A press release from Mapping Sharia:
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a tax exempt, so-called "public interest law firm", which promotes itself as the "largest Muslim-American civil rights organization", stands accused by Muslims themselves of having been involved in criminal fraud. Federal prosecutors have long-identified CAIR as a co-conspirator in the financing of international Jihad-terrorism. That seems to be just the beginning.FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CAIR Threatens Muslims With $25,000 Penalty If They Reveal CAIR Cover-up of Morris Days’ Criminal Fraud
September 3, 2008 – Washington, DC: The Mapping Sharia Project, a research project sponsored by the Society of Americans for National Existence (SANE), is issuing an alert that the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), a self-described public interest civil rights law firm, may have engaged in criminal fraud. Mapping Sharia calls for a full investigation by the appropriate government agencies. The victims of this fraud may also be due compensation for their losses and suffering.
Reliable sources have produced solid information that Morris Days, the Manager for Civil Rights at the CAIR MD/VA chapter, who was widely publicized by CAIR as one of its civil rights attorneys, was in fact not an attorney, and failed to provide services for Muslim American clients who came to CAIR for assistance and who paid for Days’ services. Not only has CAIR not revealed the facts about Days and his fraudulent, criminal behavior, but as of yesterday, September 2, 2008, the CAIR National office in Washington, D.C. continued to post articles at its website naming Days as an attorney. This amounts to a de facto cover-up of CAIR’s involvement in this criminal affair and a perpetuation of the fraud with CAIR’s assistance.
At the same time that CAIR promoted Days as a lawyer while knowing he was not, it continued to solicit donations for its “legal” representation of Muslims in civil rights cases. Prospective plaintiffs, who may have been victimized by CAIR’s fraud in the Morris Days affair, as well as any donors to CAIR who feel they have donated to CAIR under false pretenses thinking it was a legitimate and law abiding public interest law firm, should recognize that CAIR controls an extensive real estate asset portfolio, either owned directly by CAIR or by CAIR related companies. These assets are attachable and fair game for damages claims. A list of those assets, estimated at a fair market value between $6.6 million and $10 million, is provided below.The evidence for the alert has been provided from Muslim American sources. A significant body of evidence has been obtained from these sources, which include individual citizens in several states, as well as Muslim American leaders who no longer support CAIR.
Copies of pertinent documents are provided for download as pdf files above.
Details of the Morris Days Affair follow…
In 2007, CAIR publicized and encouraged Muslim Americans to use the services of Morris Days as an attorney (see “Meet Our Resident Attorney!” CAIR MD/VA Chapter Newsletter for March/April 2007 - in CAIR National Promotes M Days as Attorney for Civil Rights.pdf file above), in which CAIR stated the following:
Days, a graduate of Temple University Law School, joined the organization in 2006. He specializes in criminal law and civil rights/social service advocacy law. He has been a member of the Philadelphia Bar Association and the American Bar Association since 1997. His professional achievements include receiving the Rosa Parks Wall of Tolerance Award in 2005, given by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
None of these claims were true. Morris Days’ claims to a law degree and membership in both Bar Associations were false. Morris Days is not a lawyer and never has been.
According to sources, Days represented himself as a CAIR civil rights lawyer to Muslim Americans, who paid him directly for legal services. In late 2007, these sources allege that the CAIR MD/VA chapter executive director, Khalid Iqbal, discovered that Morris Days was receiving payments directly from Muslims seeking CAIR’s assistance, and not passing the money on to CAIR. Iqbal was Morris Days’ supervisor and had previously worked in the CAIR national office. Iqbal did not fire Days at that time, nor is there any evidence that CAIR tried to verify Days’ legal credentials at the time. In fact, the CAIR national office posted an article describing Days as an attorney on December 24, 2007 (“Lawsuits End Citizenship Delays” - in CAIR National Promotes M Days as Attorney for Civil Rights.pdf file above). As of yesterday, September 2, 2008, that article was still posted at the CAIR national website, continuing to perpetuate the fraud that Morris Days was an attorney.
