True colors. “Days Before UAE Terror Designation, CAIR Awards PIJ Board Member,” IPT News, November 20, 2014:
Officials at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) have expressed astonishment and confusion over a decision by the United Arab Emirates to include the American-Islamist organization on a list of terrorist groups.
“Well this is shocking to us in the first place,” CAIR co-founder and Executive Director Nihad Awad told CNN Tuesday. “It’s a bizarre move by the UAE and that’s why we’re seeking clarification by this decision, not only CAIR but other civil Muslim organizations including Muslim American Society and the largest Islamic relief organization for Muslims in the West. So it is quite frightening and shocking that a state like the UAE would designate an American civil rights and advocacy organization like CAIR.”
The terrorist list was first reported by Buzzfeed on Saturday, which cited a UAE state media announcement.
One week earlier, a CAIR banquet in California bestowed its “Promoting Justice” award to Sami Al-Arian and his family. Al-Arian was on the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s Shura Council – its board of directors – in the 1990s and provided refuge to at least three other board members in the United States, including current PIJ Secretary General Ramadan Shallah.
During a 1991 speech in Cleveland, Al-Arian was introduced as the head of a charity called the Islamic Committee for Palestine. “A brief note about the Islamic Committee for Palestine,” Imam Fawaz Damra explained to the audience. “It is the active arm of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine. We preferred to call it the “Islamic Committee for Palestine” for security reasons.” [Emphasis added]
During a later fundraising session, Damra urged the audience to give to the Islamic Jihad, invoking a recent attack by one of its members. “And whoever wants to write a check,” Damra said, “he can write it in the name if the Islamic Committee for Palestine, ‘ICP’ for short.”
Four years later, in the wake of a double-suicide bombing in Israel that killed 21 Israelis, Al-Arian wrote a letter to a Kuwaiti legislator seeking money “for the jihad effort in Palestine so that operations such as these can continue…”
Al-Arian has claimed that the letter was never sent. But it was handwritten in Arabic and signed, and a copy was kept in his home, where federal agents found it during a November 1995 search.
“The evidence was clear in this case that you were a leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad,” U.S. District Court Judge James Moody told Al-Arian during a 2006 sentencing hearing. “You were on the board of directors and an officer, the secretary. Directors control the actions of an organization, even the PIJ; and you were an active leader.”
Al-Arian pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide goods or services to the PIJ. His plea agreement included an admission that he was associated with the PIJ. But he has never acknowledged the depth of his involvement, and certainly never disavowed the group’s bylaws, which were found in his home and call for: “The rejection of any peaceful solution for the Palestinian Cause, and the affirmation of the jihad solution and the martyrdom style as the only option for liberation.”
The bylaws include a goal of creating “a state of terror, instability and panic in the souls of Zionists and especially the groups of settlers, and force them to leave their houses.”
CAIR officials know all of this. They have stood by Al-Arian’s side for nearly two decades possessing that knowledge. They also know his plea agreement includes his agreement to be deported.
In introducing the award Nov. 8, CAIR San Francisco Vice President Maleeha Haq explained that “the Al-Arian family was a natural choice. For over 11 years now they have been at the center of an unjust campaign by the government. Alhamdulillah, the government decided to finally dismiss all of their unfounded charges against Dr. Sami Al-Arian. However, he remains in limbo awaiting deportation proceedings.”
Al-Arian thanked CAIR for the award and challenged the audience to fight against law enforcement sting operations, which he said unfairly target and entrap Muslims.
“But the only way to stop it… is through a public organization campaign to change the government,” Al-Arian said in a video message. “Brothers and sisters, our young men should not be sacrificed at the altar of Islamophobia or a fake war on terror. Our people should not be targeted because of their beliefs or associations. We should say no to thought crimes, no to preempted or pre-crime prosecutions … This is a crisis that our community has been ignoring for so long, and we must face up to this challenge. Brothers and sisters, ladies and gentlemen – if not you, then who? If not now, when?”
