When parents suing the San Diego Unified School District for its alliance with CAIR in an anti-bullying and “anti-Islamophobia” program inserted a reference to CAIR’s terrorist ties in their complaint, a federal judge objected…… the judge argued that CAIR’s relationship with Hamas, “whether true or not,” predates its work with the school district and is “superfluous historical allegations that should be stricken,”
U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant is out of touch with reality. CAIR’s relationship with Hamas is not a “historical allegation,” and its founding and history matter…
The FBI has provided an abundance of evidence that the Council on American-Islamic Relations is a front for the Muslim Brotherhood and its Palestinian branch, Hamas.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s tactics are carefully outlined in its Explanatory Memorandum.
Parents were represented in the lawsuit by the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund (FCDF), and the pressure of the case lead to the San Diego Unified School District ending its formal partnership with CAIR in July, but in an astute and wise move, “FCDF continued with the suit, expressing concern that CAIR might partner with the school district on other programs.”
CAIR will likely pursue partnerships with other school boards as well. Unless this organization is declared a terrorist organization, as the UAE has declared it, or is otherwise repudiated, it will not stop its aggressive advocacy.
CAIR presents itself publicly as a freedom-loving, inclusive organization, when its real mission was long ago exposed by two of its foremost figures, Omar Ahmad and Ibrahim Hooper. Ahmad told a California audience 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.” Hooper stated five years before that: “I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.”
A staple of CAIR’s mission is its unrelenting “anti-Islamophobia” campaigns to curb the freedom of speech. In acquiescing to this, Western leaders allow the freedom of their citizens to be diminished, as Islam becomes the superior religion over all others that must not be criticized — in keeping with Islamic blasphemy laws. Once Western criticism of Islam is fully curtailed, political Islam can freely expand.
CAIR’s San Diego director told the school board in April his organization wanted the district’s program to become a national model.
CAIR’s activity is a mockery of America and its freedoms.
“Judge Strikes ‘Scandalous’ Reference To Group’s Terror Ties”, by Art Moore, WND, February 13, 2018:
The FBI has provided an abundance of evidence that the Council on American-Islamic Relations is a front for the Muslim Brotherhood and its Palestinian branch, Hamas.
And even a Persian Gulf state, the United Arab Emirates, has designated the Washington, D.C.-based organization a terrorist group, putting it in the same category as al-Qaida and ISIS.
But when parents suing the San Diego Unified School District for its alliance with CAIR in an anti-bullying and “anti-Islamophobia” program inserted a reference to CAIR’s terrorist ties in their complaint, a federal judge objected.
Support WND’s legal fight to expose the Hamas front in the U.S., the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
San Diego school officials complained that the citation of CAIR’s formation by Hamas operatives in the United States as a propaganda organ and the fact that more than a dozen former CAIR figures have been charged with terrorism-related crimes is “impertinent, immaterial and scandalous,” designed only to “inflame the public,” reported the Investigative Project on Terrorism, IPT.
U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant agreed, striking references to CAIR’s radical ties because they are “likely intended to ‘besmirch’ Defendants and cast them in a derogatory light based on SDUSD’s relationship with CAIR.”
As WND reported, parents, represented by the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund, or FCDF, sued San Diego schools last May over the “anti-Islamophobia” campaign, which featured curriculum and materials published by CAIR. FCDF later revised its complaint to focus on CAIR’s radical Islamic origin. The complaint asserted the school district’s partnership with CAIR violated the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause, the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment and California law.
Under pressure from the lawsuit, the school board voted in July to stop its formal partnership with CAIR, directing staff instead to form a partnership with the Anti-Defamation League “to assist in creating respectful, inclusive and safe learning environments and communities.”
But FCDF continued with the suit, expressing concern that CAIR might partner with the school district on other programs.
The complaint points out that the FBI cut off non-investigative contact with CAIR in 2008. The bureau, at the time, explained that “until we can resolve whether there continues to be a connection between CAIR or its executives and Hamas, the FBI does not view CAIR as an appropriate liaison partner.”
