From Yahoo News:
NEW YORK, Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A prominent national human rights and advocacy organization is asking New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and city officials to resist efforts by the Hamas-linked Islamic supremacist hate group the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to dictate the nature and content of anti-terror training for New York Police Department personnelThe request by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) and its Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) program comes after Hamas-linked CAIR, one of the nation's most notorious Islamic supremacist hate groups, demanded the resignation of New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly for allowing the counter-jihad film The Third Jihad to be shown to NYPD personnel. AFDI/SIOA respectfully requests that the New York City government repudiate this attempt by Hamas-linked CAIR to interfere with and impede counterterrorism training.
AFDI/SIOA Executive Director Pamela Geller said in a statement: "AFDI/SIOA deplores the attempts by Hamas-linked CAIR and a thoroughly compromised New York Times to undermine the security of New Yorkers by demanding the removal of accurate material about the jihad threat from NYPD training. AFDI/SIOA calls on Mayor Bloomberg to reject the persecution of Police Commissioner Kelly, and to reaffirm him in his position. New York's leaders must not cave in to Hamas-linked CAIR's campaign to outlaw the truth about jihad and Islamic supremacism, thereby making us all more vulnerable to them."
Hamas-linked CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case -- so named by the Justice Department during the trial of the Islamic charity known as the Holy Land Foundation.
CAIR has previously attempted to intimidate numerous government agencies and citizens' groups into dropping events featuring foes of international jihad activity, including SIOA's Executive Director Pamela Geller, SIOA's Associate Director Robert Spencer, ACT for America's Brigitte Gabriel, and others. In the summer of 2010 it has embarked upon a concerted campaign of intimidation and defamation to silence public figures who speak out against jihad and Islamic terrorism, including Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), the Rev. Franklin Graham, Florida Congressional candidate Dan Fanelli, and Connecticut Congressional candidate Rick Torres.
CAIR's attempt to intimidate the NYPD and dictate its choice of training materials is consistent with its long record of pro-jihad duplicity and deception. Although it has received millions of dollars in donations from foreign Islamic entities, it has not registered as a foreign agent as required by the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), despite spreading Islamic supremacist propaganda within the United States.
Although it presents itself as a civil rights group, CAIR actually has numerous links to Islamic supremacist and jihad groups. CAIR founders Omar Ahmad and Niwad Awad (who still serves as CAIR's executive director) were present at a Hamas planning meeting in Philadelphia in 1993 where they and other Hamas operatives conspired to raise funds for Hamas and to promote jihad in the Middle East. CAIR has steadfastly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups.
Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror:
-- Ghassan Elashi, founder of CAIR's Texas chapter, in 2009
received a 65-year prison sentence for funneling over $12
million from the Islamic charity known as the Holy Land
Foundation to the jihad terrorist group Hamas, which is
responsible for murdering hundreds of Israeli civilians
-- Mousa Abu Marzook, a former CAIR official, was in 1995
designated by the U.S. government in 1995 as a "terrorist and
Hamas leader." He now is a Hamas leader in Syria.
-- Randall Royer, CAIR's former civil rights coordinator, in 2004
began serving a 20-year prison sentence for aiding al-Qaida and
the Taliban against American troops in Afghanistan and
recruiting for Lashkar e-Taiba, the jihadist group responsible
for the 2008 Mumbai jihad massacres.
-- Bassem Khafagi, CAIR's former community relations director, was
arrested for involvement with the Islamic Assembly of North
America, which was linked to al-Qaida. After pleading guilty to
visa and bank fraud charges, Khafagi was deported.
-- Rabih Haddad, a former CAIR fundraiser, was deported for his
work with the Global Relief Foundation (which he co-founded), a
terror-financing organization.In 1998 Omar Ahmad, CAIR's co-founder and longtime Board Chairman, said: "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."
