Terror-Linked CAIR’s Awad: Anti-Terror JASTA Bill Part of “War on Islam”

The one thing I most look forward to in Trump’s presidency is the prosecutions of these terror-linked groups like CAIR which were scuttled by President Obama’s Attorney General.

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CAIR’s Awad: Anti-Terror JASTA Bill Part of “War on Islam” ITP, September 25, 2016:

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It might be one of the few things on which Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton agree: President Obama was wrong Friday when he vetoed the “Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act.”

The bill, which passed the U.S. House Sept. 9 after passing the Senate May 17, would allow Americans victimized by foreign terrorist attacks to sue countries responsible. Specifically, 9/11 victims could sue Saudi Arabia, which generated 15 of the 19 hijackers who struck the World Trade Center, Pentagon and Flight 93, which crashed in a Pennsylvania field after passengers fought back.

But in an interview with the Arabic-language Al Sharq Al Awsat, Council on American-Islamic Relations Executive Director Nihad Awad cast the legislation as an anti-Muslim attack.

The bill “is a continuation of the series of [actions] attaching terrorism to Islamic societies, the Islamic world and Islamic countries, as well as Islamic personalities, since it aims to demonize Islam,” an Investigative Project on Terrorism translation of Awad’s remarks said. “… so that things have reached the point of attaching the accusation of terrorism against Saudi Arabia, which is the heart of the Muslim world, and accusing it is an accusation of Muslims all over the world.”

He compared the bill to campaigns against mosque construction in the United States and said it is pushed by the same ideology that “supports the campaign of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, saying that those who voted for the resolution in the Congress are those waging war on Islam and they always vote for wars and conflicts, and are exploiting the families of the victims in this crisis.”

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., co-sponsored and advocated for the bill, which enjoyed bipartisan support. In a statement, he pledged to make this President Obama’s first veto to be over-ridden by Congress.

More importantly, Awad’s description that the bill’s supporters “are those waging war on Islam” is especially dangerous and reckless. That message, that the West is at war against Islam, is considered the most effective at radicalizing Muslims.

CAIR officials used to repeatedly invoke that message, but seemed to have backed away from it in recent years. Awad’s revival was directed at an Arabic-speaking audience.
Former U.S. Sen. Bob Graham, who served as co-chairman of a congressional 9/11 inquiry, has long advocated for the release of 28 pages of his committee’s report focusing on the hijackers’ connections to Saudi government officials. Those pages were released in July. In a New York Times oped earlier this month, Graham said they raise more questions and advocated for the release of more investigative material still deemed classified.

His motivation for this campaign, and for supporting JASTA, had nothing to do with Muslims, he explained.

“It can mean justice for the families that have suffered so grievously. It can also mean improving our national security, which has been compromised by the extreme form of Islam that has been promoted by Saudi Arabia,” Graham wrote.

President Obama claims he vetoed the bill out of concern for unintended consequences, that it might open the door to similar litigation against U.S. military and government officials in other countries and “would neither protect Americans from terrorist attacks nor improve the effectiveness of our response to such attacks.”

Both Trump and Clinton said they would sign the bill if elected president, CNN reported.

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Dennis

7 years ago

Appreciating as I do, our Presidents concerns about unintended consequences, I would remind him that this nation has during his presidency played the “politically correct” scenario for so long now that, to me, he should recognize that all he has accomplished with that approach is very negative consequences here and throughout the world. Therefore, it was time for our leaders to stand up and speak out against the world-wide Fundamentalism which springs from the belief system that is Islam, and try to begin doing something about that scourge. Unintended consequences be damned! We are still the strongest nation on this planet, and unless we begin doing something to elevate our determination that we are tired of being pushed around, the consequences will be more acts of terror, missiles from the likes of Iran and North Korea, and an attempt to put back the empire that was once Soviet Russia. I hope that our legislators over-ride his veto, and I cannot wait for his term to end. Long live this great American society.

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Mahou Shoujo

7 years ago

According to the fools of the world that follows islam, everything is an attack on its violent ignorance. Even islam itself attacks its members for not being “muslim” enough. It is a cult of the violently stupid, not be allowed a say on anything other than its departure from earth.

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ljm4

7 years ago

Then throw his sorryass in a cell with the Big Moo.

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Freedom_For_All

7 years ago

Please share it!! Moderate Muslims show their true colors….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko6SMMqjfkQ

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Craig

7 years ago

Back in October 2012, rat obama rolled out the red carpet for CAIR, a group the FBI and CIA have labelled as a terrorist front group. When you are raised a muzzie, like rat obama was, you suck up to muslim terrorists and other such useless trash.

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Drew the Infidel

7 years ago

Do not forget that bin Laden himself was also Saudi. You want “war on islam”? How about if we start filing complicity and conspiracy charges against mosque attendees and the family members of these local jihadi attackers who remain silent, all the while being aware of what was brewing. Then “See something, say something” will take on a whole new dimension.

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tim

7 years ago

Is it possible politically correct leaders like Obama, Merkel et all real agenda in bringing thousand of Islamists into their country is to eradicate Jews and homosexuals? Seems to me if you import these refugees you are in sync with their ideology.

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