CAIR
Official Mocks Muslims in U.S. Military After Praising Terrorists
IPT News
November 27, 2018
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 Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) official Zahra Billoo continues to judge
Muslims who do not fall in line with her radical agenda.
Last week, Military.com reported that the U.S. Air Force formally granted Staff
Sgt. Abdul Rahman Gaitan a religious waiver to don a beard in service. Gaitan
is the first Muslim airman to receive such an accommodation.
In response, Billoo mocked Muslims serving in the U.S. military,
sarcastically tweeting:
"Great news, MashaAllah [according to God's will]. You can now rock
your Sunnah beard while bombing your Muslim brothers and sisters."
Billoo, an attorney, leads CAIR's San Francisco-Bay area chapter.
Instead of praising the U.S. military for overturning long standing
practices to accommodate religious practices, Billoo basically labeled
American Muslims in the military as traitors for participating in combat
operations targeting terrorists in predominately Muslim-majority countries.
This sentiment is not surprising given Billoo's history
of defending terrorists. On Saturday, at an American Muslims for
Palestine (AMP) conference, Billoo glorified Palestinian "martyrs'
families" whose relatives participated in a terrorist attack against
Israelis – or as Billoo called it: "an act of resistance."
"Even I don't fully understand how horrible an apartheid Israel is
doing," Billoo said in a recording obtained by the Investigative
Project on Terrorism. She was describing a recent trip to the Palestinian
territories. "We hear here that the martyrs' families are rewarded
with homes and flowers and food. We learn that in Palestine that happens,
because it doesn't matter whether or not you approve of your teenager
committing a crime. Whether or not it's a crime is something we can debate.
But it doesn't matter whether or not you approved of it. The soldiers show
up at your house the day after you lose child in an act of resistance. And
they bulldoze your home. So of course, your community buys you a
home."
These are the views of a person who received a Community Builder Award last month, someone with a history of propagating radical Islamist and
anti-Semitic remarks.
Earlier this month, Billoo openly stoked division by drawing a line in
the sand by defining who she believes is a legitimate Muslim leader and who
is not
"I'm really cautious of who I call a Muslim leader," Billoo said at a gathering
with the Ecumenical Peace Institute, warning others to be aware "as
you see countries in the Middle East, and even Muslim activists in the
United States, take problematic positions supporting the state of Israel or
opposing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement."
For Billoo, one cannot be a Muslim leader or activist while opposing a
boycott campaign targeting the world's sole Jewish state.
"I don't think of them as my leaders," Billoo said.
Advocating for sanctions and boycotts targeting Israel, while avoiding
similar calls against other states that violate human rights on a far
larger scale, is a double standard that amounts to anti-Semitism.
This sentiment is expected from Billoo who, like other U.S. Islamist
figures, consistently opposes any type of engagement or
interfaith dialogue with organizations that maintain ties to Israel.
In May, Billoo attacked
Muslims who engage in interfaith relations with the Anti-Defamation League
(ADL). She offered to provide her followers with a "list" of
"organizations who work with them [ADL], and half a dozen or so Muslim
individuals who take their stages."
Billoo not only discourages interfaith dialogue involving Israelis – she
actively defends Hamas for firing rockets at Israeli civilians.
"Blaming Hamas for firing rockets at [Apartheid] Israel is like
blaming a woman for punching her rapist. #FreePalestine
v @KathlynGadd,"
Billoo tweeted in November 2014.
Like other U.S.-based Islamists, Billoo also made several
absurd comparisons between the Islamic State terrorist group and the
Israeli military.
In 2015, Billoo asked whether "more American youth joined the IDF
than American youth have joined ISIS? Is one genocidal group different than
the other?
That year, Billoo responded to an article questioning whether ISIS
terrorists were criminals or victims: "Are westerners who go to fight
for the Israeli Defense Forces victims, or racist, apartheid promoting
criminals?" A previous post expressed more fear of the FBI and the IDF
than of ISIS.
Billoo is among several high-profile CAIR chapter leaders who routinely
espouse extreme, hateful rhetoric. Los Angeles chapter director Hussam
Ayloush also has equated the IDF to ISIS. On Sunday, the same day Billoo
described a Muslim Air Force officer as a traitor, Ayloush took to social
media to wish for the termination of Israel's "murderous
regime."
No matter what Israel or the U.S. governments do to defend their
populations, U.S.-based Islamists – like Billoo – will defend the
terrorists.
She has also urged Muslims to "build a wall of resistance"
between themselves and law enforcement, discouraging contact with the FBI.
Last Saturday, Billoo initially acknowledged that there are debates
concerning whether terrorism is a crime. But she made her position crystal
clear.
To Billoo, terrorists attacking and killing Israelis engage in a
legitimate "act of resistance." But American Muslims working in
the U.S. with law enforcement or fighting terrorists while serving in the
military is not.
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