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Steven Emerson,
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November 30, 2018
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CAIR's
Misleading Pitch for Facebook, PayPal Matching Donations
by John Rossomando • Nov 30, 2018
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The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) sent out a fundraising
email for #GivingTuesday earlier this week claiming that Facebook and
PayPal would match up to $7 million in donations to the group.
"Today is giving Tuesday, a day where you can show your support for
the important civil rights and advocacy work that CAIR does every day.
Today also, Facebook and PayPal will match up to seven million dollars in
donation. So I urge you to support CAIR as much as you can," CAIR
Executive Director Nihad Awad said
in a YouTube video linked to in the solicitation.
But Awad's plea for donations omitted critical fine print. Facebook and
PayPal pledged to match $7 million in donations for all
nonprofits that signed up to participate in the program, not just CAIR.
Participating non-profits were allowed to raise a maximum of $250,000 total and
$20,000 from a single donor. Donations would be paid out directly from
Facebook and/or the PayPal Giving Fund, Facebook's web page
about the fundraiser said.
CAIR set at $150,000 goal for Giving Tuesday, but raised just more than 10
percent of that – $15,981.
"CAIR's duplicity stretches from the grand (the nature of jihad) to
the petty (claiming here to have access to 500 times more money than is the
case)," said Daniel Pipes, president of the Middle East Forum.
Awad is on record supporting Hamas, and more recently has emerged as a strong
supporter of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's dictatorship. In
addition to imprisoning
thousands of dissidents and hundreds of journalists, Israel's Shin Bet found that Erdogan's regime funds and trains Hamas via
a Blackwater-type private military company called SADAT International
Defense Consulting. SADAT is run by one of Erdogan's top military advisers.
IRS forms from the PayPal Giving Fund show that the CAIR San Francisco
Bay Area (CAIR SFBA) chapter, run by Zahra
Billoo, received $19,237 in 2017 and $6,773 in 2016.
The PayPal Giving Fund hosts a donor page for CAIR SFBA where visitors can
donate.
Billoo's support for Hamas and anti-Semitic hatred toward
"Zionist" Jews is blatant. She repeatedly equates the Israeli Army with ISIS. She tweeted
in November 2014 that "Blaming Hamas for firing rockets at [Apartheid]
Israel is like blaming a woman for punching her rapist. #FreePalestine
v @KathlynGadd"
This wasn't the only time Billoo defended terrorists for firing rockets
into Israel. She praised Hizballah in 2009 for launching rockets. "The ish just hit the fan: http://tinyurl.com/7ctj3a ! AH for
Hezbollah having the courage to do what the Arab governments won't!"
she wrote.
By serving as fundraising platforms for CAIR, Facebook and PayPal are funding the sort of hatred that they claimed
to oppose when they kicked out right-wing InfoWars conspiracy
theorist Alex Jones for "promoting hate" in August and September.
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