Bush to Speak at Islamic Center of Washington D.C.

Little Green Footballs ^ | 06-26-07 | Charles Johnson

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• Founding member and Executive Director of CAIR
• “I am a supporter of the Hamas movement.”

Nihad Awad is a founding member and the current Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). He is also an ex-member of the Islamic Association for Palestine.

In the 1990s, Awad studied civil engineering at the University of Minnesota and worked at the University of Minnesota Medical Center. As he developed into an increasingly outspoken advocate for the rights of Palestinians, Awad was named Public Relations Director of the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), which functioned as a front for the terrorist organization Hamas. In 1994 Awad, along with fellow IAP officials Omar Ahmad and Ibrahim Hooper, founded CAIR.

Eager to gain influence with whichever political party holds power, Awad has courted Democrats and Republicans alike. During the administration of Bill Clinton in 1997, Awad was appointed to the Civil Rights Advisory Panel to the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security. And during the 2000 presidential election cycle, he figured prominently in the American Muslim Political Coordinating Committee, a network of American Islamic organizations that assisted in establishing a Muslim voting bloc which endorsed George W. Bush. In the 2006 mid-term elections, Awad contributed thousands of dollars to the campaign of Minnesota Democrat Keith Ellison, the first Muslim to be elected to the U.S. Congress.

Awad wrote in the Muslim World Monitor that the 1994 trial which resulted in the conviction of four Islamic terrorists who had perpetrated the previous year's World Trade Center bombing was “a travesty of justice.” Notwithstanding the confessions of the terrorists, Awad said: "There is ample evidence indicating that both the Mossad [Israel’s intelligence agency] and the Egyptian Intelligence played a role in the explosion."

In a 1994 interview with newsman Mike Wallace, Awad was asked if he supported the “military undertakings of Hamas,” to which he replied: “The United Nations Charter grants people who are under occupation [the right] to defend themselves against illegal occupation.” That same year, Awad declared at a Barry University meeting, "I am a supporter of the Hamas movement.”

In June 2001 Awad participated in a protest outside the State Department and the White House, condemning U.S. support for Israel’s allegedly repressive government. In conjunction with this demonstration, several organizations -- including CAIR, IAP, American Muslims for Jerusalem, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the American Muslim Council, and the Muslim American Society -- released a statement that read: “Before there can be any lasting peace in the region, America must finally come to terms with the real sources of violence, namely: 1) The brutal Israeli occupation of Palestinian land, 2) The continued expansion of settlements, 3) The denial of the right of return for Palestinian refugees, [and] 4) The billions of American taxpayer dollars that help finance Israel's occupation. Any other course of action is a recipe for unending strife and instability.”

In September 2003, Awad and CAIR Chairman Omar Ahmad were invited to testify at hearings held by the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Homeland Security; both men declined to testify.

In an August 2006 interview on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, Awad suggested that suicide bombings are understandable attempts to address political injustices and do not have any inherent connection to radical Islam. Referring to the writing of political scientist Robert Pape on the topic, Awad stated: “[Pape] found out that [suicide terrorism] has more to do with occupations and fighting injustice than religion.”

Awad has been a guest speaker at numerous colleges and universities, including Harvard, Stanford, and Johns Hopkins. He was also a featured speaker at the 2002 Reuters Forum on global cooperation at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

[EverOnward]

"BTW, the daily “Pray for President Bush” thread should be stopped."

Makes you wonder what in h&ll they're praying for on that thread. I hear we're supposed to pray for our enemies so I might get on the pray for Jorge thread just once to pray the man will take a long walk off a short pier.

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[The Great RJ]

This is the equivalent of FDR speaking at a German American Bund rally in 1940.

[vortigern]

[Mr. Know It All]

He's going to speak at the same Islamic Center whose head previously claimed Bush was behind 9-11!!!!

Maybe he's doing the O.J. Simpson "If I did it" thing. ;-)

[Mr. Mojo]

Islam is peace

It's also love. And the immigration bill isn't amnesty, those who oppose the immigration bill are unpatriotic, the Minutemen are vigilantes, and the Saudis are our good friends.

[NRA2BFree]

Let the Mexicans deal with Islam, I’m going to go live in some remote spot in Alaska!

I want to go! Will you take me with you? LOL! I trust a grizzly bear more than I do Bush! We know what to expect out of a grizzly bear. Bush is going to kill us with his compassion.

[Harrius Magnus]

From the same site as the source, for any of us (like our president) that have forgotten...

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/lgf-september11-slideshow.php?imgIndex=4&autoShow=off

[Cementjungle]

I want to go! Will you take me with you? LOL! I trust a grizzly bear more than I do Bush! We know what to expect out of a grizzly bear. Bush is going to kill us with his compassion.

You got it! Pack a rifle and a frying pan and we'll have some grizzly-steaks!

[NRA2BFree]

You got it! Pack a rifle and a frying pan and we'll have some grizzly-steaks!

Sounds like a plan. I've got both, but I'm not so sure about grizzly steaks. That sounds pretty yucky to me. I think a bunch of us may have to do something like that before it's all over. Alaska may become the next conservative state haven, hidey hole. I don't think Muslims or Mexicans will follow us there because it won't have all the luxuries they're used to.

[Rodney King]

This is the equivalent of FDR speaking at a German American Bund rally in 1940.

Try 1942.

[sheik yerbouty]

I’m afraid some of his thinking is becoming unsound.

[rmlew]

I missed your post. However if all it said was "Is that a picture of Jorge praying towards Mexico City?"
Then the Bush-idolaters complained and one of the admin moderators (I can guess who, but wont), an open-borders uber alles man, decided that you committed blaspheme.

[Pining_4_TX]

Ooh, I love your idea! I hope I get a fundraising letter from them soon. Phony baloney money for a phony baloney party.

[Brian_Baldwin]

Pray that Bush gets Bit by a Tick Day One.

[Pining_4_TX]

This is so true, and yet nobody mentions it when that representative from CAIR is on TV babbling about rights. When I see some freedom and basic human rights in Muslim countries, then I’ll believe that they are willing to live in peace with the rest of the world. They are taking over here. As soon as they have a substantial base, they start making demands. What has happened to Europe is happening to us, and Bush is hastening our destruction by bringing in those Iraqi refugees. Think they’ll be assimilate and be grateful? What are the odds?

[DesScorp]

This man is a constant disappointment now. Bring on 08 and new leadership.

[Pining_4_TX]

Well, at least a Republican congress might have tried to stand up to a Dem president. The best of all possible worlds is gridlock.

[expatguy]

Bush does not even realize what a putz he is.

It is even more ridiculous when you come to the realization that Bush's views of Islam differ with the views of over 100 million Muslims worldwide.