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CAIR Fuhrer::NIhad Awad Declared On Video "I Am In Support Of The HAMAS Movement" At Miami's Barry U In Miami In 1995
December 26, 2025
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Connecting the Dots from Hamas to CAIR A briefing for federal and state officials and policymakers. December 23, 2025 by Joe Kaufman 2 Comments |
In 2025, Texas and Florida took the notable step of naming the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations under state authority. Governors Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis issued executive orders banning these groups from such things as access to state contracts, benefits, and property, citing alleged links between CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Hamas – a group designated by the U.S. government as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).
CAIR has strongly denied any ties to Hamas or terrorism, calling these designations unconstitutional and defamatory and has filed federal lawsuitschallenging them. Upon investigation, however, CAIR's denials cannot refute the facts.
This article explores the historical and documented allegations that federal and state officials and national security policy makers should use when assessing CAIR and its state chapters' relationships to Hamas.
Dot #1: The Muslim Brotherhood and the "Palestine Committee" Network
The Muslim Brotherhood is a transnational Islamist movement founded in Egypt in 1928. It established branches and affiliated networks globally, including in the United States, each given the title "Palestine Committee."The committees were aligned with Hamas – itself a Gaza offshoot of the Brotherhood – and their purpose was to support Palestinian resistance narratives and causes.
In an FBI memorandum obtained by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT), the Palestine Committee was described as the Brotherhood's "largest and most powerful nationalistic committee" during the late 1980s and early 1990s, with components directly reporting to international Brotherhood leadership.
Dot #2: The U.S. Palestine Committee and Mousa Abu Marzook
At the center of these connections is Mousa Abu Marzook (Marzouk), a senior leader from Hamas and first Chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau. In 1989, while Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin was languishing in an Israeli prison, Marzook, who at the time was located in the United States, effectively assumed leadership of the group.
Marzook lived in the U.S. from 1982 until his deportation to Jordan in 1997. Today, Marzook, much like his fellow Hamas associate Khaled Mashal, is a billionaire residing in Qatar.
Marzook headed the U.S. Palestine Committee from its inception and played a key role in establishing its affiliated organizations. These included the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR), the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), and later the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Dot #3: IAP, Philadelphia, and the Founding of CAIR
IAP functioned as a propaganda arm for Hamas, publishing Hamas-related materials, including the Hamas charter calling for Israel's destruction. Both Marzook and Mashal were involved in IAP's mission and activities.
IAP's senior leadership consisted of figures who later became the founders of CAIR in 1994. They were Nihad Awad, Omar Ahmad, and Rafeeq Jaber. Awad, who championed the October 7 massacre in Israel, began his tenure with CAIR as its national Executive Director and continues to hold the position.
In 1993, a meeting in Philadelphia brought together leaders from IAP, the Occupied Land Fund (later the Holy Land Foundation), and UASR. According to trial exhibits and reporting, participants discussed strategies to undermine the Oslo Accords, expand fundraising for Hamas, and organize politically within the U.S. Muslim community. This meeting is frequently cited in analyses of CAIR's Hamas-related origins and challenges CAIR's portrayal of itself as a conventional civil rights organization.
Dot #4: Holy Land Foundation, Seed Funding, and Organizational Links
HLF was established in 1988 under the name Occupied Land Fund. Initially, it shared the mailing address of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), another U.S.-based Muslim Brotherhood-related entity. HLF later would become the largest Muslim charity in the U.S., before its closure in 2001.
U.S. authorities designated HLF a Specially Designated Terrorist entity after determining it had raised money and routed funds to Hamas-affiliated institutions. In 2008, HLF executives were convicted in the largest terrorism-financing prosecution in U.S. history, involving more than $12 million directed to Hamas causes.
CAIR received early seed funding from HLF, and CAIR's Texas chapter was co-founded by one of the main defendants in the federal HLF trial, Ghassan Elashi.