Days continued to work as Civil Rights Manager for CAIR MD/VA, to represent himself as an attorney, and to take money directly for legal services in 2007 and 2008. CAIR continued to employ Days through February 2008, at which time CAIR terminated his employment and shortly afterwards closed the CAIR MD/VA chapter office in Herndon, Virginia.
No evidence has been found that CAIR notified any government agencies or organizations about Days’ lack of legal credentials, including Temple University, the Philadelphia, D.C. and American Bar Associations, the Southern Poverty Law Center, or governmental officials to whom Days had written on clients’ behalf at the EEOC, FBI, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Citizenship and Immigration Services, Social Security Administration or other federal, local and state offices.
CAIR did reply to some defrauded clients who had complained about providing payment to Days and not receiving services in return. Sources stated that in some cases Muslim Americans were reimbursed what they had paid only after signing statements threatening them with liquidated damages of $25,000 if they revealed any information about the Morris Days affair. Attorneys have advised us that it is possible these “release agreements” are not binding, and people who signed them should consult legal counsel to inquire about their options for pursuing further claims against CAIR. Clients were largely from the Maryland, Virginia and the Washington DC area. They had paid fees ranging from several hundred to several thousand dollars.
A copy of the CAIR Client Release Form is provided above as downloadable pdf.
The Release Form states in part:
Recipient hereby agrees that at all times and not withstanding any termination or expiration of this Agreement, it will hold in strict confidence and not disclose to any third party any information regarding this Agreement or the aforesaid incident surrounding this Agreement, except as approved in writing by CAIR.
Recipient herby[sic] agrees that in the event of a breach of this Agreement CAIR will be entitled to Damages in the amount of $25,000.00 from Recipient for the purpose of conducting meetings, workshops, press releases, flyers and the like to reverse or [indecipherable] the damage to CAIR’s reputation caused by the Recipient’s Breach.”
“CAIR continues to put Muslim Americans at risk through the pretense that they represent them in any way,” said Dave Gaubatz, Director of Operations of Mapping Sharia. “CAIR is receiving support from big foreign donors, not because of their effectiveness in discrimination cases, but because of their false image in the media.”
List of CAIR Real Estate Assets
The following real estate properties are owned by CAIR or related companies including the Greater Washington LLC and Zahara Investment Corporation. Full documentation of property details, deeds and related filings are available above in a pdf downloadable file.
About CAIR:
The Council on American Islamic Relations, founded in 1994, has been named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial on funding for Hamas, a designated terrorist organization. Officials who have left their positions at CAIR in the last year include Ahmed Bedier (ex-Director, CAIR Florida chapter), Parvez Ahmed (ex-Board Chairman, CAIR national office), Khalid Iqbal (ex-Director of Operations, CAIR national office and ex-Executive Director, CAIR MD/VA, now deputy director at the ADAMS Center in Herndon, VA), and Asra Rasheed (ex-accountant at both CAIR national and CAIR MD/VA) and Morris Days, ex-Manager of Civil Rights, CAIR MD/VA. According to The Washington Times newspaper (“CAIR membership plummets,” June 11, 2007) CAIR’s membership has fallen from over 29,000 in 2000 to fewer than 1,700 in 2006. Complete profiles on CAIR’s associations with terrorist organizations such as Hamas can be found at http://www.jihadwatch.org, http://www.discoverthenetworks.org, http://www.investigativeproject.org, http://www.danielpipes.org, http://www.anti-cair-net.org/, and http://www.americansagainsthate.org/cw/.
About Mapping Sharia
The Mapping Sharia project is an extensive mapping of all the mosques and Islamic day schools in the U.S. to determine which ones teach or preach Islamic law, or Sharia. Further, the mapping will scale the Sharia threat by identifying the level of Sharia adherence, the presence of literature and videos calling for violent Jihad, and whether imams and Islamic scholars advocate violent Jihad against non-believers. The project started in early 2007 and has now completed research on over 140 mosques across the United States. Dave Gaubatz, Director of Operations for the Mapping Sharia Project, is a former federal agent and counter-terrorism specialist, who has served in Iraq. The Mapping Sharia team is comprised of Muslim, Jewish and Christian researchers. For more information, visit http://www.mappingsharia.us.
