[iwar] [fc:Bush's.scary.CAIR.friends]

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                          Debbie Schlussel
                          October 17, 2001
                      Bush's scary CAIR friends

Too bad Patrick Henry isn't around to advise President Bush.  "We are
apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth," Henry remarked.  "For my
part, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst; and to
provide for it."

Though Henry never faced modern-day Islamic terrorists, he was around
for other miscreants, known as pirates.  And unlike Bush and Colin
Powell, neither he nor our other founding fathers consorted with the
pirates' representatives and pro-pirate "civil rights" groups in
America.  In those days, our leaders didn't make "Coalitions Against
Piracy" with the countries who hosted and harbored pirates.  And they
didn't make statements saying that this was not about piracy and
pirates, a peaceful group who just wanted to plunder, rape and pillage. 

But, unfortunately, as I've described in my recent columns, President
Bush has invited representatives of the most radical, pro-terrorist
Islamic groups in America to pray with him at the National Cathedral, to
pray with him at the Washington, D.C., mosque, to sit near Mrs.  Bush at
the big speech to Congress and to hold hands with him at the White
House. 

One of those groups, CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations, is
among the most dangerous to American security.  CAIR is an outgrowth of
Hamas front group the Islamic Association of Palestine.  Oliver "Buck"
Revell was the FBI's associate director in charge of Investigative and
Counter-Intelligence Operations from 1985 to 1991, in charge of all FBI
terrorism investigations.  "[The Islamic Association of Palestine] is an
organization that has directly supported Hamas military goals," he told
Capitol Hill newspaper, "The Hill." "It is a front organization for
Hamas that engages in propaganda for Islamic militants.  It has produced
videotapes that are very hate-filled, full of vehement propaganda.  It
is an organization that has supported direct confrontation." It is also
an organization that exists without impingement in Texas. 

CAIR's founder and executive director, Nihad Awad, was IAP's public
relations director ("Muslim-Americans in Mainstream America," The Link,
February-March 2000).  Islamic Association of Palestine's publications,
including Muslim World Monitor – of which Awad was contributing editor –
and Al-Zaitonah, frequently praise terrorist actions. 

Awad was the gentleman with the neatly trimmed beard, sitting a couple
seats from Mrs.  Bush at the president's big speech to Congress and
standing next to Bush at several events, including the D.C.  mosque and
National Cathedral services.  IAP and CAIR, according to Revell, had
"intertwined membership" and CAIR used IAP propaganda materials. 
Incidentally, Awad – for mysterious reasons – appears to have changed
his name.  On CAIR's 1994 IRS form 990, he is listed as "CAIR Executive
Director Nehad A.  Hammad." And then there is the similarity in staff. 
Besides Awad, CAIR Director of Communications Ibrahim Hooper also worked
for IAP.  Rafeeq Jaber, IAP's current president, was a founding director
of CAIR. 

CAIR's funding comes from groups like the Holy Land Foundation for
Relief and Development (HLF).  HLF is on the State Department terrorist
list.  When it was founded in 1994, CAIR received its original $5,000
from HLF.  Mohammed Nimer, director of CAIR's Research Center, was on
the Board of United Association for Studies and Research (UASR), the
strategic arm of Hamas in the U.S., according to the New York Times.  It
was founded by Mousa Abu Marzook, the political chief of Hamas and a
well-known terrorist operative. 

Awad, in the Muslim World Monitor, called the trial and conviction of
the first World Trade Center (WTC) bombers, "a travesty of justice." He
has openly expressed his support for terrorist groups, like Hamas.  "I
am in support of the Hamas movement," he said at a 1994 Barry University
panel discussion, "The Road to Peace: The Challenge of the Middle East."
He's also openly praised Ayatollah Khomeini.  Remember him – the guy who
directed the taking of U.S.  hostages in Iran? Hooper, echoing the
Taliban government, has always refused to condemn Osama bin Laden.  In a
1998 aol.com interview, after the bombings of U.S.  embassies in Africa,
Hooper said the bombings were a result of "misunderstanding of both
sides." Today, he still will not condemn bin Laden, only the attacks on
the WTC.  Hooper also defended Arab Muslim Sudan's murder of over two
million black Christian citizens and the slavery, rape and torture of
millions more, dismissing it as "inter-tribal hostage-taking."

Imam Siraj Wahaj, a CAIR board member, is one of the most respected
American Muslim leaders and is vice president of the Islamic Society of
North America.  But, according to Islamic expert Dr.  Daniel Pipes, he
"calls for replacing the U.S.  government with a caliphate." Wahhaj was
a character witness for Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman, the Muslim cleric
convicted of taking part in the first WTC bombing and planning to blow
up U.S.  buildings and bridges.  Wahaj was listed as an unindicted
co-conspirator in that case.  According to Salon.com, in a 1991 speech
before the Islamic Association of North Texas, Wahaj called Operation
Desert Storm, "one of the most diabolical plots ever in the annals of
history" and predicted that America will fall unless it "accepts the
Islamic agenda."

CAIR's demand for the removal of an anti-bin Laden billboard (that
merely declared him "the sworn enemy") in Los Angeles, and its protest
of the FBI, INS and Customs raid are minor compared to its strong Oval
Office connections.  It's hard to believe that President Bush pronounced
"Islam is Peace" while surrounding himself with the least peaceful
representatives of it in America. 

Long John Silver and other pirates were a lot less successful because
they didn't have groups like CAIR furthering their cause.  Silver only
had a wooden leg and an eyepatch to show for his efforts. 

Today's terrorists have full entrée into the White House. 

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