Thread: Cair

A leading member of the House of Representatives is asking the FBI to explain why it did not notify Congress that it had cut ties with the Council on American-Islamic Relations, as revealed by FOXNews.com last week. And several lawmakers are calling on their colleagues to "think twice" before meeting with the Islamic advocacy group, which the FBI considers a front for Islamic radicals.

Virginia Rep. Frank Wolf sent a letter to the FBI's assistant director of counterterrorism on Monday, raising questions about CAIR in light of the FOX News report.

"Has the FBI severed ties with CAIR? If so, how is the FBI planning to formally notify members of Congress and other government officials of this decision?" read the Republican congressman's letter, which pushed the bureau for word of its current connections with the group -- and asked whether CAIR's Washington-based lobbyists are receiving money from overseas.

FOXNews.com reported last week that the FBI had severed its once-close ties with CAIR as evidence mounted of its links to a support network for Hamas, which the U.S. has designated a terrorist organization.

After CAIR was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in a terror financing trial -- and after a special agent testified that CAIR was a front for Muslim radicals working in the U.S. -- local chapters of CAIR were shunned by the bureau under direct orders from FBI headquarters in Washington.

Until the ban was issued last fall, CAIR gave training sessions for FBI agents and was used as a liaison with the American Muslim community. In Congress, the organization continues its lobbying activities.

"I've talked to CAIR people in the past. It was on a very casual basis -- that's what caught my eye when I saw the FOX News report, because I think they're very active up here on Capitol Hill. I think it's something that we really have to look into," said Wolf, a 15-term congressman.

"Whatever information there is available we ought to know, and I think other members of Congress will want to know also," Wolf told FOXNews.com.

In the wake of the news, five Republican congressmen have sent a "Dear Colleague" letter to members of the House urging them to "Beware of CAIR."

"Members should think twice before meeting with representatives of CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations). The FBI has cut ties with them. There are indications that this group has connections to Hamas," read the note headed by Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich.

Wolf has yet to hear back from the FBI, but the congressman is confident he'll have answers soon.

"I know they received it. We made sure they got it," he said. "They're always very, very prompt."


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009...i-shuns-group/

In the event that anyone here who is not already familar with CAIR here is a selection of previous threads :

http://www.bigbigforums.com/news-inf...manifesto.html

http://www.bigbigforums.com/news-inf...r-banquet.html

http://www.bigbigforums.com/news-inf...tion-cair.html

http://www.bigbigforums.com/news-inf...e-america.html

http://www.bigbigforums.com/news-inf...ue-colors.html

http://www.bigbigforums.com/news-inf...ee-speech.html

http://www.bigbigforums.com/news-inf...kicks-off.html

http://www.bigbigforums.com/news-inf...bie-fitch.html

http://www.bigbigforums.com/news-inf...-bombings.html

http://www.bigbigforums.com/news-inf...-new-sexy.html

CAIR was co-founded in 1994 by Omar Ahmad, who reportedly once said that “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant.”

Tuesday, April 08, 2003
WHO DO YOU BELIEVE?

Yesterday I posted a story on the opposition of the Council on American Islamic Relations to the appointment of Daniel Pipes to the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace. I cited Pipes’s own work about CAIR and its beliefs—and specifically this 1998 statement by CAIR’s chairman, Omar M. Ahmad: "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."

Mr. Ahmad e-mailed me later in the day with this statement:

“Mr. Frum,

“My name is Omar Ahmad and I am the Board Chairman of CAIR. I wanted to let you know that the statement that Pipe attributed to me are false and pure fabrication. I never said these things and I challenged Pipe before to produce his evidence and he did not.

“Omar Ahmad”

So I asked Daniel Pipes to authenticate the quote. He sent me the following, an article from the San Ramon Valley Herald, dated July 4, 1998.

American Muslim Leader Urges Faithful to Spread Word

Lisa Gardiner
San Ramon Valley Herald July 4, 1998

FREMONT—The chairman of a national Islamic watchdog group urged Muslims Thursday not to separate or assimilate to American society, but instead to deliver Islam's message.

