Terror linked US Muslim group launches nationwide ad campaign

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a "so-called" Islamic civil rights group, but an organisation with many links to terrorism, " is opening a nationwide radio and TV campaign Wednesday highlighting Muslims' support for religious diversity and service to the nation. " according to The San Diego Union Tribune.

The Tribune is yet another media outlet to be taken in by CAIR. Here is a recent post of mine with many links exposing CAIR's links to terrorism.

Maybe The Anti-CAIR Organization can mount a counter campaign.

"We believe Islamophobic stereotyping and bias will decrease when ordinary Americans of all faiths learn more about their American Muslim neighbors," Omar Ahmad, chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said in a statement announcing his group's campaign.

Your damn right! Ordinary Americans need to learn more about CAIR and so does the media.

The spots focus on American Muslims who have served their country, including members of the U.S. military, she said. They feature Muslims of European, African-American, Hispanic and Native American heritage.

Good idea, let's focus on some of CAIR's members for a start.

From Front Page

Mousa Abu Marzook - Grandfather of CAIR

The Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development was founded by HAMAS leader Mousa Abu Marzook, a man who was deported by the United States to Jordan in 1997. Marzook, who may very well be, today, second in command of HAMAS, also founded, in 1981, CAIR’s parent organization, the Islamic Association for Palestine.

Ghassan Elashi – CAIR Board Member

The Chairman of the Holy Land Foundation, before the group’s closure, was Ghassan Elashi. Elashi, in December of 2002, was charged with “selling computers and computer parts to Libya and Syria, both designated state sponsors of terrorism.”

Besides the Holy Land Foundation, Ghassan Elashi was also involved with CAIR. In fact, Elashi was one of the founding board members of CAIR’s Texas chapter. What this means is that CAIR didn’t just stick a link to the Holy Land Foundation on its website, but instead, CAIR was directly linked to the Holy Land Foundation itself!

Rabih Haddad – CAIR Fundraiser

Rabih Haddad was a co-founder of the Global Relief Foundation. Before being deported by the United States to Lebanon in July of 2003, Haddad had held various positions with Global Relief, including that of Executive Director and Public Relations Director.

And like Ghassan Elashi, Haddad was also active in CAIR. According to the Quaker organization, the group that runs the large charitable foundation, the American Friends Service Committee, Haddad had served as a fundraiser for CAIR

CAIR President Omar Ahmad From Jihad Watch

At the Islamic Association of Palestine's third annual convention in Chicago in November 1999, CAIR President Omar Ahmad gave a speech at a youth session praising suicide bombers who "kill themselves for Islam." "Fighting for freedom, fighting for Islam — that is not suicide. They kill themselves for Islam, " he said.

CAIR-NY's Ghazi Khankan

The executive director of CAIR's New York chapter has made similar comments that would likewise fall under the heading of "violence preached." At an interfaith event shortly after September 11, CAIR-NY's Ghazi Khankan started with the obligatory disclaimer that "those who attack civilians are wrong," but then he explained that any Israeli adult was a "soldier" and thus not a civilian.

Randall Todd "Ismail" Royer From World Net Daily

A former spokesman for leading Islamic lobby groups opposed to U.S. counterterrorism efforts was among 11 men indicted for conspiring to train on American soil for a "violent jihad."

Randall Todd "Ismail" Royer – who little more than five weeks ago was communications director for a fund-raising effort sponsored by the American Muslim Council – allegedly trained with Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Kashmiri terrorist group with reported ties to al-Qaida.

Royer, 30, of Falls Church, Va., also was on the national staff of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a group that considers itself a leading civil rights voice for American Muslims.

Royer has since been convicted and is serving 10 years.

CAIR's links to terrorism are long and well documented and easy to find. Which begs the question; why do media outlets like the Tribune continue to call them "an Islamic civil rights group"?

More sources

Cori Dauber, World Net Daily Hell, just Google CAIR and their members till your hearts content!
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