CAIR, ISNA and NAIT

CAIR, ISNA and NAIT

Organizations that deserve more scrutiny
than they usually get

The organizations discussed on this page apparently have two common goals: the manipulation of the American news media and the suppression of any criticism of Islam. They portray Muslims as the victims of 9/11/2001 rather than the perpetrators.

It is amazing to see that even after the September 11th attacks, which were apparently carried out by Muslims, any criticism of Islam is still considered "islamophobia". After all, phobia = fear = terror. Isn't terror what terrorists want? If islamophobia exists, the Islamic terrorists are to blame.

CAIR Files FEC Complaint over Obsession. Despite the fact that the film Obsession contains no political content and was made well before the 2008 election cycle began, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, those paragons of Islamic moderation and honesty, would now have you believe that the national distribution of the DVD was an Israeli plot to elect John McCain. And they've filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging just that.

CAIRing for Guantanamo. The Guantanamo Bay detention camp holds many of the world's most dangerous terrorists — individuals whose goal is to destroy America. Yet, there are some that claim the facility represents a symbol of repression against the innocent. One group in particular, CAIR or the Council on American-Islamic Relations, has been vocal in its opposition to Guantanamo.

CAIR Assassination Plot? Last month, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents stationed at the U.S./Mexico border held the Civil Rights Coordinator of CAIR-California, Affad Shaikh, and others whom he was with for questioning. The agents suspected that the group had the intention of coming to the United States to assassinate President Bush. The following will provide a detailed context for why the CBP would believe such a thing and will make the case as to why the U.S. government should not drop the issue.

CAIR vs. Human Rights: Suspicions persist about [The Council on American Islamic Relations], due not only to the terror convictions of several of its former officials and the questionable statements of some of its spokesmen, but because it always seems to be on the opposing side of anti-terror efforts, as well as of any honest attempt to examine and reform the elements of Islam that jihadists are using to justify violence today.

CAIR blames Justice for its troubles. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) says it is suffering from a decline in membership and fundraising and blames the Justice Department for listing it as an unindicted co-conspirator in a case involving a charity accused of terrorist ties.

CAIR Revealed: For the first time, evidence in a major federal terror case puts CAIR's current executive director — Nihad Awad — at a Philadelphia meeting of alleged Hamas leaders that was secretly recorded by the FBI. After the Associated Press last week reported the bombshell, CAIR denied claims of ties to Hamas. "That's one of those urban legends about CAIR," said Parvez Ahmed, CAIR's chairman. "It's fed by the right-wing, pro-Israeli blogosphere." In fact, the evidence was revealed by an FBI agent who testified at the terror-financing trial under way in Dallas.

What idiots!
Controversial Muslim group gets VIP airport security tour. The Department of Homeland Security took a Muslim group with known past ties to terror organizations on a VIP tour of security operations at the nation's busiest airport at the same time British authorities were working to break up a plot to blow up U.S. airlines.

Chicago's Hamas Youth: During the 1990s, the Hamas infrastructure within the United States was complete. It consisted of a propagation outlet, the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP); a financing wing, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF); a command center, the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR); and a defense mechanism, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Today, only the latter exists, along with a remnant of the IAP, the Mosque Foundation. Both have a presence in the Chicago area, where group and mosque are working hard to indoctrinate young Muslims into radical Islam.

The Muslim Students Association and the Jihad Network: As early as the 1980s, operatives from the Muslim Brotherhood, parent group for al Qaeda and Hamas, formulated a blueprint for a "jihadist process" that would ultimately sabotage the "miserable house" of the United States. These Muslim Brotherhood operatives saw that the work of undermining the U.S. could be best accomplished by the use of front groups such as the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim Students Association. But while CAIR was designed to work in the legal-cultural realm, posturing as another of the minority rights groups functioning in the public square, the MSA's role was to be restricted to college campuses, where it would advance the cause of radical Islam and lead the effort to stigmatize Israel.

CAIR Extremist to Speak on Extremism. On Tuesday, April 8, 2008, the head of the Michigan office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Dawud Walid, will be giving a speech about extremism and terrorism, at Grand Valley State University, in Allendale, Michigan, hosted by the Muslim Students Association. But how can such topics be discussed, when the speaker is a known extremist, and the organization he represents has been involved in terrorism?

