CAIR-San
Diego's Hanif Mohebi VS the Clarion Project's Ryan Mauro
by David M. Swindle
• Aug 22, 2016 at 2:56 pm
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CAIR-San Diego Executive Director Hanif Mohebi protested the inclusion
of Clarion Project national security analyst Ryan Mauro at the upcoming
California Association of Tactical Officers' "What
Law Enforcement Needs to Know About Radical Islam" symposium next
week. Mohebi wrote
a letter to San Diego police chief Shelley Zimmerman urging her to
"investigate" if any of her officers would be attending the
session and then to "ensure that SDPD personnel are warned of the
conspiracy theories promoted by the featured speaker, that no taxpayer
dollars go to pay for attendance and that any officer who attends in his or
her private capacity does not receive continuing education credit."
Mohebi doubled down on his arguments against Mauro in an
interview with Breitbart News' Adelle Nazarian on Friday: "I'm
kind of surprised that people who are putting this together are actually OK
with this. For me, it is like bringing the head of the KKK to speak about
blacks and then claiming that it's OK. You cannot have a head of KKK come
and train the police on blacks. It just doesn't work."
But does Mauro look at all Muslims the same way a Grand Wizard sees all
blacks? Does his employer, the Clarion Project, advocate Klan-style
violence and terrorism against Muslims?
Unfortunately for Mohebi, Mauro and Clarion both have a long track
record of supporting Muslims who oppose the radicals within their faith.
Islamist Watch has contacted the San Diego police department to set the
record straight about CAIR and Clarion's real records. Our letter is below,
we encourage other organizations and individuals to contact the San Diego
police department and other civic leaders.
Shelley Zimmerman
San Diego Police Chief
SDPD Headquarters
1401 Broadway
San Diego, CA 92101
sdpdfacebook@gmail.com
RE: Thank You For Not Capitulating to CAIR's Intimidation Tactics
Dear Chief Zimmerman,
My name is David Swindle and I coordinate the Islamist Watch project for
the Middle East Forum in Philadelphia. Our goal is to educate about the
threat posed by non-violent Islamists and to urge support instead for
moderate Muslims.
We note that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) published
a press release on August 18 quoting from a letter written to you by
CAIR's San Diego office Executive Director Hanif Mohebi. He protested the
inclusion of Clarion Project national security analyst Ryan Mauro at the
forthcoming California Association of Tactical Officers' "What Law
Enforcement Needs to Know About Radical Islam" symposium. Mohebi
implored you to "investigate" if any of your officers would be
attending the session and then to "ensure that SDPD personnel are
warned of the conspiracy theories promoted by the featured speaker, that no
taxpayer dollars go to pay for attendance and that any officer who attends
in his or her private capacity does not receive continuing education
credit."
I write to urge you to maintain your stance of not capitulating to
CAIR's demands. It is not the benign civil rights organization it claims to
be but the American face of a global jihadi group. This understanding of
CAIR is held by many across the world, including other Muslims. On November
15, 2014, for example, the government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) declared CAIR a terrorist organization. In addition,
the FBI terminated
relations with CAIR in 2009.
_ _ _ _ _
CAIR's Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, the organization's
spokesperson, stated in 1993, "I wouldn't want
to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United
States to be Islamic sometime in the future." In 2003 he reaffirmed
his position when questioned on the Michael Medved radio show, asserting
that should Muslims become the majority in America, Islamic law should then
replace the Constitution.
CAIR as an organization primarily seeks to work within legal means, in a
long-term, gradualist strategy to further this goal of a majority-Muslim
America governed eventually by a legal system like Saudi Arabia's. However,
six of the organization's leaders have been arrested, convicted, or
deported for terrorism-related crimes.
First, Randall ("Ismail") Royer was a CAIR communications
specialist and civil
rights coordinator from 1997 through October 2001. In 2003 he and ten
others were indicted on 41 counts of conspiracy to engage in terrorism. He
was sentenced to 20
years in prison.
