Blog Editor Intro to ‘CAIR Works “Tirelessly to
Advance the Agenda & Goals of the Muslim Brotherhood & Hamas”’
Edited by John R. Houk
5/8/17
This post highlights a Chris Gaubatz interview on a UTT
Radio broadcast in which comparisons are made of the objectives of CAIR, ISIS
and al Qaeda.
I need to mention a relatively new Muslim-American group is
talked about called US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO – official about page). Apparently, I have been paying close
attention (shame on me) since the group has been around since 2014. Here
are a couple of excerpts briefly highlighting the USCMO agenda as compared to
the other Muslim Brotherhood related Muslim American organizations:
Executive leadership from some of
the most prominent American Muslim organizations announced the formation of the United States
Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) on Wednesday, 12 March
2014 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. The eight founding Muslim
organizations participating at the press conference were immediately joined by two
additional U.S. Muslim organizations. …
…
The USCMO is described as an
umbrella organization – and CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad inferred that
and more, with his assertion regarding the USCMO that “This is the dream of
every American Muslim, to unify the approach, agenda and vision of the Muslim
community. … The
formation of the USCMO marks the first U.S. Muslim Brotherhood political party,
and indeed the first religious identity political party in the history of this
country.
During the press conference, Nihad
Awad indicated his organization CAIR was “proud to join this historic
organization, because today is a historic one. We have been meeting for at
least one and a half years.” However, the information absent from this
discussion by Awad and his colleagues was that the development of the USCMO not
only predates the eighteen month time frame, but finds its origins in the
Chicago metropolitan area, where the Muslim Brotherhood has successfully built
a strategic organizational network for almost
six decades.
In March of 2014, a new group
formed with the aim of uniting a coalition of Muslim organizations: the U.S.
Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO). USCMO came into the spotlight more recently
with the launch of their 2016 political campaign, “One America.” The campaign
followed on the heels of a December 2015 emergency summit of over 100 mostly
Muslim leaders who sought to offset a Muslim image crisis after GOP nominees’
unfavorable – albeit often true – remarks about some Muslim communities.
Reading Between the Lines of
USCMO’s “One America” Campaign
The “One America” campaign calls
for mobilizing one million new Muslim American voters, cultivating dialogue
with elected officials, along with increased open-house days at mosques across
the country. …
…
…
Furthermore, the Islamist group supports the agenda to manipulate language, which
now includes denying the existence of
radicalization.
When USCMO talks about
ensuring civil liberties, it means ensuring these Islamist groups’ use civil
liberties to advance their own cause. In this election year and moving forward
into 2017, that cause is defined by challenging the validity of critical thinkers
and slandering them through largely unfounded accusations of bigotry and
Islamophobia. In almost call cases, Islamist organizations work with
counter-productive groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center and Wahhabi funded agents to
weave a narrative that undermines our number one freedom: freedom of speech.]
For USCMO, the Only “Real”
Muslims are Islamists
When USCMO talks about Muslim
Americans rejoining the mainstream community, their vision is a new legion of
politically active Muslims who can further ensure their agenda. Secular
Muslims, Muslims combative towards Islamism, critical Muslim academics and
Muslim Reformers are not part of what USCMO considers its demographic. In fact,
private conversations with both cultural and deeply faithful Muslims shows a disdain
for Muslim groups that pander to identity politics.
The Council on American
Islamic Relations (CAIR) is a terrorist organization. Specifically, it
was created in 1994 by the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee, which
is Hamas in the United States.
This week’s UTT Radio
Broadcast (30 mins) – which can be heard at www.WorldviewRadio.com– features an interview with UTT’s
Vice President Chris Gaubatz who worked undercover at Hamas’ headquarters in
Washington, D.C. (CAIR) nearly ten years ago while posing as a converted
muslim.
In the interview, Chris
Gaubatz explains CAIR’s objectives are no different than those of ISIS and Al
Qaeda, and that CAIR works “Tirelessly to advance the agenda and goals of the
Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.”
Here are a few of the
comments from Chris Gaubatz from the UTT broadcast:
“As I testified in front of
the U.S. Senate, the Muslim Brotherhood is no different than Al Qaeda and the
Islamic State. They have the same goals, which is to establish an Islamic
state under sharia…Whether its jihadi
groups all over the world, the Islamic State, Al Qaeda or the Muslim
Brotherhood, specifically Hamas in this case with CAIR, they all say that they’re
muslims waging jihad to establish an Islamic state under sharia…My workspace (at CAIR) was right outside the office of
Nihad Awad, the Executive Director of Hamas doing business as CAIR, and Ibrahim
Hooper’s office was right next door to Nihad’s office. So I had daily
interactions with them.”