The FBI’s evidence of CAIR’s ties to Hamas was presented in a Hamas-funding case in which CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator. CAIR has sued the authors of a WND Books exposé, “Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That’s Conspiring to Islamize America,” which documented the group’s radical ties.
The bureau’s non-contact policy remains in effect, FCDF points out, which is relevant because CAIR has made “prioritized public schools as ground zero to advance its religious mission.”
The school district, in effect, gave “a divisive religious group … unprecedented decision-making authority” in a public school program.
But the judge argued that CAIR’s relationship with Hamas, “whether true or not,” predates its work with the school district and is “superfluous historical allegations that should be stricken,” reported IPT.
The judge did, however, preserve provisions in FCDF’s amended complaint concerning CAIR’s hostility to Israel and allegations it “promotes discriminatory bias against non-Muslim students on the basis of their religion.”
The judge said that while these assertions may be “distasteful” and “unsavory,” those provisions could call into question the “objectivity and accuracy” of CAIR-provided instructional materials.
As WND reported, when the San Diego school board partnered with CAIR, it touted it as an organization that “has been involved in constructive civic engagement, promotes cultural tolerance and understanding, as well as justice and equality.”
CAIR’s San Diego director told the school board in April his organization wanted the district’s program to become a national model.
The plan itself is a great first step,” he said. “I truly believe that if we do this right, San Diego Unified School District would be the leading school district in the nation to come up with a robust and beautiful anti-bullying and anti-Islamophobia program.”
‘The true faith, Islam’
The influence of Islam in public schools has become a nationwide issue.
In May, in Groesbeck, Texas, a couple moved their sixth-grade daughter to a new school after they discovered her history homework assignment on Islam.
In late March, as WND reported, a middle school in Chatham, New Jersey, was using a cartoon video to teach the Five Pillars of Islam to seventh-grade students, prompting two parents to obtain legal services to fight the school district, which has ignored their concerns.
Teaching the five pillars of Islam also created an uproar in Summerville, South Carolina, and in Loganville, Georgia, last year.
WND also reported in March a high school in Frisco, Texas, has set up an Islamic prayer room specifically for Muslim students to pray on campus during school hours. The same type of prayer rooms have been set up in high schools in St. Cloud, Minnesota, and other school districts.
In 2015, parents in Tennessee asked the governor, legislature and state education department to investigate pro-Islam bias in textbooks and other materials.
WND reported in 2012 ACT for America conducted an analysis of 38 textbooks used in the sixth through 12th grades in public schools and found that since the 1990s, discussions of Islam are taking up more and more pages, while the space devoted to Judaism and Christianity has simultaneously decreased.
In 2009, Gilbert T. Sewall, director of the American Textbook Council, a group that reviews history books, told Fox News the texts were “whitewashing” Islamic extremism and key subjects such as jihad, Islamic law and the status of women.
Also in 2009, WND reported the middle school textbook “History Alive! The Medieval World and Beyond,” published by Teachers’ Curriculum Institute, said an Islamic “jihad” is an effort by Muslims to convince “others to take up worthy causes, such as funding medical research.”
In 2006, WND reported a school in Oregon taught Islam by having students study and learn Muslim prayers and dress as Muslims.
WND reported in 2003 a prominent Muslim leader who eventually was convicted on terror-related charges helped write the “Religious Expression in Public Schools” guidelines issued by President Bill Clinton.
In 2001, shortly after the 9/11 attacks, seventh graders in Byron, California, were taught a three-week course on Islam that required them to learn 25 Islamic terms, 20 proverbs, Islam’s Five Pillars of Faith, 10 key Islamic prophets and disciples, recite from the Quran, wear a robe during class, adopt a Muslim name and stage their own “holy war” in a dice game.
Parents went to court to uphold their right to reject the class for their children, but a federal just ruled against them…..
Nannette says
The judge should be sued and stripped of her judicial.position.