No 'Islamophobia,' please. As delegates to the Republican National Convention gear up for speeches by Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin, an Islamic civil liberties group is urging the GOP candidates to stay away from Muslim-bashing and extend an olive branch to members of the faith. "We urge Senator McCain and Governor Palin to offer inclusive speeches at this week's Republican convention and ask that they both avoid divisive Islamophobic rhetoric," said Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR.

CAIR Pushes Phony Charges of Anti-Muslim Hysteria, Hate Crimes. In a series of thorough and carefully documented articles, the Investigative Project on Terrorism has detailed the sinister side of the self-proclaimed Muslim civil rights group CAIR. The tenth and final installment takes a look at CAIR's persistent — and often contrived — charges of "hate crimes" perpetrated against Muslims and supposed "anti-Muslim hysteria" rampant in this country.

A Trying Time for CAIR. It has been a bad week for the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). The group that has so successfully presented itself to law enforcement and media organizations as a Muslim civil rights group is seeing a radically different portrayal of its motives and goals coming to light in the Holy Land Foundation terror charity trial in Dallas.

Prosecutors say Texas charity hid its terrorist ties. The Holy Land Foundation presented two faces to the world, federal prosecutors said Monday [9/17/2007] as final arguments began in what is widely seen as the most important terrorist financing case ever to go to trial in the United States.

Homeland Security Implications of the Holy Land Foundation Trial. Although evidence brought forward in documents and testimony has explosive implications for US Homeland Security, the intelligence community, and every American citizen, relatively little media attention has been paid to it.

Update:
Motion For Retrial. The Council on American-Islamic Relations is cheering a mistrial in a major terror case as a "stunning defeat" for the U.S. government. But the celebration may be premature.

Coming up empty. Years of federal investigation, months of sworn testimony, weeks of jury deliberation, and four days awaiting the release of a sealed verdict culminated in confusion and debacle Oct. 22. The 12-member citizen panel charged with adjudicating the largest terrorism financing case in U.S. history appeared to crumble under stacks of convoluted evidence.

CAIR Terror Ties Exposed, Again. From the Hamas ties of its founders in 1994 to its solicitous stance toward accused terrorists today, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has demonstrated that its actual mission is far removed from the civil rights advocacy it claims to pursue. Still standing as perhaps the clearest evidence of CAIR's insidious role, two key leaders of the group attended a 1993 meeting in Philadelphia called by Hamas members and supporters to devise a strategy for torpedoing the Oslo Accords aimed at Middle East peace.

Has CAIR Violated Its Non-Profit Tax Status? United States Representative and co-founder of the Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus, Sue Myrick, is one of a growing number of lawmakers to speak out against CAIR. As reported in World Net Daily, in December 2007, she stated, "Groups like CAIR have a proven record of senior officials being indicted and either imprisoned or deported from the United States."

CAIR officials getting taxpayer dollars for schools. Patrick Poole has been looking at the taxpayer-funded charter schools run by CAIR officials in Columbus, Ohio and published his report today at Front Page Magazine. There are many serious problems uncovered, including use of the schools for CAIR events, the political extremism, and possibly self-dealing.

CAIR Goes Back to School. As children all over the country prepare for the annual American rite of the beginning of school, hundreds of school children and their parents from the Columbus, Ohio Somali refugee community may be getting far less than they bargained for, as well as Ohio taxpayers.

Telephoning the Enemy: CAIR board members unapologetically have said that they intend to "educate" Americans to accept Sharia as our law!

CAIR's Congress. With the Democratic victory in the midterm elections, one big winner was the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). The American Islamic pressure group now has a chance to advance its agenda in numerous ways, with energetic water-carrying by, among others, the Speaker of the House, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and the first Muslim member of Congress.

Muslims Silence Critics. Violent reprisal has long been an occupational hazard of those who dare to question or investigate Islamic groups or criticize Islamic practices. … Much more common has been the practice of trying to intimidate critics into silence through legal threats. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has had great success with this over the years, although lately the tactic appears to be faltering.

Don't like it? Clear off, mate. Clearly, Aussies don't have a CAIR. Federal Education Minister Brendan Nelson actually said that Muslims in Australia who don't want to accept local values should leave the country.