Dot #5: CAIR and the Holy Land Foundation Prosecution
In United States v. Holy Land Foundation, federal prosecutors named CAIR an "unindicted co-conspirator." While CAIR was neither charged nor convicted, the designation reflected prosecutors' assessment that CAIR was part of the broader conspiracy to support Hamas.
In addition to the other links CAIR had with HLF, following the September 11 attacks, CAIR publicly solicited donations for HLF via the homepage of its official website. CAIR insidiously masked the donations as ones going to a "NY/DC Emergency Relief Fund."
Dot #6: "We are Hamas"
In July 2014, CAIR's Florida chapter co-sponsored a pro-Hamas rally in Downtown Miami, where rally goers repeatedly shouted, "We are Hamas" and "Let's go Hamas." After the rally, the event organizer, Sofian Zakkout, wrote in Arabic, "Thank God, every day, we conquer the American Jews like our conquests over the Jews of Israel!"
The following month, then-CAIR-Florida Executive Director Hassan Shibly tweeted, "God as my witness, Israel & its supporters are enemies of God and humanity…" In November 2019, Shibly posted on his social media a "demand" for the convicted HLF defendants to be released, praising them as "leaders and pillars of their communities."
Today, CAIR-Florida is a member of the South Florida Muslim Federation (SFMF), an umbrella group for many of South Florida's radical Muslim institutions and an organizer of annual pro-Hamas conferences.
Conclusion
The proof that CAIR is tied to Hamas operatives and ideology rests on a sequence of documented organizational associations:
Taken together, these documented associations present a deeply troubling pattern that warrants heightened scrutiny by federal, state and local officials charged with safeguarding public funds, public safety, and the integrity of civic institutions. While CAIR portrays itself as a conventional civil rights organization, the historical record reflects persistent ideological, financial, and operational overlaps with Hamas-linked networks that cannot be responsibly ignored.
Accordingly, national and state authorities should undertake a complete review of CAIR's tax-exempt status, donor base, and eligibility for public grants. Where the facts and applicable law support such action, governments must be prepared to suspend funding, freeze assets, criminally prosecute leadership, and shutter CAIR's doors to ensure that taxpayer resources and public institutions are not exploited by organizations connected – directly or indirectly – to foreign terrorist movements.
Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/connecting-the-dots-from-hamas-to-cair/
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"Nihad Awad, founder and and Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), announcing his support for Hamas at Barry University on March 22, 1994.
Transcript:
Awad: I used to support the PLO, and I used to be the President of the General Union of Palestine Students which is part of the PLO here in the United States, but after I researched the situation inside Palestine and outside, I am in support of the Hamas movement more than the PLO."
https://www.investigativeproject.org/223/cairs-awad-in-support-of-the-hamas-movement
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CAIR Leader Nihad Awad Praises October 7th Hamas Attack as an 'Inspiration for People' Worldwide
Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), recently declared that the October 7th Hamas attack against Israel was a source of "inspiration" and that he was "happy to see people breaking the siege and throwing down the shackles of their own land."
Awad's remarks were delivered at an Americans for Muslims for Palestine (AMP) convention in Chicago, Illinois, on November 24th. A full recording was published by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
"Referring to Hamas' brutal massacre of 1,200 innocent Israeli men, women, and children of all ages, and its kidnapping of 251 more, Awad said:
"The people of Gaza only decided to break the siege, the walls of the concentration camp, on October 7th. 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. And yes, the people of Gaza have the right to self-defense, have the right to defend themselves, and yes, Israel, as an occupying power, does not have that right to self-defense."
"Gaza became the liberation source, the inspiration for people," he asserted. "Gaza transformed many minds around the world, including people who are not Muslim." What kind of faith do these people have? They are thankful, they are not afraid."
"What kind of faith do these people have? They are thankful, they are not afraid," Awad said of the perpetrators of the October 7th attack. "Israel did not scare them, because they knew their heaven is in Gaza, and if they would like to die, they will go to another heaven."
