GOP Lawmakers Accuse Muslim Advocacy Group CAIR of Planting Spies on Capitol Hill

[WillowTree]

Four House Republicans on Wednesday accused the nation's largest Muslim advocacy group of trying to "infiltrate" Capitol Hill by placing interns in the offices of lawmakers who handle national security issues.

The four lawmakers, members of the anti-terror caucus, asked for an investigation into the Council on American Islamic Relations after discovering an internal memo noting the group's strategy. They also highlighted a new book by Paul Sperry titled "Muslim Mafia," scheduled for release on Thursday, which claims the group has been actively infiltrating Congress.

Reps. Sue Myrick of North Carolina, Trent Franks of Arizona, Paul Broun of Georgia and John Shadegg of Arizona asked the Internal Revenue Service to determine whether CAIR deserves its nonprofit status. They also are asking their colleagues to review a summary of findings that led the Justice Department to name CAIR as a co-conspirator in a terrorism case.

The internal memo, provided to FOXNews.com, stated that CAIR would "focus on influencing congressmen responsible for policy that directly impacts the American Muslim community."










GOP Lawmakers Accuse Muslim Advocacy Group CAIR of Planting Spies on Capitol Hill - Political News - FOXNews.com

 

[Old Rocks]

{[(!!!!! MY GOODNESS!!!!!!!!!)]} Have you told Eots yet?

 

[Ringel05]

{[(!!!!! MY GOODNESS!!!!!!!!!)]} Have you told Eots yet?

If it's actually true then we could have one hell of a problem on our hands and the back lash could get nasty.

 

[Contessa_Sharra]

{[(!!!!! MY GOODNESS!!!!!!!!!)]} Have you told Eots yet?

If it's actually true then we could have one hell of a problem on our hands and the back lash could get nasty.

CAIR can join hands with AIPAC and they can debka juntos!

 

[SwingVoter]

wouldn't surprise me, these CAIR people always make speeches where they bash America while creating excuses for Islamic terrorists, but how can we blame them when the President does the same exact thing?

 

[William Joyce]

{[(!!!!! MY GOODNESS!!!!!!!!!)]} Have you told Eots yet?

If it's actually true then we could have one hell of a problem on our hands and the back lash could get nasty.

CAIR can join hands with AIPAC and they can debka juntos!

Who can blame CAIR for wanting to be AIPAC?

Hell, I'd like to be AIPAC. More power than anything else on Earth.

 

[Polk]

Has anyone read the memo in the question? It's a pretty standard interest group memo.
Those evil Muslims organizing themselves into political interest groups? The horror!

 

[Kalam]

One question: why was CAIR singled out for wanting to "focus on influencing congressmen responsible for policy that directly impacts the American Muslim community"? If that's the worst thing that was found in CAIR's "internal memo," what are we supposed to fear? The fact that it's a special interest group?

For what it's worth, I'm not at all affiliated with CAIR or any similar organization. These representatives are nitwits.

 

[GHook93]

If it's actually true then we could have one hell of a problem on our hands and the back lash could get nasty.

CAIR can join hands with AIPAC and they can debka juntos!

Who can blame CAIR for wanting to be AIPAC?

Hell, I'd like to be AIPAC. More power than anything else on Earth.

WJ,

I know in your warped fucking mind the Jews are still your biggest and badest enemy, but there is no comparing AIPAC to CAIR. You of course give over-bloat AIPAC's influence because you are after a skin-head NAZI, reality is not your specialty. I bought up the link mulitple times, which I don't have time to present to you, that AIPAC's political contributions don't even make the charts, because they are no where near other lobbying groups contributions. These contribution you say are what sways Congress, but they are far less funded than CAIR.

CAIR is an organization that is off shoot of the Muslim brotherhood. They don't give a damn about America and its laws! Funny that you had the Jews so much, but they are on front lines fighting a war that you will eventually fight against Islamic radicals! Islamofacists are just concerned with Israel, US troops in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan or the M.E., they are concerned with human beings not living under Sharia law and human being that are Muslim.

