Warning: Undefined array key "rbname" in /data/rantburg.com/www/pgrecentorg.php on line 14
Hello !
Recent Appearances... Rantburg

Home Front: WoT
CAIR tries to block Columbia U release of SJP records to Congress
2025-04-12
[X]

CAIR Seeks To Block Columbia University From Submitting SJP-Related Protest Records to Congress
[WashingtonFreeBeacon] The Ivy League school appears to be withholding information from federal lawmakers as a result of CAIR's suit.

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) asked Columbia to produce records related to SJP's activities, finances, potential links to terrorist groups, and overall "threats to campus safety" by Wednesday. CAIR, which is suing Columbia’s board of trustees on behalf of detained protest leader Mahmoud Khalil and several other foreign anti-Israel students, objected to the request.

Releasing the documents, attorneys with CAIR's legal defense fund argued, could implicate Khalil and his classmates. They asked a federal judge in New York to implement a 30-day review period, during which CAIR could assess the documents and file objections. The judge, Arun Subramanian, responded by ordering Columbia to delay the release of the documents until Friday for CAIR's review, according to court filings.
Link


Home Front: WoT
Former CAIR-KY gov’t affairs director accosts random Jew in Manhattan office building hallway, demands ISIS jihad on recording witnesses
2025-02-08
[X] If someone could translate whatever nasty thing she is saying in Arabic, that would be lovely.

A longer version of which the above is an excerpt:


‘F—k the Jew, F—k the Zionist’: Former CAIR Director Launches Antisemitic Tirade in Manhattan
[Algemeiner] A former senior employee of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) was caught on camera launching a profane and antisemitic tirade at Jewish men in New York City in a viral video posted to social media on Thursday.

Noora Shalash, who previously worked as the director of government affairs for CAIR’s Kentucky branch, was confronted by an individual in an office building after allegedly harassing a "visibly Jewish man." After being grilled for her alleged conduct, Shalash then went on an antisemitic diatribe.

"F—k the Jew. F—k the Zionist," Shalash said.

Shalash then said that she "loves Jesus" and claimed Jews "dishonor the Virgin Mary and call her a ’whore.'" She also called the man recording the video a "b—ch" and swiped her hand at his cellphone. A security guard intervened and physically pulled Shalash away while she appeared to continue attempting to assault the man.

"This is what Jews have to deal with in New York City," the man said.

The video, which was obtained and posted on X/Twitter by the watchdog group StopAntisemitism, quickly went viral on social media, gaining nearly 600,000 views within 16 hours.

CAIR National responded to the viral incident, claiming that Shalash had not been employed by the organization for five years and currently has "no other role at our civil rights group."

"We condemn and reject the antisemitic comments in the video, just as we condemn and reject the anti-Paleostinian racism and anti-Moslem hate," the organization added.
*Wink Wink*
A picture circulated on social media showing CAIR identifying Shalash as a bigwig as of October 2020.

CAIR has long been a controversial organization. In the 2000s, the organization was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing case. Politico noted in 2010 that "US District Court Judge Jorge Solis found that the government presented ’ample evidence to establish the association'" of CAIR with the Paleostinian terrorist group Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), "some of CAIR’s current leadership had early connections with organizations that are or were affiliated with Hamas." CAIR has disputed the accuracy of the ADL’s claim and asserted that it "unequivocally condemn[s] all acts of terrorism, whether carried out by al-Qa’ida, the Real IRA, FARC, Hamas, ETA, or any other group designated by the US Department of State as a ’Foreign Terrorist Organization.'"

CAIR leaders have also found themselves embroiled in further controversy since Hamas’s massacre across southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

The head of CAIR, for example, said he was "happy" to witness Hamas’s rampage of rape, murder, and kidnapping of Israelis in what was the largest single-day slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust.

"The people of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
only decided to break the siege — the walls of the concentration camp — on Oct. 7," CAIR co-founder and executive director Nihad Awad said in a speech during the American Moslems for Paleostine convention in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
last November. "And yes, I was happy to see people breaking the siege and throwing down the shackles of their own land, and walk free into their land, which they were not allowed to walk in.

