Muslim-Americans who are NOT Moderate

John R. Houk
© July 7, 2009

In the USA there are Muslim organizations which if you believe their own hype are of the so-called moderate Islamic bent; however these Muslim-American organizations nearly all have a connection overtly or covertly to an Islamic terrorist organization. In most cases the Muslim terrorists represent the various Arabs that call themselves Palestinians. Also there is a connection to Ikhwan better known as the Muslim Brotherhood in the English speaking world.

Let’s see if I can think of some these Muslim-American organizations that claim to represent mainstream (moderate) Islam in America.

The top dog (or so self-proclaimed) of these organization is the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). CAIR has been directly tied to the evil Arab-Palestinian organization known as Hamas. Hamas is on the State Department Terror Watch List. CAIR was implicated with an association with Hamas as an unindicted co-conspirator in successful prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation (HLF).

The Muslim American Society (MAS [Large PDF file]) is vitally connected to the international Salafist organization known as the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). The MB has a Wahhabi outlook about Islam which is strongly advocated by Terrorist organizations like Al-Qaeda and Hamas.

The Muslim Student Association (MSA) is also part of the MB agenda to Islamize the globe by infiltration or by jihad. The MSA is the largest student Muslim organization in the North American continent.

The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) initially was founded as an organization to be a bridge between Christians and Jews in America attempting to emphasize that Islam’s core values are compatible with American values. Once Israel became embroiled with Arab-Palestinian terrorism of the Second Intifada MPAC became very recalcitrant toward Jews and Israel in particular. MPAC’s position is that Israel is a terrorist State and terrorist groups such as Hezbollah are freedom fighters. Hence MPAC’s is officially moderate Islam yet the organization supports and celebrates the terrorist activities of Arabs that call themselves Palestinians. (Interesting tidbit on MPAC)

The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) is a huge ideological supporter to Islamist speakers with ties to Muslim terrorists like the Pakistan’s Jamaat e-Islami (Interesting tidbit on Jamaat e-Islami).

The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) is largely funded by Saudi Wahhabi interests and has close ties to Arab-Palestinian terrorists (e.g. Palestinian Islamic Jihad). ISNA is an offshoot from the MSA. ISNA is thought to hold up to 80% or more of the mortgages of American Mosques; ergo those Mosques are required to teach and preach (or whatever Muslims call exhortation of their faith) the radical Saudi Wahhabi message of puritanical Islam practiced by Al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood. Also ISNA is heavily influenced by the Muslim Brotherhood. ISNA is noted for bringing in pro-Jihad (i.e. the violent “lesser” Jihad), anti-Western, Anti-Israel (and anti-Jewish), and anti-American speakers to well funded speaking engagements in America.

In an e-newsletter received on July 6 from ACT! For America there is a report that anti-Islamist Dave Gaubatz was ejected from one of ISNA’s large meetings recently. According to ACT! For America Gaubatz was in no way being disruptive. Gaubatz was collecting information that ISNA officials obviously did not want non-Muslim America (i.e. we kafir) to be aware of. Then ACT! For America proceeded to include in the e-newsletter some information on the ISNA 46th annual convention in which evangelical Pastor Rick Warren is to participate as a symbol of interfaith dialogue.

Warren must not have read up on the fact that the puritanical form of Wahhabi Islam promoted by ISNA would relegate him to a dhimmi in a Muslim dominated society. Warren’s symbolism then is an example of interfaith stupidity rather than interfaith toleration.

Here is the ACT! For America e-newsletter:

JRH 7/7/09
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ISNA's annual convention 'illuminating'

ACT! For America
Sent: 7/6/09

ISNA, the Islamic Society of North America, has been in the news a lot the past few days, hosting its annual convention in Washington, D.C.

As the Investigative Project on Terrorism report below notes:

“The Investigative Project on Terrorism reviewed recent ISNA conference activity and found a host of examples of radical ideology that belies its moderate image.”

What’s more, according to a report in WorldNetDaily, during the July 3rd ISNA convention in D.C., ISNA “chose to eject by force an American investigating Islamist radicalism in the U.S.”

There is no evidence from the report that ISNA’s motivation for ejecting Gaubatz was due to him causing a disruption. Gaubatz was there to gather information, just as he has done for projects such as the “Mapping Sharia” project, in which Gaubatz has entered numerous mosques around the country to examine and analyze the materials the mosques distribute.

If ISNA is truly a voice for moderation, why would it fear someone like Gaubatz? Indeed, wouldn’t ISNA want to showcase its moderation for someone like Gaubatz?

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ISNA's Reform Hasn't Shed It of Radical Ideologues

IPT News
July 2, 2009

The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) hooked a big fish for its 46th convention starting Friday in Washington, D.C. when evangelical Pastor Rick Warren agreed to appear.

But ISNA wanted a bigger star – President Barack Obama. There's been no public response from the White House to ISNA's invitation. But the conference is expected to feature a significant government presence, in the form of sponsored-informational booths and speakers from the Departments of State, Justice, Homeland Security and others.

The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division is also seeking volunteers to work at an information table during the conference.

