New CAIR Generation

[HisDaughter]

         Please be aware that such an epithet is not only insulting and false, but is also tantamount
to public defamation.”
 

Only if you can prove it.

     “Public defamation” is a strong accusation; under civil laws it is actionable.
 
     However, the law provides for a defense against an accusation of “public defamation”; the truth.

    
     Consider the following facts regarding CAIR:
 
     -          CAIR was founded by Islamic terrorists.
     -          CAIR has proven links to terrorists and terrorist-supporting groups and nations.
     -          CAIR seeks to overthrow Constitutional government and replace it with an Islamist theocracy.
 
     These facts are irrefutable;

Well.....There you go.

[nChrist]

Average people of all ethnic backgrounds need to be informed about what CAIR is and what CAIR is attempting to do. It's encouraging to know that fewer and fewer people are supporting CAIR. We should all know there are many decent people trying to survive in nations with folks like CAIR in control. We should never forget there are millions of innocent victims of tyranny around the world. If they are able to escape those circumstances, they don't want any more from CAIR or any other organization like them. CAIR and organizations like them want all countries to be like Iran, and many of their methods of influence are ILLEGAL. It would be great if ImANutJob took CAIR home with him. Common sense should tell us that folks like this SHOULD NOT be allowed to immigrate to this country. People like this already here need to be deported. The LAW already permits this, and common sense says the law should be used and enforced.

If ImANutJob makes any kind of address in this country, it should be by long distance video link. ImANutJob is a terrorist, and he shouldn't have been allowed to enter this country. Many folk are just like him or worse, and the LAW allows common sense methods to KEEP THEM OUT OF THIS COUNTRY!  COMMON SENSE SHOULD DICTATE THAT THEY AREN'T WELCOME IN ANY PORTION OF THE FREE WORLD!

[Soldier4Christ]

CAIR Official's Leadership Role In Hamas Group
*FBI Agent: This shows [Omar] Ahmad is "a leader of the Palestinian committee"

A turf war between competing U.S.-based Palestinian charities in 1994 was settled by Mousa Abu Marzook, a Hamas leader who serves as its deputy political director.

In testimony Tuesday, jurors in the Hamas-support trial of five former officials at the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) heard FBI recordings showing Marzook sided with the foundation over a Mississippi-based educational fund. HLF, prosecutors say, then became the designated fundraising arm for Hamas in the United States.

The first attempt to settle the dispute between the Texas-based HLF and the Al Aqsa Education Fund first was handled by the Palestine Committee, a group created by the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S. to help Hamas. It included HLF, the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP) and a think tank called the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR). Marzook had personal and financial ties with all three entities.

But Abdelhaleem Ashqar felt that HLF wasn't sending enough money to help the cause and arranged for Sheik Jamil Hamami, then a Hamas leader, to come to the U.S. in 1993 for fundraisers. HLF balked. Ashqar had an organization called the Al Aqsa Education Fund that was organizing Hamami's visit.

Defendant Shukri Abu Baker, HLF's former executive director, argued that letting Ashqar go unchecked in fundraising would set a precedent that could cripple HLF:

    "Everyone who has an organization was calling us and, ‘We want to come to your end. We want you to do a program for us. I want to raise money for our organization'. Thus, the Foundation would turn into an agency and a mere station through which people come here, raise money and go back home."

Hamas official Mohammed Siam told Ashqar that the Palestine Committee discussed the issue in a February 1994 meeting:

    "Sheik Jamil's program will continue as planned previously by A1 Aqsa Fund, but under the supervision of the Holy Land Fund, HLF, whereby collected donations will be forwarded to the HLF, Spending these funds will be decided between the HLF and Sheik Jamil."

Ashqar resisted, drawing a visit from Siam and Hamami. FBI agents learned of the meeting and recorded it. The men brought a letter from Marzook with instructions for Ashqar to back off:

    "My honorable brother, I hope that you suspend your activity until I arrive in America and work on solving the disagreement. Sheik Jamil is to join the program of your brothers and I have written to him accordingly."

Ashqar is serving an 11-year prison sentence for contempt and obstruction of justice after refusing to testify before grand juries investigating his Hamas ties.

Baker participates in all the calls concerning the financial dispute. In addition to showing how the quarrel cemented HLF's ties to Hamas, prosecutors used the exhibits to show how Baker was dishonest in public statements about his relationship with Hamas and Marzook. In 2003, he provided a sworn declaration in civil litigation in which he claimed neither he, nor anyone in HLF "have had any connection whatever to Hamas, or to any terrorist groups or to terrorism."

