And remember: CAIR condemns "terrorism." From Andrew Whitehead and Lee Kaplan in Frontpage:
The conviction of a Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) state operative is but the latest apparent link between that Islamist organization and Islamist terrorism. On April 13, 2005, Ghassan Elashi, founder of the group's Texas chapter (CAIR-Texas) – as well as longtime associate of CAIR's top leadership and beneficiary of CAIR fundraising and support – was convicted of laundering money for Islamic terrorist organizations from November 1995 through April 2001.
Dating back to the early 1990s, Elashi had close ties to CAIR's leaders Bassam Khafagi, Imam Siraj Wahaj, and Randall Todd "Ismail" Royer, former civil rights coordinator and communications specialist for the "Muslim civil rights group."
Elashi founded CAIR’s Texas chapter sometime before October 2000. (CAIR-Texas first appeared as an affiliate on the CAIR national website at that time.) Therefore, it is evident Elashi was a high-ranking CAIR official at the time he committed the pro-terrorist crimes for which he was convicted.
Elashi's conviction is bad news for CAIR. Its ties with Elashi are too deep and the evidence of CAIR's complicity too obvious for CAIR to spin. For example, just after the Islamic terrorist attacks of 9/11, the CAIR website contained a section entitled, "What you can do for the victims of the WTC and Pentagon attacks," which solicited contributions to the "NY/DC Emergency Relief Fund." The only problem was, this so-called "Relief Fund" never existed. The link provided by CAIR led the would-be contributor directly to the Holy Land Foundation website. The Holy Land Foundation, a government-designated terrorist front group, was also shut down by the U.S. government for funding terrorism overseas. The trial of its leadership is scheduled to begin next year.
And just who was the head of the Holy Land Foundation? Elashi.
A coincidence? Not likely. However, that will not mean CAIR will immediately admit the connection
Consider CAIR’s reaction when a CAIR official was questioned about former CAIR Randall Royer on Fox’s “Hannity and Colmes” TV 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.
In fact, Royer was an active official in CAIR at the time he committed his crimes. This exchange is classic: When you can’t dispute the facts, fib and hope the person you’re talking to doesn’t catch you. In this case, Hannity didn’t pursue the matter, and Bedier got away with it...
Read it all.
'And if you're inciting that somehow we're responsible '~cair spokesman
'Inciting'? Should that not be 'suggesting'?
We cannot allow them to control the vocabulary in this fashion. The same is happening Here:
The distinction between education and indoctrination:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17621
Further info on Indoctrination in the schools:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17965
And I Really need to be going! *poof*
Quoth Bedier:
Wow, Non Sequitur Ad Hominem Tu Quoque!
... or would that be, more correctly, tu quoque a priori, ipse dixit ?
But the questions aren’t going away. Ibrahim Hooper won’t answer them, but he can’t bury them:
[1] The Al-Farooq mosque is the second American mosque linked to terrorist activity in a week. The first was an Islamic religious center identified in the indictment of South Florida Professor Sami Al-Arian as one base of his operations to aid terrorists. In light of this, is CAIR’s stand against the FBI’s counting mosques as part of anti-terror operations really consistent with CAIR’s stated "commitment to our nation’s safety"?
[2] The Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz al Saud gave CAIR $500,000 for its program to put books and tapes about Islam in American libraries. The American Muslim leader W. D. Muhammad has said that when Saudis give money to American Muslims, they say, "We’re gonna give you our money, then we want you to . . . prefer our school of thought." Were these books and tapes approved by Islamic authorities belonging to the Saudi Wahhabi sect?
[3] CAIR’s stated intention in the library campaign is to help Americans learn about Islam "as a religion of peace and justice." How is this goal consistent with financing from Wahhabis, a sect so fanatical and extremist that it sanctions violence against non-Muslims and even against Muslims it considers heretical?
[4] CAIR’s new ad campaign includes fifty-two full-page ads in the New York Times. Where is the money coming from to pay for all these ads — an expense that must amount to over a million dollars? Does any of this money come also from Wahhabis in Saudi Arabia? If so (or even if not), have they approved the ads? Did Wahhabis help craft the ads?
[5] As long ago as 1999, the Naqshbandi ....
http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=6546
I think that sooner or later, the F.B.I. will declare CAIR as a terrorist supporting organization and shut it down.
ACAIR website has a gold mine of information. Whitehead is brilliant in his own right to be doing what he has done and continues to do. I just wish I knew how we could help and suppport him and his cause. Forward his link to your friends and they will learn more from his website about CAIR than from any other site out there. He has got it all listed in one place. I hope that his lawsuit prevails because it is in all freedom loving people's interest that he does win.
And this illustrates one of my problems with Front Page, they dis the Saudis, don't spare the Wahhabi's but god forbid they even mention the Wahhabi Saudis business partners, family friends and allies, their president whom they champion George W. Bush and his VP Cheney.