AFDI/SIOA Applauds FLA Tea Party Decision to Rescind Invitation to Hamas-Linked Hate Group CAIR, Pamela Geller to Speak

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AFDI/SIOA Applauds Florida State Tea Party Decision to Rescind Invitation to Hamas-Linked Hate Group CAIR Yahoo News

NEW YORK, Nov. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire  — A prominent national human rights and advocacy organization today applauded the Florida State Tea Party Convention‘s decision to disinvite a scheduled speaker, controversial Islamic supremacist Hassan Shibly of the Hamas-linked hate group the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

The American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) had earlier today called for such a move on the part of Tea Party officials. Shibly was scheduled to speak at the Florida State Tea Party Convention in Daytona Beach, November 4-6, 2011.

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“We applaud this decision as a victory for common sense and good judgment,” said AFDI National Executive Director Pamela Geller. “Hamas-linked CAIR is given a platform everywhere — the mainstream media and even government and law enforcement routinely go to them. It is their foes who never have a platform.” Geller will be addressing the Convention as scheduled.

The Investigative Project on Terrorism has noted that Shibly, the director of Hamas-linked CAIR’s Tampa chapter, “has a track record of defending terrorist groups and acting as an apologist for radical Islam. Following the 2006 Israel-Lebanon War, Shibly granted legitimacy to Hizballah by characterizing it as a ‘resistance movement’ that provides valued social services to the Lebanese people. ‘They’re absolutely not a terrorist organization,’ Shibly said, and ‘any war against them is illegitimate.’” Hizballah has been on the U.S. State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations since 1999.

Hamas-linked CAIR frequently attempts to intimidate numerous government agencies and citizens’ groups into dropping events featuring foes of international jihad activity, including Geller. Last week it falsely claimed in a press release that Florida Governor Rick Scott and Senator Marco Rubio declined to speak at the Florida State Tea Party Convention because Geller was speaking as well. In reality, neither Rubio nor Scott had ever confirmed their appearance at the Convention; they were invited but due to scheduling conflicts are unable to attend. CAIR, however, never corrected its false information, or apologized to the Tea Party or to Geller.

Hamas-linked CAIR itself has numerous ties to jihad terror, and consequently has been listed on AFDI’s Threats to Freedom Index. Recently U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis cited “ample evidence” that CAIR participated in a “criminal conspiracy” led by the Holy Land Foundation, Hamas’s main fund-raising arm in the U.S. CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror funding case.

The FBI has discontinued all contact with CAIR because of its terror ties. In the summer of 2010 it has embarked upon a concerted campaign of intimidation and defamation to silence public figures who speak out against jihad and Islamic terrorism, including Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), the Rev. Franklin Graham, Florida Congressional candidate Dan Fanelli, and Connecticut Congressional candidate Rick Torres. 

CAIR has a long record of duplicity and deception. Although it has received millions of dollars in donations from foreign Islamic entities, it has not registered as a foreign agent as required by the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), despite spreading Islamic supremacist propaganda within the United States.

Although it presents itself as a civil rights group, CAIR actually has numerous links to Islamic supremacist and jihad terror groups. CAIR founders Omar Ahmad and Niwad Awad (who still serves as CAIR’s executive director) were present at a Hamas planning meeting in Philadelphia in 1993 where they and other Hamas operatives conspired to raise funds for Hamas and to promote jihad in the Middle East. CAIR has steadfastly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups.

Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror:

* Ghassan Elashi, founder of CAIR’s Texas chapter, in 2009 received a 65-year prison sentence for funneling over $12 million from the Islamic charity known as the Holy Land Foundation to the jihad terrorist group Hamas, which is responsible for murdering hundreds of Israeli civilians
* Mousa Abu Marzook, a former CAIR official, was designated by the U.S. government in 1995 as a “terrorist and Hamas leader.” He now is a Hamas leader in Syria.
* Randall Royer, CAIR’s former civil rights coordinator, in 2004 began serving a 20-year prison sentence for aiding al-Qaida and the Taliban against American troops in Afghanistan and recruiting for Lashkar e-Taiba, the jihadist group responsible for the 2008 Mumbai jihad massacres.
* Bassem Khafagi, CAIR’s former community relations director, was arrested for involvement with the Islamic Assembly of North America, which was linked to al-Qaida. After pleading guilty to visa and bank fraud charges, Khafagi was deported.
* Rabih Haddad, a former CAIR fundraiser, was deported for his work with the Global Relief Foundation (which he co-founded), a terror-financing organization.

