guy was working for 'council of American islamic relations' also known as 'cair' . Anyway he was arrested because of solicitation of minor female for sex . muslim 'cair' guy was a youth worker [chuckle] . ---
Muslim Youth Leader Ahmed Saleem Arrested In Child Sex Predator Sting Orlando Activist Worked For Council On American-Islamic Relations --- happens all the time in England , probably the same thing in the USA .
Actually, the muslim groups are real supporters of the Democrats...
CAIR Betting on Democrats-Political contributions going almost exclusively to Democratic candidates
One CAIR official betting on a Democratic win next month is
CAIR-Ohio President Asma Mobin-Uddin, who gave
$250 to Democratic challenger Mary Jo Kilroy, who is currently in a tight race against Deborah Pryce – the moderate GOP incumbent and the fourth-highest ranked Republican in the House. This congressional district (OH-15) has been targeted by the Democratic Party as one of the seats that they can pick up from Republicans in this election, and the DNC is pouring money into this race to turn this seat blue. One might believe that the abortion issue would be a determining factor for Dr. Mobin-Uddin, a licensed pediatrician, as Pryce repeatedly affirms a constitutional right to abortion; but comparing the public positions of both candidates on the issue, Kilroy is even more pro-abortion than Pryce. As the leader of a prominent Muslim organization, Mobin-Uddin’s support for Kilroy very curious.
CAIR-California President Rashid Ahmad is another CAIR state chapter leader also betting on the Democrats this election cycle, giving
$500 to Rep. Doris Matsui (CA-5), in her reelection bid – his only campaign contribution documented thus far.
The disproportionate spending by CAIR officials isn’t limited to the state chapters. In fact, board members of the national CAIR organization are apparently the most active political givers in the country – with all of their money going exclusively to Democrats.
Take, for instance, CAIR Co-founder and Chairman Emeritus
Omar Ahmed. In May of this year, Ahmed went on a political giving spree, making
$250 donations to five different Democratic congressional candidates, though none of the recipients are running in his home state of California. Four of the races Ahmed has given to are for seats currently being held by the GOP and have been identified by the Democratic Party as districts that they hope to change hands in this election. One of those seats is open, currently held by retiring Rep. Henry Hyde (IL-6), where Ahmed is backing Democrat Tammy Duckworth – a disabled Iraqi War veteran who opposes the Bush Administration’s policies in Iraq. In another race, Ahmed is backing Democrat Patricia Madrid against Rep. Heather Wilson (NM-1) – the
only female veteran currently serving in Congress (House and Senate). The other two Republicans targeted by Ahmed’s political contributions are Rep. Clay Shaw (FL-22) and Rep. Charles Taylor (NC-11). He also gave money to Democratic incumbent Melissa Bean (IL-8).
Those who have closely watched the news regarding CAIR in recent years might be familiar with Omar Ahmed. He was CAIR’s founding Board Chairman, a position he held until May 2005. He is also the former president of the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP) – the parent organization of CAIR that closed down after a federal court found them liable as a front for the terrorist organization, HAMAS, in the death of an American teenager killed in a HAMAS attack (see Joe Kaufman’s article “
Death of a Terror Lobby”). According to
testimony by counterterrorism expert Steve Emerson, author of
American Jihad, before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism in February 1998, “IAP has issued Hamas communiques calling for the killing of Jews, produced training videos for Hamas operatives, and actually recruited for Hamas in the United States.”
Ahmed has also drawn fire for comments he made in 1998 explaining CAIR’s role in the future domination of Islam in America, recorded at the time by the
San Ramon Valley Herald (July 4, 1998):
Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant, he said. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.
One of Ahmed’s former IAP colleagues, CAIR Co-founder, board member and Executive Director,
Nihad Awad, is also enthusiastically giving to Democrats this cycle. Awad served as IAP’s Director of Public Relations, and his name regularly appears in
Steve Emerson’s 1998 Senate testimony on the IAP, HAMAS and CAIR connection. He currently runs CAIR’s day-to-day operations.
One curiosity about Awad’s political contributions is that after he infamously gave
$500 to Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney on September 11, 2001, he began using another name – Nehad Hammad – for his
subsequent political giving. As Debbie Schlussel has
previously noted, Awad had used the name “Nehad A. Hammad” in CAIR documents filed with the IRS in the early 1990s, and has taken up that same name for all of his political giving since his 9/11 donation.