“I
was able to see exactly how they (CAIR) go about doing what they do, which is
ultimately civilization jihad. They want to destroy Western civilization
from within per their own goals and documents, and I was able to witness that
daily.”
In the largest terrorism
financing and Hamas trial ever successfully prosecuted in American history – US
v Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), Dallas 2008 – which
was the culmination of a 15 year FBI investigation, the FBI and the Department
of Justice entered into evidence a “wide array” of testimonial and documentary
evidence expressly linking CAIR to Hamas.
See UTT’s CAIR is Hamas brief
sheet HERE. Hamas is a
designated terrorist organization per the United States government. See
the Department of State’s designation of HamasHERE.
Yet, despite all the evidence
from the HLF trial, the over 12,000 documents Chris Gaubatz pulled out of
CAIR’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. as well as the 300 hours of covert
video/audio recordings revealing CAIR is involved in fraud, sedition, and
terrorism, CAIR continues to operate and CAIR leaders walk free on the streets
of America.
The
book Muslim Mafia details Chris’ experiences and the evidence uncovered.
Purchase a copy today HERE!
CAIR frequently appear in the
media and is defended by local and national media outlets as a “civil rights”
organization. CAIR organizes “Muslim Capital Day” at state capitals
around the United States, influences national policy related to the Islamic
threat, attacks individuals and organizations who speak truth about the threat
of Islam, and they defend jihadis (“terrorists”) while putting out the
propaganda that what “terrorists” do has nothing to do with Islam.
Hamas leader Nihad Awad, who
is the General Masul (leader) of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood, is now steering
the MB’s accelerated efforts to prepare for war in the United States through
the efforts of the US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO).
Three things citizens can do
to help thwart the efforts of the CAIR terrorists (Hamas) are:
1)Encourage local and state
law enforcement to prosecute CAIR entities in your state. If they have no
idea where to begin, please refer them to UTT.
2)Work to ensure none of the
local public entities in your area work with Hamas terrorists (dba CAIR) such
as media, businesses, schools, etc.
3)Support and defend
organizations and individuals being attacked by CAIR.
CAIR is a terrorist organization and should be treated as
such.
Understanding the Threat provides threat-focused strategic and operational
consultation, training, and education for federal, state, and local leadership
and agencies in government, the private sector, and for private
citizens. UTT is the only organization in America which
is training leaders, elected officials, law enforcement, military personnel,
and citizens, about the Global Islamic Movement and the jihadi networks in
communities around the nation. UTT is also the only organization
showing security professionals and state leaders how to locate and map out
jihadi organizations, locate jihadis, and dismantle the network at the local
and state level. While UTT briefs and teaches about many of the threats
external and internal to the United States, its primary concern is the threats
to the Republic and the West in general from the Global Islamic Movement.
Muslim
Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America is a
2009 book by U.S. State Department-trained Arabic linguist and former U.S. Air
Force Office of Special Investigations special agent Paul David Gaubatz, and
investigative journalist and Hoover Institute fellow Paul Sperry.
It proves the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to be a subversive
organization allied with international terrorists.
The book is based on a six-month undercover investigation of the
Washington-based CAIR by Chris Gaubatz — son of co-author Paul David Gaubatz —
who posed as a convert to Islam. The book uses documents Chris Gaubatz obtained
as a CAIR intern to prove the book's assertions that CAIR is a front for the
Muslim Brotherhood, and that CAIR supports international jihad against the U.S.
The book prompted endorsements from a number of writers and requests by members
of the United States Congress for investigations into CAIR's terrorist links
and undue influence.
Paul Sperry and Chris’ father David Gaubatz authored the
book “Muslim Mafia” from the clandestinely acquired info. The book was
published in 2009. CAIR has done everything within its legal power to either
discredit, squelch the book’s existence and/or destroy the Gaubatz family since 2009.
Legal Jihad/Lawfare is the tactic Islam uses to
intimidate critics and individuals actively exposing Islamic designs for the
West. You can Google the term for yourself, but this 113-page pdf from the Center for Security Policy bring to light some insight on
this Muslim litigation tactic:
Lawfare – the use of litigation and
other judicial instruments to achieve policy outcomes – has long been employed
by the U.S. progressive movement. In recent years, it has become a favored
weapon of the Left’s allies in the Muslim Brotherhood and other parts of the
global jihad movement in America.