On the surface, it's understandable why government agencies would want to line up for a spot at the three-day convention. It is expected to draw thousands to the nation's capital and is far and away the largest gathering of Muslim Americans.

ISNA's documented history with the Muslim Brotherhood – an 80-year-old Egyptian movement that seeks to spread Shariah, or Islamic law, far and wide – and the troubling association many of its current leaders hold should give these agencies pause about what message their participation endorses.

Much of ISNA's history was concisely reported by an Indianapolis television station in 2003. The two-part WTHR report can be viewed here.

Beyond the high-profile outsiders like Warren, the 2009 ISNA conference offers representatives from Muslim Brotherhood front groups and others who buck American law enforcement efforts to curtail terrorist financing. One group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has been deemed persona non-grata by the FBI due to its Hamas ties.

Competing assessments of the government's posture toward ISNA have emerged in the past week. A widely-circulated email from a knowledgeable source claimed that the FBI had pegged ISNA as its official outreach partner to the American Muslim community and relayed that information in a meeting with ISNA Vice President Mohamed Magid.

The IPT spoke with an FBI source who confirmed that a meeting did take place at FBI headquarters. The FBI's embrace of ISNA came over the objections of case agents and supervisors investigating Muslim Brotherhood activity in the U.S., the source said.

The next day, FBI spokesman John Miller denied any relationship with ISNA had been cemented and called the email's claims "factually inaccurate and generally misleading." Magid did meet with an FBI official, Miller said, but that's because he has long been an FBI liaison through his role as head of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) Center.

To be clear, it is not likely that the FBI would have a memorandum declaring ISNA the official Muslim partner of federal law enforcement. Magid may be a long-time FBI liaison, but he still wears two hats when he meets with law enforcement – the ADAMS Center and ISNA.

The Investigative Project on Terrorism reviewed recent ISNA conference activity and found a host of examples of radical ideology that belies its moderate image. It also details ISNA's foundation by U.S. members of the Muslim Brotherhood, some of whom remain active in ISNA today, and extremist connections by other active ISNA leaders. You can read that report here.

ISNA remains an unindicted co-conspirator in the Hamas-financing prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), which ended with guilty verdicts on 108 counts last November and lengthy prison terms for HLF leaders in May.

HLF is included among "individuals/entities who are and/or were members of the US Muslim Brotherhood." ISNA petitioned the court to be removed from the list a year ago, but no ruling has been made.

Trial evidence showed accounts held by ISNA and its subsidiary, the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), were used to funnel money to HLF and, ultimately, to Hamas. ISNA officials claim the organization has moved beyond its Muslim Brotherhood roots to evolve into a more mainstream American organization. That strategy has been successful, as this Associated Press preview of the ISNA convention shows.

Brotherhood Roots

ISNA's leadership ranks include a number of people who date back to the group's foundation by Muslim Brotherhood members. The organization grew out of the Muslim Students Association (MSA), which also was founded by Brotherhood members.

One of those founders, Muzammil Siddiqi was a co-founder of ISNA in 1981 and served two terms as ISNA's president from 1997-2001. He still serves on the ISNA governing board.

Likewise, Sayyid M. Syeed was a founding ISNA board member and served as secretary-general, and now heads ISNA's Center for Interfaith and Community Outreach in Washington, D.C.

A third ISNA founder, Iqbal Unus, serves on the board of directors today. He also held the title of Acting Secretary General for ISNA in January 1984 after serving at the General Secretariat since January 1977 for MSA, and later ISNA.

Siddiqi, Syeed and Unus all are scheduled to speak during ISNA's 46th annual convention.

So are two ISNA leaders who were not a part of the founding group, but nonetheless have extensive and troubling connections to terror supporters. Jamal Badawi is a member at large on ISNA's Board of Directors. Badawi was individually listed in the HLF trial as an unindicted co-conspirator for his role as a fund raiser for the defunct charity.

His number appears in a telephone book of U.S.-based Muslim Brotherhood members that was admitted into evidence in the original HLF prosecution, which ended in a mistrial in November 2007. FBI agent Lara Burns testified that this phone book was found at the home of Ismail Elbarrasse, a former assistant to Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook

Finally, Louay Safi directs the ISNA Leadership Development Center. He has a history of close relations with U.S. fronts for Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. He served on the board of advisory editors for the Middle East Affairs Journal, which was published by the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR). Its editor, Ahmed Yousef, is the spokesman for deposed Hamas Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh. The UASR was founded by Hamas political leader Mousa Abu Marzook and was part of a Muslim Brotherhood-created Hamas support network in the U.S.

He also worked as research director at the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) in Herndon, VA. The IIIT has been under investigation for terror financing, including at least $50,000 sent to a think-tank run by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) board member Sami Al-Arian. The think tank employed at least four members of the PIJ governing board in the early 1990s. No charges have been filed in the IIIT investigation.

Conferences Still Feature Extreme Rhetoric

A review of recent ISNA conferences further raises the question of how far the organization's reformation really has come. During the 2008 conference, speakers rationalized Hamas terrorism and revised history.