"That is the faith of the people of Gaza," he added. "That is why Gaza and the people of Gaza were able to transform everyone who is watching — they have learned from these people. Those who felt bad for Gaza — they don't understand the equation. Those who thought that Gazans are less than those who can help them, they are mistaken. They are mistaken. The Gazans were victorious.".
Excerpt of article by CAM December 12,202
MIM: Video of Nihad Awad's speech quoted above at the American Muslims For Palestine (AMP) convention in Chicago on November 24,2023 glorifying the 'Al Aqsa Flood' Jihad Massacre lead by Hamas in which 1,2000 Jewish men,women and children were butchered and 251 were taken hostage by 'Hamazans' including Kfir Bibas, a 9 month old baby, his brother Ariel, 4 years old and their mother Shiri Bibas, nee' Siberman H'YD. The 2 Bibas brothers H"YD were strangled to death and their mother Shiri was also murdered by the Mujahideen Brigades who were one of several Islamonazi groups operating together with CAIR's military wing,HAMAS.
https://www.facebook.com/IsraelinUSA/videos/5058f1af/629181569216594/
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CAIR Executive Director
Nihad Awad Placed at HAMAS Meeting
by IPT
Counterterrorism Blog
August 2, 2007
The executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Nihad Awad, participated in a three-day summit of U.S.-based HAMAS members and supporters in 1993.
Until now, he had been identified only as Nihad LNU (last name unknown) in FBI reports and analyses. The meeting occurred in a Philadelphia hotel in the wake of a White House ceremony formalizing the Oslo Accords, a peace deal with the potential to end the decades-old conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
CAIR, which touts itself as America's premier Muslim civil rights organization, was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the terror support trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development and five of its officials. Omar Ahmad, who founded CAIR with Awad in 1994 and was previously identified as attending the Philadelphia meeting, also was named as an unindicted co-conspirator.
The FBI already had wiretap warrants on several people who wound up organizing the 1993 meeting and agents listened in on the meeting itself. They concluded the two-dozen men present were HAMAS members or supporters. Transcripts and FBI analyses released since then show the meeting sought a strategy to kill the peace accord, which threatened to marginalize the Islamist movement. The group also discussed ways to improve HAMAS fundraising in America.
According to FBI reports, the men tried to hide their true agenda, agreeing not to even say the word "HAMAS" - but to call it "SAMAH" its reverse - even in their private conversations. Most of the participants were identified through surveillance and an examination of the hotel registry. But until Thursday, the identity of one person at the meeting – Nihad LNU - remained a mystery.
Awad was asked about the meeting during a 2003 deposition for a civil lawsuit. He initially said he didn't think he had attended the Philadelphia meeting. When pushed he replied, "I don't remember." Nor did he remember whether he was invited.
Previously available evidence shows Awad was at the 1993 HAMAS meeting. He can be seen on videotape the following summer, acknowledging "I am in support of the HAMAS movement" during a seminar at Miami's Barry University.
The idea for the meeting was discussed in a telephone call recorded by the FBI on Sept. 14, 1993. A day earlier, Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin shared an uneasy handshake on the White House lawn. That paved the way for the Palestinian Authority's creation, and, it was hoped at the time, a path toward a more peaceful future.
On the telephone, three men discussed who should be invited to join them in a meeting to discuss what to do next. The call included Omar Ahmad (CAIR's chairman emeritus), who at the time served at President of the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), Shukri Abu Baker, President of the Holy Land Foundation and one of the defendants now on trial, and Abdelhaleem al-Ashqar, the Executive Director of a HAMAS-linked charity known as the Al Aqsa Educational Fund.
They discussed inviting people from the "Union," a code reference to the IAP. They mentioned "Akram," "Abdul Rahman" and "Nihad." In 1993, Nihad Awad was the spokesman and public relations director for the IAP.