In 1998 Omar Ahmad, CAIR’s co-founder and longtime Board Chairman, said: “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”

After he received unwelcome publicity as a result of this statement, Ahmad denied saying it, several years after the fact. However, the original reporter, Lisa Gardiner of the Fremont Argus, stands by her story.

CAIR’s spokesman Ibrahim Hooper once said: “I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.”

AFDI/SIOA is one of America’s foremost organizations defending human rights, religious liberty, and the freedom of speech against Islamic supremacist intimidation and attempts to bring elements of Sharia to the United States.

Join the SIOA Facebook group here.

For more information, contact Pamela Geller at [email protected].

SOURCE: American Freedom Defense Initiative

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KC
KC
12 years ago

Way to go, Pamela!!!

juniper
juniper
12 years ago

FANTASTIC!!!

Marylou
Marylou
12 years ago

Kudos to them for admitting their error. Maybe they’ll choose more reliable news sources from now on.

Isabellathecrusader
Isabellathecrusader
12 years ago

Good goin’ girlfriend! You stuck to your guns and made it a teaching moment for everybody.

Zilla
Zilla
12 years ago

Did they ever explain why they invited the jihad lovin sharia pushin terror tied islamic supremacist CAIR in the first place? While it’s good news that they woke up & rescinded the invitation, the fact that they were going to have CAIR there at all is quite disturbing and questionable.

KC
KC
12 years ago

@Zilla: My thoughts exactly.
The Florida Tea Party needs to give an explanation for their original invite.
However, having CAIR speak first and then Pamela would have been commical!!
She’d have chewed him up and spit him out! (spit him preferably back to, Syria)

Brandy
Brandy
12 years ago

I’m with KC and Zilla. Why was CAIR invited in the first place? This needs to be answered.

Judi
Judi
12 years ago

Great news Pam!! – Now maybe Amerimar Enterprises will reconsider their decision or am I just being a crazy optimist!!

Kufr Dawg
Kufr Dawg
12 years ago

I’m with Brandy, KC and Zilla, someone needs to find out who in this particular tea party organization is associating/collaborating w/a front group for the muslime brotherhood.

Pamela Geller
Pamela Geller
12 years ago

Why, indeed.

Jamadagnii
Jamadagnii
12 years ago

“The night they drove old Dixie down and all the people were singin’, they went
Na-na-na na-na-na, na-na-na na-na-na, na-na-na-na …” but Geller said,
“Not so quick, not on my watch.”

fan tastic
fan tastic
12 years ago

Woooooo Hooooooo!!
but has the Fla state T party been infiltrated?

annonymous
annonymous
12 years ago

FANTASTIC NEWS!!!!!!!!! A shame the tea party made this mistake in the first place, but good that they were willing to own up. Nice going, Pamela! Stepping back, big picture, I hope there will be further exploration as to how CAIR came to be invited to this gathering in the first place. But for now, CONGRATULATIONS!!!

KKKK
KKKK
12 years ago

miracle of miracles! and here’s something else” UK< US are secretly planing a joint military strike aganist Iran's nuclear facilities, wile Israel is devising a seperate plan of its own for the same.

twenty12
twenty12
12 years ago

It’s disturbing to know the Tea Party had this terrorist sympathizer speaking at their event. Why was he invited!!! Has the Tea Party caved and sunk to the stupidity of public appearance and “political correctness”!!! Don’t forget, American citizens from all parties dumped and abandoned this type of hypocrisy — thus the Tea Party was formed! The people that are taking the lead in the decision making for the Florida Tea party should be fired and sit once again as a spectator and remember the beginnings of how the Tea Party was formed! If you continue to let a poisonous snake slither among you….. eventually all will be bitten!

ARNOLD CARL TAPP
ARNOLD CARL TAPP
12 years ago

BRAVO AND ENCORE TO OUR ” LADY PAMELA “. THANK YOU FOR THE BRAVE STAND YOU TAKE
AGAINST OUR MORTAL ENEMIES, AND FOR RETURNING THE ACTION OF CANCELLING AN INVITE
TO THIS ENEMY. WHO THE HELL ISSUED AN INVITATION TO THIS STEALTH JIHADIST ANYWAY ????
ON THE SAME SUBJECT, WHY WOULD ANYBODY INVITE SUCH AN UNCONVICTED CROOK AS SCOTT ????

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