FBI Funded CAIR?

Center for Security Policy via FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 10/21/03 | Center for Security Policy

[kattracks]

The FBI reportedly joined a fundraising dinner for a prominent "civil rights" group whose leadership openly supports Hamas.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) says "a representative of the local office of the FBI," whom it did not identify, attended the San Francisco Bay Area fundraiser on October 11. CAIR made the statement in a news release dated October 12.

The Center and others have been critical of the FBI leadership for bad judgment by lending political legitimacy to groups that claim to oppose terrorism, but whose leaders speak out in support of US-designated terrorist groups abroad, and who work here at home to undermine anti-terrorism laws.

CAIR's former community affairs director recently pled guilty to federal terrorism-related charges.

Reported FBI participation in the CAIR fundraiser took place as senators from both parties denounced CAIR as an extremist group tied to terrorist causes. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) surprised observers by calling CAIR "unusual in its extreme rhetoric and its associations with groups that are suspect," while Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said CAIR leaders have "intimate links to Hamas."

A CAIR official recently complained to Al Jazeera about a federal crackdown on suspected terrorist operatives inside the United States.

“The American Muslim community has already been under suspicion since 9/11 and this just adds to our burden,” CAIR's Rabiah Hamed lamented to Al Jazeera.

CAIR complains that it doesn't get fair treatment, but it declined an invitation to testify before a September 10 Senate panel on terrorism chaired by Senator Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.)

CAIR's website presently is running an article criticizing the FBI for "unfairly" tainting an Arab-American after withdrawing a planned "Excellence in Service" award. CAIR says that "Arab-American leaders" won't trust the FBI unless the Bureau reinstates the award.

CAIR is also taking credit for helping to undermine post-9/11 counterterrorism laws at the state and federal levels. It has changed its tone from outright denunciation of authorities to one that offers "help" in the fight against terrorism.

The new constructive approach, without any renunciation of past statements of support for terrorist groups, complicates public understanding of CAIR and similar organizations, as the Center notes in today's Security Forum.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[goldstategop]

CAIR and the AMC are Al Qaeda-Hamas Islamist front groups in the United States. It boggles the mind the FBI is invested in helping them stay in business instead of shutting them down for the good of the country.

[Diogenesis]

Meanwhile the FBI has systematically excluded Jews
from Arabic translations since the 911 Atrocities.

FBI: Jews need not apply for Arabic linguist jobs - Thread 1

FBI: Jews need not apply for Arabic linguist jobs - Thread 2

[goldstategop]

Uh huh. We can't have Jews working at the FBI in jobs critical to fighting terrorism lest we offend CAIR, the AMC and Mathathir Mohammed but we can sure as heck bend over backwards to reassure Islamist fascists its business as usual in America despite 9-11. The FBI hasn't learned a thing in the past two years and it stands to figure the next terrorist attack on the American mainland will catch its politically correct, Judeophobic gumshoes by "complete surprise" again!

[rmlew]

PC idiocy or Rove-Norquist insanity?

[Pro-Bush]

Not surprised. I bet President Bush will abolish the FBI and beef up the CIA or DARPA to take its place. ..The FBI have blundered one to many times, and Bush knows it. It almost as if the FBI has its own agenda.

[Bob J]

ping

[Ramius]

This sounds like that same lame story about how the FBI seeded some money into the islamist financing system in order to mark and follow the path of the money... to see where it ended up.

Stikes me that this is not quite the same thing as "supporting" the system. It is an attempt to follow the money trail. I don't see a problem with that.

[Ramius]

I bet President Bush will abolish the FBI

I'll take that bet. Are you laying odds?

[Brian S]

The FBI has embarassing files on all that care to challenge them, hence...they are free to operate without challenge.

CIA is the same "times 4"...

Don't rock the boat baby!

[Pro-Bush]

Hah! No..But I'll take the credibility hit if it doesn't happen. Give me 12 months, this won't happen tomorrow night. Thread bookmarked so I can ping you when it happens.

[Ramius]

I'm ready to put my money were my mouth is.... :-)

The FBI has a role to fill. It's not going away.