During that same telephone conversation, the men on the telephone call referred to Nihad's work in "media." Shukri Abu Bakr mentioned "a full article in Dallas Morning News...and every few lines: Mr. Nihad said this and that...." The Dallas Morning News did publish an article that day. It ran under the headline "Dallas' Mideast Observers Warn of Conflict Ahead." It extensively quoted "Nihad Awad, spokesman for the Dallas-based Islamic Association of Palestine."
A few weeks later, at the Philadelphia meeting itself, two men again referenced "Nihad" and an invitation he received to speak at a conference for the National Association of Arab Americans (NAAA) on October 30, 1993. The program from that NAAA Annual Convention, obtained by the IPT, lists the name of Nihad Awad, representing the Islamic Association for Palestine, as a speaker on a panel entitled "Israel-PLO Agreement: Analytical Perspectives." Nobody else named Nihad is listed in the program.
An exhibit found in the home of Abdelhaleem Al-Ashqar detailed sessions which were to take place at the Philadelphia meeting. Under the politics and media session,"Nihad" was scheduled to give a presentation. FBI Special Agent Lara Burns testified on Thursday that the "Nihad" listed was Nihad Awad.
Transcripts released in U.S. v. Marzook et. al. confirmed that "Nihad LNU" spoke at the Philadelphia meeting. He mentioned the NAAA invitation and said that the IAP had received additional attention following an appearance on CNN.
A search of CNN transcripts shows that a representative of the IAP did appear on CNN's Crossfire, September 10, 1993. That representative was Nihad Awad.
Finally, "Nihad" speaks in the first person confirming his intent to attend and speak at the NAAA convention. He is asked if "this paper contains what you are going to say." "Nihad" replied "I will speak about the media aspect...."
CAIR officials, including Awad, have refused to condemn HAMAS by name after it engages in a bombing attack. Awad once called it "the game of the pro-Israel lobby."
The Holy Land Foundation trial resumes Monday where more details about the Philadelphia meeting are expected to come out.
https://www.investigativeproject.org/282/cair-executive-director-placed-at-hamas-meeting
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MIM: Boca Raton and Congressman Wannabe Mayor Scott Singer knew about the Islamic Center Of Boca Raton's support for jihad and Jew hatred which has been exposed for over 25 years .The article below was written in 2003 and documents the terrorist ties of Syrian native Bassem Al Halabii, an FAU professor and founder of the Islamic Center of Boca Raton.The ICBR remains a notorious jihad hub and Bassem Al Halabi is a prominent leader there.(See mug shot above posted by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office)
May 22, 2003
Joe Kaufman
FrontPage Magazine
Across our great nation, there are hotspots of Islamist hatred. Beautiful Boca Raton happens to be one of them.
The starting point is at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). It was there that the Muslim Student Organization (MSO) decided to establish two Islamic centers, each appropriately within arms length of the school.
Three FAU professors would take key roles in the creation process. Imad Mahgoub would become president of the Assalam Center, and Khalid Hamza and Bassem Alhalabi would be co-founders of the Islamic Center of Boca Raton (ICBR).
Today, both Islamic centers are looking to expand and have purchased large tracts of land to this effect. If they get what they want, they will have two multi-faceted mosques, in the heart of Boca Raton, within blocks of each other… and of course, the university. One will be a huge 27 thousand square foot facility; the other will be built to resemble the Al-Aqsa mosque which sits on top of Judaism's holiest site in Jerusalem, a city that the ICBR says on its website Jews have no right to and prays Allah will cleanse it of its Jewish inhabitants immediately.
Local residents have questioned why there is a need for two mosques of near identical backgrounds in such close vicinity to one another. That's certainly a good question, but when you look at several of the people involved in the undertaking of these centers, and when you look at some of the individuals that they have associated with, this question becomes one of many.
Khalid Hamza, who was an advisor to the Muslim Student Organization at FAU, not too long ago used a Texas A & M University internet forum to defend Sami Al Arian, a Tampa professor that was recently taken into custody for his involvement as a leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). I used the term "was an advisor to the MSO," because FAU has told him that they don't want him to return to his teaching duties, and because the Islamic Center of Boca Raton sent out an e-mail announcing that he was leaving the South Florida community.
