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Something About Congresswoman @IlhanMN Should Bother Us

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https://twitter.com/ilhanmn/status/1193223373922488320

CAIR is a front group, one of several such groups established by a murky Islamist organization called the Muslim Brotherhood.¹

In setting up groups like @CAIRNational, the Brotherhood’s purpose was to undermine American institutions and replace the US government with a government run under sharia, or Muslim law. CAIR itself has extensive ties to terrorist groups and sympathizers.

This raises a disturbing question that has received little attention. Why is a powerful Congresswoman helping to raise funds for an organization connected to terrorist and Islamist groups devoted to destroying the US government? Why has she not been investigated by the FBI?

The reality is that many of the top leaders of CAIR have ties to internationally recognized terrorist groups and have made statements supportive of Islamic terrorism.

CAIR events regularly include Islamists and it works closely with other Muslim Brotherhood organizations.

Some CAIR officials openly support the terrorist organization Hamas, whose charter calls for the killing of all Jews everywhere in the world. Some CAIR officials support the elimination of the state of Israel.

Other officials obfuscate: they say they oppose terrorist groups but will not condemn Hamas or Hezbollah by name.

Omar’s Troubling Bedfellows

At the CAIR fundraiser this past March, Omar appeared with CAIR-Florida director Hassan Shibly. He has excoriated gay people. He repeatedly refused to acknowledge Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist groups.

He regularly demonizes the U.S. military as no better than Islamic jihadists. Omar herself borrowed a page from this anti-US playbook when she recently condemned US soldiers who fought jihadis in Somalia. She failed to condemn the jihadis themselves.

Hussam Ayloush is the director of the Los Angeles office of CAIR that sponsored Omar’s talk. He accused the US of being partly responsible for the San Bernardino terrorist attacks.

He described US military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of a campaign to instill “fear of Muslims.” He ignored legitimate US interests in ending foreign support for Al-Qaeda terrorists who have claimed many American lives.

In 2013 the US Internal Revenue Service reported that CAIR violated the US Foreign Agent Registration Act by hiding support it received from foreign donors. The IRS said that CAIR engaged in more than 100 political influence operations on behalf of foreign principals in the U.S.

n the US vs. Holy Land Foundation trial, the largest terrorism financing trial in US history, CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in terrorism financing. When CAIR launched a court appeal to have this designation removed, the court judge upheld the designation.

In 2008, five senior executives of the Holy Land Foundation, at the time the largest Muslim charity in the United States, were convicted of funneling millions of dollars to Hamas.

Due to its terrorist ties, the FBI severed official contact with CAIR, stating that it “does not view CAIR as an appropriate liaison partner.”

To Love or To Re-Make America?

Recently Congresswoman Ilhan Omar claimed she loves the US more than anyone who was born there.

But this is belied by her frequent criticisms of the US, her dismissiveness about deadly anti-American terrorist attacks, and her false anti-Semitic accusation that Jews bribe the US Congress.

In her short tenure as Congresswoman, Omar has shown that she deliberately evokes and savors controversy. She garners media attention.

But the American people should not allow Omar’s verbal outrages to obscure a far more important and sinister aspect of her career as a lawmaker—-her support for ideas and organizations that seek to remake America in the image of an extremist Islam.