The issue of terrorism is broadcast every day over the airwaves. Yet, so many of our government officials are clueless about it. How else would a leader from the Islamic Society of North America and the Council on American-Islamic Relations – two groups singled out by the Justice Department for their involvement in the financing of Hamas – be invited to a sitting Governor’s State of the State Address? Regardless of the reason for the invitation, it was a dangerous oversight.
[For the purpose of this piece, I would like to state the definition of “unindicted co-conspirator,” per the Federal Courts Law Review (FCLR): “The term ‘unindicted co-conspirator’ refers to any person who allegedly ‘agreed with others to violate the law but who is not being charged with an offense and who, consequently, will not be tried or sentenced for his criminal conduct.’” An “unindicted co-conspirator” is exactly how it reads, a co-conspirator who has not been indicted.]
The Islamic Society of North America or ISNA held its most recent national convention – its 46th annual convention – in Washington, D.C., this past year in July. Participating at the event was the normal crop of Muslim radicals. They included Siraj Wahhaj, an “unindicted co-conspirator” of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; Zulfiqar Ali Shah, the former South Asia Director of KindHearts, a Hamas fundraising group that was shut down by the FBI in February 2006; and Naeem Muhammad, a U.S. staff member of Islamic Relief, a “charity” that the Israeli government has claimed is a front for Hamas. The latter two participated as “Moderators.”
Another “Moderator” at the event was an individual by the name of Safaa Zarzour. At the time, he sat on the Board of Directors of ISNA as the Chairman of ISNA’s Council of Islamic Schools of North America (CISNA) and served as the Program Chair of the ISNA Education Forum. Today, he holds the lofty position of ISNA National Secretary General, as he was named as such last month. This is certainly no ‘badge of honor.’
ISNA is a function of the extremist Muslim Brotherhood overseas. Amongst ISNA’s founders is convicted terrorist Sami al-Arian, who established the group with alumni from the Muslim Students Association (MSA).
From May 2007 through November 2008, ISNA was named by the United States Justice Department as an “unindicted co-conspirator” for two federal trials dealing with the transfer of millions of dollars to Hamas. The defendants consisted of leaders of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), the now defunct American financing wing of Hamas created by then-global head of Hamas, Mousa Abu Marzook. In the end, all of the defendants were found guilty of all charges.
ISNA is not the only co-conspirator from the HLF trial that Zarzour has associations with. He has also been involved with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR); he was the founding Chairman of CAIR’s Chicago, Illinois office. CAIR-Chicago was established in November 2002, and Zarzour served the group as Chairman (President) through January 2009.
During the trial, the Justice Department showed proof that CAIR was one of four organizations that made up the American Palestine Committee, a Hamas umbrella organization set up and led by Marzook. The goal of the committee was to raise money for Hamas from American shores.
Through CAIR, Zarzour had come in contact with another of the HLF “unindicted co-conspirators,” the Imam and Director of the Mosque Foundation, Jamal Said. Located in Bridgeview, Illinois, the Mosque Foundation is the former spiritual center of the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), CAIR’s parent organization that was shut down in 2005 after it was found liable for the May 1996 murder of American teen, David Boim, by Hamas.
It is because of CAIR’s connection to Hamas that the FBI recently made the decision to cut ties with the group – ties with CAIR’s national headquarters and all of its local chapters. According to reports, prior to the HLF trial, the FBI had “formal contact” with the group via “liaisons.”
However, regarding CAIR, it seems other government entities aren’t as concerned as the FBI. Indeed, just this past November, Zarzour received a community service award for “Outstanding Contributions to Chicago’s Arab Community” from the Mayor of Chicago, Richard Daley.
And it was only last month that Zarzour was invited to attend Indiana Governor Mitch Daniel’s State of the State Address. A smiling picture of Zarzour with the Indiana State Assembly in the background is currently being propagated on ISNA’s national website.
Groups and individuals tied to terrorism have no place in the American governmental process – locally, statewide or nationally. Unfortunately, some government officials have given them a place. This, despite the myriad of evidence that is readily available to the public, let alone these officials themselves.
If CAIR is shunned by the FBI, isn’t it common sense that all government agencies and entities would follow suit? And if a leader of CAIR is now the head of ISNA, shouldn’t ISNA be shunned as well?
Joe Kaufman is the Chairman of Americans Against Hate, the founder of CAIR Watch, and the spokesman for Young Zionists.
Beila Rabinowitz, the Director of Militant Islam Monitor, assisted with this report.
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Haven forbid – The Americans could be next!
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Every American should see this video !
The ambition of Islam to conquer the world.