"Did he say Marzook intervened in dispute between HLF and the Al Aqsa Education fund?" asked federal prosecutor Barry Jonas. "No, he did not," answered FBI Agent Lara Burns.

The transcripts also showed the powerful role Omar Ahmad played on the Palestine Committee. Ahmad, a founder and chairman emeritus of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), convened the group's 1993 meeting in Philadelphia explored in detail Monday.

Four months later, Ahmad called for another meeting of Committee members to try to resolve tension between HLF and Ashqar. In another call, Ahmad and Baker discuss how much to pay defendant Mohamed El-Mezain, who was moving to San Diego to open an HLF branch. Ahmad was not an HLF officer and had no formal relationship to the foundation. He was an officer in the IAP, a branch of the Palestine Committee, yet he was suggesting payment amounts for an HLF official.

This shows Ahmad is "a leader of the Palestinian committee," Burns said.

While prosecutors jumped around Monday, cutting to the most incriminating portions of the Philadelphia meeting, Tuesday's presentation featured complete conversations, including the Mississippi meeting with Ashqar and the two Hamas officials and the calls concerning the financial dispute.

Jurors saw most of a 1990 rally organized by HLF and attended by two Hamas leaders. Defendant Mohamed El-Mezain is shown sitting with Mahmoud al-Zahar and Sheik Jamil Hamami and, at the end of the program, Baker thanks them for being there.

Zahar is a Hamas co-founder who was foreign minister to deposed Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh.

The rally featured musical performances by a band featuring defendant Mufid Abdelqader, including songs praising Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan Al-Banna, Hamas spiritual leader Ahmad Yasin and other radical leaders.

Jurors were shown the skit in which Abdelqader plays a Hamas member who kills an Israeli after saying "I am Hamas, O dear ones," and telling the Israeli character: "And you must leave." The audience responds "O cursed one."

Baker then closes out the night by thanking the guests. After seeing all the Hamas imagery and praise, Jonas returned Burns' attention to Baker's 2003 declaration. On page 2, he wrote that "I reject and abhor Hamas, its goals and its methods."

Court is in recess until Thursday. Direct examination of Agent Burns is expected to continue then.

[Soldier4Christ]

Holy Land Evidence Establishes Hamas Link

 In a whirlwind day of testimony, jurors in the Hamas-support trial of five former officials at the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) were guided through stacks of financial records and taken inside a secretive meeting held in the U.S. with the ambition of scuttling peace in the Middle East.

The men are accused of illegally sending $12 million to Hamas through a series of Palestinian charities called zakat committees. Most of the conduct occurred before U.S. law prohibited dealing with Hamas, but it clearly established HLF's role in a covert committee created by the Muslim Brotherhood to advance the Hamas agenda in the U.S. and the flow of money from the U.S. to Hamas-tied entities.

FBI agent Lara Burns was the day's sole witness. Working with federal prosecutor Barry Jonas, the two took jurors through a series of excerpts from a secret 1993 meeting of Hamas members and supporters called in the wake of the Oslo Peace Accords.

This is the second trial in the HLF case, the first ended in a mistrial after jurors could not reach unanimous verdicts on most of the counts. Prosecutors have streamlined their presentation in response, with several changes on display Monday.

The 1993 meeting by the Palestine Committee, held in a Courtyard by Marriott hotel in Philadelphia, lasted two days. FBI agents, secretly recording the meeting, used 18 separate tapes to capture the dialogue. For this trial, the government created a highlight reel of sorts – presenting excerpts of the most pertinent conversations.

Jurors heard about the Palestine Committee's opposition to the accords, repeated references to deceiving Americans about the group's attitudes toward the deal and its overall objective and discussion of how human rights and helping the downtrodden could be a winning strategy to derail the agreement while still gaining popular support in the America.

HLF, which claims to be devoted solely to charity work for the needy, paid the air fare and hotel bills for a handful of the meeting's attendees, including Omar Ahmad. At the time, Ahmad was an officer in the Islamic Association for Palestine. He is the speaker who called the Philadelphia meeting to order (see page 10).

The following summer, Ahmad became one of the founding incorporators of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Jonas and Burns reviewed transcripts from the Philadelphia meeting in which the participants discussed the need to create a new political organization. An unidentified speaker raised the issue (see page 4 of the link):

    "In my opinion, 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 that there should be a new neutral organization which works on both sides."

In the end, the group agreed it could accomplish its goals by emphasizing human rights conditions and charity.