Yeah, Morris Days is a lawyer like Muhammad was a prophet.
Given everything that is known about CAIR, about its founders, about its leaders, about its sinister attempts to bully and threaten others into silence, about its everything, why has the government not made shutting it down, and expelling as many of those involved with it as possible -- and there are ways to make lives more, rather than less, difficult, short of expulsion back to Dar al-Islam -- a priority? CAIR should be regarded in the same spirit as Fritz Kuhn's Bund was during World War II. He, Fritz Kuhn, was put in jail, the Bund dissolved and no one who had been a supporter dared to admit it.
Who would, in the period when Soviet penetration of the Western world seemed most dangerous, have been allowed to openly conduct Soviet or Communist propaganda? McCarthy of course was a fool and a swine, but that does not mean that there was not a genuine threat, and the threat was recognized by, inter alia, such famously liberal groups as Americans For Democratic Action.
If the hot war of the Nazis, and the cold war of the Soviet Communists, were properly understood, should not the stealth war being waged all over the Western world by those intent on removing all obstacles to the spread, and then the dominance, of Islam, be recognized for what it is, a danger to our legal and political institutions, our social understandings, our everything? And if that is recognized, and the sinister nature of CAIR recognized, why is the full force of the government not brought to bear to close it up, and make sure that it, and similar organizations conducting this Stealth Jihad, and whose activities, that can be tracked on-line, include demands for changes in our society and ways, repeated endlessly, for campaigns of phony Taqiyya-and-Tu-Quoque Outreach and the very lines of propaganda to be offered, advice on how best to woo and win naive Infidels (including advice to Muslim parents on what dinner invitations to offer, and even what to serve at dinners, to persuade school administrators and teachers to give in to demands for prayer rooms, or sympathetic treatment for Islam), how to influence textbook content and selection, and everything -- from soup to nuts -- to push the Islamic agenda.
Why is CAIR still operating? Who supports it? Why does it retain a 501(c)(3) designation?
Questions for Study and Discussion.
Just who are the lawyers at CAIR that Day reported to during this whole fiasco? Are they still associated with CAIR? Who are the lawyers that drafted this so-called RELEASE? Whoever they are, they could be, nay SHOULD BE, sternly disciplined (disbarment sounds good to me) for theirs actions by whichever Bar association has jurisdiction in this case.
Why?
American Bar Association Model Rule 5.5(a):
"A person not admitted to practice as a lawyer must not engage in the unauthorized practice of law, and a lawyer must not assist such a person in doing so."
Someone in CAIR must have been supervising this novice, 2006 Temple Graduate. Is Khalid Iqbal an attorney? If so, HE should be reported for violating the above breach of ethical rules, and, for some other activity described in the above story.
A lawyer who assists a non-lawyer is also subject to disciplinary sanctions, including disbarment for assisting such non-lawyer in his unauthorized endeavors. (Restatement of Attorney Ethics Sect.4)
A lawyer may assist a non-lawyer in certain delegated tasks but the lawyer is ULTIMATELY RESPONSIBLE for the results. (ABA Rule 5.5 again)
And there is another ethical breach regarding the so- called "RELEASE".
A lawyer may not settle a pending or potential malpractice claim with a former client without giving that client written notice to seek advice from an independent lawyer about the settlement. American Bar Association Model Rule 1.8(h). The lawyer cannot escape disciplinary action by reimbursing the client for any loss.
This release is attempting to protect CAIR from malpractice claims. If any clients signed the RELEASE without the required notice, this is yet another violation for which CAIR and/or its attorneys should be held accountable. (the version of the release I downloaded is very difficult to read so if the required NOTICE is in there, I can't see it)
Now, according to the story, CAIR is a "self-described public interest civil rights law firm".
I never realized CAIR holds itself out as a law firm, and if it does, whichever jurisdiction (DC, VA, or MD Bar?) regulates attorney conduct, there are enough grounds to open up a full investigation and if the evidence develops as stated above, that chapter can be shut down for good.
