Post Orlando, CAIR to Announce Funding of ‘Islamophobic’ Orgs, Clarion Project, Jennifer Breedon, June 20, 2016
CAIR’s Founder and Executive Director Nihad Awad (R); National Communications Director and Spokesperson Ibrahim Hooper (L). Awad was present at the 1993 secret meeting of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood Palestine Committee in Philadelphia that was wiretapped by the FBI. Participants of the meeting discussed how to support Hamas and, in the words of U.S. District Court Judge Solis the “goals, strategies and American perceptions of the Muslim Brotherhood.” (Photo: © Reuters)
In a vastly ironic twist of organizational transparency, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, will be presenting a public release of all the funding to U.S. organizations they deem to be “Islamophobic.”
The list will serve to harass supporters of legitimate U.S. entities following a long tradition of substantial bullying tactics by CAIR against U.S. citizens.
Ironically, CAIR, itself, refuses to divulge any of their funding sources even when mandated by US Courts.
Case in point: In a seeming act of lawfare, two of CAIR’s numerous registered entities, CAIR Action Network (CAIR-AN) and CAIR Foundation (CAIR-F), sued a father and son for several counts of tort claims.[1] As part of the case, CAIR was legally obligated to present certain facts during the discovery phase of the case (a pretrial practice where both parties of the case are required to provide the other side with relevant information to prove their claims are valid and that some damage has, in fact, been done).[2]
When the defendants exercised their legal right to compel CAIR to disclose their financial records, CAIR was so desperate to keep their records hidden from the American public that they voluntarily dismissed the case and dropped the lawsuit regarding those charges.
In the end, a prominent District of Columbia superior court judge ruled that CAIR could not bring further charges against these defendants because they showed they were repeatedly unwilling to divulge their own records to a court of law.[3]
This is not the only time CAIR’s questionable practices have been highlighted in the U.S. court system. In 2010, five of CAIR’s former clients sued CAIR on the basis of fraud, intentional infliction of emotional distress and federal RICO charges. Those clients also prevailed against CAIR.
CAIR’s lack of transparency and refusal to divulge their financial information is highly troubling. Numerous fact-based sources have investigated the foreign financial ties of CAIR.
CAIR’s announcement comes at a time where America is mourning the loss of 49 innocent people that were gunned down by someone to pledged allegiance to the genocidal Islamic State (ISIS).
Barely one week has passed and CAIR is again standing at the forefront to shame American organizations and citizens on the bases of more fraudulent claims of supposed “Islamophobia” without any substantial basis in fact or law in the backyard of the U.S. Capitol building.
Their attempts to shame law-abiding U.S. citizens in the wake of the Orlando attacks is another reminder that CAIR is not a friend of American Muslims or the democratic ideals of the United States of America. CAIR does not speak for peace-abiding Muslim reformists, and most distressingly, CAIR is slowly attempting to strip away First Amendment rights by publicly inciting harassment and shame against peaceful organizations that seek to educate the American public on the dangers of groups like CAIR.
What’s worse, CAIR is attempting to shame and incite harassment against U.S. citizens that simply want to support organizations that work to expose extremism within U.S. borders.
A former DHS official and whistleblower noted how CAIR should have been shut down long ago following federal evidence of their ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood as well as their funding channels through various money laundering schemes as reported by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (who subsequently removed CAIR from their accepted list of informants within the U.S.).
If the United Arab Emirates (UAE) saw through CAIR’s deceptive strategies to list them as a “terrorist organization,” shouldn’t the United States wake up and do the same – or at the very least, stop allowing them from attaining a front row to our nation’s political forums?
Instead, this is the organization that will be publicly harassing donors and supporters of alleged “Islamophobic” organizations on Monday, June 20 at 11:00 am.
A society such as America which is built on freedom of speech is one in which educational organizations have a right to freely speak truth and fact in regards to whatever information they choose to educate the public.
Let not one more life be taken because Americans’ voices have been silenced by CAIR in the name of the pseudo term and made-up phenomenon of “Islamophobia.”
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[1] See e.g. Shea v. Fridley, 123 A.2d 358, 361 (D.C. 1956).
[2] (1) the plaintiff[‘s] . . . injury in fact — an invasion of a legally protected interest which is (a) concrete and particularized and (b) actual or imminent, not conjectural or hypothetical; (2) a causal connection between the injury and the conduct complained of — the injury must be fairly traceable to the challenged action of the defendant, and not . . . the result [of] the independent action of some third party not before the court; [and] (3) a likelihood, as opposed to mere speculation, that an injury will be redressed by a favorable decision.”Grayson v. AT&T Corp., 15 A.3d 219, 246 (D.C. 2011) (internal quotations omitted), citing Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, 504 U.S. 555, 560-61 (1992). Before trial, there are a number of “pre-trial” procedures to undergo so that both sides of the case can present the best possible case. Therefore, CAIR had to present their financial records in discovery to prove these elements in their allegations against the defendants.
[3] Council on American-Islamic Relations Action Network, Inc. v. Gaubatz, 793 F. Supp. 2d 311. See also Council on American-Islamic Relations Action Network, Inc. v. Gaubatz, 891 F. Supp. 2d 13, Council on American-Islamic Relations Action Network, Inc. v. Gaubatz 82 F. Supp. 3d 344, Council on American-Islamic Relations Action Network, Inc. v. Gaubatz, 2015 U.S. District LEXIS 168443 (unpublished decision). Therefore, as shown above, CAIR needed to divulge their financial information to prove their allegations against the defendants. When they refused to do this, the judge did not allow them to bring any more charges against these defendants because of their unwillingness to adhere to their legal obligations in the prior cases.
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