PrintNovember 2, 2012
Why It Should Always Be Called 'Hamas-CAIR'
Last Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear appeals from the Holy Land Five: five former officials of what was once the largest Islamic charity in the United States, the Holy Land Foundation (HLF), who were convicted of funneling millions in charitable donations to the jihad terror group Hamas. That effectively ends the story of the Holy Land Foundation, but since many of its co-conspirators are still active, notably the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the case is worth revisiting.
In 2008, the U.S. government filed a memorandum in opposition to the request from two of the groups linked to the HLF, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), that the "unindicted co-conspirator" designation they received during the HLF trial be removed (it wasn't). The memorandum is a useful and illuminating summary of what some of the most prominent Islamic groups in the U.S. have...(Read Full Article)
