Posted on 12/17/2004 12:51:50 AM PST by kattracks
CAIR says the statement is false and they are seeking a retraction: www.cair-net.org/asp/article.asp?id=1010&page=NR
Pipes says CAIR hasn't sought a retraction at all: www.danielpipes.org/blog/51
My take is CAIR is either absurdly inept or liars. My guess is the guy did actually make the statement.
Bush's scary CAIR friends
By Debbie Schlussel
© 2001 WorldNetDaily.com
Too bad Patrick Henry isn't around to advise President Bush.
"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth," Henry remarked. "For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst; and to provide for it."
Though Henry never faced modern-day Islamic terrorists, he was around for other miscreants, known as pirates. And unlike Bush and Colin Powell, neither he nor our other founding fathers consorted with the pirates' representatives and pro-pirate "civil rights" groups in America. In those days, our leaders didn't make "Coalitions Against Piracy" with the countries who hosted and harbored pirates. And they didn't make statements saying that this was not about piracy and pirates, a peaceful group who just wanted to plunder, rape and pillage.
But, unfortunately, as I've described in my recent columns, President Bush has invited representatives of the most radical, pro-terrorist Islamic groups in America to pray with him at the National Cathedral, to pray with him at the Washington, D.C., mosque, to sit near Mrs. Bush at the big speech to Congress and to hold hands with him at the White House.
One of those groups, CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations, is among the most dangerous to American security. CAIR is an outgrowth of Hamas front group the Islamic Association of Palestine. Oliver "Buck" Revell was the FBI's associate director in charge of Investigative and Counter-Intelligence Operations from 1985 to 1991, in charge of all FBI terrorism investigations. "[The Islamic Association of Palestine] is an organization that has directly supported Hamas military goals," he told Capitol Hill newspaper, "The Hill." "It is a front organization for Hamas that engages in propaganda for Islamic militants. It has produced videotapes that are very hate-filled, full of vehement propaganda. It is an organization that has supported direct confrontation." It is also an organization that exists without impingement in Texas.
CAIR's founder and executive director, Nihad Awad, was IAP's public relations director ("Muslim-Americans in Mainstream America," The Link, February-March 2000). Islamic Association of Palestine's publications, including Muslim World Monitor – of which Awad was contributing editor – and Al-Zaitonah, frequently praise terrorist actions.
Awad was the gentleman with the neatly trimmed beard, sitting a couple seats from Mrs. Bush at the president's big speech to Congress and standing next to Bush at several events, including the D.C. mosque and National Cathedral services. IAP and CAIR, according to Revell, had "intertwined membership" and CAIR used IAP propaganda materials.
Incidentally, Awad – for mysterious reasons – appears to have changed his name. On CAIR's 1994 IRS form 990, he is listed as "CAIR Executive Director Nehad A. Hammad." And then there is the similarity in staff.
Besides Awad, CAIR Director of Communications Ibrahim Hooper also worked for IAP. Rafeeq Jaber, IAP's current president, was a founding director of CAIR.
CAIR's funding comes from groups like the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. When it was founded in 1994, CAIR received its original $5,000 from HLF. Mohammed Nimer, director of CAIR's Research Center, was on the Board of United Association for Studies and Research (UASR), the strategic arm of Hamas in the U.S., according to the New York Times. It was founded by Mousa Abu Marzook, the political chief of Hamas and a well-known terrorist operative.
Awad, in the Muslim World Monitor, called the trial and conviction of the first World Trade Center (WTC) bombers, "a travesty of justice." He has openly expressed his support for terrorist groups, like Hamas. "I am in support of the Hamas movement," he said at a 1994 Barry University panel discussion, "The Road to Peace: The Challenge of the Middle East." He's also openly praised Ayatollah Khomeini. Remember him – the guy who directed the taking of U.S. hostages in Iran?