Explain why Western Europe, particularly France, has been hit with far more terrorist attacks then America. Heck Italy and Germany have been targets!

You my friend are so scared of the Islamofacist and the 1.5 billion Muslims in the world that you resort to hating the POLITICALLY WEAK and relatively powerless 14 million Jews you are threat to you!

 

[GHook93]

One question: why was CAIR singled out for wanting to "focus on influencing congressmen responsible for policy that directly impacts the American Muslim community"? If that's the worst thing that was found in CAIR's "internal memo," what are we supposed to fear? The fact that it's a special interest group?

For what it's worth, I'm not at all affiliated with CAIR or any similar organization. These representatives are nitwits.

But CAIR does things like attack free speech of private individuals. The harass media personalities who attack Islamofacism and CAIR altogether! They seek Sharia Law in America! They have glorified the "Magnificient Nineteen!" And they are an offshoot of terrorist organizations of the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas!

 

[keee keee]

Is this group associated with Acorn? you know that other Anti-American group

 

[Meister]

{[(!!!!! MY GOODNESS!!!!!!!!!)]} Have you told Eots yet?

If it's actually true then we could have one hell of a problem on our hands and the back lash could get nasty.

Do you really think that Old Rocks cares? He supports this kind of crap against the United States.

 

[William Joyce]

I know in your warped fucking mind the Jews are still your biggest and badest enemy, but there is no comparing AIPAC to CAIR. You of course give over-bloat AIPAC's influence because you are after a skin-head NAZI, reality is not your specialty. I bought up the link mulitple times, which I don't have time to present to you, that AIPAC's political contributions don't even make the charts, because they are no where near other lobbying groups contributions. These contribution you say are what sways Congress, but they are far less funded than CAIR.

CAIR is an organization that is off shoot of the Muslim brotherhood. They don't give a damn about America and its laws! Funny that you had the Jews so much, but they are on front lines fighting a war that you will eventually fight against Islamic radicals! Islamofacists are just concerned with Israel, US troops in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan or the M.E., they are concerned with human beings not living under Sharia law and human being that are Muslim.

Explain why Western Europe, particularly France, has been hit with far more terrorist attacks then America. Heck Italy and Germany have been targets!

You my friend are so scared of the Islamofacist and the 1.5 billion Muslims in the world that you resort to hating the POLITICALLY WEAK and relatively powerless 14 million Jews you are threat to you!

I put it this way.

Muslims, I don't really see as my buddies. I figure they've got loads of lands to hang out in and crush infidels. I don't doubt what you say about CAIR and I'd ship them out myself if I had the power. Imagine the founding fathers tolerating THAT shit.

But the bulk of our present-day conflicts with them are caused by, yes, Jewish influence over American foreign policy.

As I see it, there are not likely to be large areas of interest wherein white gentiles would need to or should cooperate with Jews against Muslims. I'm not totally inflexible and I wouldn't rule it out. In that small and unlikely instance, I'm happy to join forces with Jews.

But not because I love Jews... because I want MY people to "live long and prosper", as they say.

And I'd just as soon join forces with THEM against YOU if THAT were better for my people.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

They already control the White House

 

[JakeStarkey]

What are the RapeRepublicans saying now?

 

[Harry Dresden]

What are the RapeRepublicans saying now?

why dont you go and ask your friends the "lets fuck over america" Democrats...since they have the same goals...they might know....

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

Four House Republicans on Wednesday accused the nation's largest Muslim advocacy group of trying to "infiltrate" Capitol Hill by placing interns in the offices of lawmakers who handle national security issues.

The four lawmakers, members of the anti-terror caucus, asked for an investigation into the Council on American Islamic Relations after discovering an internal memo noting the group's strategy. They also highlighted a new book by Paul Sperry titled "Muslim Mafia," scheduled for release on Thursday, which claims the group has been actively infiltrating Congress.

Reps. Sue Myrick of North Carolina, Trent Franks of Arizona, Paul Broun of Georgia and John Shadegg of Arizona asked the Internal Revenue Service to determine whether CAIR deserves its nonprofit status. They also are asking their colleagues to review a summary of findings that led the Justice Department to name CAIR as a co-conspirator in a terrorism case.