Omar M. Ahmad, chairman of the board of the Council on American-Islamic relations, spoke before a packed crowd at the Flamingo Palace banquet hall on Peralta Boulevard, urging Muslims not to shirk their duty of sharing the Islamic faith with those who are "on the wrong side."

Muslim institutions, schools and economic power should be strengthened in America, he said. Those who stay in America should be "open to society without melting (into it)," keeping mosques open so anyone can come and learn about Islam, he said.

"If you choose to live here (in America) . . . you have a responsibility to deliver the message of Islam," he said. "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant, " he said. "The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth," he said.

Ahmad was one of three who spoke as part of an Islamic Study School session entitled, "How Should We As Muslims Live in America?" Also speaking were Sidi Hatem Bazian, the director of Al-Qalam, an Islamic institute affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley, and Sheikh Hamza Yusuf, director of the Zaytuna Institute, which is affiliated with the Islamic Studies School.

Ahmad spoke against people trying to impose values — such as environmentalism or vegetarianism — onto Islam, and only taking ideas from the faith that conform to personal opinions. "One of the challenges is understanding the totality of Islam. Don't come up with an opinion and find out the things that support it in Islam," he said. "Everything we need to know is in the Koran. We don't need to look somewhere else."

Recently, the Council on American-Islamic relations challenged running shoe maker Nike when it printed the name of Allah in Arabic on a running shoe. Nike withdrew the shoes from stores, and agreed to build some basketball courts for the Muslim community, said Feraidoon Mojadidi, director of the Islamic Studies School.

There are about 150,000 Muslims in the Bay Area, Mojadidi said.

The Islamic Study School in Hayward is a non-profit, non-political school that has courses on Islam.

Thursday's conference, which also included prayers, dinner and Koran readings, was organized by the school to help reconnect American Muslims with their heritage.

"We live in America, and a lot of us go to school here," Mojadidi said. "What we're trying to do is remind people in America, let's not forget our way of life."

http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/...Y2MDU5OWMyNTE=

Dallas CAIR Director: “Muslims Are Above the Law of the Land.”
From FrontPageMag, link is below.

I for one welcome this new CAIR policy of honesty and openness.... Any day now, maybe one of their directors will admit what they truly stand for.

A Council on American-Islamic Relations leader told a crowd at a rally for Islam that members of the faith should not be bound by American law. [i]“If we are practicing Muslims, we are above the law of the land,”][/i said Mustafa Carroll, executive director of the Dallas-Fort Worth CAIR branch.

The rally in Austin was part of a nationwide effort to hold “Muslim Capitol Day” events. The event included a speech by a representative of Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, who declared that Texas was an awful place and that Islam was the answer. “Why did Muhammad say that he would not rest until the Koran was the law of the land?”

“Islam does not have Texas in the current condition, the current socio-political condition that Texas is in. What is this condition that Texas is in? Why is Texas on the brink, when you look at Texas in comparison to 50 states, education, percent of population graduating from high school is 46, high school completion rate is 46, the scholastic assessment rate, the SAT score in Texas is 47, the percentage of population with no health insurance in Texas is first, those without health insurance Texas is first. When you look at the state of a child in Texas, the percentage of uninsured children, Texas is first… etc etc

You shouldn’t be filing legislation against Islam, when you look at Texas, Islam is not the problem. Islam is the solution. Allah Akbar.”

Clearly when we look at the literacy rates and health insurance rates in the Muslim world, we cannot help but see that Islam is the answer. That is assuming the question is how can we make Texas more like Somalia or Egypt.

Herman Mustafa Carroll had defended terrorists, perhaps on the same theory that Muslims are superior to the law of the land.