Organizations in this country that
front for the Brotherhood and its Palestinian franchise, Hamas, such as the
Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), have wielded lawfare both
strategically and tactically. Their focus typically involves efforts to create
and promote victimization narratives for Islam. They seek to silence their
critics and put the American public and policy-makers on the defensive in the
face of the global and domestic threat from a jihad or holy war, driven by the
dictates of the Islamic supremacist doctrine known as shariah.
In advancing this agenda, the
Muslim Brotherhood uses our own laws and courts for such purposes as
intimidating and otherwise suppressing any who dare challenge Islamic
supremacism. A steady stream of lawsuits filed by Muslims in this country works
to achieve such outcomes and to normalize shariah by: insinuating it incrementally
into our legal system; advancing the claim that Islamic law ought to be treated
as superior to our basic freedoms; and gaining acceptance for
anti-constitutional Islamic tenets related to equality, women’s rights, free
speech and more. (OFFENSIVE AND DEFENSIVE LAWFARE: FIGHTING
CIVILIZATION JIHAD IN AMERICA’S COURTS; Civilization Jihad Reader Series
volume 7; CENTER FOR SECURITY
POLICY; 10/16/5)
CAIR has lost numerous legal challenges to the Gaubatz
family. Yet they keep the lawfare going. It is obvious CAIR has been doing a
great job in draining the Gaubatzs of their money to break them. Think about this:
Lawfare is also costing CAIR legal fees. What is their source to keep this
flowing? I can’t believe that CAIR’s exaggerated and ever decreasing
member rolls are donating the kind of money needed to keep their
Lawfare objectives active.
Here we are in 2017 and CAIR has chosen to take the Gaubatzs
all the way to a civil trial. Frankly when that Gaubatz defense team nails CAIR
with hiding discovery or catches the organization in a lie, I suspect CAIR will
settle. There is no way I can believe CAIR can win such a lawsuit unless the
Judge is bought or is an extremely complicit Multiculturalist to the point the
rule of law is ignored to benefit CAIR. Much like President Trump is
experiencing with lawless activist Judges so far.
Below is a WND article that touches on some old news and
includes some relevant updates on CAIR’s civil suit against the Gaubatz family.
But first here are a few blog posts I have made since the 2009 Legal Jihad
began:
A former federal investigator enlists his son to infiltrate
a Muslim front in the nation’s capital that had routinely collaborated with the
White House and federal law-enforcement agencies as a “civil rights” group.
The daring undercover operation results in the capture
of 12,000 pages of incriminating internal documents along with audio and video
recordings, attracting the interest of the FBI and congressional investigators.
The evidence is compiled in one volume that draws the praise
of a member of Congress who declares: “Now we have proof – from the secret
documents that this investigative team has uncovered, coupled with the ones
recently declassified by the FBI – that [radical Islamic] agents living among
us have a plan in place, and they are successfully carrying out that subversive
plan.”
But the Muslim front group, funded by wealthy Saudi donors
and other foreign sources, files a lawsuit against the investigators, charging
its “reputation” was damaged. Lacking any grounds to rebut the overwhelming
evidence that it actually is a Muslim Brotherhood front, the group amends it
complaint then prolongs the case through frivolous motions until finally,
after eight years, a trial is set to be scheduled.
While it might sound like a Hollywood script, it’s the true
story of a WND Books co-author and his son who have been sued by the
Washington, D.C.-based Council on American-Islamic Relations in a case that has
moved to a trial likely to begin this fall in the nation’s capital.
Serving as an intern,
Chris Gaubatz gathered some 12,000 pages of documents that were headed for a
shredder at CAIR’s national office in Washington, just three blocks from the
U.S. Capitol building. The information published in “Muslim Mafia,” co-authored
by David Gaubatz and investigative journalist Paul Sperry, demonstrated CAIR’s connection to the Muslim
Brotherhood, the group that spawned al-Qaida and Hamas and stated in writing
its intent to put America under Islamic law and the authority of the Quran.
In the lawsuit, however, CAIR has never defended itself
against the book’s claims.
The release of the book was kicked off with a Capitol Hill
press conference in which several members of the Congressional Anti-Terrorism
Caucus cited the research in the book as a national security concern.
CAIR’s motions in the “Muslim Mafia” case showed its aim was
to squelch any further distribution of the documents and instill fear of the
book among any potentially curious reporters.
