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Hamas-linked CAIR staff attorney: Spying and surveillance “disproportionately affecting the Muslim community”

Jan 27, 2014 8:01 pm By Robert Spencer

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Surveillance is disproportionately affecting the Muslim community? Really? Maybe that is because jihad is disproportionately affecting the non-Muslim community.

Hamas-linked CAIR sent out a link to this piece in its daily email. It wants to perpetuate the idea that surveillance of Muslims in the U.S. is a gratuitous manifestation of bigotry and racism, and not a perfectly reasonable and understandable reaction to the actions of people like Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon jihad murderers; Terry Loewen, the Muslim convert who wanted to cause “massive carnage” and be martyred “for Allah” by bombing the Wichita Mid-Continental Airport; Amine Mohamed El-Khalifi, the would-be jihad/martyrdom suicide bomber at the U.S. Capitol; Nidal Malik Hasan, the Fort Hood jihad mass murderer; Naser Abdo, the would-be second Fort Hood jihad mass murderer; Khalid Aldawsari, the would-be jihad mass murderer in Lubbock, Texas; Muhammad Hussain, the would-be jihad bomber in Baltimore; Mohamed Mohamud, the would-be jihad bomber in Portland; Faisal Shahzad, the would-be Times Square jihad mass-murderer; Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, the Arkansas military recruiting station jihad murderer; Naveed Haq, the jihad mass murderer at the Jewish Community Center in Seattle; Mohammed Reza Taheri-Azar, the would-be jihad mass murderer in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Ahmed Ferhani and Mohamed Mamdouh, who hatched a jihad plot to blow up a Manhattan synagogue; Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the would-be Christmas airplane jihad bomber; or the many others like them who have plotted and/or committed mass murder in the name of Islam and are motivated by its texts and teachings, all in the U.S. in the last few years.

“How NSA Spying Impacts Muslim Communities and Cultivates Islamophobia,” by Rania Khalek at Dispatches from the Underclass, January 26:

GADEIR ABBAS: I think one of the key points that Muslims have been making for years now is that the spying and the surveillance that was disproportionately affecting the Muslim community would inevitably come to affect others outside the Muslim community. And as the Snowden revelations made crystal clear, that’s exactly what is happening now….

It is more likely that the NSA has placed everyone under surveillance in order to avoid singling out the Muslim community, so as to avoid appearing “Islamophobic.”

ABBAS: I agree wholeheartedly that the fear of Islam, the fear of Muslims, is a notion I think has been cultivated by policy choices at the federal level. The use of airport screenings, that inevitably cultivates and reflects the bias that people have against Muslims, has I think created space for an anti-Muslim movement to take root.

Airport screenings reflect “the bias that people have against Muslims”? When wheelchair-bound Methodist grandmothers are subject to exactly the same level of scrutiny as 21-year-old Saudi or Pakistani men? What planet is Gadeir Abbas living on — or hoping his hapless listeners are living on?

Right after September 11, you didn’t have your Act for America’s [sic], your David Yerushalmi’s [sic], your Center for Security Policy’s [sic]—this well-organized, well-financed movement dedicated towards marginalizing Muslims and that gave rise to essentially and engine of generating ant-Muslim [sic] sentiment that creates this terrible and despicable cycle where now you have the overt argument being made that Muslims are here in the United States to abrogate the US constitution, to overthrow the US government and replace it with Sharia law, which couldn’t be further from the truth.

Hamas-linked CAIR ops and their Leftist and Islamic supremacist allies constantly push this myth; it is actually a massive exercise in projection. The well-organized, well-financed movement is not the counter-jihad movement, which in the aggregate takes in a pittance compared to the groups that are calling it “well-financed.” The Center for American Progress, publisher of one of the big “Islamophobia” studies, has a larger yearly budget than what it was trumpeting that a large number of counter-jihad, pro-freedom groups had taken in all together over a period of seven years. Hamas-linked CAIR itself is known to have received huge donations from Saudi Arabia, and that’s just what we know: there are huge lacunae in its financial statements.

Nor is it true that people like David Yerushalmi are responsible for the idea that “Muslims are here in the United States to abrogate the US constitution, to overthrow the US government and replace it with Sharia law.” The culprit for that would be the Muslim Brotherhood, with which Hamas-linked CAIR has numerous ties. A captured internal Muslim Brotherhood document, “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America,” explains that the Brotherhood’s agenda in the U.S. is subversive: the Muslim Brothers “must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.” Gadeir Abbas pretends this document does not exist.

As the facts would have it, the American Muslim community is a well-educated, well-integrated and looking to continue to do so in the world. You can’t identify an American Muslim radical voice in the United States, whereas if you go to Europe, you can find people that have a platform that say despicable objectionable things. In the US, that’s just not the case….

You can’t identify an American Muslim radical voice in the United States? Hmmm. How about the imam Siraj Wahhaj, a sought-after speaker in mosques and Islamic centers nationwide? He advocated for a caliphate in a 1992 speech to a U.S. Muslim audience; Daniel Pipes recounted, “if only Muslims were more clever politically, he told his New Jersey listeners, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate.” Said Wahhaj: “If we were united and strong, we’d elect our own emir [leader] and give allegiance to him….[T]ake my word, if 6-8 million Muslims unite in America, the country will come to us.”