Two commenters on the Instapundit post on the subject claimed to know/know about the Shalash family of Lexington, Kentucky. Bottom line, they are an immigrant clan of violent criminals, the kind who'll pull an AK-47 on a schoolboy who annoyed one of the youngsters of the family. Wanting evidence (of course!), I did a search, and discovered two articles about men with the same name and antecedents, so presumably relatives. The first, a report from the sixth federal appeals court, informs us that the FBI agrees with the Instapunditeers — one of the family appealed his federal conviction for stealing and trafficking in stolen baby formula on the basis that “…eight weeks prior to his trial, CBSNews reported that the FBI had traced money from baby formula traffickers to terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah…” and “…FBI Director Robert Mueller [told a reporter] that sales of black market baby formula have been used to fund terrorist organizations.”

A local newspaper informs us that a man with the same name, so presumably also a relative, a former imam for the Islamic Center of Lexington, went to jail for conspiring to a murder-for-hire of a third man who owed him money.

Link


Home Front: WoT
Palestinians sue US over failure to evacuate American citizens from Gaza
2024-12-21
[IsraelTimes] Lawsuit alleges State Dept. discriminated against Palestinian-Americans by ‘abandoning’ them in Gaza, not making same effort US has made in Lebanon, Afghanistan and other war zones

Nine Palestinian Americans sued the United States government on Thursday, alleging that it had failed to rescue them or members of their families who were trapped in Gaza after the Hamas invasion of Israel on October 7 2023, and Israel’s ensuing war against Hamas.

The lawsuit accuses the State Department of discriminating against Americans of Palestinian origin by abandoning them in a war zone and not making the same effort that it would to promptly evacuate and protect Americans of different origins in similar situations.

It was the second case against the US government this week after Palestinian families sued the US State Department on Tuesday over Washington’s support for Israel’s military.

A US State Department spokesperson said the department does not comment on pending litigation, while adding the safety and security of American citizens around the world is a “top priority.”

Thursday’s lawsuit was announced by advocacy group, Council on American Islamic Relations, and attorney Maria Kari, and was filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

The suit alleges the plaintiffs’ rights to equal protection under the US Constitution has been violated by depriving them “of the normal and typical evacuation efforts the federal government extends to Americans who are not Palestinians.”

It mentions comparable instances of the US government evacuating its citizens from conflict zones such as in Afghanistan, Lebanon and Sudan, and names President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin as defendants.

The State Department spokesperson said the US has evacuated Americans from unsafe areas around the world, including Gaza.
Related:
Palestinian American 09/19/2024 'Kill the Jew:' Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
Palestinian American 09/18/2024 CAIR Objects to L.A. Proposal to Protect Synagogues from... ummm... CAIR
Palestinian American 08/14/2024 US government sued over alleged discrimination against Palestinian Americans

Link


Fifth Column
‘Kill another Zionist now’: Pro-terror demonstrators converge near White House
2024-06-09
[IsraelTimes] Pro-Hamas and Hezbollah US demonstrators are staging a protest near the White House, calling for “jihad.”

Reports on social media appear to show masked demonstrators chanting slogans urging Hamas’s military wing to “kill another soldier now” and calling on Hezbollah to “kill another Zionist now.”




… calling for “jihad of victory or martyrdom” while chanting for Al Qassam and Hezbollah terrorists to kill more Zionists/Jews.

This demonstration, organized by pro-Hamas supporters, has people questioning the legality of this.

♻️ Like and repost to denounce these hateful calls for the mass murder of Jews.

📹 WATCH: Shocking footage of the protest outside the White House.👇


… that this is so.

Anti-Zionists who glorify the likes of Hamas and Hezbollah are perpetuating an ideology that embraces extremism and incites violence.
Update from the Times of Israel at 1:30 a.m.ET:
Thousands of protesters chanting “From DC to Palestine, we are the red line” held a long banner scribbled with the names of Palestinians killed in the ongoing fighting in Gaza, which was sparked by Hamas’s October 7 massacre in southern Israel.

One video posted to X showed a man with a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine headband burning the American flag, while other protesters appeared to be wearing green Hamas headbands.

The protesters — almost all wearing red clothing — held Palestinian flags and signs saying “Biden’s red line was a lie” and “Bombing children is not self-defense.”

