7 At the April 7, 2007, fundraiser, then-CAIR Chairman Parvez Ahmed presented a plaque to Hassan for his work at Bridges, a Muslim TV network. Hassan had approached Ahmed with “a business plan” to make CAIR a partner in the venture (but Ahmed claims he had reservations about his character and turned him down). Police earlier this year found his wife Aasiya Hassan’s decapitated body lying in a hallway of his studio. Ahmed now insists he didn’t know he would be giving out an award to Hassan until the last minute. “I found out about the awardees the same time when the audience did,” he claims in a Feb. 21, 2009, message posted on Muslim feminist Zerqa Abid’s blog. He also says that CAIR can’t be expected to vet those it honors. “No organization or business can pry into the private lives of those they associate with,” Ahmed says in his post. “So how can Muslim organizations be held accountable for Mussammil’s private failings?”
8 Mohammad Aziz is a CAIR-PA Philadelphia Executive Committee member, and chairman of the board of the Islamic Society of Greater Valley Forge, which is controlled by the Islamic Circle of North America, a Muslim Brotherhood front group, according to federal court documents.
9 Andrea O’Brien, “UC-Berkeley groups rally to end Mideast clashes,” University Wire, 6 October 2000. Also, Dodin in 2001 was among more than 100 protesters calling for the University of California to divest from Israel, according to the Berkeley Daily Planet. Thirty-two of the demonstrators were arrested when they stormed the largest lecture hall on campus. Dodin caucuses with CAIR when its leaders host breakfasts or attend Friday juma prayers on Capitol Hill. Her name is also prominent in the digital rolodex of CAIR’s legislative director, internal records show. She’s listed under “Hill Staff.”
10 Anmol Chaddha, “Muslims, Sikhs, and South Asians talk about the Backlash,” Hardboiled (UC Berkeley newsmagazine), October 2001, Issue 5.1.
11 Government Exhibit 016-0075, 3:04-CR-240-G, U.S. v. HLF, et al.
12 Government Exhibit 016-0069, 3:04-CR-240-G, U.S. v. HLF, et al.
13 “CAIR National 2007 Action Plan (DRAFT),” 1.
14 “Report, Prepared by Corey P. Saylor,” 20 August 2007. The report was written under the letterhead, Simple Resolve Inc., which is Saylor’s consulting firm. He has operated as a contract consultant under “retainer agreement” with CAIR.
15 Congressional Muslim Staffers Association was founded by Jameel-Aalim Johnson to educate Capitol Hill on Islam. Formerly chief of staff to Meeks, Johnson now works as a lobbyist for the NASDAQ stock exchange, and continues to do business with CAIR.
16 http://www.isna.net/Services/pages/CMSA-REQUESTING-RESUMES-FOR-111th-CONGRESS.aspx.
17 “CAIR Maryland and Virginia Chapter 1st Leadership and Empowerment Conference,” agenda, 29-30 March 2008, 2. Jihad Saleh was one of the speakers in CAIR’s workshop: “How to Start Your Career in Public Affairs,” which had “a focus on working on Capitol Hill.”
18 Author (Sperry) interview by email, 31 March 2009.
19 “’Muslim Americans: A National Portrait,” The Muslim West Facts Project, Gallup, 2009, 114. Saleh could not be reached for comment.
20 “Proposed Muslim Platform for 2004,” 8 March 2004, 1, 2.
21 “CAIR National Office 2005 Goals and Achievements,” CAIR report, 1.
22 Ibid. Also, “CAIR National 2007 Action Plan (DRAFT),” 2.
23 Jason C. Erb, “Semiannual Report – June 2001,” Governmental Affairs Department, CAIR, 28 June 2002, 5. Also, Saylor in his 2007 report cited earlier references CAIR’s “August Recess Lobbying.”
24 Nihad Awad, “Report from CAIR National,” CAIR National Board Meeting, 29 October 2006, 2.
25 “CAIR Maryland and Virginia Chapter 1st Leadership and Empowerment Conference.”
26 CAIR National is aware of the IRS rules. According to minutes of its May 5-6, 2007, meeting in Washington, its lawyer Joe Sandler informed the board that “C3 is prohibited from engaging in partisan political activities. Invitations should be sent to all parties.” He also warned them that they can do only a “limited” amount of lobbying and political work, and to mind IRS guidelines covering such activities.
