AFDI/SIOA Calls on Oregon College to Reinstate Teacher, Repudiate Islamic
Supremacist Hate Group CAIR
NEW YORK, Dec. 7, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The human rights group
Stop Islamization of America (SIOA), a program of the American Freedom
Defense Initiative (AFDI), today called on Lane Community College of Eugene,
Oregon to reinstate Professor Barry Sommer and his class on Islam. Lane fired
Sommer and dropped his course after pressure from the Hamas-linked Islamic
supremacist hate group the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
SIOA further calls on Lane Community College to repudiate CAIR and institute
mandatory counter-jihad sensitivity training for all students, faculty and
employees.
"An Islamic supremacist hate group like CAIR must not be allowed to
intimidate our nation's educational institutions and dictate how young
Americans
are to be informed about the Islamic jihad threat," said Pamela Geller,
executive director of AFDI/SIOA.
Hamas-linked CAIR succeeded in getting Sommer fired and his course dropped
after smearing the counter-jihad civil defense group Act for America as an
"anti-Muslim hate group." Sommer is the president of Act for America's
Oregon chapter.
In reality, CAIR is the hate group, with numerous ties to jihad terror.
Lane Community College should accordingly reinstate Sommer and his course and
issue a public apology for bowing to CAIR's demands.
Recently U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis cited "ample evidence" that
CAIR participated in a "criminal conspiracy" led by the Holy Land Foundation,
Hamas's main fund-raising arm in the U.S. CAIR was named an unindicted
co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror funding case.
The FBI has discontinued all contact with CAIR because of its terror ties.
CAIR has previously attempted to intimidate numerous government agencies
and citizens' groups into dropping events featuring foes of international
jihad activity, including SIOA's Executive Director Pamela Geller and
associate director Robert Spencer, Act for America's Brigitte Gabriel, and
others. In the summer of 2010 it has embarked upon a concerted campaign of
intimidation and defamation to silence public figures who speak out against
jihad
and Islamic terrorism, including Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), the Rev.
Franklin Graham, Florida Congressional candidate Dan Fanelli, and
Connecticut Congressional candidate Rick Torres.
CAIR has a long record of duplicity and deception. Although it has received
millions of dollars in donations from foreign Islamic entities, it has not
registered as a foreign agent as required by the Foreign Agents
Registration Act (FARA), despite spreading Islamic supremacist propaganda
within the
United States.
Although it presents itself as a civil rights group, CAIR actually has
numerous links to Islamic supremacist and jihad terror groups. CAIR founders
Omar Ahmad and Niwad Awad (who still serves as CAIR's executive director)
were present at a Hamas planning meeting in Philadelphia in 1993 where they
and other Hamas operatives conspired to raise funds for Hamas and to promote
jihad in the Middle East. CAIR has steadfastly refused to denounce Hamas
and Hizballah as terrorist groups.
Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related
to jihad terror:
* Ghassan Elashi, founder of CAIR's Texas chapter, in 2009 received a
65-year prison sentence for funneling over $12 million from the Islamic
charity known as the Holy Land Foundation to the jihad terrorist group
Hamas, which is responsible for murdering hundreds of Israeli civilians
* Mousa Abu Marzook, a former CAIR official, was designated by the
U.S. government in 1995 as a "terrorist and Hamas leader." He now is a Hamas
leader in Syria.
* Randall Royer, CAIR's former civil rights coordinator, in 2004
began serving a 20-year prison sentence for aiding al-Qaida and the Taliban
against American troops in Afghanistan and recruiting for Lashkar e-Taiba, the
jihadist group responsible for the 2008 Mumbai jihad massacres.
* Bassem Khafagi, CAIR's former community relations director, was
arrested for involvement with the Islamic Assembly of North America, which
was linked to al-Qaida. After pleading guilty to visa and bank fraud charges,
Khafagi was deported.
* Rabih Haddad, a former CAIR fundraiser, was deported for his work
with the Global Relief Foundation (which he co-founded), a terror-financing
organization.
In 1998 Omar Ahmad, CAIR's co-founder and longtime Board Chairman, said:
"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become
dominant. The Koran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the
only
accepted religion on Earth."
After he received unwelcome publicity as a result of this statement, Ahmad
denied saying it, several years after the fact. However, the original
reporter, Lisa Gardiner of the Fremont Argus, stands by her story.
CAIR's spokesman Ibrahim Hooper once said: "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."
SIOA calls on all free citizens to contact Lane Community College, asking
politely that they repudiate CAIR and reinstate Sommer:
Mary Spilde, President
Lane Community College
4000 East 30th Ave
Eugene, OR 97405
541-463-3000
[email protected]
_Tracy Simms_ (mailto:[email protected]) , Executive Assistant to the
President, (541) 463-5889
_Joan Aschim_ (mailto:[email protected]) , Public Information Officer,
(541) 463-5591
AFDI/SIOA is one of America's foremost organizations defending human
rights, religious liberty, and the freedom of speech against Islamic
supremacist
intimidation and attempts to bring elements of Sharia to the United States.
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