Posted on 11/16/2003 8:00:19 AM PST by rickmichaels
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:37:51 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
President Bush is willing to pose for pictures with American Muslims and publicly praise Islam, but developing a substantive relationship with the Bush administration will take much more work, say some Muslim-American groups.
"We need to see regular, productive, policy-based meetings," Ibrahim Hooper, communications director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (search), told Foxnews.com.
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" 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...But I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through education."
"CAIR does not support these groups publicly." (when asked about CAIR's record of supporting Hamas, Hizbullah and other official terrorist groups)
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| Title | By | Date |
| Militant Islam has to go.... | John Frist | December 28, 2002 |
| Advice to Americans | Musa Muhummed | December 7, 2002 |
| Muslim Riots in Nigeria | Greg B | November 25, 2002 |
| Islam needs reformation | DJ | November 22, 2002 |
| Treasonable statements, plus | Serge | November 14, 2002 |
| Separation of Church and State | Wingy | November 14, 2002 |
| Council on Infidel Relations | Caroline Dupont | September 24, 2002 |
| Comment on "Stop Interrupting" by M. Joyce | A. Ahmado | September 13, 2002 |
| One Nation Under God | AM3R1CAN | July 7, 2002 |
| Moderate Islam | Roald Zelichonok | July 7, 2002 |
| Identity | Hazel | July 3, 2002 |
| Politically Motivated | Kashif Ahmed | June 24, 2002 |
| Khalid Duran and CAIR | Susan C. | June 18, 2002 |
| CAIR's double standards | Jacob, the Copt | June 6, 2002 |
| CAIR's Double Standards | Jacob, the Copt | June 6, 2002 |
| Rep.Cynthia McKinney's relationship to CAIR | Dush Ramachandran | May 13, 2002 |
| Re: Who is "Ibrahim Hooper" | Michael Joyce | May 3, 2002 |
| True stripes | Joseph Roloff | April 29, 2002 |
| No choice | Alan Weitzman | April 28, 2002 |
| Islam will flourish | bas_it@hotmail.com | April 28, 2002 |
| Just a thought | Bill Landsburg | April 26, 2002 |
| Saudi royal direct marketing | Carmen Waggoner, Ph.D. | April 25, 2002 |
| CAIR SHMAIR | John | April 25, 2002 |
| Stop interrupting! | Michael Joyce | April 24, 2002 |
| CAIR's censorship campaigns | Islamic Monitor | April 24, 2002 |
| "Reverse profiling" | Wilks | April 24, 2002 |
| Reprints? | Dr. Jerome D. Harold | April 24, 2002 |
| Kissed the earth | Steven Hess | April 24, 2002 |
| CAIR should be closed up | Grace | April 23, 2002 |
| CAIR's "victim" mentality | Margie | April 23, 2002 |
| Thankful | Arthur | April 23, 2002 |
| CAIR and its anti-Israel rhetoric | BRP | April 23, 2002 |
| "Either you are with us, or you are against us." | Peter Casey | April 23, 2002 |
| FoxNews and CAIR | Sally Vaci | April 23, 2002 |
| CAIR's incitement to murder Khalid Duran | Susan C. | April 23, 2002 |
| Wahhabism and "Confessions of a British spy" | Jack Davies | April 23, 2002 |
| Moderates coerced into accepting the radical point of view | Lila Reisman | April 23, 2002 |
| It is time for the USA to get into the war | Randy Hitt | April 23, 2002 |
| CAIR not acting in the interest of America | Bobby Lo | April 23, 2002 |
| CAIR trying to silence honest media figures | Shoshona Bieman | April 23, 2002 |
| First-hand experience with CAIR's apologetics | Patrick Mallon | April 23, 2002 |
| The problem with Ibrahim Hooper | Susan | April 23, 2002 |
| The truth in our war with radical Islam | Carolyn Horton | April 23, 2002 |
| The mainstream media carries little of this | Paul Streur | April 23, 2002 |
| TV hosts' lack of common sense | Regan Huffman | April 23, 2002 |
| Changed my view of CAIR | Muhammad Siddiqui | April 22, 2002 |
| Exploitation of our Democracy | Baruch Friedlander | April 22, 2002 |
| Courage to speak out | Samuel J. Savitz | April 22, 2002 |
| No noble civilization of Islam | Fouad Shawki | April 22, 2002 |
| Blindness of the media | Allan Erlbaum | April 22, 2002 |
| CAIR, the Wahabis and Ikhwani | RG Fulton | April 22, 2002 |
| Arabs behind Oklahoma City bombing? | Dale Emde | April 22, 2002 |
| A group supporting terrorism? | Lianne Forman | April 22, 2002 |
| Like most militant Islamists in the world | Irwin J Vederman | April 22, 2002 |
| Contact elected officials | Stuart Rose | April 22, 2002 |
| Muslims need better representation | Niklas Hallberg | April 22, 2002 |
| The guts to write | Scooperman | April 22, 2002 |
| Coming to grips with ideology of Islamism | Edward M Robbins, Jr | April 22, 2002 |
