By Steven Emerson
Is repeatedly badmouthing the United States and fabricating an environment of a war against Muslims by the U.S. government a qualification for being sent on overseas travel at the taxpayers’ expense?
The State Department and a U.S. university seem to think so.
Consider the case of Christina Abraham, Civil Rights Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Chicago chapter. It is an affiliate of the national CAIR group that was described by an FBI agent in trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development as a front for Hamas. CAIR had also been declared an unindicted co-conspirator in that same trial, that resulted in sweeping terrorist convictions for all defendants last year.
For the past 14 years, CAIR has defended Islamic terrorism, sponsored anti-Semitic conferences and has consistently attacked nearly all U.S. prosecutions of Islamic terrorists and asset forfeitures of Islamic terrorist charitable front groups as racist. Late last year, the FBI severed its relationship with CAIR because of its ties to Hamas.
But that wasn’t the end of Abraham’s involvement in the government-funded program. This past January -- again with the State Department picking up the tab -- she traveled to the Philippines to join in a follow-on week-long seminar at the Vistamar Resort in Mactan, Cebu.
CAIR was so proud that it issued a press release on February 11, 2009 entitled “Civil Rights Director Participates in State Dept. Delegation to Philippines.”[1] CAIR-Chicago reported that Abraham “headed to the Philippines this January as a part of a delegation to the International Visitor’s [sic] Program (IVP) Conference in Cebu, Philippines.” From January 2-13, the release reported, she gave presentations “on civil rights workshops based upon CAIR-Chicago’s work for victims of discrimination.” And the reported noted: “Each of the U.S. delegates was chosen for their respective expertise in methods for constructive civic engagement.”
What was Abraham’s special expertise in “civil rights discrimination” and “constructive civic engagement” that merited her to be selected as an emissary of the United States to underdeveloped nations? Curiously, her record in the United States and that of her employer, CAIR, shows that she and CAIR have publicly issued fabricated allegations against the United States for its supposed massive and rampant racism against the majority of U.S. Muslims. Read the Rest....
Steven Emerson is executive director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism (www.investigativeproject.org) and the author or co-author of 6 books on the terrorism and the Middle East.
Source: Hudson New York
Is repeatedly badmouthing the United States and fabricating an environment of a war against Muslims by the U.S. government a qualification for being sent on overseas travel at the taxpayers’ expense?
The State Department and a U.S. university seem to think so.
Consider the case of Christina Abraham, Civil Rights Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Chicago chapter. It is an affiliate of the national CAIR group that was described by an FBI agent in trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development as a front for Hamas. CAIR had also been declared an unindicted co-conspirator in that same trial, that resulted in sweeping terrorist convictions for all defendants last year.
For the past 14 years, CAIR has defended Islamic terrorism, sponsored anti-Semitic conferences and has consistently attacked nearly all U.S. prosecutions of Islamic terrorists and asset forfeitures of Islamic terrorist charitable front groups as racist. Late last year, the FBI severed its relationship with CAIR because of its ties to Hamas.
But that wasn’t the end of Abraham’s involvement in the government-funded program. This past January -- again with the State Department picking up the tab -- she traveled to the Philippines to join in a follow-on week-long seminar at the Vistamar Resort in Mactan, Cebu.
CAIR was so proud that it issued a press release on February 11, 2009 entitled “Civil Rights Director Participates in State Dept. Delegation to Philippines.”[1] CAIR-Chicago reported that Abraham “headed to the Philippines this January as a part of a delegation to the International Visitor’s [sic] Program (IVP) Conference in Cebu, Philippines.” From January 2-13, the release reported, she gave presentations “on civil rights workshops based upon CAIR-Chicago’s work for victims of discrimination.” And the reported noted: “Each of the U.S. delegates was chosen for their respective expertise in methods for constructive civic engagement.”
What was Abraham’s special expertise in “civil rights discrimination” and “constructive civic engagement” that merited her to be selected as an emissary of the United States to underdeveloped nations? Curiously, her record in the United States and that of her employer, CAIR, shows that she and CAIR have publicly issued fabricated allegations against the United States for its supposed massive and rampant racism against the majority of U.S. Muslims. Read the Rest....
Steven Emerson is executive director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism (www.investigativeproject.org) and the author or co-author of 6 books on the terrorism and the Middle East.
Source: Hudson New York
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