New CAIR Generation

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CAIR's March with Terror

March of 2008 has been an important month for those concerned about the connections to terrorism of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). In this month, CAIR exposed its true self more so than at any time in the past, as it came out publicly in support of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, its two forefathers. In doing as such, the organization has issued a direct challenge to the United States government, which has, within the past year, named CAIR as playing a role in an international terrorist syndicate.

CAIR's March with Palestinian Islamic Jihad

As this author writes, Sami Al-Arian's picture adorns the homepage of CAIR. The graphic is part of an "Action Alert" that CAIR released March 19th, both on its website and via a pay distribution service. It calls on people to write letters of support to Al-Arian, who is currently protesting his situation -- what CAIR calls "alleged unjust treatment by U.S. authorities" -- by way of a hunger strike. CAIR describes Al-Arian's predicament as a "struggle for justice."

Al-Arian's "justice" is not the same as how most Americans would define the term. When Al-Arian came to the United States he did so as a student; when he leaves it, if he ever leaves it, he will do so as a hardened terrorist.

Sami Al-Arian was a co-founder and the North American leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). He played a major role in a number of terrorist attacks, including suicide bombings, against innocent Israelis as well as two American citizens. He even used a children's school that he created, in Tampa, Florida, to help finance the terror group. Today, Al-Arian sits in an American prison, convicted for his participation in PIJ.

On February 28, 2006, Al-Arian pled guilty to one count of the indictment that had been previously issued against him. The charge, as stated in the plea agreement [pdf], was: "Conspiracy to make or receive contributions of funds, goods or services to or for the benefit of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a Specially Designated Terrorist..."

While Al-Arian was in the United States, he was active in helping to found organizations beyond the fronts he created for PIJ. One of them, the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), would later splinter off into CAIR. CAIR eventually repaid Al-Arian by having its Communications Director for its Florida chapter, Ahmed Bedier, act as his spokesman in the media, when Al-Arian was facing criminal charges. And the group has been repaying him, ever since, including sponsoring screenings of a "puff film" about him, titled ‘USA vs Al-Arian.'

Question number one: Since PIJ is found on the U.S. State Department's list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs); since CAIR is overtly supporting and telling others to support one of PIJ's admitted operatives; since CAIR has definitive ties to that operative; and since the PIJ operative in question has had involvement in the murder of Americans abroad, does that not make CAIR guilty of providing aid and comfort to the enemy or worse?

CAIR's March with Hamas

This past year, CAIR was linked to Hamas, during a federal trial which ran from July through October of 2007. Court documents [pdf] from the trial prove that CAIR was created as being part of the Palestine Committee, a group led by then-head of Hamas, Mousa Abu Marzook, whose mission was to raise money for Hamas from American shores. The trial named leaders of another member organization of the Palestine Committee, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), as defendants. [IAP was also a member group.]

On March 1, 2008, Americans Against Hate (AAH), a group that this author is Chairman of, sponsored a rally against CAIR's usage of a government-owned facility in Broward County, Florida. During the event, a CAIR-Florida representative named Jawhar "Joe" Badran stated his feelings about Hamas.

Into a microphone bearing CAIR's logo and name, whilst standing next to the Executive Director of CAIR-Florida Altaf Ali, caught on camera for the world to view, Badran declared the following incredible statement, "Hamas is not a terrorist organization." As well, at the rally, he proclaimed, "Hamas is a defender of the Palestinian people. That's what Hamas is." And "Hamas is better than Fatah, because there's no corruption. Hamas takes care of the people."

Less than a week after CAIR's statements about Hamas were uttered, on March 6th, a terrorist attack took place at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva, in Jerusalem, carried out by a resident of the city, Alaa Hisham Abu Dhaim. The attack left eight students dead, each from gunshot wounds. All but one of those murdered were teenagers, including a 16-year-old American citizen named Avraham David Moses.

Following the attack, the military wing of Hamas, Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades, issued a press release calling the incident a "heroic martyrdom operation" and stating that more attacks like it are to follow. Hamas originally took credit for the attack (which may have been coordinated with one or more terror groups), and a number of arrests regarding it followed, including that of the shooter's father, Maan, a former Hamas member.

Question number two: Since Hamas is found on the U.S. State Department's list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs); since CAIR has been named by the U.S. government as being a part of Hamas; since CAIR has publicly stated its support for Hamas and has claimed that Hamas is not a terrorist organization; and since Hamas was implicated in an attack that extinguished the life of an American boy, only days after CAIR's pro-Hamas statements were voiced; does that not, as well, make CAIR guilty of providing aid and comfort to the enemy or worse?

In answering the two questions, one must take into account the fact that, for 14 years, CAIR has existed as a thorn on American society, continuing even as its officials and affiliated groups either rot in prison or fade into obscurity. However, CAIR's recent and very public support for terrorist groups reveals a certain desperation and defiant challenge to those in our government who are no longer oblivious to the organization's disquieting agenda, and this can only mean that its demise is closer. Perhaps by next March the group with the terror-filled history will finally be history.