| A Star Tek simile for CAIR | Jerrold A. Weissman | April 22, 2002 |
| Balanced and well-stated | John Swails | April 22, 2002 |
| Crusade of Christendom against militant Islam | Lawrence Kamm | April 22, 2002 |
| Freeze CAIR's assets | Marcel W. Zyto | April 22, 2002 |
| CAIR should be listed as a terrorist organization | Richard Kruger | April 22, 2002 |
| We must support and praise CAIR | Amin Husaini | April 22, 2002 |
| Extremely impressed | Ray Barretto | April 22, 2002 |
| What has the US govenment done | marcus kaplan | April 22, 2002 |
| Cair offshoot in Tulare County, California | Michael Smith | April 22, 2002 |
| CAIR and Jamil Al-Amin | Eric Gartman | April 22, 2002 |
| Who is "Ibrahim Hooper"? | Timothy N. Hunter | April 22, 2002 |
| Pursue CAIR to stop support of terrorism | Mark Tyler | April 22, 2002 |
| Press for political action | Mike Friedman | April 22, 2002 |
| The fight to get the truth out | T. Putnam | April 22, 2002 |
| CAIR as it is: A front organization for terrorism | TW Childs | April 22, 2002 |
| CAIR's involvement with American politicians | M.E. Whitcomb | April 22, 2002 |
| Other items about CAIR | Ethan Corey | April 22, 2002 |
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September 10th, 2003 will forever be remembered as a grim day for the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). On that day, the eve of the second anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, CAIR faced up to its own terrorist connections. It ran away from testifying before an influential Senate panel that heard a barrage of incriminating evidence about the group and its connections. It saw one of its former officials plead guilty to terrorist-related crimes in Federal Court. And, it was stood up by two Department of Justice officials at an immigration symposium in Florida. CAIR should find it hard to recover from this string of defeats.
Last Wednesday, The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security held the second in a series of hearings aimed at examining Saudi Arabia?s role in exporting Islamic extremism abroad. The hearing, titled ?Two Years After 9/11: Connecting the Dots,? was focused on the prevalence of the radical Wahhabi Islamic sect among Muslim political groups in the U.S. CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad and Chairman Omar Ahmed were invited to testify at the hearing, but both declined to attend. In their absence ? and in front of their empty witness chair - the committee heard compelling evidence that Saudi Arabia financially and ideologically supports a network of American organizations that act as the defenders, financiers, and front groups of international terrorists. CAIR has been a major player in this network since its creation in 1994, with a particularly soft spot for the suicide-bombing death squads of Hamas.
Senators turned out in force to connect the dots between CAIR and the deviant Islamic extremism that led to the vicious attacks of 9/11. In his opening statement, Chairman Jon Kyl said, ?a small group of organizations based in the U.S. with Saudi backing and support, is well advanced in its four- decade effort to control Islam in America -from mosques, universities and community centers to our prisons and even within our military. Moderate Muslims who love America and want to be part of our great country are being forced out of those institutions.?
Senator Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat who has been steadfast in his efforts to uncover the nexus of Hamas front groups in the U.S., was ruthless in his portrayal of CAIR as part of an international terror network. In his opening remarks, Senator Schumer stated that prominent members of CAIR?referring specifically to Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmed?have ?intimate links with Hamas.? Later, he remarked that ?we know [CAIR] has ties to terrorism.?
Even Senator Richard Durbin, who has made common cause with some of America?s Wahhabi-backed groups, came down hard on CAIR. In his final comments he conceded that CAIR is ?unusual in its extreme rhetoric and its associations with groups that are suspect,? and requested that the committee seek the testimony of mainstream Muslim groups in its place in the future.
CAIR?s affinity for terrorist causes is well documented in the press. At a 1994 meeting at Barry University, Nihad Awad stated succinctly, ?I am a supporter of the Hamas movement.? Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper has defended Saudi Arabia?s financial aid to families of Palestinian suicide bombers. In recent months, three CAIR officials were indicted on terrorism-related charges.