The internal memo, provided to FOXNews.com, stated that CAIR would "focus on influencing congressmen responsible for policy that directly impacts the American Muslim community."










GOP Lawmakers Accuse Muslim Advocacy Group CAIR of Planting Spies on Capitol Hill - Political News - FOXNews.com

Thats a big fat lie, it came from FOX news after all

Sorry I was feeling the Obama "War on Fox" for a moment there and wanted to be a good footsoldier.....didn't reallize they were going after republicans as hard as democrats.

 

[Polk]

One question: why was CAIR singled out for wanting to "focus on influencing congressmen responsible for policy that directly impacts the American Muslim community"? If that's the worst thing that was found in CAIR's "internal memo," what are we supposed to fear? The fact that it's a special interest group?

For what it's worth, I'm not at all affiliated with CAIR or any similar organization. These representatives are nitwits.

But CAIR does things like attack free speech of private individuals. The harass media personalities who attack Islamofacism and CAIR altogether! They seek Sharia Law in America! They have glorified the "Magnificient Nineteen!" And they are an offshoot of terrorist organizations of the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas!

Can you provide sources for any of those claims? Like, actual sources. I've seen wackos like Pipes and Spencer claim it's so, but nothing from real sources.

 

[QUENTIN]

GOP House members call for investigation of Muslim political activity

This might actually be the most despicable domestic political event of the year:

A group of House Republicans is calling for an investigation into whether a leading American Muslim advocacy group tried to "spy" on congressional offices by placing interns on key security committees.

Rep. Sue Myrick, North Carolina Republican, cited an internal January 2007 memo in which the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) discussed placing Muslim interns on Capitol Hill to "focus on influencing congressmen responsible for policy that directly impacts the American Muslim community."

CAIR said it had a particular interest in influencing the judiciary, intelligence and homeland security committees. . . . Mrs. Myrick and Republican Reps. John Shadegg of Arizona, Paul Broun of Georgia and Trent Franks of Arizona called Wednesday for an investigation by the House sergeant-at-arms into whether CAIR was successful in planting congressional interns.

"If an organization that is connected to or supports terrorists is running influence operations or planting spies in key national security-related congressional offices, I think this needs to be made known," Mr. Broun said.

CAIR is a non-profit organization of American citizens who are Muslim and their "mission is to enhance understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding." They stand accused of plotting to influence members of Congress and trying to help interns obtain positions in Congress in order to advance their political agenda. That's consistent with what virtually every political advocacy group in the nation does; it's normally called activism and democracy. But because, in this case, it's a group of Muslims who are doing this, these House Republicans are depicting it as some sort of nefarious espionage plot against the U.S. that demands a criminal investigation. The Fox News headline screams:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MnYI3_FRbbQ/StcSpFcdcMI/AAAAAAAACJY/KMlSHZeJYu8/s1600-h/fox.png (click for image)

All that from an "internal memo" they uncovered which discusses how CAIR can help Muslim-Americans obtain internship positions with Congressional committees

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MnYI3_FRbbQ/StcUZRArlXI/AAAAAAAACJg/sV-xEncR1lI/s1600-h/cair.png (click for image)

"Muslim interns in Congressional offices" -- frightening! Look at this repulsive innuendo, from Rep. Franks:

While the Republicans said they did not know of specific legislation that CAIR had affected, Franks, a Judiciary Committee member, said he wouldn’t be surprised if it was trying to amend the Patriot Act.

“One of the target policies that they might be concerned about is the Patriot Act itself -- those things that give us the greatest tools to be able to surveil those conversations outside of this country . . . and I think organizations like CAIR would like to diminish that.”

Patriot Act reforms have long been advocated by what The New York Times called "an unlikely coalition of liberal civil-rights advocates, conservative libertarians, gun-rights supporters and medical privacy advocates." Several Senators -- including the Democrats' second-highest ranking member, Dick Durbin -- just voted (unsuccessfully) to impose new limits on that law. But when "America's largest Islamic civil liberties group" takes the same position, these crazed, blatantly bigoted House Republicans spit out McCarthyite smears trying to imply that they're working from within to help Terrorists attack America. It's nothing less than an attempt to criminalize organized political activity by and on behalf of American Muslims.

