CAIR Charges U.S. Congressman with Seeking Political Payback over Letter to FBI
The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report
The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has accused a Virginia member of the U.S. House of Representatives of abusing his office by contacting the FBI seeking further information about CAIR. According to a Fox News report:
Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., sent the letter on Feb. 2 after FOXNews.com report that the bureau had severed ties with the Council on American-Islamic Relations amid mounting evidence that the group was linked to a support network for Hamas.
The FBI severed its ties with all local chapters of CAIR after a 15-year investigation culminated with the conviction in December of Hamas fund-raisers. CAIR was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the case. Wolf reached out to the FBI's assistant director for counterterrorism to find out whether the bureau still had any contact with the group it called a front for Islamic radicals, and whether CAIR was receiving funds from foreign sources.
After waiting more than a month, Wolf said, the only response he got was a four-paragraph letter from the FBI's head of public relations. The response left the 15-term congressman seething - and now he's pushing back. "I would like these questions fully answered by this Friday, March 13, and by someone who works on counter-terrorism, rather than a public affairs officer," Wolf wrote in a follow-up letter this week. "I would think the Bureau would be embarrassed to send the insufficient response I received."
Wolf, the ranking member of the appropriations subcommittee that oversees the FBI, told FOXNews.com he personally hand-delivered his response to the FBI on Monday. He said he is "one of the FBI's best friends in Congress" and expected timely and detailed responses to his questions. "I was deeply disappointed with the FBI's response," Wolf wrote. "It took the Bureau more than a month to respond, and the letter I received provides only a partial answer to one of the 10 questions I posed."
CAIR, however, charged that Rep. Wolfe with basing his accusations against CAIR on the work of a well-known critic of CAIR and of seeking political "payback." According to the CAIR announcement:The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) charged today that a Virginia member of the U.S. House of Representatives has "abused his office" by seeking to pressure the FBI to produce negative information about the Muslim civil rights and advocacy group.
In a letter delivered to the FBI on Monday, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) said he is "deeply disappointed" in the agency's "insufficient response" to an earlier letter apparently seeking negative information based on smears against CAIR by Internet Muslim-bashers like Steven Emerson. Emerson was recently named one of Fairness & Accuracy in Media's "dirty dozen" of Islamophobes.
FOXNews.com articles on the controversy have been based on Emerson's online attacks on CAIR. CAIR has been exposing Emerson's Islamophobic rhetoric since publishing a point-by-point refutation of his 1994 "Jihad in America" video. Wolf seemed to threaten the FBI's budget unless he received the type of negative response he seeks. He wrote: "Having resumed a leadership role this year as ranking member on the Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations subcommittee, it is important to me that the FBI provide timely and detailed responses."
Wolf's attempt to obtain negative information to be used against CAIR may stem from that group's long history of criticism of the Virginia congressman's political stances. "It appears that Congressman Wolf is seeking payback for all the times CAIR and American Muslims have challenged his political positions using their constitutionally-protected right to petition elected representatives," said CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad. "It is unfortunate that Wolf has abused his office to pressure a government agency to target those he obviously views as political opponents. Public office should be used to serve the people, not to pursue personal vendettas."
However, as the Fox report notes, and as discussed in a previous post, Rep. Wolfe is not the only member of Congress involved with this issue:Wolf is not the only member of Congress interested in CAIR's case; the House and Senate are both pushing the FBI to clarify its decision to ban contact with CAIR. Members of the House anti-terrorism caucus have called on the FBI to assert their ban as a government-wide policy. Republican Reps. Sue Myrick and Patrick McHenry of North Carolina and Paul Broun of Georgia urged FBI Director Robert Mueller last week "to show other federal agencies the evidence the Department of Justice has on CAIR's terrorist ties in order to ensure that none of our federal agencies are working with this group." Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, and Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., pushed Mueller in the same direction. "Obviously, we believe this should be government-wide policy," they wrote in a February letter.
