Kamala’s Sister Defended Hamas-Linked Council on America Islamic Relations [CAIR]
“They [CAIR] have been a leading organization that has advocated for civil rights and civil liberties.” — Maya Harris
Maya Harris, Kamala’s sister, a radical ACLU activist, ran her 2020 presidential campaign. Maya’s husband, Tony West, who formerly served as the lawyer for John Walker Lindh, the American Taliban, is playing a major role in her current presidential campaign. Meena Harris, Maya’s daughter, who is very close to Kamala, has tweeted in support of the pro-Hamas encampments and spread false claims of atrocities against Israel.
All of this provides a certain amount of background about Kamala’s views from some of the most important people in her life who have also served as close advisers to her presidential campaigns and during her time in office.
Here is Maya defending CAIR, an organization linked to Hamas, whose leader, Nihad Awad, would later celebrate the attacks of Oct 7.
Last fall, Senator Barbara Boxer of California issued a routine Certificate of Appreciation to the organization representative in Sacramento, but she quickly revoked it when critics assailed her on the Web under headlines like “Senators for Terror.”
“There are things there I don’t want to be associated with,” Ms. Boxer said later of the revocation, explaining that her California office had not vetted the group sufficiently.
CAIR and its supporters say its accusers are a small band of people who hate Muslims and deal in half-truths. Ms. Boxer’s decision to revoke the Sacramento commendation provoked an outcry from organizations that vouch for the group’s advocacy, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the California Council of Churches.
“They have been a leading organization that has advocated for civil rights and civil liberties in the face of fear and intolerance, in the face of religious and ethnic profiling,” said Maya Harris, the executive director of the A.C.L.U. of Northern California.
This was back in 2007. So let’s just be clear about what Maya Harris was defending.
Co-founder Nihad Awad asserted at a 1994 meeting at Barry University, “I am a supporter of the Hamas movement.” Awad wrote in the Muslim World Monitor that the 1994 trial which had resulted in the conviction of four Islamic fundamentalist terrorists who had perpetrated the previous year’s World Trade Center bombing was “a travesty of justice.”
In October 1998, CAIR demanded the removal of a Los Angeles billboard describing Osama bin Laden as “the sworn enemy.” According to CAIR, this depiction was “offensive to Muslims.”
In 1998, CAIR denied bin Laden’s responsibility for the two al Qaeda bombings of American embassies in Africa. According to Ibrahim Hooper, the bombings resulted from “misunderstandings of both sides.”
The home of Muthanna al-Hanooti, one of CAIR’s directors, was raided in 2006 by FBI agents in connection with an active terrorism investigation. FBI agents also searched the offices of Focus on Advocacy and Advancement of International Relations, al-Hanooti’s Michigan- and Washington DC-based consulting firm that investigators suspect to be a front supporting the Sunni-led insurgency in Iraq. Al-Hanooti according to a 2001 FBI report, “collected over $6 million for support of Hamas”.
Onetime CAIR fundraiser Rabih Haddad was arrested on terrorism-related charges and was deported from the United States due to his subsequent work as Executive Director of the Global Relief Foundation, which in October 2002 was designated by the U.S. Treasury Department for financing al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.
Abdurahman Alamoudi, one of CAIR’s former directors, is a supporter of both Hamas and Hezbollah, and is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence for terrorism-related convictions.
And that’s a small sample from the Discover the Networks profile of CAIR.
Has Maya Harris changed her mind? Did Tony West? And does Kamala Harris disagree with them?
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