To defend its author, WND Books hired, among others, famed
First Amendment defense attorney Martin Garbus, known for the Pentagon
Papers case, and Daniel Horowitz, known for his high-profile clients and legal
commentary on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News.
The legal team soon demonstrated that CAIR did not even legally
exist as the Washington, D.C., corporation it claimed to be,
operating a corporate “shell game,” forcing CAIR to refile its lawsuit.
FBI wiretap evidence from the Holy Land case showed CAIR
Executive Director Nihad Awad was at an October 1993 meeting of Hamas leaders
and activists in Philadelphia. CAIR, according to the evidence, was born out of
a need to give a “media twinkle” to the Muslim leaders’ agenda of supporting
violent jihad abroad while slowly institutionalizing Islamic law in the U.S.
CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper also has expressed a desire to
replace the U.S. system of government with an Islamic state.
“I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t
like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future,”
Hooper said in a 1993 interview with the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “But I’m not
going to do anything violent to promote that. I’m going to do it through
education.”
Media hijack
Horowitz told WND on Wednesday that despite being named by
the United States as a co-conspirator to Hamas and being designated a terrorist group by the United
Arab Emirates, CAIR “continues to hijack the media, acting like
they are a Muslim civil rights group.”
“They filed this case in a jurisdiction very favorable to
their group, and if they win, they will use the case to prove to the world that
they are a legitimate group that represents American Muslims,” he said. “If we
win, they will be unmasked in a very public way.”
Horowitz explained that the case has gone on so long because
CAIR has hid under different corporate names “to obscure a lot of their
wrongdoing.”
“We had to petition the court to tie them down to their real
identity,” he said.
Horowitz has insisted that “exposing CAIR as a criminal
organization does not give them the right to sue for being exposed in that
manner.”
“The case is a vendetta by CAIR against people who exposed
their Muslim Brotherhood connection,” he told WND in 2015. “They seem have
unlimited foreign money, but we have an unlimited will to resist.”
Horowitz said Wednesday that CAIR’s tactics to prolong the
case have included not cooperating with court orders to meet and confer.
“They have filed vicious personal attacks, once accusing me
of being Islamophobic because I was ‘David Horowitz,'” he said, referring to the
widely cited conservative writer and activist who founded the think tank
the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
Horowitz said that at the trial, he expects to see complete
exposure of CAIR’s founding by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Evidence, he said, will trace CAIR’s support for radical
jihadists and its donations from foreign entities.
The trial also will spotlight CAIR’s post-9/11 solicitations
of funds for 9/11 victims that actually went to Hamas-based groups, and its
subversion of the FBI and law enforcement, employing, he said, “the Muslim
civil rights persona the way a wolf wears sheep’s clothing.”
Horowitz cautioned that while CAIR doesn’t have a case, the
Saudi-funded group “can chill the First Amendment by making it so expensive to
speak against them that no one can challenge them.”
He warned that WND must continue to be vigilant: “In the
end, CAIR can just keep getting more and more money from overseas and burn out
opposition with lawsuits.”
Legal fees paid by WND, besides those paid for by insurance,
total hundreds of thousands of dollars before the trial.
“WND has carried the burden of these costs not because it is
a party named in the lawsuit,” explained Joseph Farah, founder, editor and
chief executive officer of WND.
“Instead, we have done so because no one else stepped
forward to do so – to defend the Gaubatzes personally, to take the fight to the
Muslim Brotherhood front group CAIR, to defend any attacks CAIR might direct
toward the integrity of our book, “Muslim Mafia,” and, more generally, to stand
up for the First Amendment.”
Garbus, who has appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court along
with trial and appellate courts in more than 100 cases, told WND in 2010 he
sees the “Muslim Mafia” case as a “continuation of a struggle being carried out
throughout the world” to guard freedom of speech.
“I think a book has a right to be out there, and any attempt
to stop the book, I think, would be violating the First Amendment,” he said.
Garbus has been in the thick of numerous groundbreaking and
highly controversial First Amendment cases over the past five decades, from
Daniel Ellsberg’s battle over the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War and
Lenny Bruce’s famous obscenity charges to radio host Don Imus’ lawsuit against
CBS after he was fired for his remarks about the Rutgers women’s basketball
team.
Other clients have included activist Cesar Chavez, actor
Robert Redford, actor Al Pacino, director Spike Lee, writer Samuel Beckett and
Czech playwright Vaclav Havel. Later, when Havel became president of the Czech
Republic, Garbus was invited to help write the nation’s constitution.