MORE HERE: http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenf...f-the-land/See More

Monday, September 23, 2013
Breaking: CAIR, the Largest Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas Front Group in America, is Running a Money Laundering Operation

Our law firm, the American Freedom Law Center, has been engaged in a long and drawn out lawsuit against the Hamas front group, CAIR. Hamas-CAIR has been running a global criminal money laundering operation out of the nation’s capital. "The money laundering scheme was discovered in the course of legal discovery in unrelated federal litigation arising out of allegations by five of CAIR’s former clients that CAIR defrauded them by failing to provide the legal services they had been promised. (See here for the latest update in that case.) http://www.americanfreedomlawcenter....atz-et-al.html

To avoid reporting these millions of dollars from the dubious Islamist sources and to avoid registering as an agent for a foreign sovereign as required by federal law, CAIR created a separate company called CAIR-Foundation, Inc., to serve as an IRS-approved 501(c)(3) charitable organization. CAIR itself quit filing any federal tax returns from 2008-2010 and allowed the IRS to withdraw its status as a 501(c)(4), converting itself to a regular for-profit corporation. CAIR also stopped all of its operations and became simply a holding company, transferring, at least on the books, all of its employees and equipment to CAIR Foundation.

What has been revealed in discovery is devastating. I address this issue in my column today at WND, but this is the money....: http://mobile.wnd.com/2013/09/fbi-vi...mas-tied-cair/

CAIR — the Largest Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas Front Group in America — is Running a Money Laundering Operation AFLC, September 20, 2013 by admin

The largest Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas front group in America is the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). After three years of litigation in federal court in Washington, D.C., AFLC has uncovered facts demonstrating that CAIR has been running a global criminal money laundering operation out of the nation’s capitol.

The money laundering scheme was discovered in the course of legal discovery in unrelated federal litigation arising out of allegations by five of CAIR’s former clients that CAIR defrauded them by failing to provide the legal services they had been promised. (See here for the latest update in that case).

While CAIR bills itself as the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights organization, it has been named by the U.S. Department of Justice in federal litigation as a Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas front group and an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation criminal trial, the nation’s largest terrorism finance prosecution to date, resulting in convictions in 2008 for all five leaders of the terrorist financing ring operating as the Holy Land Foundation Muslim charity. Prison sentences ranged from 20 years to 65 years.

As brought out in the Holy Land Foundation criminal trial, CAIR founders Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmad were participants in the conspiracy, although not formally charged. These two men formed CAIR in 1994 in an effort to create a front organization to further the Muslim Brotherhood goals in this country. But, like many criminal fronts, CAIR itself turns out to be a criminal organization.



Part of CAIR’s criminal operations included representing itself to be a public interest law firm created to protect the civil rights of Muslim Americans. In reality, however, CAIR has unlawfully employed non-lawyers to engage in legal services. In one case, CAIR employed a man by the name of Morris Days as its “Resident Attorney” who claimed to represent hundreds of CAIR clients in various state and federal litigation matters. In reality, CAIR and its “Resident Attorney” were not filing any actual lawsuits on behalf of these clients. Moreover, after the fraud was discovered, CAIR attempted to cover-up the whole affair with threats of litigation against the victims and finally with payoffs to other potential witnesses.

AFLC represents five of these former CAIR “clients” who had sought out CAIR’s legal services for various matters, including workplace discrimination, immigration, and family law matters. Three of these former CAIR clients are Muslims, including two African Americans and a Pakistani.

Specifically, in 2010, AFLC Co-Founder and Senior Counsel David Yerushalmi filed suit in federal court in Washington, D.C., against CAIR on behalf of these CAIR victims, alleging fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. After several years of legal discovery, which required Yerushalmi to go to court on numerous occasions to compel CAIR to turn over documents, which in turn led the court to warn CAIR’s in-house counsel, Nadhira Al-Khalili, that her conduct was unprofessional and would result in the court filing a formal Bar complaint against her if it did not cease. That case is now awaiting the court’s ruling on the extent of CAIR’s liability.

In the midst of gathering evidence to prove the plaintiffs’ case, AFLC discovered a massive criminal money laundering organization run out of CAIR’s D.C. offices. The scheme was created in 2005 by CAIR, which at the time was an IRS-approved 501(c)(4) lobbying organization. CAIR’s problem was that as a registered lobbying group it had to report to the IRS the source of funds received over $5,000. The specific problem was that CAIR was receiving millions of dollars from oil-rich Gulf Arabs, the same sources who were also financing the Muslim Brotherhood to prepare for the “Arab Spring” and even Al Qaeda operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. CAIR’s expensive headquarters in the nation’s capitol was financed with a one million dollar grant from a Saudi Arabian bank. At one point, CAIR even sought one million dollars from Libya’s now dead strong man, Moamar Ghaddafi, in an effort to distribute to Muslim Americans Qurans with an Islamist translation and commentary together with Muslim Brotherhood literature.

