CAIR’s March With Terror

CAIR continues to be CAIR, apologist for terrorism. Joe Kaufman does a great job of pointing out CAIR's relationship with numerous convicted terrorists.
FROM FRONTPAGEMAG.COM:

CAIR’s March With Terror
By Joe Kaufman

FrontPageMagazine.com | 4/2/2008
March has been a bad month for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). In recent weeks, the organization’s sympathy for Islamic terrorist groups like Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad has been revealed more clearly than ever, as CAIR personnel publicly expressed their support for the two groups.

At this moment, for instance, Sami Al-Arian’s picture adorns CAIR’s homepage. The graphic is part of an “Action Alert” that CAIR released March 19. It calls on supporters to write letters of support to Al-Arian, who is currently protesting his detention -- what CAIR calls “alleged unjust treatment by U.S. authorities” -- by way of a hunger strike. CAIR describes Al-Arian’s predicament as a “struggle for justice.”
It is telling what CAIR does not mention about al-Arian. A co-founder and the North American leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, he played a major role in a number of terrorist attacks, including suicide bombings, that killed Israelis as well as two American citizens. He even used a children’s school that he created, in Tampa, Florida, to help finance the terror group. Today, Al-Arian sits in an American prison, convicted for his participation in PIJ.
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CAIR STATES SUPPORT FOR HAMAS

Joe Kaufman (right) with Robert Spencer

CAIR's reply (if any) to this development should be interesting.
FROM AMERICANSAGAINSTHATE.ORG:

March 7, 2008
For Immediate Release
Contact: Joe Kaufman

CAIR STATES SUPPORT FOR HAMAS
STATEMENTS MADE DAYS BEFORE HAMAS TERROR ATTACK ON ISRAELI TEENS
(Coral Springs, FL) On Saturday, March 1, 2008, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) expressed its support for Hamas and denied that Hamas was a terrorist organization. The statements were made, during an Americans Against Hate (AAH) rally against CAIR’s usage of the Broward County Convention Center, a government-owned facility.

Whilst speaking into a microphone bearing CAIR’s name and logo, CAIR-Florida representative Jawhar “Joe” Badran stated clearly on video, “Hamas is not a terrorist organization.” At the time, Badran was standing next to the Executive Director of CAIR-Florida Altaf Ali.

Other statements made by Badran at the rally, include: “Hamas is a defender of the Palestinian people. That’s what Hamas is.” And “Hamas is better than Fatah, because there’s no corruption. Hamas takes care of the people.”

A video of the statements can be seen here.

The statements were made less than a week prior to the terror attack on a Jerusalem school perpetrated by Hamas. The attack left eight Israeli students dead.

A press release issued by Hamas’s military wing, the Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades, calling the attack a "heroic martyrdom operation" and threatening further attacks, can be seen here.

AAH Chairman Joe Kaufman stated, “It is unconscionable for CAIR to state its support for a group that targets youth with terrorist attacks. Given CAIR’s ties to Hamas, we call on our government to, once and for all, shut the organization down.”

Joe Kaufman is available for interview. E-mail