Update:
CAIR Backs Down from Anti-CAIR. In a stunning setback, the Council on American-Islamic Relations' defamation suit against Andrew Whitehead of Anti-CAIR has been dismissed with prejudice.

Why CAIR Dropped Its Lawsuit Against Andrew Whitehead. Andrew Whitehead, a former serviceman with the U.S. Navy has a website named Anti-CAIR on which Whitehead accused CAIR of partially funding terrorist organizations. CAIR routinely tries to intimidate the likes of Whitehead in the hope of stifling any criticisms and/or allegations made against it.

CAIR's Fuzzy Math: We've been told for years that Islam is the fastest-growing religion in America, and that the size of the Muslim population here has swelled to 6 million to 7 million. A new study pops that myth.

CAIR by the Numbers: Since representatives from CAIR have identified their organization as "the Islamic NAACP", a comparison between CAIR and the NAACP might be helpful. … Even after adjusting for the population size differences between the two, CAIR's membership footprint amongst their constituency is still is only one-tenth that of the NAACP.

CAIR membership falls 90% since 9/11. Membership in the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has declined more than 90 percent since the 2001 terrorist attacks, according to tax documents obtained by The Washington Times. The number of reported members spiraled down from more than 29,000 in 2000 to fewer than 1,700 in 2006.

Telephoning the Enemy: By its own court filings, the Council on American-Islamic Relations conclusively established its multiple communications with persons suspected of connections with terrorists.

CAIR: Islamists Fooling the Establishment. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), headquartered in Washington, is perhaps the best-known and most controversial Muslim organization in North America. CAIR presents itself as an advocate for Muslims' civil rights and the spokesman for American Muslims. "We are similar to a Muslim NAACP," says its communications director, Ibrahim Hooper.

CAIR's Hate Crimes Nonsense: CAIR cites the July 9, 2004 case of apparent arson at a Muslim-owned grocery store in Everett, Washington. But investigators quickly determined that Mirza Akram, the store's operator, staged the arson to avoid meeting his scheduled payments and to collect on an insurance policy. Although Akram's antics were long ago exposed as a fraud, CAIR continues to list this case as an anti-Muslim hate crime.

Did someone mention Hate Crimes?

CAIR Fifth Columnists and Multiculturalists: In the realm of terrorism, the threat to America is not just concerning dirty bombs and terror cells. It's not just about planes flying into buildings or suicide vests. No, the threat is a lot greater than that — a solid infrastructure finely cultivated into our society, paid for, at least in part, by Saudi royalty. It was created not to promote the values of our nation, but, instead, to impose Islamic law. A large part of that infrastructure is the Council on American-Islamic Relations or CAIR.

CAIR's Medical School Grievance Theater: When Iram Qureshi of Dublin, Ohio was dismissed from the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine last month after having to repeat her first year and then failing two 'systems' in her second year after she stopped attending classes, she did what any normal American Muslim woman would seem to do these days — she called the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and sued.

ISNA, NAIT and other organizations
(Some disguised as charities)

Co-Conspirators of Hate. The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and its sister org, the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), are attempting to have their names taken off the U.S. government's list of "unindicted co-conspirators" for a Dallas Hamas fundraising trial that began almost one year ago. They are claiming that, because of the designation, the government has done harm to their relationship with law enforcement and interfaith groups.

Front-gate: It is now well-established in Washington that any scandal, no matter how seemingly innocuous, soon is given the suffix "-gate," establishing a lineal connection to the mother of all scandals, Watergate. Well, let me be the first to suggest that a recent scandal in the Pentagon be known hereafter as "Front-gate" in recognition of the central role played in the drama by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), an organization designated by the Justice Department as a front for the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan).

Obama's Islamist Problem: The question is why would Barak Obama's campaign — which has prevented Muslim women wearing headcoverings from being in the background of photographs with the candidate and which recently fired a Muslim-outreach coordinator who had ties to another unindicted HLF co-conspirator — allow itself to be put in such company? Presumably, the response will be one heard from the Bush administration: ISNA is a large, "mainstream" Muslim-American organization that is an appropriate vehicle for outreach to that community.

