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Middle Eastern Christian Committee asks Archbishop of Jerusalem to remove Hamas-linked CAIR’s Nihad Awad from coalition

Nov 11, 2014 3:52 pm By Robert Spencer

nihad-awad“We are troubled by the fact that among the NGOs and activists invited to join the coalition are a number of Islamist and pro-Jihadi groups whose agenda has been and continues to be hostile to the freedom and survival of Christian and other minorities in the Middle East.” Bravo. It is heartening to see some Middle Eastern Christians who are aware of the deceptiveness and Islamic supremacism of Hamas-linked CAIR.

“MECHRIC Ask Church to Remove Jihadist-Linked Nihad Awad-CAIR,” MECHRIC, November 4, 2014:

In a letter addressed to Archbishop Atallah Hanna in Jerusalem, the Middle East Christian Committee MECHRIC, the largest coalition of Middle East Christian NGOs in the United States and internationally asked the Archbishop to remove Nihad Awad, the director of Islamist group CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations) from a coalition said to be aimed at helping Christian minorities in the Middle East. MECHRIC said “Middle East Christian minorities are offended by having Nihad Awad and his Islamist group CAIR claim they are part of a coalition in defense of Christian minorities.” MECHRIC argued that Awad and his group are liked to the Muslim Brotherhood, a terror organization in Egypt and other Arab countries, linked to Hamas, and part of a bigoted campaign against Middle East Christians in the US and world wide.

Following is the text of the letter, with copies send to many members of Congress

Nov 4th 2014

Archbishop Atallah Hanna
Archbishop of Sebastia,
Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem
P.O. Box 14518, Jerusalem 91145

Re: interfaith Coalition to Protect Christians

Dear Bishop Hanna:

We have learned that you have sponsored the formation of an “interfaith coalition to protect Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East.” We are troubled by the fact that among the NGOs and activists invited to join the coalition are a number of Islamist and pro-Jihadi groups whose agenda has been and continues to be hostile to the freedom and survival of Christian and other minorities in the Middle East.

Among the activists you have included is Nihad Awad, the President of the Council on Islamic American Relations (CAIR), which is an un-indicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Terrorism case and is not the civil rights organization it claims to be. For more than a decade, CAIR members and former members have been indicted, and some are serving jail sentences, for terrorism cases successfully brought against them. The Islamist organization is considered by experts as a front to the Muslim Brotherhood, which has inspired leading members of al Qaeda and ISIS (Daesh) and has been put on terror lists by Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain. Several members of Congress, including the Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Pete King, and the Chairwoman of the subcommittee on Intelligence, Rep. Sue Myrick, have considered CAIR an extremist Islamist organization. There are bills introduced in the US House of Representatives calling for identifying the Muslim Brotherhood as a Terror organization.

CAIR has attacked Middle East Christian leaders across America, including Copts such as Dr. Shawki Karas, Lebanese Christians, as well as Iraqi and Syrian Christians while also waging smear campaigns against prominent Middle East experts for raising the issue of persecution of minorities in the Middle East. CAIR stood with the oppressive regimes against Christians and other sectors of civil societies and backed the genocidal regime of Sudan headed by the ICC indicted General Omar Bashir. CAIR backs the Muslim Brotherhood, who in Egypt has been responsible for attacks against Christian Copts and in Libya backed the Jihadi forces responsible for violence against civilians. But even more dangerous, CAIR politically backs the Islamists and the Jihadists who in Syria and in Iraq have persecuted Christians. Some of these factions joined the Islamic State known as ISIS, which has perpetrated war crimes and crimes against Humanity in Mosul, the Nineveh Plain, and Sinjar against Christians and Yazidis.

CAIR and its executive director Nihad Awad have been notorious for suppressing educational programs, both in the public and private sectors, aimed at informing the American public about the persecution of Christian minorities in the Greater Middle East. Awad and his acolytes have politically harassed writers and intellectuals, academics who have been raising the issue of persecution of religious minorities and have become the main obstructers of truth about this persecution. In a sense, Awad and CAIR, by being supportive of the Jihadists and the Islamists and by suppressing the voices defending the persecuted Christians, actually bear some moral responsibility for the persecution and violence against Christians in the Middle East.

It would be unthinkable and unbearable for Middle East Christians and Yazidis to see a so-called interfaith Coalition presided by a Church official, partnering with haters of Middle East Christians and bigots against oppressed Middle East minorities

We therefore, as representatives of the Middle East Christian Committee MECHRIC, representing the largest coalition of Americans from Middle East Christian descent, including Copts, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syriacs, Maronites, Melkites and other groups, as well as Yazidis, ask you to remove Nihad Awad and any Islamist militant from your coalition immediately. Our communities have been offended by the presence of pro-Jihadists in a coalition claiming to help Middle East Christians and other minorities.

