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Profile of TerrorBy Evan D. McCormickFrontPageMagazine.com | February 15, 2005 It seems that being formally exposed as a terrorist support group by U.S. senators hasn’t fazed the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). In the first weeks of 2005, the same organization excoriated by Senator Charles Schumer for having “intimate links with Hamas” was once again rallying support in the press for American Muslims whose civil rights allegedly were violated by U.S. counterterrorism officials. The victims: a group of 40 Muslims – some of them American citizens – crossing the Canadian border on their way back from a weekend in...

Jihad on “24”: FOX, Kiefer Sutherland Repent to Radical Islam By Debbie Schlussel It was too good to be true. FOX’s “24” is the most exciting show on TV, this season. Action. Adventure. And it actually tells the truth about Islamic terrorists. They are here on our shores, pretending to be loyal Americans, and they are plotting to take over our country. With the help of plenty of complicit Muslim-Americans, working for the government and government contractors. Unfortunately, 9/11 wasn’t enough to prove that to many Americans. Way too many Americans—especially the ones deciding what we see on the big...

Salam al-Marayati, the executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), represents himself and his organization as stalwart opponents of terrorism who are actively working with the FBI and California law enforcement agencies to combat it. At a joint press conference with representatives of the FBI and the Los Angeles Police Department on October 14 of this year, Marayati waxed expansive and almost poetic in his glowing account of his organization’s cooperation with law enforcement agencies in the war against terrorism. MPAC has announced a “National Anti-Terrorism Campaign,” and is holding its 4th annual conference (see its poster here)...

The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), one of the most adroit and deceptive Islamist groups in America, is preparing its fourth annual convention, which will be held in Long Beach, CA on December 18. It is beyond predictability that this unfortunate event, with participation by some of America's worst apologists for and adherents of Islamist extremism, will hear from its podium extensive complaints that American Muslims are targets of slander, hate, and threats from ordinary non-Muslims, and protests against "ethnic profiling," as well as other forms of purported harassment, by law enforcement. But the same MPAC that comports itself as...

The Washington Timeswww.washingtontimes.com Muslims seen as asset in war on terrorBy Guy Taylor and Jon WardTHE WASHINGTON TIMESPublished November 28, 2004 The head of a California-based Muslim organization accused of being soft on terrorism dismisses his critics and says Muslim Americans should be nurtured as a key intelligence asset capable of fingering potential terrorists in their midst.     "We need the Muslim community, especially the immigrant community, to help us get that tip that would prevent the next terrorist attack," said Salam al-Marayati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC).     A relationship should be established with law-enforcement authorities in...

LOS ANGELES (RNS) Actor Alec Baldwin was the main honoree at the Aug. 21 media awards banquet held by the Muslim Public Affairs Council, with the Democratic Party-supporting actor denouncing President Bush and Fox News Channel anchor Bill O'Reilly. "Voice of Courage", most recently in his outspoken stance on protecting civil liberties. Mr. Baldwin courageously spoke out against the climate of fear and intimidation that curbed free speech at the beginning of the Afghanistan war, saying, "when Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon spokespeople say to you, 'Well this is going to be a long war, we're going to be in...

WASHINGTON – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California has called for an end to racial and religious profiling of Muslims in a meeting with a group tied to Hamas and Saudi Arabian purse strings. "We appreciate the opportunity to interact with national leaders and to share the Muslim community's concerns on issues of mutual concern," said Arsalan Iftikhar, legal director of the Council on American Islamic Relations, who joined Pelosi and other prominent Democratic members of Congress. Other national Muslim groups represented at the meeting included the Islamic Society of North America, Indian Muslim Council, Muslim Public Affairs Council,...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Muslim groups' representatives said Wednesday that they should have had more input on the Sept. 11 commission's final report, which they say fails to lay out a comprehensive plan to win the hearts and minds of Muslims overseas. "Why would they fail to consult a key group who could help them understand what's going on in the Muslim world?" said Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations. The groups, reacting to the commission's final report, called the recommendations a "step in the right direction," but ultimately inadequate in addressing terrorism's root causes. Many Muslims...

