Longtime Jihad Watch reader DC Watson's latest:
The CAIR Mission Statement declares that "CAIR's mission is to enhance understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding."Fair enough. But let's revisit some statements made by members of this group -- in public and on the record -- about their vision of America, and how they’ve put in practice their mission of "encouraging dialogue, and building coalitions that promote justice and understanding."
Omar M. Ahmad, CAIR's Board Chairman: "Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran . . . should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth." (Ahmad began to deny having said this, over five years after it was first reported, but the original reporter sticks by her story.)
Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR spokesman: "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."
Nihad Awad, CAIR Executive Director: "I am in support of the Hamas movement."
How's that for American patriotism, respect for our Constitution, and tolerance of all religions? Oh, but there's more.
1) Muslim cleric Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman was convicted and is now in prison for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
CAIR’s response: Despite the vast evidence of Sheikh Omar's guilt presented in the case, CAIR called the conviction a "hate crime" against Muslims.
2) 2001: President Bush orders the closing of a Muslim charity, the Holy Land Foundation, after it was found to be raising money to support Hamas terror attacks.
CAIR’s response: It called Bush's move "unjust" and "disturbing," and circulated a petition exhorting the government to unfreeze HLF assets, claiming "there has been a shift from a war on terrorism to an attack on Islam."
3) Tuesday, February 15th, 2005: Fox’s "Hannity & Colmes" featured Ahmed Bedier, Communications Director for the Florida chapter of CAIR. From the program:
Hannity: "Did you not have a spokesman for your group at one time, a guy by the name of Royer that was on your staff that was convicted?"
Bedier: "I think several years ago we had that individual in our group. And if you're inciting that somehow we're responsible for the actions or behavior of the individuals after they left our organization, that would be similar to somebody that worked for FOX five years ago and then commits a crime and FOX would be responsible for it."
The "guy by the name of Royer" that Hannity asked Bedier about is Randall Todd "Ismail" Royer, former CAIR Communications Specialist. He is now serving a 20-year prison term for terrorist plotting.
But did Royer really, as Bedier claimed, commit his terror-related crimes after he left CAIR? Timelines listed in Royer’s indictment, specifically for September 2001, and a news article that demonstrates Royer speaking as a representative of CAIR on September 18, 2001 are on record. His crimes took place at around the same time. (See pages 15-20 of the pdf.)
If Royer’s conviction were an isolated incident, Bedier’s response to Hannity’s question might have had some legitimacy. However, it is by no means isolated:In September 2003, Bassem K. Khafagi pleaded guilty to charges of visa and bank fraud in federal court in Detroit. At the time of his arrest, Khafagi was Community Affairs director with CAIR.
12/17/2002: Ghassan Elashi, the founder of CAIR's Texas chapter, according to his indictment, was involved in selling technology, goods and commodities to designated terror-sponsoring states.
In July 2004, the Holy Land Foundation, an Islamic charity organization, was shut down by our Government and indicted on charges of providing material support to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization. Lo and behold, the name of the Holy Land Foundation’s Chairman of the Board was ... Ghassan Elashi.
Details of all this can be found here. See pages 6-12.
And again, who petitioned the U.S. Government to unfreeze HLF’s assets? Wasn't it CAIR?(On page 8 of the indictment, incidentally, the name Sheik Ahmed Yassin appears. This is the same individual whom CAIR is on record as labeling an "Islamic religious leader." This is the same "religious leader" who was instrumental in founding the jihad terrorist group Hamas.)
Ghassan Elashi also has an interesting family member. He is the cousin of Nadia Elashi, aka Nadia Marzook, who happens to be the wife of Mousa Abu Marzook, aka Abu Omar, Deputy Chief of the Hamas terrorist organization’s Political Bureau. For details, see:
http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/infocom/uselashi121702sind.pdf (Pp. 6-9)
http://www.4law.co.il/hlf2.htm
http://www.dallasarena.com/t040730cbs11.htm
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13175
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=9981No matter what side of the political arena we are on, it is of the utmost importance that we always recognize when and from where an enemy is coming at us, retain the ability to turn in their direction -- and relegate the enemy to history.
We would be dishonored if we ever allowed the United States to be brought down from within. Unless, of course, all of the information about CAIR in this column is purely coincidental.
Please keep this information in mind. Be aware: there are foxes in our henhouse, and their removal has become necessary for the good of the country.
Brilliant work, DC. And awesome effort too.
CAIR stands thoroughly discredited amongst us JW regulars. Now if only the ACLU weren't so completely in bed with these scamsters, things could've certainly been better.
This is how Canada treats Christian palestinian refugees:
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/02/27/refugees-montreal050227.html
It took them almost a year to grant the immigration status. If they were muslim they would have had refugeee sratus much sooner.
A full-length brief on the history of CAIR and its officials is available here:
http://www.co-jet.org/cjet/2files/counciloamericais.htm
Many thanks DCW,
just in case i was ever in doubt about cair,
you have resolved that doubt.
The fox in the henhouse analogy is right on.