To avoid reporting these millions of dollars from the dubious Islamist sources and to avoid registering as an agent for a foreign sovereign as required by federal law, CAIR created a separate company called CAIR-Foundation, Inc., to serve as an IRS-approved 501(c)(3) charitable organization. CAIR itself quit filing any federal tax returns from 2008-2010 and allowed the IRS to withdraw its status as a 501(c)(4), converting itself to a regular for-profit corporation. CAIR also stopped all of its operations and became simply a holding company, transferring, at least on the books, all of its employees and equipment to CAIR Foundation.

The result is that CAIR now receives millions of dollars from foreign Islamist sources every year, but only has to report the amounts of its income and not its sources. CAIR then transfers these monies to CAIR Foundation as loans or grants, and CAIR Foundation then only has to report its source as CAIR. The result is a criminal money laundering operation that allows CAIR to funnel millions of dollars from dubious foreign sources into a lobbying group fronting as a charity without the legally required disclosure of sources.

Indeed, CAIR is so brazen about its operation that it maintains only one website for CAIR, which does not even mention CAIR Foundation. In this way, CAIR receives smaller donations from presumably Muslim Americans made payable to “CAIR,” thus allowing CAIR to decide which “CAIR” will get the money. These small U.S. donations are then deposited into CAIR Foundation’s bank account, which in turn reports these small innocuous donations to the IRS. The big money transfers from the Gulf, however, are conveniently deposited in the CAIR bank account, which does not require any disclosure of the source of the funds. This presents no problem to the Gulf Islamist terror financiers because they are obviously not looking for a U.S. tax deduction. What CAIR does not explain of course is why a Gulf Arab would be transferring these kinds of sums to a holding company that has no employees or operations.

An interesting, but as yet unanswered question is why the IRS would have registered CAIR Foundation as a legitimate 501(c)(3) organization in 2005? An even more intriguing question is why, in 2012, the IRS re-registered CAIR Foundation as a legitimate 501(c)(3) charitable organization, particularly after it had lost its status because it failed to file the organization’s federal tax reports (on IRS form 990) for three consecutive years and in light of the obvious illegal use of CAIR as a money laundering front? This, at a time when the IRS was improperly holding up conservative and pro-Israel groups’ applications for the same 501(c)(3) status causes even heightened concerns.

CAIR’s criminal financial operations raise a whole host of questions the IRS and the Department of Justice should be investigating. The obvious question to be asked now is whether the IRS can get past its politically-motivated witch hunt of the Tea Party and pro-Israel groups and whether the Department of Justice will finally prosecute CAIR and its founders for their direct and indirect involvement in the material support of terrorism.

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/a...edium=facebook

See also :

What CAIR does not explain of course is why a Gulf Arab would be transferring these kinds of sums to a holding company that has no employees or operations."

I would hazard a guess that much of the massive quantities been funneled in have been going into 'education' - the poison fruits of which we're now harvesting throughout the educational system, 'educational' (ene)media and into so-called 'diversity' government policies.

The Stealth Curriculum: Manipulating America’s History Teachers (2004)

http://www.edexcellence.net/sites/de...04-01-04_7.pdf

on the Saudis funding 'education'

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/v...ory.asp?id=213

On Qatar funding 'education'

http://www.wise-qatar.org/content/wi...ive#tabslink-5

Megyn Kelly Rips CAIR Spokesman: 'I'm Not Going to Let You Hijack This Segment'
By Matt Hadro | April 11, 2014

Fox News's Megyn Kelly clashed with CAIR again in a taped segment that aired Thursday night on The Kelly File. Arguing over the recent uproar at Brandeis University, Kelly ripped CAIR for suing its critics and trying to "silence" them.