The White House stepped up security with an additional anti-scale perimeter fence ahead of the demonstration, which saw chartered buses ferrying in people from as far afield as Maine and Florida.
Chartered busses that had no problem carrying anti-Israel demonstrators…



Earlier:
Security upped at White House ahead of rally against Israel for responding to Oct. 7

[IsraelTimes] Council on American Islamic Relations says events are to denounce ‘eight months of slaughter and starvation in Gaza’ that followed Hamas attack, which it makes no mention of

Activists demanding an end to the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
and American support for Israel plan to surround the White House during a weekend protest, prompting additional security measures, including anti-scale fencing.

Advocacy and activist groups like Code Pink
... a U.S. anti-war group. The group describes itself as a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into healthcare, education, green jobs and other life-affirming activities. It was founded in 2002 by Jodie Evans, Medea Benjamin and of the other usual antiwar suspects. Its website lists hysterical allegations of US war crimes, and states that thousands of civilians were killed in Fallujah in 2004. Maybe it was millions. Benjamin was a 2000 candidate for the U.S. Senate on the Green Party ticket. She lost...
and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) say that demonstrations are planned on Saturday, to mark eight months since Israel began its military offensive in Gaza against Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
following the terror group’s October 7 onslaught.

The United States, Israel’s key ally, has seen months of pro-Paleostinian protests against Israel ranging from marches in Washington and vigils near the White House to the blocking of bridges and roads near train stations and airports in multiple cities and encampments on many college campuses. Protesters have also disrupted some of Biden’s reelection campaign events. Biden is currently in La Belle France for an official visit.

Protests for Gaza and against Israel began immediately after the October 7 attacks and even before Israel’s military response to Hamas kicked into high gear.

On its website, CAIR said the rallies are to mark "eight months of slaughter and starvation in Gaza and demand that President Biden enforce his red line on Rafah by ending US support for the Israeli government’s genocide," without mentioning Hamas or the terror group’s attack that initiated the war.

A US Secret Service spokesperson said: "In preparation for the events this weekend in Washington, DC, that have the potential for large crowds to gather, additional public safety measures have been put in place near the White House complex."

Biden and the White House have previously said they support peaceful protests, but not "chaos" and violence.
Related:
Code Pink: 2024-02-08 They Endorsed Hamas Terrorism. Then They Hosted a Big-Ticket Fundraiser for Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush.
Code Pink: 2024-01-31 Pelosi faces backlash for demanding swarming protesters 'go back to China': 'Slanderous accusations'
Code Pink: 2024-01-10 Left-Wing ‘Dark Money’ Powerhouse Funded Group Linked to Holocaust Museum Protestors
Related:
Council on American Islamic Relations: 2023-11-23 Maryland AG suspends hate crime task force member who claimed babies murdered by Hamas were 'fake'
Council on American Islamic Relations: 2023-04-20 Islamist antisemitism in the US masked by alliance with far left – study
Council on American Islamic Relations: 2021-04-18 Professor gets $150K settlement in Islamic terrorism quiz controversy
Link


Government Corruption
Maryland AG suspends hate crime task force member who claimed babies murdered by Hamas were 'fake'
2023-11-23
[NYPOST] Democrat Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown took action against a member of his own hate crime task force on Tuesday after numerous antisemitic social media posts by the member surfaced, including a claim that the babies murdered in the brutal Oct. 7 Hamas
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
attack were "fake."

Zainab Chaudry, an anti-Israel activist who serves as the director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations
... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ...
’ (CAIR) Maryland office, made the posts in the weeks following Hamas’ attack, which saw more than 1,200 people killed, including children and babies, as well as numerous rapes and destruction of property.

"The Office of Attorney General learned last week about personal social media posts of a member of the Maryland Commission on Hate Crimes Response and Prevention, Zainab Chaudry, Executive Director of the Council on American Islamic Relations — Maryland Office," Brown said in a blurb.

"Attorney General Brown has determined that Ms. Chaudry’s social media posts risk disrupting the work and mission of the Commission, so he is announcing steps that he took today to ensure that the vital work and mission of the Commission can continue without interruption," he said, adding that Chaudry’s membership on the commission would be "temporarily suspended."
Until it all blows over.
He went on to say that his office would "develop a draft values statement" concerning personal communications by commission members, and called on those members to "to exercise great care in their communications and conduct."

