Three Republican U.S. House members have written to FBI Director Robert Mueller, applauding the Bureau's decision last summer to cut off contact with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) reported Jan. 29 that concerns over CAIR's roots in a Hamas-support network prompted the cut off. Information linking CAIR and founders Omar Ahmad and Nihad Awad to that Hamas support effort were unveiled in the prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF).
Jurors convicted five HLF officials on 108 counts in the case in November.
On Monday, U.S. Reps. Sue Myrick (R-NC), Patrick McHenry (R-NC) and Paul Broun (R-GA) wrote Mueller "to express our strong support for this action." Myrick leads the bi-partisan Anti-Terrorism Caucus.
The letter cites a specific exhibit from the HLF trial, a Muslim Brotherhood memorandum about the group's goal in North America. It described that goal as "a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions." Read more ...
Jurors convicted five HLF officials on 108 counts in the case in November.
On Monday, U.S. Reps. Sue Myrick (R-NC), Patrick McHenry (R-NC) and Paul Broun (R-GA) wrote Mueller "to express our strong support for this action." Myrick leads the bi-partisan Anti-Terrorism Caucus.
The letter cites a specific exhibit from the HLF trial, a Muslim Brotherhood memorandum about the group's goal in North America. It described that goal as "a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions." Read more ...
Source: IPT Blog