Hamas-Supporting CAIR Leader Nihad Awad to Lecture Harvard Student Group

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These are Orwellian times, my friends. Is it any wonder that terror supporters and jihad-aligned Islamic groups are so smug?

Nihad Awad is to “justice and mutual understanding” what sharia is to freedom. He is an anathema to justice and mutual understanding.

The rise of jihad and sharia would have been impossible without the complete and unflagging support of the left. And Harvard’s imprimatur of legitimacy to Nihad Awad and Hamas-CAIR is the apex of such an axis of evil. My colleagues and I are almost never invited to speak at universities, and if we are, there are massive protests and even riots. But no one at Harvard will protest the appearance of this pro-jihad savage.

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“Hamas-Supporting CAIR Leader to Lecture Harvard Student Group,” IPT News, October 19, 2017:

He has publicly endorsed Hamas and secretly schemed with the Palestinian terrorist group’s supporters to thwart U.S.-led peace efforts.

Now Nihad Awad is preparing a prestigious lecture for Harvard University students on how “to inspire a deeper engagement with critical social issues on campus and in the wider community.” He is scheduled to be honored the first weekend of November with the Phillips Brooks House Association’s Robert Coles “Call of Service” Lecture and Award. Past recipients of the honor include former Vice President Al Gore and Children’s Defense Fund founder Marian Wright Edelman.

A Harvard release describes Awad as “a leading advocate for justice and mutual understanding, promoting dialogue and empowering American Muslims.”

That’s extraordinarily generous, as Awad’s words and deeds foster mutual enmity, not understanding; deception, not dialogue.

He was a member of a Muslim Brotherhood-created network of organizations operating in the United States with a mission to help Hamas politically and financially. Awad appears on the “Palestine Committee’s” telephone list. Internal records seized by the FBI also show that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which Awad co-founded in 1994 and has served as its only executive director ever since, was a Palestine Committee branch.

Before creating CAIR, Awad ran a second Palestine Committee entity, called the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP). The IAP served as a Hamas propaganda arm, publishing the terrorist group’s communiques and articles advocating on its behalf. The FBI described his partner at both IAP and CAIR, Omar Ahmed, as a “leader within the Palestine Committee.”

Again, all of this is drawn from internal Muslim Brotherhood/Palestine Committee records seized by the FBI. They were entered into evidence in a federal terror financing trial involving the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. The foundation, another Palestine Committee entity, and five former officials all were convicted of illegally routing $12 million to Hamas through a network of charities.

All of this information is in the public domain.

So what prompted a Harvard student group – by definition smart, educated young people – to identify Nihad Awad as an inspirational paragon of service?

It turns out that the Phillips Brooks House Association’s programming chair, Anwar Omeish, is the daughter of another advocate for Palestinian violence, former Muslim American-Society President Esam Omeish.

Omeish was forced to resign from a Virginia state immigration panel in 2007 after an exclusive IPT video showed him praising Palestinians for choosing the “the jihad way … to liberate your land.”

Awad was in Omeish’s home for a 2010 political fundraiser where U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., accused Israel of controlling U.S. foreign policy.

We are First Amendment supporters, and the Phillips Brooks House Association is free to invite whomever it pleases. Whitewashing Nihad Awad’s decades of work on behalf of terrorists and radicals, however, doesn’t seem to be in the best interests of a group seeking inspiration on public service.

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Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago

No wonder these colleges produce left/liberal pro-jihadi morons.

At least Trump not easily fooled unlike all the previous Presidents , bureaucrats , policy “wonks” nutjobs.

Recently Trump got conned by Al-taqiya from Abbas but once he learnt the truth, boy was he furious as hell http://bit.ly/2rOmfyJ

He does not mince words unlike previous spineless Presidents.

NRI TV
NRI TV
6 years ago

US Should stop all federal aid to the leftist institutions like Harvard and Berkley. These institutions only produce traitors and no Patriots. These institutions are totally corrupted by Islamic fundamentalism and liberal detritus.

