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Controversial Muslim charity (CAIR) accused of links to Hamas settles lawsuit rather than disclosing sources of funding

2025-03-01

[NY Post] A Washington-based Muslim nonprofit, which is one of the largest operating across the US, agreed this week to settle a case brought by a former board member and employee rather than open its books to reveal sources of foreign funding, The Post has learned.

Evidence in past court proceedings has shown links between The Council on American-Islamic Relations Foundation Inc. and both Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Links??? CAIR is the original branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in America, while Hamas is the Muslim Brotherhood in the Palestinian Territories.

CAIR Inc. settled with Lori Saroya Thursday, months after US Magistrate Judge David Schultz ruled any assets owned by the group are all within the "scope of permissible discovery" as part of the former Minnesota chapter leader’s lawsuit against the controversial Muslim rights group.

Saroya filed her federal defamation complaint against CAIR last year after the group dropped a lawsuit against her, which accused her of embarking on a "defamation campaign" against the organization.

CALL FOR FEDERAL PROBE
Lawmakers are demanding a federal investigation into the nonprofit,

Yes, please. Guys, the Rantburg archives date back to 9/11/2001 and have references to articles and events even older. Y’all are welcome to search using all related key words, if that will get you up and running more quickly. Lots, for instance, on the Holy Land Foundation, among a great many others…

which took in more than $5.3 million in contributions and grants in 2022, the last year for which public filings are available.

Grants? Any connections to USAID?

"CAIR’s leadership has a long history of spewing vile antisemitism and anti-Zionist rhetoric, including openly praising the Hamas terrorists that brutally attacked Israel, murdering, raping, and kidnapping more than 1,200 people on October. 7 [2023]," said Josh Gottheimer, a Democratic Congressman from New Jersey.

Referring to court proceedings which showed the links, he added: “The allegations that CAIR receives funding from Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, if true, are deeply concerning and require an immediate investigation.”

From? Maybe. To, however, most definitely.

CAIR, which was founded in 1993, was linked to Hamas in 2008 when US authorities successfully prosecuted five leaders at the Holy Land Foundation For Relief and Development, a now-defunct Texas-based nonprofit, for giving more than $12 million from the US to the terror group.

Once the HLF was compromised, a new group with no obvious ties to Hamas had to become the funnel for cash; US Authorities concluded that was CAIR during its prosecution of the earlier group, as cited in a report by The Program on Extremism at George Washington University.

Evidence in the trial against HLF showed that Ghassan Elashi, the treasurer of the charity, became the founding board member of CAIR’s Texas chapter and that HLF transferred funds to CAIR for “consulting services.”

The prosecution also presented evidence that Hamas provided “seed money” for CAIR, according to a congressional hearing.

UNDISCLOSED AMOUNT
“The history is very clear,” said Lorenzo Vidino, director of the Program on Extremism at GWU.

“CAIR was created by this core group of Hamas leaders in the US in the early 1990s. There are FBI wiretaps of a workshop given by the group’s leaders on how to deal with the media and create a veneer of respectability and use the language of civil rights.”

CAIR is the now the largest Muslim civil rights group in the country, and includes 33 chapters, including two in California.

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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.

🚨Meet Noora Shalash, Director of Government Affairs for CAIR-Kentucky.

She really let the mask slip that this is a harmless civil rights organization when she yells “I demand Jihad, I want ISIS to kill all of you.”

Great job @jewhatedb 💪 pic.twitter.com/fRxGLpW7Zx
— Jason Curtis Anderson (@JCAndersonNYC) February 7, 2025

A longer version of which the above is an excerpt:

Midtown Manhattan - crazed antisemite assaults a visible Jew and gets arrested.

“F*ck the Jew … f*ck the Zionists” she says confidently. pic.twitter.com/EdmTR2UzWg
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) February 7, 2025

‘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
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.

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Government Corruption

Biden Quietly Commuted Sentences Of Chinese Spies

2024-12-14

[Federalist] President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that he was granting 39 pardons and 1,499 commutations in what his administation called the "largest single-day grant of clemency in modern history." But it’s not Thursday’s set of commutations that have caught the attention of concerned Americans — it’s those that were quietly given weeks ago to Chinese spies.

X user Nick Sortor posted that "Joe Biden just pardoned multiple Chinese spies and an individual convicted of possessing child p*rnography. WHY?"

