CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR officials have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements about how Islamic law should be imposed in the U.S. (Ahmad denies this, but the original reporter stands by her story.) CAIR chapters frequently distribute pamphlets telling Muslims not to cooperate with law enforcement. CAIR has opposed virtually every anti-terror measure that has been proposed or implemented and has been declared a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates. A CAIR operative recently called for the overthrow of the U.S. government.
Awad himself has said that he supports Hamas. Nonetheless, this event will go ahead without a hitch. But imagine the uproar if a foe of jihad terror were invited to speak at Harvard. There would be petitions, protests, whining about how Muslim students felt endangered, and probably the event would be canceled. But no counter-jihad speaker would ever be invited to speak at Harvard, because universities today are not centers of free discourse, but radioactive boot camps of hard-Left indoctrination.
“Hamas-Supporting CAIR Leader to Lecture Harvard Student Group,” IPT News, October 19, 2017:
He has publicly endorsed Hamas and secretly schemed with the Palestinian terrorist group’s supporters to thwart U.S.-led peace efforts.
Now Nihad Awad is preparing a prestigious lecture for Harvard University students on how “to inspire a deeper engagement with critical social issues on campus and in the wider community.” He is scheduled to be honored the first weekend of November with the Phillips Brooks House Association’s Robert Coles “Call of Service” Lecture and Award. Past recipients of the honor include former Vice President Al Gore and Children’s Defense Fund founder Marian Wright Edelman.
A Harvard release describes Awad as “a leading advocate for justice and mutual understanding, promoting dialogue and empowering American Muslims.”
That’s extraordinarily generous, as Awad’s words and deeds foster mutual enmity, not understanding; deception, not dialogue.
He was a member of a Muslim Brotherhood-created network of organizations operating in the United States with a mission to help Hamas politically and financially. Awad appears on the “Palestine Committee’s” telephone list. Internal records seized by the FBI also show that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which Awad co-founded in 1994 and has served as its only executive director ever since, was a Palestine Committee branch.
Before creating CAIR, Awad ran a second Palestine Committee entity, called the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP). The IAP served as a Hamas propaganda arm, publishing the terrorist group’s communiques and articles advocating on its behalf. The FBI described his partner at both IAP and CAIR, Omar Ahmed, as a “leader within the Palestine Committee.”
Again, all of this is drawn from internal Muslim Brotherhood/Palestine Committee records seized by the FBI. They were entered into evidence in a federal terror financing trial involving the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. The foundation, another Palestine Committee entity, and five former officials all were convicted of illegally routing $12 million to Hamas through a network of charities.
All of this information is in the public domain.
So what prompted a Harvard student group – by definition smart, educated young people – to identify Nihad Awad as an inspirational paragon of service?
It turns out that the Phillips Brooks House Association’s programming chair, Anwar Omeish, is the daughter of another advocate for Palestinian violence, former Muslim American-Society President Esam Omeish.
Omeish was forced to resign from a Virginia state immigration panel in 2007 after an exclusive IPT video showed him praising Palestinians for choosing the “the jihad way … to liberate your land.”
Awad was in Omeish’s home for a 2010 political fundraiser where U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., accused Israel of controlling U.S. foreign policy.
We are First Amendment supporters, and the Phillips Brooks House Association is free to invite whomever it pleases. Whitewashing Nihad Awad’s decades of work on behalf of terrorists and radicals, however, doesn’t seem to be in the best interests of a group seeking inspiration on public service.
Japetto Donatelli says
I find it astounding that CAIR is even allowed to operate in our nation. Why don’t we just invite spies from every enemy nation and let them run free. It would be impossible for me to believe and respect anything this guy has to say about “critical social issues.” He’s a representative for islam and muslims, everything he stands for is against our nation. I’ve never heard the guy tackle the serious issues of islam, it’s always the same multicultural platitudes we get from the left, or the same worn out circumlocution about how muslims are afraid of the backlash that never comes. If CAIR is for sharia and islamic supremacy in America, which they undoubtedly are, then they are subverters working to overthrow our laws and government. They aren’t trying to change us for the better, they’re trying to destroy us to advance their theocratic principles.