For centuries Islam of the militants have been on the march to conquer the world. We did not notice because we chose not to notice. The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in
1920 by Hassan al-Banna in Egypt and was in deep confrontation with the Egyptian government. The current goals for Islam to achieve global domination for a Muslim Caliphate: a world under strict Islamic “Sharia” law, pulling Muslims back to the 7th Century. Consult : http://xrl.us/bf66jj
Aw, this was a really quality post. In theory I'd like to write like this too – taking time and real effort to make a good article… but what can I say… I procrastinate alot and never seem to get something done
Perhaps there should be a covert operations against CAIR instead of this cozing up multiculturalist crap.
There was http://www.amazon.com/Muslim-Mafia-Underworld-Con… . But it didn't seem to do any good.
http://www.ifamericansknew.org
The above article.. give me one conclusion this American For Hate ..
Because the only thing I can feel in it is hate and hate and more hate…
America biggest problem is not Islam is not Jew its "Zionism" such people like Joe Kaufman whom try to play with your minds and tell what to hate and what to love…
visit the below web site and see yourself when honest American journalist get out of the box and went to the middle east and find out what's really going on the ground she was shocked weak up…. American you are brain washed by Zionist.
http://www.ifamericansknew.org
Cheikh, I am trying to weak up from your boring website that has twisted statistics. All this tells me is that palestine/hamas/PLO/whatever, are more willing to throw their women and children in harms way to make it look like isreal is the evil one. Instead of fighting like men, they fight like the cowards they are by conning children to strap on bombs and blow themselves up. Isreal has to defend itself from attacks, so if they put the women and children in harms way then there is not much they can do. Nice try pin head.
Cheikh, From what I've gathered and learned from muslims is that muslim worship a made-up moon god invented by an epilepitc, terroristic pedophile (mad mo) that muslims wish to be like, and that cair is a terrorist supporting organization that want to replace the US COnstitution with the terror guide, the koran, that was shat from the bowels of that epileptic terrorist pedophile mo. Have I got it right?
Allluuuuuu snackbar!!
wow i've never read a more IDIOTIC thing in my life. I don't gallivant around with misleading facts about your way of life. Your statement about makes you qualify for one poistion-IGNORAMUS.
if americans knew the HATE and terrible EVIL perpetrated against Black innocents by supremacist Muslims:
END BLACK SLAVERY by Arab MUSLIM MASTERS
We Must Protest Globally Demanding Freedom for the Slaves.
BBC NEWS
13 December 2004
Slavery: Mauritania's best kept secret
By Pascale Harter
BBC News, Nouakchott
Skyra is a runaway Mauritanian slave. Her earliest childhood memories are of fetching water, tending animals and cooking and cleaning.
"I was tied up all night and all day.
They only untied me so I could do my chores. In the end I could barely move my limbs." She never earned a single penny…
Rape
Skyra was born to a slave mother so there was never any question she would be anything else. She remembers the years she spent treated like an animal.
"They raped me often," she says shaking with anger.
"My master is the father of my first child, my master's son is the father of my second child and my baby girl's father was my master's nephew".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4091579.stm
Mohammad, founder of Islam, beheaded 700 Jews who obeyed G-D's Laws, because they refused to follow the new religion of Islam. Mohammad was a huge slave trader and considered the perfect man and role model by Muslims.
January 22, 2001
by Samuel Cotton
(This article appeared in the February 1-February 7, 1995, issue of The City Sun.)
ARAB MASTERS-BLACK SLAVES
"Black Africans in Mauritania were converted to Islam more than 100 years ago," says Mohamed Athie, Executive Director of the American Anti-Slavery Group, [and]. . ."the Koran forbids the enslavement of fellow Muslims, but in this country race outranks religious doctrine. . . Though they are Muslims, these people are chattel: used for labor, sex and breeding."
Africa Watch reported that "Religion has been used by masters as an important instrument to perpetuate slavery.
http://www.raceandhistory.com/historicalviews/225…
When Muslims occupied and ruled Eastern Europe, as a tax, one out of five European children were taken as slaves to Turkey. In our day, hundreds of thousands of Black Sudanese Christians have been taken for slaves by Sudan's Arab Muslims.
Islamic SLAVERY, Atrocities and Tortures of Slaves so terrible, that the article 'ARAB MASTERS-BLACK SLAVES' (http://www.raceandhistory.com/historicalviews/225… declare they cannot print them. What IS printed is utterly horrific.
Conversion to Islam is supposed to buy protection from Islamic barbarism.
Bible, Genesis 4:10 And G-D said, "What have you done? Your brother's blood cries out to Me from the ground."
WHY no outcry and prosecution of these terrible crimes against Black humanity from the US/EU/UN?
WHY are Black Muslims not protesting by the millions against the barbarism and slavery perpetrated against Blacks by Arab Muslims? Black brothers and sisters are wickedly betrayed!
Why are African Muslims waging jihad against non-Muslim Blacks? Have the Black brothers and sisters not suffered enough down through history until this present day?