In the current 2006 election, Awad has put all of his money –
$2,000 – into the candidacy of Keith Ellison, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) nominee for the MN-5 Congressional District. The district has been drawn overwhelmingly Democratic, and Ellison is a shoe-in to win the election, which will make him
the first-ever elected Muslim official in the federal government. As Scott Johnson explained two weeks ago in the
Weekly Standard (“
Louis Farrakhan’s First Congressman”), Ellison has been criticized for failing to pay $25,000 in income taxes, his long-time association with the Nation of Islam, and habitually defending anti-Semitic remarks made by his associates.
But that hasn’t stopped CAIR from throwing its considerable weight behind Ellison’s bid to become the first elected Muslim federal officeholder. As
Joel Mowbray pointed out in the
Washington Times last month, Awad has not only given his own money towards Ellison’s campaign, but he headlined a campaign fundraiser in August for Ellison, which netted him $15,000-$20,000, and is responsible for bundling at least $10,000 more in contributions for the candidate (Robert Spencer has also covered the Ellison-Awad connection, “
Keith Ellison, CAIR and HAMAS”).
And just last week,
Joe Kaufman reported that Ellison was speaking at a closed-door event for CAIR-Florida with Jim Davis, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate for Florida, and that other CAIR officials, including CAIR National Governmental Affairs Director Corey Saylor and CAIR National Board Chairman
Parvez Ahmed – a professor of Finance at the
University of North Florida – have also contributed
$1,000 and
$500, respectively, to Ellison’s campaign.
But after Kaufman publicly revealed the hush-hush Ellison-CAIR event, Nihad Awad and Parvez Ahmed came out swinging in
an editorial published by the
Star Tribune accusing “right-wing bloggers, agenda-driven commentators and political operatives” of using the event to engage in “scurrilous smear tactics in an attempt to derail his campaign and to marginalize American Muslim voters." Of course, there's nothing "scurrilous" about it. Their political donations to Ellison can be obtained by anyone in the world with an Internet connection searching the FEC online database.
Keith Ellison has not been the chief beneficiary of CAIR’s giving, however. One name that continually appears in the political contributions of CAIR officials in the 2002, 2004 and 2006 election cycles is none other than
Rep. Cynthia McKinney – perhaps the most rabidly anti-war member of Congress and who has
accused President Bush of being secretly behind the 9/11 attacks. As
Daniel Pipes noted in 2004, McKinney has been the recipient of political contributions from a
Who’s Who of radical Islamic organizations in America.
McKinney has had a long and profitable history with CAIR. When she faced a tough challenger in the Democratic primary in 2002 (a primary race she would eventually lose, costing her congressional seat), CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad/Nehad Hammad gave not only his
controversial $500 September 11, 2001 donation to her campaign, but a
last-minute $1,000 in the closing days of her losing primary campaign, in addition to the $1,000 he gave to Democrat Rep. Jim Moran (VA-8) in the 2002 cycle.
CAIR-Philadelphia Chairman Iftekhar Hussain also came through with
$3,000 for McKinney that year, joined by fellow board member Mahmood Siddique,
who gave $800 bundled with Hussain’s contribution. CAIR-Chicago board member Muhammad Kudaimi also attempted to come to McKinney’s rescue in 2002 with a
late pre-primary $1,000 contribution, as well as another
$1,000 from his wife, Randa Loutfi, but all to no avail.
And in McKinney’s unsuccessful bid to keep her congressional seat in this current 2006 election cycle, she received
$500 from CAIR-Houston President Tarek Hussein, the same man responsible for only two of three contributions to Republicans by CAIR officials on all levels that I could find.
This giving to McKinney exposes a trend in data on giving by CAIR officials in the 2002, 2004, and 2006 elections – giving that appears to be driven more by anti-war and pro-radical Islamic ideology than political calculation. But perhaps for these CAIR officials, they are perceived to be one in the same, as they give to some of the most extreme elements on the American political spectrum.