But the thing is, Biden didn’t "just" commute the sentences for these criminals — he did it quietly only days before Thanksgiving.

While most Americans were finalizing their menus and getting into the holiday spirit, Biden commuted the sentence of Yanjun Xu on November 22. Xu was convicted in 2022 for "conspiracy to commit economic espionage; conspiracy to commit trade secret theft; attempted economic espionage by theft or fraud; attempted theft of trade secrets by taking or deception."

But according to Biden’s pardon, "it is in the national interest that the term of imprisonment related to the aforesaid conviction not be served in its entirety."

Xu was ordered to leave the United States and never return or commit any other crimes against the United States, according to the pardon.

Similarly, spy Ji Chaoqun was convicted of "conspiracy to defraud the United States; impersonating agents of foreign governments; statements or entries generally." Ji arrived in the United States in 2013 on an F1 Visa before later enlisting in the U.S. Army Reserves "under a program allowing legal immigrants with special skills to serve," according to the Chicago Sun-Times.According to the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, "Ji worked at the direction of high-level intelligence officers in the Jiangsu Province Ministry of State Security, a provincial department of the Ministry of State Security for the People’s Republic of China."

But Biden commuted his sentence. "On Nov. 22, Biden, with no fanfare or public announcement, granted clemency to Ji and Xu," the Chicago Sun-Times reported, noting that the move may have been part of a prisoner swap. Notably, Biden doesn’t indicate in either document granting clemency why he chose to do so.

Damon Cheronis, the attorney who represented Ji, told the Chicago Sun-Times he was not notified about the clemency beforehand.

"I learned about it [Wednesday] morning, when he was released," Cheronis told the Chicago Sun-Times. "It was not something that anyone was made aware of, including my client."

Even more disturbing, Biden also granted clemency to Shanlin Jin, who was convicted after "police found more than 47,000 images and videos of child pornography in his computer." One such video allegedly showed "an adult male sexually assaulting a female infant," according to The Dallas Morning News.

The three commutations were reportedly part of a prisoner swap in exchange for Mark Sweden, Kai Li, and John Leung, according to Financial Times.But prisoner swaps are typically hailed by the president and the media. When basketball player Brittney Griner was released from Russia (in exchange for the man known as "Merchant of Death"), Biden held a press conference at the White House celebrating Griner’s return.

Biden similarly held another event when Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan were released.

So why was Biden and his administration so quiet about this Chinese swap?

Not just Chinese spies:

Yep the brother of the founder of Hamas, a hardened terrorist and one of the "Holy Land Foundation Five," was just released from a U.S. prison in a gift to Hamas from its friends and admirers in the Biden Administration. Here's his Wikipedia puff piece https://t.co/UGvS25wSO6 https://t.co/36jhEN66aj pic.twitter.com/GERHvqPbG0
— Gary Weiss (@gary_weiss) December 12, 2024

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Support dwindles for cracking down on nonprofit terror financing

2024-12-03

[JustTheNews] Concerns have surfaced about the constitutionality of the effort.

First discover. Then decide. Hoover’s FBI got whathisname on tax evasion, after all.

A plan moving through Congress may soon revoke tax exemptions for nonprofits deemed supportive of terrorist organizations.

The overwhelming bipartisan support it once enjoyed, however, has dwindled as critics worry about constitutional overreach.

Supporters blame the sudden reversal on something more immediate: distrust of the incoming presidential administration.

In April, the House passed H.R. 6408 in a vote 382-11. It is a bill extending power to the Secretary of the Treasury to revoke tax-exempt status from any organization that supports terrorist organizations.

Though the bill did not gain traction after the initial vote, lawmakers again voted on the exact same language added into H.R. 9495, a proposal that would also alleviate fines and penalties from missed tax deadlines for Americans held hostage abroad.

This time, however, it made a public splash as members of Congress received pushback from constituents and non-profit organizations alike. Joining activists long concerned for the future of Palestinian aid, domestic organizations were moved to speak out against the bill out of concern for their own survival.

The first attempt to pass the proposal with a supermajority failed mid-month, and it returned to the House floor last Thursday for debate. The margin of support this time was much narrower at 219-184.

The only difference, Republicans say, is the incoming president.

Sponsor Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., said that since the election, the bill had become the subject of “mass political hysteria.”

“I urge my colleagues to grab some common sense,” she said, noting that they were suffering from “Trump derangement syndrome.”

