CAIR Exposed: Part 1

Investigative Project on Terrorism ^ | March 24, 2008 | Steven Emerson

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CAIR Exposed: Part 1
As IAP Offshoot, CAIR Followed Pro-Hamas Agenda From the Start

by Steven Emerson
IPT News
March 24, 2008

FEATURE STORY

 

From the Hamas ties of its founders in 1994 to its solicitous stance toward accused terrorists today, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has demonstrated that its actual mission is far removed from the civil rights advocacy it claims to pursue.

Still standing as perhaps the clearest evidence of CAIR's insidious role, two key leaders of the group attended a 1993 meeting in Philadelphia called by Hamas members and supporters to devise a strategy for torpedoing the Oslo Accords aimed at Middle East peace.

An analysis of secret recordings of the meeting led the FBI to conclude that the gathering was held "to determine… [the participants'] course of action in support of Hamas' opposition to the [Oslo] peace plan and to decide how to conceal their activities from the scrutiny of the United States government."

Coupled with their support for the jihad in the Middle East, the attendees recognized the critical importance of domestic lobbying in the United States. One discussed encouraging the Islamic community "to be involved in the political life of this country," adding, "We should assist them in this task. This will be an entrance for us to put, through the Islamic community, pressure on the Congress and the decision makers in America."

That's where CAIR came in. Participants in that 1993 meeting discussed tailoring their message to an American audience, speaking of outright deception at times and of softening their rhetoric at others, as the following exchange between CAIR founders Omar Ahmad and Nihad Awad shows:

Awad: What is important is that the language of the address is there even
for the American. But, the issue is how to use it.
....
Omar Ahmad: There is a difference between you saying "I want to restore the '48
land" and when you say "I want to destroy Israel".
....
Awad: Yes, there are different but parallel types of address. There
shouldn't be contradiction. Address people according to their minds.
When I speak with the American, I speak with someone who doesn't know
anything. As for the Palestinian who has a martyr brother or something, I know how to address him, you see?

This context helps explain why federal authorities have tied the CAIR to Hamas in three separate court filings in the past year. Prosecutors place CAIR on the Muslim Brotherhood's "Palestine Committee." An internal Palestine Committee document in 1994 lists CAIR as one of its "working organizations" along with IAP. Other records show that committee was created to advance the Hamas agenda within the United States.

The Investigative Project on Terrorism has assembled a thorough dossier on CAIR's origins and activities which we present in installments during the next two weeks. You can read today's segment here.

Among the highlights in today's report:

· CAIR was incorporated less than a year after the Philadelphia meeting by three officials of the now-defunct Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), long a central player in Hamas' U.S. support network and a group that the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service deemed in a 2001 memo to be "part of Hamas' propaganda apparatus."

· As recently as the summer of 2007, the Dallas trial charging the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) with providing material support for Hamas produced extensive evidence that IAP -- CAIR's parent -- played a central role in the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee. Much of that evidence relates to Mousa Abu Marzook, now deputy political chief of Hamas, who served on the board of directors of IAP in 1989.

The trial exhibits included a memo taken from the home of Ismail Elbarrasse, a former assistant to Marzook, which defines in chilling fashion the role the Muslim Brothers play in North America:

The process of settlement is a "Civilization-Jihadist Process" with all the word means. The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim's destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who chose to slack….

· CAIR was an unindicted co-conspirator in the trial. While the group contested that designation in court papers, it may have to live with it through a second trial scheduled for August. A mistrial was declared Oct. 22 after jurors could not reach unanimous verdicts on HLF and four individual defendants. A fifth defendant was acquitted on all but one count against him, that of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists.

· IAP clearly subscribed to a Jihadist view of what was needed in the Middle East. The December 1988 edition of Ila Filastin, the group's Arabic-language publication, carried this statement: "The call for Jihad in the name of Allah is the only path for liberation of Palestine and all the Muslim lands … We (Hamas) promise Allah, in continuing the Jihad way and with the martyrdom's way."

Meanwhile, IAP's English-language Muslim World Monitor and Arabic periodical Al-Zaitounah, frequently praised Hamas terror attacks. An October 1994 Al-Zaitounah headline, for example, blared, "In Its Greatest Operation, Hamas Takes Credit for the Bombing of an Israeli Bus in the Center of Tel Aviv."

