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Get Yourself a Burner Phone! CAIR's Handy-Dandy Guide for Campus Agitators Who Want to Escape Deportation |
2025-03-28 |
[RedState] Every once in a while, an email lands in your inbox that makes you wonder, "How the heck did I get on this email list?" Such is the case with an email I received yesterday from Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). I suspect I'll be dumped from that email list rather quickly, but, until then, I'll play Jeffrey Goldberg for a bit (although CAIR isn't exactly being secretive about their intent to help campus agitators escape justice). The email's subject line was, "CAIR Releases ‘Travel and Free Speech Guidance During the Trump Administration’," and in the body of the email, CAIR links to a guide for "non-citizens," campus agitators and other troublemakers of the antisemitic kind on how to avoid being detained and deported/repatriated by the Trump administration. They very helpfully offer separate guidance for those who are here legally and those who may be visa or green card deficient. There was also a link to the recording of a recent CAIR seminar, which doubled as a Ramadan fundraiser, that was full of handy-dandy tips for those who mistake being offered the privilege of studying in the United States for an open invitation to rampage, always while masked, across college campuses while calling for the wholesale elimination of the state of Israel. Israel is also known as one of the U.S.'s closest allies, which only seems to embolden the agitators. Here's a bit of CAIR's guidance on how to make sure your digital footprint is invisible to law enforcement: "Delete some of the apps, some pictures you have on your phone. Things that you think are maybe innocent, but in this day and age, with the Mahmoud Khalil’s case [sic], what are they charging with all this—it’s not my job as an immigration attorney to make the community fearful, but be smart about what we’re doing," said Spojmie Nasiri, an immigration attorney on CAIR’s National Board of Directors. If any of this rings a bell, it's because Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a citizen of Lebanon who worked as a professor at Brown University, was recently given a one-way ticket home after U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officials at Boston's Logan International Airport discovered deleted photos on her phone of Hezbollah militants. In fact, Dr. Alewiah was trying to get back into the United States after having attended the funeral of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed by the Israeli Air Force back in September, while on a visit home to Lebanon. The message from CAIR is clear: don't be a Rasha Alawieh. Delete those photos showing you're a terrorist-loving simp! Better yet, get a burner phone. "Maybe buy a burner phone, or maybe have a backup phone," she added. Nasiri also warned that non-citizens’ phones are subject to searches after traveling abroad and recommended setting up two-factor authentication and turning off facial recognition. CAIR also advises those with expired visas to not go back to their home countries to "get your stamp" because you might not be allowed back into the US. It's apparently better to be an illegal subversive than actually behave yourself while here. It's obvious that CAIR is miffed at the recent crackdown by the Trump administration on foreigners who use their time in the U.S. not to help make it better, but to stoke dissent. And, hey, it's clearly good for CAIR's business to peddle in its perverse form of antisemitic and anti-American "tourism." Related: CAIR: 2025-03-26 Inside the new fifth column-Meet the CAIR-Linked Group That Aims To Place Muslim Americans in Federal Jobs CAIR: 2025-03-20 Nolte: San Francisco Gay Pride Parade Loses Longtime Sponsors CAIR: 2025-03-19 Hamas-linked CAIR chapters accused of ‘financial irregularities’ with $7 million taxpayer cash now unaccounted for Related: Deported 03/27/2025 DOJ investigating Rhode Island schools over loan forgiveness program only for 'educators of color' Deported 03/26/2025 Illegal immigrant in Texas who purchased thousands of rounds for Mexican drug cartel gets 5 years in prison Deported 03/26/2025 Massive ICE raid in Boston area resulted in nearly 400 illegals arrested, including more than 200 with ‘serious’ criminal convictions/charges. Related: Rasha Alawieh 03/27/2025 DOJ investigating Rhode Island schools over loan forgiveness program only for 'educators of color' Rasha Alawieh 03/26/2025 Massive ICE raid in Boston area resulted in nearly 400 illegals arrested, including more than 200 with ‘serious’ criminal convictions/charges. Rasha Alawieh 03/25/2025 Homan blasts blue state as report shows it releasing illegals charged with ‘horrific' crimes on low bails |
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Labor group levels charges of union busting against Muslim rights organization: |
2017-04-22 |
