long ago exposed as a fraud, CAIR continues to list this case as an anti-Muslim hate crime.
Did someone mention Hate Crimes?
Cowed by CAIR: DC talk station fires host. Washington, D.C. talk radio station WMAL, 630 AM, has caved to pressure from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a group that has savaged journalists, critics of radical Islam, even the Fox TV show "24" but which just as steadfastly has refused to specifically condemn various Islamic terrorist organizations.
CAIR Fifth Columnists and Multiculturalists: In the realm of terrorism, the threat to America is not just concerning dirty bombs and terror cells. It's not just about planes flying into buildings or suicide vests. No, the threat is a lot greater than that — a solid infrastructure finely cultivated into our society, paid for, at least in part, by Saudi royalty. It was created not to promote the values of our nation, but, instead, to impose Islamic law. A large part of that infrastructure is the Council on American-Islamic Relations or CAIR.
CAIR's Medical School Grievance Theater: When Iram Qureshi of Dublin, Ohio was dismissed from the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine last month after having to repeat her first year and then failing two 'systems' in her second year after she stopped attending classes, she did what any normal American Muslim woman would seem to do these days — she called the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and sued.
ISNA, NAIT and other organizations
(Some disguised as charities)
Co-Conspirators of Hate. The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and its sister org, the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), are attempting to have their names taken off the U.S. government's list of "unindicted co-conspirators" for a Dallas Hamas fundraising trial that began almost one year ago. They are claiming that, because of the designation, the government has done harm to their relationship with law enforcement and interfaith groups.
Front-gate: It is now well-established in Washington that any scandal, no matter how seemingly innocuous, soon is given the suffix "-gate," establishing a lineal connection to the mother of all scandals, Watergate. Well, let me be the first to suggest that a recent scandal in the Pentagon be known hereafter as "Front-gate" in recognition of the central role played in the drama by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), an organization designated by the Justice Department as a front for the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan).
The Muslim Students Association and the Jihad Network: As early as the 1980s, operatives from the Muslim Brotherhood, parent group for al Qaeda and Hamas, formulated a blueprint for a "jihadist process" that would ultimately sabotage the "miserable house" of the United States. These Muslim Brotherhood operatives saw that the work of undermining the U.S. could be best accomplished by the use of front groups such as the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim Students Association. But while CAIR was designed to work in the legal-cultural realm, posturing as another of the minority rights groups functioning in the public square, the MSA's role was to be restricted to college campuses, where it would advance the cause of radical Islam and lead the effort to stigmatize Israel.
Bad CAIR Day. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) had a rough 24 hours earlier this week. Given the organization's ties to the seditious Muslim Brotherhood and specifically its role in advancing the stealth jihad used to insinuate into this country the totalitarian program authoritative Islam calls "sharia," though, any bad CAIR day is a good day for America.
The Muslim Brotherhood in America. The only people who can get away with openly lying, causing harm to our troops/country, and turn our country from a democracy/free market into a Socialist nation under many Sharia compliant aspects are elected politicians. Islamic scholars realize even under Obama, they can't (to date) verbalize treason and sedition against America. They do realize it is still accepted to call for sedition/treason, and murder of innocent people in written and video formats. These formats of communicating hatred toward America are somehow believed to be covered under our U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment. Islamic leaders are taking advantage of our naiveness and regardless of what our law enforcement and politicians believe, America is under attack and inside the U.S. we are losing our country inch by inch.
Obama's Islamist Problem: The question is why would Barak Obama's campaign — which has prevented Muslim women wearing headcoverings from being in the background of photographs with the candidate and which recently fired a Muslim-outreach coordinator who had ties to another unindicted HLF co-conspirator — allow itself to be put in such company? Presumably, the response will be one heard from the Bush administration: ISNA is a large, "mainstream" Muslim-American organization that is an appropriate vehicle for outreach to that community.
The Dems' 'soft' jihadist. The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) has been identified by the Department of Justice not only as a front for the Muslim Brotherhood — a global Islamist movement with the stated mission in America of "destroying Western civilization from within." Worse yet, it has also been named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the United States' largest alleged terrorism financing conspiracy.
The Muslim Students Association and the Jihad Network: As revealed in documents seized by the FBI and entered as evidence in a Texas court, the Muslim Students Association is a legacy project of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood is an organization formed by a Hitler-admiring Muslim named Hasan al-Bannain Egypt in 1928. It was designed to function as the spearpoint of the Islamo-fascist movement and its crusade against the West.
