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Arkansas: House Legislature Adopts Resolution Calling On Law Enforcement To Suspend Contact & Outreach With Terror-Tied CAIR

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Published on: February 22, 2019

At least some people haven’t given up the fight and are willing to call a spade a spade.  This is exactly what the Arkansas House of Representatives did on Monday as they adopted a resolution that calls on law enforcement in the state to “suspend contact and outreach with the Council on American-Islamic Relations.”

HR1006, sponsored by Republican Majority Whip Representative Brandt Smith, was read and adopted by the legislature on February 18, 2010, after first being filed on January 17, 2019.

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This sends a pretty strong message to the designated terror group that the legislature wants no part of those who are supposed to serve the people to be entangled with them at all.

And just was the reasoning behind the resolution?

According to the text of the resolution it is due to CAIR’s history and ties to Islamic jihad groups, as well as multiple CAIR directors, employees and members who have been convicted on terrorism and terrorism-related charges over the years.

The text of the resolution reads as follows, culminating with the call on law enforcement agencies to cut off contact with CAIR.

WHEREAS, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has suspended all formal contacts with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (“CAIR”) due to evidence demonstrating a relationship between CAIR and Hamas, a designated foreign terrorist organization of the United States Department of State; and

WHEREAS, in United States of America v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, the largest successful prosecution of terrorism-financing in our country’s history, CAIR was identified as an associate of the Muslim Brotherhood and was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the trial; and

WHEREAS, CAIR opened its first office in Washington, D.C., with the help of a grant from the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, a charitable organization that was closed by the United States Department of the Treasury for funding jihadist terrorist organizations; and

WHEREAS, United States ally, the United Arab Emirates, officially designated CAIR as a terrorist organization in 2014; and

WHEREAS, in March 2011, Muthanna al-Hanooti, a director within CAIR, was sentenced to a year in federal prison for violating United States sanctions against Iraq under Saddam Hussein; and

WHEREAS, in 2006, the co-founder of CAIR’s parent organization, Islamic Association for Palestine (“IAP”), Sami Al-Arian, was sentenced to 57 months in prison on terrorism charges for financing Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a designated foreign terrorist organization; and

WHEREAS, in 2004, CAIR-Northern Virginia director Abdurahman Alamoudi pled guilty to terrorism-related financial and conspiracy charges, which resulted in a 23-year federal prison sentence; and

WHEREAS, in 2009, Ghassan Elashi, who served as a founding board member for CAIR’s regional chapter in Texas, was sentenced to a total of 65 years in prison after being convicted of 10 counts of conspiracy to provide, and the provision of, material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization; 11 counts of conspiracy to provide, and the provision of, funds, goods and services to a Specially Designated Terrorist as determined by the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury; 10 counts of conspiracy to commit, and the commission of, money laundering; 1 count of conspiracy to impede and impair the Internal Revenue Service; and 2 counts of filing a false tax return; and

WHEREAS, Randall Todd (Ismail) Royer, who served as a communications specialist and civil rights coordinator for CAIR and trained with and set up an internet-based newsletter for Lashkar-I-Taiba, an al Qaeda-tied Kashmir organization that is listed on the United States Department of State’s international terror list, was also indicted on charges of conspiring to help al Qaeda in the Taliban battle American troops were fighting in Afghanistan and was sentenced to 20 years in prison on April 9, 2004; and

WHEREAS, in September 2003, CAIR’s former community affairs director, Bassem Khafagi, pleaded guilty to 3 federal counts of bank and visa fraud, and agreed to be deported to Egypt after he had funneled money to activities supporting terrorism and had published material advocating suicide attacks against the United States, illegal activities that took place while he was employed by CAIR; and

WHEREAS, Rabih Haddad, the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based CAIR fundraiser, was arrested on terrorism-related charges and was deported from the United States due to his work as Executive Director of the Global Relief Foundation, which in October 2002 was closed by the United States Department of Treasury for financing al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations,

NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NINETY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS:

THAT the House of Representatives encourages law enforcement to suspend contact and outreach with the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Brandt warned in January that CAIR had a presence in surrounding states and sought to “infiltrate” law enforcement at the local and state levels with “training” that “desensitizes our law enforcement in how to respond properly to our Muslim community.”

Rep. Brandt added, “This is not an anti-Muslim resolution.  This is an anti-terrorism resolution.”

Following his brief comments, Brandt called on the Speaker to read the resolution in its entirety.

I’m glad he did distinguish between the two.  It is one thing for a person to be born into a Muslim house or even come from a Muslim country.  It is quite another to believe the lies and wicked teachings of the Koran and seek to carry them out into the world.

Well done, Arkansas!

Article posted with permission from Freedom Outpost

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