Feb 142009
From the website of unindicted co-conspirator Islamist organization “Council on American-Islamic Relations:”
Muzzammil Hassan receives award from CAIR-PA Chairman Iftekhar Hussain and CAIR National Chairman Parvez Ahmed
This was at the CAIR-PA First Annual Banquet in 2007. Expect the website to be slightly altered in the near future. The website does not seem to give an indication as to just what the award was, or was for. Perhaps “2007 Award for Greatest Advances in the Art of Takeyya.” Perhaps for a 12-part documentary series on “Honor Killings: Should You Use an Axe,a Sword or a Carving Knife? We Examine The Options.”
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And to think that NPR and Democracy Now worked with this butcher!
Birds of a feather…………………
Indeed! How could they not have known he was going to kill his wife? Did they forget to look in their crystal ball?
*Shakes head sadly*
More to the point: how could anyone not have forseen that a man honored by an Islamist organization with strong ties to terrorist individuals and groups just might turn out to be a whackjob?
Who are the terrorist individuals?
>Who are the terrorist individuals?
Lessee:
http://www.danielpipes.org/2811/cair-founded-by-islamic-terrorists
Randall Royer, CAIR’s communications specialist and civil rights coordinator, was indicted on charges of conspiring to help Al-Qaeda and the Taliban to battle American troops in Afghanistan.
Ghassan Elashi, the founder of CAIR’s Texas chapter, was convicted in July 2004 along with his four brothers of having illegally shipped computers from their Dallas-area business, InfoCom Corporation, to Libya and Syria, two designated state sponsors of terrorism. In April of 2005, Elashi and two brothers were also convicted of knowingly doing business with Mousa Abu Marzook, a senior Hamas leader and Specially Designated Terrorist. He continues to face charges that he provided more than $12.4 million to Hamas …
Siraj Wahhaj, a CAIR advisory board member, was named in 1995 by U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White as a possible unindicted co-conspirator in connection with the plot to blow up New York City landmarks led by the blind sheikh, Omar Abdul Rahman.
Ihsan Bagby, a future CAIR board member, stated in the late 1980s that Muslims “can never be full citizens of this country,” referring to the United States, “because there is no way we can be fully committed to the institutions and ideologies of this country.”
Ibrahim Hooper, the future CAIR spokesman, told the Minneapolis Star Tribune on April 4, 1993: “I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.”
Omar Ahmad, CAIR’s chairman, announced in July 1998 that “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran . . . should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth.”
Royer seems like a bad ‘un. But what exactly is a ‘communications specialist’?
Elashi – hardly a big cheese, save in Texas.
Wahhaj seems to be one of 170 people who “may be alleged un-indicted co-conspirator” according to Mary Jo White. Hardly damning.
The last 3 – Bagby, Hooper, and Ahmad – if they said what they did, are expressing opinions that many religious people would hold. Hardly shocking stuff.
So – two guys who have links to bad-guys. Hardly grounds for denunciation of a whole organisation.
On the subject of the killer himself CNN reports:
“In the past few years, according to a former employee who asked not to be named for fear of retribution, Bridges TV transformed itself into more of a cross-cultural network seeking to bridge the gap between all cultures. Most of their employees were not Muslim, the former employee said, and Muzzammil Hassan himself was not devout.”
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/17/new.york.beheading/index.html
> So – two guys who have links to bad-guys. Hardly grounds for denunciation of a whole organisation.
Sure… if that was the *only* problem the organization has. But it’s not.