Related:
Anthony Brown: 2021-12-19 Kyrsten Sinema Wrecks Biden’s Hopes of Destroying Federal Election Integrity Laws
Anthony Brown: 2021-03-11 Biden Administration Imposes First Iran Sanctions
Anthony Brown: 2019-07-13 Congressional Black Caucus Slams Justice Dems for Targeting Black Reps
Related:
Hamas: 2023-11-21 IDF's secret Unit 504 - How is it different from Mossad, Shin Bet? - analysis
Hamas: 2023-11-21 How many aid groups knew Hamas was hiding in a hospital and lied about it?
Hamas: 2023-11-21 Censorship here? Yes, We Knew It All Along
Related:
Zainab Chaudry: 2016-09-16 NYPD seeks man who tried to set Muslim woman ablaze
Related:
Council on American-Islamic Relations: 2023-11-21 Vandals attack home of Jewish US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel by defacing fence with the word NAZIS as anti-Semitic attacks soar to a 'historic level' across America
Council on American-Islamic Relations: 2023-04-30 Man charged with setting fire to two mosques in Minneapolis
Council on American-Islamic Relations: 2023-05-01 Man charged with setting fire to two mosques in Minneapolis
Link


-Great Cultural Revolution
Islamist antisemitism in the US masked by alliance with far left – study
2023-04-20
[IsraelTimes] INSS report argues that rebranding of bully boy groups as human rights
...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you...
organizations threatens to bring fringe ideas into the mainstream


As antisemitic attacks continue to rise in the United States, a growing alliance with far-left organizations has shielded US Islamist groups from scrutiny of their antisemitic statements and ideas, a study by an Israeli think tank warned.

"US Islamist groups and leaders have increasingly sought common cause with progressive left-wing groups that promote minority rights and intersectionality among racial, ethnic, and religious minorities in their efforts to build coalitions around common interests," charged Yehudit Barsky and Ehud Rosen, authors of the Institute for National Security Studies report "Islamist Antisemitism in the United States," set to be published Tuesday.

The "red-green" coalition is based on a narrative that portrays the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict as an anticolonial struggle, and US Moslems as victims of racism on par with other marginalized minorities in the US, said the INSS study.

The alliance also seeks to delegitimize Jewish communal organizations, according to Barsky and Rosen, by portraying them as part of a white power structure in the US that is ineligible for inclusion in progressive coalitions.

"Within these coalitions," charged the study, "US Islamists have sought to boycott and delegitimize progressive Zionists and supporters of Israel, deeming them as oppressors and illegitimate participants."

Barsky is a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, and Rosen is a team member of the INSS’s project on Contemporary Antisemitism in the United States.

The study is the latest installment in an ongoing INSS series on antisemitism in the US.

Leading Islamist organizations like American Moslems for Paleostine and the Council on American Islamic Relations, the authors argued, seek to challenge the right of mainstream Jewish and pro-Israel organizations to define antisemitism and to call themselves civil rights organizations. A campaign against the Anti-Defamation League, the leading antisemitism watchdog, called it a "silencer of free speech" and promoter of Islamophobia
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
, and pushed for other civil rights organizations to boycott it.

The authors warned that over time, fringe antisemitic beliefs could become increasingly mainstreamed if these organizations are not challenged.

A 75 percent spike in antisemitic attacks in the US during and after the 2021 conflict in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
is evidence of the need to address Islamist antisemitism, and not only Jew-hatred on the far-right, said Barsky and Rosen. While that discourse exists in Europe, the successful rebranding of Islamist groups from forces of Evil to champions of human rights has stymied debate over their activities against Jewish and pro-Israel organizations in the US.

The alarming trend of antisemitic attacks continued into 2022, according to the ADL, rising another 36% over the previous year.

Several major incidents were perpetrated by Islamists last year. In January 2022, British Islamist Malik Faisal Akram took the rabbi and three worshipers hostage at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, and demanded that an imprisoned al-Qaeda member be freed.

In November, the FBI issued a security alert to synagogues across New Jersey. The next week, a young Moslem man was arrested in New Jersey for distributing a manifesto online with threats to attack synagogues.

"The process of choosing allies from the Moslem community should be made much more carefully, and proper due diligence is required," argued the report, which also noted that there is no evidence that Islamist groups represent the beliefs of most American Moslems.