Just to underscore how extremist the House GOP caucus is, this hysteria is all based on a new book entitled "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America." That's the source which these House members are using. In fact, one of the GOP House members, Rep. Sue Myrick of North Carolina, wrote the foreword to the book. One of the two authors of that book, Dave Gaubatz, maintains this website, where he's hawking the book through Paypal. Here's his mission statement at the top of the page:

The donations will assist in exposing Islamic terrorist operations in America. The goal of the organizations: An Islamic Ummah (Nation) Worldwide, Under Islamic Sharia Law. These goals are widely distributed across America, yet ignored by most of our politicians and the Department of Homeland Security.

The entire site is filled with the most extreme and repugnant anti-Muslim paranoia imaginable, claiming that "CAIR represents the ideology of terrorist groups"; warning that "CAIR places 'insiders' into Congressional offices in order to push the CAIR and Islamic terrorist agendas"; displaying a photograph of Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim-American elected to Congress, with this caption: "One of your leading elected officials (supporter of CAIR) with researcher Chris Gaubatz. How much information do we have on Carson and Congressman Keith Ellison?; and warning that "Young Muslim children are being taught across America to engage in violence against non Muslims and Muslims who do not uphold Sharia law." It warns:

Unless we change the concerns I mentioned, our country will soon evolve into a Socialist country, Sharia law will continue to 'creep' into our society, Islamic based terrorist supporting organizations will continue the implementation of achieving the final objective of an Islamic Ummah in America and worldwide.

The website is filled with illiterate and unhinged rants like this:

Mr. Obama was a self admitted cocaine user, alcohol, and chose friends (Reverend Wright) who hated America and were terrorists (Bill Ayers). Note: More could be named. Based on this and this alone, this is not the role model we want our children to follow, nor to watch on TV at school. But why do leading media from the right and left never speak of Obama's drug days? Because many of them have had their own drug days. . . .

It is time leaders in our country begin speaking out and simply telling the American people the basic truth why Obama and his friends are not repeted [sic] and American parents do not consider him to be a role model for our children. His primary method of resolving national and internatonal [sic] disputes he as generated) is to invite offended parties to the White House to conume [sic] alcoholic beverages. Again, not the method most parents would use to resolve serious situations and not what we want our children to view as an appropriate method. Dave G.

He previously called Obama a "crack head" and wrote that "a vote for Hussein Obama is a vote for Sharia Law."

Gaubatz -- a civilian agent who worked for The U.S. Air Force's Office of Special Investigations -- was also the source for the "bombshell story" from supreme Muslim-hater Melanie Phillips, who wrote a 2007 piece for the British Spectator with this screaming headline, immediately promoted by leading right-wing blogs: "I found Saddam's WMD Bunker!" It details how Gaubatz personally found bunkers where Saddam's WMDs were kept in Iraq, but "the [Bush] administration failed to act on his information, ‘lost’ his classified reports and is now doing everything it can to prevent disclosure of the terrible fact that, through its own incompetence, it allowed Saddam’s WMD to end up in the hands of the very terrorist states against whom it is so controversially at war." As a result, Saddam's WMD are now in the hands of Syria, and the world has been fooled into believing that he had none.

In 2006, Gaubatz created a project called "Mapping Sharia in America", the purpose of which was to create a comprehensive map of every mosque and Islamic school in the U.S. This is what he wrote:

It is our task to conduct an extensive mapping of all the Islamic day schools, mosques, and other identifiable organizations in the US and to determine which ones teach or preach Islamic law, Sharib.

This investigation will also map the leadership of these Muslim organizations and their other affiliations. We will also attempt to uncover any related businesses used or run by the organizations as fronts for money laundering and other illicit activities.

Finally, we will examine and map any potential targets situated near these organizations, such as city, county, and federal government buildings, schools and universities, US military installations, major utility or infrastructure sites (i.e., nuclear installations, pipelines, water supply, etc.), and transportation hubs.