My Encounter With the Enemy in Milwaukee. [Scroll down] The Muslim Students Union at Irvine is an affiliate of the Muslim Students' Association and an open supporter of terrorist religious party Hamas, who wear Hamas armbands at campus events. The MSU has hosted the radical cleric Imam Muhammad al-Asi, who told his UCI audience: "We have a psychosis in the Jewish community that is unable to co-exist equally and brotherly with other human beings. You can take a Jew out of the ghetto, but you cannot take the ghetto out of the Jew."
Don't go there, Mrs. Hughes. As with the Bush Administration's outreach to Alamoudi and the AMC and its endorsement of al-Arian's campaign against secret evidence, Mrs. Hughes would make be making a first-order strategic error were she to embrace the Islamic Society of North America. This is because the ISNA is a front for the promotion of Saudi Arabia's Wahhabi political, doctrinal and theological infrastructure in the United States and Canada.
Karen Hughes' big mistake. Not only did Hughes publicly endorse the Islamic Society of North America with her mere presence, but this was the first major public address in her new role spearheading outreach to the Muslim world. In the process, she undoubtedly sent a signal as to whom the administration does — and does not — support in the U.S. Muslim community.
Muslim "Charity" Charged With Terrorism: The charges accuse Enaam M. Arnaout and the "charity" of lying under oath in a federal civil lawsuit pending against U.S. government officials. At issue are the foundation's denials of providing "aid and support to people or organizations known to be engaged in violence, terrorist activities or military operations."
The Money Trail: A U.S.-based Islamic charity received millions of dollars in State Department funds for charitable work in Africa — at the same time that its overseas affiliates were allegedly funneling large sums of money directly to Osama bin Laden, according to newly released government documents. The new information about the Islamic American Relief Agency, and its parent organization in the Sudan, appears to represent the strongest evidence yet that, at least for several years in the late 1990s, U.S. taxpayer money may have been inadvertently used to finance the terrorist operations of Al Qaeda.
UK charity transferred cash to Hamas. A major Islamic charity raising millions of dollars in Britain "to provide humanitarian aid to peoples of the Middle East" transferred money to Hamas and provided funds to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers, according to documents found in the Palestinian territories.
Red-Faced Saudis Crack Down on Pro-terrorist "Charities": The Saudi government announced legal and regulatory measures to control "charity" funds, some of which is alleged to have found its way to terrorist outfits.
Federal agents raid Muslim charity in Southfield. Agents with the FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force executed search warrants at the headquarters for Life for Relief and Development, a Southfield-based charity that works in Arab and Muslim countries around the world. The warrants were based on a criminal predicate, said William Kowalski, assistant special agent in charge for the Detroit office of the FBI.
Oprah's Islamist Nightmare: Oprah Winfrey, the popular television talk show hostess, probably doesn't realize it, but she is being used by a radical Muslim organization. Last month, she aired a tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr., where she featured the daughter of a well known Islamist leader. Now, the leader and his operation are spreading the word that Oprah has helped their group to hit the big time.
The Islamic Truth Group: Established in 1999 "to increase Islamic knowledge so that Muslims become Allah's viceroys on earth," the Great Britain-based Islamic Truth Group (ITG) describes itself as "part of the Muslim Unification Council," a worldwide organization dedicated to re-unifying the Muslim ummah [people or nation] into one super state [Al-Khilafah, "the Caliphate"] that "will dominate world politics for all mankind, forever." Such a Caliphate would be governed by strict Islamic law, or Sharia. "English Law is not divine law like Shariah Law," says ITG. "Don't follow it!"
ICNA's Islamist Southern Strategy. One of the main Muslim Brotherhood organs in the United States is the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA). Like all Brotherhood groups, its goal is to spread Islam whilst destroying its place of dwelling from within. One of the areas of the U.S. that ICNA is focused on is the South, particularly the Southeast.
Foundation President Indicted in Iran Probe. The president of a non-profit organization that the U.S. government has long suspected of being a front for Iranian espionage and anti-American activities has been indicted on charges that he allegedly destroyed documents just one day after receiving a grand jury subpoena instructing him not to do so. Farshid Jahedi, president of the Alavi Foundation, which is headquartered in Manhattan, will be arraigned on Friday [5/8/2009] on charges of obstruction of justice.
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