Or how about Muhammad Faheed, a speaker at a Muslim Students Association meeting at Queensborough Community College in New York in 2003. He declared that Muslims “must not recognize any government authority, or any authority at all besides Allah.” Working himself into a frenzy, he shouted, “We are not Americans. We are Muslims. [The U.S.] is going to deport and attack us! It is us vs. them! Truth against falsehood! The colonizers and masters against the oppressed, and we will burn down the master’s house! We reject the U.N., reject America, reject all law and order. Don’t lobby Congress or protest because we don’t recognize Congress. The only relationship you should have with America is to topple it. . . . Eventually there will be a Muslim in the White House dictating the laws of Shariah.”

Then there’s Omar Ahmad, Hamas-linked CAIR’s co-founder and longtime Board Chairman, told a Muslim crowd in California in 1998 that “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.”

In 2007, as-Sabiqun, a Muslim group based in Washington, D.C., announced on its website its intention to establish an Islamic state in America by mid-century: “As-Sabiqun is an Islamic movement that believes in the Islamic State of North America no later than 2050. Those who engage in this great effort require a high level of commitment and determination. We are sending out a call to the believers: Join with us in this great struggle to change the world!”

But Abbas brushes all that aside, adding a weepy note:

The saddest thing I’ve ever heard as a CAIR staff attorney, and I hear lots of sad things, was when a young guy told me that when he goes to the mosque to pray, his mom warns him to be careful. And the mom warns him to be careful because there’s an understanding based on experience that the mosque is likely filled with informants and infiltrators that are not there to make us any safer but there to extract information from innocent Americans by any means necessary….

Why should he have to be careful? Does this “young guy” have something to hide? Is he in touch with jihad terrorists? If a Jew goes to a synagogue or a Christian to a church and ends up chatting with an FBI informer, nothing at all will happen if the Jew or Christian in question is not engaged in any illegal activity. If Hamas-linked CAIR is really “moderate,” why should it have any problem with informants in mosques? If no one there is doing anything wrong, all will be well. Of course, at this point in the argument Hamas-linked CAIR starts talking about “entrapment” — but if I met someone in a house of worship and he started chatting me up about helping him blow things up and kill people, there is absolutely no chance whatsoever that I would agree to get involved in his plotting. In fact, I would call the police on him.

So what is Gadeir Abbas really trying to accomplish? That’s obvious, is it not?

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  1. Champ says

    Jan 27, 2014 at 8:05 pm

    More smoke ‘n mirrors courtesy CAIR and company …

  2. mortimer says

    Jan 27, 2014 at 8:17 pm

    Do Muslims ‘disproportionately’ support jihad? terrorist organizations? wife beating? cruel and barbaric punishments? hate Jews and Israel? set off bombs in subways, trains and office buildings, shoot soldiers on and off their military bases? Do Muslims ‘disproportionately’ wish to destroy freedom of expression? What? Yes to all those questions? Then let’s watch them very closely.

    And good advice from an attorney…don’t help the authorities to find and arrest Islamic terrorists! So patriotic.

    America MUST NOT defend herself so Sharia may be established without a struggle!

  3. quovadis2014 says

    Jan 27, 2014 at 8:50 pm

    Robert,

    All these Muslim Brotherhood organizations are funded by the Saudi’s. CAIR has to say something however weak so that their Saudi pay masters know they’re getting their money’s worth.

    It’s actually really sad to see groups like CAIR fabricate their disgust. This guy isn’t upset about the NSA more than you or I would be. He, you me, we don’t have anything to worry about because we’re not plotting anything. This guy is just “punching his time sheet” because some Saudi Billionaire Prince needs to feel important.

    In fact the whole CAIR offensive of late is motivated by Saudi’s who realize the hand writing is on the wall regarding Oil revenues. They know the Oil is going to run out someday and they won’t be able to afford to fund dawa in the West anymore so they’ve got to get while the gettin’s good if you will.

  4. Salah says

    Jan 27, 2014 at 8:51 pm

    A new phobia in town: The SISIPHOBIA!!!

    He overthrew the Muslim Brotherhood rule in Egypt’s, toppled the American project which supports the rise of political Islam forces in the Middle East to implement the U.S. plans concerning the new Middle East and the creative chaos that would ensue. Sisi came along and ruined everything by becoming the strongest enemy of political Islam and terrorist groups, especially the Muslim Brotherhood—backed by Barack Obama, both politically and financially.

    Read it all here:
    http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/60742

  5. Jay Boo says

    Jan 27, 2014 at 8:57 pm

    One of the examples in the list Mohammed Reza Taheri-Azar, the would-be jihad mass murderer in Chapel Hill, North Carolina drove an SUV into a pedestrian only area where students gathered. He tried to run over and murder students because they did not appear to be Muslim like himself . Rather than risk offending anyone at CAIR some in the news media at first tried to label his Islamist racist hate crime as a ‘ROAD RAGE INCIDENT’ so as to sanitize the FOUL STENCH OF ISLAM.