27 “Devil May CAIR” (editorial), Investor’s Business Daily, 8 February 2008. Also see CAIR website for list of congressional endorsers.
28 “Congress cozying up to CAIR,” IPT News, 17 October 2008.
29 Ibid.
30 Ibid.
31 Ellison recently even snapped a photograph with the former roommate of convicted terrorist and CAIR official Randal Ismail Royer. The roommate, Umar Lee, posted the photo on his blog at: http://umarlee.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/page3.jpg?w=450&h=337. Lee has described the Muslim prophet Muhammad as a “warrior” who loves “straight-up killers.” He also has written that jihad permits “masculine” Muslim men to take “young girls” as sex slaves from the ranks of vanquished “kaffirs,” or infidels.
32 Janet Moore, “At Somali town meeting, a show of solidarity,” Star Tribune (Minneapolis), 10 May 2009, 7B.
33 “Semiannual Report,” Governmental Affairs Department, CAIR, June 2001, 2. Report is marked “Not for Distribution -- For Board Members Only.”
34 “Muslim Americans: A National Portrait,” 48. Ellison: “I want to see many more Muslims serving in Congress,” including as U.S. senators.
35 Corey P. Saylor, “Conference Call on MN Imams Case,” internal memo to CAIR board, 30 November 2006, 2.
36 “CAIR’s Savior In The Congress” (editorial), Investor’s Business Daily, 27 November 2007.
37 “Resolution Addressing the ‘USA PATRIOT Act’ to Ensure the Constitutional Rights of Citizens and Residents of Fairfax County,” (DRAFT THREE), 14 November 2003. The draft was found in CAIR’s executive files.
38 Paul Sperry, “The Saudis’ New Man in Congress,” FrontPageMagazine, 5 December 2008.
39 Author (Sperry) interview by email, 9 December 2008.
40 Supplemental Statement, Form CRM-154, Pursuant to Section 2 of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, U.S. Department of Justice, six-month period ending 30 September 2007, Attachment F. Also, Form CRM-154, 31 March 2007; Form CRM-154, 30 September 2006; Form CRM-154, 31 March 2006.
41 Author (Sperry) interview by email. Qorvis’ Petruzzello could not be reached for comment. Phone calls to Connolly’s office were not returned.
42 See Appendix.
43 Joseph Abrams, “House Leaders Wary of CAIR after FBI Shuns Islamic Advocacy Group,” Fox News.com, 3 February 2009.
44 Letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller from Schumer, Kyl, and Coburn, 24 February 2009.
45 CAIR email from Saylor to Awad, et al., “Subject: What now,” 3 January 2007. “We need to define clear objectives: meet with Boxer…Are we deciding to burn this bridge completely and go all out against her or are we going to take the hit and seek to repair things over time?…Sen. Boxer is going to dig in her heels. To reverse herself now publicly would be bad, and I’m not sure if our political ground strength in CA is strong enough to make it hurt enough.” The memo considered playing up criticism of Boxer as “the nation’s dumbest Democrat.”
CHAPTER TWELVE: BLACKMAILING CORPORATE AMERICA
1 “CAIR and the ACLU have had a long and positive relationship as a coalition,” read undated notes from a CAIR-ACLU meeting in Washington. They are “best allies for one another in any civil-liberties issues.” Also: in a June 2009 ACLU report, “Blocking Faith, Freezing Charity: Chilling Muslim Charitable Giving in the ‘War on Terrorism Financing,’” the ACLU rushed to CAIR’s defense against government charges it conspired to support terrorists in the Holy Land Foundation case, demanding its name be expunged from the blacklist of co-conspirators along with ISNA’s and NAIT’s. The government “list smeared these mainstream organizations,” the ACLU complained, and has scared off contributors.
2 Letter from Awad to BoA CEO Ken Lewis, 30 July 2003, 2.
3 Ibid.
4 Jamie Smith Hopkins, “Council on American-Islamic Relations Threatens Bank of America Boycot
t,” Baltimore Sun, 11 December 2003.
5 Letter from CAIR official Seyed Rizwan Mowlana to Pakistani Ambassador Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, 27 October 2003.
6 “Gul Naz Anwar v Bank of America,” CAIR memo, **CONFIDENTIAL**, November 2003, 3. The BoA lawyer allegedly made the remark on Nov. 4, 2003.
