“CAIR’s Anti-American Statements.”

THE HIDDEN AGENDA OF CAIR’S TOP LEADERS IN WASHINGTON

Is the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations really just a “civil rights advocacy group”?

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CAIR Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper:

“I wouldn¹t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.”

Source: Lou Gelfand, “Reader Says Use of ‘Fundamentalist’ Hurting Muslims,” Star Tribune (Minneapolis), 4 April 1993, A31.

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CAIR Founding Chairman Omar Ahmad:
“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Quran should be the highest authority in America.”

Source: Lisa Gardiner, “American Muslim Leader Urges Faithful to Spread Word,” San Ramon Valley (California) Herald, 4 July 1998. The article also ran in a sister publication, The Argus (Fremont, California). Ahmad made the remarks on July 2, 1998, at an Islamic conference held at the Flamingo Palace banquet hall in Fremont, California. The conference was sponsored by the Islamic Study School, a local nonprofit, and Ahmad spoke during a session titled, “How Should We as Muslims Live in America?” When the unpatriotic remarks resurfaced after 9/11, CAIR claimed in an April 2003 press release that they “were either reported inaccurately or wrongly attributed by a reporter at a small California newspaper.” Hooper claimed that CAIR had sought a retraction, but editors at the The Argus, a daily newspaper, deny being contacted by CAIR. Hooper later backpedaled from his claim after media questioning.

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CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad:

“Muslims in America are in the best position to show Islam and to show action and to show vision, not only for a Muslim school how it should be run, but for the entire society — how it should be run. Who better can lead America than Muslims?”

Source: CAIR’s War On Truth,” IPT News, 13 March 2009.

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“I am in support of the Hamas movement.”

Source: Awad made the statement March 22, 1994, during a symposium on the Middle East at Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida. This was the same year CAIR was founded. Awad now claims he was referring to the humanitarian side of Hamas but does not deny making the remark, which was cited in public testimony during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security, 10 September 2003.