Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel appoints Hamas-linked CAIR's Ahmed Rehab to advisory committee

Fashion plate Rehab in unaltered image from his website (since removed!)

In an article last December in the Huffington Post, Ahmed Rehab of Hamas-linked CAIR claimed that the "Radical Right," not Islamic jihadists, were the greatest threat to America today. His article was full of the predictable whining, victimhood posturing, and no hint whatsoever that any Muslims are waging jihad against the United States.

The thuggish Rehab has also spoken up in defense of the Islamic supremacist group Hizb-ut-Tahrir's right to hold its convention in Chicago (Hizb-ut-Tahrir is banned in many countries), while working to suppress the freedom of speech of anti-jihadists.

And so it should come as no surprise that the likes of Rahm Emanuel has appointed him to an advisory committee. "Ahmed Rehab appointed by Mayor Emanuel to Advisory Committee," from CAIR-Chicago, June 29 (thanks to Diane):

CHICAGO – Today Mayor Emanuel announced the Office of New Americans (ONA) Advisory Committee – a committee of advisors to generate recommendations, develop strategies, and present an overall vision to promote the City’s economic vitality and ensure global competiveness [sic], by becoming the most immigrant friendly city in the world.
“Immigrants are a driving force in Chicago’s cultural and economic life and a vital part of our nation’s history and future. Whether in Rogers Park or Little Village, our city’s vitality has been built on the strength of immigrant populations that have come to enjoy new freedoms and access new opportunities,” said Mayor Emanuel. “I have tasked the Office of New Americans Advisory Committee to lay out a roadmap that will ensure Chicago continues to thrive and grow and attracts the world’s leading human capital to compete in the 21st century global economy and beyond.”

The ONA Advisory Committee is formed by 50 individuals who represent Chicago’s business, academia, civic, philanthropic, and community leaders. This Advisory Committee will serve over the next 90 days and is divided into eight subgroups which will focus on economic opportunities, human capital, education, public safety, health, city services, civic engagement and ensuring that Chicago remains a place where diversity is welcomed and celebrated. They will identify immigrant challenges, strategies and potential solutions and will, together with the ONA, present the plan to the Mayor later this summer.

The ONA is collaborating with Civic Consulting Alliance and A.T. Kearney, who are all providing their support on a pro-bono basis, in the development of the plan. A non-profit organization, Civic Consulting Alliance invests $15 – 20 million per year via its own staff and the pro-bono services of its private-sector partners in order to make Chicago more livable, affordable, and globally competitive. Through the Civic Consulting partnership, A.T. Kearney is donating pro-bono resources and extensive expertise.

“A.T. Kearney is proud to continue our long history of supporting the City of Chicago,” said A.T. Kearney partner Kish Khemani. “Making Chicago more immigrant friendly will allow our city to continue to compete successfully in the global marketplace.”...

Civic engagement, Diversity welcomed and celebrated:
 Lawrence Benito, Executive Director, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights
 Dalila Fridi, Senior Technical Application Analyst, Northwestern Memorial Hospital
 Ami Gandhi, Executive Director, South Asian American Policy and Research Institute
 Maricela Garcia, Executive Director, Gads Hill Center
 Alie Kabba, Executive Director, United African Organization
 Gary Kenzer, Executive Director, Polish American Association
 Emma Lozano, Founder, Centro Sin Fronteras
 Denise Martinez, Director of Office of New Americans, Office of the Governor
 Ahmed Rehab, Executive Director, CAIR Chicago
 Rebecca Sanders, Executive Director, Chicago Cultural Alliance
 Freddy Santiago, Pastor, El Rebano Church
 Elena Segura, Director, Office for Immigrant Affairs and Immigrant
Education, Archdiocese of Chicago

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pdxnag | July 2, 2012 10:01 AM | Reply

* * * waging jihad on individual freedom everywhere.

miriam rove | July 2, 2012 10:07 AM | Reply

I have siad this many time here and I will say it again: politically correct liberal jews are the worst thing for freedom and the country of Israle.
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CHOI | July 2, 2012 10:58 AM | Reply

Rahm Emanuel is a TOTAL POS!
Just ask any SANE Chicago Voter.
As BAD as Daley Jr. was ,his worst day was better than this POS' best day.
This guy did NOT leave being White House Chief-of-Staff to "worry" about garbage pick-up in the 46th Ward,street-cleaning Downtown,are Building Code Violations.
There is a BIGGER AGENDA involving Obama's Chicago Based Campaign.