After he received unwelcome publicity as a result of this statement, Ahmad denied saying it, several years after the fact. However, the original reporter, Lisa Gardiner of the Fremont Argus, stands by her story.
CAIR's spokesman Ibrahim Hooper once said: "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."
SIOA is one of America's foremost organizations defending human rights, religious liberty, and the freedom of speech against Islamic supremacist intimidation and attempts to bring elements of Sharia to the United States.
THANKYOU AFDI/SIOA
Quite a lengthy list of reasons to oppose CAIR, any ONE of which would be sufficient.
When will the US government declare cair a terrorist organisation? How much more does it take?
One would think that as big as the United States government is today, (and still growing) they could do something to protect its constitution.
What good is a government this size?
Seems the government does more to remove freedom and liberty than it does to preserve it.
I hope the rest of america sees this besides me.
With organizations like CAIR allowed to exist in America, it makes me wonder.
God Bless America!
Can anyone tell me why CAIR wasn't indicted?
It appears that Yahoo News is firmly in the anti-Jihadist camp. How utterly strange for an MSM outlet.
New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly should be heartily COMMENDED for 'allowing the counter-jihad film The Third Jihad to be shown to NYPD personnel.'
I hope that American jihadwatchers, here present, especially any who reside in the City of New York, will be sending Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly messages of support. Don't just phone or email; send him a handwritten letter expressing your appreciation for his good sense in taking steps to accurately educate his men in order that they might be able to better perform their duty.
New York jihadwatchers might even want to hold a rally expressing your support for him.
Since the U.S. Government complicity with Islamic domination/conquest starts at the top with President Obama and his unconditional and one-sided "respect" for Islamic principles, rejection of the criminal intent of jihad, funding of our enemies, promoting Islam globally, etc., etc., etc., the question is who in Government (and/or big business) is set up to benefit from the destruction of our Constitutional protections? The second question is why and how do they think they will be spared from Islamic jihad and conquest? Do Liberal/Leftist (supremacist) elitists think they will be spared jizya? Do they realize jizya is typically 50 percent of wealth? Do they think they will not be in danger of being beheaded or having their homes and families blown up by jihadi IEDs? Do they think they will "reason" or buy their way out of dhimmitude? They are merely (and stupidly) playing with fire and supporting their own demise.
Do they think they will "reason" or buy their way out of dhimmitude? They are merely (and stupidly) playing with fire and supporting their own demise.
Mary, the leftists support the jihadists because they are both working for the same thing---the destruction of Western Civilization, beginning with the weakening of traditional American values like the family, Christianity, morality, etc. They both want to eradicate Christianity and both sides beleive they will emerge the winner at the end of the war. Once they have destroyed everything that made America great and turned it into a banana republic with a communist government, the muslims plan to impose sharia and the liberals plan to establish their multi-culti, egalitarian utopia. Of course, the lefties don't realize what the muslims have planned for them, which is the same fate the secular useful idiots in Iran suffered after helping depose the Shah----imprisonment and execution. So the liberal useful idiots are aiding and abetting their own enemies, a dangerous and naive alliance, and although many are fully aware of muslim treachery, they think they can easily dispose of their temporary allies when the time is right. Together they can inflict tremendous damage and they are using each other to fight the big battles, while both expect to win the war.
Since both the left wingers and the muslims are the enemies of most Americans, they will not succeed in their mutual endeavor but we must start electing informed people to public office. We cannot survive with the politically correct wimps and dhimmis who grovel at the feet of the CAIR thugs and bend over backwards to mollify muslim savages. There aren't that many muslims in America; they enjoy far too much attention, influence, and power to be so few and that must change. With a corrupt, biased, and complicit fourth estate, it is very difficult to disseminate the truth to the public but somehow, people are beginning to see reality despite the lies and half-truths of the news media. The muslims and their useful idiots fight all efforts to expose islam because the truth is their greatest threat. Fortunately, the cat is out of the bag and they'll never get it back inside.