Hooper, echoing the Taliban government, has always refused to condemn Osama bin Laden. In a 1998 aol.com interview, after the bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa, Hooper said the bombings were a result of "misunderstanding of both sides." Today, he still will not condemn bin Laden, only the attacks on the WTC. Hooper also defended Arab Muslim Sudan's murder of over two million black Christian citizens and the slavery, rape and torture of millions more, dismissing it as "inter-tribal hostage-taking."
Imam Siraj Wahaj, a CAIR board member, is one of the most respected American Muslim leaders and is vice president of the Islamic Society of North America. But, according to Islamic expert Dr. Daniel Pipes, he "calls for replacing the U.S. government with a caliphate." Wahhaj was a character witness for Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman, the Muslim cleric convicted of taking part in the first WTC bombing and planning to blow up U.S. buildings and bridges. Wahaj was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in that case. According to Salon.com, in a 1991 speech before the Islamic Association of North Texas, Wahaj called Operation Desert Storm, "one of the most diabolical plots ever in the annals of history" and predicted that America will fall unless it "accepts the Islamic agenda."
CAIR's demand for the removal of an anti-bin Laden billboard (that merely declared him "the sworn enemy") in Los Angeles, and its protest of the FBI, INS and Customs raid are minor compared to its strong Oval Office connections. It's hard to believe that President Bush pronounced "Islam is Peace" while surrounding himself with the least peaceful representatives of it in America.
Long John Silver and other pirates were a lot less successful because they didn't have groups like CAIR furthering their cause. Silver only had a wooden leg and an eyepatch to show for his efforts.
Today's terrorists have full entrée into the White House.
Correction: The original version of this column erroneously stated that the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development “is on the State Department terrorist list.” That statement is not true. WorldNetDaily regrets the error.
The Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development
http://www.adl.org/israel/holyland.asp
July 27, 2004- The U.S. Justice Department handed down a 42-count indictment against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, an organization long suspected of supporting terrorists by funneling money to Hamas. The federal indictment named the Foundation and its top leaders in a conspiracy to provide aid to a terrorist organization and the families of suicide terrorists.
We must put as much pressure on our representatives and officials to start enforcing our laws. We must also start getting rid of laws and procedures that are stupid (like searching my blonde daughters instead of illegal aliens arabs at airports.
Ping
We need to get funding for ACLU stopped whether government or private. They are traitors.
I think Saudi Arabia funds many of these groups with our over priced gas money. Did you ever wonder how very small groups of Muslims can build multi million dollar mosques?
With that said, those Islamofascists who choose to promote hatred of our country, our religions, and our government during a time of war, and while IN our country, should be detained, questioned, indicted.......or deported. We shouldn't have to put up with this cr*p in our OWN country, and I'm not feeling particularly "tolerant" these days.
Interesting that the Pirates we had to deal with, at least at the beginning of the 19th century were from the BARBARY COAST, i.e., Turkey (?)
Oh, they were white slavers too.
You are really amazing (and helpful) with the way you organize so many topics! Thank you backhoe!
This is an excellent article with great background in it.
Thanks for the ping NW_AZ!
The ACLU has a secret agenda, and that in itself should be a wake up call to the public. They pretend to represent the poor and oppressed, whose civil rights are being ignored or violated, but their solution always ends up in the majorities' rights being violated. We have to stop this crowd in their tracks and soon.
Thanks for the ping!
Yeah, I already have "Treason"...it's a great book. The "Venona Papers" is on my Amazon Wish List, but I dunno how soon I'll be able to get that book. I've thought for a long time that McCarthy was right...& Ann Coulter just made me even more convinced about his being a patriot. I know the John Birch Society tried to tell us about that, & they, too, were villified (& still are).
But nobody here on FR seems willing to discuss the fact that the GOP Establishment & President Bush are playing their part in this treachery as well....as if it was just the Dim's fault, that liberals alone (not including those in the Republican Party, mind you) are the sole source of our illegal immigration & border security woes. Nothing could be further from the truth!
I know for a fact the ACLU does not give a rat's behind about the poor.
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