[nChrist]

Hello Pastor Roger,

Brother, I find it outlandish what we put up with these days - RIGHT UNDER OUR NOSES. Among the list of the outlandish would be schools on our own soil teaching small children HATE and to be suicide bombers. Some folks think that schools like this are only in far-off places, but there's probably one near your home. The same is true for the so-called places of worship where adults celebrate HATE AND KILLING of innocents. If one thinks they're harmless, they would be wrong. They do have weapons and places of training to use those weapons RIGHT UNDER OUR NOSES. We put up with it, and our government puts up with it, even though many of the acts and practices are GROSSLY AGAINST THE LAW! Much of this got started because of our toleration for religion, but this is MUCH MORE THAN JUST RELIGION! In fact, I don't understand how they can call it a religion. Average citizens should know there are already armies of fanatics here on our soil ALREADY who are waiting for their opportunity to kill us. Killing the innocent elderly, women, and children won't be a problem at all for them. This is SICKENING to even think about, but it is already a REALITY RIGHT UNDER OUR NOSES!

[Soldier4Christ]

CAIR Extremist to Speak on Extremism     

On Tuesday, April 8, 2008, the head of the Michigan office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Dawud Walid, will be giving a speech about extremism and terrorism, at Grand Valley State University, in Allendale, Michigan, hosted by the Muslim Students Association. But how can such topics be discussed, when the speaker is a known extremist, and the organization he represents has been involved in terrorism?

Dawud Walid is the Executive Director of CAIR-Michigan. The organization is a local chapter of the group that was recently named a co-conspirator for a Hamas financing trial that took place in Dallas, Texas. As well, in a December 2007 court brief filed by the United States government for a different Hamas-related trial, it is stated that “CAIR conspired with other affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood to support terrorists.”

Walid has held his position with CAIR, since July of 2005. In the nearly three years he has sat at the group’s helm, Walid has issued numerous statements that can be described as nothing less that outrageous.

When a Hezbollah-linked entity, the Al-Mabarrat Charitable Organization, was raided by federal agents in July of 2007, Walid posted on his website that it was still perfectly fine to donate to it, as well as to another terror-linked charity that had been raided, Life for Relief and Development (LIFE). He stated, “Al Mabarrat is still open for business like LIFE. [sic] Unfortantely, these charities may continue to have suspicion cast over them, and may never get their days in court to clear their names from suspicion. I repeat that it is still LEGAL to donate to Al-Mabarrat as well as LIFE.”

One month prior to the Al-Mabarrat raid, Walid gave a speech at the American Moslem Society (a.k.a. Masjid Dearborn), titled ‘Know Your Rights,’ during which he told the center’s congregants that it was alright, at times, to violate the law. He stated, “We should obey the laws of the United States of America, except when those laws bar us from those things that are obligations [of] our religion.”

In March of 2007, during a lecture he gave at Western Michigan University, Walid justified suicide bombings. He stated, “[W]e look at some of the things that have gone on in Palestine and suicide bombings and say, how can a sane person - how can a person in their right mind take a bomb and strap it to themselves and go into a market and blow themselves up, and for that matter, a woman even, who has children - how can a woman take TNT and blow herself up and kill innocent people?... But when you have a person's grandfather, great-grandfather, who owned a piece of property that was in their family for centuries, and they’re kicked off of their land with no monetary compensation, and to live [in] refugee camp situations and have to go through the humiliation of checkpoints, day after day… [A]nd then you see your baby growing up in situations with lack of water, with not even having the mobility to even see your own family members, what do you think this would do to the psyche and the mentality of people over generations?”

This Tuesday, Walid is set to take his radical Islamist show to Grand Valley State University (GVSU). The event possesses the ironic title of “Extremism, Terrorism and Islam’s Position.” The irony is not lost on the sponsor of the event, GVSU’s Muslim Students Association (MSA).

According to its GVSU “Student Life” page, MSA’s mission is to “maintain healthy relations between Muslims and non-Muslims on GVSU’s campus as well as to educate students on the message of Islam as a religion of peace.” Yet, some of the group’s actions and affiliations have not mirrored these goals.