[FoxNews] The nation’s largest Muslim advocacy organization has been hit with charges of union busting amid a row with a labor union attempting to organize its Washington, D.C., staff. The Maryland-based Service Employees International Union Local 500 filed a charge of unfair labor practices against the Council on American-Islamic Relations -- alleging that the Islamic civil rights group denied union organizers access to the workplace, made threatening and coercive statements to workers ahead of a planned organizing vote and fired at least three employees for attempting to organize workers. The charges -- which delayed the scheduled Monday workplace organizing vote by CAIR’s staff scheduled -- were filed with the National Labor Relations Board, the United States main federal labor law enforcement agency. The filings were posted on the NLRB’s website, but the actual complaint from the SEIU Local 500 has not been made public. A spokesman for SEIU Local 500 told Fox News that the filing and the delay of the vote on Monday was necessary because of the atmosphere of “intimidation and fear” at CAIR. “The vote was postponed because there is so much union busting going on over there that it is impossible to have a fair election,” said SEIU Local 500 spokesman Christopher Honey. “The whole things seems totally antithetical to what they do with their work at CAIR.” In a statement provided to Fox News, CAIR called the charges leveled against the organization “meritless” and said it “strongly supports the organized labor movement.” The communications director at CAIR, Ibrahim Hooper, did not answer Fox News’ question of whether or not the organization supported its own workers unionizing and instead referred back to CAIR’s statement. “CAIR has remained neutral throughout this process and respects the free choice of employees,” the statement said. “We look forward to the election going forward as soon as possible.” CAIR was formed in 1994 under the auspices of working to promote social, legal and political activism among Muslims in America. Over the years the group has had to fend off numerous charges that it is pursuing an Islamist agenda. While SEIU Local 500 asserts that they filed charges and delayed the vote because of intimidation tactics on the part of CAIR management, Hooper implied that the union wanted a delay because they didn’t have enough votes to actually unionize. If successful, SEIU Local 500 would represent between 17 and 20 non-management employees at CAIR’s Washington D.C. office. SEIU Local 500 attests that last October they begin the push to unionize after being approached by CAIR employees who told the union they had a majority of employees in support of going that route. “We went in with the majority of cards on our side,” Honey said. CAIR has argued to the NLRB that it is a religious organization and exempt from the National Labor Relations Act. But earlier this month, a regional administrator at the NLRD disagreed when ruling that CAIR was "more akin to a secular civil rights group" and therefore its workers were free to unionize – a ruling that CAIR has so far rejected. |
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OH hotel clerk freaks out over man in thobe speaking on cell phone |
2016-07-02 |
AVON, Ohio - A 911 call alleging that a hotel patron pledged his allegiance to ISIS caused panic at an Avon hotel earlier this week. On Wednesday just before 6 p.m., the Avon Police Department received a 911 call from the sister of a woman working as a clerk at the Fairfield Inn and Suites on Colorado Avenue. The caller said her sister told her there was a man in the hotel lobby "in full head dress with multiple disposable phones pledging his allegiance to ISIS." According to police, she repeated that there was a "suspicious mal at the front desk with disposable phones, two of them, in a full head dress." Apparently the head dress little resembled the one worn by Mel Brooks during his cinematic attack on schwarzes riding in a covered wagon. Now that the highest US legal authorities went stupid far out of their way to obscure a real ISIS inspired attack, the little people on the front lines now must make their own threat assessments, however ill-informed. Ibrahim Hooper of CAIR mentioned "anti-Muslim bigotry". |
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Meanwhile, An Islamic Fifth Column Builds Inside America |
2015-10-04 |