· IAP promoted the Hamas agenda at its annual conferences, with members of the terrorist group making frequent appearances. It raised substantial funds at these conferences for HLF, then Hamas' primary fundraising arm in the United States. All proceeds from IAP's convention in 1996, for example, went to HLF. Rafeeq Jaber, one of CAIR's founders, had become IAP president earlier that year. In a 2003 civil deposition, Jaber acknowledged IAP's contract with HLF required them "to promote [HLF] in every way we can."

· Declining an opportunity to distance CAIR from IAP in September 2003 Senate testimony, CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad opted instead to defend the group as "a grassroots organization which continues to function legally and has only been ‘linked' through allusion and no charge of criminality has been brought against the organization."

· It was Awad and CAIR founding chairman Omar Ahmad who had attended the Hamas-organized Philadelphia session in 1993 -- though proof of their participation was not revealed publicly until years later. Both men insisted, as late as 2003, that they could not recall having attended.

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PIPELINE NEWS.org - "CAIR's SUPPORT OF KHALID SHEIKH MOHAMMED & SAMI AL-ARIAN INDICATIVE OF ITS PRO-TERROR STANCE" by Beila Rabinowitz (March 15, 2007)

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WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "CAIR OK'd TO MEET IN CAPITOL" by S.A. Miller (March 12, 2007)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "CAIR vs. HUMAN RIGHTS" by Robert Spencer (March 12, 2007)

LittleGreenFootballs.com - weblog: "A BAD CAIR DAY" (March 12, 2007)

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JIHAD WATCH.org (ANTI-CAIR): "CAIR ADMITS THAT SOME OF ITS OFFICIALS HAVE HAD TIES TO JIHAD TERRORISM" (March 3, 2007)

LittleGreenFootballs.com - weblog: "CAIR SEETHING OVER CHRISTIAN EVANGELIST" (February 24, 2007)

WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "MUSLIM GROUPS FAST FOR JAILED AL-ARIAN" by Audrey Hudson (February 21, 2007)

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WorldNetDaily.com: "DID CAIR FOUNDER SAY ISLAM TO RULE AMERICA?" by Art Moore (December 11, 2006)

CNS NEWS.com: "CAIR SEEKING REDRESS FOR IMAMS KICKED OFF AIRPLANE" by Susna Jones (December 7, 2006)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "CAIR'S PRO-HAMAS PRESS" by Joe Kaufman (December 5, 2006)

NEWSMAX.com: "ISLAMIC GROUP TARGETS COLUMNIST" (December 4, 2006, 9:05 p.m. EST)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "CAIR KOs '24'" by Henry Mark Holzer (December 4, 2006)

LittleGreenFootballs.com - weblog: "CAIR's FIVE-YEAR PROPAGANDA PUSH CONTINUES" (November 24, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (PRNewswire): Washington - "FIRST MUSLIM CONGRESSMAN ADDRESSES CAIR BANQUET" (November 20, 2006)

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FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "CAIR vs. DePaul by Thomas Ciesielka, TC Public Relations  (November 14, 2006)

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WorldNetDaily.com: "AMERICAN CITIZENS AIDED HAMAS TERROR Former CAIR member gets 7 years, imam in 'quite' town pleads guilty" (October 13, 2006)

CNS NEWS.com: "GYM ATTIRE SEEN AS LATEST ATTEMPT TO FORCE SHARI'A IN US" by Monisha Bansal (October 2, 2006)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "KEITH ELLISON, CAIR, AND HAMAS" by Robert Spencer (September 27, 2006)

LittleGreenFootballs.com - weblog: "CAIR REP REACTS TO OHIO CAR DEALER 'JIHAD'" (September 26, 2006) (Note: Includes a video.)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com (JIHAD WATCH.org): "WHAT CAIR-SAUDI CONNECTION?" (September 22, 2006)

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AMERICAN THINKER.com: "KAFIR-PHOBIA: AMERICANS AS VIOLENT ANTI-MUSLIM BIGOTS" by Patrick Poole (August 31, 2006)

LittleGreenFootballs.com - Weblog: "CAIR ANTI-ISRAEL  CIRCUS BACKFIRES" (August 28, 2006)

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CNS NEWS.com: "MUSLIM GROUP WANTS CHRISTIAN LEADER BANNED FROM CANADA" by Alison Espach (July 17, 2006) (Read More...)

