CAIR's Identity Crisis: Defending Civil Rights or the Palestinian (Hamas) Struggle?

During the 1990s, the Muslim Brotherhood created a support network in the United States to help Hamas politically and financially. It was called the Palestine Committee. According to documents seized by the FBI by some of the committee's members, that committee included some prominent Muslim American political activists, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) – perhaps the most influential Muslim American political group.

As the war between Israel and Hamas raged in Gaza during the past month, legacy members of the Palestine Committee – the Hamas support network – found themselves back in the fight for public hearts and minds, as this Investigative Project on Terrorism special report shows.

Click on the following links to see the documents shown in the video tying CAIR to the Palestine Committee:

"The object of the conspiracy was to support Hamas." This comes from a prosecution response to CAIR's brief trying to be removed from a list of unindicted co-conspirators in the Hamas-financing trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development.

1994 Palestine Committee meeting agenda featuring CAIR as a Palestine Committee entity.

Internal Memo, "Islamic Action for Palestine," about helping Hamas politically and financially. It was seized by the FBI among a trove of Palestine Committee records.

Transcripts from a 1993 Palestine Committee in Philadelphia secretly recorded by the FBI:

1. "We checked with the brothers and they said, 'Let's be the ones to say that we are a political entity..."

2. War is deception.

Palestine Committee phone list including Nihad Awad and Basman Elashi.

2009 FBI letter explaining why it no longer engages in outreach communication with CAIR.

2006 DOJ press release announcing Basman Elashi's conviction for illegal business transactions with a terrorist.

Rasmieh Odeh indictment for naturalization fraud.

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really

Aug 13, 2014 14:12

You are so foolish. Go watch some more Sean Hannity....

CAIRs identity crisis

Submitted by Faxxmaxx, Aug 11, 2014 21:10

And yet how many times have hotels hosted CAIR events? How many churches have opened their doors to CAIR speakers? Like al Jezeera America, who sells American companies advertising time, they are able to draw the ignorant in. CAIR is a political action organization, trying to bully their way into local governments and school boards around the country pushing for sharia. The Muslim Students organization, in every college in America looks for new recruits. Another Muslim Brotherhood arm.

if Europe isn't enough of a lesson in the failure of multiculturalism, our cities will be battle grounds as well. Vigilance is the only way to keep this vile poison from spreading.

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Submitted by RT, Aug 11, 2014 15:51

Can't help to think, why is the government still letting CAIR in America? And for that matter, the UN. I think we have a lot of idiot people who are governing our country.

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