The story below is about the Arkansas House passing this resolution, and today the Arkansas Senate has passed it as well. This is most welcome, much needed, and long overdue. Why hasn’t every state done this? 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. CAIR’s Hussam Ayloush in 2017 called for the overthrow of the U.S. government. CAIR’s national outreach manager is an open supporter of Hamas. No law enforcement officials anywhere should be working with this unsavory group.
“Arkansas Legislature Takes a Stand Against CAIR,” by Christopher Holton, Center for Security Policy, February 19, 2019:
On Monday, February 18, the Arkansas House of Representatives sent a strong signal to law enforcement agencies within its borders to beware of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Representative Brandt Smith, the House Majority Whip authored HR1006 which calls on law enforcement to suspend contact and outreach with CAIR. The resolution was adopted by the House with overwhelming support.
The resolution was conceived due to CAIR’s nefarious ties and history, and especially because of the multiple CAIR directors, employees and members who have been convicted on terrorism and terrorism-related charges over the years.
The text of the resolution appears below:
WHEREAS, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has suspended all formal contacts with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (“CAIR”) due to evidence demonstrating a relationship between CAIR and Hamas, a designated foreign terrorist organization of the United States Department of State; and
WHEREAS, in United States of America v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, the largest successful prosecution of terrorism-financing in our country’s history, CAIR was identified as an associate of the Muslim Brotherhood and was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the trial; and
WHEREAS, CAIR opened its first office in Washington, D.C., with the help of a grant from the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, a charitable organization that was closed by the United States Department of the Treasury for funding jihadist terrorist organizations; and
WHEREAS, United States ally, the United Arab Emirates, officially designated CAIR as a terrorist organization in 2014; and
WHEREAS, in March 2011, Muthanna al-Hanooti, a director within CAIR, was sentenced to a year in federal prison for violating United States sanctions against Iraq under Saddam Hussein; and
WHEREAS, in 2006, the co-founder of CAIR’s parent organization, Islamic Association for Palestine (“IAP”), Sami Al-Arian, was sentenced to 57 months in prison on terrorism charges for financing Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a designated foreign terrorist organization; and
WHEREAS, in 2004, CAIR-Northern Virginia director Abdurahman Alamoudi pled guilty to terrorism-related financial and conspiracy charges, which resulted in a 23-year federal prison sentence; and
WHEREAS, in 2009, Ghassan Elashi, who served as a founding board member for CAIR’s regional chapter in Texas, was sentenced to a total of 65 years in prison after being convicted of 10 counts of conspiracy to provide, and the provision of, material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization; 11 counts of conspiracy to provide, and the provision of, funds, goods and services to a Specially Designated Terrorist as determined by the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury; 10 counts of conspiracy to commit, and the commission of, money laundering; 1 count of conspiracy to impede and impair the Internal Revenue Service; and 2 counts of filing a false tax return; and
WHEREAS, Randall Todd (Ismail) Royer, who served as a communications specialist and civil rights coordinator for CAIR and trained with and set up an internet-based newsletter for Lashkar-I-Taiba, an al Qaeda-tied Kashmir organization that is listed on the United States Department of State’s international terror list, was also indicted on charges of conspiring to help al Qaeda in the Taliban battle American troops were fighting in Afghanistan and was sentenced to 20 years in prison on April 9, 2004; and
WHEREAS, in September 2003, CAIR’s former community affairs director, Bassem Khafagi, pleaded guilty to 3 federal counts of bank and visa fraud, and agreed to be deported to Egypt after he had funneled money to activities supporting terrorism and had published material advocating suicide attacks against the United States, illegal activities that took place while he was employed by CAIR; and
WHEREAS, Rabih Haddad, the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based CAIR fundraiser, was arrested on terrorism-related charges and was deported from the United States due to his work as Executive Director of the Global Relief Foundation, which in October 2002 was closed by the United States Department of Treasury for financing al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations,
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NINETY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS:
THAT the House of Representatives encourages law enforcement to suspend contact and outreach with the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
mortimer says
CAIR is a EUPHEMISM and PLAY ON WORDS and CODE LANGUAGE for Muslims based on the Arabic word KHAIR (a good thing). Islam is ‘a good thing’. The Koran commands Muslims to promote ‘khair’, meaning ‘Islam’. Everything that is not Islam is ‘evil’ deserving of suppression and eradication.
CAIR is a thus a SUPREMACIST organization by its own definition. It is not a human rights organization.
CAIR does not protect the rights of non-Muslims.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, CAIR is also a play on words meant to remind us of “care”–which we associate with positive things.
It is also no doubt intended to be confused with the charity CARE.
J D.S says
Good for Arkansas! This is a start but many more laws need to be passed to address the “”muslim situation
Not only in state governments But also in the U.S government….Any not only NEW LAWS but laws already on the books and in our Constitution need to be enforced.”
Someone may have it I’ve lost the list I once had but Robert Spencer put out a list of organisations connected to the muslim brotherhood and if I remember right CAIR was right in the top of the list…Most , if not all Muslim organisations have one goal..to promote Islam and it’s agenda. And we all know what agenda is…WORLD DOMINATION!