Rep Lloyd Smucker, R-Penn., called the reversal "the most bizarre argument I've heard since I've been in Congress."

Opponents across the aisle worried that the bill could sanction Trump’s retaliation against non-profit organizations he deems to be hostile toward him, including major bodies like the American Civil Liberties Union.

“This is the death penalty bill that we’re considering today, the bill that empowers Donald Trump to extinguish the life of any non-profit, of any civic society group which happens to be on his enemies list,” said Rep. Lloyd Dogget, D-Texas.

He and others argued that the House could easily find unanimous consent for the first half of the bill granting tax relief to hostages, but the addition of the tax status portion goes too far.

The first time the language was floated with near-unanimous consent, it was presented within the context of the Israel-Hamas War. In the days prior, Iran had launched a direct missile attack on Israel, and the appetite to reign in potential terrorist threats was high.

In defending the bill, Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, evoked another era in which similar sentiment was at a public high: in 2001, when the Holy Land Foundation, a tax-exempt organization run by Palestinian-Americans, was designated a terrorist organization by then-President George W. Bush.

The prosecution of “The Holy Land 5” has continued to loom large as a major civil rights controversy.

The bill's language gives the Secretary of Treasury unilateral authority to determine if an organization has supported a terrorist organization and revoke its 501c3 status. It does provide the opportunity for any such organization to argue this determination after the fact, but the secretary makes the final decision.

Opponents say this reverses the burden of proof and eliminates due process, pointing to laws already on the books criminalizing support of a terrorist organization with far more serious implications than tax status.

“A sixth grader would know this is unconstitutional,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., who voted for H.R. 6408 in April.

“The potential for abuse under H.R. 6408 is immense as the executive branch would be handed a tool it could use to curb free speech, censor nonprofit media outlets, target political opponents, and punish disfavored groups across the political spectrum,” wrote a coalition of over 300 non-profits headed up by the ACLU.

“The lack of guardrails creates the potential for future administrations to weaponize these powers against groups on both ends of the ideological spectrum,” the letter continued. “Even if they may never be designated as ‘terrorist-supporting,’ let alone charged with a crime, nonprofits will curtail their activities as a precaution in order to avoid stigmatizing and financially devastating punishments.”

The American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, celebrated the passage in a post on X, saying it "provides important tools to combat terrorism." AIPAC is the largest pro-israel lobby in the US, funding politicians on both sides of the aisle. It spent over $42 million in campaign contributions in 2024.

In the end, it was a small minority within the House who applied concern for this principle in a non-partisan fashion – just 10 Democrats and one Republican voted against both H.R. 6408 and H.R. 9495.

Rashida Tlaib, D-MI, was one such naysayer.

“I don’t care who the President of the United States is,” she said. “This is a dangerous and unconstitutional bill.”

Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., called the bill "an affront to democracy." Smith praised her consistency despite their disagreement.

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Report: Families of hostages with American citizenship pushing Biden to make unilateral deal with Hamas UPDATE: NBC report lied

2024-09-05

They can ask. I can’t imagine they’ll get the answer they want, though, no matter what they might be told.

[IsraelTimes] The families of Americans kidnapped by Hamas
Hamas

..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
and held 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...
since October 7 are petitioning the Biden administration to cut a unilateral deal wth the Paleostinian terror group to free their loved ones, NBC News reports.

The report says that the relatives met with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Sunday, hours after the IDF recovered the bodies of six hostages executed by Hamas in Gaza last week, including American-Israeli Hersh Goldberg-Polin.

It is believed that 97 of the 251 hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza, including seven American citizens. This count includes the bodies of at least 33 confirmed dead by the IDF, three of whom are American.

Update from the Times of Israel at 8:20 a.m. ET:

Father of US-Israeli hostage denies American families pushing Biden to make separate deal

Jonathan Dekel-Chen responds after NBC quotes sources saying US has list of prisoners that might be offered in an exchange but regards comprehensive deal as best way forward

The father of a US-Israeli held hostage in Gazoo said Thursday there is no truth to a report that the families of captives with American citizenship are petitioning the Biden administration to cut a unilateral deal with Hamas
Hamas

..always the voice of sweet reason...
to free their loved ones.

Jonathan Dekel-Chen, whose son Sagui Dekel-Chen was kidnapped from Nir Oz on October 7, told Channel 12 that the report, carried by NBC News on Wednesday, is false.