One of his many seminal cases was Ashton v. Kentucky, in
which the Supreme Court ruled in 1966 that libel could no longer be criminally
prosecuted.
Garbus believes Americans have an interest in exposure of
the CAIR documents, because they are relevant to federal law enforcement
officials’ concerns about the group’s ties to terrorist operatives that
threaten the nation’s security.
Garbus has said the Gaubatz lawsuit has similarities to his
defense of legal author and CNN commentator Jeffrey Toobin, who allegedly
violated a confidentiality agreement with Iran-Contra investigator Lawrence E.
Walsh in the early 1990s when he published a book about his experience as a
member of the prosecution team. Garbus won the case on First Amendment grounds.
‘This book will shake you’
The highlights of “Muslim Mafia” include:
oNew evidence that CAIR was
launched to support the Hamas terrorist group and has transferred tens of
thousands of dollars to a group convicted as Hamas’ top fundraising arm in the
U.S. – money that ended up aiding terrorist attacks on Israelis and Americans;
oInternal documents showing
CAIR, despite claims of cooperating with law enforcement, actively works behind
the scenes to mislead and deceive the FBI on behalf of terrorism suspects – and
has even cultivated Muslim moles inside law enforcement who have tipped off FBI
terror targets;
oCAIR is more closely tied
to al-Qaida than previously reported;
oCAIR claims to represent
all Muslim Americans; however, it has victimized some 100 indigent Muslims in a
massive fraud and threatened them when they tried to go to the media; and
internally, personnel complaints reveal CAIR discriminates against Shiite
Muslims and Muslim women within its own headquarters;
oCAIR and its sister fronts
are funded by foreign Muslim Brotherhood sources;
oCAIR leaders share the
Muslim Brotherhood’s ultimate goal to replace the U.S. Constitution with
Shariah law:
oThe Muslim Brotherhood
investment in corporate America will be used to pressure U.S. companies into
compliance with Islamic principles.
The book has been praised by retired Lt. Gen.
William G. Boykin, former U.S. deputy undersecretary of defense for
intelligence, who has played a role in almost every recent major American
military operation, serving in Grenada, Somalia and Iraq.
“There’s a recent book that came out called ‘Muslim Mafia,’”
he told a conference in 2010.
“Have any of you read this? Have any of you ever seen it? I
encourage you to get this book – ‘Muslim Mafia.’ …
This book will scare you. This book will open your eyes. This book will shake
you. What this book says is frightening,”
As former FBI agent Mike Rolf acknowledges in “Muslim
Mafia,” “CAIR has had a number of people in positions of power within the
organization that have been directly connected to terrorism and have either
been prosecuted or thrown out of the country.” According to another FBI veteran
familiar with cases involving CAIR officials, “Their offices have been a
turnstile for terrorists and their supporters.”
The list includes:
oGhassan Elashi: One
of CAIR’s founding directors, he was convicted in 2004 of illegally shipping
high-tech goods to terror state Syria and is serving 80 months in prison. He
was also convicted of providing material support to Hamas in the Holy Land
Foundation terror-financing trial. He was chairman of the charity, which
provided seed capital to CAIR. Elashi is related to Hamas leader Mousa Abu
Marzook.
oMuthanna al-Hanooti:
The CAIR director’s home was raided in 2006 by FBI agents in connection with an
active terrorism investigation. Agents also searched the offices of his
advocacy group, Focus on Advocacy and Advancement of International Relations,
which al-Hanooti operates out of Dearborn, Michigan, and Washington, D.C.
Al-Hanooti, who emigrated to the U.S. from Iraq, formerly helped run a
suspected Hamas terror front called LIFE for Relief and Development. Its
Michigan offices also were raided in September 2006. In 2004, LIFE’s Baghdad
office was raided by U.S. troops, who seized files and computers. Al-Hanooti is
related to Sheik Mohammed al-Hanooti, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World
Trade Center bombing.
“Al-Hanooti collected over $6 million for support of Hamas,”
according to a 2001 FBI report, and was present with CAIR and Holy Land
officials at a secret Hamas fundraising summit held in 1993 at a Philadelphia
hotel. Prosecutors added his name to the list of unindicted co-conspirators in
the Holy Land case.
Although Al-Hanooti denies supporting Hamas, he has praised
Palestinian suicide bombers as “martyrs” who are “alive in the eyes of Allah.”
oAbdurahman Alamoudi:
Another CAIR director, he is serving 23 years in federal prison for plotting
terrorism. Alamoudi, who was caught on tape complaining that bin Laden hadn’t
killed enough Americans in the U.S. embassy bombings in Africa, was one of
al-Qaida’s top fundraisers in America, according to the U.S. Treasury
Department.
oSiraj Wahhaj: A
member of CAIR’s board of advisers, Wahhaj was named as an unindicted
co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The radical Brooklyn
imam was close to convicted terrorist Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and defended him
during his trial.