Where are politicos willing to speak up - or are they scared of...? ?
CAIR-Canada is just as bad and as an example they wanted "24" censored on the Canadian Networks and yet DEMANDED AL Jazeera-Arabic in Canada un-censored despite the overt Jew-Bashing
by middle east Countries that are touted as "Honest Debates" for a diverse opinion on issues.
But things are getting worse in Canada,Muslims
and a Muslim Lawyers group are conspirering to protect War-Criminals and Terrorists,below is the link to a demand for protection to non-Canadian born Citizens from having it revoked for past crimes not reported on refugee and immigration claims.
Since several Muslims have been detained because of terrorist connections from captured
Al-Qeada members confessions,the Islamic Org.'s are in "Damage Control" and the best way to explain away the Jihadists is to use the Constitutions "Equality" clause to insist all Citizens are equal and Canadians born here can't be deported or lose Citizenship and revoking it from murderers and terrorists creates two classes of Canadians.
http://canadianislamiccongress.org/mc/media_communique.php?mcdate=2005-02-21
What a typical response from Muslims,rather than trying to meet the standards for everyone else,they fight to lower the standards so they can meet them.
Maybe this is why very few Muslims are in the Olympics,only the best win the Gold Medal and
losers get cry-towels and a chance in another 4 years.
For our co-jet round table discussion Tues. at 10:00 p.m. EST please Google:
www.fruitofislam.com/Kafir_Nation.
You'll find some of us here already registered and awaiting your presence tomorrow.
Yes, DC, a good digest of CAIR's nefariousness. It is a disgrace that they're still in the US government's good graces.
Ummagumma: as for the Canadian case, I note some things:
(1) After two or three generations in Lebanon, why weren't the Palestinian refugees naturalized? This is a disgrace, and something the rest of us need to hold the Arab world's feet to the fire over.
(2) Probably the Canadian immigration authorities were weighing the question of whether the family in question was truly in danger in Lebanon (country of last residence). Since the civil war in that country died down (although there are signs that the country may be ready to blow up over the political question of Syrian occupation; with Maronites, Druze, and Sunni lined up against pro-Syrian Shi'ah and Melkite).
(3) If the family stays in Canada, they'll ultimately have passport-holding, voting rights, and property-holding citizenship after a decent interval; and this will be Canada's small contribution to settling the Palestinian refugee problem (the problem of Iraqi, Yemeni, Egyptians, Syrian, Algerian, Moroccan, and Libyan Jewish refugees was solved long ago--one of the glaring asymmetries of the Middle East).
Kepha:
The recent ruling by the Federal Liberals was to counter the opposition by minorities to the
"Same-gender" re-definition that's trying to be pushed through in Parliament and now appears
to be a bad move Politically.
Judy Sgro lost her position in Immigration from the "Stripper-gate" scandal and a refugee that claimed she promised a Ministeral-Permit to stay for his help during last years Federal Election.
Minister Volpe took over and he's favoured in Toronto by a large immigrant population,our Federal Budget gave also 1/2 a billion dollars for new Immigrants coming to Toronto. Religious
groups were assured they wouldn't be forced to
perform marriages they don't approve of because of their faith,but now a case where a Christian
Org.'s is being sued by a Lesbian couple and using the Humans Rights board to force them to afirm homosexual marriages.
The Liberals want to stay in power and there's now a inquiry into their missuse of tax dollars
to promote their Party and funnel money to
Companies they were friendly with,each witness
so far claims it wasn't their responsibility
or that they assume it was OK because people above them knew the rules and so did the ones below them.
The asylum seekers are failed refugees that used a Church to stay in the Country,this action to allow them to stay sets a bad example for terrorists that get caught and evade the law
and deportation by hiding in a Church.
Sure am glad DCW is on our side.
Also, remember that cair was asking for donations after 9/11 for NY/DC victims but was actually diverting the funds to the Holy Land Foundation that is now shut down. If any of us did that we would be in prison so fast that your head would be spinning, but they get a free ride all the way to the bank. Something stinks about that to the max!
Dale
ps. the corruption goes further than we realize.
DC,
After reading the link to Frontpage about CAIR , a few of questions have sprung to mind:
Surely with all of this knowledge about the roots of CAIR lying within islamic fundamentalism, and all of the evidence that proves that CAIR is a enemy of the west, someone must have said something to the appropriate authorities. Have they never been investigated, is there not an ongoing investigation into the corruption and dishinesty that shrouds the organization???
I mean we have Anti-CAIR , a site dedicated to exposing CAIRs threat to the american constitution, and countering it's unfairly biased voice to speak out about the so called discrimmination of muslims who actually are quite dangerous, or racist and intolerant themselves. With this in mind, I would have thought Anti-CAIR would have had some kind of result by now, they do something wrong or unjustified nearly every week, has any progress been made in dealing with these frauds, are the authorities aware of their corruption at all???
If anyone knows the answers to these questions please tell me, it seriously enrages me to see such two-faced vermin getting away with such obvious deceit.