Aside from his involvement with the Islamic Center of Boca Raton and the Muslim Student Organization, Khalid Hamza is also an author. He recently wrote a novel entitled 'The Veil,' which is being promoted on the MSO's website, www.msofau.org. The book is about a Muslim family living in Boca Raton. The first member of the family, as listed in the forward, is fittingly named Jihad.
While Hamza was with the MSO, the student group brought a couple of key radicals to speak at the university. On April 21, 2001, the MSO's second annual Scholars' Night featured Rafil Dhafir, a man that now sits behind bars for raising millions of dollars for terrorist organizations in the guise of an Iraqi children's charity called 'Help the Needy.' Dhafir has also given lectures on why Muslims must not befriend Jews or Christians and how The United States and England have had a "vicious" war on Iraq. The contact for this event was MSO president, David Johnson, who now holds a position in the FAU student government. [On November 16, 2002, the ICBR also hosted Rafil Dhafir, in a fundraiser for the new mosque.]
The MSO's fourth annual Scholars' Night, on the date of April 21, 2003, featured Siraj Wahhaj, a man who was named as one of the potential unindicted co-conspirators of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and someone that sits on the Advisory Board of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organization that is a spin-off of a front for the terrorist group Hamas. The contact for this event was Khalid Hamza.
Bassem Alhalabi, the other co-founder (and treasurer) of the ICBR, was a colleague of Sami Al Arian's at the University of South Florida, and according to his resume, wrote various publications with Al Arian around the time that Al Arian was beginning to set the groundwork for the PIJ in America. One of the publications was even featured at a conference in Damascus, the headquarters of the PIJ and the home of Alhalabi Industries, where Alhalabi was employed prior to becoming a research assistant to Al Arian. Alhalabi gave Al Arian as a reference, when he sought employment at FAU.
Another person that Bassem Alhalabi wrote publications with is Hussam Jubara. Along with Al Arian, Jubara co-founded the Islamic Committee for Palestine (ICP), a think tank that solicited funds for the express purpose of assisting families of suicide bombers. Alhalabi admits to having worked for Jubara and states that he is a "close friend." Jubara was indicted by a federal grand jury on three counts of lying on immigration forms.
In addition, Alhalabi recently got into hot water for his negotiated shipment of a $13,000 thermal imaging device to Syria. The Commerce Department restricts the export of the device to foreign countries. In a recent news report concerning Alhalabi's transaction, it was stated that this machine is "normally used by fire departments, military units, law enforcement and government agencies, including NASA, to produce heat-sensitive images of buildings, landscapes and ground areas." Alhalabi claims that his brother wanted it, so that he could search for gold.
Imad Mahgoub, who was an advisor to the MSO prior to Hamza, was featured on a panel discussion with Alhalabi and Raed Awad, the former fundraiser for the Holy Land Foundation, a terrorist charity that was closed down by the United States government. Awad is also said to be the imam responsible for dirty bomber Jose Padilla's conversion to Islam. The video of this panel event is found at – where else – FAU!
At a fundraiser for the Assalam Center, to which Mahgoub is associated, on October 25, 2002, there was featured an individual by the name of Abdalla Idris Ali. Ali sits on the board of the American Muslim Council, an organization whose leaders have openly supported terrorist groups, such as Hamas. And from the years 1992 through 1997, Ali was president of the Islamic Society of North America, an umbrella group for hundreds of Islamic organizations, which conducts conferences and publishes a magazine featuring a number of Islamist militants spewing hateful and sometimes violent rhetoric.
Ibrahim Dremali is the imam of the Islamic Center of Boca Raton. Questions have been raised as to a possible association of his to a militant Islamic group. On July 1, 1996, Dremali was detained by the Israeli Defense Force and told that he was not to leave Gaza indefinitely. On July 5, 1996, at 10 pm, he would set off for Cairo and was to arrive there within two hours. How do I know this? Because the information was posted to the internet by someone that signed it "LM Hashim." Keep that in mind, as you read on.