Awad, the CAIR national executive director, also spoke during the banquet at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Despite consistent FBI data showing hate crimes against Muslims remain relatively steady, and far less of a problem those targeting Jews, blacks and gays, Awad had a dire warning for his audience.
“Islamophobia is a national crisis for the Muslim community,” he said. “Islamophobia is an existential threat to the presence and the future of Islam and the future, and the freedom of religion for Muslims in this country.”
The terrorist designation by the UAE, a Muslim nation, wouldn’t be announced for another week. The designation reportedly stems from CAIR’s connections with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. In his CNN appearance Tuesday, Awad dismissed that as a fantasy.
“We were never linked to the Muslim Brotherhood,” he insisted. “We are not. We are an independent American organization. But guilt by association should not just be taken easily by these governments.”
Internal Muslim Brotherhood documents tell a different story. They place Awad individually and CAIR as an organization inside a Brotherhood-created Hamas support network in the United States that was called the Palestine Committee.
Awad participated in a secret 1993 Palestine Committee strategy session in Philadelphia called to devise ways to “derail” the new U.S.-brokered Oslo peace initiative without exposing themselves as Hamas supporters. Awad even referred to Hamas in the code name organizers instructed, reversing the spelling and calling it “Samah.”
Those connections were enough to prompt the FBI to cut off all outreach communication with CAIR in 2008. A federal judge determined there was “ample evidence to establish” a connection between CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestinian offshoot Hamas….
jihad3tracker says
HELLO FOR THE 100TH TIME TO CAIR’S IBRAHIM HOOPER, NIHAD AWAD, AND YOUR SEDTION-LOVIN’ FRAT BOYS ! ! !
Don’t get discouraged when the truth comes out . . . Here is my grandpappy’s philosophical attitude, and maybe it will provide comfort : “If it weren’t for bad luck, you wouldn’t have any luck at all.”
ECAW says
And here it is set to music:
jihad3tracker says
Yo — ECAW — excellent, my man ! ! ! This was the first song I listened to today (Friday — 6:55 a.m.), and it got me going in a great state of mind. If only some talented Jihad Watch fan here could insert Bobby Spencer wailing on his sax — he actually DOES play the instrument . . .
Have you ever noticed how there simply is no laughter in that particular slice of life which Muhammad cut out of the world ? Except for “terrorist blooper” videos, of course. I’ll put a few of those in heavy rotation on a playlist this weekend.
Morgan H says
What’s that famous quote from the “great” Ayatollah himself? Something like “There is no fun in islam. There are no jokes in islam.”
That about sums it up, doesn’t it?
ECAW says
Glad you like it. I was sitting in a cafe in Italy some years ago, listening to some wailing guitar and asked the owner who it was. He insisted it was some called Vorgan “Il migliore guitarrista nel mondo” or something like that. It took a while to track him down but I’m glad I did.
Darren says
Jokes on them, since as we all know islam is a joke that just isn’t funny. I wish some brilliant movie producer could make a sequel to The Life of Brian, and name it The Life of Ahkmed.
Darren says
You have good taste in music, good find. I recently found a really cool one with Stephie Ray and BB King both jamming live at a concert. Seeing two of the best at it together was awesome. I forget what I typed in but it was on youtube.
jimbo says
Can somone who is adept at social media, start a Facebook Page about the Truth of Terrorist Organisation CAIR !!
Isis and the terrorists use Social media soooo well to their advantage. its time the west fightback using the same tactics.
anyone got the skills/ knowledge to set up something?
us it against them, to showcase the truth to the world and those still ignorant of the real fabric of Islam and its “Peace” agenda of instilling islam on the whole subjugated world.!