"These developments call for increased vigilance and a robust response by the American Jewish community and its allies," urged the authors.
Link


-Land of the Free
Professor gets $150K settlement in Islamic terrorism quiz controversy
2021-04-18
[CollegeFix] Three questions on a May 2020 college quiz about Islamic terrorism at Arizona’s Scottsdale Community College led to public outcry and a lawsuit from a Moslem student, who charged that "correct" answers would amount to a denial of his faith.

Now, the college system has paid $150,000. However the money went not to the student but to the professor of that course to forego his own legal action, the Phoenix New Times reported.

The quiz was part of an Islamic terrorism module of Professor Nicholas Damask’s world politics course.

Damask has taught at Scottsdale Community College for more than 20 years. He received his "PhD in Political Science from the University of Cincinnati, where he concentrated in American Political Thought and Contemporary Political Violence," according to his official college bio.

Just the News reported the questions that offended student Mohammed Sabra. They were, in summary:

1. Who do Islamic turbans "strive to emulate"?
2. Which verses of the Koran are used to encourage terrorism?
3. When is terrorism justified in Islam?

The answers were:

1. Mohammad
2. The Medina verses
3. During (or in the context of) jihad

Sabra argued that to give "correct" answers on this quiz would be to condemn his own faith, according to several news reports.

Damask countered that the answers had to do with the beliefs of terrorists, not the underlying truth of Islam.

The Council on American Islamic Relations sued the college on behalf of Sabra, charging that the quiz amounted to a violation of his, and other Moslems’, First Amendment rights.

Susan Brnovich, a U.S. District Court Judge for Arizona, tossed the lawsuit in August 2020 and the case is being appealed to the Ninth Circuit.

Before the initial case could be litigated, however, the president of Scottsdale Community College, Christina Haines, attempted to hand down her own ruling in the court of public opinion.

The New Times reported:

President Haines posted a message on social media stating that the quiz content was "inaccurate, inappropriate, and not reflective of the inclusive nature of our college...SCC deeply apologizes to the student and to anyone in the broader community who was offended by the material." The instructor, who wasn’t initially named, would apologize to the student, Haines asserted.

But Damask did not apologize as advertised.

As thousands of angry Moslem emails poured into his inbox, including some death threats, Damask "grabbed family members, threw some things in a suitcase, and fled his home temporarily," the New Times reported.

He also spoke to the press at the time.

"The college basically broke every single rule about handling a student grievance that we have, all in the name of handling public relations," Damask told the New Times last May.

He received support from the academic freedom group Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which informed the umbrella Maricopa County Community College District that it was violating Ninth Circuit Court precedents related to academic freedom.

That warning, and Damask retaining counsel, appears to have made the difference for him professionally.

The college district issued an apology to Damask for how his case was handled. It also paid him for his troubles and his silence.

In a settlement that the New Times uncovered with a Freedom of Information Act request, the district paid Damask $155,000, with $30,000 of that designated for his lawyer, in return for him foregoing the right to sue the school system or disparage its officials.

Consistent with that non-disparagement agreement, Damask is no longer talking to the press about his case.
Related:
Scottsdale Community College: 2020-05-13 AZ Prof Wins Free Speech Victory After College Panicked About Test Questions on Islamic Terrorism
Scottsdale Community College: 2020-05-09 Arizona: Muslim Students Threaten to Kill Prof for Suggesting Islam Is Violent
Scottsdale Community College: 2006-10-14 Punk Rock Tribute To Pat Tillman (ESPN)
Related:
Council on American Islamic Relations: 2021-02-17 WA State Fed COVID Money Going to Non-White 'Woke' Political Groups – Including The Bail Project
Council on American Islamic Relations: 2021-02-16 WA State Fed COVID Money Going to Non-White 'Woke' Political Groups – Including The Bail Project
Council on American Islamic Relations: 2020-03-01 America’s Muslims fight back
Link


Home Front: Politix
WA State Fed COVID Money Going to Non-White 'Woke' Political Groups – Including The Bail Project
2021-02-17
[PJ] Before cheering on more congressional spending for COVID "relief," the latest news out of Washington State may give you pause.

Your federal COVID "relief" dollars — $900 billion so far, with more on the way — are being spent by some states to fund far-Left political groups, such as The Bail Project—which, as its name suggests, doles out bail money—a soft-on-crime justice lobbying group. As I reported earlier in PJ Media, The Bail Project supports at least one antifa-related group.