J D S says
Yes the judge should resign in disloyal disgrace……What a fallacy
What a dumb decision…
Muslim radicals should have NO input into any school operation
Whatsoever….Schools are the first line of “offense” for inputting
Islamism into the young people of America…..starting with kindergarten…these young babies are very vulnerable and if someone wants to rattle their brains kindergarten is where to start..The younger the child the easier it is to shape a child. Parents should carefully monitor everything that is happening in their children’s schools…….”If one sees something say something” this works as well for Islamic infiltration into schools as it does for terrorist……Problem though….Is that of a situation like this judge….Many of our elected and appointed officials are just DUMB whit comes to Islam and many just don’t care……..They will.pay dearly for this as the future unfolds.
RichardL says
funny: I always thought judges are in the business of establishing what is legally “true or not”. This judge seems to disagree and argue that legal and illegal are meaningless categories. But her ilk has been putting forward the same position with legal and illegal aliens. She should change her name to Whatever Bashant.
StellaSaidSo says
What a surprise. Judge Bashant was appointed by Barack Obama.
JW_reader says
Yes. She is still serving her past master. Judge Bashant should recuse herself from the case.
mach37 says
Not only appointed by Obama, but favored by Harry Reid during her confirmation (“cloture” – i.e., ending the debate early). Also pertinent, Bashant was born in San Francisco and has spent most of her life in California, with the exception of attending Smith College, in an area known for its LGBTQ friendliness.
As for whether CAIR is still considered associated with Hamas and The Muslim Brotherhood, until CAIR’s leaders specifically recant their belief that Islam should be dominant over all other religions, CAIR should should continue to be held to be anti-US Constitution.
Bob Carrillo says
Let the Judge sacrifice his children and grandchildren to this rabid 3rd world political ideology – masquerading as a “religion of peace” – and hiding behind OUR US Constitution and Bill of Rights for cover, if he wants to.
NOT mine!
Bob Carrillo says
Let the Judge sacrifice his children and grandchildren to this rabid 3rd world political ideology – masquerading as a “religion of peace” – and hiding behind OUR US Constitution and Bill of Rights for cover, if he wants to.
NOT mine!
Please notice all the “useful idiots”, as Joe Stalin once referred to such people, in the background of the photo…
Group hug anyone?
Infidel says
What kind of judges does a top first world power like the USA has? I’m deeply shocked that the judge has overlooked CAIR’s greasy terror connections over the years… VOW!!! One more self goal scored for the USA and the greater West… Man.. I do really feel for the parents of the school children. They would be really feeling snake bitten by their OWN!!!
Infidel says
What kinds of people become Fed Judges in the USA??? MY GOD!!! How can they overlook SERIOUS TERROR connections of this very dangerous Trojan.. I have a feeling that the judge is that typical feminazzi lefty…
Infidel says
So if someone had committed serious crimes against children, that person is still free to work for this school….and one has to overlook past history how much ever dangerous it is… WHAT KIND OF LOGIC IS THIS?? One expects better from the USA, esp its vaunted judiciary, which is supposed to be an example for the whole world…!!
livingengine says
From the 1993 Philadelphia Meeting
Shukri Abu Baker – “For instance, we can form an organization for youths, a friendship…, Palestinian-American Friendship Association. What is the problem of doing that? This will be done in order to send them on tourist trips to the land of Palestine and puts some honey a little bit at a time with the poison they’re given. But, if from the first night you want to call it “The Islamic Society for Youths Welfare”, they will shut the door in your face. Work on the level of the new community and don’t have a bold color, for instance. You raise a community at your convenience, a little bit at a time.”
Omar Ahmed [future CAIR co-founder] – “I don’t see a problem with that.”
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22The_1993_Philadelphia_Meeting%22_searchable.pdf
Ren says
Ban CAIR.
Donovan Nuera says
Even more important; why haven’t San Diegans closed and razed the La Mesa area mosque that spawned al-Awlaki and 2 and possibly 3 Hijackers from 9/11???!!! What will it take???
gravenimage says
Judge strikes reference to CAIR’s terror ties in school lawsuit
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The only “scandalous” thing about this is CAIR’s links to Jihad terror group Hamas, not daring mention it.
