AFDI Decries Inflammatory Victimhood Posturing by Hamas-Linked Groups In Wake of Boston Jihad

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NEW YORK: — The American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI),
a foremost civil rights and human rights advocacy organization, today
decried the wave of inflammatory victimhood posturing by Islamic supremacist groups
such as the Hamas-linked groups following the Boston Marathon bombings
and the revelation that the suspects in the case are Islamic jihad
terrorists.

AFDI also noted that Americans of all faiths have rejected the call
by a minority of extremists to deflect responsibility for jihad terror
and obfuscate its root causes in Islamic texts and teachings.

While yet another violent jihad hate plot has been uncovered in
Toronto in the wake of the Boston bombings, AFDI calls upon Muslims in
the U.S. and Canada to take responsibility for cleaning up their
communities and instituting programs to teach against the ideology of
jihad hatred that fuels these plots. Instead, groups such as the
Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations is trying to fool
Americans into thinking after these bombings that Muslims are victims.

"Americans need to understand the threat they're facing," said AFDI Executive Director Pamela Geller. "That is the chief lesson of the Boston jihad bombings. Hamas-CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest Hamas
funding trial in our nation's history, has created out of whole cloth a
propaganda campaign that dissembles, deceives, and deliberately lies
about what happened in Boston
and its implications. This only serves to prevent an effective response
to jihad terror, thereby enabling jihadists to strike again more
easily."

CAIR is indeed an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR operatives have repeatedly refused
to
denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR's cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements. Its California chapter distributed posters telling Muslims not to talk to the FBI.

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.

And although it presents itself as a civil rights group, CAIR
actually has numerous links to hateful and violent Islamic supremacist
and jihad 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 in 1995 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 stands for:

• The freedom of speech – as opposed to Islamic prohibitions of
  "blasphemy" and "slander," which are used effectively to quash honest
  discussion of jihad and Islamic supremacism;
• The freedom of conscience – as opposed to the Islamic death penalty for apostasy;
• The equality of rights of all people before the law – as opposed to
  Sharia's institutionalized discrimination against women and non-Muslims.