In March of 2003, then-President of the GVSU MSA Ahmed Eissa, a.k.a. El-Masri (The Egyptian), posted many statements on the internet of both a violent and hateful nature. They included:

    * “I always thought (and still think) it’s a great idea to join the US ground forces for a simple reason: they’re all getting shipped off to the Middle East for FREE! So, you go there, free, with US equipment and weapons... [T]hen when you get there, you change sides and fight the kufar! After changing your uniform of course! And while you’re at it, you can sabotage some of their stuff from the inside!”
    * “I sometimes hope I can go and fight alongside Hizbollah, but I always have that fear that they might ‘stab me in the back’ because I’m a sunni, so I change my mind.”
    * “I don’t think we should call the Zionists Nazis, because that would just make them proud... It’s like calling a homeless beggar a CEO or something like that! Plus the fact that I’m proud of the Nazis!”
    * “The Intifada should go on!... [T]he Intifada should never die.”
    * “I never thought there was any Americans left with any sense of intelligence! Christians at that! ‘The destruction of these shuttles should have been clear signs that G-d doesn’t want us letting Jews get any higher in the air than Mount Sinai.’ [Quote from Harry Hardwick’s From the Tower of Babel to Shuttle Demise: God Doesn't Want Jews Anywhere Near His Home] That was an excellent article!”

Today, one can find photographs on the GVSU MSA’s website of its members wearing keffiyehs, head coverings which are worn as symbols of Palestinian violence. As well, the group’s functions have featured materials from the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), an organization that, like CAIR, was named as a co-conspirator for the 2007 Dallas Hamas fundraising trial. While these things can never represent peaceful coexistence, they certainly jibe with the beliefs of Tuesday’s speaker.

When Dawud Walid gives his speech about terrorism and extremism at GVSU, he will do so with full knowledge that he works for a group connected to terrorists and that he has, on a number of occasions, exhibited the same type of extremist behavior he may very well be denouncing. If he is to succeed in his attempt to convince GVSU’s students of his newfound good will, he will have to do so by erasing a large part of his and his organization’s history and present.

[Soldier4Christ]

CAIR Official: Hamas Victory is a Victory for Peace & Democracy...

Shocka! New CAIR official is HAMAS supporter!

As our friends at Central Ohioans Against Terrorism recently pointed out, the newly-appointed head of the CAIR-Columbus, Abukar Arman, is an internationally renowned terror apologist, spewing his venom and hatred all over the internet in multiple publications. He is also on the state board of CAIR-Ohio.

But in addition to that, Abukar Arman is an especial admirer of the HAMAS terrorist organization. In January 2006, he published a blog post, “Hamas Victory Is A Victory for Democracy and Peace!”, hailing the successes of the terrorist group (screenshot posted below in the event that Mr. Arman’s article — ahem — disappears).

This revelation of a CAIR official openly supporting their HAMAS terrorist masters is about as predictable as the sun rising in the east, or Ibrahim Hooper eating all the leftover doughnuts after a CAIR staff meeting. It does, however, continue to strip away the thin veneer of respectability that CAIR has purchased with as much Wahhabi money that they have been able to get their hands on.

[Shammu]

'Why We Left Islam' editors blast CAIR
Group cultivates moderate image by hiding extremist ties
Posted: April 29, 2008
12:45 pm Eastern

© 2008 WorldNetDaily

LOS ANGELES – The editors of a new book compiling the testimonies of ex-Muslims say they weren't surprised when the Council on American-Islamic Relations attacked their work without reading it.

But, say Islamic experts Joel Richardson and Susan Crimp, they were shocked that the New York Daily News characterized the group as the voice of moderate Muslims.

"Why We Left Islam: Former Muslims Speak Out," published by WND Books, was skewered by CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper in the paper – weeks before today's official release date. The book is controversial for two reasons – the gripping firsthand personal accounts of men and women who risked their lives by abandoning the Koran and because it is the first American book release to feature a picture of the prophet Muhammad on the cover.

CAIR didn't wait to look inside the cover before attacking the publisher for spewing hate. But the editors of "Why We Left Islam" say those in the media seeking the opinions of CAIR apparently don't know who they are dealing with.

"Even though CAIR wants to convince people that it's a moderate organization, the facts say otherwise," asserts Richardson, who writes using a pseudonym because of previous death threats from Islamic radicals. "The federal government named CAIR an unindicted co-conspirator in an alleged scheme to funnel $12 million to Hamas, and Representative Sue Myrick, R-NY, said evidence suggests CAIR is a front group for the Muslim Brotherhood."

"Evidently, CAIR's ties to Islamic extremists run deep," adds Richardson, who noted that a recent WorldNetDaily investigative report linked 14 CAIR officials to terror investigations. Richardson said that he and Crimp -- who is a noted journalist and author of books on Mother Teresa and the Kennedys -- knew from the start of their collaboration that radical Muslims would go to great lengths to discredit "Why We Left Islam," so CAIR's attack came as no surprise.

The group's spokesman, Ibrahim Hooper, lambasted the book in an interview with the New York Daily News, saying, "This book is put out by WND Publishing [sic], which promotes hate every day on its extremist anti-Muslim hate site." Hooper also falsely asserted that the company's editor "suggested air-dropping pig's blood over Afghanistan," a claim which CAIR’s lawyer subsequently retracted.