[NEWS.INVESTORS] In berating GOP presidential hopeful Ben Carson ... a neurosurgeon who is under the impression that being brilliant qualifies him to be president.... for suggesting a loyalty test for Moslems seeking high office, CNN host Jake Tapper maintained that he doesn't know a single observant Moslem-American who wants to Islamize America. Meaning no one's rigged his car with explosives yet. Tapper doesn't get out much. If he did, chances are he'd run into some of the 51% of Moslems living in the U.S. who just this June told Polling Co. they preferred having "the choice of being governed according to Shariah," or Islamic law. Or the 60% of Moslem-Americans under 30 who told Pew Research they're more loyal to Islam than America. If your loyalty is to Allah, whose will is interpreted by your local holy man, you're not loyal to the U.S.A., whose structure was laid out by Jefferson and Madison and Hamilton, et al. Maybe they're all heretics, so let's see what the enlightened Moslems think. Oh, come now. Do we ever let facts interfere with an opinion? If Tapper did a little independent research he'd quickly find that America's most respected Islamic leaders and scholars also want theocracy, not democracy, and even advocate trading the Constitution for the Koran. They're also the holy men who do the interpreting. These aren't fringe players. These are the brass hats representing the Moslem establishment in America today. Hopefully none of them ever runs for president, because here's what he'd have to say about the U.S. system of government: • Muzammil Siddiqi ... issued a fatwa on Islam Online, stating By participating in a non-Islamic system, one cannot rule by that which Allah has commanded.... We must not forget that Allah's rules have to be established in all lands, and all our efforts should lead to that direction.In 2002, federal authorities raided headquarters of the Fiqh Council. However, no arrests were made, and in fact in July 2005, Siddiqi's Fiqh Council of North America publicly issued a fatwa piously stating Islam's condemnation of terrorism and religious extremism..... , chairman of both the Fiqh Council of North America, which dispenses Islamic rulings, and the North American Islamic Trust ...holds titles to the real estate assets of Islamic centers and schools in more than forty States. Properties are operated primarily for the purpose of religious worship. In addition, NAIT pools the American Muslim community’s assets under its Islamic Centers Cooperative Fund, and publishes credible Islamic literature under its American Trust Publications. Through a wholly-owned for-profit subsidiary, NAIT develops financial vehicles that are compatible with both the Shariah and American law, e.g. mutual funds..... , which owns most of the mosques in the U.S.: "As Moslems, we should participate in the system to safeguard our interests and try to bring gradual change, (but) we must not forget that Allah's rules have to be established in all lands, and all our efforts should lead to that direction." • Omar Ahmad ...founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). He also worked for the Islamic Association of Palestine, a precursor to CAIR. He was born in Amman, Jordan. He holds a Masters in Computer Science from Santa Clara University as well as a Masters in Political Science. Says the reporter who quoted him saying the Koran must become the supreme authority in the U.S.A. is a liar, damn her..... , co-founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations ... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ... , the top Moslem lobby group in Washington: "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." • CAIR ...designated a terrorist group by the UAE... front man Ibrahim Hooper: "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." • Imam Siraj Wahhaj, director of the Moslem Alliance in North America ...a predominantly black organization representing Moslems indigenous to the United States, founded in 2001 by Siraj Wahhaj, believed to be a co-conspirator to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, and Ihsan Bagby. The latter is currently MANA’s General Secretary. Convicted cop-killer Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (formerly known as H. Rap Brown) was once a driving force behind MANA and continues to enjoy the organization's support. MANA seeks to establish Shariah as the governing principle of American society. MANA is part of the American Moslem Task Force on Civil Rights and Elections (AMTF), along with American Muslim Alliance, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Circle of North America, the Islamic Society of North America, the Muslim American Society, the Moslem Public Affairs Council, the Muslim Students’ Association of the U.S. and Canada, the Muslim Ummah of North America, Project Islamic Hope, and United Moslems of America... : "In time, this so-called democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing. And the only thing that will remain will be Islam." • Imam Zaid Shakir, co-founder of Zaytuna College in Berkeley, Calif.: "If we put a nationwide infrastructure in place and marshaled our resources, we'd take over this country in a very short time. . . . What a great victory it will be for Islam to have this country in the fold and ranks of the Moslems." |
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Inflammatory bus ads link Muslim anti-Semitism to Hitler | |
2014-05-21 | |
[Ynet] American Freedom Defense Initiative campaign seeks to pressure US to cut aid to Islamic countries by recalling Nazi-era alliance.