"I am in continuous contact with the other American families and all levels of the US government," he said. "The report that the American families are demanding a separate US-Hamas is not correct.

"I am in the room [for the meetings administration officials hold with the families of the hostages], and anything else is speculation," he said.

Dekel-Chen added that US officials are telling him they are doing everything they can to advance the deal that is "on the table" and that they are waiting for the agreement of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition partners, as well as Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

There are seven hostages with dual US-Israeli citizenship; four of them have been declared dead.

The NBC News report said the relatives pushed for Washington to look at other ways of securing freedom for their loved ones. It said officials told the families they would look at "every option" but that a deal between Israel and Hamas was still the best way to proceed, the report said, citing people familiar with the meeting.

Those sources told the outlet that the idea of a unilateral deal had been floated as family members and some administration officials were becoming convinced that Netanyahu will not reach an agreement with Hamas. Critics accuse Netanyahu of shying away from a deal to satisfy far-right members of his coalition, who want the war to continue until Hamas is destroyed.

Ninety-seven of the 251 hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza, including seven US citizens. This total includes the bodies of at least 33 confirmed dead by the IDF, three of whom are American.

In an indication that a unilateral deal is being mulled, the Biden administration has drawn up a list of prisoners held in the US that Hamas might trade in exchange for American hostages, two former and two current US officials aware of the plans told NBC. According to one official, there are five names on the list.

Current and former officials said the possible prisoners the US has to offer include the leaders of a Texas-based charity, Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. The five heads of the charity were in 2008 convicted of sending over $12 million to Hamas. They are serving between 20 and 65 years in prison.

However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome...
one administration official told the network that the idea of cutting a separate deal with Hamas is not realistic as the US does not have enough to bargain with for the American hostages.

"Hamas wants two things that only Israel can deliver: a ceasefire and nearly 1,000 Paleostinian prisoners currently in Israeli jails," the unnamed official said. "Every other proposal has gone nowhere because that is what Hamas demands for the hostages," the official added.

NBC News said that neither the Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
i government, which has been mediating between Israel and Hamas, nor a representative of the families of US hostages would comment on the report.

On Tuesday, State Department spokesperson Matt Miller was asked during a press briefing if Washington was considering a unilateral deal with Hamas.

"Our entire focus has been on securing an agreement to get home all the hostages. That, of course, includes the American hostages," he said. "Our first priority is always the safety and security of American citizens overseas. We are focused on a deal that would bring them home, along with all the other American hostages.

Asked whether that could also mean a unilateral deal, Miller said only, "We are working on a deal to get all of them home."

In June, NBC News had a similar report of discussions for a unilateral deal, but the proposal did not advance at the time, with some senior administration officials strongly against it, the network said. US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The man who made Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter look competent, if only by comparison....
also sought at the time to continue the track of obtaining a deal between Israel and Hamas to end the war.

At the time, Washington asked Qatari officials to put out feelers to Hamas, US officials told NBC News. However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome...
the move did not get off the ground, they said.

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Biden, en Route to Michigan, Issues Anti-Israel Executive Order; Exaggerates ‘Settler Violence'

2024-02-02

[Breitbart] President Joe Biden issued an executive order Thursday that purports to target so-called “extremist settler violence” in the West Bank, but whose terms are so broad that they could be used to impose sanctions on Israeli elected leaders and political parties.

The order was issued as President Biden made a trip to Michigan, where Arab- and Muslim-American voters have threatened not to support him in the key swing state in the 2020 presidential election because of his perceived support for Israel against Hamas.

The order claims that there are “high levels” of violence directed by Jewish Israeli settlers against Palestinian residents of West Bank, known to Israelis as Judea and Samaria. In fact, such violence has not risen, and is dwarfed by violence by Palestinians.

As analyst David Weinberg recently noted at the Jewish News Syndicate:

There is no escalating or unprecedented wave of settler violence in Judea and Samaria under cover of the war in Gaza. The frenzied focus on “settler terrorism” by the highest officials in Washington is based on fake news.

…

Overall, the level of friction/violence in 2023 is about the same as that of 2022, totaling about 1,000 instances of violence of all types over the course of the full year.

