Article: "Beware of CAIR."

The link: http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=318212502081788

NOTE: You'll notice that part of the URL says "editorialcontent." In fact, when the page loads it does say "Editorials & Opinion." Therefore, it could be said that the article is, in fact, an Op-Ed peice. But it is damming. Very damming.

"Homeland Security: You'd think the Council on American-Islamic Relations would be savoring the results of an election that favors its agenda. Instead, it's having to do major damage control. " ("Homeland Security" is in bold because it is on bold on the webpage.)

"Over the past several months, the Washington-based pressure group has suffered a series of punishing blows to its reputation as a self-proclaimed "moderate" voice for Muslim-Americans. In the latest setback, a "Dear Colleague" letter sent out to every House member warns lawmakers and their staffs to "think twice" about meeting with CAIR officials.

"The FBI has cut ties with them," the letter says. "There are indications" CAIR has links to Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group."

"The marginalization of CAIR, which has enjoyed astonishing access to official Washington, comes after the successful prosecution of leaders of a U.S. Muslim charity that funneled millions to Hamas terrorists. CAIR and its co-founder Omar Ahmed were named unindicted co-conspirators in that Holy Land Foundation case.

"CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad, moreover, was caught on tape participating in a meeting with Hamas leaders to disguise payments as charity. During the trial, the FBI described CAIR as a front group for Islamic extremists.

"It just gets worse for CAIR. Former clients of the group are suing it for fraud. The Muslims say CAIR, which claims to be an advocate for Muslim rights, extorted thousands of dollars from them in a scam in which CAIR said it would help them get U.S. citizenship."

That's a long quote, so let's parse this down. First, the U.S. Muslim charity that they reference is the Holy Land Foundation as evidenced by "CAIR and its co-founder Omar Ahmed were named unindicted co-conspirators in that Holy Land Foundation case."

Unindicted co-conspirators!

Let's repeat one of those lines: "CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad, moreover, was caught on tape participating in a meeting with Hamas leaders to disguise payments as charity. During the trial, the FBI described CAIR as a front group for Islamic extremists. (emphasis added)

But what is this FBI document they reference? Here's the direct link to it: http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/238.pdf

Again, that's a direct link to the document. You'll notice the date on the document; 8-OCT-2008.

I know I'm probably going to get sued by somebody for posting this. Yet, these are direct quotes from articles already published, and direct links to said articles.

"The Company That You Keep?"