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Is America's Legal System Islam's Best
Friend
Case Closed - Government Documents
Reveal CAIR Is Hamas
Pipeline News
June 5, 2007 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In a disclosure
that will have significant impact on the way the public perceives
radical American Islamist organizations who feign moderation, the
Council on American Islamic Relations [CAIR] has been named as an
unindicted co-conspirator [source List of Unindicted Co-conspirators
and/or Joint Venturers] in the government's upcoming prosecution of
those associated with the Holy Land Foundation.
Court documents name the Council on American Islamic Relations, CAIR as
being among "individuals/entities who are and/or were members of the US
Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee and/or its organizations."
In a precedent setting revelation, the government's trial brief sets
forth in great detail incontestable evidence linking CAIR to Hamas and
the Muslim Brotherhood.
According to documents seized from co-conspirator Ismail Elbarrasse,
there is a straight line of associations going from Egypt's Muslim
Brotherhood and terminating with the Islamic Association for Palestine,
CAIR's immediate antecedent.
"the Muslim Brotherhood directed its Palestinian Committees throughout
the world, including the United States, to carry out the mandate of
assisting Sheik Yassin's newly-formed Hamas. In accordance with that
mandate, the Palestinian Committee in the United States, which included
the defendants Elashi, Baker and El-Mezain, created a number of
organizations charged with varying missions calculated to
comprehensively address Hamas’ needs. These organizations included the
United Association for Studies and Research (UASR) ("think tank"), the
Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP) (propaganda and information) and
the Occupied Land Fund (OLF) (money), later to become the defendant HLF.
The defendant Shukri Abu Baker was in charge of the HLF and, along with
the defendants El-Mezain and Elashi, set out to establish what would
become the highest grossing Islamic charity in the United States.
...The IAP, which involved the defendant Ghassan Elashi as an original
incorporator and bank account signatory, was designed as a propaganda
facility, responsible for Intifada festivals (involving the defendant
HLF), pro-Hamas publications, and the general rallying of support within
the American Palestinian community. The IAP was the first organization
to publish an English version of the Hamas charter, which, as previously
explained, vows to replace Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza with an
Islamic state. Further, during their existence, unindicted
co-conspirator and Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook funneled hundreds of
thousands of dollars into the three organizations (UASR, IAP, OLF/HLF)
during a time when he was an unemployed graduate student." [source Trial
Brief, U.S. v Holy Land Foundation, et al pg 10-11]
The IAP was involved in a criminal conspiracy to support Hamas.
"the United States-based Muslim Brotherhood and its sub-group the
Palestinian Committee); organizations established by the Palestinian
Committee, such as the defendant Holy Land Foundation (HLF), the Islamic
Association for Palestine (IAP), and the United Association for Studies
and Research (UASR), as well as other organizations. See Superceding
Indictment, pp. 6-7. Each of the above organizations, as well as its
members, representatives and supporters were participants in the same
joint venture or conspiracy -- the conspiracy to support Hamas." [source
Government Trial Brief 5.27.07, U.S. v Holy Land Foundation, et al, pg
32]
As noted in our December 5, 2006 piece Ghassan Elashi's Sentencing
Proves CAIR's Terror Ties Ghassan Elashi is the pivotal figure in this
chain of association. He was the founder of Texas Chapter of CAIR and
the individual who was responsible for incorporating the IAP, he was
also present at the Philadelphia Hamas funding meeting detailed later on
in this piece. Elashi was recently sentenced in the InfoCom terror
funding case and is a key defendant in U.S. v Holy Land Foundation case.
Elashi worked to aid the Muslim Brotherhood through its agent the
Palestinian Committee in creating the IAP. Those associated with Elashi
also worked to create other Islamist organizations [United Association
for Studies and Research (UASR) and the Occupied Land Fund (OLF) later
to become the Holy Land Foundation] with the intent of building support
for the terrorist group Hamas and its primary goal, the destruction of
the State of Israel.