CRUSADER says
ACT for America is focussing on getting laws (acts) to pass in legislatures against such organizations and against Sharia, which is incompatible with the USA.
Look into ACT for America.
++++++++++++++++++++
gravenimage says
+1
Ann says
Closer than I thought – I’ve always called them Klu Klux KAIR, but will change the spelling.
sidney penny says
Is there a better or stronger word than “encourages” that the House could have used?
Maybe not cooperate with CAIR? (as a response to”telling Muslims not to cooperate with law enforcement.”)
Why are all states not doing this?
gravenimage says
Arkansas House passes resolution calling on law enforcement to “suspend contact and outreach” with Hamas-linked CAIR
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*Excellent news*!
danthonybuck says
So glad that Arkansas house is in line and working! First post so a little hesitant to get into it. Just love this site and have been reading every day for 4 years. Thank you Robert for all that you do!
gravenimage says
danthonybuck, welcome to Jihad Watch! Glad to see you posting here.
Kesselman says
The only decent step to take. Time and again patriots have pointed to CAIR to be a decidedly fifth column in North America. They have countless affiliates figuring under fancy names as codes Arabs deciphers immediately.
Wellington says
Gee, I wonder if any Democrat voted for this. There are a lot of clueless Republican politicians, no doubt, but there are many Republican politicians who are not clueless about Islam (and other things). Does anyone know of ANY Democratic politician at the municipal, state or federal level who has manifested any kind of doubt about Islam and its adherents?
aDhimmiSaysWhat? says
Look up Vincent Tolliver (democratic representative, state of Arkansas). He was nominated to be head of the DNC. Up until he was asked his opinion about Keith Ellison’s nomination to be head of the DNC. He replied that Ellison would be a poor choice because he adhered to an ideology that is hateful towards women, gays, and unbelievers. Tolliver’s nomination was immediately revoked by Donna Brazil for “fanning the flames of intolerance”.
aDhimmiSaysWhat? says
Ok. I was doing that off memory. Just looked into it a little further. Tolliver said that people shouldn’t vote for Keith Ellison precisely because he is a Muslim. Muslims discriminate against gays.
Wellington says
Thanks for that information about Tolliver. I read a few articles about him and it seems he has gone from being a Democrat to an Independent since he was a non-partisan candidate last November (according to one source) for Mayor of Little Rock (unsuccessfully). I like the fact that he said Islam discriminates against gays, which of course it does, and it appears this made him personsa non grata any longer in the Democratic Party. He’s an author too I found out so he seems to be very well educated and varied in interests.
gravenimage says
Good for Vincent Tolliver.
tiredofstupid says
well now the SPLC will designate the Arkansa Legislature as a “hate group”
somehistory says
Arkansas is a beautiful state…such scenery is a delight to the senses. This news is also a delight…to common sense, decency, and justice.
This evil org of moslims doing everything they can to undermine law, order and justice needs to be investigated. There is evidence aplenty of past deeds, and an investigation into current members would likely turn up other criminal activity. Perhaps Arkansas will do that next.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
+1 for Arkansas. Perhaps other state legislators would do well to view the videos by the Apostate Prophet that exposes the centuries long oppression of India and Indians by Islamists who sought to destroy and dominate their culture and people.Countless millions of dead Indians were left in their wake.
b.a. freeman says
hot DAMN; somebody in government *FINALLY* got it (sorta) right!
sadly, it’s just a resolution, not a law. nevertheless, the dhimmicrats and other hard-core leftists will no doubt pour milliions into defeating every house and senate member who voted for it …
Or Else! says
Maybe Jussie Smollett can say he was attacked in Little Rock by a couple of white, racist Islamophobes.
TruthHonestReality says
I’ve always wished that states power would be returned like how the founding fathers designed. I think that because of how far the left is moving and how Democraps and leftists have aligned themselves with islam. Eventually some of the states will have a lot of equal minded common sense non-liberals that all decide to live in the same area and they make legislation that is for the people and by the people – l know, what a novel idea huh!?!
Old Fat Bald Socially Inept Ron says
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/259552/cair-leader-nezar-hamze-now-deputy-sheriff-joe-kaufman
Here is how we do law enforcement outreach to CAIR down here in the Sunshine State.
INSANITY
Sunnah says
Sheriff Isreal is history.
Desantis and Tony are in..anything change in sunny Fl?
gravenimage says
Yes–more suicidal madness.
Sunnah says
We need these laws in every state. And we need federal legislation Ted Cruz introduced and is sitting on the president’s desk.
infidel says
CAIR is TROJAN INCARNATE…
Mark Berlinger says
The votes in Arkansas are good news. However realize that the major player in the attack on Western Civilization is the media. Example: Between 2008 and 2017 Mark Zuckerberg indirectly funneled over $330,000 in support of two Muslim Brotherhood front groups.
Conservative Review» https://www.conservativereview.com/news/zuckerberg-funded-tech-foundation-pals-around-with-cair/