"Why We Left Islam" chronicles the moving accounts of 23 people whose raw and shocking stories reveal the horror of living in a Muslim-dominated society. And the book's cover makes an equally bold statement with an illustration of the prophet Muhammad. The picture, which comes from an ancient manuscript and is based on a 10th century illustration by a Persian scholar, marks the first time Muhammad's face has appeared on a book from an American publisher.

Could CAIR's attacks of the book and its Muhammad cover incite a violent reaction? In Muslim countries around the world, mullahs and government officials have demanded that books dealing harshly with Islam be banned and their authors condemned to death. In 2006, the infamous Danish cartoons lampooning Muhammad instigated riots. But Richardson, himself a target of death threats, says that the brave men and women who share their stories in "Why We Left Islam" chose to risk their lives when they walked away from Islam. He notes that apostasy is punishable by death under Islamic law.

"Why We Left Islam" hit the No. 1 spot on Amazon's Islamic category – a week before the latest title from WND Books is even released. It has also hit the top 50 among non-fiction titles.

Farah said he is grateful for the response to his retraction demand to the New York Daily News, but is disappointed CAIR continues to make outlandishly hyperbolic and reckless denunciations of WND.

"CAIR can always be counted upon to make wildly untruthful and reckless claims about others, while maintaining a hypersensitivity about its own concerns," said Farah. "Here, for example, Hooper makes this claim that WND promotes anti-Muslim hate on its site every day, offering only one example – and that one is totally untrue. Why other responsible media outlets continue to offer CAIR a platform for making such outrageous statements is beyond me. How many CAIR staffers and officials need to be indicted and convicted before my colleagues recognize these people as the extremists they are?"

"If Muslims rioted around the world after a Danish newspaper published a political cartoon making fun of Muhammad, what will they do in response to this book?" wonders Farah, himself a former Middle East correspondent of Lebanese and Syrian ancestry.

"Why We Left Islam" is filled with first-person stories of former radicals who began to question the Quran and ultimately changed their lives.

Khaled Waleed, for instance, said he was indoctrinated with the same type of teaching as fellow Saudi Arabian Osama bin Laden.

"Our teacher and other Islamic scholars told us that as Muslims, we are the best people in the world," he writes. "I listened to my imams and was disturbed when they used abusive language to describe non-Muslims as the grandsons of monkeys and pigs ... [they] told me that it was my duty to revile and ridicule non-Muslims."

Waleed says the attack on the World Trade Center changed him: "On Sept. 11, 2001, I saw the real face of Islam. I saw the happiness on the faces of our people because so many infidels were slaughtered so easily. I saw many people who started thanking Allah for this massacre."

[nChrist]

Brothers and Sisters,

This is just a tiny hint of the GREAT WRATH to come. GREAT MILLIONS will NOT survive this GREAT WRATH. Those that do survive will be totally subjected to the ABSOLUTE RULE of JESUS CHRIST. This is a good thing. Finally, there will be REAL and LASTING PEACE! Finally, there will be a HOLY and COMPLETELY JUST RULER who won't make a single mistake! EVIL will have already been CRUSHED by CHRIST HIMSELF, so the inhabitants of CHRIST'S KINGDOM will live in PEACE without FEAR. As Christians, by this time we will already have our Glorified Bodies and enjoying the many other Promises of GOD to us. For Israel, GOD will restore Israel just as HE Promised that HE would. In fact, all of the Promises GOD made to Israel will be fulfilled MOST PERFECTLY! As for the EVIL, EVIL will be locked away for the Final Judgment of GOD at the GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT! JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF will be the HOLY and PERFECT JUDGE!

Love In Christ,
Tom

 

[Soldier4Christ]

1999 CAIR-OH keynote speaker: convicted terrorist leader and bin Laden operative, Abdurahman Alamoudi

In honor of this Saturday's upcoming CAIR-OH banquet, I thought it appropriate to revisit this week some of CAIR-OH's previous keynote speakers and events since last year's banquet. Today we remember 1999 speaker, convicted terrorist leader Abdurahman Alamoudi, a founding CAIR board member. Alamoudi was convicted in 2004 and sentenced to 23 years in prison for his terrorist activities.

According to the US government, Alamoudi was Osama bin Laden's point man in the US, and was used by bin Laden as a conduit to funnel money to "blink sheikh" Omar Abdel-Rahman (currently serving life in prison for his involvement in planning the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and plotting other terrorist attacks inside the US).

According to the NY Post:

    Amoudi's name surfaced almost a decade ago when federal agents grabbed the blind sheik and several other suspects as they were literally mixing a "witches brew" of explosives in Queens to detonate bridges, tunnels and landmarks in the Big Apple, a knowledgeable source said.

    Among those arrested was Abdel al-Rahman Haggag, the sheik's speechwriter, who turned government informant.

    Haggag said he believed Osama bin Laden routinely funneled $5,000 payments to Rahman through Amoudi and his organization, the American Muslim Council.

    Bin Laden's funds were allegedly used to pay Rahman's rent and phone bills in New Jersey and Brooklyn, a source said.

