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DOJ ‘Thoroughly’ Investigating Hamas Apologist Group Favored By Democrats

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating whether a Muslim advocacy organization it previously linked to Hamas should maintain eligibility to receive taxpayer funds, according to emails obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The DOJ’s Executive Office for Immigration Review said June 30 that it was currently probing a complaint accusing the California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) of irregularities in its financial reporting and support for terrorism. The review centers around federal funding California has allocated for immigration-related services to CAIR, a group that high-profile Democrats have embraced for years as a force for civil rights.

“We appreciate your patience as we thoroughly review the matter,” the DOJ wrote to watchdog group Intelligent Advocacy Network (IAN), which filed the complaint on March 13. “Should we require additional information, we will reach out to you.”

Federal officials named CAIR as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2007 trial of activists who were convicted of running a charity funding Hamas, and the United Arab Emirates labeled CAIR a terrorist organization in 2014, IAN noted. The DOJ’s court filings said CAIR was part of a “Palestine Committee” led by a Hamas official advancing the Islamist group’s interests in the U.S.

CAIR’s local media team did not respond to multiple requests for comment. California’s Department of Social Services, which allocated the federal government’s funds to CAIR, did not respond to a request for comment.

IAN’s complaint also highlights past statements by Zahra Billoo, who leads CAIR California’s San Francisco Bay Area office, in which she praised Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre in Israel as “decolonization” and declared that a slain Hamas leader’s “martyrdom is not in vain” in July 2024. In 2018, former Democratic California Gov. Jerry Brown appointed Billoo to an advisory panel tasked with informing California’s state librarian on “civil liberties and civil rights issues,” state webpages show.

IAN also accused CAIR California of failing to report some government funds on its tax forms, inexplicably awarding subgrants to itself through its regional offices and other discrepancies, citing state and federal documents it obtained. In one example, CAIR awarded more than $3.6 million to “CAIR LA,” a branch of CAIR California that is not a registered tax-exempt nonprofit but a part of CAIR California, records show.

CAIR California called IAN a “hate group” promoting a “smear campaign” in a March press release responding to the complaint.

We operate in full transparency and cooperation with the State of California and their thorough reporting requirements,” CAIR California CEO Hussam Ayloush said at the time without addressing IAN’s specific claims. Every penny—not just every dollar—of government grants is accounted for, and transparently and effectively used to empower vulnerable populations.”

The Muslim group denies supporting terrorists or having ties to them and dedicates a section of its website to debunking such allegations. It emphasizes that the DOJ was never required to prove its claims about CAIR in court.

CAIR’s website also argues that its national executive director, Nihad Awad, was not supporting terrorism when he publicly said that he is “in support of the Hamas movement” in 1994, a statement that IAN’s complaint references. Awad and CAIR opposed Hamas after it began suicide bombings and was declared a terrorist group by the U.S., CAIR’s website says. However, Hamas released a charter that called for eradicating Jews years before Awad expressed support for the organization.

“We welcome the DOJ’s confirmation last week that its investigation is ongoing,” IAN told the DCNF. “CAIR-CA’s financial misconduct, regulatory violations, and Hamas-aligned rhetoric make it unfit to retain its DOJ immigration accreditation.”

“Its parent organization, CAIR, was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism financing case involving Hamas in U.S. history. That legacy continues today through statements and actions by CAIR-CA’s top leadership,” IAN said. “Public money must never be used to subsidize organizations that flout statutory and regulatory obligations or undermine national security.”

The DOJ’s Executive Office for Immigration Review and media team did not respond to the DCNF’s requests for comment.

AUTHOR

Hudson Crozier

DCNF Crime and Extremism Reporter

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Biden Brings in Islamic Activists to Investigate U.S. Military for ‘Extremism’

Muslim Brotherhood supporters to help Biden destroy American soldiers.


A decade ago, Hina Shamsi was fighting on behalf of the Holy Land Foundation whose leaders had been convicted of providing material support to Hamas.

As the head of the ACLU’s National Security Project, Shamsi, a Pakistani citizen, had fought fiercely for the Islamic terrorists at Guantanamo Bay. “We all must pledge — not one person more in Guantanamo, not in our names,” she recently declared.

But now the Pakistani advocate for Islamic terrorists has a new job: going after our soldiers.

Shamsi (pictured above left) is one of the terror lawyers who appears on a list of partners for the Biden administration’s crackdown on “extremism” in the military. The only kind of extremism that Shamsi appears to be an expert on is the Islamic kind and her expertise has been in denying it.

Furthermore, at least as of 2017, Shamsi had described herself as a Pakistan citizen with permanent legal residency in America.

She’s not the only apparent Pakistani citizen tasked by Biden to go after our troops.

Take Faiza Patel, another Pakistani immigrant, who co-wrote an article arguing against designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization. The article claimed that “the Muslim Brotherhood is a religious organization, a political party, and a social service provider” and that it had “disavowed violence decades ago.”

