Would Amy McGrath attend a dinner hosted by a group that opposed jihad terror? Of course not. Would she attend a dinner hosted by a Nazi group? Again, of course not. But she didn’t hesitate to attend a dinner hosted by CAIR. How is that different from attending a Nazi function? CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR officials have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements about how Islamic law should be imposed in the U.S. (Ahmad denies this, but the original reporter stands by her story.) CAIR chapters frequently distribute pamphlets telling Muslims not to cooperate with law enforcement. CAIR has opposed virtually every anti-terror measure that has been proposed or implemented and has been declared a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates. CAIR’s Hussam Ayloush in 2017 called for the overthrow of the U.S. government. CAIR’s national outreach manager is an open supporter of Hamas.
McGrath is a Democrat, but there are plenty of Republican Useful Idiots as well. That any American politician of any political camp would appear at any function of this unsavory group speaks to the confusion of our age, and of how casual U.S. officials have become in their acceptance of hatred for the country they are supposed to be serving.
“Amy McGrath Attended Dinner Hosted by Radical Muslim Group CAIR,” by Brent Scher, Washington Free Beacon, October 22, 2019:
As Democrat Amy McGrath was laying the groundwork for her Senate bid, she attended a dinner hosted by the Kentucky chapter of a radical anti-Israel organization that has been tied to funding of global terror networks.
The Kentucky chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, known best as CAIR, posted multiple pictures of McGrath in attendance at its annual dinner on May 11, 2019. She is currently featured in the main photo of the group’s Facebook page.
McGrath launched her long-shot bid to unseat Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell in early July. Her first filing shows, however, that the campaign was already in swing at the time of the May dinner, with staff on payroll and large contributions already filling its coffer.
The McGrath campaign defended the CAIR dinner as an “interfaith event.”
“Amy attended an interfaith event joined by a rabbi and a Baptist preacher and sponsored by the University of Kentucky,” McGrath’s campaign manager Mark Nickolas said.
The Muslim advocacy group has well-documented ties to terrorist groups such as Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator by the U.S. Department of Justice after an investigation into how American charity networks were used to provide material support to Hamas. In 2014, the United Arab Emirates officially designated CAIR a terrorist organization…
McGrath’s involvement in the CAIR event puts her in the same circles as anti-Semitic Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who was caught by the Free Beacon attending a private fundraiser held by CAIR earlier this year. It was at the CAIR fundraiser that Omar used the phrase “some people did something” in regards to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
“CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties,” Omar said. (CAIR was actually established in 1994, its own website states.)
McGrath’s failed 2018 campaign received a $1,000 contribution from Omar….