...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like... are out on the streets of Washington, and the US capital's transit authority says it is legally powerless to ban them. The elongated broadsides on 20 Metro buses feature a photo of the Nazi German dictator in conversation with "his staunch ally" Haj Amin al-Husseini, grand mufti of Jerusalem during World War II. "Islamic Jew-hatred: It's in the Koran. Two-thirds of all US aid goes to Islamic countries. Stop racism. End all aid to Islamic countries," the ad states, over a fine-print disclaimer from the Metro Transit Authority. The ads, which are to run until mid-June, were placed by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), which aims to "raise awareness of the depredations of Islamic supremacism", according to its website. It hopes the campaign will raise $20,000 by Friday via an online crowd-funding campaign that, as of Tuesday, had yielded about $7,500. "We're not able to refuse ads on the basis of content," a spokeswoman for Metro told AFP, citing a 2012 court case that allowed another AFDI bus ad on the grounds that it was free speech. On its website, AFDI co-founder Pamela Geller called the campaign a direct response to like-sized Washington bus ads placed in April by American Moslems for Paleostine which read: "Stop US aid to Israel's occupation." As Moslem leader in then British-ruled Paleostine, Husseini sought Hitler's support for an Arab and Moslem homeland that would be free of Jews. Council on American-Islamic Relations ... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ... (CAIR) front man Ibrahim Hooper said that such "inflammatory" ads were clearly intended "to promote hatred of Islam and Moslems". He told AFP that CAIR is developing on its own bus ads "to promote mutual understanding as a response to Geller's hate ad". In the meantime, he added, it's giving away free Korans. | |
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Rep. Keith Ellison addresses chapter of Hamas-linked CAIR | |||
2014-03-09 | |||
CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case -- so named by the Justice Department. CAIR operatives have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR's cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements. Its California chapter distributed the poster above telling Muslims not to talk to the FBI. CAIR has opposed every anti-terror measure that has ever been proposed or implemented. But all that is apparently fine with Ellison; in fact, to bring it up would be "Islamophobic." And no one will care about this. But imagine if Ellison were not a Muslim, but a Christian, and had addressed a conference of, say, the American Freedom Defense Initiative. Do you think there would be a furor in the mainstream media, with calls for Ellison's resignation? So do I. And yet AFDI has no connection to any terror groups. CAIR has plenty. And the world is upside down indeed.
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CAIR urges British mosques to install panic alarms and safe rooms |
2013-06-09 |
![]() The group has discussed its revamped security regulations with the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) following the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich, which it said had even provoked attacks in the United States. The security measures urged by CAIR, America's largest Muslim advocacy group, encourage the building of transparent fences around mosques, wire screens on windows, designated security personnel, three-inch-thick doors, panic alarms and safe rooms. CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said, "From the outside it definitely seems UK mosques are more at risk than anywhere, including the States. There have been a number of recent incidents targeting UK mosques, groups like the English Defence League marching on mosques and a spike in violent right-wing groups." Ibrahim Mogra, assistant secretary general of the MCB, said it was vital mosques not become too security conscious. He said, "We don't want mosques going overboard, where it's almost like a fortified place. We want these places to be open, and seen to be welcoming places that people would not hesitate to visit. Clearly our American friends have shown concern for us and have shared their safety and security measures. Although not all are relevant, we can learn from each other's experiences. The common foe is a criminal we wish to keep out." |
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Second Anti-Muslim Class Run By Military Officials Revealed | |||||||||
2012-05-13 | |||||||||
'Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, has infiltrated the U.S. government and the rules of war no longer apply.' A second anti-Islamic course being taught to U.S. military officers has been discovered following revelations that one class advocated 'total war' against Moslems. Al Jizz obtained the material from a course taught on a military base in Virginia which imply that the Paleostinian terrorist group Hamas has infiltrated the U.S government at the highest levels. The slides seemingly warn officers of a link between Moslem Civil Liberties Advocacy Organisation (CAIR), and other American Moslem groups, with Hamas.
Hundreds of slides were sent to the news website by an unidentified soldier who said 'this bigoted conspiracy cabal is both disgusting and so deeply un-American.'
