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| 2007-10-29 |
| HOLY LAND TRIAL SHOWS CHARITY'S HAMAS TIES By STEVEN EMERSON Excerpt: Moreover, the trial uncovered numerous ugly secrets of Holy Land and its leaders. For starters, it exposed as lies their oft-made claims to not be supporting Hamas. The evidence clearly linked Holy Land and CAIR to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, the hard-line Egyptian Islamist umbrella group and godfather of every Sunni terrorist group from Hamas to al Qaeda. Former Holy Land CEO Shukri Abu Baker, for example, told a Dallas Morning News reporter in 1996, "We were never associated with Hamas." Yet Baker's own credit-card bills show he and other Holy Land defendants repeatedly covered travel expenses for Hamas leaders - including Mohammed Siyam and Mahmud Zahar - in the early 1990s. ... Overall, the transcript shows that Holy Land was an active player in a larger Muslim Brotherhood network aimed at organizing support in America for Hamas. Also at the meeting were two men who would later be founders of CAIR - Omar Ahmad, the group's first chairman, and Nihad Awad, who is now its executive director. Ahmad convened the Philadelphia gathering: "This meeting was called for by the Palestine Committee," he said, "in order to have a seminar or a meeting to the brothers present here today in order to study the situation in light of the latest developments on the Palestinian arena, its effects and impact on our work here in America." The transcripts (from an FBI recording) make it clear that all present opposed any peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and, in fact, wanted a Palestinian state on the '48 borders, Palestinian code for the destruction of Israel: Omar Ahmad: We've always demanded the 1948 territories. I mean, we demanded . . . Unidentified speaker: Yes, but we don't say that publicly. You cannot say it publicly. In front of the Americans . . . Ahmad: No, we didn't say that to the Americans. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #2 The next time Keith Ellison comes up for re-election Zen! |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2007-10-29 16:46 |
| #1 So, when do we start kicking some major CAIR hiney? |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-29 13:25 |