Nobody would ever think that hard core neo Nazis who honor the antisemitism of Hitler could honestly hold unbiased, humanitarian views about “critical social issues.” They’d either have to be a liar or a very confused, self-contradicting Nazi. And that’s how I see CAIR, they deign to talk sincerely about critical social issues, but their core values are fundamentally opposed to our laws and government and is notoriously antisemitic. So for me they’re either liars or very confused “Americans.” I think we know which one it is. Niwad has never brought more than trifles to the table when it comes to the important issue of islam’s foreign laws and supremacist ideas. If we trust CAIR then we’re also trusting islam. But islam is not trustworthy, it’s a humanitarian nightmare with its own set of laws and cultural traditions alien to our own. That’s what CAIR stands for, and that’s why I object to them as a foreign entity with bad intentions against our nation.
Kris T says
Ben Shapiro spoke at Harvard, big crowd, and he’s no fan of Sharia. But I do think Robert is right that this CAIR goon should not be elevated to this level….w/out restricting free-speech, however. It’s complicated.
Henner720 says
chaprer3 vers 28. when resisted pretend. no trust possible.4 him. universe is islam.he should be talking in the extraterrestial Department.the circle is :: 1.)a sympathy creating poverty unfair treatment layout. 2) hide 4 now that same poverty is in a jingyang relation with supremacy religion.3.) the foundations 4 much sought spirituality is poverty. 4) hide that aspiration, as it aquires violent destruction.
* 2) : because of balance. ppl in iran in poverty will not accept west have nice religion. so then it would become a 2-0 lead. supremacy restore the 1-1 account.
underbed cat says
Well I guess he won’t have to worry about BLM and Antifa disrupting his free speech…they didn’t hear that the left Dems signal that they have any problem with jihad so what’s to protest…….history of slave trade, genocide, racism, deception, and terror is just cultural religious heritage so,it is move on.
If Harvard wants a good speaker they should hire Robert or Sandra Solomon she was raised under Islamic sharia in Saudi Arabia, and visited the poor Palestinian area controlled by Hamas but are kept in bad conditions by Hamas.
JawsV says
Harvard has become as idiotic as Brandeis.
b.a. freeman says
the entire education system of every western republic, from pre-K to post-doc, is riddled with leftists, and for the most part totally controlled by them. the left is completely at home in the poisonous atmospheres of higher “education,” and *they* are the ones “teaching” the next generation. the left are not idiotic; they are winning, and the battle is at the end-game stage. we are witnessing the destruction of civilization by the left’s proxy army of pious muslims, loosed upon us by the hard left so that they can seize control of western republics.
i recommend that U arm yourself and train well with your arms, because “interesting times” are coming soon.
Nigel GFF says
A little off topic but imagine if freedom of speech had to be imposed! “Universities failing to protect freedom of speech on campus to be fined.”
https://www.rt.com/uk/407199-universities-free-speech-johnson/
I wonder about leftists says
Oxford and Harvard and some other Universities will never be the same to me, and I wonder about a lot of students who went along with taking away free speech and there are a lot of countries I will not visit any more.
utis says
What can you expect from an academic institution that invites traitor-no-matter-what’s-down-there Chelsea Manning to speak? Then doesn’t have the “guts” to stand by their choice and un-invites her/him/it/ze/pazuzu?
ronyvo says
Nihad your are a pathetic liar and you know it. My dilemma is what is pres. Trump waiting for to illegalize CAIR and ALL these criminal orgs. in our country. They are here to dominate us all as per his murderer prophet Mohammad. It makes me very angry when our universities allow those criminals to speak and defile the grounds of our ‘educational’ institutes. What is left for the simple American!!!!!!