Dooley has since been suspended from the army but still works at the college.
The presentation reads: 'Given the factual basis of what "Islamists" say they seek to impose on the world, the United States has come to accept that radical "true Islam" is both a political and military enemy to free people throughout the world.
The group formed in 2010 'for the purpose of exposing and defeating efforts to subvert the United States Constitution and subjugate the American People,' says the company's website.
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'Islamophobia happening in US on a daily basis' |
2011-05-08 |
[Iran Press TV] A pilot refused on Friday to take off from Memphis with two Mohammedan holy mans traveling to a conference in Charlotte, N.C. "It's one of those kind of incidents that we get on a regular basis, and unfortunately it's a growing problem that seems to be legitimized by people like Ron Williams who say it's ok to feel uncomfortable riding with someone on an airplane that looks like a Mohammedan, so it's an issue we deal with regularly and one I think will be resolved with education," Ibrahim Hooper, National Communications Director, CAIR, Washington, said in an interview with Press TV's U.S. Desk on Saturday in regards to the incident. "I think this incident is definitely a symptom of Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... because these people were told that the passengers were not comfortable flying with them. They weren't told they were any kind of threat it was just a function of comfort," Hopper added. |
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Two Imams kicked off U.S. domestic flight after pilot refuses to take off with them | |||||
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Two Muslim religious leaders were asked to leave a commercial airliner in Memphis - and were told it was because the pilot refused to fly with them aboard. Masudur Rahman and another imam had already been allowed to board their Delta Connection flight from Memphis, Tennessee, to Charlotte, North Carolina before they were asked to get off the plane. 'It's racism and bias because of our religion and appearance and because of misinformation about our religion.' Mr Rahman said. 'If they understood Islam, they wouldn't do this.'
The aircraft pulled away from the gate, but the pilot then announced the plane must return, Mr Rahman said. When it did, the imams were asked to go back to the boarding gate where they were told the pilot was refusing to accept them because some other passengers could be uncomfortable. Mr Rahman said Delta officials talked with the pilot for more than a half-hour, but he still refused to fly with them aboard. The men were taken to a lounge and booked on a later flight. They flew on to Charlotte later the same day.
A Delta Air Lines spokesman said the flight was operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines, which is also based in Atlanta. Jarek Beem, a spokesman for Atlantic Southeast, said the airline was investigating the incident. 'We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience that this may have caused,' he said.
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TN legislators take Sharia out of anti-terror bill |
2011-03-23 |
![]() The new version takes out language that said Sharia advocates violence and threatens the United States and Tennessee constitutions. The change makes clear that peaceful religious practices wouldn't be considered a violation. One of the sponsors said, "It is about protecting our citizens from those who would use religious doctrine as a justification to commit criminal activities or terrorist acts." "I think it's a victory for common sense and legislative restraint," Ibrahim Hooper said. "This is a win for Tennessee's Muslim community." Mohamed Ahmed, imam of the Islamic Center of Nashville, was pleased that language that implicated Muslims was removed from the bill, but he wondered whether lawmakers in Tennessee should press ahead when the federal government already has broad powers to fight terrorism. "I don't think there is a need for it. It's not going to target me as a Muslim, but it's going to target other people," he said. |
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2011-01-19 | |||||||||||
![]() Lawyers for Gulet Mohamed, 19, argued in their lawsuit filed in US District Court in Alexandria that A judge immediately scheduled a hearing on Mohamed's case for Tuesday afternoon.
Mohamed was born in Somalia but is a naturalized US citizen who immigrated at age 3 and most recently lived in the Alexandria area. In March of 2009, Mohamed travelled to Yemen and Somalia, where he still has family, to learn Arabic.
The Department of Justice said in a statement that it would not comment on the specific allegations in the lawsuit, but defended the way it adds people to the no-fly list. "As a general matter, the process used to add anyone to the consolidated terrorist watchlist involves multiple layers of interagency vetting," the statement said. "At the same time, the federal government has well-established redress procedures in place for those seeking relief from adverse effects that may be related to watchlist screening. Today's watchlisting process serves our overall counterterrorism efforts while preserving the civil liberties of all Americans."
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