For example, Hatem Bazian, a professor of Near East Studies at the University of California-Berkeley, rewrote history to say violent Palestinian opposition to Israel started after the 1967 war:

"The violence is not a genetic motivation or genetically defined in the Palestinians. The Palestinians don't wake up in the morning and think yeah, I'm inclined towards violence. The Palestinians when they woke up they see that they're land has been taken from underneath them, that they have to go through five or six checkpoints before they get to school, that they are no longer able to use the hospital, that they are seeing a new settlement being built every other day, and they wake up in the morning and see that it's a land grab day, all these factors, including the diminishing return of the so called peace."

In that same panel, Palestinian Jamal Dajani moderated the discussion and echoed Bazian's false history:

"That is Palestinians are sick and tired of dialogue. I mean they've been listening to dialogue for six decades. It is great to have people from different places and come and interfere and put themselves between the occupier and the victim, and Palestinians listening to promises, and they see their future disappear right in front of their eyes."

In fact, Palestinians have rejected dialogue since Israel's creation in 1948. The PLO agreed to renounce terror and joined in President Clinton's peace efforts in the early 1990s, resulting in Palestinian autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza. The refusal of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad to recognize that agreement, and the wave of terrorist attacks they launched in the agreement's wake, doomed the U.S.-led peace effort.

Similarly, during the 2008 ISNA annual convention in Columbus, Ohio, Rick Hannis, a Christian and member of the Christian Peacemakers Team, a group founded by Quakers and Mennonites with a stated purpose of working toward "nonviolent alternative to war," spoke. He described the "amazing work" Hamas does in West Bank education and health care and supposedly non-violent leaders of that organization:

"Now, most people only know about the militant part of Hamas. They don't know about the education or healthcare issued in the West Bank part. It really does amazing work."

"If there is a suicide bombing or something their militant wing has done, often Hamas leaders who promote non violence, will be assassinated, and then, of course, it is put in the paper that Hamas did this violent act-Hamas leader was assassinated as if that was an [unintelligible]. The people that know this leader, they are disenfranchised even more."

During ISNA's 2006 convention, Kamran Memon, an attorney from Muslims for a Safe America, asked the audience to raise their hands if they believed Al Qaeda committed the 9/11 attacks. In response to their raised hands, he helped rationalize Al Qaeda's actions by discussing how America's foreign policy helped to infuriate Muslims around the world.

"Some Muslims in the Muslim world decided that they were just not going to take it anymore. They were angry at our ongoing support from their enemies, so they began to attack American targets to pressure our government to change its foreign policy. They attacked American targets in 1992 in Somalia; in 1993 in New York; in 1995 and 1996 in Saudi Arabia; 1998 in Tanzania and Kenya; and 2000 in Yemen. But the U.S. government did not change its foreign policy, so those Muslims who decided that they weren't going to take it anymore attacked America on September 11.

...They are also angry at us because they look at us, the elder generations, and they see us sitting on our hands not doing anything serious to alleviate the suffering of Muslims in the Muslim world. And when they get that angry, then they do things, like if you believe that Muslims did it, they do things like the London bombings in July 2005; because they see no other way to change American foreign policy other than violence."

The list of conference panels this year does include some important issues, including one on domestic violence in the Muslim community, an emerging issue that gained added urgency earlier this year.

Such positive moves are offset, however, by the presence of speakers from other Muslim Brotherhood-tied groups including the Muslim American Society (MAS) and CAIR.

CAIR is taking advantage of the crowds expected in Washington to host an open house.

It is important to note that if the FBI in any way is increasing its outreach with ISNA, it likely replaces work CAIR previously did. The Bureau has made it clear that CAIR and its national leaders had "a connection" to Hamas, and it is unclear whether that connection remains. Until that is resolved, "the FBI does not view CAIR as an appropriate liaison partner."

ISNA apparently does not share that concern. It also endorses the canard that law enforcement action to cut off terror financing by U.S.-based charities like HLF creates "a chilling effect on Muslim charitable giving in accordance with the Islamic faith."

It has condemned terrorist plots, like the one to bomb New York synagogues and to try shooting down a military plane that was broken up by law enforcement in May. And President Ingrid Mattson has called for the Muslim community to be more assertive in confronting radical elements and "vague accusations of conspiracies, and exaggerated protests of attempts to ensure security to be used as excuses for violating the rights of women, non-Muslims and others."

However, that admirable charge is undermined by her organization's embrace of CAIR, MAS and similar groups. Agha Saeed of the American Muslim Task Force, is scheduled to speak on a panel on "Culture and Politics: Strategies of Self-Empowerment." Saeed is chairman of the group, which has spent most of 2009 advocating a Muslim boycott of the FBI. The reason? FBI investigators have sent informants into mosques to pursue information on terror suspects. That's how the New York bombing plot was broken up.

CAIR and MAS are among the groups signing on to the Taskforce's proposed boycott.

If government representatives are going to speak to the ISNA conference, they shouldn't offer simple platitudes about getting along. They should challenge ISNA and its audience to be a true partner in the fight against terror by confronting extremist ideologies in their own communities, at their own conferences. That might generate real change.