…

In 2022, there were more than 5,000 Palestinian terror attacks against Israeli Jews, including car-rammings, shootings, stabbings and bombings of innocent men, women and children. These attacks included over 500 firebombings, leading to the injury of more than 150 Israelis. There was a 210% rise in rock-throwing incidents in 2021 over 2020 and a 156% rise in bomb-throwing incidents in 2021 over 2020.

Notably, the executive order does not provide any factual basis or evidentiary record substantiating its claims.

The claims about “extremist settler violence” are used as a way of balancing criticism of Palestinian terrorism, and appeasing a restive anti-Israel constituency in the Democratic Party.

The overwhelming majority of “settlers” — that is, Israeli citizens who live in communities across the 1949 armistice line — are peaceful. But the language of the executive order is so sweeping that it could theoretically be applied to non-violent people.

For example, the executive order allows sanctions to be imposed on anyone found to “have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person blocked pursuant to this order,” meaning it could apply to a lawyer, or anyone who argues on behalf of an accused “settler.” Moreover the executive order allows the president to sanction any “entity” that has members who are sanctioned, which could mean that the U.S. could sanction parties or leaders in the Israeli government. The White House’s national security spokesman, John Kirby, told reporters on Air Force One that the U.S. was not sanctioning any Israeli leaders “at this time,” but left open the possibility.

Already, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), whose executive director celebrated the October 7 terror attack,has demanded in a press release that the Biden administration begin sanctioning right-wing members of the Israeli government.

As Breitbart news has noted:

In 2007-8, CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the terror financing trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. That case, in turn, led the FBI to discontinue its work with the organization. In 2009, a federal judge ruled that the government “produced ample evidence to establish” the ties of CAIR with Hamas, the Palestinian terror organization. The United Arab Emirates labeled CAIR a terrorist organization in 2014 (a decision that the Obama administration opposed).

The timing of the executive order comes as the U.S. is pressuring Israel to accept a Palestinian state at the end of the war, despite the fact that doing so would reward Hamas for the terrorism of October 7; and as the U.S. reportedly presses Israel to accept a hostage deal that would end the war short of achieving Israel’s objective of destroying Hamas’s military capabilities and ending its governing role in Gaza.

Update: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement in response:

The overwhelming majority of residents in Judea and Samaria are law-abiding citizens, many of whom are currently fighting – as conscripts and reservists – to defend Israel.

Israel acts against all Israelis who break the law, everywhere; therefore, exceptional measures are unnecessary.

The Times of Israel noted that four individuals were the first to be sanctioned:

The US State Department said in a statement that the four individuals being designated in the first round are David Chai Chasdai, who allegedly initiated and led the rampage of the northern West Bank village of Huwara last year, which resulted in the death of one of the Palestinian residents; Eitan Tanjil, who was allegedly involved in assaulting Palestinian farmers and Israeli activists by attacking them with stones and clubs, resulting in injuries that required medical treatment; Shalom Zicherman, who allegedly assaulted Israeli activists and their vehicles in the West Bank, blocking them on the street, and attempted to break the windows of passing vehicles with activists inside; and Yinon Levi, who allegedly regularly led groups of settlers from the Meitarim Farm outpost who assaulted Palestinian and Bedouin civilians, threatening them with additional violence if they did not leave their homes, burned their fields, and destroyed their property.

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CAIR-Ohio fires director for being an anti-terrorist mole

2021-12-17

Former newspaperman has thoughts on this story from yesterday.

[DonSurber] The Ohio chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations fired its Executive and Legal Director Romin Iqbal for working with the Investigative Project on Terrorism, founded by Steven Emerson in 1995.

CAIR labeled the organization an anti-Muslim hate group, and thus the media did as well.

CBS reported, "A director of the Ohio Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Ohio) has been fired for allegedly aiding an anti-Muslim hate group."

Few media outlets named this alleged anti-Muslim hate group.

The Columbus Dispatch did name the group.

It said, "For several years, Iqbal, the executive and legal director of CAIR-Ohio, has been recording network meetings and sharing information regarding CAIR’s national advocacy work with the Investigative Project on Terrorism, a known anti-Muslim group, according to a Tuesday press release from the organization’s Ohio chapter.

"Saying he was among moles for the IPT, a Washington-D.C. Based nonprofit, Nihad Awad, CAIR’s national executive director, released information on the situation late Tuesday night, saying that last year the national office was sent information about the Investigative Project on Terrorism."

