The office of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis issued a statement saying it will be removing the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as a partner in its Faith and Community Initiative.
When Focus on Western Islamism asked the governor’s office how CAIR received recognition, DeSantis’ Press Secretary, Bryan Griffin, said: “It is false for CAIR to claim that they were affirmatively selected to receive any sort of recognition. This was an automatically generated thank you note to any faith-based entity that self-enrolled in our Faith and Community Based Initiative via a website. Every person and entity that signed up received this automatically generated response.”
In 2019, the governor founded the Governor’s Faith and Community Initiative “to facilitate the efforts of the state’s faith-based entities by improving communication and collaboration among them,” according to Dylan Fisher, the program’s director.
On August 18, a Facebook post by the Florida branch of CAIR claimed to be a leading member of the initiative, declaring, “Governor Ron DeSantis recently presented CAIR-Florida with a Certificate of Recognition for our continued work in service of the vulnerable populations of Floridians.”
Governor DeSantis has, however, previously taken a strong stance against CAIR, noting its identification by the U.S. government in 2007 as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation’s funding of the terror group, Hamas.
DeSantis noted that CAIR was accused in 2007 of being an “unindicted co-conspirator” with the Holy Land Foundation – a charity organization that was convicted of funding Islamic militant groups in 2008. A federal judge later denied CAIR’s request to be removed from the list of “co-conspirators, which included 245 other groups and organizations.
DeSantis noted how (his Democrat opponent for Governor) Andrew Gillum welcomed members of CAIR to Tallahassee in 2016, when members of the group came to the Capitol to oppose legislation that prohibited state agencies or local governments from contracting with businesses that were boycotting Israel. It passed later that session.
CAIR-Florida co-sponsored a pro-Hamas rally in 2014, at which participants yelled “We are Hamas.” In 2017, then-director, Hassan Shibly, endorsed a conference that promoted violent jihad and personally referred to Muslims from the moderate Ahmadiyya as “heretical.”
The anti-Israel protestors became increasingly hostile, to the point of invoking outrageous Islamist slogans. In Arabic, they screamed:
• “The martyr is God’s love.” This encourages one to die while committing Jihad — it is a celebration of terror attacks including suicide bombings.
• “Khaybar, Khaybar Oh, Jew. Muhammad’s army will return.” This refers to a seventh-century massacre in which Muhammad’s army attacked the Jewish community of Khaybar in the Arabian Peninsula. The Jewish males who surrendered were beheaded; Muhammad and his soldiers then divided the women, children, and property. Islamists today routinely invoke this battle as a rallying cry to attack Jews.
In English, they yelled:
• “We are Hamas!” openly confirming support for a group officially designated a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union, Japan, Jordan, and Egypt.
• “We are Jihad!” thereby calling for holy war.
• “Hamas kicked your ass.” That makes for an interesting contradiction: While claiming Gazans are being massacred, the group also claims to have defeated the Israel Defense Forces. Which is it?
“In 2020, CAIR presented known terror supporters and a convicted murderer as misunderstood “activists” on a webinar to “highlight the government’s use of imprisonment as a fear and intimidation tactic targeting both individuals and communities, and eroding civil liberties.”
The first, Sami Al-Arian, is an advocate of violent jihad, who pleaded guilty in 2006 to supporting the designated terror group, Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Sami Al-Arianboarded a commercial flight late Wednesday night from Washington Dulles International Airport to Turkey, ending a 20-year con in which he posed as a mere academic and advocate for Palestinian nationalism. In reality, he was a board member in a terrorist organization who lied to his supporters about his true identity over and over again.
As early as 1994, he denied any connection with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) during an interview with Steven Emerson, now the Investigative Project on Terrorism’s executive director. It was a story he clung to until 2006, when he pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide goods and services to the terrorist group. But even then, he never acknowledged his leadership role or his commitment to violent jihad that was captured on video and documents seized by federal investigators.
During a 1991 fundraiser in Cleveland, Al-Arian sits passively as the local imam, Fawaz Damra, introduces him as the head of “the active arm of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine,” which is called the Islamic Committee for Palestine in the United States “for security reasons.”
allanivarsson says
It is good to read, finally one American State Florida is opposing CAIR.
Linda Rivera says
CAIR-Florida co-sponsored a pro-Hamas rally in 2014, at which participants yelled “We are Hamas.” In 2017, then-director, Hassan Shibly, endorsed a conference that promoted violent jihad
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More LIES and More DECEPTION from the ISLAMIC CULT of LIES and DECEPTION
Mohammad’s god is called the Greatest Deceiver in Mohammad’s Quran.
Mohammad’s god is the GOD of DEATH, DESTRUCTION and MASS GENOCIDE of Non-Muslims.
The GOD of ETERNAL DARKNESS
There are a lot of Muslims in Florida. Warlord Mohammad’s Violent Soldiers and Armies pose an Extreme Threat to Florida’s Jews.
Mohammad’s Quran commands MURDEROUS, GENOCIDAL, SATANIC HATE for all non-Muslims, especially Jews.
Jack Rider says
Gov. DeSantis is courageous. He reminds me of Rudy Giuliani who as Mayor of NYC physically threw Yasir Arafat out of a public venue when that slime came to address the UN.
BareNakedIslam says
Jack, not only that, the Saudis tried to give Giuliani a $10 million check to help the city right after 9/11. He turned it down flat.
allanivarsson says
BNI, that is good to know.
Madeline Josephs says
Love my governor!
BareNakedIslam says
Me, too. And I’m from NY.
Amboyduke says
Me too, and I’m from CANADA!!! LOL
BareNakedIslam says
Tim h says
Oh no I hope them scumbags lowlife wankers sheep shaggers goats and family shaggers cair crying boo hooing that not fair for us poor inbreeding Muslims
Muslimmadness says
Desantis/ Trump > Trump/Desantis
OUR ONLY HOPE!
Az gal says
Good for DeSantis. Islam isn’t “faith”, it’s evil.
vtology says
God Bless Governor DeSantis. Every USA citizen should see by now that not only CAIR, but Islam itself, are intolerable in any free, human-rights-based nation.
Steve says
Perhaps I am over the top and painting too broad a brush but the thought that the only good Muslim is a deceased one is becoming more of a statement of reality.
BareNakedIslam says
There actually are some good ones, believe it or not.