For those who haven't heard, Brandeis intended to honor human rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali at its graduation, but pulled its invitation after backlash over her criticism of Islam as anti-women. CAIR called her a "notorious Islamophobe." The organization's spokesman then defended its stance on Thursday night, but Kelly wouldn't have it. Audio here http://newsbusters.org/sites/default...lly-Hooper.mp3

http://www.mrctv.org/videos/megyn-ke...hijack-segment

http://www.mrctv.org/videos/megyn-ke...hijack-segment

"I'm not going to let you hijack this segment, Mr. Hooper. It's not going to happen," Kelly insisted after Hooper interrupted her. "Chuck Schumer came out and said, and I quote, 'CAIR, we know has ties to terrorism. Prominent members of CAIR's current leadership, also – excuse me – had intimate connections with Hamas.'"

Kelly accused the organization of playing the smear card against opponents:

"Your critics say that when you hear anything negative about you, you threaten a lawsuit. And the viewers should know that you have gone after and threatened Reader's Digest, the American Medical Association, U.S. News and World Report, Atlantic Monthly, the Dallas Morning News, Fox News – we did a segment on Honor Diaries just the other week. You demanded a retraction, which you're not getting. Every time you hear something you don't like, you try to shut down the message. Whereas here in America, we like speech. Good and bad."

Hooper, meanwhile, never refuted the charge by Sen. Chuck Schumer that Kelly cited, choosing to dodge the accusation:

KELLY: Have you come to a better place with Chuck Schumer?

HOOPER: When we had our annual dinner, we had, I think, 70 different letters of support from congressman. We had congressman appear at our banquets. We have relations where, on a daily contact with the FBI on civil rights issues, on a variety of things.

Below is a transcript of the segment:

FOX ~ THE KELLY FILE
4/10/14 [9:01 p.m. EST]

MEGYN KELLY: We also have new developments tonight after Brandeis University caved to pressure from Muslim groups and others, silencing an outspoken champion for Muslim women. I spoke with Ayaan Hirsi Ali in an exclusive interview last night, a Somali-born women who renounced Islam and is dedicating her life to advancing the cause of women's freedom. She recently received attention for her work on Honor Diaries, a documentary on violence against women in some parts of the Muslim world.

(Video Clip)

AYAAN HIRSI ALI: A lot of it has to do with how women behave and the sexuality of women. As a woman you are stripped of all of your freedoms. For women, it becomes, I would say almost a matter of daily life.

(End Video Clip)

KELLY: Ms. Ali is critical of Islam and last night when she came on the program, she told me she is no stranger to attempts to silence her.

(Video Clip)

ALI: For the past 12 years I have systematically been condemned by Muslim individuals, Muslim organizations, relatives, any time that I bring up the treatment of women in Islam.

(End Video Clip)

KELLY: Brandeis University has not yet made anyone available to defend its decision. But the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, pushed for this move and applauded it. So we asked them, why try to silence this woman? Part one of that interview aired last night and is online on our Facebook page right now. And now, part two of my exclusive interview with the communications director of CAIR, Ibrahim Hooper.

(Video Clip)

KELL: Excuse me – now it's my turn. Sir, you just told me that the messenger matters. You just made that point. I'm giving you that. If the messenger matters, then CAIR matters, and CAIR, according to U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer –

(Crosstalk)

Excuse me.

(Crosstalk)

KELLY: I'm not going to let you hijack this segment, Mr. Hooper. It's not going to happen. Chuck Schumer came out and said, and I quote, "CAIR, we know has ties to terrorism. Prominent members of CAIR's current leadership, also – excuse me – had intimate connections with Hamas."

IBRAHIM HOOPER, Council on American-Islamic Relations: This is why you have a hard time getting Muslim representatives to come on Fox and your program, because every time somebody comes on to have a legitimate discussion, you start engaging in these smear campaigns. Again –

(Crosstalk)

KELLY: That's a U.S. Senator, sir.

HOOPER: Don't tell me what other people say about CAIR. Tell me what CAIR has said or done that you object to. We defend the Constitution on a daily basis. We are the first defenders of the First Amendment. We use the First Amendment on a daily basis.

(Crosstalk)

KELLY: You can come on and denounce hateful bigotry, but it can never be said against you because that also is hateful bigotry.