So Alamoudi's involvement with bin Laden was what initially put bin Laden on the US terror radar.

So who better to headline the second annual CAIR-OH banquet! Here's the announcement:

    CAIR-Ohio Second Annual Meeting and Fundraising Dinner

    Date: Saturday, June 19, 1999
    Time: 07:00PM - 09:00PM EDT

    In the next century, American Muslims will (inshallah) take their proper place in this society. The Muslim voice must be heard at every level and on every issue of importance, both domestic and foreign. Grassroots support for national and regional Muslim organizations is a key to the community's success.

    The past year saw a new culture of activism being born in our community. CAIR Ohio has been working on promoting balanced and correct understanding of Islam and Muslims, defending Muslims' rights and making a difference...

    Muslims, Challenges and CAIR... Making a Difference


Not long after his appearance for CAIR-OH, Alamoudi was videotaped leading a rally in Layfayette Park in Washington DC, leading the crowd in chants hailing the terrorist groups HAMAS and Hezbollah

Here's a transcript of Alamoudi's remarks, courtesy of the Investigative Project:

    Alamoudi: I have been labeled by the media in New York to be a supporter of Hamas, anybody supports Hamas here?
    [Crowd cheers, "Yes!"].
    Anybody is a supporter of Hamas here?
    [Crowd cheers, "Yes!"].
    Anybody is a supporter of Hamas here?
    [Crowd cheers, "Yes!"].
    Hear that, Bill Clinton, we are all supporters of Hamas, Allahu Akbar. [Crowd responds].
    I wish they added that I am also a supporter of Hizballah. Anybody supports Hizballah here?
    [Crowd cheers, "Yes!"]
    Anybody supports Hizballah here?
    [Crowd cheers, "Yes!"]
    Takbeer!
    [Crowd: "Allahu Ahkbar!"].
    Takbeer!
    [Crowd: "Allahu Ahkbar!"]

How nice. Both HAMAS and Hezbollah were designated terrorist organizations in 1995 by the US government.

Just a few months after that in January 2001, Alamoudi put in an appearance at the "First Conference on Jerusalem" in Beirut. Also in attendance were representatives of Al-Qaeda, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, HAMAS, Hezbollah, and terrorist leaders from all over the Middle East.

Here's one description of the conference, courtesy of Fox News:

    – In February and April of 2001, the world's most extreme Islamic terror groups held meetings in Beirut and Tehran, respectively, to set aside their differences and unite for jihad (holy war) against Israel and the United States. The two unprecedented meetings had over 400 militants in attendance. They called it "the Jerusalem Conference," aimed at uniting behind the Palestinians and winning total Arab control over Jerusalem. Sources say the group agreed on a document and the creation of an actual organization now known as "the Jerusalem Project." The document included the statement: "The only decisive option to achieve this strategy is the option of jihad in all its forms and resistance … America today is a second Israel."

    The participants included leaders of Usama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terror group, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, and militants from Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan, Qatar, Yemen, the Sudan and Algeria. Sources say at least one participant went to the conference from the United States and returned to the country afterward. U.S. intelligence sources have identified two leaders of the Beirut-based Jerusalem Project.

The end for CAIR-OH keynote speaker Abdurahman Alamoudi came in August 2003, when he was arrested at Heathrow Airport with $340,000 he had obtained from Libyan intelligence to fund a variety of terrorist operations. Again, according to the NY Post:

    On Aug. 11, Amoudi was stopped in England at Heathrow Airport with 34 bundles of sequentially numbered $100 bills in his suitcase as he prepared to fly to Syria.

    He said he received the money from Libyan officials to try to win release of Libyan assets frozen after the 1988 Pan Am bombing.

    But U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Agent Brett Gentrup said in court documents yesterday the feds suspect Amoudi might have been funneling the $340,000 to terror groups operating in Syria, such as Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

    Gentrup also said a transcript had been uncovered in which Amoudi criticized al Qaeda's selection of terror targets.

    Amoudi said too many Muslims were killed in attacks such as the 1998 Kenyan embassy bombing, the court documents claimed.

    "I prefer to hit a Zionist target in America or Europe or elsewhere," Amoudi said, according to the court documents.

Yes, he complained that Al-Qaeda attacks were killing too many Muslims and not enough Americans. As noted by the Washington Post, Alamoudi pled guilty and confessed to his crimes. CAIR-OH, however, has not said a word in response to the terrorist activities of their previous annual fundraising banquet keynote speaker.

Thanks to Ahmad Al-Akhras and everyone associated with CAIR-OH for bringing this terrorist leader into our community!

[Soldier4Christ]

Texas children roped
into Islamic training
Class by CAIR teaches:
'There is one god, Allah'

Public school students at Friendswood Junior High in the Houston area have been roped into Islamic training by representatives from the Council on American-Islamic Relations during class time, prompting religious leaders to protest over Principal Robin Lowe's actions.