For instance, between 2002 and 2004, Tarek Hussein gave
four separate donations to conspiracy theorist and notorious anti-Semite,
Lyndon LaRouche. And in the 2004 Presidential Election, there were no recorded donations by CAIR officials to Democratic Party nominee John Kerry, but two for Green Party candidate,
Ralph Nader (by CAIR Co-founders
Omar Ahmed and
Nihad Awad/Nehad Hammad), and another for Moonbat Democratic candidate,
Dennis Kucinich, by CAIR-Southern California Executive Director
Hussam Ayloush. If these candidates are representative of the ideology that CAIR identifies with, they is not only out of the American mainstream, but even the mainstream of the Democratic Party itself.
But that notwithstanding, at present CAIR officials are content to liberally spread their campaign contributions to Democrats, apparently on the gamble that they will take one, if not both, chambers of Congress. Cynthia McKinney will be gone, of course, but Keith Ellison is certain to be there to carry the congressional water for radical Islam. With Democrats in control, CAIR is betting that they will be better represented on Capitol Hill in their self-proclaimed goal of eventual Islamic domination for America. Maybe that is something that citizens should keep in mind on November 7th as they go to the polls and vote.
Islamist Campaign Donors Overwhelmingly Back Democrats The Counter Jihad Report
An analysis of federal campaign contributions finds that key figures at six of America’s most prominent Islamist organizations have favored Democrats over Republicans by a ratio of 12 to 1 since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This trend began with multiple donations to Cynthia McKinney dated September 11, 2001, reversing a previous pattern that had seen Islamist officials spend slightly more on Republicans. Their preference for Democrats has solidified during the past 13 years and shows no signs of waning. What does this say about the politicians who benefit from Islamist largesse?
Islamist Watch [1], a project of the
Middle East Forum [2], recently launched
Islamist Money in Politics [3] (
IMIP [3]), to monitor Islamists’ influence in the halls of power, inform the public about which politicians accept their tainted money, and hold accountable those who do. IMIP’s
inaugural data release [4] focuses on the national organizations of
six Islamist entities [5] — the Council on American-Islamic Relations (
CAIR [6]), Islamic Circle of North America (
ICNA [7]), Islamic Society of North America (
ISNA [8]), Muslim Alliance in North America (
MANA [9]), Muslim American Society (
MAS [10]), and Muslim Public Affairs Council (
MPAC [11]) — as well as CAIR’s many local chapters.
Names of important personnel [12], both current and former, were mined from the groups’ Internal Revenue Service filings and/or website listings, some going back more than a decade. The Federal Election Commission’s
online database [13], which spans the late 1990s to the present, was then searched for donations to candidates, joint fundraising committees, relevant political action committees, and parties. IMIP employed biographical information to select only those contributions that could reasonably be attributed to the individuals of interest, rejecting ones likely to have been made by unrelated persons who share their names. See IMIP’s
description of methodology [14] for details and a discussion of the challenges.
As of now, the IMIP
database [3] tabulates nearly $700,000 in donations. Surely many more people and contributions remain to be added, but the data already constitute a large and representative sample that is sufficient for an initial pass at quantifying Islamists’ political affinities.
First, who contributes? Major donors tend to be board members rather than staffers. While many of the biggest contributors maintain relatively low public profiles, several are quite familiar. With outlays totaling $56,800, the most generous funder of politicians in IMIP’s database is
Kenny Gamble [15], who goes by
Luqman Abdul Haqq [16] in his position on MANA’s governing body. An Islamist-aligned
music and real estate mogul [17], Gamble is tied to the “Islamic paramilitary boys group” known as the
Jawala Scouts[18] and has been accused of working to build a self-contained “
black Muslim enclave [19]” in South Philadelphia. Also among the top 20 donors are CAIR executive director
Nihad Awad [20], who has contributed under numerous variants of his name; former MAS president and current CAIR national board member
Esam Omeish [21], who
resigned from a Virginia immigration panel [22] in 2007 after a video emerged of his speech touting the Palestinians’ embrace of “the jihad way” against Israel; and
Zead Ramadan [23], the CAIR-New York board member who unsuccessfully
ran for New York City Council [24] in 2013.
With regard to recipients, the
Democratic Party [25] dominates. Leading the all-time list by vacuuming up close to one in every five dollars is
Keith Ellison [26], the
Islamist-leaning Muslim congressman [27] from Minnesota who has a long history of collaborating with Islamist groups.