LittleGreenFootballs.com - Weblog: "CAIR PLAYS THE 'DUAL LOYALTY' CARD" (July 14, 2006)

THE AMERICAN MUSLIM.org: Washington, D.C. (July 13, 2006)-  "URGE CONGRESS, PRESIDENT TO CONDEMN ISRAELI ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS  CAIR" -Posted July 14, 2006

"littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=21511_CAIR-San_Antonio-_Withdrawal_Will_Be_Regarded_As_an_Act_of_Courage_and_Heroism" (July 12, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org: CAIR DEFENDS HAMAS TERRORISTS" (June 29, 2006)

"littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=21279_US_GIves_CAIR_a_Tour_of_OHare_Security" (June 28, 2006)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "CAIR FIFTH COLUMNISTS AND MULTICULTURALISTS" by Joe Kaufman (June 27, 2006)

LittleGreenFootballs.com - Weblog: "CAIR COMPLAINING TO FBI ABOUT BLOGS" (June 24, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (ARAB NEWS): "CAIR, WAMY TO LAUNCH MASSIVE PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN" (June 22, 2006)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "THE CAIR-UAE CONNECTION" by Paul Sperry (June 20, 2006)

HOT AIR.com - Blog - VENT with Michelle Malkin: "MARINE PROBE OVER HADJI GIRL" (June 15, 2006)

LittleGreenFootballs.com - Weblog: "HADJI GIRL UPDATE" (June 15, 2006)

LittleGreenFootballs.com - Weblog: "MAINSTREAM MEDIA DISGRACE OF THE MONTH: HADJI GIRL" (June 13, 2006)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "CAIR AND ISLAMIC JIHAD" by Joe Kaufman (May 23, 2006)

LittleGreenFootballs.com - Weblog: "CAIR ATTACKS LGF" (May 22, 2006)

DANIEL PIPES.org - Weblog: "WHY CAIR IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED" (May 12, 2006)

DANIEL PIPES.org (FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com): "CAIR BACKS DOWN FROM ANTI-CAIR" by Daniel Pipes (April 21, 2006)

LittleGreenFootballs.com - Weblog: "ANOTHER LEGAL DEFEAT FOR CAIR" (April 11, 2006)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "CAIR APRIL FOOLS" by Joe Kaufman (March 31, 2006)

CNS NEWS.com: "ISLAMIC GROUP WANTS PROBE OF ALLEGED US-ISRAELI  COLLABORATION" by Susan Jones (March 17, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (NEW YORK SUN): "ALARM SPREADS OVER REMARKS OF JAIL IMAM" (March 10, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (NEW YORK POST): "NEW YORK: TOP JAIL IMAM IN HATE TIRADE" (March 9, 2006)

THE COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG: "CAIR SUPPORTS IMAM JALIL'S HATEFUL VIEWS" (March 10, 2006)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "CAIR: ISLAMISTS FOOLING THE ESTABLISHMENT" by Daniel Pipes and Sharon Chadha (March 8, 2006)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "CAIR's DUBAI SUGAR DADDY" by Paul Sperry (March 1, 2006)

JIHADWATCH.org (THE DETROIT NEWS): "MUSLIM GROUPS CRITICIZE MSU FOR ONLINE CARICATURES" (February 28, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org: "CAIR's HOOPER PLUMPS FOR AID TO HAMAS TERRORISTS ON PBS" (February 25, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN via LGF): "CAIR BOARD MEMBER: RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH IS NOT ABSOLUTE" (February 22, 2006)

CNS NEWS.com: 'PRINTING CARTOONS LIKE SHOUTING 'FIRE,' SAYS RELIGIOUS LEADER" by Monisha Bansal (February 17, 2006)