In October of 2000, Dremali spoke at a rally where Israeli flags were burned and slogans, such as "With jihad we'll claim our land, Zionist blood will wet the sand," were shouted. Dremali told the crowd "not to be sad for those who were martyred and to not be afraid to die for what they believe in"… obvious allusions to suicide bombers. Dremali now claims that he did not make the statement, and the 50 word paragraph that contains this information (and the picture accompanying the paragraph) has now mysteriously disappeared from the article on the website that it was written for (www.islam-online.net), though it can still be accessed via archives. The author of the article is "Um Ahmad."
Lamyaa Hashim, or Um Ahmad as she often goes by, is a well known Islamic poet. Her poetry, including one poem which seems to be about a suicide bomber ('My Beloved Left for Palestine'), can be seen on such radical sights as palestine4ever.net. The site belongs to the medical director for the Palestine Children's Welfare Fund, Rosemary Davis (Shadya Hantouli), and features a picture gallery of past suicide bombers. Hashim gave permission to put her poetry on the site.
You can also access more of Hashim's poetry on her personal website, 'Struggle in Palestine,' which contains on its homepage a picture of someone burning an effigy that says on his (the effigy's) chest, "WAR IS HELL, BUSH IS SATAN." In addition, there is a link on her site to an organization associated with the terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and a link to a site praising Abdullah Azzam, the founder of the organization that became Al Qaida.
Lamyaa Hashim is also important, because she ran a Deerfield Beach, Florida charity called the Health Resourch Center for Palestine (HRCP), which as of late has closed down. Deerfield Beach is located just south of Boca Raton. Ibrahim Dremali's brother, Ishaq, was the Gaza operations coordinator for it.
While the HRCP may be "closed for business," as the site has stated, the website for the charity is still up, though (www.hrcp.org). The webmaster of the site is Syed Ahmad. On his personal site, he states he is an FAU student. On his personal site, he also has a homepage to the Islamic Association for Palestine, a front group for Hamas. In addition, his site sports the homepage for the Sanabel Charitable Society, what seems to be the Gaza affiliate to the HRCP; it lists Lamyaa Hashim as its United States representative.
The HRCP is interesting, because on its website, it openly claims to raise money for "shuhada" or martyrs. One can also take this term to mean suicide bombers. With this in mind, the HRCP – from June 25 through July 25, 2000 – put on a summer camp for children in Saudi Arabia and Egypt, featuring two lectures by the Grand Imam Sheikh of Al-Azhar University (Ibrahim Dremali's alma matter), Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, someone that has announced his support (issued a fatwa) for intensified suicide bombing efforts against civilians. He has also labeled Jews "the descendants of apes and pigs," he has said (issued a fatwa) that any Palestinian who sells land to Israelis should get the death penalty, and he has called (issued a fatwa) for an Islamic Jihad against American targets in Iraq. At FAU, there is a video of Tantawi called 'What is a Fatwa?'
Also interesting is that the HRCP's vice president's name was the only name missing from the website's list of those involved in the charity. It just said the words "Vice President" and left a blank. [Actually, now none of the names exist on the site, as much of the site has been deleted, including the page that featured the Woodcrest Bruderhof, located in Upstate New York, as a "partner." Many claim the Bruderhof, which has met with the likes of Louis Farrakhan, is a fringe religious cult.] When you go back into the website's archives, you find that the vice president was none other than Sofian Abdelaziz Zakkout, the director of the Miami-based American Muslim Association of North America (AMANA) and an appointee to the Florida Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
One would think that a group affiliated with the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, an organization whose main goal is to fight against discrimination, would be free from hate, but in this case, that's just not the case. On the AMANA website, there are a number of inflammatory articles, including one telling Muslims to reject interfaith events. It states, "The Christians and Jews want the Muslims to be like them. That is why they support this deceptive call for 'unity.'" There is also another article entitled 'Homosexuality is Not O.K.' that calls homosexuality an "abnormal human act."