Second, Ghassan Elashi was a founding board member for CAIR's Texas
chapter in 1998. He was also a co-founder and chairman for the Holy Land
Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), once the largest Muslim
charity in the United States, but shut
down in December 2001. In 2008 he
was convicted and sentenced to 65 years in prison for providing millions of
dollars to Hamas.
Third, Bassem
Khafagi was CAIR's community relations director. In 2003 he pled
guilty to lying on his visa and bank fraud and was deported to Egypt.
In 2012 he ran for president on a platform where he pledged to
"Complete the Implementation of Islamic Law in Egypt." See his
campaign video here.
Fourth, Rabih Haddad was a
fundraiser for CAIR and co-founder of the Global Relief Foundation,
another charity that would also be shut down for terrorist financing. He
was arrested on terrorism suspicions in December 2001 and deported
in 2003.
Fifth, Nabil
Sadoun was CAIR's national vice chairman in 2009. In 2010 he was deported
for lying to immigration authorities about his membership in Hamas and
other Muslim Brotherhood organizations.
Sixth, Muthanna
Al-Hanooti was the executive
director of CAIR's Michigan branch. In 2008 a federal indictment
accused him of being a spy for Saddam Hussein's government and he was
arrested while returning from the Middle East. He would plead guilty in
March 2011 to violating US sanctions against Iraq and receive a one year
prison sentence.
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Any Muslims who do not fit into CAIR's narrow box are liable to be cast
out and smeared. For example, CAIR shows intolerance for transgender
Muslims. Last year Sumayyah
Dawud claimed that CAIR-Arizona dropped her as a client after learning
of her transgender status. Muslim women seeking to raise the issues of
honor killings, female genital mutilation and women's second class status
in the Middle East were
condemned for their efforts
to raise these topic in Honor Diaries, a documentary CAIR labeled
"Islamophobic." Muslims like Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser who speak out
about CAIR's radical positions and history are labeled as "Uncle Toms"
and compared
to the Ku Klux Klan.
We encourage you to develop strong ties with patriotic, pluralistic
Muslims who support the separation of mosque and state. The Muslim Reform
Movement, the American Islamic Forum
for Democracy, the American
Islamic Congress, and the Center
for Islamic Pluralism are good places to start to find Muslims who
oppose the radicals within their faith.
The Clarion Project and Mauro have an exemplary record of supporting the
work of Muslim reformers. One prominent example is the Clarion film The
Third Jihad, which, contrary to CAIR's description of it as
depicting "Muslims as inherently violent and seeking world
domination" instead features an American Muslim, Jasser, who advocates
the very opposite, that only a small percentage of Muslims embrace the
political ideology of Islamism,
which seeks to spread Islamic law through violent or non-violent means. Here is an archive of
interviews at the Clarion Project promoting the diverse ideas of moderate
Muslims who condemn the Islamist cause. Mauro interviewed
many
of
them himself.
Thus it should come as no surprise that when CAIR has attacked Mauro in the
past, Muslim reformers have spoken out in his defense.
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This is not the first time CAIR has challenged Mauro for attempting to
educate law enforcement about the threat posed by radical Islam. In May,
when CAIR sought to smear him for educating police in New York, Jasser defended
him: "Claims recently made by the Council on American-Islamic
Relations against Ryan Mauro are patently false, defamatory and quite
telling. CAIR is scared of American thought leaders who can effectively
teach our law enforcement officers about the differences between the threat
of Islamists and the solutions coming from Muslim reformists within the
House of Islam." Shireen Qudosi, another Muslim reformer, has defended
Mauro, saying
he, "would sit down and have a conversation with me before anyone at CAIR ever would. What's that tell
you?"
Who will the San Diego police department choose to stand with and
support? Those who align with terrorists and replacing the constitution? Or
the brave Muslim Americans and their interfaith allies who stand for
religious tolerance and universal human rights?
If you have questions, I would be happy to answer them. I await your
reply.
Sincerely,
David Swindle
Coordinator of Islamist Watch, Middle East Forum
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