To read the IPT's new report on ISNA's recent radical activity, click here.
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Muslim-Americans who are NOT Moderate
John R. Houk
© July 7, 2009
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ISNA's annual convention 'illuminating'
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ISNA's Reform Hasn't Shed It of Radical Ideologues
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Pelosi Democrats Drop Murtha Ethics Investigation

Here is a classic example of hypocrisy in the Democratic Party. There is a mountain of evidence that Rep. Jack Murtha was involved in political corruption (and other Democrats by the way) with the lobbying of the PMA Group ran by Paul Magliocchetti.

More than 100 House members secured earmarks in a major spending bill for clients of a single lobbying firm -- The PMA Group -- known for its close ties to John P. Murtha, the congressman in charge of Pentagon appropriations.

"It shows you how good they were," said Keith Ashdown, chief investigator at the watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense. "The sheer coordination of that would take an army to finish."

PMA's offices have been raided, and the firm closed its political action committee last week amid reports that the FBI is investigating possibly illegal campaign contributions to Murtha and other lawmakers.

No matter what the outcome of the federal investigation, PMA's earmark success illustrates how a well-connected lobbying firm operates on Capitol Hill. And earmark accountability rules imposed by the Democrats in 2007 make it possible to see how extensively PMA worked the Hill for its clients.

In the spending bill managed by Murtha, the fiscal 2008 Defense appropriation, 104 House members got earmarks for projects sought by PMA clients, according to Congressional Quarterly's analysis of a database constructed by Ashdown's group. (Yahoo News)

So check this out: the key Congressman linked to the PMA Group’s lobbying corruption is Jack Murtha the Democrat from Pennsylvania.

This is the same Jack Murtha that called American Marines cold blooded killers at the so-called Haditha Massacre. The last time I checked all but two of the Marines accused of wrong doing have been totally exonerated. The highest ranking officer in the incident Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani had his charges initially dropped; however the now Leftist controlled U.S. government is still seeking validation and has called for a dismissal of the three-judge dismissal in order for the entire panel of nine judges to re-hear the case. The final accused Haditha Marine is Staff Sergeant Frank D. Wuterich and his fate awaits prosecution persecution of Lt. Col. Chessani.

This same Jack Murtha implicated in the Abscam FBI investigations in which a fake Arab was bribing politicians to put them in the pocket of the fake Arab. This indicates that Murtha is no rookie when it comes to money and political corruption.

Yet the Democratic Party continues to prop up Rep. Jack Murtha. It is cosmically unbelievable. Why isn’t President Obama stepping in to chastise Murtha and call for Congress to proceed with an ethics investigation? The reason is an ethics investigation would gut the House of Representatives led by liar Pelosi of the Democratic Party. That is how many Democrats that also are connected to the lobbying efforts of the PMA Group and Jack Murtha.

JRH 5/19/09

Muslim Brotherhood Fronts in U.S. Threaten to End FBI Outreach

Apparently a huge percentage of American-Muslim organizations are trying to flex some Mohammedan muscle by banding together in an umbrella organization called American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections.

Hmm … Isn’t the Palestine Liberation Organization a radical Islamic terrorist umbrella organization?

Anyway … This AMTCRE group is actually threatening the FBI to influence the Muslim-American community as represented by the terrorist tied Muslim-American groups to stop aiding the Federal law enforcement agency. The “aid” being the translators and the Islamic experts utilized for advice.

Gosh, if I was the FBI I would be thinking, “We don’t need your Islamic fifth column help.”

JRH 4/1/09

Islamic groups attack law enforcement

The duplicity of victimhood is getting way out of hand by so-called Muslim-Rights organizations in America.

The FBI arrests a brother-in-law of a Barack Hussein Obama body guard on terrorist related charges and the entire (terrorist connected) American-Muslim groups fail to denounce the issues related to terrorism. Rather the American Muslim groups castigate the FBI for planting a paid informant in a Mosque.

Wake-up Americans to the Mohammedan Agenda for America: as in Europe, American Mohammedans will begin to demand (did you read me? I SAID DEMAND) separate laws to accommodate the Mohammedan religion above the law of the land. (The added rant was free :-))

Here is the information as related in an ACT! For America Email.

JRH 3/6/09

CAIR Strikes Back

Not long ago I posted an Act for America alert pertaining to the FBI cutting off the advisory role of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

Act for America has sent a related alert about CAIR attempting to strike back by obfuscating CAIR’s relationship with Hamas. As should be expected they are pulling the “I am the poor victim of Islamophobic racism.”

Here is the Act for America email alert sent February 5, 2009 1:22:19 PM:

CAIR Strikes Back

Dear John, In the past seven days, evidence surfaced that the FBI was cutting off its primary contacts with CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations), after CAIR refused to address FBI questions about CAIR’s relationship to Hamas (a designated terrorist organization).

Then, five members of Congress sent a letter to other members of Congress entitled “Beware of CAIR,” citing the evidence that the FBI had severed ties with CAIR.