That would come as news to Hamas and its other active Jihadist network members.

In another co-written article, Faiza Patel claimed that laws against Sharia were Islamophobic.

Patel has worked for international organizations in Europe, including the International Criminal Tribunal, and was a member of a UN Human Rights Council working group which listed her as a member from Pakistan, not the United States, raising questions about her citizenship.

And yet Shamsi and Patel aren’t the worst of the list of partners for the Biden administration’s Countering Extremism Working Group (CEWG) published by OANN correspondent Jack Posobiec

While Biden’s Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin had announced the CEWG group to counter supposed “extremism” in the military, the list of CEWG partners contains a lot of Muslim lawyers and activists. In addition to Shamsi, there’s fellow Pakistani ACLU activist: Manar Waheed.

The list includes Wael Alzayat in his role as the CEO of Emgage. The national co-chair and founding member of the Islamic group is Khurrum Wahid who has been described as one of the country’s most prominent terror lawyers and whose clients include an Al Qaeda operative who plotted to kill President George W. Bush and Sami al-Arian who was linked to Islamic Jihad.

Wahid had been placed on a terrorist watch list and Emgage, as counterterrorism researcher Joe Kaufman noted, “holds events at terror-linked mosques”: including one founded by al-Arian.

Emgage’s board includes Dhabah ‘Debbie’ Almontaser who was forced out of her old job over t-shirts reading “Intifada NYC”. Nada al Hanooti, Emgage’s Executive Director for Michigan, is the daughter of Muthanna al Hanooti, a former CAIR leader who was accused of working for Saddam Hussein and Iraq’s intelligence agency.

Is that the kind of extremism expertise that the Department of Defense really needs?

Also on the list of Biden’s CEWG partners is Iman Boukadou:, the staff attorney for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC).

The ADC has a long history of defending and excusing Islamic terrorism. “I know many people in Hamas. They are very respectable,” its former president Hamzi Moghrabi had said. Former ADC president Hussein Ibish called Hezbollah “a disciplined and responsible liberation force” whose members “conducted themselves in an exemplary manner.”

Boukadoum was most recently hard at work fighting for Abdelhaleem Ashqar, who had been convicted of obstruction of justice in a case involving the flow of money to Hamas.

Ashqar ran for president of the Palestinian Authority while awaiting trial in the United States. He had argued that the evidence against him had come from a time when “Hamas was not designated as a terrorist organisation” and boasted that, “they wanted me to testify against my people. I said I’d rather die than betray my commitment to freedom and justice for Palestine.”

American military personnel are being put at the mercy of advocates for their worst enemies.

Biden’s DOD radicals have assembled a list of activists who have absolutely no credibility when it comes to extremism. Multiple “partners” for Biden’s Countering Extremism Working Group have appeared at events for CAIR, ICNA, and other terror-linked organizations. Some have appeared at events featuring advocates for Islamic terrorism, sharia, and violence against non-Muslims. They’re the extremists that Americans should be concerned about.

It was not surprising that Biden’s CEWG partner list would include multiple personnel from the discredited Southern Poverty Law Center including Heidi Beirich, formerly of the SPLC, currently running her own organization, the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, which barely has a website.

Or that the only conservative on the list is the First Liberty Institute. FLI’s Michael Berry also appears to be the only person on Biden’s list who is qualified for this role as a Lt. Colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve who works as FLI’s Director of Military Affairs.

But to Biden, defending Al Qaeda and Hamas terrorists, is the only qualification needed for going after American soldiers. That tells us everything we need to know about Biden’s goals.

Biden’s Secretary of Defense Austin falsely claimed that, “this is not about politics or political views.” His list of partners makes it abundantly clear that this is entirely about politics.

The list consists almost entirely of organizations and individuals who supported Biden.

And that makes this look even more like a political purge of the military by a radical administration that began its time in office by abusing the military for political purposes, and has made it clear that it intends to eliminate any opposition within the military to its political views.

But it’s striking that a third of Biden’s CEWG partners are Muslim. Especially since the Biden administration isn’t looking for another Nidal Hasan in the hopes of averting another Fort Hood Massacre, but is instead trying to rewrite history to pretend that the greatest threat to our national security comes from Biden’s political opponents rather than from his Islamist backers.

The Obama administration infamously dismantled our counterterrorism programs and replaced them with Countering Violent Extremism (CVE). Biden is dismantling CVE and siccing Islamist activists and their lawyers on the military to implement a ruthless purge of American soldiers.

Witnessing Gitmo lawyers licking their lips at the prospect of bringing the Jihad into the heart of the military against soldiers who bravely served our country but have no defense against being betrayed by their own government is as disheartening to us as it must be to them.

“Did we lose a war?” the ordinary American confronted with this reversal of terror may wonder.

And the answer is, “Yes, we did.”

COLUMN BY

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.

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