Oklahomans Against CAIR Hate

CAIR won't come clean

The Edmond Sun wrote a helpful article about CAIR on March 6th, What’s the truth about CAIR?

"...One thing that is certain is that the relationship between CAIR and the FBI has oscillated in recent years. A call from The Sun to FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., seeking comment on the group, resulted in the issuance of a statement.

In it, the FBI says the public’s understanding and trust remain essential to its success in all aspects of its mission. 

“CAIR has been advised of the reasons behind our suspension of formal partnership,” the FBI stated. “These reasons include the fact that CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in United States v. Holy Land Foundation and CAIR’s failure to answer our questions about a connection between their executives and Hamas. Until these questions are answered, the FBI does not consider CAIR an appropriate partner for formal liaison activities.”

An unindicted co-conspirator is a person or entity that is alleged in an indictment to have engaged in conspiracy, but who is not charged in the same indictment.

In May 2009, a federal judge handed down sentences in the Holy Land Foundation case. The government contends that from its inception, the Holy Land Foundation existed to support Hamas, a designated terrorist organization.

Five of the foundation’s leaders were convicted by a federal grand jury on charges of providing material support to Hamas. Before the foundation was designated as a terrorist organization and shut down in December 2001, it was the largest U.S. Muslim charity, according to the FBI. It was based in a Dallas suburb.

...Last month, Cindy Crenshaw, president of Oklahomans Against CAIR Hate, called for the condemnation of CAIR after a former CAIR leader was deported. 

Crenshaw, who was injured by an explosive device while she was serving in the Air Force in West Germany, said she wants Oklahomans to know the truth about CAIR, that it is a hate group like the Ku Klux Klan.

“I love America and don’t want to sit back and watch enemies destroy my country, both from the inside and out,” Crenshaw said.

Crenshaw said she wants Americans to do their own research on CAIR and its alleged ties to terrorism.

Recent CAIR board member deportation continues concerns

Nabil Sadoun, was a very recent CAIR national board member.  He was also at one time the chair of the Texas CAIR chapter. CAIR claims Sadoun left the national board a few months ago.  He had a doctorate in education and worked in various schools in the U.S.,  according to CAIR.

In the 1990s he was an imam in Tulsa, Oklahoma, according to the Dallas Morning News,  Last week, a deportation judge ruled he lied about his ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood and ordered him deported, even though he had left the country: 

...Last fall, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents issued Sadoun a notice to appear before an immigration court on charges of violating immigration laws and omitting critical information on his application for an immigrant visa in 1993, officials said.

Authorities say Sadoun failed to disclose that he was associated with, among other things, the United Association for Studies and Research. According to the FBI, the group was one of several established in the late 1980s and early 1990s, along with the Holy Land Foundation, to benefit Hamas, which has been designated a terrorist organization.

This continues an on-going and disturbing pattern with CAIR, who was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land terror funding trial, by federal prosecutors for their connection to the Muslim Brotherhood Palestine Committee.  One exhibit at the trial shows payments made to the UASR by Hamas leader Mousa Marzook.  Whenever CAIR is confronted with facts like this, they get extremely defensive and calls their critics hateful names or liars. 

Razi Hashmi, CAIR's Oklahoma director recently blamed criticism about CAIR on the lies of the extremists on the right!

The facts, Mr. Hashmi, show otherwise.

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Press coverage of our 2nd CAIR Oklahoma protest!

Our first protest of CAIR Oklahoma on January 15th was foiled when CAIR Oklahoma changed the location the day before in order to avoid us.  But, that night gave us time to meet and discuss our concerns regarding CAIR and their chapter in Oklahoma.

Our 2nd protest was at the University of Oklahoma in Norman Oklahoma whene CAIR Oklahoma showed a feel-good film about Islam on the 23rd of January which was covered by the press! 

We are off to a good start.

Channel 9 video:

1/25/10:  Group protests Muslim event, attendees blame prejudice OU Daily

1/25/10:  CAIR Chapter Defends Against Protestors' Claims of Terrorist Ties  Channel 6

Oklahomans who particpiated on a panel discussion at the film were Dr. Charles Kimball, Presidential Professor and Director of the Religious Studies Program at the University of Oklahoma delivered the keynote address prior to the film. He also took part in a panel discussion with Dr. Imad Enchassi, Imam of the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City (ISGOC) and Dr. Bruce Prescott, executive director of Mainstream Oklahoma Baptists. 

 Co-sponsors of CAIR Oklahoma event included the OU-Muslim Student Association, OU-Religious Studies Department and Club, OU-Middle Eastern Studies Department, Students of University Lutheran (SOUL), ACLU Student Organization, Hindu Student Council, International Affairs Society, Oklahoma Mainstream Baptists, Peace House, Baha’i Association, and the American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma (ACLU-OK).  (source)