In a story for My Northwest, Seattle radio talk host Jason Rantz reports that groups receiving the $12 million in federal COVID funds given to Washington State were required to be run by racial minorities.

Rantz reports that groups led by white people were not allowed to receive money.

Oregon, which has similar guidelines for disbursement, is currently the target of a class-action lawsuit for requiring an unconstitutional race test to receive federal dollars.

Groups that helped the entire swath of community members, but were led by white people, were not given priority for these funds. Rantz linked to a list of those groups, which one might assume would be helpful in divvying up the money for people hard hit by COVID. The groups not given money included an American Legion post, Alliance for Education, Big Brothers and Big Sisters groups, food banks, city ministries, museums, free clinics, and myriad others.

Which groups passed the race-based review? The Council on American Islamic Relations of Washington received $50,000. The Climate Justice Initiative also got some money.

We’re sure that the Seattle World Percussion Society is a great group, but how does giving it $25,000 help fight COVID again?
Link


Home Front: Politix
WA State Fed COVID Money Going to Non-White 'Woke' Political Groups – Including The Bail Project
2021-02-16
[PJ] Before cheering on more congressional spending for COVID "relief," the latest news out of Washington State may give you pause.

Your federal COVID "relief" dollars — $900 billion so far, with more on the way — are being spent by some states to fund far-Left political groups, such as The Bail Project—which, as its name suggests, doles out bail money—a soft-on-crime justice lobbying group. As I reported earlier in PJ Media, The Bail Project supports at least one antifa-related group.

In a story for My Northwest, Seattle radio talk host Jason Rantz reports that groups receiving the $12 million in federal COVID funds given to Washington State were required to be run by racial minorities.

Rantz reports that groups led by white people were not allowed to receive money.

Oregon, which has similar guidelines for disbursement, is currently the target of a class-action lawsuit for requiring an unconstitutional race test to receive federal dollars.

Groups that helped the entire swath of community members, but were led by white people, were not given priority for these funds. Rantz linked to a list of those groups, which one might assume would be helpful in divvying up the money for people hard hit by COVID. The groups not given money included an American Legion post, Alliance for Education, Big Brothers and Big Sisters groups, food banks, city ministries, museums, free clinics, and myriad others.

Which groups passed the race-based review? The Council on American Islamic Relations of Washington received $50,000. The Climate Justice Initiative also got some money.

We’re sure that the Seattle World Percussion Society is a great group, but how does giving it $25,000 help fight COVID again?

The Bail Project of Spokane received a $50,000 bail-out with the money indirectly used to post bail money for criminals, including a wife-beater, according to Rantz.

A lobbying group that advocates for lighter jail sentences got federal COVID dollars.

As you’ve likely divined by now, the groups that received funding appear to have gotten the money for political and not COVID reasons.

Based on the rationale explaining the funding, Bail Project Spokane was selected for its political cause, not for being impacted by COVID.


Rantz asks, "Excluding nonprofits on the race of its leadership is certainly controversial. But some nonprofits receiving federal tax dollars hold radical left-wing political views. Is this where COVID relief tax dollars should go?"
Link


Fifth Column
America’s Muslims fight back
2020-03-01
The always wordy view from Egypt.
[AlAhram] Prominent Moslems in the United States are combating Islamist attempts to take over political podiums in the country and standing up to those who claim to speak on their behalf.

It has taken much meticulous planning, abundant financing and manipulative politics for the Moslem Brüderbund to infiltrate certain groups in the United States over the past four decades. Since the drafting of its masterplan to take control of various Moslem communities in North America in 1980, the Brotherhood has worked to spread its influence in Islamic centres in the US and to bring a number of Islamic communities in the country under its banner.

