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February 3, 2006
US: CAIR and the IAP; Tracing the Tentacles of Jihad Ideology
Joe Kaufman unravels the Islamist Web. My first question, of course, is why does it take a non-journalist, without the ample resources of a Newspaper, to report the unsettling truth. My second, even more important question, is why does the U.S. Government, which does knows about it, treats CAIR as a legitimate Civil Rights Organization, and not the terrorist protectors that they are: Death of a Terror Lobby
[...]In the early 90's, a young group of Muslim activists had assumed leadership of the IAP, which at this point also went by the name American Muslim Society. In June of 1994, the organization took a dramatic turn, when it created a splinter group called CAIR. Concerning the three founders of CAIR: the President of the IAP, Omar Ahmad, became CAIR's Chairman of the Board; the IAP Public Relations Director, Nihad Awad, became CAIR's Executive Director; and the IAP’s Rafiq Jaber took over as IAP President.According to those involved, CAIR was created as a "civil liberties" group, so while the IAP was praising Hamas attacks via its magazines and videos, CAIR was defending the civil liberties of terrorists, such as the spiritual leader of the '93 bombing of the World Trade Center, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, and Marzook, who would soon be deported from the United States. The two groups worked well together, in that they complimented each other, but apparently that relationship is no more, as after 24 years in existence, according to Rehab, the IAP is no more. Could this be possible?[...]
Posted by Ruy Diaz at February 3, 2006 2:08 PM
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