“Muslim Mafia,” citing co-author’s Sperry’s previous book “Infiltration” as well as
terror expert Steven Emerson’s research, reports that Wahhaj, a black convert
to Islam, is converting gang members to Islam and holding “jihad camps” for
them. With a combination of Islam and Uzis, he has said, the street thugs will
be a powerful force for Islam the day America “will crumble.”
Wahhaj was a key speaker at CAIR’s 15th annual fund-raising
banquet in Arlington, Virginia, in 2009.
oRandall “Ismail” Royer:
The former CAIR communications specialist and civil-rights coordinator is
serving 20 years in prison in connection with the Virginia Jihad Network, which
he led while employed by CAIR at its Washington headquarters. The group trained
to kill U.S. soldiers overseas, cased the FBI headquarters and cheered the
space shuttle Columbia tragedy. Al-Qaida operative Ahmed Abu Ali, convicted of
plotting to assassinate President George W. Bush, was among those who trained
with Royer’s Northern Virginia cell.
oBassam Khafagi:
Another CAIR official, Khafagi was arrested in 2003 while serving as CAIR’s
director of community affairs. He pleaded guilty to charges of bank and visa
fraud stemming from a federal counter-terror probe of his leadership role in
the Islamic Assembly of North America, which has supported al-Qaida and
advocated suicide attacks on America. He was sentenced to 10 months in prison
and deported to his native Egypt.
oLaura Jaghlit: A
civil-rights coordinator for CAIR, her Washington-area home was raided by
federal agents after 9/11 as part of an investigation into terrorist financing,
money laundering and tax fraud. Her husband Mohammed Jaghlit, a key leader in
the Saudi-backed SAAR network, is a target of the still-active probe. Jaghlit
sent two letters accompanying donations – one for $10,000, the other for $5,000
– from the SAAR Foundation to Sami al-Arian, now a convicted terrorist. In each
letter, according to a federal affidavit, “Jaghlit instructed al-Arian not to
disclose the contribution publicly or to the media. “Investigators suspect the
funds were intended for Palestinian terrorists via a U.S. front called WISE,
which at the time employed an official who personally delivered a satellite
phone battery to Osama bin Laden. The same official also worked for Jaghlit’s
group. In addition, Jaghlit donated a total of $37,200 to the Holy Land
Foundation, which prosecutors say is a Hamas front. Jaghlit subsequently was
named an unindicted co-conspirator in the case.
oNihad Awad: Wiretap
evidence from the Holy Land case puts CAIR’s executive director at the
Philadelphia meeting of Hamas leaders and activists in 1993 that was secretly
recorded by the FBI. Participants hatched a plot to disguise payments to Hamas
terrorists as charitable giving. During the meeting, according to FBI
transcripts, Awad was recorded discussing the propaganda effort. He mentions
Ghassan Dahduli, whom he worked with at the time at the Islamic Association for
Palestine, another Hamas front. Both were IAP officers. Dahduli’s name also was
listed in the address book of bin Laden’s personal secretary, Wadi al-Hage, who
is serving a life sentence in prison for his role in the U.S. embassy bombings.
Dahduli, an ethnic-Palestinian like Awad, was deported to Jordan after 9/11 for
refusing to cooperate in the terror investigation. (An April 28, 2009, letter
from FBI assistant director Richard C. Powers to Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. – which
singles out CAIR chief Awad for suspicion – explains how the group’s many Hamas
connections caused the FBI to sever ties with CAIR.) Awad’s and Dahduli’s phone
numbers are listed in a Muslim Brotherhood document seized by federal
investigators revealing “important phone numbers” for the “Palestine Section”
of the Brotherhood in America. The court exhibit showed Hamas fugitive Mousa
Abu Marzook listed on the same page with Awad.
oOmar Ahmad: U.S.
prosecutors also named CAIR’s founder and chairman emeritus as an unindicted
co-conspirator in the Holy Land case. Ahmad, too, was placed at the
Philadelphia meeting, FBI special agent Lara Burns testified at the trial.
