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CAIR can rightly be so characterized. True, it does not set off bombs, but, as the UAE’s foreign minister explains, “Our threshold is quite low. . . . We cannot accept incitement or funding.” Indeed, CAIR incites, funds, and does much more vis-à-vis terrorism:

It apologizes for terrorist groups: Challenged repeatedly to denounce Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist groups, CAIR denounces the acts of violence but not their sponsors.

It is connected to Hamas: Hamas, designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. and many other governments, indirectly created CAIR and the two groups remain tight. Examples: In 1994, CAIRhead Nihad Awad publicly declared his support for Hamas; the Holy Land Foundation (HLF), a Hamas front group, contributed $5,000 to CAIR; in turn, CAIR exploited the 9/11 attacks to raise money for HLF; and, this past August, demonstrators at a CAIR-sponsored rally in Floridaproclaimed “We are Hamas!”

It settled a lawsuit: CAIR initiated a libel lawsuit in 2004 over five statements by a group called Anti-CAIR. But two years later, CAIR settled the suit with prejudice (meaning that it cannot be reopened), implicitly acknowledging the accuracy of Anti-CAIR’s assertions, which included:

• “CAIR is a terrorist supporting front organization that is partially funded by terrorists”;
• “CAIR . . . is supported by terrorist supporting individuals, groups and countries”;
• “CAIR has proven links to, and was founded by, Islamic terrorists”; and
• “CAIR actively supports terrorists and terrorist supporting groups and nations.”

It includes individuals accused of terrorism: At least seven board members or staff at CAIR have been arrested, denied entry to the U.S., or were indicted on or pled guilty to (or were convicted of) terrorist charges: Siraj Wahhaj, Bassem Khafagi, Randall (“Ismail”) Royer, Ghassan Elashi, Rabih Haddad, Muthanna Al-Hanooti, and Nabil Sadoun.

It is in trouble with the law: Federal prosecutors in 2007 named CAIR (along with two other Islamic organizations) as “unindicted co-conspirators and/or joint venturers” in a criminal conspiracy to support Hamas financially. In 2008, the FBI ended contacts with CAIR because of concern about its continuing terrorist ties.

” Reported by the National Review in Is CAIR a Terror Group?

The Independent Sentinal Reports: “Obama didn’t once meet with his director of Defense Intelligence (DIA), Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, NOT ONCE, but he or his minions met with CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a terror-tied organization, in the White House 312 times according to one report and met with Congress 325 times. Obama has met with race hustler Al Sharpton over a 100 times and he meets with domestic hate group leaders of Black Lives Matter periodically. A year-long investigation by theInvestigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has found that scores of known radical Islamists made hundreds of visits to the Obama White House, meeting with top administration officials.” in Obama Never Met With His Intelligence Chief But Met With CAIR 312 TimesThe deception that Islam is peaceful came straight out of the White House for 8 years.