http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/cruz-proposes-bill-label-brotherhood-cair-terror-orgs#"Cruz Proposes Bill to Label Brotherhood, CAIR as Terror Orgs.
'We have to stop pretending that the Brotherhood are not responsible for the terrorism they advocate and finance,' said Cruz.
(photo caption: CAIR's Founder and Executive Director Nihad Awad (R); National Communications Director and Spokesperson Ibrahim Hooper (L). Awad was present at the 1993 secret meeting of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood Palestine Committee in Philadelphia that was wiretapped by the FBI. Participants of the meeting discussed how to support Hamas and, in the words of U.S. District Court Judge Solis “goals, strategies and American perceptions of the Muslim Brotherhood.â€)
In what may be a seminal moment in the fight against radical Islam, presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has introduced legislation to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. The impressively-detailed bill identifies three Brotherhood entities in the U.S. including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
The Muslim Brotherhood is not currently banned in the U.S. because it is not listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. Remarkably, its Palestinian wing—Hamas—is designated, but the group a whole is allowed to operate in the U.S. You can read my thorough rebuttal of the Brotherhood's purported "non-violence" policy here.
The legislation reviews the Brotherhood's terrorist history and how it has been banned by the governments of Egypt, Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Syria. Egypt has released videos showing the Brotherhood's involvement in terrorism and the Egyptian government's website warns about the Brotherhood lobby in the United States.
The legislation quotes FBI director Robert Mueller as testifying in 2011 that "I can say at the outset that elements of the Muslim Brotherhood both here [in the U.S.] and overseas have supported terrorism. To the extent that I can provide information, I would be happy to do so in a closed session. But it would be difficult to do in an open session."
The legislation discusses the successful prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation, a confirmed Brotherhood front that was shut down for financing Hamas. The Justice Department labeled three U.S. groups as unindicted co-conspirators in the trial and identified them as "entities" of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood's pro-Hamas operation: The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR); the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT). Read our profiles of each group's extremism by clicking on the links.
The legislation explains that the Muslim Brotherhood set up secret "Palestine Committees" in countries around the world to covertly assist Hamas terrorist activity with "media, money and men." The three groups mentioned are subsections of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee, with ISNA and NAIT being "intimately connected with the Holy Land Foundation and its assigned task of providing financial support to Hamas," in the words of a 2008 court ruling.
A mountain of documentation shows that CAIR's role in the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee is media and political influence. Two of CAIR’s founders were present at a secret meeting in 1993 that was wiretapped by the FBI where they were instructed to deceive American audiences. ("War is deception," they said at the meeting.)
The legislation states that Congress' assessment is that the Muslim Brotherhood qualifies for designation as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the State Department. It gives the secretary of state 60 days to provide a detailed response as to whether the Brotherhood fits the criteria or not."
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