"For Hamas, the Oslo Accords were a threat to its survival and in direct
confrontation with its most valued tenet - the destruction of the State
of Israel and the creation of an Islamic state in all of what is today
Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip." [source Government Trial
Brief 5.27.07, U.S. v Holy Land Foundation, et al, pg 12]
As noted by terror expert Matthew Epstein, CAIR's future senior
leadership participated in a pivotal meeting to fund Hamas that was held
in Philadelphia.
"CAIR actively raised money for [Holy Land Foundation] HLF via their
mailing list. In 2001, HLF's assets were frozen by the Treasury
Department, which found the organization to be a Hamas conduit. The
Texas chapter of CAIR and HLF share a common founder in Ghassan Elashi.
As stated above, Elashi himself was present at the 1993 Philadelphia
meeting that planned Hamas fundraising in the United States. This
meeting shows that future leadership of CAIR participated in meetings
with senior Hamas leaders and discussed Hamas fundraising in the United
States."
This meeting was deemed so critical in understanding Hamas' American
operation that the FBI obtained a warrant through the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance [FISA] Court, to monitor it.
"The FBI learned of the Philadelphia meeting through the Ashqar
investigation and, as a result, the FBI obtained a warrant from the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to monitor the meeting," [source
Government Trial Brief 5.27.07, U.S. v Holy Land Foundation, et al, pg
13]
Mr. Epstein quotes from a page, since removed from the CAIR website in
which CAIR's current Executive Director Nihad Awad describes his work at
the IAP with his associate Omar Ahmad, now CAIR's Chairman of the Board.
"After the Gulf War was over, I was offered a job with the Islamic
Association for Palestine (IAP) as their public relations director…In
this effort I worked closely with IAP president Omar Ahmad...Omar
suggested to me that we leave the IAP and concentrate on combating
anti-Muslim discrimination...In June 1994, we used a modest donation as
a starting budget to open the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
in Washington, D.C."
IAP events incited anti-American hate and barely concealed threats of
violence. Below, Mr. Epstein quotes a Hamas supporter at a post Gulf War
IAP conference.
"Dear brothers and sisters, we used to cross swords with America and
with imperialism in a sportive way, by means of culture clash, by
critique and writing in newspapers and journals and in debates. But the
confrontation has reached a point of no return. All veils have fallen.
All barriers have broken down. And today, America is right here at your
doorstep, in everybody's house...The marines, dear brothers, are
stealing the doors of your houses, and the doors of your mosques, in
obstinate and open provocation. They are at our doors. Their plan is to
penetrate the flesh of our girls. And our honor, and our values, in
order to turn our society into a pervert nation." [source September 10,
2003 Senate Testimony of Mr. Matthew Epstein, Assistant Director, the
Investigative Project]
Understanding the pivotal role of CAIR within the constellation of
American Islamist group is key to unlocking how radical Muslims seek to
impose their will. For the most part American institutions have accepted
at face value, self-promoting foreign funded supporters of terrorism who
claim moderation while working clandestinely to promote the butchers at
Hamas.
Christian and Jewish religious groups, local and federal law enforcement
officials and politicians at every level have conducted fraudulent
"faith sharing" and/or "Muslim sensitivity" public relations exercises
with groups like CAIR because they lack the moral courage necessary to
adequately vet them.
Such excuses will no longer pass muster, the court documents and
evidentiary materials that have been amassed for use in the Holy Land
Foundation case now prove beyond all doubt that CAIR is Hamas.
The evidence developed by Federal law enforcement places CAIR within a
top down hierarchical arrangement of terror supporters:
Muslim Brotherhood ==> Hamas ==> Palestinian Committee ==> the Islamic
Association of Palestine ==> CAIR.
From this point onward it is indefensible for individuals and
organizations to associate with CAIR.
This organization constitutes a clear a present danger to national
security. A full-scale Federal law enforcement investigation is long
overdue with the intent of adding it to Executive Order 12947 [Foreign
Terrorist Organization Designations list] alongside its ideological
parent, Hamas.
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