CAIR has responded in its predictable fashion – attack the messengers. The commentary below, from the website of SANE (Society of Americans for National Existence), includes the response letter that CAIR sent to Congresswoman Sue Myrick, co-chair of the House Anti-Terrorism Caucus. One line in CAIR’s letter is telling:

“If enduring these baseless attacks from you is part of God’s price for freedom, we embrace them.”

Playing the victim, or in this case, the martyr, is a common tactic among Islamists. In CAIR’s world, any critique or criticism of it, no matter how reasoned or documented, is anti-Muslim bigotry. For CAIR to claim that allegations against it are “baseless” is, well, baseless.

Why would the FBI finally make the decision it did to sever ties with CAIR if there was no basis for doing so? Why would the Justice Department list CAIR as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial if there was no basis for doing so? Why would an FBI agent, testifying under oath during that trial, label CAIR as a front organization for Islamist extremism if there was no basis for saying so?

The answer is they wouldn’t.

JRH 2/5/09

FBI to CAIR: Take a Hike

John R. Houk
© January 31, 2009

As I was scrolling through my usually massive email subscriptions that I often use as sources I came across some good news from Act for America. Apparently the FBI has cut off its relationship with the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) because of their connection to the Islamic terrorist organization Hamas.

Act for America is using the news to organize grassroots pressure to contact Congressmen and Senators to not listen to CAIR lobbyists who according to Act for America are preparing some sort of lobbying blitz with Congress.

Here is the action requested for American anti-Islamofascists to perform:

FBI Cuts Off CAIR Over Hamas Questions

!!! ACTION ALERT – CONTACT CONGRESS !!!


Dear …

Finally, the FBI has figured out that CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations) is not an organization it should be dealing with. This “better late than never” bombshell is reported in the Investigative Project on Terrorism story below.

Not only is this wonderful and welcome news that should encourage us that we are in fact seeing progress made in the effort to roll back the tide of Islamofascism. The timing is impeccable.

We have learned that CAIR is planning a lobbying blitz in Congress next week. ACT! for America members, it’s time to take ACTION !!!

STEP ONE:

Send emails and faxes, starting today and continuing through the weekend, to your Member of Congress and two Senators asking that they not meet with CAIR given that the FBI has severed contacts with CAIR. Include the story below in your emails and faxes. (Click here to find contact information for your Member of Congress and Senators).

STEP TWO:

On Monday or Tuesday place a follow-up call to your Member of Congress and two Senators. Ask to speak to their Defense or National Security Legislative Assistant (LA). When you have the LA on the phone, ask (1) if they got your email or fax and the article; (2) if they read it; (3) if the Member of Congress or Senator is aware of the issue. If the LA has not seen or read the email or fax, send it again if necessary.

If you don’t reach the LA, leave a message and phone number, and if you don’t hear back by the next day, call again!

LET’S SEND A RESPECTFUL, CLEAR MESSAGE TO CONGRESS: THE FBI HAS CUT OFF CONTACT TO CAIR DUE TO ITS TIES TO HAMAS. CAIR WAS AN UNINDICTED CO-CONSPIRATOR IN THE HOLY LAND FOUNDATION TRIAL. MEMBERS OF CONGRESS SHOULD NOT MEET WITH CAIR.

Forward this email to everyone you know! And email us at info@actforamerica.org to let us know what response you get from your contacts to Congress.

http://www.actforamerica.org/

Here is the Investigative Project on Terrorism story on CAIR and the FBI that has inspired activity by Act for America.

JRH 1/31/09
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FBI Cuts Off CAIR Over Hamas Questions

By Mary Jacoby
IPT News
January 29, 2009

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has cut off contacts with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) amid mounting concern about the Muslim advocacy group's roots in a Hamas-support network, the Investigative Project on Terrorism has learned.

The decision to end contacts with CAIR was made quietly last summer as federal prosecutors prepared for a second trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), an Islamic charity accused of providing money and political support to the terrorist group Hamas, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

CAIR and its chairman emeritus, Omar Ahmad, were named un-indicted co-conspirators in the HLF case. Both Ahmad and CAIR's current national executive director, Nihad Awad, were revealed on government wiretaps as having been active participants in early Hamas-related organizational meetings in the United States. During testimony, FBI agent Lara Burns described CAIR as a front organization.

Hamas is a US-designated foreign terrorist organization, and it's been illegal since 1995 to provide support to it within the United States.

The decision to end contacts with CAIR is a significant policy change for the FBI. For years, the FBI worked with the national organization and its state chapters to address Muslim community concerns about the potential for hate crimes and other civil liberty violations in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

But critics said the FBI improperly conferred legitimacy on CAIR by meeting with its officials, even as its own investigative files contained evidence of CAIR leaders' ties to Hamas.

Last autumn, FBI field offices began notifying state CAIR chapters that bureau officials could no longer meet with them until CAIR's national leadership in Washington had addressed issues raised by the HLF trial, according to people with knowledge of the notifications.

CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper declined to comment Wednesday when the IPT called for comment. Before hanging up, Hooper said "We're more than happy to cooperate with legitimate media. But we don't cooperate with those who promote anti-Muslim bigotry."

