Also, Butt arranged a critical meeting between CAIR and the director of FCPD’s criminal justice academy. The powwow took place the year before the academy canceled the Higgins Center training courses.
CAIR memorialized the meeting in an “activity report” written under the heading, “FFPD [sic] Training of Employees on Bias-Related Incidents.”
According to CAIR’s summary of the meeting, CAIR and other members of the Muslim mafia gave Fairfax County police academy director Major Tyrone Morrow “input in the formulation of the PD’s new bias policy regarding Muslims.” They specifically warned against “racial profiling and police misconduct.”9
They also asked to train patrol officers in the proper Islamic way to respond to domestic violence calls at Muslim residences. Instead of cuffing and stuffing batterers, they suggested police respect Islamic law and allow local Muslim clerics to sort out guilt, offering counseling where necessary. Under Islamic law, husbands have the authority to beat their wives for disobedience. Therefore, they argued, Muslim men who beat their wives should be treated different from the public at large by police.
CAIR’s three-page report notes that a video on handling “domestic violence situations involving Muslims” was prepared for Fairfax County police by CAIR and a group called FAITH, 10 which runs a Muslim thrift shop located inside one of the Herndon, Virginia office buildings raided by federal agents after 9/11. FAITH is headed by a woman named Suad Barzinji, who is related to Jamal Barzinji. A senior Muslim Brotherhood leader, he was arrested in 2000 by Fairfax County police and charged with “domestic abuse and resisting arrest,” according to court records.11
Watchdogs against so-called “Shariah creep” warn that such politically correct policing could give amnesty to wife-beaters and keep their victims trapped in a cycle of violence.
This year’s brutal murder of Aasiya Hassan is an object lesson, they say, in why police cannot look the other way in Muslim domestic-violence cases solely to appease religious zealots like CAIR, who want to erect a parallel legal system for the Brothers.
For several years, the Buffalo, New York, woman was serially beaten by her husband, Muzzammil “Mo” Hassan, founder of Bridges TV, a Muslim cable network heavily endorsed by CAIR. She finally filed for divorce and asked police for a restraining order.
‘THE WORST FORM OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE POSSIBLE’
But a restraining order didn’t stop Hassan’s supposedly “moderate” Muslim husband from attacking her again. In a horrific final confrontation, he sawed off her head with a large hunting knife in a suspected Islamic “honor killing,” leaving their young children motherless.
“Obviously,” the local district attorney remarked after the beheading, “this is the worst form of domestic violence possible.”
Bridges TV began broadcasting in 2004. Hassan, a Pakistani immigrant who called CAIR chief Awad a friend and advisor, said he launched the network hoping to portray Muslims in a more positive light. To say he failed in that endeavor would be a howling understatement.
More than 80 percent of women in his native Pakistan suffer from domestic violence, according to ABC News. While that may be the accepted norm in Pakistan—which also happens to be Sergeant Butt’s family home—it’s a serious felony in America and throughout the civilized Western world.
Nonetheless, Butt has been shaping official department policy on behalf of the theocrats at CAIR since at least 2004, when he celebrated CAIR’s opening of its Herndon office and pledged to “lend us his support,” according to the CAIR report cited earlier.12
One of his allies in that office was none other than CAIR’s phony lawyer Jamil Morris Days, who was later accused of fraud and had to leave the organization under an ethical cloud.
Days lodged complaints against the Fairfax County police department, including one over a terror alert the department issued to local school bus drivers.
In 2007, federal law enforcement received a credible threat that Islamic extremists in the United States were planning to hijack school buses loaded with children. As a safety precaution, Fairfax County police dispatched a detective to brief local school officials and bus drivers. CAIR got wind of the meeting, which gathered together more than seventeen hundred county bus drivers, and fired off a letter to the department claiming the briefing discriminated against Muslims. It took particular exception to a Department of Homeland Security video showing Palestinian suicide bombers.
“It is my unfortunate duty to report a case of religious discrimination perpetrated by one of the officers of Fairfax County Police Department,” Days wrote, claiming the detective made “derogatory statements concerning members of Islam.”
In the future, Days demanded, CAIR will “expect officers assigned to the community not to be so biased and intolerant and insensitive” to Muslims.13
The police department’s internal affairs bureau ruled his charges “unfounded,” according to police records, and the detective, Kenneth Larson, was not disciplined. The police chief, meanwhile, received a letter signed by more than two hundred bus drivers thanking Larson for his “outstanding” presentation.14
It was yet another example of CAIR undercutting efforts by police to protect Americans—in this case schoolchildren—from Islamic terrorists.
Even more maddening to career law enforcement officials is that some of their own officers, including Sergeant Butt, are helping CAIR undermine their efforts to investigate suspicious activity in the Muslim community and keep the post-9/11 public informed about threats.
“The problem is, we’re letting Muslim officers dictate policy and determine what we will and won’t hear” about the threat from militant Islam and jihadists, says the high-ranking Fairfax County police official.
“These officers are advocates for CAIR,” he adds, “and we’re letting them win.”
