Hamas-linked is CAIR terrorist organization, a Muslim Brotherhood proxy which should be designated a domestic terrorist organization.
Controversial Muslim charity accused of links to Hamas settles lawsuit rather than disclosing sources of funding
By Isabel Vincent, NY Post, Feb. 28, 2025:
A Washington-based Muslim nonprofit, which is one of the largest operating across the US, agreed this week to settle a case brought by a former board member and employee rather than open its books to reveal sources of foreign funding, The Post has learned.
Evidence in past court proceedings has shown links between The Council on American-Islamic Relations Foundation Inc. and both Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
CAIR Inc. settled with Lori Saroya Thursday, months after US Magistrate Judge David Schultz ruled any assets owned by the group are all within the “scope of permissible discovery” as part of the former Minnesota chapter leader’s lawsuit against the controversial Muslim rights group.
The Post learned this week that Washington-based Muslim nonprofit CAIR Inc. agreed to settle a case brought by a former board member and employee rather than open its books to reveal sources of foreign funding. Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Saroya filed her federal defamation complaint against CAIR last year after the group dropped a lawsuit against her, which accused her of embarking on a “defamation campaign” against the organization.
Lawmakers are demanding a federal investigation into the nonprofit, which took in more than $5.3 million in contributions and grants in 2022, the last year for which public filings are available.
“CAIR’s leadership has a long history of spewing vile antisemitism and anti-Zionist rhetoric, including openly praising the Hamas terrorists that brutally attacked Israel, murdering, raping, and kidnapping more than 1,200 people on October. 7 [2023],” said Josh Gottheimer, a Democratic Congressman from New Jersey.
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Palestinian Hamas militants gather at the site of the handing over of the bodies of four Israeli hostages in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza on February 20, 2025 AFP via Getty Images
Referring to court proceedings which showed the links, he added: “The allegations that CAIR receives funding from Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, if true, are deeply concerning and require an immediate investigation.”
CAIR, which was founded in 1993, was linked to Hamas in 2008 when US authorities successfully prosecuted five leaders at the Holy Land Foundation For Relief and Development, a now-defunct Texas-based nonprofit, for giving more than $12 million from the US to the terror group.
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Lori Saroya and CAIR Inc. settled on Thursday, months after US Magistrate Judge David Schultz ruled any assets owned by the group are within the “scope of permissible discovery.” CAIR Washington
Once the HLF was compromised, a new group with no obvious ties to Hamas had to become the funnel for cash; US Authorities concluded that was CAIR during its prosecution of the earlier group, as cited in a report by The Program on Extremism at George Washington University.
Evidence in the trial against HLF showed that Ghassan Elashi, the treasurer of the charity, became the founding board member of CAIR’s Texas chapter and that HLF transferred funds to CAIR for “consulting services.”
The prosecution also presented evidence that Hamas provided “seed money” for CAIR, according to a congressional hearing.
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“The history is very clear,” said Lorenzo Vidino, director of the Program on Extremism at GWU.
“CAIR was created by this core group of Hamas leaders in the US in the early 1990s. There are FBI wiretaps of a workshop given by the group’s leaders on how to deal with the media and create a veneer of respectability and use the language of civil rights.”
Article posted with permission from Pamela Geller