"The suffering still exists and we could benefit from the suffering in the camps from the angle of approaching the Palestinian cause from this angle at least," former HLF executive director Shukri Abu Baker said (see page 6 of the link)

Throughout the day, Jonas stopped the tapes that played, with accompanying translations sub-titled, so jurors could keep up with the often fast-paced conversations.

The evidence showed some of the defendants, including Baker, lying about his connections to Hamas and the Palestine Committee. For example, Baker signed a sworn declaration as part of a civil suit in 2002. On page 21 of the document, he claimed the Philadelphia meeting was a mere gathering "of Islamic intellectuals, academicians, community leaders and representatives of American Islamic organizations, such as ours. It was not a meeting of any organization."

Yet, prosecutors produced an agenda of that meeting, entitled "Future of Islamic Action for Palestine in North America."

During the meeting, Baker instructed the others not to say the word Hamas, but refer instead to "Sister Samah" (Hamas backward). That, he would explain in the 2002 declaration, "was a whimsical and ironic play on words. ‘Samah' means ‘forgiveness' in Arabic, and, in my opinion, those who used the term were making ironic fun of Hamas, not adopting a secret term to disguise their references to the organization. Some people at the meeting also referred to the ‘The Movement.' I do not believe that anyone who used this term was referring to Hamas."

Turning to page 14 from a meeting transcript, Baker expressed concern that "America will classify Samah as a terrorist organization."

Jonas stopped Burns, who was reading from the transcript and asked, "Was he concerned they would classify ‘forgiveness' as a terrorist organization?" Only, Burns answered, "if you believe what he said in the declaration."

Later, the two focused on the number of times the Philadelphia meeting attendees spoke openly of trying to "derail" the Oslo Accords, considered at the time a major step toward a peaceful settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

They also noted the attention paid to how the group would craft its message to Americans. "War is deception," Baker said at two different times.

Earlier, Burns walked jurors through a series of financial exhibits, again seeming to take care to break things down as much as possible for jurors to follow. She spent much of the morning reviewing and explaining charts assembled by the government tracking the early flow of money from HLF to Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook and a charity created by Hamas spiritual leader Ahmed Yassin in 1980s and early 1990s.

First, she explained summary exhibits assembled to show the amount of money involved, the parties and the various bank records and other exhibits that prove the money was sent.

The exhibits were made "hopefully to make it easy to understand this mountain of bank records," Burns said.

For example, bank records show Mousa Abu Marzook, now the Hamas deputy political director, personally gave $210,000 to HLF between 1988-89. But Marzook was a student in Mississippi at the time and his personal tax return shows he made about $50,000 that year. With no apparent independent wealth, Jonas asked, where'd Marzook get the money?

Between 1989 and 1994, HLF sent more than $730,000 to the Islamic Center of Gaza, a charity run by Hamas spiritual leader Ahmed Yassin. According to a 1996 article in the Middle East Affairs Journal, programs at the center were run by the Muslim Brotherhood. Donations cut off as the U.S. banned support for Hamas in 1995, Burns said.

Then there was the case of K&A Trading, a Saudi Arabian company that received $250,000 from HLF during September and October 1988. The company was run by Khairy H. Al-Agha, a man identified in other exhibits as a Palestine Committee member in Saudi Arabia, Burns said.

HLF claims to donate money only to charities, Jonas said. Was Agha a charity?

No, Burns answered.

Agha also is listed on page 54 of the translation of Mousa Abu Marzook's address book.

Other bank records showed Agha's company sent $1.3 million to Marzook between 1988 and 1991.

Marzook, meanwhile, gave money to HLF, defendant Mohamed El-Mezain, and two other Palestine Committee entities – the Islamic Association for Palestine and the United Association for Studies and Research. Marzook was on the board of both. Ahmed Yousef, spokesman and senior advisor to deposed Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, served as executive director of the UASR and as editor of an IAP magazine.

Burns is set to return to the stand when testimony resumes Tuesday morning.

[Soldier4Christ]

FBI: CAIR is a front group, and Holy Land Foundation tapped Hamas clerics for fundraisers

The FBI took a new slap at the Council on American-Islamic Relations today at the Holy Land Foundation trial.

FBI Special Agent Lara Burns was going over more transcripts from the Philadelphia meeting -- the 1993 gathering of Holy Land officials and Hamas sympathizers that the government contends was meant to brainstorm ways to downplay the Foundations extremist ties -- when talked turned to a passage from defendant Shukri Abu Baker.

He is quoted on the wiretap transcript talking about how it would be beneficial to have more traditional, secular American organizations to help spread the Islamist message.

He and others envisioned an "alternative" organization "which can benefit from a new atmosphere, one whose Islamic hue is not very conspicuous," according to the transcript.