In one letter obtained by IPT News, James E. Finch, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Oklahoma City field office, canceled a meeting of the local Muslim Community Outreach Program, a state-federal program designed to enlist Muslims in terrorism prevention and investigate reports of civil liberties violations.

"Regrettably, due to circumstances beyond my control, the meeting will be postponed until further notice as a result of the planned participation by the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations," Finch's Oct. 8, 2008 letter to Muslim groups in the Oklahoma outreach program said.

Finch made clear the Oklahoma office valued its relationship with local Muslims. He said the stumbling block to further outreach was CAIR's national leadership.

"[I]f CAIR wishes to pursue an outreach relationship with the FBI, certain issues must be addressed to the satisfaction of the FBI. Unfortunately, these issues cannot be addressed at the local level and must be addressed by the CAIR National Office in Washington, D.C.," the letter said.

A spokesman for the FBI's Oklahoma City office referred questions about the letter to the FBI's national press office. In Washington, FBI spokesman John Miller said, "We've certainly been in contact with CAIR chapters" about the un-indicted co-conspirator designation. "The letter speaks for itself."

Letters with similar wording were sent in other states, people with knowledge of the matter said. It is not known how many letters were issued, but the FBI has had strong working relationships with CAIR chapters in states including Ohio, Michigan, Arizona and Florida.

Hamas was formed in 1987 as the Palestinian wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, the global Islamic political movement that aims to spread the rule of Shariah, or Islamic law, throughout the world.

A North American branch of the Brotherhood supervised HLF, CAIR and other organizations to build political, financial and public relations support for Hamas, evidence at the HLF trial showed.

The U.S.-based Brotherhood formed a Palestine Committee, headed by Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzook, in 1988 during the first intifada uprising in Palestinian territories against Israel. Hamas's stated policy is for the destruction of Israel.

CAIR co-founders Ahmad and Awad were early active members of the Palestine Committee, evidence showed. Wiretaps recorded the two CAIR leaders participating in strategy meetings of the committee in the 1990s, and both were also on a phone list of its members, the evidence showed.

The first HLF trial in Texas ended in a mistrial in October 2007. In November 2008, the second trial resulted in convictions of five former HLF officials on all counts of providing material support to Hamas.

It is unclear what changed between the first and second HLF trials to make the FBI rescind its policy of outreach to CAIR. The un-indicted co-conspirator designations were made on May 27, 2007 in connection with the first HLF trial. Moreover, much of the evidence linking the CAIR officials to Hamas was aired in an earlier public trial in 2006.

CAIR, however, vigorously challenged the un-indicted co-conspirator designation as a violation of its First and Fifth Amendment rights, accusing the government of "demonization of all things Muslim" in a brief filed in the summer of 2007 with the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

The co-conspirator designation is "particularly insidious and ironic as CAIR is an organization dedicated to fostering acceptance of Muslims in American society and protecting the civil liberties of all Muslim Americans," CAIR's brief read.

The government filed a brief on Sept. 4, 2007 opposing CAIR's filing, arguing the group lacked standing to challenge the co-conspirator designation and that the matter was moot, as the evidence was already entered into the public record. The judge never ruled on CAIR's request.

The HLF trial showed that CAIR was formed to covertly influence US opinions of the Palestinian conflict and Islam, but without revealing its connections to Hamas.

For example, prosecutors introduced transcripts of wiretaps from a 1993 meeting in Philadelphia of the Palestine Committee, called to order by Ahmad (see page 10 of the hyperlink) and attended by Awad. In that meeting, Ahmad and others discussed the need to create a new political organization seemingly unconnected to Hamas or the Brotherhood.

In one excerpt, (see page 4 of the link) an unidentified male said: "We must form a new organization for activism which will be neutral, because we are placed in a corner, we are place in a corner. It is known who we are, we are marked and I believe there should be a new neutral organization which works on both sides."

CAIR was founded a year later, in 1994, by Ahmad and Awad. In March 1994, Awad was taped at Miami's Barry University publicly declaring his support for Hamas: "I am in support of the Hamas movement more than the PLO," Awad said.

A July 30, 1994 agenda for the Palestine Committee, seized by federal agents and introduced at trial, showed that "suggestions to develop the work" of HLF, CAIR and other organizations was on the agenda.

Under the heading "The need for trained resources in the media and political fields," the agenda said: "No doubt America is the ideal location to train the necessary resources to support the Movement worldwide."

By 1995, CAIR was conducting public relations work to counter the US detention of Mousa Abu Marzook, the Hamas official and Palestine Committee member who was also head of the Muslim Brotherhood in the US.

A transcript of an August 1995 phone call intercepted by government investigators showed HLF officials Shukri Abu Baker and Ghassan Elashi talking about CAIR's efforts (see page 12 of the link).

Days before the 2001 terrorist attacks, the FBI raided the offices of Infocom, a Texas internet company connected to HLF. CAIR's Nihad Awad appeared at a press conference outside Infocom headquarters to denounce what he called an "anti-Muslim witch hunt."