Pastor Dave Welch, spokesman for the Houston Area Pastor Council, confirmed the indoctrination had taken place and called it "unacceptable."

"The failure of the principal of Friendswood Junior High to respect simple procedures requiring parental notification for such a potentially controversial subject, to not only approve but participate personally in a religious indoctrination session led by representatives of a group with well-known links to terrorist organizations and her cavalier response when confronted, raises serious questions about her fitness to serve in that role," the pastors' organization said.

According to a parent, whose name was withheld, the children were given the Islamic indoctrination during time that was supposed to be used for a physical education class.

"I am simply trying to get the word out to those whose kids may not have told them about an Islamic presentation that all kids were required to attend," wrote the parent, who was working to assemble protests to the school board.

WND previously has reported how public school textbooks being used across the nation have begun promoting Islam, teaching even the religious doctrines.

WND also has reported on several other school situations in which Islam has been taught as a required subject, and when administrators have defended those decisions.

In the Texas case, a school e-mail to parents provided only a half-hearted acknowledgement that such mandatory religious indoctrination might not have been the best decision.

"In hindsight, a note should have been sent home to parents indicating the purpose and content of the presentation in time for parents to contact me with questions or concerns or requests to exempt their child," the school note from Lowe said. "This will be our practice in the future, should we ever have another presentation of a similar nature."

School officials also said the "Islamic Awareness" presentation was "to increase understanding of the Islamic culture in response to racially motivated comments that have been made to students on campus."

The pastors said in a statement: "According to students who were forced to attend these sessions, these Islamic evangelists taught them:

    * Adam, Noah and Jesus are prophets

    * There is one god, his name is Allah

    * The 5 Pillars of Islam

    * How to pray five times a day

    * Islamic religious garb"

The pastors noted that the principal's claim there were "comments" to students on campus was unverified. Nor does that excuse or justify "this infringement upon the religious beliefs of students and parents of the community nor the violation of school policy and possibly state and/or federal law," they said.

"We do not believe that this unapproved action by Principal Robin Lowe represents the school district and certainly not the majority of students or parents in the Friendswood community. Our commitment is to support all appropriate administrative, legal and political remedies to assure that this will not happen again and these Islamic activist organizations are kept out of our schools," the pastors said.

The parent reported the presentation was 30-40 minutes long and handled by two Muslim women from CAIR's Houston office. CAIR, as WND has reported, is spinoff of the defunct Islamic Association for Palestine, launched by Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook and former university professor Sami al-Arian, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide services to Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Among the convicted CAIR staffers are former communications specialist Randall Todd "Ismail" Royer, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison on charges he trained in Virginia for holy war against the U.S. and sent several members to Pakistan to join a Kashmiri terrorist group with reported ties to al-Qaida; and Bassem Khafagi, who was arrested in January 2003 while serving as CAIR's director of community relations and convicted on fraud and terrorism charges in connection with a probe of the Islamic Assembly of North America, an organization suspected of aiding Saudi sheiks tied to Osama bin Laden. In October 2006, Ghassan Elashi, a member of the founding board of directors of the Texas branch of CAIR, was sentenced to nearly seven years in prison for financial ties to a high-ranking terrorist.

The parent reported that Lowe told students her sister, niece and nephew were Muslim.

But the parent complained the Muslims "were given full attention of our kids, during academic school time, to present their religious beliefs … This was put right at the end of the school year … which will most likely prevent a Christian response."

There also was no parental notification and students were required to attend.

"The kids did not even know they were having an assembly or what topic it pertained to until they entered the gym," the parent wrote. "I send my kids to school for academics … I teach them religion at home."

[Soldier4Christ]

CAIR:  Intimidating Public School?


A  letter by Trish Hanks, Friendswood Independent School District Superintendent.  From the letter:

"In response to an incident that occurred between students at Friendswood
Junior High School and the perception and fear that it caused to some involved,
Robin Lowe, principal, was contacted by the Council of American Islamic Relations
(CAIR) and told that they considered the incident a hate crime and had reported it
to the FBI. Mrs. Lowe and Sherry Green, Deputy Superintendent, attended a
meeting with representatives of CAIR."

     An unexplained "hate crime" has, according to CAIR, been committed and CAIR has reported the crime to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

     End of story?

     No.  Apparently, a report to the FBI isn't good enough.  From the letter:

"At the meeting, CAIR requested an opportunity to present factual and basic
information about Muslims to students at Friendswood Junior High School
since the school is predominantly Anglo Christian."

     Did CAIR intimidate the principal and deputy superintendent?  CAIR representatives report a "hate crime" and request time to do a presentation on Islam; no connection?

     Further confusing the issue, the Galveston Daily News reports that Asmara Siddiqi denies that CAIR contacted the FBI because "...the school decided to resolve the issue".