Prosecutor Barry Jonas asked Burns whether any groups formed after the Philadelphia gathering fit this mold. "CAIR," she said.

CAIR is one of about 300 unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land case, and testimony has shown that its founder, Omar Ahmad, and current executive director, Nihad Awad, both participated in the Philadelphia meeting.

CAIR has strenuously denied having any terrorist ties, and has filed a request -- similar to other groups -- to have its name removed from the government's list of co-conspirators. CAIR maintains that it is a civil rights group focused on promoting understanding of Islam and combating unfair treatment of American Muslims.

Joshua Dratel, attorney for defendant Mohammad El-Mezain, later grilled Burns on her CAIR testimony.

"Just to be sure," he said, raising up a large posterboard with the name "Council on American-Islamic Relations" scrawled across it, "this is the one with the inconspicuous Islamist hue?"

+ Later Tuesday, Burns' counterpart, FBI Special Agent Robert Miranda, began his testimony detailing the type of people Holy Land routinely called on to speak at its fundraisers in the U.S.

He and prosecutor Jim Jacks went through a list of Holy Land speakers, seized from a computer at its Richardson offices in 2001, and compared it to lists of known Hamas members and associates.

They found dozens of matches of names and phone numbers among Holy Land speakers and a roster of Hamas members found at the Mississippi apartment of unindicted coconspirator Abdelhaleem Ashqar. Holy Land speakers' names also showed up in the address book of Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook, who has extensive ties financially and personally to many of the defendants.

Defense attorneys and their clients grinned and looked at each other every time Miranda referred to the owner of the address book as "the terrorist Marzook."

Among those on Holy Land's speakers list are Mahmoud al-Zahar (a Hamas co-founder), Jamil Hamami, Mohammed Siam and Hamed Bitawi. All of them are listed on a huge chart prosecutors made for jurors titled "Hamas Leaders In The 1990s."

The Holy Land speakers list also shared some names in a pamphlet outlining the roster of candidates for Jordan's Islamic Action Front political party. The group is, like Hamas, an offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, Miranda testified. Their platform, according to the pamphlet, says basically that Palestine must be wrested from Israeli occupation through jihad. The FBI found the pamphlet at Holy Land's offices.

Miranda and Jacks then began going through speaker activity sheets and other records, connecting fundraising appearances by these Hamas-affiliated speakers and money in Holy Land coffers.

Miranda's testimony resumes Wednesday.

[Soldier4Christ]

CAIR's attempt to extract fees from Michael Savage rejected
Clinton-appointed judge denies motion by controversial Islamic lobby group

A Clinton-appointed federal judge ruled in favor of Michael Savage today in an attempt by the Council on American-Islamic Relations to extract attorney fees and costs in a case the nationally syndicated talk radio host brought against the Muslim lobby group.

"This is a huge victory for me, personally, but also for the rest of America who is afraid of this lawsuit-happy group of intimidators," Savage said.

Judge Susan Illston of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California previously dismissed Savage's copyright infringement and RICO lawsuit against CAIR. Savage alleged CAIR illegally published singled-out quotes and audio excerpts from his show regarding Islam, misappropriated his words and used the clips for its own fundraising purposes, damaging the value of his copyrighted material.

Savage noted Illston is a "bona fide liberal, yet she followed the law in the fees motion."

"CAIR tried to tell her in their claim that she 'should get' me, because they were all liberals," he said. "You have to read their sloppy claim to believe it. Now, people will not be afraid to file suits if they have a legitimate claim against CAIR or any other Soros-funded group."

CAIR last year waged a public campaign using excerpted Savage remarks to urge advertisers to boycott his top-rated program. CAIR stated its campaign successfully resulted in Savage losing $1 million in advertising.

Part of Savage's lawsuit alleged CAIR received millions in foreign funding and that the Islamic group may have been wrongfully acting as a lobbyist or agent for a foreign government, violating its nonprofit status.

Savage also alleged CAIR was engaged in racketeering, describing the group as a "mouthpiece of international terror" that helped fund the 9/11 attacks, a contention strongly denied by CAIR.

But Illston threw out the case in July, arguing it is legal to use excerpts of a public broadcast for purposes of comment and criticism.

Illston, nominated to her position by President Bill Clinton, wrote in her ruling that Savage could try to rewrite the racketeering portion of his suit to better fit the specifics of his case.

In May 2007, CAIR was identified by the government as an unindicted co-conspirator in a case involving the Holy Land Foundation, a charity allegedly affiliated with Hamas. Federal prosecutors listed CAIR under the category: “Individuals/entities who are and/or were members of the US Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee and/or its organizations.”