Why are African Muslims and ALL Black Muslims everywhere not fighting to STOP the barbarism and slavery perpetrated against Black Muslims in Mauritania and Sudan by Arab Muslims? It is SHAMEFUL.
FREE THE SLAVES
We're we any better a century ago? We're almost sixty years from segregation which still LARGELY exists in this country. These are stil developing countries give them some time to learn and grow with the help of the International community.
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I don't believe for one moment that government officials are clueless about CAIR and ISNA! They clearly like, and approve of the Muslims who seek global Islamic conquest and the absolute destruction of our freedom and human rights.
Council on American-Islamic Relations: "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth." – Omar Ahmad (CAIR co-founder).
Addressing a youth session at the 1999 Islamic Association for Palestine's annual convention in Chicago, CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) founder Omar Ahmad praised suicide bombers who "kill themselves for Islam,"
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ART…
Jihadists are winning because of pro-Islam Western leaders. U.S. Airport Security Deliberately and Shockingly DESTROYED for Islam:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com
Controversial Muslim group
gets VIP airport security tour
Feds show CAIR latest screening steps,
sensitive counterterrorism procedures
August 18, 2006
The Department of Homeland Security
took a Muslim group with known past ties to terror organizations on a VIP tour of security operations at the nation's busiest airport at the same time British authorities were working to break up a plot to blow up U.S. airlines.
On June 21, a senior DHS official from Washington personally guided Muslim officials from the Council on American-Islamic Relations on a behind-the-scenes tour of Customs screening operations at O'Hare International Airport in response to CAIR complaints that Muslim travelers were being unfairly delayed as they entered the U.S. from abroad.
CAIR is a spin-off of the Islamic Association for Palestine, identified by two former FBI counterterrorism chiefs as a "front group" for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
Several CAIR leaders have been convicted on terror-related charges.
During the airport tour, CAIR was taken on a walk through the point-of-entry, Customs stations, secondary screening and interview rooms. In addition, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents were asked to describe for CAIR representatives various features of the high-risk passenger lookout system.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ART…
America is betrayed! How can we remain free? ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF FREEDOM
Make NO MISTAKE!!!!!! The FBI is NOT on the side that you would hope they are on.
Islamic Infiltration in America's strongly PRO-ISLAM Government.
The huge threat to the safety and freedom of America, Israel and the Free World is frightening. Counter-terrorism forces in the FBI are trained by radical Muslim groups. The war on terror is phony.
From Pajamas Media: The Islamic Infiltration, Part 1: Inside Our Government, Armed With Our Secrets
http://www.pjtv.com/v/2930
So American Muslims shouldn't have groups that stand up for their rights? Is that what you're trying to say? They're people too. This statement by CAIR is fabricated obviously, no Muslim spells Qu'ran-KORAN.
Watch it. And weep for our great nation and people.
FALL Of The Republic – The Presidency Of Barack H Obama – The Full Movie HQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8LPNRI_6T8&fe…
Islam the religion of hate, of intolerance , of sexual repression , of the murder of innocents, how could a just God approve of all this, wake up you muzzies you have been brainwashed by mohammed the pedophile
INTOLERANCE? Islam means peace.
MAYBE SOME MUSLIMS propagate this BAD form of ISLAM but please don't let that stand for us all.
Just today I was walking by a mosque and this lady said, "I can't believe they're here too." Why does this seem as the common American sentiment.
If your facts have no basis please don't spread them out there. The prophet Muhammad, married women for a sense of protection something women in Arabia didn't have. You pull out the AUTHENTIC history books and sources that show he wronged women in any way, shape or form. Although Islam may seem repressive to women-why the double standard-don't Nuns in Catholicism cover the same parts of their head? The burka is totally a cultural thing and no where in the Qu'ran does it say women have to cover themselves with tents. I don't condone Shariah law but atleast women in Islamic countries aren't suffering from widespread diseases like AIDS and HIV and there is a sense of order. There are no rapes because there are harsh punishments. A just god approved ISLAM in a true form-not the type we see in the media. Look into the facts with basis and truth. The killing of any innocent person is condemned by Islam and is a major sin.
A bunch of bigots, that's what you are!
Where's tolerance-moreover acceptance?
The facts in this article are simply words with no basis I have yet to see concrete proof to back these facts up.
Maybe some forms of Islam have been propagated in the fundamentalist form; but what about the MILLIONS of mainstream MUSLIMS that you don't hear about it prejudice based articles like these?
We all need to learn to respect and understand one ANOTHER FULLY.
This is America a land found on immigrants regardless of religion we are all AMERICANS and groups like ISNA and CAIR stand for the American Muslim maybe with some tweaks in them, but overall they try to fix the issues that everyday Muslims face.
It sounds like chasing a dream, but I do wish we could all work together to erase conflict and to become a greater united power for health and related factors.