Of course CAIR's founders are linked to terrorism.
Bruce
<http://anti-cair-net.org/Response.html> Since its founding in 1994, the
Council on American-Islamic Relations and its employees have combined,
conspired, and agreed with third parties, including, but not limited to, the
Islamic Association for Palestine ("
<http://www.discoverthenetwork.com/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=6215> IAP"),
the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development ("
<http://www.discoverthenetwork.com/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=6181> HLF"),
the Global Relief Foundation ("
<http://www.discoverthenetwork.com/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=6355> GRF"),
and foreign nationals hostile to the interests of the United States, to
provide material support to known terrorist organizations, to advance the
Hamas agenda, and to propagate radical Islam. The Council on
American-Islamic Relations, and certain of its officers, directors, and
employees, have acted in support of, and in furtherance of, this conspiracy.
<http://anti-cair-net.org/Response.html> Senior CAIR employee Randall
Todd Royer, a/k/a "Ismail" Royer, pled guilty and was sentenced to twenty
years in prison for participating in a network of militant jihadists
centered in Northern Virginia. He admitted to aiding and abetting three
persons who sought training in a terrorist camp in Pakistan for the purpose
of waging jihad against American troops in Afghanistan. Royer's illegal
actions occurred while he was employed with CAIR.
<http://anti-cair-net.org/Response.html> CAIR's Director of
Community Relations, Bassem Khafagi , was arrested by the United States due
to his ties with a terror-financing front group. Khafagi pled guilty to
charges of visa and bank fraud, and agreed to be deported to Egypt.
Khafagi's illegal actions occurred while he was employed by CAIR.
On December 18, 2002, <http://anti-cair-net.org/Response.html>
Ghassan Elashi, founding board member of CAIR-Texas, a founder of the Holy
Land Foundation, and a brother-in-law of
<https://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-kohlmann010203.asp> Musa Abu
Marzook , was arrested by the United States and charged with, among other
things, making false statements on export declarations, dealing in the
property of a designated terrorist organization, conspiracy and money
laundering. Ghassan Elashi committed his crimes while working at CAIR, and
was found Guilty.
<http://anti-cair-net.org/Response.html> CAIR Board Member Imam
Siraj Wahaj, an un-indicted co-conspirator in the first World Trade Center
bombing, has called for replacing the American government with an Islamic
caliphate, and warned that America will crumble unless it accepts Islam.
<http://www.anti-cair-net.org/OneillVsCAIR.pdf> Rabih Hadid
<http://www.anti-cair-net.org/OneillVsCAIR.pdf> served as a CAIR
Fundraiser. Haddad was co-founder of the Global Relief Foundation ("GRF").
GRF was designated by the US Treasury Department for financing the Al Qaida
and other terrorist organizations and its assets were frozen by the US
Government on December 14, 2001.
http://www.forward.com/articles/7303
PBS Station Nixes Show On Terrorism
By JENNIFER SIEGEL
February 3, 2006
Following last-minute cries of protest from Muslim leaders last week, a
Public Broadcasting Service affiliate in Dallas canceled the premiere of a
documentary on the roots of Islamic terrorism.
"The Roots of War: The Road to Peace" was scheduled to air on KERA-TV on
Sunday, January 29, but the premiere was postponed by the station's managers
after a local Muslim group alleged that the program contains inaccuracies
and anti-Muslim bias. The documentary's producers, Niki and Dennis
McCuistion, have defended their work; they have refused to make changes.
The Dallas controversy emerged last week just as an international feud
reached a boiling point over a Danish newspaper's publication of satirical
cartoons of the prophet Muhammad. After the Danish government refused to
issue a sanction against the independent newspaper that ran the cartoons,
Libya and Saudi Arabia withdrew their ambassadors from Copenhagen and Muslim
organizations called for a boycott of Danish goods (see Page 1).
American Jewish community leaders drew a connection between the two
controversies, even though Muslim leaders in Texas voiced their protests in
terms that were described as respectful by the Dallas station and by the
producers.
"There's a real danger in this," American Jewish Congress general counsel
Marc Stern said in an interview with the Forward. "Whatever the legalities,
you take all this together, and you have the Muslim world saying, 'You can't
criticize us.' It's one thing for them to say, 'You can't come to Saudi
Arabia and criticize us,' but to say, 'You can't criticize us in Denmark,
and you can't criticize us in the United States' - even the excess and
extremism in some parts of the Muslim world - that's a rather glum and
ominous state of affairs."
"The Roots of War" is a two-hour documentary that combines footage shot in
several Middle Eastern countries, including Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria and
Lebanon. Commentary is included from such sources as 9-11 Commission member
John F. Lehman, Palestinian legislator Hanan Ashrawi, Jewish communal
leaders, the grand ayatollah of Lebanon, United States Ambassador James C.
Oberwetter and Richard Miniter, the author of "Losing bin Laden: How Bill
Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror."
Mohamed Elibiary, president of the Dallas-based Muslim advocacy group The
Freedom and Justice Foundation, raised concerns after viewing the film at an
advance screening.
"I was expecting them to break new ground, to take not a pro the other side
[view], but take a close look at the other side and take a more critical
look at our side here, and see, does the other side have any story to tell,
have anything to say," Elibiary told the Forward. "Unfortunately, they
failed in that regard."
Elibiary's organization sent the station a letter of concern several days
before the documentary was set to air, alleging that the film inaccurately
portrays the distinction between Wahhabism and Salafism, two strains of
Islam. The letter also stated that film incorrectly includes the nation's
largest Muslim advocacy group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, on
a list of American organizations with "associates" convicted of terrorism
and that it repeatedly shows a Texas mosque even though the program focuses
on radical Islam in the Middle East. The letter acknowledged "every
documentary maker's right" to express his or her own viewpoint, but it asked
the Dallas PBS affiliate to postpone the broadcast, add a disclaimer and
tape a "citizen town hall" meeting, to air following the program. Niki
McCuistion said that her team is willing to add a disclaimer and to tape a
town hall segment, but it will not make changes to the documentary's
content.
Richard Pearlstein, a professor of political science at Southeastern
Oklahoma State University who studies terrorism, was interviewed in the
film. He told the Forward that, in his view, the end product is "extremely
accurate and evenhanded and balanced" and that it makes clear the
distinction between radical and mainstream Islam.
Officials and KERA-TV defended their decision to postpone the documentary in
an effort to ensure that they were airing the final version. They said they
plan to run it in April.
Elibiary characterized his discussions with both the station and the
McCuistions as positive and focused on cooperation.
But he cautioned that "every community keeps all its civic rights on the
table," and that the foundation will "use all the levers" if what it views
as inaccuracies are not corrected.
"We'll let the station know and every station in the country know that this
is an inaccurate product and it's defamatory to Islam and the American
Muslim community and we ask you not to air it," he said.
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