And Chief Rohrer is letting more of them into the department. He’s promised the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors to continue diversifying the police force to reflect the county’s changing demographics, which now include some of the heaviest concentrations of Muslims in the nation. This of course is music to the ears of the subversives at CAIR.
MUSLIM MOLES INSIDE THE NYPD?
CAIR may have also infiltrated law enforcement agencies in New York.
In August 2007, the president of the Brooklyn-based Islamic Officers Benevolent Association pledged his undying support to CAIR. “As Muslims and law enforcement officers, we are prepared to support your field operations in New York,” wrote Michael G. Kilpatrick, aka Abdul Saboor, in a letter to CAIR research director Mohamed Nimer found among the files at CAIR’s headquarters.15
That same month, CAIR mounted a PR offensive against a report from the intelligence branch of the New York Police Department. Entitled “Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat,” the report warned that seemingly law-abiding young Muslim men in America can be turned into terrorists through jihadi indoctrination.
CAIR quickly condemned the report as racist. And a confidential CAIR memo reveals its New York operatives feverishly lobbied NYPD officials to amend the report by softening its conclusion that young Muslim men pose a high security risk.
“There are not enough caveats in the report to prevent profiling” of such Muslims, worried Faiza N. Ali, community affairs director for CAIR’s New York chapter.16
It’s not the first time the militant Muslim pressure group has directly interfered in internal police anti-terror operations.
After CAIR complained that police in Anaheim, California were seeking information about terrorist suspects from Muslim owners of restaurants and bookstores clustered in a part of the city known as “Little Arabia,” the Anaheim police chief reassigned part of his intelligence unit and agreed to put his entire force of seven hundred through Islamic sensitivity training taught by CAIR.
The group also torpedoed a program by Los Angeles police to map potential terror hotbeds in the Muslim community. CAIR cried “religious profiling” and joined the
ACLU to kill the plan, which was announced as the FBI warned police that shopping malls in L.A. were possible al-Qaida targets.
The Los Angeles-based Muslim Public Affairs Council also joined the protest. “All Muslim organizations are united in purpose to defend the rights of Muslim Americans,” said MPAC executive director Salam al-Marayati, if not necessarily united to defend the country from terrorism. (Until recently, MPAC’s political operations were headed by a three-time felon and ex-con, who will be introduced in a later chapter.)
By mapping the local Muslim community, the LAPD would increase its chances of disrupting such plots. Its counterrorism unit hoped to ID areas that might be more isolated and removed—and therefore riper targets for radicalization and even al-Qaida recruitment.
Shining a spotlight on these neighborhoods would take the terrorists and their facilitators out of the shadows where they prefer to operate.
“We just don’t know enough about the communities,” explained deputy LAPD chief Michael Downing, adding that the planned mapping project “has nothing to do with profiling.”17
But predictably, CAIR claimed Muslims were not more likely to commit violent acts than people of other faiths, ignoring overwhelming statistical evidence to the contrary. Just since 9/11, more than nine thousand separate violent acts have been carried out in the name of Islam.18
As Islamic terror expert Robert Spencer points out, we don’t “see Presbyterians blowing themselves up in crowded restaurants, Buddhists flying planes into buildings, and Amish waving placards crowing that they will soon dominate the world.”19
It’s in the moderates’ best interest to help police expose the extremists. That way police can narrow their surveillance and gather more useful intelligence to protect not only society at large, but also moderate Muslims who eschew violence.
But of course, CAIR is not moderate, and it considers the police the enemy—despite its public rhetoric about helping the authorities.
In fact, there is growing evidence that CAIR is at war with police, along with the rest of the Muslim mafia.
MYTH OF MUSLIM COOPERATION
Dealing a major blow to CAIR, the FBI in 2008 cut off formal ties to the group due to its terrorist co-conspirator listing. When the disengagement policy was made public in early 2009, CAIR rallied other Muslim Brotherhood front groups to fire off a threatening letter to the FBI. The letter suggested that if the bureau didn’t restore outreach relations with CAIR, they would band together and deny the FBI information about “acts of violence” and “threats” in the Muslim community (as if they had provided such information previously).20
Calling themselves “American Muslims in the American mainstream,” this cabal of Muslim Brothers essentially threatened to boycott the FBI and its terrorism fighting efforts if it didn’t reopen political access for a group that supports jihad and Shariah law, and has been named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the war on terror.
The list of signatories to their open letter to the FBI is a veritable who’s who of Muslim Brotherhood front groups. And roughly half of the groups in its so-called American Muslim Taskforce either show up on the Justice Department’s list of co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation terror case or in Muslim Brotherhood manifestos and other secret documents.
Regrettably, they represent the Muslim establishment in America. And outrageously, its leaders are now declaring war on law enforcement, threatening to withhold information about sleeper terrorists or homegrown jihadists secreted within the Muslim community.
But FBI agents in Washington suspect these groups are already withholding such information. And they say they could only chuckle when they read the taskforce’s missive, entitled “U.S. Muslim Coalition Considers Suspending Relations With FBI.” They were particularly amused by the claim that CAIR and the other Muslim groups have been instrumental in preventing terrorism.