The Dems' 'soft' jihadist. The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) has been identified by the Department of Justice not only as a front for the Muslim Brotherhood — a global Islamist movement with the stated mission in America of "destroying Western civilization from within." Worse yet, it has also been named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the United States' largest alleged terrorism financing conspiracy.

The Muslim Students Association and the Jihad Network: As revealed in documents seized by the FBI and entered as evidence in a Texas court, the Muslim Students Association is a legacy project of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood is an organization formed by a Hitler-admiring Muslim named Hasan al-Bannain Egypt in 1928. It was designed to function as the spearpoint of the Islamo-fascist movement and its crusade against the West.

My Encounter With the Enemy in Milwaukee. [Scroll down] The Muslim Students Union at Irvine is an affiliate of the Muslim Students' Association and an open supporter of terrorist religious party Hamas, who wear Hamas armbands at campus events. The MSU has hosted the radical cleric Imam Muhammad al-Asi, who told his UCI audience: "We have a psychosis in the Jewish community that is unable to co-exist equally and brotherly with other human beings. You can take a Jew out of the ghetto, but you cannot take the ghetto out of the Jew."

Don't go there, Mrs. Hughes. As with the Bush Administration's outreach to Alamoudi and the AMC and its endorsement of al-Arian's campaign against secret evidence, Mrs. Hughes would make be making a first-order strategic error were she to embrace the Islamic Society of North America. This is because the ISNA is a front for the promotion of Saudi Arabia's Wahhabi political, doctrinal and theological infrastructure in the United States and Canada.

Karen Hughes' big mistake. Not only did Hughes publicly endorse the Islamic Society of North America with her mere presence, but this was the first major public address in her new role spearheading outreach to the Muslim world. In the process, she undoubtedly sent a signal as to whom the administration does — and does not — support in the U.S. Muslim community.

Muslim "Charity" Charged With Terrorism: The charges accuse Enaam M. Arnaout and the "charity" of lying under oath in a federal civil lawsuit pending against U.S. government officials. At issue are the foundation's denials of providing "aid and support to people or organizations known to be engaged in violence, terrorist activities or military operations."

The Money Trail: A U.S.-based Islamic charity received millions of dollars in State Department funds for charitable work in Africa — at the same time that its overseas affiliates were allegedly funneling large sums of money directly to Osama bin Laden, according to newly released government documents. The new information about the Islamic American Relief Agency, and its parent organization in the Sudan, appears to represent the strongest evidence yet that, at least for several years in the late 1990s, U.S. taxpayer money may have been inadvertently used to finance the terrorist operations of Al Qaeda.

UK charity transferred cash to Hamas. A major Islamic charity raising millions of dollars in Britain "to provide humanitarian aid to peoples of the Middle East" transferred money to Hamas and provided funds to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers, according to documents found in the Palestinian territories.

Red-Faced Saudis Crack Down on Pro-terrorist "Charities": The Saudi government announced legal and regulatory measures to control "charity" funds, some of which is alleged to have found its way to terrorist outfits.

Federal agents raid Muslim charity in Southfield. Agents with the FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force executed search warrants at the headquarters for Life for Relief and Development, a Southfield-based charity that works in Arab and Muslim countries around the world. The warrants were based on a criminal predicate, said William Kowalski, assistant special agent in charge for the Detroit office of the FBI.

Oprah's Islamist Nightmare: Oprah Winfrey, the popular television talk show hostess, probably doesn't realize it, but she is being used by a radical Muslim organization. Last month, she aired a tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr., where she featured the daughter of a well known Islamist leader. Now, the leader and his operation are spreading the word that Oprah has helped their group to hit the big time.

The Islamic Truth Group: Established in 1999 "to increase Islamic knowledge so that Muslims become Allah's viceroys on earth," the Great Britain-based Islamic Truth Group (ITG) describes itself as "part of the Muslim Unification Council," a worldwide organization dedicated to re-unifying the Muslim ummah [people or nation] into one super state [Al-Khilafah, "the Caliphate"] that "will dominate world politics for all mankind, forever." Such a Caliphate would be governed by strict Islamic law, or Sharia. "English Law is not divine law like Shariah Law," says ITG. "Don't follow it!"

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