Barack Obama [28], whose policies have been
popular with Islamists [29], comes in second when direct contributions are combined with those sent to joint fundraising committees associated with his
2008 [30] and
2012 [31] presidential campaigns. Third is
Cynthia McKinney [32], the
far-left former congresswoman [33] from Georgia who peddled conspiracy theories and harsh critiques of U.S. foreign policy in the wake of 9/11; that she ranks so high despite the fact that most donations to her were collected during a one-year, post-9/11 window testifies to Islamists’ endorsement of her adversarial stance at the outset of America’s military response to Islamic terrorism. Fourth is Indiana’s
André Carson [34], the
second Muslim congressman [35] to be elected; he
told attendees [36] at the 2012 ICNA–MAS convention that educators should model American schools after Islamic madrassas. The
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee [37] rounds out the top five.
Obama Victory Fund Islamist Money in Politics
Recipient Name: Obama Victory Fund
2008-10-28
Rashid Ahmad CAIR $1300
Democratic President N/A High
Joint Fundraising Committee for Barack Obama
2008-10-20
Suhail Nanji CAIR $1000
Democratic President N/A High
Joint Fundraising Committee for Barack Obama
2008-10-14
Kenneth Gamble MANA $20000
Democratic President N/A High
Joint Fundraising Committee for Barack Obama
2008-09-30
Raza Ali CAIR $250
Democratic President N/A High
Joint Fundraising Committee for Barack Obama
2008-09-30
Hazem Bata ISNA,
CAIR $250
Democratic President N/A High
Joint Fundraising Committee for Barack Obama
2008-09-29
Manzoor Ghori ISNA $1500
Democratic President N/A High
Joint Fundraising Committee for Barack Obama
2008-09-16
Rashid Abbara CAIR $1000
Democratic President N/A High
Joint Fundraising Committee for Barack Obama
2008-08-15
Razi Mohiuddin CAIR $4600
Democratic President N/A High
Joint Fundraising Committee for Barack Obama
2008-07-31
Malik Sarwar MPAC,
CAIR $2000
Democratic President N/A Medium
Joint Fundraising Committee for Barack Obama
2008-07-31
Nasir Gondal CAIR $2000
Democratic President N/A High
Joint Fundraising Committee for Barack Obama
2008-07-31
Nasir Gondal CAIR $2500
Democratic President N/A High
Joint Fundraising Committee for Barack Obama
2008-07-31
Khurshid Qureshi ISNA $1000
Democratic President N/A Medium
Joint Fundraising Committee for Barack Obama
2008-07-30
Mazen Kudaimi CAIR $2300
Democratic President N/A High
Obama Victory Fund 2012 Islamist Money in Politics
Recipient Name: Obama Victory Fund 2012
2012-11-20
Ashraf Sufi ISNA $-2500
Democratic President N/A High
Joint Fundraising Committee for Barack Obama
2012-10-31
Basim Elkarra CAIR $250
Democratic President N/A High
Joint Fundraising Committee for Barack Obama
2012-10-30
Ahmed Bedier CAIR $250
Democratic President N/A High
Joint Fundraising Committee for Barack Obama
2012-10-30
Ashraf Sufi ISNA $5000
Democratic President N/A High
Joint Fundraising Committee for Barack Obama
2012-10-04
Safaa Zarzour ISNA,
CAIR $250
Democratic President N/A High
Joint Fundraising Committee for Barack Obama
2012-10-01
Kamal Yassin CAIR $500
Democratic President N/A High
Joint Fundraising Committee for Barack Obama
2012-09-24
Safdar Khwaja CAIR $500
Democratic President N/A High
Joint Fundraising Committee for Barack Obama
2012-08-07
Nayyer Ali MPAC $5000
Democratic President N/A High
Joint Fundraising Committee for Barack Obama
2012-01-24
Manzoor Ghori ISNA $-5000
Democratic President N/A High
Joint Fundraising Committee for Barack Obama
2011-11-29
Manzoor Ghori ISNA $-5000
Democratic President N/A High
Joint Fundraising Committee for Barack Obama
2011-10-24
Manzoor Ghori ISNA $5000
Democratic President N/A High
Joint Fundraising Committee for Barack Obama
2011-10-21
Manzoor Ghori ISNA $5000
Democratic President N/A High