“If we are practicing Muslims, we are above the law of the land,” said Mustafa Carroll, executive director of the Dallas-Fort Worth CAIR branch.
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According to the event website, Muslims from around Texas went to the capitol to “promote civic and political activism throughout the wider Muslim community.”
The organizers said one major issue discussed “was the recent House and Senate bill proposals involving the implementation of ‘anti-Shariah’ legislation, where the First Amendment rights and freedoms of Muslims would ultimately be hindered.”
Critics argue Shariah prohibits other faiths from free exercise of religion when enforced, giving freedom only to Muslims.
Carroll’s statement was similar to a statement allegedly made by CAIR co-founder and former chairman Omar M. Ahmad. He was paraphrased by a reporter saying, “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant” and the Quran “should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”
Carroll began joking about the widespread concern about Shariah, the religious code that governs Muslim civil and political life.
“We tried to downplay Shariah, because we didn’t want to give the other side any excitement for being here,” he said.
He dismissed critics who express concern about Shariah, calling them “anti-foreign.”
“When you even say the word Shariah, people get nervous. We are not advocating for Shariah. We are not trying to make Shariah the law of the land,” he said.
Carroll claimed Muslims only want the “right to practice our faith.”
But he also said, “If you understand Shariah, the foundation of our faith … how we treat our neighbor, how we treat our parents … how we participate in society, all of that is part of Shariah.”
Carroll is on record defending Hamas, classified by the U.S. as a terrorist group.
“I think you can only blame Hamas for so long. It takes two to tango. And I think, you know, that what we’ve heard for a number of years is this terrorist, terrorist, terrorist, terrorist, Hamas, Hamas, Hamas, was not just Hamas,” he’s said.
At CAIR’s Dallas banquet in 2007, Carroll denied the Quran is the source of terrorism.
“Look at the true cause of the terrorism. It’s not somebody is reading a book, reading a Quran, and then go out and say, ‘Well, the Quran told me to blow this up. I’m gonna blow it up.’ The cause, the root cause of terrorism is oppression. The root cause of terrorism is oppression.”
Rev. Ronnie C. Lister, a social justice activist from the Houston area, spoke at Muslim Capitol Day.
“This country belongs to you. This state house is your state house. The police department is your police department,” he told the crowd. “This land is your land. … God is on your side … this is your house. [It] does not belong to the Republicans. It does not belong to the Democrats. It does not belong to just Americans. It belongs to all of us!
“We are looking for the day when a Muslim will become president of the United States; you heard it from me,” Lister said.
Islamic expert Frank Gaffney, founder of the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C., told WND that Carroll’s declaration of Islamic supremacy was consistent with Muslim teaching.
“When you hear one of their speakers say, we are above the law of the land – take it to the bank. That is what they really believe,” he said. “That is what all Muslims believe. That is what Shariah teaches. To the extent that Muslims adhere to Shariah, they are obliged to try and impose it on the rest of us.”
“The organized spread of Shariah is what Gaffney calls “civilization jihad.”
Gaffney, assistant secretary of defense for international security policy in the Reagan administration, noted CAIR was founded in 1993 to serve as a fundraising and political arm for Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Islam expert Daniel Pipes points out CAIR denied Osama Bin Laden was behind 9/11, even though bin Laden acknowledged his role on camera. In 1998, CAIR demanded removal of a billboard in Los Angeles that described bin Laden as “the sworn enemy,” saying that the description was “offensive to Muslims.”
CAIR also called the conviction of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers “a travesty of justice.
CAIR had on its advisory board Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. It was the same Siraj Wahhaj who was asked to deliver the “Juma,” or invocation, at the Democratic National Convention for President Obama. He also once remarked, “It is my duty and our duty as Muslims to replace the U.S. Constitution with the Quran.”
Rogues gallery of terror-tied CAIR leaders
As former FBI agent Mike Rolf acknowledges in “Muslim Mafia,” “CAIR has had a number of people in positions of power within the organization that have been directly connected to terrorism and have either been prosecuted or thrown out of the country.” According to another FBI veteran familiar with recent and ongoing cases involving CAIR officials, “Their offices have been a turnstile for terrorists and their supporters.”
