A first: federal prosecutors go after CAIR itself
CPAC must be the reason why I missed this important article from Investor’s Business Daily published on the 8th. It seems to be an extension of the Holy Land Foundation trial last year, but the difference is that for the first time that I know of, the federal government is going after CAIR as an organization. As the article notes, some of its members and leadership have been prosecuted before, but actually calling the organization out is a very much needed departure.
… CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror-fundraising case last year … FBI wiretaps revealed that CAIR’s founder, Omar Ahmad, and executive director, Nihad Awad, last decade attended a secret meeting in Philadelphia with Hamas leaders and other terrorist sympathizers.In fact, Ahmad himself was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the terror case, which counts a CAIR founding director among its criminal defendants.
But now, in a separate case involving a senior CAIR official who trained to kill American soldiers in jihad, prosecutors are tying CAIR even closer to terror. In court papers filed in December, federal prosecutors described CAIR as not just an apologist or sympathizer, but a supporter of terrorists.
“From its founding by Muslim Brotherhood leaders,” the filing states, “CAIR conspired with other affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood to support terrorists.” The government also cited evidence “the conspirators used deception to conceal from the American public their connections to terrorists.”
All I can say is, I hope they go down hard. This terrorist front organization has bullied people speaking the truth long enough.
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