Rounding out the people involved in the Islamic Center of Boca Raton are the two spokesmen for the center, Hassan Shareef and Dan McBride. Actually, it's only McBride now, because Shareef, who has called the United States government illegitimate, has now relocated to Saudi Arabia.
McBride converted to Islam not too long ago. When an antisemitic article entitled "Why can't the Jews and Muslims live together in peace?" was taken off of the ICBR website (www.icbr.org) due to outside pressure, McBride said they took it off their site because they received some complaints, but he also said he agreed with everything written in the article. The article called Jews "usurpers and aggressors" and "people of treachery and betrayal." The article also contained this oft used Islamic quote: "You will fight the Jews and will prevail over them, so that a rock will say, 'O Muslim! There is Jew behind me, kill him!'"
Ibrahim Dremali claimed that the article was caused by hackers. Yet the article was taken from the same place that the majority of the other ICBR website articles are found, www.islam-qa.com. In fact, they're all written by the same person, Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid, including the one about how the Jews have no claim to Jerusalem.
Sheikh Al-Munajjid lives in Saudi Arabia, but up until recently the technical contact for his website for some reason was located in Boca Raton. In addition, the service provider for his site was Infocom, a company that has been raided by the United States for allegedly providing "material support" for Hamas. Al-Munajjid's name and a link to his website (which includes a link to the Hamas web site) are currently found on the ICBR site. In addition, a link to an organization that raised millions of dollars for the terrorist group Al Qaida, Al Haramain, is also found on the Islamic Center of Boca Raton website.
Dremali has also appeared in court as an expert/character witness for Adham Hassoun, an individual that was arrested in part for raising thousands of dollars for the Benevolence Foundation and the Global Relief Foundation, two terrorist charities shut down by the United States on the same day. You can judge a person by the company they keep.
The Islamic Center of Boca Raton has admitted to giving nearly 17 thousand dollars to the Global Relief Foundation. What they haven't admitted, however, is that they received 600 thousand dollars from that same Global Relief Foundation for a Boca Raton masjid (mosque), which as of yet does not exist. In fact, according to the Global Relief Foundation website, which has since been shut down, significantly more money is listed as having been given towards a mosque in Boca than any other American city.
This was confirmed, when I went on a radio show to debate Hassan Sabri, the imam of the Islamic Center of South Florida located in Pompano Beach, concerning the building of this new mosque. Sabri stated that he heard from someone that the ICBR received 600 thousand dollars from a group to go towards the building of the new mosque. Furthermore, one of the featured speakers at an ICBR mosque fundraiser held on May 10, 2003, was Khaled Smaili, a past representative for the Global Relief Foundation.
All of this put together says to me, and I believe to you as well, that there is a problem here. Not a small problem, but a big one… and one that is happening not just in Boca Raton, but in major cities all over our country. Will our government sit back and let things happen, or will it begin to take action, so that the next 9/11 never becomes reality?
According to the Palm Beach Post, Ibrahim Dremali's eldest son pled guilty to stabbing a fellow student repeatedly – in the back, neck and arm – with a scissors. He is now attending an Islamic school in Broward County. With regard to this, Dremali stated, "People say 'Go back to where you came from,' but we have no place to go back to. We are Americans." Yet, our good imam is building a dream home in Gaza… a five-story house, complete with an elevator and polished wood trim. Of it, he states, "It's where my heart is, where I spent my childhood, where I want to return some day, G-d willing. It's why I don't live so well here. I'm putting all my money there." One quote was from December 9, 2002, and one quote was from February 27, 2003. What a difference less than two months makes!
Joe Kaufman is the Chairman of Citizens Against Hate and the co-founder of the Republican Jewish Coalition of South Florida. You could visit Joe Kaufman's interactive website, at joe4rep.com.
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/boca-raton-city-of-terror
This item is available on the Militant Islam Monitor website, at http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/8179