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Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

Here is a list off talking points of shariah that it would be very nice to hear these “islamic scholars” read “village idiots” justify with reference to civilized society in particular, in north America.

• A Muslim will not be subject to retaliation (prosecution) if he kills an apostate, since it is someone who deserves to die.

• Parents and grandparents will not be prosecuted for killing their offspring or offspring’s offspring. This law is significant to getting those who honor kill off the hook.

• A Muslim will not be executed for killing a kaffir (non-Muslim).

• It is obligatory for a Muslim to lie if the purpose is obligatory, such as fulfilling Allah’s commandments of jihad.

• Slander and exaggeration is allowed if the purpose is lawful. No guilt or shame should be associated with slander of the perceived enemy, and if it is for protecting Islam and for the benefit of Muslims.

• Sharia has no respect for sovereignty of other nations and non-Muslims, because of the doctrine of jihad, defined as “to war against non-Muslims to establish the religion.”

• It is a capital (enormity) crime for any Muslim who chooses to “Not perform jihad or flee from combat with (kaffir) unbelievers.”

• It is the duty of every Muslim head of state (Caliph) to wage jihadist wars against non-Muslim nations, especially neighboring ones. Muslim Caliphs who refuse jihad are in violation of Sharia and unfit to rule.

• A Caliph could hold office through seizure of power meaning through force.

• A Caliph is immune (Maasum), exempt, from charges of murder, adultery, robbery, theft, drinking, and in some cases of rape.

• A manmade government (legal system), such as democracy, is an abomination and must be eliminated.

• A percentage of Zakat (alms) must go towards jihad.

• It is obligatory to obey the commands of the Caliph even if he is unjust.

• A caliph must be Muslim, not a slave, and male.

• The Muslim public must remove the Caliph if he rejects Islam or refuses to rule by Sharia.

• A non-Muslim cannot inherit from a Muslim.

• No testimony in court is acceptable from people of low-level jobs, such as street sweepers or bathhouse attendants. Women in low-level jobs are not awarded custody of children in case of divorce.

• A non-Muslim cannot rule, even over a non-Muslim minority.

• Homosexuality is punishable by death.

• Women are forbidden from becoming president or judge.

• There is no age limit for marriage of girls. The marriage contract at any age after birth and consummation of marriage at age 8 or 9.

• A husband has the right to beat his wife and does not have to say why to her family or police.

• Rebelliousness on the part of the wife nullifies the husband’s obligation to support her, gives him permission to beat her and keep her from leaving the home.

• Divorce is only in the hands of the husband and is as easy as saying: “I divorce you,” and is effective even if the husband says he did not intend it.

• A wife has no right to divorce her husband, even if he is polygamous, with additional wives.

• A man is allowed to have sex with slave women and women captured in battle, and if the enslaved woman is married, her marriage is annulled.

• There is no community property between a husband and his wife/wives.

• A woman inherits half what a man inherits.

• Parents have the legal right to perform female genital mutilation on minor daughters.

• A man must pay the woman dowry to be given in exchange for his right to her sexual organs.

• A rapist may only be required to pay money (dowry) without marrying the rape victim.

• A man is allowed to have sex with slave women and women captured in battle, and if the enslaved woman is married her marriage is annulled.

• A woman’s testimony in court is half the value of a man.

• A woman loses custody of her children if she remarries.

• To prove rape a woman must have four male witnesses.

• A woman must cover every inch of her body, which is considered awrah (a sexual organ). Exposing face is allowed by most, but not all Sharia schools.

• A Muslim man will not be prosecuted if he kills his wife if caught in the act of adultery. However, the opposite is not true since husband “could be married to the woman he was caught with.” Thus loyalty is only expected from wife, and not the husband.

• Free speech is unprotected and harshly punished if it involves any criticism of Muhammad, Islam or Sharia itself. Both Muslim and non-Muslim critics of Muhammad will be executed even if they repent.

• The banking system must be Sharia-compliant.