More:
In 2001, shortly after the 9/11 attacks, seventh graders in Byron, California, were taught a three-week course on Islam that required them to learn 25 Islamic terms, 20 proverbs, Islam’s Five Pillars of Faith, 10 key Islamic prophets and disciples, recite from the Quran, wear a robe during class, adopt a Muslim name and stage their own “holy war” in a dice game.
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This is appalling–would schools do this for any other religion?
Most disturbing of all, of course, is the “holy war”. I wonder what it consisted of?
Lydia Church says
Those ties have everything to do with their agenda!
The fool!
And islamists are the bullies.
There is no such thing as valid ‘islamophobia,’ only as ‘antitruth’ (those who claim there is such a thing as bullying of muslims and as ‘islamophobia,’ since there is only justified opposition to islam, not irrational fear of it)
And….ANTI-ISLAM! Now that last one is valid, right, and makes sense!
Needless to say, I was one of the ones fighting against islamization in the SD public schools!
Yes, thank you. I am proud of that. It feels good to fight the good fight!
: D
MFritz says
Nice!
UNCLE VLADDI says
Re: “the judge argued that CAIR’s relationship with Hamas, “whether true or not,” predates its work with the school district and is “superfluous historical allegations that should be stricken,””
So this “judge” pretends one’s previous crimes don’t matter?!
So then what, only projected future crimes might matter?!
So if I apply for a job and a criminal background check finds evidence of previous crimes, all I’d have to say is “Hey – those were in the past, so they don’t count!”?
That’s insane! ALL crimes are, by definition, in the past, at least by the time they get to court, none of them are still clear and present dangers! The job of any court is to redress PAST wrongs, imposing correction and punishment for past offenses! It’s impossible to try a criminal in a present court trial for present crimes, even for attacking the judge themself (which would have to be remanded to a new trial with a different judge somewhere else at some future time)!
Larry Singleton says
THIS IS CAIR 1-19-16
CAIR is a U.S. outpost of international jihadism. It is an enemy propaganda organization posing as a Muslim civil rights group. It performs the same function as the Nazi-created German-American Bund in the years leading up to America’s entry into World War Two and the Communist Party USA during the Cold War. (CPUSA members were required to swear allegiance to Moscow.) Such groups propagandize on behalf of hostile foreign powers, winning some converts and neutralizing opposition. Matthew Vadum.
Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld, (CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood), That’s Conspiring to Islamize America by Gaubatz and Sperry.
Is CAIR a Terror Group? by Daniel Pipes (National Review Online)
http://www.danielpipes.org/15220/cair-terror-group#print
•”CAIR is a terrorist supporting front organization that is partially funded by terrorists”;
•”CAIR … is supported by terrorist supporting individuals, groups and countries”;
•”CAIR has proven links to, and was founded by, Islamic terrorists”; and
•”CAIR actively supports terrorists and terrorist supporting groups and nations.”
Getting to Know the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
http://www.danielpipes.org/biblio_cair.php (Assorted articles)
CAIR: A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUlfQItJyeo
CAIR: Islamists Fooling the Establishment by Daniel Pipes and Sharon Chadha (MEQ article)
meforum-org/916/cair-islamists-fooling-the-establishment#_ftnref60
CAIR’s silence on pastor’s apostasy death sentence is deafening” by Andrew G. Bostom (American Thinker)
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/10/cairs_silence_on_pastors_apostasy_death_sentence_is_deafening.html
Guess Who’s Not Coming to Dinner with CAIR by Andrew Harrod 10-18-15
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/10/guess-whos-not-coming-to-dinner-with-cair
JihadWatch director Robert Spencer has “heard of it happening many times before…that CAIR works to seal its events from all critical eyes.” As Middle East Forum director Daniel Pipes has noted, CAIR closed its January “Stand with Prophet” event in Garland, Texas, to reporters from Fox News, the Washington Free Beacon, and other outlets. CAIR even threatened United West reporters who had purchased tickets in advance with arrest and imprisonment.