     This raises two questions:

     1)  Is CAIR now threatening school administrators to gain secret access to American school children?
     2)  Why was CAIR, with a proven track record of supporting Islamic terrorism, invited to the school in the first place?

     The Friendswood School invited representatives of an Islamic-terrorist supporting organization to make a presentation to the most vulnerable of our citizens: our children.  What could these children possibly learn from a hateful organization like CAIR, one that is on record praising Islamic terrorist groups that have and continue to target and terror-murder innocent school children?

     No representative of CAIR should be allowed access to any student, in any school, at any time, for any reason.  The insanity of allowing CAIR representatives into schools must end, now.  No administrator, at any level, should have the authority to grant CAIR access to children under any circumstances.

     Period.

     The principal of Friendswood School has been "reassigned."

[Soldier4Christ]

Terrorism comes in different forms.

[HisDaughter]

     No representative of CAIR should be allowed access to any student, in any school, at any time, for any reason.  The insanity of allowing CAIR representatives into schools must end, now.  No administrator, at any level, should have the authority to grant CAIR access to children under any circumstances.

     Period.

Terrorism comes in different forms.

This whole country has lost it marbles.

[nChrist]

This whole country has lost it marbles.

   Hello GrammyLuv,

You and I were thinking exactly the same thing.

Here's an Oklahoma way of saying this or even hinting that the marbles won't be found:

FULL-TILT BOZO BONKERS!

(Small Print:  My apologies to Bozo the Clown.)   

[Soldier4Christ]

(Small Print:  My apologies to Bozo the Clown.)   

That's good because he isn't as nuts as they are.

[Soldier4Christ]

Pastors to monitor CAIR demands in district
Decision comes following mandatory Islamic presentation to students

Officials with a Houston pastors organization have decided to monitor attempts by the Council on American Islamic Relations to preach Islam to captive public school student audiences.

Pastor Dave Welch, a spokesman for the Houston Area Pastor Council, an inter-denominational organization, told WND today that open records requests will be submitted at every school in the area to determine "how many have been contacted by CAIR."

The decision follows a dispute that erupted over a presentation by leaders for CAIR's Houston base to students at Friendswood Junior High School.

The principal, Robin Lowe, has been moved to another administrative post dealing with curriculum, officials have confirmed. She arranged the mandatory presentation in which CAIR instructed students that Adam, Noah and Jesus are prophets; announced "there is one god, his name is Allah"; taught the five pillars of Islam; told students how to pray five times a day; and gave instruction on Islamic religious requirements for dress.

Students at Friendswood had been diverted from a scheduled physical education class and taken to an assembly set up by Lowe.

In the 40-minute session officials from CAIR, an organization critics link to terrorist groups, presented the religious beliefs and requirements of Islam.

The assembly had not been authorized by the district, officials confirmed.

Trish Hanks, the Friendswood superintendent, said she had been asked about having such a presentation because of allegations made by a Muslim who claimed to have been victimized in an altercation.

Hanks told parents in a memo she had authorized the presentation for staff members only, not students.

Welch noted hundreds of parents flooded this week's school board meeting, at which the issue was debated. Some parents demanded the principal's return; others questioned the school district's leadership qualifications. CAIR officials also were on hand to defend their program of teaching students about Islam.

Welch said school officials announced the principal set up the assembly after CAIR asked for time to talk to all students about Islam. They said CAIR was upset by an altercation between two students CAIR perceived as attacking Islam, even though school officials found no evidence of that.

A report on the meeting in the Houston Chronicle noted schools in Seminole County, Fla., now have banned an Islamic group, the Academy for Learning Islam, from classrooms after officials crossed the line between telling students about Muslim culture and advocating for Islam.

Texas Education Agency officials confirm that state law allows parents to remove their children from activities or classes that violate their religious or moral beliefs.

A spokesman for CAIR's Houston office, Tarek Hussein, told the Houston paper he contacted Lowe asking to do an "educational presentation." And Asma Siddiqi, one of the Islamic presenters, said the Muslim culture and beliefs were taught to students.

CAIR, as WND has reported, is a spinoff of the defunct Islamic Association for Palestine, launched by Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook and former university professor Sami al-Arian, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide services to Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

A number of CAIR employees have been convicted on terrorism-related charges. Among them are former communications specialist Randall Todd "Ismail" Royer, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison on charges he trained in Virginia for holy war against the U.S. and sent several members to Pakistan to join a Kashmiri terrorist group with reported ties to al-Qaida; and Bassem Khafagi, who was arrested in January 2003 while serving as CAIR's director of community relations and convicted on fraud and terrorism charges in connection with a probe of the Islamic Assembly of North America, an organization suspected of aiding Saudi sheiks tied to Osama bin Laden. Also, in October 2006, Ghassan Elashi, a member of the founding board of directors of the Texas branch of CAIR, was sentenced to nearly seven years in prison for financial ties to a high-ranking terrorist.