Prosecutors also designated him as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s
“Palestine Committee” in America. Ahmad, like his CAIR partner Awad, is
ethnic-Palestinian. (Though both Ahmad and Awad were senior leaders of IAP, the
Hamas front, neither of their biographical sketches posted on CAIR’s website
mentions their IAP past.)
oNabil Sadoun: A CAIR
board member, Sadoun has served on the board of the United Association for
Studies and Research, which investigators believe to be a key Hamas front in
America. In fact, Sadoun co-founded UASR with Hamas leader Marzook. The Justice
Department added UASR to the list of unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy
Land case. In 2010, Sadoun was ordered deported to his native Jordan. An
immigration judge referenced Sadoun’s relationship with Hamas and the Holy Land
Foundation during a deportation hearing.
oMohamed Nimer:
CAIR’s research director also served as a board director for UASR, the
strategic arm for Hamas in the U.S. CAIR neglects to mention Nimer’s and
Sadoun’s roles in UASR in their bios.
oRafeeq Jaber: A
founding director of CAIR, Jaber was the long-time president of the Islamic
Association for Palestine. In 2002, a federal judge found that “the Islamic
Association for Palestine has acted in support of Hamas.” In his capacity as
IAP chief, Jaber praised Hezbollah attacks on Israel. He also served on the
board of a radical mosque in the Chicago area.
oRabith Hadid: The
CAIR fundraiser was a founder of the Global Relief Foundation, which after 9/11
was blacklisted by the Treasury Department for financing al-Qaida and other
terror groups. Its assets were frozen in December 2001. Hadid was arrested on
terror-related charges and deported to Lebanon in 2003.
oHamza Yusuf: The FBI
investigated the CAIR board member after 9/11, because just two days before the
attacks, he made an ominous prediction to a Muslim audience. “This country is
facing a terrible fate, and the reason for that is because this country stands
condemned,” Yusuf warned. “It stands condemned like Europe stood condemned
because of what it did. And lest people forget, Europe suffered two world wars
after conquering the Muslim lands.”
I have lived in the great State of Oklahoma off and on since
I came to attend a Bible school (now a Bible college) since 1981. In those days
Oklahoma was known as the buckle of Bible belt. Without much coverage by the
Leftist Mainstream Media, Oklahoma now
has a huge infiltration of Radical Islamic theopolitical ideology. The
first part of this post addresses my concerns about Islam in general. The
second part of this is a cross post of a Counter Jihad Report reposting
of a FrontPageMag.com title, “REALISM
ABOUT THE JIHAD THREAT IN OKLAHOMA”.
I find this a bit disturbing. And yes, I still stand by the First Amendment:
The thing is that I am a constitutional Originalist. This
means I give more weight to the Founding Fathers’ Original Intent of America’s
Constitution than to the Living Constitution transmutations of a more activist
SCOTUS. As such a Founding Father – whether Christian, Deist or Atheist –
believed at the very least the principles of morality and societal action in
the Bible was the best pattern for a good America focused on people rather than
the power of government.
Quite contrary from the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights, Islamic principles demand an active
supremacism over all religions and ideologies separate from Islam which
must be suppressed first by peace, failing peace then with violence even lethal
if the need arises.
Hence on a political level I find the Islam of the Quran, Hadith and Sira to be
quite contrary to American Constitutional Liberty and Freedom. On a personal
level Islam’s tenets in its Quran, Hadith and Sira are both Anti-Christian and Anti-Semitic
justifying the murder of those adherents specifically who do not
submit to the supremacy of Islam. If or when a Muslim or Islamic Cleric tells
that I am lying and then quotes the Quran about Islam is peace or Muslims are instructed to respect the People of the Book (i.e. Jews and
Christians) or that there is no
compulsion of religion in Islam; that Muslim is either ignorant of their
own theology or are cognizant and are out right deceiving you. The key to
Muslim ignorance or deception is the Islamic tenet of Abrogation.
The term Abrogation simply means the words in the Quran attributed to Muhammad
during the early Mecca preaching days can be ruled inapplicable to situation
that requires the understanding Muhammad had after fleeing to Medina. It was in
and after Medina that Muhammad became a murderous plundering sex-slaving
pedophile. Those Medina suras abrogate the early Mecca suras when a
theopolitical decision is required that benefits Islam.
And so my fellow Oklahomans (AND Americans) wake-up to the
danger that Islam represents!
In an age of
near-universal denial and willful ignorance at the highest levels about the
ideological roots, nature and magnitude of the jihad threat, it is as unusual
as it is refreshing to find lawmakers at any level who are willing to approach
the problem honestly. State Representative John Bennett of Oklahoma, a Marine and combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, is one of an all-too-rare breed.
