FBI evidence: Ben Carson right about 'terrorist' CAIR
U.S. Muslim group reacts to presidential candidate's 'smear'
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After calling for an investigation of a major Washington, D.C.-based Muslim organization as a “supporter of terrorism,” Dr. Ben Carson warned at the Republican primary debate Tuesday night that the Muslim Brotherhood is exploiting the nation’s “politically correct” attitude.
Earlier Tuesday, Carson, a former neurosurgeon, posted on his campaign website a strategy for defeating ISIS that included urging the Department of State to “designate the Muslim Brotherhood and other organizations that propagate or support Islamic terrorism as terrorist organizations, and fully investigate the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood and a supporter of terrorism.”
In the debate, Carson noted that a Muslim Brotherhood document was discovered during the Department of Justice’s prosecution of the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation that revealed the Brotherhood “will take advantage of our PC attitude” to accomplish its aims.
“We have to be better than this. We have to be smarter than they are,” Carson said in response to a question from CNN debate moderator Wolf Blitzer.
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Reacting to Carson’s call for an investigation, CAIR’s executive director, Nihad Awad, wrote in a Time magazine Web commentary Wednesday that he felt a “sense of pride when someone like Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson tries to smear” an organization like his, which he contended is simply “advocating for an America that lives up to her founding ideals.”
He called CAIR a “leading advocate for justice and mutual understanding.”
But the evidence to support Carson’s concerns is abundant.
The Department of Justice named CAIR an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land case, which convicted the charity of funneling more than $12 million to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
In November 2014, the United Arab Emirates named CAIR as one of 82 designated terrorist organizations around the world, placing it in the company of al-Qaida and ISIS.
The Muslim Brotherhood document presented as evidence in the Holy Land Foundation trial in Dallas in 2008 – the largest terror-finance case in U.S. history – was a “100-year plan” to gradually destroy the U.S. and Western civilization from within “so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”
More than a dozen CAIR leaders have been charged or convicted of terrorism-related crimes.
FBI wiretap evidence from the Holy Land case showed Awad was at an October 1993 meeting of Hamas leaders and activists in Philadelphia.
CAIR, according to the evidence, was born out of a need to give a “media twinkle” to the Muslim leaders’ agenda of supporting violent jihad abroad while slowly institutionalizing Islamic law in the U.S.
An internal FBI memo written by the former head of the FBI’s counter-terrorism division describes “all attendees” of the meeting – including Awad – as “Hamas members.”
Along with CAIR, prominent U.S. organizations launched by Muslim Brotherhood leaders include the Muslim Students Association, North American Islamic Trust, the Islamic Society of North America, the American Muslim Council, the Muslim American Society and the International Institute of Islamic Thought.
‘Ample evidence’
As WND reported in 2010, a federal judge later determined that the Justice Department provided “ample evidence” to designate CAIR as an unindicted terrorist co-conspirator, affirming the Muslim group has been involved in “a conspiracy to support Hamas.”
WND reported last year that a former FBI official contends the Justice Department has enough incriminating evidence to file terrorism charges against CAIR and its founders but has chosen not to indict the group and its leaders.
John Guandolo, author of “Raising a Jihadi Generation: Understanding the Muslim Brotherhood Movement in America,” believes the government balked at throwing the book at CAIR for political reasons.
CAIR has cultivated a number of political supporters – mainly among leading Democrats in Washington – that include senior White House officials. Secret Service entry logs show CAIR officials have visited the White House several times during the Obama administration.
In 2009, however, FBI Assistant Director John Miller wrote to Rep. Frank R. Wolf, R-Va., confirming that the bureau had “suspended any formal engagement” with CAIR field offices around the country.
He explained that the move came ‘in part as a result of evidence gathered through FBI investigation and presented in connection with the Holy Land Foundation trial.”
‘The true character of CAIR’
Even a number of Muslim leaders have commended the FBI for it rejection of CAIR.
The statement said the “undersigned American Muslims” have “long known the true character of CAIR and its allies.”
“CAIR’s supporters,” it said, “included American Muslims for Palestine, the Islamic Circle of North America, and the Muslim Students Association, as well as the leading pro-Iranian Muslim element in America, the Islamic Educational Center of Orange County, Ca.”