The government also listed Omar Ahmad, CAIR's founder and chairman emeritus, under the same category.

CAIR is registered as a nonprofit organization recognized as tax-exempt under IRS codes, which restrict "lobbying on behalf of a foreign government." CAIR's website claims it receives no foreign government support.

But CAIR's headquarters near the U.S. Capitol until recently was owned by the ruler of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and the ruler's foundation has pledged $50 million to capitalize a long-term CAIR public-relations campaign.

The UAE formally recognized the Taliban, and Dubai reportedly acted as the transit point for cash for the 9/11 hijackers. Two of the hijackers were from the Emirates, and one served in the UAE military.

Until 2005, the Al Maktoum Foundation run by Dubai's ruler Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid held the deed to CAIR's headquarters just three blocks from the Capitol. The same foundation reportedly has held telethons to raise money for families of Palestinian "martyrs" during the intifada – or terrorist war – started in September 2000 against Israel. It recently pledged a $50 million endowment for CAIR.

CAIR argues that any assertions it receives money from foreign governments is "disinformation."

"This is yet another attempt to invent a controversy," the group said. "CAIR's operational budget is funded by donations from American Muslims."

CAIR, however, has never publicly acknowledged $1 million controlling interest that the ruler of Dubai's foundation took in its national headquarters just one year after 9/11.

The group also received $500,000 from Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, the sheik whose $10 million relief check after 9/11 was rejected by then-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani after he blamed U.S. policy toward Israel for the attacks.

"There is nothing criminal or immoral about accepting donations from foreign nationals," CAIR asserted. "The U.S. government, corporations and non-profit organizations routinely receive money from foreign nationals."

"Bin Talal is not a member of the Saudi Arabian government," the group added in a statement. "He is a private entrepreneur and international investor."

This may be a distinction without a difference, Savage's lawyers argue, since bin Talal is a member of the Saudi ruling family.

"CAIR is proud to receive support of every individual," CAIR argued, "as long as they are not an official of any foreign government and there are no strings attached to the bequest."

The UAE endowment to CAIR was specifically earmarked for public relations efforts to repair the image of Arabs and Muslims in America after public outrage doomed a Dubai bid to run U.S. ports.

Lawyers for Savage argue that CAIR may have used UAE funds and other foreign support to attack the radio host.

[nChrist]

It appears that George Soros has a long-term habit of funding things like Cair and anything else that has the potential to harm America. He buys and pays for whatever he wants, including Obama.

[Soldier4Christ]

ACLU and CAIR Battles Border Security...

A coalition of community and civil right groups announced today the establishment of a telephone hotline and Internet address for quick reporting of any incidents of suspected profiling at the U.S.-Canadian border.

The groups, led by the American Civil Liberties Union-Michigan, citied the continual difficulty some Muslims and people of Arab and South Asian descent encounter at border crossings. They also said they would call upon elected officials soon to:

• End the seizure of laptops and cell phones at the border without probable cause.

• End the repeated detentions of U.S. citizens re-entering the United States from countries in the Middle East.

• Hold hearings on the various issues at the border.

• Exercise oversight of the FBI, which has been operating under new guidelines in national security cases since Dec. 1.

Beyond the concerns that Muslims, Arabs and South Asians have expressed about what they contend is profiling at the Ambassador and Blue Water bridges and the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, the FBI on Dec. 1 established new guidelines authorizing a wide range of new investigative techniques, which it intends to initiate without evidence of wrongdoing.

Federal officials say the new tactics are required for national security and are well within the parameters of the Constitution. But a raft of community organizations and civil rights groups say the techniques are unconstitutional, absent a "reasonable cause" to believe a crime has occurred.

"For the last eight years, our civil liberties have been under attack," said Noel Saleh, a member of the board of directors of the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services. "We're afraid implementation of these FBI guidelines will only make the situation worse. That is why it's imperative that we come together and collectively work to ensure that we uphold our core American values of civil liberties and human rights for all."

ACCESS is one of several organizations participating in the initiative announced today. Others are the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, the Council of American-Islamic Relations, the Detroit branch of the NAACP, the Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength and the Arab American Institute.

"The racial and religious profiling that is allowed by the FBI and Boarder Patrol is only one example of how we have let our own protection of basic human rights and dignities degrade," said Kary Moss, executive director of the ACLU-Michigan.

FBI and border enforcement officials consistently maintain that their techniques are well within constitutional protections. Leaders of the FBI office in Detroit also meet monthly with community organizations to discuss the issues.