The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today joined the US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) and other Muslim groups, at a news conference in Washington, D.C., to demand that Attorney General Merrick Garland’s take urgent action to force the UAE to release Virginia Muslim rights attorney Asim Ghafoor, immediately, despite being charged with money laundering and tax evasion.
CAIR The UAE accused Ghafoor of money laundering and tax evasion. On Saturday, a UAE court sentenced Ghafoor to three years in prison. The organization Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), which Ghafoor co-founded, said his in absentia conviction and subsequent sentencing occurred without due process.
In a letter to Attorney General Garland, USCMO Secretary General Oussama Jammal wrote in part:
“Mr. Ghafoor’s basic human rights are in jeopardy. He has thus far been denied due process and all indications are that this will continue. It is imperative that the Department of Justice take immediate action to ensure that an American citizen’s legal rights are protected and that he receives due process in accordance with the highest standards. This is particularly crucial when a Muslim rights lawyer is being detained overseas.”
Following Ghafoor’s detention, CAIR warned those engaged in human rights activism related the Middle East, especially American Muslim activists, to avoid travel to or transit through the UAE.
The Washington Post Ghafoor represented radical Saudi Jamal Khashoggi, a Muslim Brotherhood operative and friend of Osama bin Laden acting as a quasi-journalist for the Washington Post.
He wrote propaganda pieces attacking his homeland of Saudi Arabia and President Donald Trump. Khashoggi was an anti-American Islamic extremist whose goal was to destroy our relationship with the Saudi kingdom. He was banned from writing in Saudi Arabia because of his ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, which is banned by Riyadh.
The Post also knew of Khashoggi’s deep Qatar connections. They claimed they didn’t know he was an influencer for the nation. That was despite his constant anti-Saudi op-eds. Khashoggi was never actually a journalist but a highly-partisan operative. He worked with a handler to put out propaganda at the behest of the Emirate of Qatar. The Muslim Brotherhood now has its headquarters in Qatar, after getting kicked out of Egypt several years ago.
Frontpage Magazine by Daniel Greenfield The media calls Khashoggi a journalist, but his writings from 80s Afghanistan read as Jihadist propaganda with titles like, “Arab Mujahadeen in Afghanistan II: Exemplifies the Unity of Islamic Ummah”.
And when Osama bin Laden set up Al Qaeda, he called Khashoggi with the details. After Afghanistan, Jamal Khashoggi went to work as a media adviser for former Saudi intel boss, Prince Turki bin Faisal, alleged to have links to Al Qaeda. Those allegations came from, among others, Zacarias Moussaoui, the alleged twentieth hijacker.
The real Khashoggi was a cynical and manipulative apologist for Islamic terrorism, not the mythical martyred dissident whose disappearance the media has spent the worst part of a week raving about. Khashoggi was NOT a moderate. Some describe him as the leader of the Saudi Muslim Brotherhood. The Islamic extremist network admires Hitler and seeks to impose Islamic law around the world.
Nor was he a supporter of freedom of the press. In one of his Al Jazeera appearances, he complained that the Saudi government was allowing some journalists to report positively on Israel.
His final project, DAWN or Democracy for the Arab World Now was meant to aid Islamic extremists. According to Azzam Al-Tamimi, an old Muslim Brotherhood ally aiding Jamal, “The Muslim Brothers and extremists were the biggest victims of the foiled Arab spring.” Al-Tamimi has endorsed suicide bombings.
But unlike Osama bin Laden, Khashoggi did not use the Muslim Brotherhood as a gateway drug to the pure and uncut violence of Al Qaeda or ISIS. He was still betting on a political takeover. As he recently put it, “Democracy and political Islam go together.”
And Khashoggi’s lawyer is now sitting in a jail cell in the UAE.
Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations [CAIR] and a friend of Ghafoor’s, said he did not believe the State Department’s assessment that Ghafoor’s detention has anything to do with his association with Jamal Khashoggi.
“No one can fool you and say, ‘oh, his arrest has nothing to do with his political and legal activism in the United States,” he said.
Az gal says
I remember when the Khashoggi shit hit the fan. Some people asked my opinion, thinking I’d blast the Saudis. One was a journalist. I said, “I think we should send the Saudis a thank you note.” Jaws hit the floor. No sympathy for this con lawyer either. CAIR support is a good indication of his bad character.
Linda Rivera says
MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION CAIR give their FULL APPROVAL of Money laundering and tax evasion:
The UAE accused Ghafoor of money laundering and tax evasion. On Saturday, a UAE court sentenced Ghafoor to three years in prison.
CAIR Muslim Terrorists are ENRAGED that the UAE punish money laundering and tax evasion.
The UAE acted in a moral, just and ethical manner to protect their people and nation.
CAIR radically OPPOSES justice, goodness, morals and ethics.
Just as CAIR does in America where CAIR terrorists constantly DEMAND that Muslim terrorists are released from prison in order for their terrorist brothers to carry out Muslim terror attacks on intensely hated Americans.
Quran (3:56) – “As to those who reject faith, I will punish them with terrible agony in this world and in the Hereafter, nor will they have anyone to help.”
BareNakedIslam says
Linda, this is the real reason CAIR hates the UAE. I should add somehting about this to the post.
Leonard Gearhardt says
It delights me he was arrested!
Leonie Z. Pipe says
Long may he stay there. The UAE will know how to deal with him.
The media portrayed Khashoggi as some kind of demigod, not as the manipulative demon he was.
Nor did I know until I became enlightened that obumma was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
SJ says
I don’t know why that scumbag was permitted to come to the US! Good going Saudi.