Back in 2007, the libertarian Jim Henley detailed more facts demonstrating that Gaubatz is a "paranoid, racist loon." Just read some of that. Or this.

This is the ranting, insane hatemonger who House Republicans are now using as their expert source to demand an investigation into CAIR's villainous plot to place interns on Congressional committees. It would be darkly humorous if it weren't so ugly and dangerous. These House members highlight CAIR's status as an unindicted co-conspirator in a Muslim charity case without noting that one of the most powerful groups in Congress has actually been directly involved in an espionage case against the U.S., while numerous other corporations which receive substantial largesse from Congress have been convicted of all sorts of serious wrongdoing.

This is the precise rank fear-mongering and compulsive need for an Internal Enemy that has driven American policy and political culture for the entire decade. Brave Congressional Democrats love to spend their time formally condemning people. If anything merits formal condemnation, it's this foul Republican witch hunt.

UPDATE: As sphodros notes in comments, here's a chart reflecting the religious affiliation of members of the current Congress:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MnYI3_FRbbQ/Stctb0mMWaI/AAAAAAAACJo/D8zLwHXO31g/s1600-h/congress.png (click for image)

89.3 percent of the members of Congress are Christian, 8.4% are Jewish, and a grand total of 2 members (.4%) are Muslim. Their representation on the chart (the green section) is so small they're practically invisible. Muslims comprise .6% of the American population. Yet these people are running around screaming about the imminent "Islamization of America" and imposition of Sharia law and calling for criminal investigations because a few interns on Congressional Committees -- American citizens -- might be Muslim and are therefore "spies." These are members of the U.S. House of Representatives doing that. And they're not alone:

In another conversation, [Joe Lieberman] told me that he was reading "America Alone," a book by the conservative commentator Mark Steyn, which argues that Europe is succumbing, demographically and culturally, to an onslaught by Islam, leaving America friendless in its confrontation with Islamic extremism [GG: that book also flirts with explicit advocacy of anti-Muslim genocide].

"The thing I quote most from it is the power of demographics, in Europe particularly," Lieberman said. "That’s what struck me the most. But the other part is a kind of confirmation of what I know and what I’ve read elsewhere, which is that Islamist extremism has an ideology, and it’s expansionist, it’s an aggressive ideology. And the title I took to mean that we Americans will have ultimate responsibility for stopping this expansionism."

They're breeding like rabbits, want to take over everything (through the power of interns on Congressional Committees), and we must stop them. It's the solemn challenge of our generation.

UPDATE II: Here's what Rep. Sue Myrick said in 2003 about the internal Terrorist threat:

In remarks about domestic security threats, Rep. Sue Myrick of Charlotte said, "Look at who runs all the convenience stores across the country". . .

Myrick’s comments came during a speech to the conservative Heritage Foundation last week about what she called Americans’ lack of readiness to deal with future terrorist attacks. During a question-and-answer session, she spoke about danger within the country.

"You know, and this can be misconstrued, but honest to goodness (husband) Ed and I for years, for 20 years, have been saying, 'You know, look at who runs all the convenience stores across the country.' Every little town you go into, you know?" . . .

But Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, said such comments are part of "a very disturbing trend" of bigotry.

“Now we’ve got people saying everybody who works at the 7-Eleven who has a swarthy complexion is a potential threat,” he said.

And now, Myrick is insisting that "CAIR [is] trying to infiltrate the offices of members of Congress by placing interns in the offices." Infiltrate -- she's talking about American citizens. The U.S. Congress and the country belong to CAIR members every bit as much as they belong to Myrick and her constituents. CAIR is going to impose Sharia law on the U.S. by activating its sleeper-interns on Congressional Committees. It's really hard to overstate how repugnant so many of the people in Congress are.

 

[chanel]

Any young Muslim college kid can apply for an intern position just like any young Catholic or Jewish kid. No more special treatment for "protected classes" of people. CAIR has no business forcing anyone to hire anyone.

Will they congressmen be forced to put frickin footbaths in their offices for them?