“Muslim Americans continue to be a positive and stabilizing force in keeping our nation safe and secure from acts of violence and foreign threats,” claims the letter demanding the FBI reinstate outreach with CAIR. “Despite fear-mongering by a vocal minority, Muslim Americans are natural allies of law enforcement agencies in ensuring the well-being of our nation.”
In fact, agents assert, nothing could be further from the truth.
“That’s pretty interesting, because I know the FBI can’t point to one time—not even one time—when this [Muslim] outreach program has produced any information that’s of investigative value,” says a senior FBI special agent, who works counterterrorism cases out of the Washington field office.21
Fairfax County’s return on its own politically correct outreach to CAIR and other Muslim groups isn’t any better. “The number of leads we’ve received directly related to some major [counterterrorism] investigation is zero to none,” says the high-ranking Fairfax County police official.
About the only information that CAIR has offered to law enforcement relates to civil rights infractions, they say, such as alleged hate crimes. And CAIR has wildly exaggerated anti-Muslim abuses, as we will document in a forthcoming chapter.
“They love to come to our outreach venues and bitch about their civil rights,” the senior FBI agent says.
Indeed, the American Muslim Taskforce even called its 2008 election plan: “A civil rights plus agenda,” with the “plus” focusing almost exclusively on issues of interest to Muslims. And according to its Web site, it solicits feedback from the Muslim community about civil rights more than about any other issue. Terrorism, in contrast, doesn’t even rank as an issue.
The agent says cooperation is a one-way street with CAIR and other Muslim groups. The FBI listens and responds to their complaints, but they don’t return the favor. The agency has to beg for their help in finding potential terrorists. Virtually the only kind of investigating they want the FBI doing involves hate crimes against Muslims—and CAIR lumps anti-terrorist crackdowns in with that category.
CAIR insists that it “sincerely values” the FBI and all that it does to protect the country. But more importantly, it values all that the bureau does to protect the Muslim community.
“When a hate crime is committed against Muslims or their institutions,” CAIR’s legislative director Corey Saylor says, “it is the FBI we turn to for help.” Uh-huh, and if they value the FBI, it’s mainly for that reason. And even then, they have little, if any, respect for it or other law enforcement.22
Listen to popular CAIR lecturer Zaid Shakir, for one example. He constantly belittles the agency in speeches to Muslims, even warning them that it frames Muslims for terrorism that it secretly commits. “The World Trade Center bombing of course was aided and abetted by our good friends at the FBI,” the imam contends in just one of the many wild-eyed conspiracy theories he peddles.23
‘RACIST, FASCIST, CRIMINAL FBI’
And a close ally of imam Siraj Wahhaj, a longtime CAIR advisory board member and major fundraiser, spews anti-FBI venom at Wahhaj’s mosque in Brooklyn. Al-Hajj Idris Muhammad warns Muslims that the FBI is racist and “will fabricate a case against you.” He advises followers to refuse cooperation:
Never speak with the racist, fascist, criminal FBI. Never allow them in your home or office without a warrant. Have your attorney advise the racist, fascist, criminal FBI never to approach or harass you or any soldier in your Muslim community or political organization. If the racist, fascist, criminal FBI authorizes its criminal agents to harass the believers in your masjid (mosque), community or organization, you must alert all of the believers not to cooperate with the racist, fascist, criminal FBI.24
While CAIR says it encourages its members to cooperate with the FBI, it privately counsels them to clam up.
“They’re trying to paint the picture that they’re such a valuable tool to law enforcement,” says the senior FBI officer in Washington. “Yet they tell their constituents: Don’t speak to law enforcement.”
In fact, CAIR distributes a “Muslim community safety kit” at mosques th
at advises Muslims to “Know your rights.” Remember, it warns, if you are visited by agents:
You do not have to talk to the FBI. You have no obligation to talk to the FBI, even if you are not a citizen. Never meet with them or answer any questions without an attorney present.
You do not have to permit them to enter your home or office…. Even if they have a warrant, you are under no obligation to answer questions.
…It is better to refuse to answer any questions….25
Terrorist defense lawyer Ashraf Nubani, who works closely with CAIR, puts a finer point on it in a compact disc circulating in suburban Washington DC mosques:
There is no reason that anyone should ever, ever, ever talk to law enforcement as Muslims in the United States. The FBI is just a tool of whoever is wielding it. And right now it is very bad, it is very bad, it is very bad.26
Remarkably, some of the imams who preach at these mosques, such as the ADAMS Center near Herndon, and who allow these CDs to be distributed, serve on the FBI advisory committee set up after 9/11 to alert the FBI to both terrorist threats and anti-Muslim crimes. Little wonder the only tips the FBI gets deal with the latter.
Dar al-Hijrah, the 9/11 mosque, has even “ex-communicated members who they suspected of cooperating with us,” says an FBI case agent whose beat includes Dar al-Hijrah, which he describes as a “hotbed” of terrorist activity.27
During the last presidential election, GOP congressman Pete King of New York wondered why so many mosques around the country “don’t cooperate with law enforcement.”28 The reason is now clear: CAIR and its allies are telling them not to.
But more than that, they’re coaching them to mislead investigators and obstruct their terrorism investigations.
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