7 Letter from CAIR lawyer Hassan M. Ahmad to CEO Lewis, 12 November 2003.
8 Ibid.
9 “Agreement,” signed by Anwar and CAIR’s Mowlana, Ibrahim Moiz and lawyer Ahmad, 11 June 2004. Anwar eventually hired a private attorney to pursue the case.
10 “Gul Naz Anwar v Bank of America,” 1.
11 Tim Funk, “Muslim bank employees look for offices to pray in,” Augusta Chronicle (Georgia), 22 December 2007, D03.
12 Stacy Hutchins and Michelle Mittelstadt, “Family says man merely a tourist,” Dallas Morning News, 12 August 2004, A1.
13 “Ellison at CAIR: ‘Obama Not Our Salvation. God Is,’” The Muslim Link, 28 November 2008, 2. Also, “See how Savage lost…,” draft of CAIR flier it planned to distribute before running out of funds. “Savage said he’s lost at least $1 million in advertising revenue because of CAIR’s efforts,” the flier states under a photo of Savage at his microphone.
14 Faxed report from Hate Hurts America Community and Interfaith Coalition (HHA) to CAIR, 29 January 2009, 1-3. CAIR is a member of HHA.
15 Ibid.
16 Ibid.
17 CAIR memo regarding “oppositional research” listing individual targets for “hit sheets” under TALKING POINTS, with recommendations for Saylor and Hooper to take the “lead” in attacking the “Islamophobes” and hurting their “credibility,” 3 January 2007.
18 Ibid.
19 “A Media Analysis on Glenn Beck’s Statements on Islam and Muslims aired on CNN,” CAIR National Communication Department, 7 January 2007, 1. CAIR officials traveled to Atlanta to complain to CNN executives on Jan. 10, 2007.
20 CAIR memo regarding “oppositional research.”
21 Ibid.
22 “Council on American-Islamic Relations 2007-2008 Strategic Plan,” 2. In August 2009, CAIR co-hosted with the Hollywood-based Writers Guild of America a seminar to assist aspiring Muslim screenwriters. CAIR had held a similar seminar with Fox Entertainment.
23 The lawsuit filed by Al-Qudhaieen and al-Shalawi against America West was dismissed in 2003 by a federal judge, who ruled that even if racial profiling occurred, airline captains have wide latitude to take security precautions to protect passengers.
24 Paul Sperry, “Imams Gone Wild,” FrontPageMagazine, 30 November 2006.
25 Corey P. Saylor, “Conference Call on MN Imams Case,” internal memo to CAIR board, 30 November 2006, 1.
26 Internal CAIR email from Nihad Awad to Arsalan Iftikhar, “Subject: URGENT/Important Issues on 6 Imams Case,” 20 April 2007. “I raised these issues with you today in the meeting and in previous meetings (and) you became upset and made a face,” Awad fulminated. “Had you responded to my request this morning, we would not be in this situation. I asked you specifically today, and before, to follow the startegy [sic] outlined and to stay on the case.”
27 Madeleine Gruen and Edward Sloan, “Are Acts of Staged Controversy an Islamist Strategic Tactic?” IPT News, 27 February 2009.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD: TERRORISTS IN SUITS
1 Author (Sperry) interview by phone, 16 January 2009.
2 Author (Sperry) interview by phone, 22 March 2009.
3 Elbarassee was a founding member of the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center in nearby Falls Church, Va. One of the mosque’s imams, Johari Abdul Malik, told attendees at a 2001 Islamic conference in Chicago: “You can blow up bridges,” similar to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, as long as civilian casualties are minimized. Authorities in 2004 caught Elbarassee and his wife videotaping the bridge’s stanchions.
4 Author (Sperry) interview by email, 25 August 2005.
5 Mohamed Akram Adlouni, “An Explanatory Memorandum On the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America,” 22 May 1991, 7. Adlouni, a member of the U.S. Brotherhood shura council, attended the secret 1993 Hamas meeting in Philadelphia.
6 “Analysis of Muslim Brotherhood’s General Strategic Goals for North America Memorandum,” Stephen Coughlin, 7 September 2007, 3.
7 Author (Sperry) interview in person, 2 February 2009.
8 Richard H. Curtiss, “Omar Ahmad: Jordanian-Born Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Is Influential Muslim-American Activist,” Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, 30 June 2000, 35, Vol. XIX; No. 5.