HOOPER: You can say it but I have the right to defend ourselves against this kind of smear.

KELLY: It's not me, sir. It's many people who have come on Fox News and accused you.

HOOPER: It's every hate-filled bigot on the internet.

KELLY: Stand by. Here is people from all political stripes talking about CAIR. Stand by.

(Video Clip)

BOB BECKEL, co-host, Fox News's The Five: It's radical Islamists we're talking about here and CAIR is a front for radical Islam.

It has connections to Hamas. It was founded by two people who are deeply connected to Hamas.

>> It actually grew out of a meeting in 1993 in Philadelphia among Hamas activists, who were confronted with the problem of how do we support Hamas without anyone recognizing that we're supporting Hamas?

(End Video Clip)

continues ...

KELLY: Go ahead, sir.

HOOPER: Go ahead. I mean, we're used to these kinds of smears. We're a civil rights organization –

KELLY: They are all smearing. They are all lying.

HOOPER: That's life in the big city. We're used to having these kind of hate-filled smears. But again, 20 years, the most public Muslim organization in the nation, please find something that CAIR has done or said in those 20 years that you find either extreme, objectionable, intolerant, whatever. Every day we're defending the Constitution from people like Hirsi Ali who would change the Constitution so that Muslims wouldn't have civil rights.

KELLY: Alright, well how about this --

HOOPER: Do you think the Constitution – do you agree that the Constitution should be changed?

KELLY: You just challenged me. You defended PIJ, a terrorist group that killed over 100 people, including two Americans, saying, and I quote –

HOOPER: When did we defend PIJ?

KELLY: – saying and I quote, "they've never threatened anyone outside of Israel and the occupied territory." That was a quote from CAIR, okay, from you, sir, you said that. You have gone on to defend the Saudi Arabians funding the families of terrorists, of suicide bombers saying well the families didn't do anything. These are specific comments by you, sir.

HOOPER: Again, you know, when you do your oppositional research, it might be helpful to go to some place other than internet hate sites. I mean, these are the same kind of recycled slurs.

KELLY: One of the other criticisms of CAIR is that you guys go to the "you're an Islamophobe" place immediately upon hearing criticism of you. That you're very quick to allege the criticisms are wrong and anybody criticizing CAIR or radical Islam is an Islamophobe. And it sounds like you're doing that right now, you cry Islamophobia to shut down criticism.

HOOPER: We defend the image of Islam and Muslim community. We defend the image of Islam and Muslim – if you want to attack CAIR, that's fine. We get it every day, we get it from every internet hate site. We get it from every right-wing extremist –

KELLY: U.S. senators. Chuck Schumer? He's not really a right-wing extremist.

HOOPER: Look at the date on some of this stuff. Try and get something that's in this century, how about.

KELLY: Have you come to a better place with Chuck Schumer?

HOOPER: When we had our annual dinner, we had, I think, 70 different letters of support from congressman. We had congressman appear at our banquets. We have relations where, on a daily contact with the FBI on civil rights issues, on a variety of things.

(Crosstalk)

HOOPER: What's your point? Did we come on here to discuss Hirsi Ali? Or was this a bash session on CAIR?

KELLY: Your critics say that when you hear anything negative about you, you threaten a lawsuit. And the viewers should know that you have gone after and threatened Reader's Digest, the American Medical Association, U.S. News and World Report, Atlantic Monthly, the Dallas Morning News, Fox News – we did a segment on Honor Diaries just the other week. You demanded a retraction, which you're not getting. Every time you hear something you don't like, you try to shut down the message. Whereas here in America, we like speech. Good and bad.

HOOPER: It's called the Constitution. It's called the First Amendment.

KELLY: No, no, the First Amendment allows for speech, even speech you don't like.

HOOPER: You get to say hateful things about Islam and Muslims and we never get to respond?

KELLY: No, see, your problem is you don't want to respond, you want to silence.

HOOPER: No, we want to challenge hate-filled anti-Muslim extremists, and we do it quite successfully, thank you.

KELLY: You do. Shutting down Honor Diaries, getting the honorary degree pulled from Ms. Ali, suing people for defamation. You've been batting 1.000 lately.

