August 11, 2005

CAIR-terrorism link.

Ghassan Elashi-- founder and board member of Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

Convicted April 13, 2005 on federal terrorism charges.

Third CAIR leader thus convicted between 9/11/01 and 5/10/05.[1]

Anti-CAIR reports:

[D]uring the month of September 2001, just after the Islamic terrorist attacks of 9-11, the CAIR website contained a section titled “What you can do for the victims of the WTC and Pentagon attacks”- that solicited contributions to the “NY/DC Emergency Relief Fund.” Only problem is, this so-called “Relief Fund” did not ever exist…the link provided by CAIR led a contributor directly to the Holy Land Foundation web site.

And just who was the head of the Holy Land Foundation?

Elashi![2]
Anti-CAIR's Andrew Whitehead was sued in 2004 by CAIR as "part of what seems to be a policy of using the legal process to silence or chill critics."[3]

Here's more on the CAIR-terrorism link. According to this, two of CAIR's founding directors were formerly officials of an Hamas front group, the Islamic Association for Palestine:
Omar Ahmad and Nihad Awad, former officials of the Islamic Association of [sic] Palestine (IAP), founded the organization, while IAP’s president, Rafeeq Jabar, was (according to Steve Emerson) one of CAIR’s founding directors.

Former FBI counterterrorism chief Oliver “Buck” Revell has described the IAP as “a front organization for Hamas.” This linkage between the IAP and Hamas was decisively established in 2004, when a federal judge in Chicago found it partially liable for $156 million in damages for its role in aiding and abetting Hamas in the murder of David Boim, a 17-year-old American citizen.[4]
Notes
[1] National Review and the Muslim Lobby. By Sherrie Gossett, Associate Editor of AIM Report, AIM Media Monitor, 5/10/05.
[2] CAIR & Ghassan Elashi ; Partners in Islamic Terrorism? Anti-CAIR, 5/2/05.
[3] "CAIR Founded by 'Islamic Terrorists'?" By Daniel Pipes and Sharon Chadha, FrontPageMagazine.com, 7/28/05 (link in original).
[4] Id.

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