Joginder Singh says
Starting a Facebook page about the truth about CAIR great idea untill cair and their useful idiots whinge and whine to get facebook to zero the page on the usual grounds
Shane says
CAIR is a jihadist group, though they don’t advocate violence in public. They can achieve a victory over the USA by immigration and by out-breeding the non-Muslims, which is working for them in Europe.
TERROR in Europe: Radical ISLAM spreads in Germany, stick to Saudi supported Hardline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moAfhkMJk5g
Belgian Muslims: “We Believe Sharia Will Dominate Worldwide”
http://conservativevideos.com/2013/05/belgian-muslims-we-believe-sharia-will-dominate-worldwide/#ixzz2UsP74GNi
Salah says
“The terrorist designation by the UAE, a Muslim nation,… reportedly stems from CAIR’s connections with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.”
Yes, it all started there, in my beloved country: Egypt.
The fall of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is the beginning of the fall of Islam itself.
The MB is ISIL, al Qaeda, al Shabab, al Nusra Front, Boko Haram, Hamas, etc.
All these terrorist organizations are simply offshoots of the Muslim Brotherhood international terrorist organization. Different names, same Evil (i.e. the true violent face of Islam.)
Without violence Islam is DEAD. Without the Muslim Brotherhood Islam is DEAD.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-end-of-muslim-brotherhood.html
Jerry says
They forgot to include HBO’s State Department which would qualify based on the same criteria.
mortimer says
“We were never linked to the Muslim Brotherhood”…..aaaaaaaaaaaaannnnh!
Sure. Denying your daddy. See if anyone believes that.
Bettina says
There sure is no end to the hypocrisy of muslim ‘activists,’ is there?
Duplicity, conniving, deviousness, just your good old garden-variety nefarious ‘folks’ (as Obozo likes to call murderers, makes him look noble and respectful of everyone).
It sickens everyone here and Mr Spencer even more, as he has studied this evil cult deeper and better than most scholars out there.
The default go-to for these muzzies is to lie so well and so automatically that people are speechless and the liberal left just sucks it up.
A former liberal, I have been sickened by that crowd for the past 2+ years.
Darren says
We need to ask CAIR one simple question.
cs says
I am dumbfounded. When they will going to learn? When Omeba is going to leave?
Charli Main says
Seems like the light is finally beginning to filter into the skulls of all these Middle Eastern Kings, Queens, Sheikhs and assorted tribal rulers that the Islamic State and its mouth pieces, already have pole designated to stick their heads on, when they take over.
Bettina says
All these rulers came from savage tribes who conquered other tribes. I never let their supposed rank fool me.
duh_swami says
“Islamophobia is a national crisis for the Muslim community,” he said. “Islamophobia is an existential threat to the presence and the future of Islam and the future, and the freedom of religion for Muslims in this country.”
Islamophobia is to Islam what kryptonite was to Superman.
What this country needs is more and better Islamophobia.
Coolio says
Truth always trumps lies
Zebo says
“the biggest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he does not exist”
Sadly,this quote from Baudelaire(usual suspects) is wrong.
“the biggest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he is the god
Allah”
Eric says
True, yet Satan is much cleverer for he tailors his deceit for the culture, an example would be for the naturalistic scientist there is no God therefore no devil. Another would be for the Pantheist there are many gods.
Chaim Yankel says
The question we have to ask ourselves is why the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has to follow behind the UAE and the Arab League. Wasn’t CAIR an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Fund prosecutions some years back? Don’t they have friends in both major U.S. political parties? Why are these guys free to operate, instead of sitting in prison?
Chaim Yankel says
Here’s the U.S. State Department’s response :
http://youtu.be/aEniuPuN388
Darren says
There has been an update to the official position the Islamic State Department has taken. Here is a recent footage of the newest position the Islamic State Department has taken regarding this sensitive issue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxzBQJQwFd0
By the way that is Sheik John Kerry in the background. He was talking to Jihad John McCain via teleconference.
Bettina says
Darn it, my speaker is not working. Can’t hear anything in the video you linked to…