HOOPER: Again, we didn't shut them down. Those who were educated about the hate-filled agenda of the producer said hey, we don't want to buy into that hate-filled agenda and we're not going to show it. And by the way, in each and every case where the Honor Diaries wasn't shown, there's now planning for real engagement on that legitimate issue with real Muslims and with members of that university community. So – and it will get addressed, it just won't get addressed in a hate-filled way.

KELLY: Understood. Hello. Brandeis University can understand tonight that it stands shoulder to shoulder with you and CAIR, sir. I'm sure they will take comfort and its students will take comfort in knowing that. Thanks for being here.

HOOPER: Thousands of supporters at Brandeis. Professors. Students, everybody.

KELLY: Thanks for being here.

HOOPER: Thanks for having me.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matt-ha...#ixzz2yj6rxdH1



http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matt-ha...#ixzz2yj66MQQQ

Muslim Leader Says They Are Above Law Of Land In America

Posted on 1/11/2014 by Eliyokim Cohen




According to the leader of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Muslims living in America should not be bound by U.S. law. "If we are practicing Muslims, we are above the law of the land," said Herman Mustafa Carroll, executive director of the Dallas-Fort Worth CAIR branch.




I suppose at the very least, Carroll is being honest about what practicing Muslims believe. This is what we've been telling people all along. Now CAIR is becoming a bit more vocal about what they are really about.

Carroll made the statement at a rally in Austin, Texas as part of a nationwide effort to hold "Muslim Capitol Day" events. According to the event website Muslims came to the Texas capitol to "promote civic and political activism throughout the wider Muslim community."

It appears to me that they are promoting jihad and lawlessness. "We tried to downplay Sharia, because we didn't want to give the other side any excitement for being here," he said.

He then attempted to dismiss his critics as "anti-foreign." I wonder if we should just out him now as "anti-American," since he thinks he is above the laws of America.

"When you even say the word Sharia, people get nervous. We are not advocating for Sharia. We are not trying to make Sharia the law of the land," he said.

While saying that Muslims only want the right to practice their faith, Carroll also included this little tidbit. "If you understand Sharia, the foundation of our faith … how we treat our neighbor, how we treat our parents … how we participate in society, all of that is part of Sharia."

He must have intentionally left out the parts about jihad, honor killings and treating women and infidels as chattel, while seemingly speaking about harmless treatment of neighbors and parents.

They discussed "the recent House and Senate bill proposals involving the implementation of 'anti-Sharia' legislation, where the First Amendment rights and freedoms of Muslims would ultimately be hindered."

Carroll attempted to downplay Sharia law, despite joining with the ACLU to oppose the anti-Sharia legislation in Texas.

I told you about how the federal government was seeking to close the mouths of free speech in regards to Islam back in June. I don't recall Mr. Carroll standing up and opposing that. In fact, his organization didn't make a peep about that, which simply means they are complicit in it.

The event even included a speech by a representative of Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, who declared that Texas was an awful place and that Islam was the answer.

"Why did Muhammad say that he would not rest until the Koran was the law of the land?"

"Islam does not have Texas in the current condition, the current socio-political condition that Texas is in. What is this condition that Texas is in? Why is Texas on the brink, when you look at Texas in comparison to 50 states, education, percent of population graduating from high school is 46, high school completion rate is 46, the scholastic assessment rate, the SAT score in Texas is 47, the percentage of population with no health insurance in Texas is first, those without health insurance Texas is first. When you look at the state of a child in Texas, the percentage of uninsured children, Texas is first… etc etc

You shouldn't be filing legislation against Islam, when you look at Texas, Islam is not the problem. Islam is the solution. Allah Akbar."

Well I suppose if you consider a means to illiteracy and poverty as your goals, then perhaps Islam is the answer. If you consider the merciless killing and degradation of women as what you are out to achieve, then yes, I suppose Islam is the answer. If you are considering an eternity in Hell, then yes Islam would provide that answer.

However, Carroll has also defended terrorists on the same grounds as his statement above; Muslims are above the law of the land.