A review of the public record, including federal criminal court documents, past IRS 990 tax records and Federal Election Commission records detailing donor occupations, reveals that CAIR has been associated with a disturbing number of convicted terrorists or felons in terrorism probes, as well as suspected terrorists and active targets of terrorism investigations. The list is long and includes:
FBI agents arresting CAIR founding director Ghassan Elashi in 2002. |
- Ghassan Elashi: One of CAIR’s founding directors, he was convicted in 2004 of illegally shipping high-tech goods to terror state Syria and is serving 80 months in prison. He was also convicted of providing material support to Hamas in the Holy Land Foundation terror-financing trial. He was chairman of the charity, which provided seed capital to CAIR. Elashi is related to Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook.
- Muthanna al-Hanooti: The CAIR director’s home was
raided in 2006 by FBI agents in connection with an active terrorism
investigation. Agents also searched the offices of his advocacy group,
Focus on Advocacy and Advancement of International Relations, which
al-Hanooti operates out of Dearborn, Mich., and Washington,
D.C.Al-Hanooti, who emigrated to the U.S. from Iraq, formerly helped run
a suspected Hamas terror front called LIFE for Relief and Development.
Its Michigan offices also were raided in September 2006. In 2004, LIFE’s
Baghdad office was raided by U.S. troops, who seized files and
computers. Al-Hanooti is related to Sheik Mohammed al-Hanooti, an
unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Muthanna al-Hanooti, wearing traditional headgarb
Although Al-Hanooti denies supporting Hamas, he has praised Palestinian suicide bombers as “martyrs” who are “alive in the eyes of Allah.” - Abdurahman Alamoudi: Another CAIR director, he is serving 23 years in federal prison for plotting terrorism. Alamoudi, who was caught on tape complaining that bin Laden hadn’t killed enough Americans in the U.S. embassy bombings in Africa, was one of al-Qaida’s top fundraisers in America, according to the U.S. Treasury Department.
- Siraj Wahhaj: A member of CAIR’s board of advisers,
Wahhaj was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World
Trade Center bombing. The radical Brooklyn imam was close to convicted
terrorist Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and defended him during his trial.
Imam Siraj Wahhaj
Wahhaj was a key speaker at CAIR’s 15th annual fund-raising banquet in Arlington, Va., in 2009. - Randall “Ismail” Royer: The former CAIR communications specialist and civil-rights coordinator is serving 20 years in prison in connection with the Virginia Jihad Network, which he led while employed by CAIR at its Washington headquarters. The group trained to kill U.S. soldiers overseas, cased the FBI headquarters and cheered the space shuttle Columbia tragedy. Al-Qaida operative Ahmed Abu Ali, convicted of plotting to assassinate President George W. Bush, was among those who trained with Royer’s Northern Virginia cell.
- Bassam Khafagi: Another CAIR official, Khafagi was arrested in 2003 while serving as CAIR’s director of community affairs. He pleaded guilty to charges of bank and visa fraud stemming from a federal counter-terror probe of his leadership role in the Islamic Assembly of North America, which has supported al-Qaida and advocated suicide attacks on America. He was sentenced to 10 months in prison and deported to his native Egypt.
- Laura Jaghlit: A civil-rights coordinator for CAIR,
her Washington-area home was raided by federal agents after 9/11 as
part of an investigation into terrorist financing, money laundering and
tax fraud. Her husband Mohammed Jaghlit, a key leader in the
Saudi-backed SAAR network, is a target of the still-active probe.Jaghlit
sent two letters accompanying donations – one for $10,000, the other
for $5,000 – from the SAAR Foundation to Sami al-Arian, now a convicted
terrorist. In each letter, according to a federal affidavit, “Jaghlit
instructed al-Arian not to disclose the contribution publicly or to the
media.”Investigators suspect the funds were intended for Palestinian
terrorists via a U.S. front called WISE, which at the time employed an
official who personally delivered a satellite phone battery to Osama bin
Laden. The same official also worked for Jaghlit’s group.In addition,
Jaghlit donated a total of $37,200 to the Holy Land Foundation, which
prosecutors say is a Hamas front. Jaghlit subsequently was named an
unindicted co-conspirator in the case.
Nihad Awad - Nihad Awad: Wiretap evidence from the Holy Land
case puts CAIR’s executive director at the Philadelphia meeting of Hamas
leaders and activists in 1993 that was secretly recorded by the FBI.