    • Champ says

      Jan 27, 2014 at 10:18 pm

      “…the FOUL STENCH OF ISLAM.”

      FOUL is right, Jay Boo! …the smell of death from the Death Cult. PU!

    • SELLA TURCICA says

      Jan 28, 2014 at 10:21 am

      Of course there is always an excuse not to label any terrorist act committed by a Muslim as any thing but terrorism, facts are facts no matter how clever you think you are in trying to cloud the picture which its as clear as sun.

  6. Jay Boo says

    Jan 27, 2014 at 9:02 pm

    Instead of investigating Dinesh D’Souza’s campaign contributions the FBI should investigate CAIR and Indonesia and the Muslim Brotherhood to see if any of Obama’s contributors funneled illegal money to his presidential campaign.

  7. mortimer says

    Jan 27, 2014 at 10:55 pm

    What do they have to hide?

    • Champ says

      Jan 28, 2014 at 3:25 am

      …the bigger the smoke screen reveals the more they have to hide.

  8. JohnDoe says

    Jan 27, 2014 at 11:11 pm

    In short, spying on muslims is making it harder for us to carry out terrorist attacks, so please stop watching us as we try to kill more Americans.

    • JohnDoe says

      Jan 27, 2014 at 11:15 pm

      *paraphrasing the CAIR monkey

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 27, 2014 at 11:26 pm

      JohnDoe wrote:

      In short, spying on muslims is making it harder for us to carry out terrorist attacks, so please stop watching us as we try to kill more Americans.
      ………………………….

      Yup—that pretty much sums it up…

  9. medina says

    Jan 27, 2014 at 11:32 pm

    All the spying on the two Boston Marathon bombers, if any, was a waste. Their jihad mission was accomplished and we are now faced with caring for the remaining terrorist. The Fort Hood jihadist openly lived his supremacist ideological psychosis with support from the U.S. army. Now we must tend to him.

    I live for the day when we rat them out, hang them high, and bulldoze every mosque in this country. And don’t think I’m not praying for this every day.

  10. johndcross1 says

    Jan 27, 2014 at 11:43 pm

    We have sufficient evidence to prosecute cair & the muslim brotherhood. What are our authorities waiting for? These are subersive organizations & the most dangerous at that! Let us not wait until they become so powerful & numerous that we might not be able to overcome their main goal! Let’s start now!

  11. Norman says

    Jan 28, 2014 at 4:25 am

    Like, truly, who really give a fuck about what they say, do they think we can’t read, do they think we don’t know what is going on all over the planet regarding Islam. These people love pissing into the wind and they wonder why it blows all over them.

  12. Tzipporah says

    Jan 28, 2014 at 6:00 am

    Only stupid and ignorant people believe such lies and distortions. Anyone who has intelligence would know the TRUTH being that Muslims are the most dangerous group and need to be watched carefully. Unfortunately Governments are doing the opposite except in Israel where many people in power, thank G-d, see there adversaries for what they are. In Israel the courts are very liberals, along with many people, who say they are for PEACE, and are swayed by such deceptive arguments. Some day maybe more leaders with see the Truth and stop appeasing the Terrorists and call a spade a spade.

  13. James says

    Jan 28, 2014 at 6:26 am

    Since 2001, 332 people in Britain have been convicted of terrorism. https://www.mi5.gov.uk/home/the-threats/terrorism/international-terrorism/international-terrorist-plots/arrests-and-convictions.html All of them have been muslims. Thus, 100% of terrrorism is coming from just 5% of the community.

    Yet the other 95% of the community have lost all their privacy, just so that the government doesn’t have to admit that they really should be just keeping 5% of the community under surveillance.

  14. Vanguard says

    Jan 28, 2014 at 6:33 am

    1. 99% of terrorism in the world is by muslims
    2. Do they think we’re stupid?
    3. We’re not!

  15. Veracious_one says

    Jan 28, 2014 at 6:37 am

    Maybe that is because jihad is disproportionately affecting the non-Muslim community.

    something the major news outlets ignore, they prefer instead to harp on the surveillance efforts…

  16. JRS says

    Jan 28, 2014 at 9:56 am

    We should just keep our eyes closed so those that want to destroy us can do so without worry.

  17. Paul says

    Jan 28, 2014 at 10:07 pm

    Angola a country in Africa has outlawed Islam and has even destroyed their Mosques. The Soviet Union fought a war against Afghanistan. The American left or should we say the dumbass left is not the same as the Communists. The Communists are evolutionists and in evolution there is nothing wrong with making Islam part of the fossil record.
    The American left is led by big business and big business
    wants cheap labor, even if it means the destruction of western civilization. Western Civilization is the result of Christianity. In order to preserve our civilization we have to go back to the old days whereby only Christians could become citizens. “you must have no other god’s against my face”
    Is mean to be a national law and not just an individual law.
    The Ten Commandments do not support religious freedom
    outside of Christianity. Islam does not practice “Thou shalt not murder.” or “Thou shalt not bear false witness to thy
    neighbor.” therefore they do not worship the God who wrote
    the Ten Commandments.

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