Istanbul_Chick | July 2, 2012 11:12 AM | Reply

Damnit!

I've been visually raped by that nausea inducing photo of a half plucked pea hen supremacist!

I'm going to market revolting rehab's photo as a diet aid. It certainly kills my appetite.

Buraq | July 2, 2012 11:18 AM | Reply

I heard Reza wants to go into rehab? :)

ala sux | July 2, 2012 11:34 AM | Reply

In canada we have the head of the biggest Police force being a Muslim . The PC mainstream useful-idiots wanted to be oh so Tolerant and appoint a muslim to look good for the media.
Is it any surprize that the Police in Toronto no longer oppose any Pro-hamas group that marches in public, or, that we have more Muslim cops that demand Shariah Compliant workplaces along with the Hijab and Niqab allowed in the Police un-uniform uniform by the un-informed Politicians that refuse to accept the mass-murders of the Shafia females as based on NOT wearing the Hijabs.

I just hope the afro-amercians realize what's waiting for them by the arab-muslims in Africa that are slaughtering and lynching Blacks because the idea of true muslims is based on the Arab-Only.

Istanbul_Chick replied to comment from Buraq | July 2, 2012 12:03 PM | Reply

That was brilliant, Buraq!

dumbledoresarmy | July 2, 2012 9:52 PM | Reply

Thought for the day.

Paging jihadwatchers who live in and around Chicago.

Get in touch with each other, or with the local ACT for America chapters, or chapter.

Look up all the *non-Muslim* - mainly Hispanic - names on that advisory committee and find out their addresses.

One at least is identifiably a Catholic; another is listed as a pastor.

Send the Catholic, with your compliments, a copy of Mr Spencer's 'Inside Islam: Questions for Catholics'.

Send the pastor a copy of Mark Durie's 'Revelation? Do We Worship the Same God? Jesus, God, Holy Spirit in Christianity and Islam'.

Send *every* non-Muslim on the list a copy of each of the four Barnabas Fund information booklets on Islam - 'What is Islam?', 'What is Shari'a?', 'Islam and Slavery', 'Islam and Truth' - which may be obtained dirt cheap from the Barnabas Fund website.

Throw in at least one of Raymond Ibrahim's articles on Islamic deception.

http://www.meforum.org/2538/taqiyya-islam-rules-of-war

"How Taqiyya Alters Islam's Rules of War: Defeating Jihadist Terrorism," in the Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2010.

And tell them: when you're in the committee meetings, and those smiling, sweet-talking Muslims are busy soft-soaping you...**be careful**. Because they're playing you for suckers.

dumbledoresarmy | July 2, 2012 9:59 PM | Reply

Out of twelve committee members, three are Muslims. One quarter.

Do Muslims constitute one quarter of the population of Chicago?

Alternatively, do Muslims constitute one quarter of the 'immigrant' population?

Anybody know?

Further note.

Muslim-friendly does NOT equate to 'immigrant friendly'.

Jews (those who are aware of what Muslims are doing to Jews on the streets of Europe), Copts who have fled from Egypt, Nigerian and Kenyan and Sudanese *non*-Muslims who have fled from Islamic jihad violence in their countries of origin, Hindus fleeing Bangladesh or Malaysia or Indonesia, Buddhists fleeing Mohammedan mayhem in southern Thailand or Bangladesh or Malaysia or Indonesia...such people, if they have even a grain of sense and a glimmering of the instinct of self-preservation, will not feel at all safe when they see the Muslim Mobsters strutting about on the streets of Chicago; when they see mosques (Muslim military bases and Gang HQs) popping up all over.

Larry A. Singleton replied to comment from dumbledoresarmy | July 3, 2012 4:09 AM | Reply

And they should include a complimentary copy of "Slavery, Terrorism and Islam" by Peter Hammond. And suggest that they read this book even if they think they know everything about Islam.

Dtalenti | July 3, 2012 5:22 AM | Reply

He wants to attract the world's leading human capital? AMERICANS are the leading human capital that made this nation thrive. Or did he mean "leading", as in Muslims are superior to everyone else? Or is he just a complete liberal useful tool?

Whatever the case, he's a Fifth Columnist, as is just about everyone high up in Obama's administration.

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