As luck would have it, just hours before the hearing, news services reported that former CAIR official Bassem K. Khafagi had pleaded guilty to charges of visa and bank fraud in federal court in Detroit. The charges were brought against Khafagi for his role with the Islamic Assembly of North America, a group that has advocated violence against the United States and is believed to have funneled money to organizations with terrorist connections. At the time of his arrest, Khafagi was Community Affairs director with CAIR.
Khafagi is one of several IANA officials indicted on terrorism-related charges after Federal agents raided the group?s Ypsilanti, Michigan offices in February. Another arrested IANA official, Saudi-born Sami al-Hussayen ran a series of IANA websites that propagated the teachings of radical Islamist clerics closely linked with Osama bin Laden. He also ran the University of Idaho Muslim Students Association. Al-Hussayen is awaiting a deportation order after refusing to testify in his own defense.
The Chairman of IANA has stated that half of the Assembly?s funds come from Saudi Arabia, while the other half come from private donors who are primarily Saudi. IANA conferences in the early 1990?s featured lectures from Ali al-Timimi, an Islamic preacher recently identified as ?co-conspirator number one? in the indictment of 11 Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist recruits in a Northern Virginia Jihad network.
One of the 11 Virginia Jihadists, Randall Todd Royer, formerly served as a Communications Specialist and Civil Rights Coordinator at CAIR.
While Senators on Capitol Hill were assiduously connecting the dots to prevent future terrorist attacks, CAIR-Florida was teaming up with the American Civil Liberties Union to sponsor a town hall meeting on immigration issues in South Florida. The September 10th event was billed as an opportunity for residents to discuss ?how America and Florida has [sic] changed since September 11, 2001 - our constitutional rights, inter-group relations, and the treatment of our immigrant communities, etc.? The event was slated to feature a U.S. Attorney, an FBI representative, and the Assistant Commissioner of the Florida Department of law Enforcement. None of the officials showed up.
By absenting themselves from the meeting, the officials foiled another attempt by CAIR to oppose the Bush administration?s War on Terror. CAIR has made a cottage industry out of blaming individual incidents, either real or perceived, of anti-Muslim violence and discrimination on the Bush administration?s anti-terror policies, especially the USA Patriot Act. CAIR?s uses statistical manipulation and ?civil rights? arguments, not to protect innocent Muslims but to exonerate its own ?intimate links with terrorism? to use the words of Senator Schumer.
Meetings like the South Florida immigration symposium are an integral part of the Wahhabi groups? strategy of gaining political access to the U.S. government. Since well before 9/11, CAIR and other organizations have alleged to speak on behalf of America?s peaceful, moderate Muslims, while simultaneously lending support and funds to terrorist causes. Certain members of the Bush administration, anxious to frame the War on terror in the context of political correctness, have then pandered to the Wahhabi organizations, providing them with phony legitimacy at the expense of the Muslim community at large.
Since September 11th, prominent Wahhabi-backed leaders have been granted meetings with President Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and FBI Director Robert Mueller. These meetings are then used to further the notion that Wahhabi-funded organizations like CAIR are fit to represent America?s estimated 6 million Muslims.
This strategy has permitted the Wahhabi Lobby, as the collection of pressure groups are called, to become the de facto pool of consultants for government agencies willing to compromise vigilance for ethno-sensitivity in the War on Terror. The true agendas of groups like CAIR are obscured or forgotten in the process, and Wahhabis are given a blank check to oppose anti-terror policies that threaten to expose their connection to the terrorist support network in the U.S.
Combating the Wahhabi agents of influence in the U.S. will require a comprehensive assessment of the political objectives, operational strategies and sources of funding of each group and their individual leaders. A basic and important step must be to resist the Wahhabi Lobby?s attempts to influence U.S. policy. The new absence of Justice Department officials from a CAIR symposium is a welcome sign that government agencies are becoming aware of the Council?s close links with extremists. Meanwhile, we must continue to support the government?s efforts to apprehend those who serve terrorist causes from within our borders. The guilty plea of CAIR official Bassem K. Khafagi is one of many signs that the U.S. is winning the War against terrorists at home as well as abroad.
Islam is an idealogy
Islam is a perverted, demented, murderous civilization of subhumans; I want them all gone from America by the frigging boatload.
As POTUS, I hope GWB remembers to put the American people first. As a Christian, I hope he at least considers that islam will always be the enemy of his religion - even though he himself may not believe that yet.
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