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Democrats give @CAIRSacramento boss @BasimElkarra everything he wants.

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Elkarra has been contending that Hamid Hayat, convicted in 2006 of providing support to terrorists, “did not get a fair trial,” despite representation by Wazhma Mojaddidi, a former CAIR president in Sacramento.

CAIR and the Muslim Legal Fund of America (MLFA) judge-shopped Deborah Barnes, a relative newcomer to California’s Eastern District.

In January, judge Barnes issued a 116-page recommendation that Hayat’s case be vacated. Barnes scheduled two nights of testimony from witnesses in Pakistan by video conference, with no consequences for falsification.

The hearing did not render a new trial or vacate Hayat’s conviction, but CAIR continues to champion the convicted terrorist, who celebrated the murder of Daniel Pearl and is slated for release in 2026.

For his part, Basim Elkarra has also shown skill as a producer of fake hate crimes. Two days after the inauguration of President Trump, a mysterious woman placed strips of bacon on the door of the Islamic Center mosque in Davis, California, near the state capital of Sacramento.

The prowler then proceeded to vandalize bicycles and smash six windows before slipping away.

Surveillance video caught her in the act and tips led police to Lauren Kirk-Coehlo, 30, an unemployed UC Berkeley grad who was promptly arrested.

Basim Elkarra thanked local authorities for “their swift investigation and arrest in the case,” failing to note that CAIR provided the surveillance video. At one point, the vandal practically poses for the camera, wearing what looks like a MAGA hat.

After the arrest, CAIR called on state and federal law enforcement to investigate “the motive behind the vandalism.”

About that time someone sprayed anti-Muslim graffiti on the walls of the Tarbiya Institute in nearby Roseville. Police called it a hate crime and Basim Elkarra of CAIR said the Muslim institute had been “targeted by bigotry.”

In 2016, Iraqi refugee Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab, 23, was charged with travelling abroad to fight with terrorist groups in Syria. As he explained, Al-jayab was only visiting his grandmother in Turkey.

Local CAIR boss Basim Elkarra told reporters he had surveyed local mosques and “no one recognizes this guy.”

In February 2015, after the death of humanitarian worker Kayla Mueller in captivity of ISIS, CA assemblywoman Mellissa Melendez tweeted: “Gut wrenching news today. American Kayla Mueller murdered by Islamic savages. There MUST be consequences”

Basim Elkarra branded the message “hateful” and called on Melendez to apologize.