Oh, loverly. CIAR- the same organization that has been trying to sue a Lutheran Church for having the gall to send humanitarian aid to Israelis.
The same organization that is a front group for these dudes:
HAMAS and for all practical purposes, Lashkar e Toiba.
* Hamas : Osama Siblani—Siblani is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the Arab-American News, a “newspaper” that constantly praises terrorists and homicide bombers.
Siblani’s wife, M. Kay Siblani, Executive Editor of this rag, is an official of CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations. According to former FBI Counterterrorism chief Oliver “Buck” Revell, CAIR is a Hamas front-group which got its seed money and several employees from Islamic Association for Palestine, another Hamas front group.
The Arab-American News not only loves terrorists and extremist Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan, it runs anti-Semitic diatribes by neo-Nazis, America-hating articles, and frequent bigoted pieces against American Christian leaders. An article in the May 19-25, 2001 Arab-American News attacked Rev. Franklin Graham and Prison Ministries chief Chuck Colson as using slavery in Sudan—which Arab-American News claims doesn’t exist despite millions of living and dead examples--“to attract publicity and money. They (evangelists) can smell the money coming.”
The paper dismissed them as “business-minded self-publicists,” saying, “the religious right” is “not sincere in its efforts.” Then, it made the completely false, preposterous statement that, “[E]vangelists—who are also directors in large corporations that back the Bush administration--might be eyeing Sudan’s oilfields.” Which evangelists? Which corporations? It’s simply false. ----- "Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?," Debbie Schlussel , Townhall.com, April 26, 2002
And the paintball cell / Falls Church Cell / VA jihad [See LAshkar e Toiba / LAshkar e Taiba]
And the same organization which is connected to :
* Omar Ahmad
Co-founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). President & CEO of Silicon Expert Technologies, he is a Palestinian who grew up in a refugee camp in Jordan.
" Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant...The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth," ---------Omar Ahmad
* Nihad Awad : Executive Director of CAIR ; Former public relations director for the Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP) A palestinian born in Jordan and now a U.S. Citizen.
" I am in support of the Hamas movement." ---------Nihad Awad12 posted on 07/06/2003 7:01:25 AM PDT by joesnuffy
* Ghassan Elashi : A founder of the Texas chapter of a highly influential U.S. Islamic lobby group was found guilty of supporting terrorism.... ...Ghassan Elashi, along with two brothers, was convicted in Dallas yesterday [April 15, 2005] of channeling funds to a high-ranking official of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, Mousa Abu Marzook. Elashi was a board member of the Texas chapter of the Washington, D.C.-based Council on American Islamic Relations -- the third CAIR figure to be convicted on federal terrorism charges since 9-11.
CAIR is a spin-off of the Richardson, Texas-based Islamic Association For Palestine, or IAP, which was founded by Marzook. Former FBI counterterrorism chief Oliver Revell has called the IAF "a front organization for Hamas that engages in propaganda for Islamic militants." -------- "CAIR leader convicted on terror charges - Founding board member of Texas chapter funded Hamas," By Art Moore,
* Bassem Khafagi & NY Monument Plot :This is not the first time that CAIR has had its officers arrested for Islamist-terror related crimes; Mr. Bassem Khafagi, CAIR’s director of community relations was arrested this past January [2003] and Mr. Siraj Wahhaj, CAIR Advisory Board member has been named as “one of the “unindicted persons who may be alleged as co-conspirators” in a plot to blow up monuments in New York City several years ago.
Once again, CAIR has been embarrassed by links between its senior leadership and terrorism. How long must we wait until the federal government takes those steps necessary to investigate CAIR as a terrorist sponsoring organization? ------------"Former CAIR Officer Indicted," by staff, Anti-Cair-Net.org via Frontpagemag.com, July 4, 2003, [Visit A-Cair at Anti-Cair-Net.org]
* Randall "Ismail" Royer : Other CAIR figures convicted of terror-related crimes include Randall Todd "Ismail" Royer, a former communications specialist and civil-rights coordinator ...Royer was sentenced to 20 years in prison on charges he trained in Virginia for holy war against the United States and sent several members to Pakistan to join Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Kashmiri terrorist group with reported ties to al-Qaida. ------- "CAIR & terrorism: Joseph Farah on Hamas 'front group' posing as civil-rights organization," Joseph Farah, WorldNetDaily.com, April 18, 2005
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Interestingly, Mr. [Randall Todd ] Royer [of VA Jihad / Paintball Cell / Antiwar.com fame] appears to have served for some time with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as both a communications specialist and a civil rights coordinator, involved at times with various media affairs for CAIR. This fact was reported by terrorism expert and author Daniel Pipes the day of the initial arrests, but has received little attention in the mainstream media. A review of CAIR’s national website revealed no mention in their news brief or news release sections covering these latest developments in the case. CAIR has been an outspoken institutional critic of many aspects of the Government’s counter-terrorism efforts; interesting that it now remains silent concerning Mr. Royer and his band of “paintballers.” ------Source : Bill West retired as the Chief of the National Security Section for the INS in Miami, Florida and is now a consultant for the Investigative Project, a Washington DC-based counterterrorism research institute.
Sounds like they're getting a little dose of blowback and they don't like it.
CAIR, the same group which is involved in the recent "war on the NSA" :
JANUARY 2006 : (CAIR JOINS LAWSUIT AGAINST THE NSA - See AL QAEDA & RABIH HADDAD) In January 2006, CAIR joined a lawsuit against the National Security Agency demanding that the U.S. intelligence agency cease monitoring communications with suspected Islamist terrorists. Part of its complaints concerned a belief that the U.S. government monitored its [CAIR's] communications with Rabih Haddad, the suspected Al-Qaeda financier who has since moved to Lebanon.[54] Upon learning that CAIR was a fellow plaintiff in the suit, political writer Christopher Hitchens said, "I was revolted to see who I was in company with. CAIR is a lot to swallow."[55] ---------The New York Sun, Jan. 18, 2006 via "CAIR: Islamists Fooling the Establishment ," by Daniel Pipes and Sharon Chadha, MEF News, SPRING 2006
The same group which was behind the firing of a talk show host whose free speech they didn't like...