While the newspaper's story was thorough, no one contacted IPT for its side of the story. The fired director apparently did not return phone calls.

Also not mentioned in the Dispatch story -- or anyone's -- was IPT's work in bringing down the Holy Land Foundation, which 20 years ago was the largest Muslim charity in America. It also was funding Hamas. The founder of CAIR-Texas in Dallas was among those sentenced in 2008 for their terrorist activities. He got the longest sentence: 65 years.

I can see why CAIR might mot like IPT and would brand it a hate group.

But CAIR may have had cause to fire Iqbal.

CBS reported, "CAIR-Ohio said its Columbus office found suspicious purchases from ammunition and gun retailers in recent weeks made with a credit card linked to Iqbal.

"Staffers also found a suspicious package Monday mailed to the CAIR-Ohio Columbus branch containing parts for an AR-15, the group said, adding that the parts were bought with the credit card, though it couldn't say who bought the parts.

"The organization fill in law enforcement, which is investigating."

I don't know.

'Tis a weird story. We shall see if the media bothers with it or it goes down the memory hole along with the black supremacist who ran his SUV into Waukesha's Christmas Parade, killing six people and injuring another 50.

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Biden Brings in Islamic Activists to Investigate U.S. Military for 'Extremism'

2021-05-25

[FRONTPAGEMAG] A decade ago, Hina Shamsi was fighting on behalf of the Holy Land Foundation whose leaders had been convicted of providing material support to Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,.

As the head of the ACLU’s National Security Project, Shamsi, a Pak citizen, had fought fiercely for the Islamic forces of Evil at Guantanamo Bay. "We all must pledge — not one person more in Guantanamo, not in our names," she recently declared.

But now the Pak advocate for Islamic forces of Evil has a new job: going after our soldiers.

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Long banned for FBI, CAIR still consults with fed, state, local gov’t law enforcement

2019-06-25

Another branch of the deep state swamp, CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development terror-financing case. The government alleged the Texas-based group, once the largest Muslim charity in the U.S., funneled millions of dollars to the Palestinian militant group Hamas...

[PJMedia] A group banned from associated with the FBI because of its ~~alleged~~ ties to Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, is still a go-to resource for law enforcement officials in South Florida.

The leaders of Council on American Islamic Relations Florida recently met with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida. Those leaders included Wilfredo Amr Ruiz and Nezar Hamze. This meeting was held within the context of a federal program called Group Violence Initiative, which is designed to counter gang violence in inner-city communities.

FBI policy has formally prohibited the federal law enforcement agency from associating with CAIR since 2008, due to the group’s documented ties to organizations involved with financing the terrorist group Hamas. A similar policy does not exist for the U.S. Department of Justice despite previous efforts in Congress to encourage the DOJ to institute such a policy, despite federal prosecutors writing that "from its founding by Moslem Brüderbund leaders, CAIR conspired with other affiliates of the Moslem Brüderbund to support terrorists." CAIR has also been designated as a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates.

Despite these relationships, CAIR Florida has continued to successfully interface with federal officials. In 2017, CAIR Florida participated in a DHS Civil Rights and Civil Liberties town hall and in 2016, the Department of Homeland Security hired the CAIR Florida branch to facilitate a training event between DHS and State Department officials and French Law enforcement.

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Home Front: WoT

Imam tied to Holy Land case to be at American Jewish Committee forum

2019-05-31

Idiots.

[Jpost] Mohammed Magid is scheduled to be part of the "Rabbis Roundtable Breakfast" in a discussion titled "Building a Golden Age of Moslem-Jewish Relations: Overcoming Challenges and Seizing Opportunities."

An imam of an organization affiliated with an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror case is scheduled to be part of a roundtable discussion at the American Jewish Committee’s annual global forum in Washington, D.C., which will take place from June 2 to June 4.

Mohammed Magid, born in Sudan in 1965 and who arrived in the United States in 1987 after studying in Soddy Arabia

...a resume to inspire confidence in his broad mindedness...

...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, is the current iman of the Virginia-based All Dulles Area Moslem Society Center (ADAMS), which is affiliated with the Islamic Society of North America, or ISNA, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror case that proved HLF’s connections to the terrorist group Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, and other radical Islamic entities.

ADAMS is a network of mosques and Islamic community centers in Washington area.