• A government must rule by Sharia and a Muslim head of state.

All of the above laws (except number 8, which is not Shafi’i) are mainstream Sharia.

Harvard is not a university, it is a madrassa, a rather unenlightened one at that. All that islam is capable of answering questions about its absurdities, is “It is true because it is written in the qur’an” when asked why the qur’an is true, the answer will eventually end up as “because it is written in the qur’an”. However islam has categorized lies into six forms, it also describes alice as “the best of all liars”

Poppey
Poppey
6 years ago

Yestaday the 19th, the London Times had a headline story about Universities being forced to allow free speech again in debates so as to exclude the further creation of “safe spaces” for the snowflakes there, should this come to pass in UK, it might herald the start of a push back against the left in other places too.

Patrick Leary
Patrick Leary
6 years ago

CAIR is a terrorist organization. Great – welcome to Harvard.

livingengine
livingengine
6 years ago

I am calling to complain about Phillips Brooks House Association awarding Nihad Awad without advising the audience of Mr Awad’s true background. Although the Phillips Brooks House Association heaps praise on Nihad Awad, they fail to share the most important of Nihad Awad’s accomplishments, namely that he is among the inner circle of Hamas leadership in this country.

The Council on American Islamic Relations is the lobby for Hamas in this country. Jorge Solis, the presiding judge in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation trial, wrote that the Government had provided ample evidence of a connection between CAIR, and Hamas. Part of this evidence includes the current executive director of CAIR National, Nihad Awad being at a summit meeting of senior Hamas leaders in 1993. At this meeting, which was secretly recorded by the FBI, Nihad Awad said that one of the goals of the group should be to give legitimacy to Hamas.
At the time he made this statement, Nihad Awad was working for the Islamic Association for Palestine. When the IAP was found liable in the Hamas assassination of David Boim, they closed down rather than pay the 156 million dollars awarded to the Boim family. The IAP has since opened up under a new name, the American Muslims for Palestine. The Boims are now suing the AMP.
CAIR works with the AMP, which is part of the Muslim Brotherhood political party, the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations.
How Nihad Awad was invited to Phillips Brooks House Association may be due to Anwar Omeish being the Programming chair. Anwar Omeish is the daughter of another advocate for Palestinian violence, former Muslim American-Society President Esam Omeish.

Omeish was forced to resign from a Virginia state immigration panel in 2007 after a video showed him praising Palestinians for choosing the “jihad way … to liberate your land.”

There are many good Muslims in the world, but Nihad Awad and his group CAIR are fronting for the terrorist organization Hamas.

CAIR is not a member in good standing of American society. Instead, they publish reports telling their audience that American Muslims are in danger from their follow citizens. But, the latest CAIR report includes in their statistics:

Things that are not considered hate crimes by the police.

Things that are not considered hate crimes by the people involved.

Incidents that do not involve Muslims, at all.

And, incidents that have no witnesses, videos, or any supporting evidence.

Of course, Phillips Brooks House Association is free to invite whoever they choose, but to claim that Nihad Awad is worthy of praise is risible, and the whole world is watching, and taking notice.

Multi-media presentation on what is wrong with CAIR.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UudrdvEetMs

Sincerely,
Larry Estavan,
Citizens for Confronting CAIR on Television
https://www.facebook.com/CAIRHATEREPORT/

https://citizensforconfrontingcairontelevision.com/

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
6 years ago

More proof that liberals increasingly hate Jews and love Islam. 🙁

Jackie Puppet
Jackie Puppet
6 years ago

“So what prompted a Harvard student group – by definition smart, educated
young people – to identify Nihad Awad as an inspirational paragon of
service?”

Time to redefine smart, educated young people. They’re nowhere near as smart as I was when I was their age, just like I was nowhere near as smart as people who went to college a generation or two before me.

Most of the students couldn’t care less about his past

A Harvard education seems to be overrated, however, it’ll still get a graduate a terrific job based on reputation alone.

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