Where there’s smoke…
“Controversial Muslim charity accused of links to Hamas settles lawsuit rather than disclosing sources of funding,” by Isabel Vincent, New York Post, March 1, 2025:
A Washington-based Muslim nonprofit, which is one of the largest operating across the US, agreed this week to settle a case brought by a former board member and employee rather than open its books to reveal sources of foreign funding, The Post has learned.
Evidence in past court proceedings has shown links between The Council on American-Islamic Relations Foundation Inc. and both Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
CAIR Inc. settled with Lori Saroya Thursday, months after US Magistrate Judge David Schultz ruled any assets owned by the group are all within the “scope of permissible discovery” as part of the former Minnesota chapter leader’s lawsuit against the controversial Muslim rights group.
Saroya filed her federal defamation complaint against CAIR last year after the group dropped a lawsuit against her, which accused her of embarking on a “defamation campaign” against the organization.
Lawmakers are demanding a federal investigation into the nonprofit, which took in more than $5.3 million in contributions and grants in 2022, the last year for which public filings are available.
“CAIR’s leadership has a long history of spewing vile antisemitism and anti-Zionist rhetoric, including openly praising the Hamas terrorists that brutally attacked Israel, murdering, raping, and kidnapping more than 1,200 people on October. 7 [2023],” said Josh Gottheimer, a Democratic Congressman from New Jersey.
Referring to court proceedings which showed the links, he added: “The allegations that CAIR receives funding from Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, if true, are deeply concerning and require an immediate investigation.”
CAIR, which was founded in 1993, was linked to Hamas in 2008 when US authorities successfully prosecuted five leaders at the Holy Land Foundation For Relief and Development, a now-defunct Texas-based nonprofit, for giving more than $12 million from the US to the terror group.
Once the HLF werewas [sic] compromised, a new group with no obvious ties to Hamas had to become the funnel for cash; US Authorities concluded that was CAIR during its prosecution of the earlier group, as cited in a report by The Program on Extremism at George Washington University.
Evidence in the trial against HLF showed that Ghassan Elashi, the treasurer of the charity, became the founding board member of CAIR’s Texas chapter and that HLF transferred funds to CAIR for “consulting services.”
The prosecution also presented evidence that Hamas provided “seed money” for CAIR, according to a congressional hearing.
“The history is very clear,” said Lorenzo Vidino, director of the Program on Extremism at GWU.
“CAIR was created by this core group of Hamas leaders in the US in the early 1990s. There are FBI wiretaps of a workshop given by the group’s leaders on how to deal with the media and create a veneer of respectability and use the language of civil rights.”…
Larry Estavan says
CAIR and Lori Saroya –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kGqloiwKz0
rubiconcrest says
Thanks for the link.
Larry Estavan says
Czuba Verdict Press Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRY_5_snmfA
Hoi Polloi says
Yes, thanks.
somehistory says
hamas operates in the U.S. like the mafia, which would open *legitimate* businesses, for example a restaurant, in order to launder illegal cash. The legal cash…from customers…gets mixed in with the illegal cash….from drug sells, trafficking in many things, prostitution, etc. in order for the mafia to stay in business when the murderers, and the *enforcers* are imprisoned.
cair does that for hamas and the mb. The top guy at cair…the nihad a wad…met with the mb back when they were writing their manifest for taking control of the U.S. back in the early 90’s….”the miserable house from within’ memo.
And, no shock, both mozlums in the House who have rallied for the terrorists in Gaza and Somalia…have had private meetings with a wad.
Yes. An investigation is way overdue.
somehistory says
drug *sales*….not sells. a pox on ai or whatever it is that puts wrong words and causes me to then misspell what I intend.
Taffy says
It happens to the best of us!!!
somehistory says
Thank you, Taffy.
Hoi Polloi says
Yes, it frequently changes an typed ill to I’ll and vice versa. So annoying.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, right now, AI is retarded enough that it doesn’t even recognize legitimate English words. It “correct” me whenever I type “along” to “a long”. It changes my “its” into “it’s”
OLD GUY says
Why do these organizations get any U.S. government funding? And if they are tax exempt organizations their bilks should be open to the public and the government agency giving them the money.
Pray Hard says
It’s time for Team Trump to destroy these islamovermin.
PRCS USN (ret) says
Unfortunately, Trump bought into the “radical Islamic terrorism” meme a while back.
Someone will first need to convince him he’s wrong to do that.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
The new FBI should look into them, particularly given their connections w/ Hamas. One doesn’t even need to look very far
Noah Andeark says
CAIR is a terror organization, straight up. Its officers, its members, and its supporters are terrorists.
Billy says
Islam is a Terrorist, Criminal Enterprise against ALL Non-Muslims as taught in Islam’s Quran.
Islam and its Muslims fund, promote, and practice ideological subversion, propaganda, bigotry, discrimination, deceit, supremacy, segregation, hatred, violence, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law and in Islam’s Quran, and Muslim actions should be legally challenged with a multi-faceted force of Western Laws like Muslims wield against Americans and Westerners. Like a Foreign Terrorist Organization(FTO) designated by the USA Secretary of State, Islam is a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION(MTO) fighting against Non-Muslims and NOT A PEACEFUL religion under Western Law because Islam funds, teaches, and promotes a Terrorist Criminal Organization with Muslims as Terrorists for Allah. Under Islamic Law, Muslims are required to terrorize Non-Muslims because neglecting this Muslim DUTY is a Crime against Allah; Jihad means warfare against Non-Muslims to ESTABLISH ISLAM’S RELIGION(Quran 3:151; 9:29; Muslim Law Manual – “Reliance of the Traveller”, o9.0 and more). More specifically, Islam is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Murderous, Criminal Enterprise of intolerance, continuous war, discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, propaganda, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran(Quran 2:216; 4:65,89,95; 5:14; 8:12,39,74; 9:5,21,29,36, 41,49,88,111,123; 21:92; 49:15 and more).
gravenimage says
Hamas-linked CAIR settles lawsuit rather than disclose its funding sources
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Why was this even an option for them?