Even if CAIR is not a law firm, there must have been other attorneys covering up for Day and those attorneys MUST be held accountable for their deception. What attorney drafted the release? What attorney met with these clients to explain the release?
I am not aware of whether anyone from Mapping Sharia is, or is willing to, take this issue further, but for them and any other residents of DC, or of possible Virginia or Maryland (or whichever state this CAIR office offers legal services) it should be known that ANY resident of the jurisdiction can file a Ethical Violations Complaint. Although CAIR seems to have many victims of this scam, one does not need to be a victim to complain about attorney misconduct. (hint, hint to all DC,VA and MD JihadWatchers).
I don't like the idea of waiting around to see if some law enforcement types gather enough courage to tackle this issue head on to investigate and then prosecute this case. Who in the current DC government would look forward to taking on a so-called "civil rights" group head-on?
(don't get the idea I sit around reading attorney ethics rules. I had the occasion to retake a legal ethics exam as part of another bar admission application weeks ago and had the rules on my desk when I read this story)
I am very anxious to see what, if anything else, develops from all of this.
Islam is a criminal organization.
Some blogs ban you when you say that.
Where did they get the money for buying all those properties since 2006?
If the majority purchases were made with a loan, who backed up the loans? Where did the downpayments come from? Which banks loaned them the monies?
Why am I not surprised?
It's a bit disheartening that funding terrorism, acting as a fifth column destroying our "miserable house" from within, and having multiple executives with felony convictions is inconsequential, but they hire a lawyer with out credentials and they're busted. Maybe they sent phony bills through the postal service like in "The Firm", too.
" . . . but they hire a lawyer with out credentials and they're busted."
The feds finally got gangland boss Al Capone on, of all things, tax evasion.
Wow, this is some pretty juicy stuff. OUTSTANDING work on the part of MappingSharia. I'm also really looking forward to what comes of this...it has to be something...right? It also presents a few other avenues of investigation/attack that can be used against CAIR as well. Again, Out-f'ing-standing work!! Lead on. Fight hard.
nope - he's not an attorney - he's a hotel chain
"His [Day's] professional achievements include receiving the Rosa Parks Wall of Tolerance Award in 2005, given by the Southern Poverty Law Center."
It may be just a "coincidence," of course, but Day's/CAIR's fraudulence seems markedly transparent. The name of the, deservedly, respected attorney who for many years headed (and, I believe, founded) the worthy civil rights law firm, Southern Poverty Law Center, was/is Morris Dees. Sounds like an obvious ripoff.
Hey wait a minute? Didn't Morris Days sing with 'The Time' (j/k)
Seriously, CAIR has a lot of shady things, but I don't think much will come out of this. These guys are very crafty
OT, but CAIR related:
The website of Central Ohioans Against Terrorism is reporting that a message has appeared on the internet offering a $50,000 bounty on the head of Rod Parsley, the pastor of the World Harvest Church. This appears following an intensive media campaign against Parsley by CAIR.
The website of Central Ohioans Against Terrorism is reporting that a message has appeared on the internet offering a $50,000 bounty on the head of Rod Parsley, the pastor of the World Harvest Church. This appears following an intensive media campaign against Parsley by CAIR:
http://ohioagainstterror.blogspot.com/
Given everything that is known about CAIR, about its founders, about its leaders, about its sinister attempts to bully and threaten others into silence, about its everything, why has the government not made shutting it down, and expelling as many of those involved with it as possible...?
And to answer jasmine's question as well:
Because we're going to take out CAIR, ISNA, NAIT, MSA, MSU, and all the other Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas front organization this month when we retry the Holy Land Foundation case. Reading all the groundwork Douglas Farah and Steve Emerson have laid out I don't see how they could possibly be acquitted of funding terror, posing as fronts for Hamas, or being interconnected. And Obama's connections to terror by proxy will be exposed as well. It's on, bitches.
Happy Days...There will be more revealed at a later date, I am sure. Uncle Sam is watching.
You cannot make this stuff up............