<p>Last Thursday, Secretary of State Colin Powell engaged in the Bush administration's latest outreach to members of the Arab-American and Muslim-American communities. Unfortunately, as with virtually every one of the administration's previous efforts of this kind, those embraced by Mr. Powell are part of the problem -- not the solution -- in the war of ideas that is at the heart of the war on terror.</p>

(Washington, D.C.): Last Thursday, Secretary of State Colin Powell engaged in the Bush Administration’s latest outreach to members of the Arab-American and Muslim-American communities. Unfortunately, as with virtually every one of the Administration’s previous efforts of this kind, those embraced by Mr. Powell are part of the problem - not the solution - in the war of ideas that is at the heart of the war on terror. According to a press release issued last week by one of the four organizations asked to participate, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Secretary of State used the meeting to "discuss...

A Troubling Presence at a Funeral By Ben Johnson FrontPageMagazine.com | June 11, 2004 Patriotic Americans will always cherish their memories of Ronald Reagan’s strong and courageous leadership during the Cold War. However, his funeral at the National Cathedral may uncap different emotions. Among those the Reagan family has invited to the ecumenical service is Mohammad Magid, a D.C.-area Muslim imam with disturbing ties to suspected terrorists. Magid, who was born and educated in the Sudan, is the Director of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS). ADAMS has numerous close affiliations with the main targets of “Operation Green Quest,”...

The Democratic Party, which gave America the proud legacies of men like Harry Truman and Henry "Scoop" Jackson, is poised to nominate for president a man who either doesn't understand the struggle against radical Islam or blindly went trolling for votes from a radical Islamic organization. In December, when John Kerry was badly trailing Howard Dean, the Massachusetts senator spoke at the annual convention of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), an anti-Semitic organization that has defended infamous terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah. Addressing the Long Beach, Calif., audience by phone, Mr. Kerry told the crowd that he "really want...

Islam's holiest month, Ramadan, has just ended with the celebration of Eid ul Fitr around the globe. The President's Ramadan 2003 message, "America is a land of many faiths and we honor, and welcome and value the Muslim faith" contrasts powerfully with the "Attack your enemy with ferocity this Ramadan" statement by the Saddam fedayeen in Iraq. Between those two statements is a choice to be made by Arab- and Muslim-Americans, a choice already muddled horribly by their spokesmen, but still within reach should this community lift the veil of collective silence through collective action. Silence in the war on...

Why We Are Publishing This Article by David HorowitzThe article you are about to read is the most disturbing that we at frontpagemag.com have ever published. As an Internet magazine, with a wide circulation, we have been in the forefront of the effort to expose the radical Fifth Column in this country, whose agendas are at odds with the nation’s security, and whose purposes are hostile to its own. In his first address to Congress after 9/11, the President noted that we are facing the same totalitarian enemies we faced in the preceding century. It is not surprising that their...

<p>WASHINGTON - On Aug. 20, 2001, Saleh Ibn Abdul Rahman Hussayen, a man who would soon be named a minister of the Saudi government and put in charge of its two holy mosques, arrived in the United States to meet with some of this country's most influential fundamentalist Sunni Muslim leaders.</p>

To Be ‘With Us’ Means Denouncing Terrorism and its AgentsBy Steven C. BakerFrontPageMagazine.com | March 4, 2003 Dr. Sami Al-Arian of the University of South Florida stands accused of being a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). According to the indictment that was unsealed on 20 February 2003, the PIJ "is a criminal organization whose members and associates engaged in acts of violence including murder, extortion, money laundering, fraud and misuse of visas, and operated worldwide…"But, how can a man who has denounced terrorism repeatedly and openly be a terrorist himself? Many Muslim-Americans and Al-Arian supporters are contemplating this...