The Muslim leaders who signed the statement “observe that they denounce ‘terrorism’ in general terms but not the specific actions of Islamist groups like Hamas or Hezbollah. They denounce violence but not the ideologies behind it.”
“We observe their commitment to radical aims, their attempts to chill free speech by calling critics of radical Islam ‘Islamophobes,’ and their false, ugly accusations against moderate American Muslims who disagree with their agenda.”
The leaders say they “reject any claim that CAIR and its supporters are legitimate civil liberties advocates or appropriate partners between the U.S. government and American Muslims.”
“We congratulate the FBI for adopting a firmer attitude toward CAIR, as a defense of Americans of all faiths from the menace of radical Islam, including Muslims of all backgrounds – Sunni, Shia, Sufi, secular, etc.”
They “call on the U.S. Department of Justice to affirm and continue this decision” and on “the entire United States government to follow suit in rejecting relations with the Council on American-Islamic Relations.”
The signatories include M. Zuhdi Jasser of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy and Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, executive director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism, which initiated the statement.
‘Muslim Mafia’
CAIR filed suit in 2009 against former federal investigator Dave Gaubatz and his son, Chris Gaubatz, after the two carried out an undercover investigation of the Islamic group. The Washington, D.C., think tank Center for Security Policy and three of its employees were later added to the suit for their part in commissioning a documentary about CAIR, along with attorney David Yerusalmi and his non-profit group SANE, which campaigns against the advance of Islamic law, or Shariah.
Evidence from the Gaubatzes’ investigation was published in the WND Books expose’ “Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That’s Conspiring to Islamize America.” The book documents CAIR’s support of radical jihad, recounting its origin as a front group for Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood
In the lawsuit, CAIR, does not defend itself against the claims of “Muslim Mafia,” and the FBI seized the CAIR material from the Washington law office of one of the Gaubtazes’ three high-profile lawyers. A previous filing in the case revealed a federal grand jury was investigating CAIR for possible violation of laws that ban financial dealings with terrorist groups or countries under U.S. sanctions.
The case likely will go to trial in 2016.
In candid moments, CAIR leaders have acknowledged the Muslim Brotherhood aim of turning the U.S. into an Islamic state.
CAIR co-founder Ahmad, according to a local newspaper, told a group of Muslims in Northern California in 1998 that they were in America not to assimilate but to help assert Islam’s rule over the country.
“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant,” a paper paraphrased him as saying. “The Quran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”
Ahmad insists he was misquoted, but WND found the reporter stood by her story, and an FBI wiretap transcript quotes Ahmad agreeing with terrorist suspects gathered at the secret Philadelphia meeting to “camouflage” their true intentions.
He compared it to the head fake in basketball.
“This is like one who plays basketball: He makes a player believe that he is doing this, while he does something else,” Ahmad said. “I agree with you. Like they say, politics is a completion of war.”
In a 2003 telephone conversation with WND, CAIR’s communications director, Ibrahim Hooper, insisted Ahmad “never made the statement, and we have sought a retraction.”
Pressed several times to specify whether CAIR already has contacted the newspaper, he repeated the statement then finally said someone from CAIR’s California affiliate made the contact.
When confronted with the fact that the newspaper’s editors say CAIR has not contacted them and the reporter stands by the story, he ended the call with, “If you are going to use distortions, I can’t stop you; it’s a free country. Have a nice day.”
Hooper called back, however, and said he wanted to change his statement to say, “We will seek a retraction, and we have spoken to the reporter about it in the past.”
Three years later, a group of Muslim leaders confronted Ahmad, expressing concern that someone from their community could voice such radical sentiments.
Ahmad told the Muslim leaders – and WND in an interview – the attribution is a “total fabrication” and assured them the newspaper, the Fremont Argus in California, issued a “clarification” after he “challenged” reporter Lisa Gardiner.
That seemed to satisfy the Muslim leaders, but WND contacted Gardiner again and she said she continued to stand by the story, and Editor Steve Waterhouse said he was confident she got it right.
Hooper also has expressed a desire to overturn the U.S. system of government in favor of an Islamic state.
“I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future,” Hooper said in a 1993 interview with the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “But I’m not going to do anything violent to promote that. I’m going to do it through education.”
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