CNS NEWS.com: "RADIO HOST APOLOGIZES FOR 'OUT OF LINE' REMARKS ON MUSLIMS" by Susan Jones (February 8, 2006)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "DEATH OF A TERROR LOBBY" by Joe Kaufman (February 3, 2006)

CNS NEWS.com: "US-BASED ISLAMIC GROUP WADES INTO MUSLIM-DANISH ROW" by Susan Jones (February 1, 2006)

CNS NEWS.com: "'DON'T OFFEND MUSLIMS, MR. PRESIDENT'" by Susan Jones (January 31, 2006)

LittleGreenFootballs.com - Weblog: "HANDEL FIRES BACK AT CAIR" (January 30, 2006)

KFI640.com: "HandelCAIRresponse"  (mp3) (January 30, 2006)

WorldNetDaily.com: "SCHOOL ALLOWS MUSLIMS TO PRAY  Reverses policy after confrontation with CAIR" (January 26, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): "CAIR, ACLU SUE TO STOP DOMESTIC SPYING PROGRAM" (ARTICLE SNIPPET:  "The Detroit suit, which also names the NSA, was filed by the ACLU, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Greenpeace and several individuals.") (January 17, 2006)

WorldNetDaily.com: "CAIR ISSUES U.S. 'TRAVEL ADVISORY'" (December 21, 2005)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AMERICANS AGAINST HATE.com): "CAIR-FL SPOKESMAN SAYS 'NOTHING IMMORAL' ABOUT ISLAMIC JIHAD" (December 13, 2005)

"www.internet-haganah.us/jihadi/pij.html"

JIHAD WATCH.org: "KAUFMAN AND EPSTEIN: CAIR HOTEL HELL" (December 2, 2005)

JIHAD WATCH.org: "D.C. WATSON: DOUBLE-CROSS" (November 14, 2005)

CNS NEWS.com: "CAIR CALLS FOR CALM IN FRANCE" by Melanie Hunter (November 8, 2005)

JIHAD WATCH.org: "THE LIES ESCALATE" (November 13, 2005)

JIHAD WATCH.org: "CAIR DEFAMES ME AGAIN" (November 9, 2005)

JIHAD WATCH.org: "CAIR GOES AFTER ME" (November 8, 2005)

DISCOVER THE NETWORKS: "PROFILE: CAIR by Investor's Business Daily" (August 8, 2005)

DANIEL PIPES.org - Weblog: "CAIR ACCEPTED AS 'MAINSTREAM'" (January 21, 2004) (UPDATED: October 25, 2005)

CNS NEWS.com: "CONGRESS URGED TO RECOGNIZE THE BEGINNING OF RAMADAN" (September 26, 2005)

FrontPageMagazine.com: "WHOSE SIDE IS CAIR ON?" by Andrew Whitehead (September 21, 2005)

JIHAD WATCH.org - DHIMMI WATCH: "DC Watson: CAIR: TRIVIALIZING 9/11 FOR THE SAKE OF ISLAM?" (September 18, 2005)

DanielPipes.org (FrontPageMagazine.com): "WHY CORPORATIONS FUND RADICAL ISLAM" by Daniel Pipes (September 2, 2005)

JIHAD WATCH.org: "MPAC, CAIR, ISNA FEEL EXCLUDED FROM THE STRUGGLE AGAINST TERRORISM" (August 30, 2005)

MichNews.com: "ACLU ALLIANCE WITH CAIR?" -Column by Sher Zieve (August 26, 2005)

CNS NEWS.com: "CAIR HAILS FIRING OF MICHAEL GRAHAM" by Randy Hall (August 22, 2005)

TOWNHALL.com: "CAIR 1, FREE SPEECH 0" -Column by Joel Mowbray (August 22, 2005)

TOWNHALL.com: "WELL, THEY GOT ME..." -Column by Michael Graham (August 22, 2005)

JIHAD WATCH.org (IndyStar): "CAIR, ACLU SUE GOV'T OVER BORDER SCRUTINY" (April 24, 2005)

DanielPipes.org - Weblog: "CAIR NAMED AS A DEFENDANT IN 9/11 TERROR LAWSUIT" (December 30, 2004) (NOTE: SEE AUGUST 15, 2005 UPDATE)