9 Government Exhibit, 016-0069, 3:04-CR-240-G, U.S. v. HLF, et al., 3, 4.
10 “It was mentioned that the United States provided them with a secure, legal base from which to operate,” says former FBI official Dale Watson, describing in a high-level Nov. 5, 2001, memo what Ahmad and other Brotherhood and Hamas leaders discussed during their wiretapped 1993 meeting in Philadelphia.
11 Affidavit in Support of Application for Search Warrant, 31, 36.
12 The FBI believes Shukri Abu Baker “is a U.S.-based leader of Hamas.” A Texas resident, he has paid visits to CAIR’s headquarters in Washington. His name appears on CAIR’s visitors register on March 27, 2001, for example. (See Appendix.)
13 Affidavit in Support of Application for Search Warrant, 36.
14 Department of Justice, Attachment A, List of Unindicted Co-Conspirators, U.S. vs. Holy Land Foundation; “An Explanatory Memorandum On the General Strategic Goal for the Group In North America,” 22 May 1991, 18; Attachment C, Safa Group Businesses and Corporations, Affidavit in The Matter of Searches Involving 555 Grove Street, Herndon, Virginia, and Related Locations, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, unredacted, October 2003.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: THE ‘IKHWAN MAFIA’
1 Author (Sperry) interview in person, 15 April 2005.
2 Government Exhibit, Elbarasse-Search-10, 3:04-CR-240-G, U.S. v. HLF, et al., chart (“Committee Chairman/Palestinian Action Aspects”). “List of Unindicted Co-conspirators,” 6. Government Exhibit, Ashqar Wiretap-1, 3:04-CR-240-G, U.S. v. HLF, et al., 2, 6 (recorded 13 September 1993). Also, Government Exhibit, 016-0047, 3:04-CR-240-G, U.S. v. HLF, et al., 11. Also, Author (Sperry) interview by phone, 22 March 2009. The Muslim Brotherhood has not been designated a terrorist organization by the U.S., and it is not a crime to belong to it.
3 Steven Merley, “The Muslim Brotherhood in the United States,” Hudson Institute, April 2009. Also, Author (Sperry) interview by phone, 22 March 2009. The Muslim Brotherhood has not been designated a terrorist organization by the U.S., and it is not a crime to belong to it.
4 The Brothers also quote the Quran (Surah 49:10): “The believers are but a single Brotherhood,” which revered Quranic scholar Abdullah Yusuf Ali interprets to mean: “The enforcement of the Muslim Brotherhood is the greatest social ideal of Islam. On it was based the Prophet’s Sermon at his last pilgrimage, and Islam cannot be completely realized until this ideal is achieved.”
5 Indictment, U.S. v HLF, et al., U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, 26 July 2004, 7.
6 Merley, “The Muslim Brotherhood in the United States.”
7 “CAIR Maryland and Virginia Chapter 1st Leadership and Empowerment Conference.” Also, Khan’s name and contact info was found in CAIR National’s email directory under the heading “VIP.” Khan, moreover, served as an official on ISNA’s 2004 convention coordinating committee.
8 Government Exhibit, Elbarasse-Search-2, 3:04-CR-240-G, U.S. v. HLF, et al., 13.
9 Affidavit in Support of Application for Search Warrant, 31.
10 Ibid.
11 “An Explanatory Memorandum On the General Strategic Goal for the Group In North America,” 22 May 1991, 17.
12 Government Exhibit 003-0092, 3:04-CR-240-G, U.S. v. HLF, et al., 23.
13 “An Explanatory Memorandum On the General Strategic Goal for the Group In North America,” 10, 11.
14 Government Exhibit (Elbarasse Se
arch - 11) 3:04-CR-240-G, U.S. v. HLF, et al., 3.
15 Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, Sam Roe and Laurie Cohen, “A rare look at secretive Brotherhood in America: Muslims divided on Brotherhood,” Chicago Tribune, 19 September 2004, C01.
16 Author (Sperry) interview in person, 19 April 2005.
17 Sperry, Infiltration, 314.
18 “Mahdi Bray’s Secret, Checkered Past,” IPT News, 25 March 2009.
19 Author (Sperry) interview in person, 15 April 2005.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: FAKING OUT THE INFIDEL
1 Government Exhibit 003-0069, 3:04-CR-240-G, U.S. v. HLF, et al.
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