Documents released in the Holy Land Trial have revealed that the founders and current leaders of CAIR were part of the Palestine Committee of the Muslim Brotherhood as well as identifying the organization itself as being part of the U.S. Brotherhood. A recent post discussed an interview with the Deputy leader of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in which he confirms a relationship between his organization and CAIR. Investigative research posted on GMBDR had determined that CAIR had it origins in the U.S. Hamas infrastructure and is an integral part of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood with a long history of support for fundamentalism, anti-Semitism, and terrorism. Printed with permission by the Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report.
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AMIM, you are still
AMIM, you are still copying/pasting nonsense. There is no relation between what you copies and then pasted here, and this informative article about evil CAIR in the US of A.
Still you got a good response from Raisin Head.
Now tell me Amina: Islam is praciticed to the letter, sort of, in countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Sudan. I bet my life on it that you would not want to live in any of those hellish countries. So, your defending of Islam all the time does not make any sense. You know better, but then decide to put your head back in the sand. Have a good life.
No other religion needs a
No other religion needs a council to maintain a American-Religion Relationship. The says a lot of about Islam. Islam must be a Satanic Cult of the Abrahamic religion.
I hope Iran drops an Atomic Bomb on Mekkah and Medinah.
CAIR's intent is to set the
CAIR's intent is to set the ground work for the failure of the U.S. government. At the moment there are a relatively small percentage of Muslims in the U.S. the last figures that I saw was about 1%.
They must gain power while their numbers increase so they can exercise the takeover. They sweat talk their innocence when the government is figuring out that they are subversives. It has taken the FBI too long to figure things out and now apparently they are willing to cover up for CAIR because they know the crap will hit the fan if all the truth is made public.
It will be interesting to find out what the FBI actually knows about CAIR. If this information is a damning as I think it may be then CAIRS days of influence may really be limited. Its release could end up in a hearing in Congress wherein CAIR’s leadership would be subpoenaed and forced to answer questions under oath. In that environment their lies could end up placing them in jeopardy of spending years in jail/prison. Under the U.S. law lying to Congress can be quite damaging especially if that committee were to be headed up by someone like Congressman Wolf.
There have been many such hearings that have effectively shut down many questionable organizations like CAIR.
It's time to kick CAIR out of
It's time to kick CAIR out of the U.S.
Speak the truth about
Speak the truth about Muslims, Islamic organisations like CAIR and about Islam you would be accused of Islamophobia. This is one of the tactics used by Muslims to silence the freedom loving people. Muslims have been doing this since the inception of their evil ideology. Now they use the term Islamophobia, in the past Muslims used to shout, "Islam is in danger." In India, the common cry of Muslims is, "Islam khatre mein hai."
But we cannot afford to give into Muslim terrorist organisations like CAIR. It has been proven beyond any reasonable doubt that CAIR is working towards imposing Islam on the USA. The object of CAIR is to turn America into Islamic hell hole. CAIR wants to reduce America to the level of Pakistan where the women are treated as slaves and non-Muslims are persecuted.
[5. Marie Says: March 19th,
[5. Marie Says:
March 19th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
It’s time to kick CAIR out of the U.S.]
Stopping immigration of Muslims to the USA (and all other Western nations) is only solution. Do not allow Muslims to set up their organisations. Ban Islamic schools. Ban building of mosques. Encourage Muslims to emigrate even if we have to give them some compensation.
If they don't like it they can move to an Islamic paradise.
To #7: I'm not sure if it
To #7:
I'm not sure if it would constitutional to halt the immigration of Muslims, but banning Islamic schools and mosques funded by the Saudis, dismantling CAIR on the grounds of promoting terrorism and inciting hatred would well be within US laws. As well, the media should report cases of terrorism, female genital mutilations, torture, persecution of minorities in Islamic countries with ten times CAIR's fervor in highlighting the cases of "persecution and discrimination" of minorities in the US.
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