"I think you can only blame Hamas for so long. It takes two to tango. And I think, you know, that what we've heard for a number of years is this terrorist, terrorist, terrorist, terrorist, Hamas, Hamas, Hamas, was not just Hamas."


"Look at the true cause of the terrorism. It's not somebody is reading a book, reading a Qur'an, and then go out and say, 'Well, the Qur'an told me to blow this up. I'm gonna blow it up.' The cause, the root cause of terrorism is oppression. The root cause of terrorism is oppression."


Now ask yourself, those that read the Qur'an believe they are above the law of the land and some even go so far as to obey the words of the Qur'an and murder infidels. They both share a common core: The teachings of a demon-possessed pedophile, murdering thief named Mohammed.

Back in 2003, CAIR founder Omar Ahmad sought to bully a newspaper that quoted him saying:

http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/07/ca...DOoOqgPBLdq.99

Obama’s Department of Sharia: Caving to Hamas-CAIR’s demand, DoJ sues Minnesota town for rejecting mega-mosque
Here again we see Obama’s Department of Justice acting as the de facto legal arm of the Muslim...

http://pamelageller.com/2014/08/obam...a-mosque.html/

United Arab Emirates names CAIR, Muslim American Society terrorist organizations
November 16, 2014

The Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim American Society have been designated terrorist organizations by the United Arab Emirates, The Blaze reported Sunday. The two organizations were listed alongside al Qaeda, the Islamic State and various branches of the Muslim Brotherhood.

The entire list, which includes Hezbollah Brigades in Iraq, Boko Haram and Islamic Relief Worldwide of the Global Muslim Brotherhood, was published by WAM, the official state news agency. News of the listing did not sit well with either U.S. group.

CAIR called its listing “shocking and bizarre” and demanded the UAE remove them from the list. “There is absolutely no factual basis for the inclusion [of] CAIR and other American and European civil rights and advocacy groups on this list,” CAIR said in a statement issued Sunday.

“Like the rest of the mainstream institutions representing the American Muslim community, CAIR’s advocacy model is the antithesis of the narrative of violent extremists," the statement added. "We call on the United Arab Emirates cabinet to review this list and remove organizations such as CAIR, the Muslim American Society and other civil society organizations that peacefully promote civil and democratic rights and that oppose terrorism whenever it occurs, wherever it occurs and whoever carries it out.”

"CAIR is America's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization," the group said on Facebook. "Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding."

In 2007, CAIR, along with 300 others, was named by federal prosecutors as an "unindicted co-conspirator" in the Holy Land Foundation trial dealing with funding of Hamas. CAIR was never charged with any crime and a federal judge later said the group should not have been named. According to a citation quoted by Pamela Gellar, "CAIR operatives 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."

Supporters of CAIR responded angrily on Facebook, in some cases, calling the UAE puppets of western Zionists. One person, for example, claimed the UAE is "doing Israel's bidding."

The Associated Press said the move follows a decision by Saudi Arabia to name the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization. The UAE supported that decision, accusing Islamist groups of trying to topple Western-backed ruling systems, the AP added.

CAIR said it condemned the brutal murder of U.S. aid worker Peter Kassig by ISIS militants and called ISIS "anti-Islamic." Gellar said the condemnation may be a move to deceive Americans about Islam.

CAIR has also angered a number of Americans for labeling critics as Islamophobes. In September 2013, for example, CAIR claimed Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin are part of a nefarious network of conservatives and Christians they claim supports, promotes and funds Islamophobia. Moreover, CAIR has opposed every anti-terror measure that has ever been proposed or implemented, Jihad Watch added.

Many see CAIR as part of an effort to turn the United States into a Sharia-compliant country where Muslim law supercedes the Constitution. Recently, the group sponsored the first Muslim prayer service held at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., on Friday, an event that sparked anger among many.

"If Hamas-CAIR really opposes Kassig’s beheading and the beheadings of other kuffar, why they haven’t they instituted programs teachings against the quran’s texts on jihad?" Gellar asked. "Why don’t they work to expunge the quran of the texts and teachings that justify hatred and violence?"


http://www.examiner.com/article/unit...-organizations