On Tuesday, Bennett
held an “Interim Study” on “the current threat posed by radical Islam and the
effect that Shariah Law, the Muslim Brotherhood and jihadist indoctrination
have in the radicalization process in Oklahoma and America.” In his request to
hold this study, he explained: “This will be a study of the current threat
posed by radical Islam and the effect that Shariah Law, the Muslim Brotherhood
and jihadist indoctrination have in the radicalization process in Oklahoma and
America.”
This kind of study
should have been held not just in the Oklahoma House of Representatives, but in
the U.S. House, and Senate as well. That such an idea is inconceivable is an
indication of the fix we’re in. And the situation is only marginally better in
Oklahoma: nowadays the misinformation and disinformation about what we’re up
against is so universal that anywhere the truth is told about this threat,
there is significant pushback from the allies and enablers of jihad and Islamic
supremacism.
And so it was in
Tulsa on Tuesday. The interim study featured testimony by former FBI agent John
Guandolo and Chris Gaubatz, whose exploits as an undercover agent infiltrating
the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) are chronicled in
the eye-opening book Muslim Mafia.
Gaubatz and Guandolo
presented evidence, including land records, showing that the Islamic Society of
Greater Oklahoma City (ISGOC) is owned by the Muslim Brotherhood group the
North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), that both CAIR, which has an active
chapter in Oklahoma City, and ISGOC are Muslim Brotherhood organizations, and
that CAIR has extensive ties to the jihad terror group Hamas, which styles
itself the Muslim Brotherhood for Palestine. They pointed out that since Imad
Enchassi, the imam of ISGOC, is a Palestinian and has all these ties to the
Muslim Brotherhood, he likely also has links to Hamas.
Guandolo and Gaubatz
did not base their case on innuendo and hearsay. They laid out FBI evidence,
Muslim Brotherhood documents, and more, demonstrating that the claims they were
making were based on solid evidence.
Predictably, however,
the mainstream media, which we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt is simply and solely a propaganda arm for
the Left and the Democratic Party, focused entirely on the presence of Adam Soltani of CAIR-OK and
Enchassi. The Tulsa World ran a piece with the hysterical headline “State
representative brands CAIR-OK, its director and a local imam as terrorists.” It
quoted Soltani raging against Bennett: “Rep. Bennett is shamefully wasting
taxpayer money to promote his own biased agenda. This hearing was a new low for
Rep. Bennett, as his guests presented a biased narrative that achieves nothing
more than demonizing and marginalizing the Oklahoma Muslim community.”
But the Tulsa World
and other mainstream media outlets that covered Bennett’s study did not see fit
to inform their readers of any of that; instead, predictably enough, they
portrayed the hearing as a baseless exercise in race-baiting and fearmongering
conducted by a politician up for reelection.
John Bennett, and
the people of Oklahoma, deserve better. There are legitimate questions about
CAIR and ISGOC; Bennett dared to raise them Tuesday; for that, he is being
subjected to a media lynching that is cynically designed to obscure the genuine
concerns he raised – yet ever since a member of ISGOC beheaded a coworker in 2014, these concerns are more urgent
than ever.
The media enablers
of jihad must be decisively repudiated. Please email the Speaker of the
Oklahoma House, Jeff W. Hickman, politely and courteously expressing your
support for John Bennett and requesting that his hearing be just the first of a
series. His email is jwhickman@okhouse.gov and his phone number is (405) 557-7339.
John Bennett has yet
again stuck his neck out for freedom. In these hard times, those who are
willing to do that have to hang together.
There is an urgent need for the public to become informed about the
Global Islamic Jihad Movement. We must demand from our leaders that they become
familiar with Islamic Law and jihadist ideology so that our counterterrorism
policies can better protect us from this growing threat.
This blog is mainly a news aggregating site but also includes an
extensive library of resources for studying Islam and networking with
other Counter Jihad activists. My goal has been to pull from a variety of
the most trusted and reliable sources to educate the public on the counter
jihad movement. The many RSS feeds and counterjihad twitter feed in the sidebar
are meant to provide a time saving jumping off point to access all the
headlines and breaking news.
My Interest in Islamic Jihad stems from the 1983 Hezbollah
truck bombing of the U.S. Embassy
in Beirut in which my cousin, Ken Haas, was killed. Ken left a career as a
philosophy professor to work for the CIA and was the Station Chief in
Beirut. He and his wife of one year had …READ THE
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