FrontPageMagazine.com: "CAIR FOUNDED BY 'ISLAMIST TERRORISTS'?" by Daniel Pipes and Sharon Chadha (July 28, 2005)

TheCounterterrorism Blog: "WALID PHARES: CAIR MUST CONDEMN AL QAIDA AND JIHADISM.." (July 28, 2005)

AMERICAN DAILY.com: "CAIR DISLIKES FREE SPEECH ON RADIO" by Pete Fisher (July 26, 2005)

WorldNetDaily.com: "CAIR TO GOP: REPUDIATE TANCREDO Upset by radio discussion about bombing Mecca" (July 22, 2005)

TOWNHALL.com: "THE MUSLIM HATE CRIME THAT WASN'T" -Column by Michelle Malkin (July 6, 2005)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "CAIRing for Sami Al-Arian" by Joe Kaufman (June 22, 2005)

CNS NEWS.com: "ISLAMIC GROUP CALLS FOR USE OF KORAN TO TAKE OATH" by Melanie Hunter (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "An Islamic civil rights and advocacy group is calling on North Carolina judges to allow people to use the Koran when taking an oath, saying the use of the Bible exclusively represents "an inappropriate state endorsement of religion." The request by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) comes after Guilford County judges said they would not allow use of Korans in their courtrooms.") (June 21, 2005)

DANIELPIPES.org - Weblog: "SIR IBRAHIM HOOPER AND LORD SALAM AL-MARAYATI?" (June 12, 2005)

JIHAD WATCH.org - Dhimmi Watch (AMERICANS AGAINST HATE): "JEB BUSH SENDS LETTER OF SUPPORT TO CAIR" (June 5, 2005)

ArabNews.com: Washinton: "CAIR OFFERING FREE QUR'AN COPIES TO AMERICANS" by Barbara Ferguson, Arab News (June 4, 2005)

"/littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=16089_NYT_Legitimizes_CAIR_(Again)&only" (June 4, 2005)

WorldNetDaily.com: "CAIR DISTRIBUTES QURAN BANNED AS ANTI-SEMITIC Version Offered for Free as Goodwill Response to Newsweek Fiasco" by Art Moore (June 2, 2005)

DanielPipes.org - Weblog: "MSM CRTICIZES CAIR, CAIR BRAZENS IT OUT" (May 23, 2005)

DANIEL PIPES.org (FrontPageMagazine.com): "CAIR's HATE CRIMES NONSENSE" by Daniel Pipes and Sharon Chadha (May 18, 2005)

CNS NEWS.com: "FREE KORANS FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE" by Susan Jones (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Over the weekend, CAIR held a conference in the Washington area on the causes and remedies of "Islamophobia and anti-Americanism."") (May 17, 2005)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "CAIR: HOW CLOSE TO TERRORISM?" by Andrew Whitehead and Lee Kaplan (May 11, 2005)

WorldNetDaily.com: "ACLU, CAIR DECRY ANTI-TERROR EFFORTS" April 20, 2005)

WorldNetDaily.com: "CAIR AND TERRORISM" -Commentary by Joseph Farah (April 18, 2005)

FrontPageMag.com: "CAIR's RADICAL NEXUS" by Josh Lefkowitz and Erick Stakelbeck (March 10, 2005)

INTERNET-HAGANAH.US: "WTF, OVER. [WHY IS THE DoD LIST SERVER BEING USED BY CAIR?]" (March 9, 2005)

ISLAM ONLINE.net: Washington - "CAIR PROPOSES WORLD ISLAMOPHOBIA REPORT" (January 14, 2005)

DanielPipes.org - Weblog: "CAIR NAMED AS A DEFENDANT IN 9/11 TERROR LAWSUIT" (December 30, 2004)

WorldNetDaily.com: "SCHOOLS TO OBSERVE RAMADAN HOLIDAY?" (December 16, 2004)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "CAIR vs. THE FBI" by Joe Kaufman and Beila Rabinowitz (August 22, 2003)

TIME.com: "KHALID SHEIKH MOHAMMED NAMES NAMES" by Elaine Shannon and Michael Weisskoff (March 24, 2003)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "SPEAK TO ME, IBRAHIM!" by Robert Spencer (March 10, 2003)