Participants hatched a plot to disguise payments to Hamas terrorists as
charitable giving.During the meeting, according to FBI transcripts, Awad
was recorded discussing the propaganda effort. He mentions Ghassan
Dahduli, whom he worked with at the time at the Islamic Association for
Palestine, another Hamas front. Both were IAP officers. Dahduli’s name
also was listed in the address book of bin Laden’s personal secretary,
Wadi al-Hage, who is serving a life sentence in prison for his role in
the U.S. embassy bombings. Dahduli, an ethnic-Palestinian like Awad, was
deported to Jordan after 9/11 for refusing to cooperate in the terror
investigation. (An April 28, 2009, letter from FBI assistant director
Richard C. Powers to Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. – which singles out CAIR
chief Awad for suspicion – explains how the group’s many Hamas
connections caused the FBI to sever ties with CAIR.)Awad’s and Dahduli’s
phone numbers are listed in a Muslim Brotherhood document seized by
federal investigators revealing “important phone numbers” for the
“Palestine Section” of the Brotherhood in America. The court exhibit
showed Hamas fugitive Mousa Abu Marzook listed on the same page with
Awad.
Omar Ahmad - Omar Ahmad: U.S. prosecutors also named CAIR’s
founder and chairman emeritus as an unindicted co-conspirator in the
Holy Land case. Ahmad, too, was placed at the Philadelphia meeting, FBI
special agent Lara Burns testified at the trial. Prosecutors also
designated him as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s “Palestine
Committee” in America. Ahmad, like his CAIR partner Awad, is
ethnic-Palestinian.(Though both Ahmad and Awad were senior leaders of
IAP, the Hamas front, neither of their biographical sketches posted on
CAIR’s website mentions their IAP past.)
Nabil Sadoun - Nabil Sadoun: A CAIR board member, Sadoun has served on the board of the United Association for Studies and Research, which investigators believe to be a key Hamas front in America. In fact, Sadoun co-founded UASR with Hamas leader Marzook. The Justice Department added UASR to the list of unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land case. UPDATE: In 2010, Sadoun was ordered deported to his native Jordan. An immigration judge referenced Sadoun’s relationship with Hamas and the Holy Land Foundation during a deportation hearing.
- Mohamed Nimer: CAIR’s research director also served
as a board director for UASR, the strategic arm for Hamas in the U.S.
CAIR neglects to mention Nimer’s and Sadoun’s roles in UASR in their
bios.
Mohamed Nimer - Rafeeq Jaber: A founding director of CAIR, Jaber was the long-time president of the Islamic Association for Palestine. In 2002, a federal judge found that “the Islamic Association for Palestine has acted in support of Hamas.” In his capacity as IAP chief, Jaber praised Hezbollah attacks on Israel. He also served on the board of a radical mosque in the Chicago area.
- Rabith Hadid: The CAIR fundraiser was a founder of the Global Relief Foundation, which after 9/11 was blacklisted by the Treasury Department for financing al-Qaida and other terror groups. Its assets were frozen in December 2001. Hadid was arrested on terror-related charges and deported to Lebanon in 2003.
- Hamza Yusuf: The FBI investigated the CAIR board member after 9/11, because just two days before the attacks, he made an ominous prediction to a Muslim audience.”This country is facing a terrible fate, and the reason for that is because this country stands condemned,” Yusuf warned. “It stands condemned like Europe stood condemned because of what it did. And lest people forget, Europe suffered two world wars after conquering the Muslim lands.”
“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant,” a local reporter paraphrased him as saying. “The Quran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”
Ahmad insists he was misquoted. However, the reporter stands by her story, and an FBI wiretap transcript quotes Ahmad agreeing with terrorist suspects gathered at the secret Philadelphia meeting to “camouflage” their true intentions.
He compared it to the head fake in basketball.
“This is like one who plays basketball: He makes a player believe that he is doing this, while he does something else,” Ahmad said. “I agree with you. Like they say, politics is a completion of war.”
Hooper, CAIR’s communications director, also has expressed a desire to overturn the U.S. system of government in favor of an Islamic state.
“I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future,” Hooper said in a 1993 interview with the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “But I’m not going to do anything violent to promote that. I’m going to do it through education.”
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