Following the New Year’s Eve jihad terrorist attack in New Orleans, the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) issued not just a condemnation of the attack, but a strongly worded condemnation.
“New Orleans attacker had history of divorce and financial problems,” by Kevin Ozebek and Sarah Rafique, KTRK, January 2, 2025:
…The Council on American-Islamic Relations on Thursday said one of the victims in the attack was Kareem Badawi, a Muslim American.
CAIR called the attack “cowardly.”
“If reports that the perpetrator was a man with a history of drunk driving and spousal abuse who plotted to kill his family before supposedly experiencing dreams telling him to join Daesh are true, then his crime is the latest example of why cruel, merciless, bottom-feeding extremist groups have been rejected by the overwhelming majority of the Muslim world – from Islamic scholars, to mosques, to organizations, and to individual Muslims,” CAIR said in a statement. “We strongly denounce this crime, we stand in solidarity with the people of New Orleans, we encourage anyone with relevant information to come forward immediately, and we pray for a full recovery of those impacted by this crime.”…
But just a few days later, CAIR also issued a strongly worded statement expressing opposition to the city of San Francisco rejoining the Joint Terrorism Task Force.
According to a 2011 report by the Heritage Foundation, the JTTF played role in foiling 39 different terror plots:
- Richard Reid—December 2001
- Jose Padilla—May 2002
- Lackawanna Six—September 2002
- Iyman Faris—May 2003
- Virginia Jihad Network—June 2003
- Nuradin M. Abdi—November 2003
- Dhiren Barot—August 2004
- James Elshafay and Shahawar Matin Siraj—August 2004
- Yassin Aref and Mohammad Hossain—August 2004
- Umer Hayat and Hamid Hayat—June 2005
- Levar Haley Washington, Gregory Vernon Patterson, Hammad Riaz Samana, and Kevin James—August 2005
- Michael C. Reynolds—December 2005
- Mohammad Zaki Amawi, Marwan Othman El-Hindi, and Zand Wassim Mazloum—February 2006
- Syed Haris Ahmed and Ehsanul Islam Sadequee—April 2006
- Narseal Batiste, Patrick Abraham, Stanley Grant Phanor, Naudimar Herrera, Burson Augustin, Lyglenson Lemorin, and Rotschild Augustine—June 2006
- Assem Hammoud—July 2006
- Liquid Explosives Plot—August 2006
- Derrick Shareef—December 2006
- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed—March 2007
- Fort Dix Plot—May 2007
- JFK Airport Plot—June 2007
- Hassan Abujihaad—March 2008
- Christopher Paul—June 2008
- Synagogue Terror Plot—May 2009
- Najibullah Zazi—September 2009
- Hosam Maher Husein Smadi—September 2009
- Michael Finton—September 2009
- Tarek Mehanna and Ahmad Abousamra
- The Christmas Day Bomber—2009
- Raja Lahrasib Khan—March 2010
- Faisal Shahzad—May 2010
- Paul G. Rockwood, Jr. and Nadia Piroska Maria Rockwood—July 2010
- Farooque Ahmed—October 2010
- Air Cargo Bomb Plot—October 2010
- Mohamed Osman Mohamud—November 2010
- Antonio Martinez—December 2010
- Awais Younis—December 2010
- Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari—February 2011
- Ahmed Ferhani and Mohamed Mamdouh—May 2011
Meanwhile, the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ record on foiling terror plots is virtually nonexistent.
The JTTF is an FBI initiative, and to be sure, the FBI is a deeply flawed organization. It failed to stop the Little Rock military recruiting center jihad shooting in 2009, the Fort Hood jihad shooting, also in 2009, and the 2025 New Year’s Eve jihad attack, among many others; the FBI also contributed to and facilitated the 2015 jihad attack at the Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas.
However, as has been said countless times at Jihad Watch, the Council on American-Islamic Relations has opposed every counter-terror effort ever proposed.
somehistory says
The awads and the hoopers and the bilhoos all have a hand in advancing terror as they are “happy” about Oct ’23 and only condemn the New Orleans attack because it had a mozlum victim and they could blame jabbar’s problems in life for the murders.
The mozlum org., with connections to hamas, has a big hand in CA politics. Of course they are screaming about the Task Force because they are fully aware that their book of demon filth is all about creating terror.
Larry Estavan says
If you watch this explanation for Why Local Law Enforcement Should Leave FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces you will see their objections to the Task Force are based on scrutiny of Muslims (like “Mohamed Osman Mohamud” the Portland Christmas Tree Bomber), and conflicts between federal law enforcement, and local sanctuary city laws! –
https://www.brennancenter.org/events/bad-partners-why-local-law-enforcement-should-leave-fbi-joint-terrorism-task-forces
Cynthia says
CAIR is a stealth Muslim Brotherhood organization that attacks America from within by excusing terror. It promotes and finances Muslim candidates for public office who are disloyal to our country. They support anti Israel student groups and professors on campuses that riot against both Israel and the United States.
Yet Democrats keep inviting them to the White House and quote their “peaceful”
(deceptive) comments. Democrats believe there is huge Islamaphobia on their uncorroborated reports while anti Semitism is skyrocketing.
James Lincoln says
All tragically true, Cynthia.
Raymond Bullock says
Tqiyya is what is being practiced here. Lie to cover that the Koran is what motivated this Jihadist attack, just like the Rape Gangs in the UK and Italy Taqiyya is regarded as the action of maintaining secrecy or mystifying one’s beliefs when one’s life or property (or Religion) is threatened.[7][8] Hiding one’s beliefs in non-Muslim nations has been practiced since the early days of Islam and early Muslims used it to avoid torture or getting killed by non-Muslims and tyrants with authority; it used to be acknowledged by Muslims of virtually all persuasions.[9][10]
gravenimage says
Hamas-Linked Council on American-Islamic Relations Opposes San Francisco Rejoining Joint Terrorism Task Force
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I hope we *do* rejoin this task force. Screw CAIR.
And the idea that divorce and spousal abuse are not Islamic could not be more risible.
R G says
This list is wrong if they’re saying that the JTTF stopped terrorist acts. The shoe bomber was stopped by passengers and the flight crew. The Fort Dix plot was broken by Circuit City employees. The Times Square bombing plot was discovered by a newspaper stand man. The FBI has had far more failures than successes