When Hamas brutally massacred 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023, Nihad Awad, CAIR’s cofounder and longtime executive director, expressed his happiness: “The people of Gaza only decided to break the siege, the walls of the concentration camp, on October 7. And yes, I was happy to see people breaking the siege and throwing down the shackles of their own land, and walk free into their land, which they were not allowed to walk in.”
The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations’s non-Muslim donors either don’t know that this man applauded brutal murder and jihad terrorism, or they don’t care. Either way, not a good look.
“CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad To Al-Jazeera: Texas Governor Abbott Followed An Israeli Agenda In Banning CAIR, Using Crusade-Era Tactics By Claiming Muslims Want To Impose Sharia Law; CAIR Is Among The Strongest Organizations In America; 30% Of Our Donations Are From Non-Muslim Americans,” MEMRI, November 19, 2025:
In a November 19, 2025 Arabic-language interview on Al Jazeera Network (Qatar), Nihad Awad, Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), responded to Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s designation of CAIR as a terrorist organization. He said that Abbott is an American politician but is operating according to an Israeli agenda. Awad said that CAIR enjoys legal and popular trust, noting that 30% of CAIR’s donations come from non-Muslim Americans because they believe in its service to the American fabric and constitutional values. He said that Governor Abbott is using tactics of stereotyping and distortion that were used during the Crusades and in colonial wars that led to the invasion of the Islamic world, claiming that Muslims in Texas want to impose sharia law.
Nihad Awad: “Texas Governor [Greg Abbot] is an American politician, but his behavior and mentality indicate that he operates according to an Israeli agenda par excellence.
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“CAIR is among the strongest organizations on the American scene, and it enjoys legal and popular trust. 30% of the donations for the Council on American-Islamic Relations come from non-Muslims in the United States, because of their belief in CAIR’s service for the American fabric and constitutional values, and in defense of American diversity.
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“As for the claim that CAIR focuses on foreign affairs – this is because the U.S. has embroiled itself in supporting a genocidal war with American weapons, and has provided American political and economic support.
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“The governor of Texas has adopted an anti-Muslim approach, because he uses tactics of stereotyping and distortion, which were used in the times of the Crusades, and the colonial wars that led to the invasion of the Islamic world, claiming the Muslims in Texas want to impose the sharia law on others.”
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, Leftists whose ancestry is other faiths
somehistory says
The terrorist is lying, as usual. Gov. Abbott is serving the people of Texas.
The people of Texas….I have many family members there….don’t want muzzies ruling over them, forcing them to walk in evil, invest in evil, support evil.
And any non-muzzie who gives money to this wing of hamas, is either gullible in thinking it’s a *civil rights* group, or is a muzzie-in-waiting, or just another hater of Israel and Christianity.
Westman says
Getting 30% of your temporary money through soliciting it from ignorant infidels, during an amplified media blitz of lies from Hamas sources, is not a sign of CAIR’s general standing. It simply shows CAIR is better at public exploitation of the ignorant than say, Al Sharpton. Credit where credit is due – they are working hard at becoming tiresome.
However, like Sharpton, it’s feigned claim of seeking good relations is a smokescreen for it’s own interest, which, for CAIR, is plowing the road for Jihad and much greater power for itself.
CAIR is shocked because a state governor has realized its grift and intent, and CAIR is now blubbering about, “the 30%”, in a fit of disorentation. Why do we suspect that 30% has a similar validity to the claimed number of starving citizens in Gaza?
If one state governor has awakened to viewing CAIR as a weasel in the hen house, there will soon be more awakenings.
Anna Yelena says
Again I repeat: You cannot make friends with Muslims, when in doubt remember San Bernardino where 14 people were massacred by Pakistani coworkers they were very nice to them. And that’s the thanks you get in return. Bless Governor Abbott for showy testicular fortitude and naming a spade a spade. And bless the smart Muslims who have seen the light and leave Islam without being killed because of it. I think deportation should be a priority in the Western countries. Few Europeans countries have seen the light and Bless their leaders who are protecting the people. I wish there was a way to bar Muslims from our government as it’s their way to get control. Look at the UK. In God we Trust.
Noah Andeark says
Awad and Dougie (Abe) Hooper deserve the Charlie Kirk treatment.
OLD GUY says
C.A.I.R. and Islam is not here to make America better, it sole purpose is to tear down America and destroy are freedoms. Send them all back to the countries that support the lifestyle they love so much.
Winston 101 says
30% you say?
Can we take a look at your books? You know, just to confirm.
No?
I thought not.