CAIR and the MSA appear to have been involved in this event. Both were named unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land trial, which involved funneling money to the terror group Hamas. Both have demonstrable ties, documented and noted by the FBI, with Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. See, for example, these links:
http://www.investigativeproject.org/2340/federal-judge-agrees-cair-tied-to-hamas
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2011/March/Muslim-Student-Group-a-Gateway-to-Jihad/
Muslim Brotherhood Front Slapped by Federal Judge by Bob Unruh 6-4-15 Orders CAIR to pay private citizen’s legal fees for targeting her with ‘harassing’ subpoenas
http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/muslim-brotherhood-front-slapped-by-federal-judge/
“CAIR’s ruthless attacks demonstrate that its objectives are dangerously at odds with the Constitution…CAIR employs egregious lawfare tactics to frighten honest citizens so as to prevent them from exercising their constitutional rights”
CAIR to Sue FBI for Death of Boston Bombing Suspect’s Friend
by Breitbart News 3-2-15
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/02/cair-to-sue-fbi-for-death-of-boston-bombing-suspects-friend/
The San Bernardino Killer’s Family Sure is a CAIR Clan: They’re being represented by the unindicted co-conspirators in terrorism by 12-3-15 Daniel Greenfield
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/261002/san-bernardino-killers-family-sure-cair-clan-daniel-greenfield
Shooting targets, GoPro packaging, hammer and ‘vise grips’ found in car of San Bernardino jihadi’s Mother by Pamella Geller 12-8-15
When the enemedia interviewed the family of Syed Farook, they were deferential and submissive to the accomplices of “unspeakable carnage” in the cause of Allah in San Bernardino.
Americans were brutally murdered at a Christmas party, and Chris Cuomo acted as if he was interviewing the Pope during a Q & A with the family attorneys. The media cows at the CAIR press conference with Farook family members lobbed softballs, despite the absurdity of many of the statements.
The mother lived in the bomb making factory — how is she still free? Or would arresting her be considered “islamophobic”?
CAIR Blames America for San Bernardio Massacre: The Return of the ‘Grievance’ Myth by Raymond Ibrahim 12 8-15
The CAIR Effect: See Something, Do Nothing by Michelle Malkin.
Meet the Farooks: The Modern Jihad Family: How did This Anything But Moderate Family Not Attract Any Law Enforcement Attention by Robert Spencer 12-9-15
Suspect Charged in ‘Anti-Muslim Hate Crime’ Touted by Hamas-Linked CAIR is Named…Mohamed by Robert Spencer (Joh Nolte) 12-7-15
San Bernardino jihad murderer’s mother active member of ICNA, a pro-Sharia, pro-caliphate group by Robert Spencer.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/12/san-bernardino-jihad-murderers-mother-active-member-of-icna-a-pro-sharia-pro-caliphate-group
11 of Canada’s highest-profile jihad terrorists tied to Muslim Students Association
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/02/11-of-canadas-highest-profile-jihad-terrorists-tied-to-muslim-students-association
Booklets
Islamophobia: Thought Crime of the Totalitarian Future” by David Horowitz and Robert Spencer.
Muslim Brotherhood in America by Robert Spencer
Subversive Mosques: Why Barack Obama Won’t Declare War on Radical Islam by Pamella Geller and Robert Spencer.
“That term [Islamophobia] is an anti-concept that has been deliberately originated to make discussion of the issue impossible. And it’s similar to the term, in another kind of would-be debate that in the mainstream they want to silence… similar to the notion which functions as an anti-concept “climate change denier.” And what that does, it’s a package deal meant to silence… meant to destroy the ability to think, which is part of what makes it an anti-concept.” Ayn Rand Institute senior fellow Onkar Ghate.
The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) is also behind this. As well as the Islamic versions of the Hitler Youth, the Muslim Student Association (MSA) and the genocidal Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). Read FrontPage Magazine, Jihad Watch, Gatestone Institute and Middle East Quarterly.
Ray Jarman says
Excellent Post