WND previously reported public school textbooks across the nation have begun promoting Islam, teaching even the religious doctrines.

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CAIR's Traitorous Cop Ally

If the Taliban catches an American spy, they slit the informer's throat. If we catch a pro-Taliban spy, he gets a slap on the wrist after getting a letter from a Muslim pressure group urging leniency. Who says we're winning this war?

Last month, Taliban fighters claimed to have killed a "female U.S. spy" for helping American forces in Afghanistan. Once all the evidence against the alleged spy was gathered, they slit her throat with a knife.

Compare that with the kid glove treatment of Sgt. Muhammad Weiss Rasool, a Muslim cop in the nation's capital who tipped off the target of an FBI terrorism investigation into a pro-Taliban mosque.

Despite his arrest, confession and recent conviction in federal court, Rasool, an Afghan immigrant, will do no jail time and will continue to collect a paycheck from taxpayers pending the results of an internal-affairs probe by the Fairfax County Police Department outside Washington.

Rasool took an oath to protect this country several years ago when he joined the FCPD, which is the largest force in Virginia and a key partner with the FBI in investigating major terror cases in the Washington area, including the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon.

But Rasool put his religion ahead of his adopted country when he alerted a fellow member of his mosque that he was under federal surveillance. At his Muslim brother's request, he searched a police database and confirmed that FBI agents were tailing him.

When agents went to arrest the target early one morning, they found him and his family already dressed and destroying evidence. They knew they had a mole and worked back through the system to find Rasool.

That's when agents discovered the police sergeant had breached their database at least 15 times to look up names of other contacts, including relatives, to see if they showed up on the terrorist watch list. (As part of post-9/11 data-sharing, local police now have access to classified federal case files on terrorists maintained within the NCIC, or National Crime Information Center system.)

Rasool's actions "damaged the integrity of the NCIC system and jeopardized at least one federal investigation," U.S. prosecutors said in court papers filed last month. "The defendant's actions could have placed federal agents in danger."

Rasool, 31, at first claimed he didn't know the terrorist target. He confessed only after hearing a recording of his message for the suspect, who was a cleric in his local Taliban-sympathizing mosque. Rasool finally pleaded guilty to illegally searching a federal database.

Despite his subsequent conviction, however, Fairfax County has left him on the force, pending the outcome of an internal investigation. The leniency afforded Rasool is unprecedented, given how he copped to the crime – and not just any crime, but one that betrayed his fellow officers and country.

It also contrasts starkly with the recent handling of other Arab and Muslim government employees caught breaching classified databases.

The city of Rochester, N.Y., for example, summarily fired a Muslim 911 operator, Nadire Zenelaj, well before she was formally charged last month with illegally searching the names of hundreds of friends in the terrorist watch list. And as part of a federal plea deal, Lebanese national Nada Prouty resigned from the U.S. government after confessing she accessed a restricted FBI database to see if relatives were being investigated for terrorist activities.

Unlike these alleged spies, however, Rasool has a powerful patron in Washington -- the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which lobbied on his behalf during his prosecution.

"I have always found Sgt. Rasool eager to promote a substantive relationship between the Fairfax County Police Department and the local Muslim community," wrote CAIR Governmental Affairs Coordinator Corey Saylor in a letter to the federal judge, who ended up denying prosecutors the jail time they requested for Rasool. (He got off lightly with a fine and two years probation.)

Indeed, Rasool acted as CAIR's representative on the police force, and even worked with the group to kill a successful counterterror-training program within the department.

Rasool and other Muslim officers tied to CAIR claimed the course taught by the respected Higgins Center for Counter Terrorism Research portrayed Islam in a bad light. CAIR phoned Fairfax County Police Chief David Rohrer to complain, and the chief canceled the training in 2006.

That same year, Rohrer spoke at CAIR's annual fundraising dinner in Washington, crediting the group with "helping police departments to better understand the Muslim community."

But the chief was being used -- by the Islamist enemy. It turns out his aggrieved sergeant at the time was under federal investigation for aiding and abetting terrorists. And so was CAIR -- the group from whom Rohrer was accepting phone calls and on whom he was conferring legitimacy. In fact, U.S. prosecutors at the time were adding CAIR to a list of co-conspirators in a terror scheme to funnel more than $12 million to Hamas suicide bombers and their families.

Yet CAIR and Rasool teamed up to persuade the politically correct Rohrer to nix the anti-terror training, which included counterintelligence measures to help police guard against the very infiltration from terror supporters and facilitators that has taken place on Rohrer's watch.

Sadly, the chief appears more concerned about protecting the force from charges of "Islamophobia" than Islamist penetration.

Rasool, still on paid leave, says he hopes to be permanently reinstated. If so, it would mark a humiliating defeat in our battle against the growing Islamist 5th column in America. Rasool has a dangerous religious conflict, and should never wear the uniform again.