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CAIR: The Other Fifth Column
December 13, 2006 06:56 PM EST
by Jim Kouri - The Islamic terrorists' Fifth Column in the US -- no, not the
news media, the other Fifth Column -- the Council on American-Islamic
Relations is once again at the forefront of mischief-making in their goal of
undermining US efforts in combating terrorism.
CAIR is encouraging Muslims to file civil rights complaints and lawsuits if
they "feel" they are being discriminated against by US airlines. Citing what
it called the "airport profiling" of six imams removed from a recent US
Airways flight, CAIR said Muslims traveling this month to the holy site in
Saudi Arabia need to be aware of their rights.
"Given the increase in the number of complaints CAIR has received alleging
airport profiling of American Muslims, we believe it is important that all
those taking part in this year's hajj be aware of their legal and civil
rights," said Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR spokesman.
But M. Zuhdi Jasser, a Phoenix physician and chairman of the American
Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD), told the Washington Times that the
announcement by CAIR "continues the tired stoking of the flames of
victimization."
"They are unfortunately exploiting, for purely political reasons, what
should be a sacred and purely spiritual story of our faith's annual holy
pilgrimage to Mecca," Dr. Jasser said.
"We need new leadership and organizations which use their passions and the
bandwidth of the media to lead the ideological fight against radical and
political Islam rather than this tired pre-emption of supposed
discrimination," he added.
CAIR is representing the six imams removed from a US Airways flight last
month and has asked for a meeting with the airline to seek an out-of-court
settlement. It maintains that police and witness reports detailing the imams
unusual behavior before their removal last month were ethnically and/or
religiously motivated.
The imams say they were praying and did not, as the reports say, change
seats and make remarks critical of President Bush and the Iraq war.
However, according to police reports, the imams exhibited suspicious
behavior such as having two imams sit at the front of the plane, two in the
center and two in the rear of the aircraft. They also possessed one-way
tickets and were loudly speaking Arabic as if to bring attention to
themselves. Another Muslim passenger told police that the imams made
anti-American comments, as well.
Pilots and air marshals called the incident a "PC probe" to intimidate
passengers and crew from reporting suspicious behavior by Muslim passengers
and are fearful the incident will set off a domino effect of lawsuits,
according to journalist Sher Zieve, who's been covering radical Islam for
several publications.
A counterterrorism expert told this writer that he believes the incident was
a "put up job" planned and implemented with the assistance of CAIR. The goal
being to put airport and airline security personnel on the defensive.
Debra Burlingame, whose brother was the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77
that crashed into the Pentagon on September 11, thinks this is a ploy to
extort money from the airlines.
"I think CAIR is soliciting complaints, and if they don't get it, they will
make it up," said Miss Burlingame, who is also a director for the World
Trade Center Memorial Foundation.
While CAIR continues to portray itself as a moderate organization, its
history is filled with red flags that are ignored by the mainstream news
media.
According to a report from the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism
and HomelandSecurity: 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 , the
Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, the Global Relief
Foundation, 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, said the Senate report.
Dr. Daniel Pipes, a foremost expert on radical Islam and terrorism cites
several criminal cases involving CAIR officials:
A senior staff member, Randall 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 by CAIR.
Their Director of Public Affairs, Bassem Kafagi was arrested by the US 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.
Ghassan Elashi, a founder of CAIR Texas chapter and founder of the Holy Land
Foundation was arrested by the United States and charged with, 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.
CAIR Board Member Imam Siraj Wahaj, an un-indicted co-conspirator in the
1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, has called for replacing the
American government with an Islamic caliphate, and warned that America will
crumble unless it accepts Islam.
Whenever CAIR is accused of wrongdoing, their spokesmen are quick to tell
Americans that its leadership have been guests at President Bush's White
House and that they are regularly consulted by US officials on matters
involving homeland security.
Too be sure, the Bush Administration intentionally or unintentionally
provides CAIR with cover, but the officials with whom CAIR staff claim they
work are usually people such as Rep. John Conyers, a Democrat serving a
large Muslim population in Michigan, and a long-time terrorist and Marxist
sympathizer. CAIR and other Muslim groups have funneled campaign
contributions to Conyers, who in January begins his tenure as chairman of
the House Judiciary Committee.
Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association
of Chiefs of Police and he's a staff writer for the New Media Alliance
(thenma.org). He's former chief at a New York City housing project in
Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war
in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New
Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations.
He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and
security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and
security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer
and others. He's a news writer for TheConservativeVoice.Com and PHXnews.com.
He's also a columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com,
MichNews.Com, and he's syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. He's appeared as
on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including
Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. His book
Assume The Position is available at Amazon.Com. Kouri's own website is
located at <http://jimkouri.us%A0%A0/> jimkouri.us
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