The United States designated HLF as a terrorist group in 2001 and became defunct. The case resulted in 108 guilty verdicts and several years later, five of its leaders were convicted and sentenced to decades in federal prison.

Know the connections:

Magid was ISNA’s East Zone representative, then as vice president, and finally as president. The U.S. government listed ISNA in the HLF case as among "individuals/entities who are and/or were members of the U.S. Moslem Brüderbund."

He was "the B.O. regime’s go-to guy for Moslem outreach and advised on international affairs and counterterrorism."

Of course he was.

He was "a regular visitor to the White House (even when the administration wants to conceal it)" and involved in other aspects of the administration, such as playing a crucial role in the Department of Homeland Security, according to PJ Media.

Magid is scheduled to be part of the "Rabbis Roundtable Breakfast" on Monday in a discussion titled "Building a Golden Age of Moslem-Jewish Relations: Overcoming Challenges and Seizing Opportunities."

The session is only open to rabbinic participants at the conference.

AJC spokesperson Kenneth Bandler appeared to dismiss the allegations against Magid, telling JNS, "We know Imam Majid. He is a member of the Moslem Jewish Advisory Council."

Seriously: idiots.

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Home Front: Politix

When a Hamas Front Lobbies Congress Starring Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Athena Salman

2019-04-23

[Islamist Watch] Mere days after the United States Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO, an Islamist umbrella coalition), descended upon Capitol Hill for National Muslim Advocacy Day, one of USCMO's founding groups, the virulently anti-Semitic American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), returned to lobby Congress yet again. AMP and its partner organization, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), claim to be motivated by universal human rights, but the truth is more alarming; as a recent court case has made clear, AMP is the direct successor organization to the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), which was sued into oblivion for being a propaganda front for the terrorist group Hamas.

While the USCMO lobby day focused on domestic issues of concern to Islamists, AMP's fifth annual Palestine Advocacy Day focused on eroding American relations with Israel ‐ complete with two days of training, and presentations from Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Arizona state representative Athena Salman ‐ and an entire day of Hamas-connected activists holding meetings with members of Congress.

Ms. Salman is a relatively new addition to the AMP scene. She was first elected to the Arizona legislature in 2016 and is already serving as minority whip. Salman is an avowed atheist, but her father is Palestinian and Salman publicly defended the movement to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel (BDS) during a contentious debate on an anti-BDS bill in the Arizona legislature in early April. (She had voted against the earlier version of the bill as well in 2016, which earned her the endorsement of the Arizona State chapter of SJP.)

Participants in the event seem to be more extreme. One example of excellence is Joe Catron ‐ a blogger at the viciously anti-Semitic site Electronic Intifada ‐ who calls himself a "reluctant citizen of the American empire." Catron maintains a Twitter account emblazoned with images glorifying terrorists from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP), such as a map of Israel inside crosshairs, with an Arabic caption that reads, "Hell awaits you."

Unfortunately, Mr. Catron fits right in with AMP. As has been established in court and in Congressional testimony, AMP's board is composed of alumni from not only the Hamas front IAP, but also the terror-finance charities KindHearts for Charitable Development (shut down by the Federal government) and the Holy Land Foundation (its executives convicted in court), both of which laundered donations to Hamas.

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Fifth Column

MN Dhimmi Dem Governor Walz To Open Three New Government Offices To Fight Islamophobia

2019-04-05

[AlphaNewsMN] Star Tribune reports that Worthington, Bemidji, and Duluth are the favorites to receive the new office. Along with new government offices, Governor Walz pledged additional gestures including being the first Governor to host an iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan.

While speaking to a controversial group Council For Islamic-American Relations, a non-profit that has been linked to islamic terrorist groups, Governor Tim Walz announced that he plans to open up at least three new government human rights offices in greater Minnesota to ~~fight Islamophobia~~ promote Dhimmitude.

Star Tribune reports that Worthington, Bemidji, and Duluth are the favorites to receive the new office. Along with new government offices, Governor Walz pledged additional gestures including being the first Governor to host an iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan.

So I'm here today to deliver a pretty simple message: Hate and Islamophobia have no home in Minnesota," Walz said. "But you do."
Fully endorsing self loathing racist Christophobia?
Comments were made during a full day seminar on Islamophobia hosted by Metropolitan State University.

Walz's CAIR was founded in part with donations from the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), later tagged as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist organization that has been indicted for providing material support to Hamas.

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