CAIR remained a vocal player in the public debate after 9/11. It developed relationships with members of Congress. FBI officials frequently attended CAIR fundraising banquets, and CAIR cited such contacts in its own literature and Web site as evidence of its good standing with the government.
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FBI to CAIR: Take a Hike
John R. Houk
© January 31, 2009
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FBI Cuts Off CAIR Over Hamas Questions

Mary Jacoby is an award winning reporter who has worked for the Wall Street Journal, Salon.com, the St. Petersburg Times, Chicago Tribune and Roll Call. She may be reached at writetomaryjacoby@gmail.com
IPT Update: http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/986

© 2009 The Investigative Project on Terrorism.

FBI Testimony Connects CAIR to Hamas

So you think the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is a moderate civil rights registered non-profit organization looking out for the so-called civil liberties of loyal moderate Mohammedans in America?

Think again! In the trial against the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) for providing charitable funds to terrorist organization Hamas, FBI Agent Laura Burns testifies of CAIR collusion with the HLF.

Read the entire story at Counterterrorism Blog.

(Hat tip toward CAIR Watch)

Dearbornistan: FBI Raid or FBI Public Relations?

Debbie Schlussel has been following the money with Mohammedan charities in Dearborn Dearbornistan, Michigan for some time. As you will read she has been goading the U.S. Attorney General (Stephen Murphy III) for Eastern Michigan about the terrorist supporting Mohammedan charities. Schlussel has also been goading the FBI concerning this same matter.

There is something fishy in the U.S government concerning American based Mohammedan charities and organizations. Even though we are fighting a War on Terror against Islamists, the resources of war time powers are not being executed to prevent funding from coming and going in America. What is the deal? Is this some kind of Politically Correct delusion that the Democrats have spoon fed to Federal and State Law Enforcement because treasonous acts are treated as racial or religious profiling in stead of virtually espionage against the PEOPLE and Government of the United States of America? Is this another “Denial of War” myth perpetrated by the Law Enforcement bureaucracy nation wide?

My God it steams me to think that is what the Dhimmicrats and war loser proclamationists are allowing.

JRH
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BREAKING: FBI Raids Dearbornistan Hezbollah Charity, But Lets Many Others Remain Open for Biz

By Debbie Schlussel
July 24, 2007

**** UPDATE #2: FBI raids Al-Mabarat Charitable Organization and the Martyrs Foundation [SlantRight Editor: link posted below], Hezbollah Charities. BUT FBI picks Islamic Terrorist as pointman & holds apology session. ****

**** UPDATE: Making my point even more, I looked up GCO's tax returns. On its latest return, 2005, the charity reported (assuming they didn't lie and that's a big assumption) only $176,693 in funds distributed, compared with millions sent to terrorists by the charities I list below--LRD and Al-Mabarat--which the FBI allows to remain in business. FYI, GCO's officers are Mike Safiedine (of the gas-station owning Safeidine family), Hussein Hammoud (of the famous Hammoud Hezbollah supporting, cigarette-smuggler clan), and Ahmad Jaawar. When will the FBI arrest them and freeze their assets? Hazimi Accounting Service, Inc. was the charity's "accountant," FYI. ****

The FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office in Detroit want your kudos for raiding the Dearbornistan-based Goodwill Charitable Organization (GCO) on Warren Avenue, this morning. It is an arm of the Martyrs Foundation, funding Hezbollah, HAMAS, and Islamic Jihad, and helped fund Hezbollah in last year's Hezbollah-Israel war. It is tied to Al-Qard Al-Hassan, a terrorist-financing organization.

But while the charity is now designated as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist Entity by the Department of Treasury, the FBI in Michigan continues to allow LIFE For Relief and Development (LRD) and Al-Mabarat Charitable Organization to remain open for business in Metro Detroit, as I've repeatedly noted on this site. LRD openly funded HAMAS to the tune of millions and is believed to be funding Al-Qaeda terrorists in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and elsewhere. Al-Mabarat is headed by Hezbollah spiritual leader Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah and sends millions back to Hezbollah in South Lebanon.

Why won't the FBI touch these? While the agency raided LRD almost a year ago, they haven't done a thing to LRD and U.S. Attorney Stephen Murphy III a/k/a "Abu Porno" continues to hang out with LRD officers and officials. He's refused to shut them down, while they continue to apparently fund those who blow up our soldiers.

So, while the FBI tipped off its favorite ass-kissers in the press at the Detroit Newsistan and resident Islamist Niraj Warikoo at the Detroit Free Press, and while it makes headlines, the agency is doing NOTHING when it comes to larger charities sending millions to Islamic terrorists from their Metro Detroit bases.

No kudos from me for the FBI raiding small potatoes for headlines, but turning a blind eye to major players dealing gazillions to Islamic mass-murderers of our troops and others.

While the government has frozen Goodwill Charitable Organization's assets, it refuses to do so for LRD and Al-Mabarat--like fighting one tumor only and allowing the rest of the cancer to metastasize.