The Brotherhood has not operated under its own name, however. Instead, it formed several offshoot groups such as the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). These organizations, using the fronts of NGOs, have spread the doctrines of the Moslem Brüderbund in the US. Unlike in Europe
Link


-Lurid Crime Tales-
CAIR Pennsylvania Dem Legislator and Poster Girl Resigns in Shame
2019-12-22
[American Thinker] Movita Johnson-Harrell seemed to take pride in her position as the first Muslim woman elected to the Pennsylvania State Legislature. Now that record will forever have an asterisk next to it as Johnson-Harrell has turned herself in to Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s Office, pleading guilty on charges of perjury, record tampering, and embezzling over $500,000 in Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security disability funds, as well as donations to Motivations Education and Consultation Associates (MECA), a charity she established to allegedly serve the mentally ill and drug addicted poor in her predominately African-American neighborhood.
Goodness gracious — the woman is certainly thorough!
In a press conference, Attorney General Shapiro described Johnson-Harrell’s actions as "brazen corruption... her theft knew no bounds." Johnson-Harrell stole funds that personally belonged to the residents of her facilities and used it to purchase fox furs, trips to Mexico, to make payments on a Porsche, pay delinquent utility bills, cover her granddaughter’s private school tuition and even fund her political campaign. After the facility, where residents were living in squalor, was closed, Johnson-Harrell continued collecting their rent from MECA even though the facilities were no longer operating.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Johnson-Harrell’s dereliction of duty extended to her short time as a Pennsylvania state representative.

During her brief period in office, Johnson-Harrell seemed to spend the majority of her time celebrating herself as the first Muslim woman elected to the state legislature, and helping to fundraise and advocate for the Hamas-linked Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Related:
Movita Johnson-Harrell: 2019-12-06 Pa. Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell, charged with stealing more than $500,000 from her own charity, will resign
Movita Johnson-Harrell: 2019-12-06 Another prize winner...
Movita Johnson-Harrell: 2019-03-28 Dems and Muzzies in total butthurt over Pennsylvania legislator's opening prayer
Link


Government
After Bolton ouster, five vie to be Trump’s fourth national security adviser
2019-09-12
[IsraelTimes] US President Donald Trump
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election...
said Wednesday he’s looking at five individuals to become his fourth national security adviser to replace John Bolton, the hawkish diplomat who clashed with the president on global challenges, especially Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and North Korea
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
"John wasn’t in line with what we were doing," Trump told news hounds in the Oval Office.

Trump insisted that he had a good relationship with Bolton, but also said, "He wasn’t getting along with people in the administration that I consider very important."

"I hope we’ve left in good stead," Trump said. "Maybe we have and maybe we haven’t."

Trump did not name the five candidates, saying only that they were "highly qualified." Deputy national security adviser Charles Kupperman, a former Reagan administration official and defense contracting executive, is running the National Security Council on an acting basis. Trump said he would name a replacement for Bolton next week.

On Wednesday, at least three longtime Bolton aides resigned from the NSC staff: front man Garrett Marquis, adviser Sarah Tinsley and his scheduler Christine Samuelian.

Since joining the administration in the spring of last year, Bolton has been skeptical about the president’s whirlwind rapprochement with North Korea, and recently has become a vocal internal critic of potential talks between Trump and leaders of the Afghan Taliban
...Arabic for students...
and Iran.

Muslim civil rights group CAIR ‘appalled’ by John Bolton’s interim replacement

[Jpost] The Council on American Islamic Relations said it was "appalled" that Charles Kupperman, who served on the board of a group that peddled conspiracy theories about Moslems, is serving as interim national security adviser.

"While we welcome the resignation of John Bolton, who has a long track record of promoting anti-Moslem policies and associating with hate groups, we cannot simply replace one Islamophobe with another," CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad said Wednesday, a day after Bolton’s abrupt departure from the post.

Kupperman served for a decade on the board of the Center for Security Policy, which peddles theories that Moslem Americans hope to institute Islamic religious law in the United States and have infiltrated American institutions and the government.

Kupperman, who is Jewish, is not likely to remain long in the job. President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
has said he intends to name a new national security adviser, which does not require Senate confirmation, as soon as next week.

In addition, Bolton hired Kupperman earlier this year as deputy national security adviser because they were in alignment on the very policies that apparently led Trump to oust Bolton, including Bolton’s opposition to diplomatic engagement with Iran.

Kupperman, 68, has worked for Republican administrations for decades. In the private sector, he has been a consultant to defense contractors.

The Anti-Defamation League has said of CAIR that “much of its activity” is in exposing anti-Muslim bias, but this is undermined by an anti-Israel agenda.
Link



Warning: Undefined property: stdClass::$T in /data/rantburg.com/www/pgrecentorg.php on line 132
-12 More