Sincerely,

John Hajjar, on behalf of the Middle East Christian Committee MECHRIC
Executive Committee

CC: Members of Congress (Foreign Relations and Homeland Security Committees in House and Senate)

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  1. manuel-rafael says

    Nov 11, 2014 at 4:04 pm

    CAIR IS HAMAS // FATAH THESE ARE THE AL’IKHWAN AL’MOOSLIMEEN THEY ARE BASED IN QATAR AND ARE THE TOTAL TERROR COMMAND STRUCTURE.

  2. albert says

    Nov 11, 2014 at 4:04 pm

    At last someone speaks out against these fifth columnists in the west, you don’t set the wolves to defend the lambs, lets hope that western church leaders will start to speak out for middle east Christians but I wont hold my breath, perhaps holy mother Russia and President Putin ( a real Christian president) will take an interest.

  3. mariam rove says

    Nov 11, 2014 at 4:19 pm

    About time! M

  4. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Nov 11, 2014 at 4:24 pm

    All the committee is asking for is that they be forced to consort with clean Moslems. And that’s reasonable, cuz how can you have a good old fashioned inter-faith fake dialog if the fraud is apparent?

    My advice to Moslems is to create a new cohort of clean Moslems with no affiliation to open Moslems. The star example of this is Rep Keith Ellison of Minnesota. He’s openly globo-socialist and anti-American, but has no whiff of allegiance to the Global Jihad or Sharia. In Keith you have a quality inter-faith dialog partner who’s good to go. Islam needs more of these.

    • pdxnag says

      Nov 11, 2014 at 5:16 pm

      A Muslim can become clean only by openly declaring their apostasy from Islam. In which case they are no longer Muslim. If the latent Muslim is better than the manifest Muslim then it follows that an apostate from Islam must be even better. Replace Awad with an apostate.

    • Daniel J. Vandeberg says

      Nov 12, 2014 at 8:03 pm

      Keith Ellison is not a man you want on the committee. I live in Minnesota in the metro area. He is an Islamic apologist, and you’re right, is antiAmerican. His interfaith dialogue is all one sided–anti Christian.

  5. Henry says

    Nov 11, 2014 at 4:30 pm

    Very Gratifying! I’m sure Jihad Watch, and Atlas Shrugs played a part!

  6. Burt says

    Nov 11, 2014 at 4:40 pm

    Good on them! I hope to see the response they get from their open letter.

    May it be that they are harkened to.

  7. Oliver says

    Nov 11, 2014 at 6:08 pm

    Good letter, and will probably fall upon deaf ears, and nothing done.

  8. Terry says

    Nov 11, 2014 at 7:10 pm

    I wonder if this letter is in violation of racism in the UK which gives jail sentences for uttering such words.

  9. wildflower says

    Nov 11, 2014 at 8:58 pm

    Robert, Organise an online petition to BACK THEM…THAT WILL HELP

  10. gp says

    Nov 11, 2014 at 10:26 pm

    Middle Eastern Christian Committee asks Archbishop of Jerusalem to remove Hamas-linked CAIR’s Nihad Awad from coalition-

    It’s really a no-brainer, like removing a cancerous lymph node.

  11. judith says

    Nov 12, 2014 at 8:25 am

    Watch this 7 minute expose by Tom Trento on Nihad Awad and his fellow conspiritors:

  12. noellsq says

    Nov 12, 2014 at 11:59 am

    WOW someone with sense

  13. Western Canadian says

    Nov 12, 2014 at 2:34 pm

    While I do not advocate judging a book by it’s cover, I have yet to see a picture of this thug that does not get the same response out of me: he is, to put it very simply, evil.

  14. Edward says

    Nov 13, 2014 at 9:00 am

    Ooops! Typo error, sorry.

    I wrote: In a sense they have hurt very their own…

    It should have been: In a sense they have hurt their very own..

    Tnx

  15. Edward says

    Nov 13, 2014 at 1:28 pm

    This Replying post was posted in error……I meant to post a FYI Reply error for my previous comment on the ‘Friday sermon by Israel-based Islamic supremacist Raed Salah: Jerusalem will be capital of global caliphate’ instead (Nov 11, 2014 at 3:35 pm) article, my apology.

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