FBI Special Agent Mark Green--one of the agents who works the Hezbollah beat in Michigan--I know you're reading. So why won't you raid Al-Mabarat and freeze its assets? Is this part of a deal with Sheikh Fadlallah not to make waves?
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UPDATE: Finally, FBI Raids Al-Mabarat Hezbollah Charity in Dearbornistan; But FBI Holds Apology-Fest w/ Muslims; Raids Staged to Help Abu Porno Judicial Nomination?

By Debbie Schlussel
July 24, 2007

For over a year, I've been asking why the FBI hasn't raided Al-Mabarat Charitable Organization-USA, Inc., the Dearbornistan charity that is openly raising money for Hezbollah and which is headed by Hezbollah Spiritual Leader Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah.

But, today, just as I was asking that once again, the FBI was actually raiding Al-Mabarat, while it was also raiding Goodwill Charitable Organization and the Martyrs Foundation. Well, it's about time.

YEAH. AND FINALLY. Too bad they didn't lift a finger when these charities were all funding Hezbollah's war on Israel, last year, murdering countless Israeli soldiers and civilians. Al-Mabarat raised about $1 million in revenue in 2004, its last year of tax filing, all of which was sent to Hezbollah. And FYI, its Dearbornistan-based officers are Fouad T. Beydoun, Ahmad J. Bazzi, and Nazem Baydoun, of the Hezbollah operative Beydoun/Baydoun and Bazzi/Bazzy families from South Lebanon.

BUT . . . unfortunately, the FBI is holding an apology-fest with extremist Muslim leaders. Can you imagine J. Edgar Hoover holding an apology session with Al Capone's fellow mob family members? And unfortunately, the FBI tipped off Islamic Terrorist Imad Hamad, making him their community point man (that means that charity members were tipped off ahead of time, too; bet on it). Imagine J. Edgar Hoover making one Gambino family member the point man for a raid on another Gambino member:

A search warrant was executed at the Goodwill office, according to Imad Hamad, regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. . . .

Also, the FBI is holding a meeting this afternoon with Muslim leaders at the Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn Heights to discuss the raids, according to Dawud Walid, head of the Michigan branch of the Council on American Islamic Relations.

The meeting will include Imam Mohammed Elahi [DS: an agent of Iran and Hezbollah], who heads the mosque, and Walid.

If I were in the Iranian government or Hezbollah, I'd be LMAO (laughing my ass off) at the stupid Federal Bureau of Infidels, my dhimmis.

So why are all these raids finally taking place, today? Why now after so long?

Well, it's more about politics than morals and more of a show than reality. If the FBI were truly going to do the right thing, they'd have raided and shut down these charities long ago. But I've been critical of U.S. Attorney Stephen Murphy III a/k/a "Abu Porno," the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, and written about his cozying up to Hezbollah and other Islamic terrorist groups and their local enablers. He wants his Bush nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, and the Hezbollah stuff I've exposed has hurt his chances. This is his way to beef up support and credentials to refute me. Nice try, but no cigar, Abu Porno.

Unjustified Liberal or Muslim Criticism

Re: YES, THAT WAS TERRORISM IN SALT LAKE CITY
Name: Justin
Email: screwyou@yahoo.com:

No doubt you're aware that investigators with the Salt Lake Police have found no evidence linking the killings at Trolley Square with any religious motivation. No doubt you have done some research into the facts of this case before you started talking out your ass. No doubt you won't let facts get in the way of your faith.

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SlantRight.com Editor:

I doubt Justin is your real name, for the IP places you in Cherryhill, New Jersey. Justin you claim to be from Utah.

Here is the thing, if you read the Comment section right after the post, you would realize that I jumped the gun about connecting Talovic to jihad terrorism.

On the other hand the comment also points out how the Mainstream Media (MSM) does not even mention connections of the superiority complex Mohammedans display when they perpetuate acts of violence.
An example of this superiority complex is the belief that those who insult Islam (I prefer Mohammedanism) must forfeit their life.

Mr. Anonymous and whoever reads this rebuttal to fake Justin should listen to Robert Spencer. Spencer is a scholar of proven credentials that Mohammedans hate. Why? Because Spencer is one of the growing few in the West willing to expose the violent nature inherent in Mohammedanism.

LISTEN TO SPENCER AS HE EXPOSES THE MSM.

Take note Spencer addresses the Mohammedan act of murder in Utah.

Left Wing CNN describes the actions of murder and mayhem perpetrated by Talovic, BUT mysteriously cannot think of a motive. Knock! Knock! Hello! Talovic's family fled bosnia because Christian Serbs were exacting revenge ethnic cleansing in retaliation to centuries of Mohammedan ethnic cleansing. (NO, I am not alluding to justification for ethnic cleansing. I am just understanding the rage of the Balkan region.)

The mystery has a little more light shed on Talovic if you know his history. It is all guess work, yet I am willing to bet Mohammedan religion had more to do with a murderous rampage than a troubled teen going wacko.

Therefore Cowardly Anonymous Commentator you should look to your own ass crapping a bunch of bull, mine is clean.

More information not released or considered by MSM and the Authorities (local, State and Federal).