“We are Hamas!” Cry Greenwald’s CAIR Buddies

Fred Fleitz July 24, 2014
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In a July 9 article posted on this site, Misleading Claims by Greenwald and New York Times on NSA/FBI Spying on American Muslims, I discussed a false claim by former London Guardian writer Glenn Greenwald that a recent classified document leaked by Edward Snowden indicates the U.S. government has been targeting the email of innocent American Muslim leaders solely because of their religion.
 
According to Greenwald, among these American Muslims targeted for surveillance by CIA and NSA was Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).   CAIR claims to be “America’s largest Muslim civil rights organization.”  However, a New York Times article on this Snowden leak noted that CAIR has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and in 2007 was an unindicted co-conspirator in its prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation, a Muslim charity later convicted of providing material support for terrorism by funneling money to Hamas. 
 
Moreover, at a 1994 symposium at Barry University in Florida, Nihad Awad said “I am in support of the Hamas movement.”
 
CAIR’s support of the terrorist group Hamas was confirmed this week at a CAIR rally in Florida when protesters cried out, “We are Hamas!”  “We are Jihad!”  “Hamas kicked your ass.”
 
CAIR’s Maryland office this week announced that it collected over 1,000 letters urging Maryland’s senators “to end the killing in Gaza.”   A CAIR-Maryland official claimed “American taxpayers are funding Israel’s use of excessive, inhumane force against Palestinian civilians in Gaza.”
 
Reflecting CAIR’s notorious history of refusing to condemn Islamist terrorism, it has said nothing about Hamas’ rocket attacks against Israel or its “human shields” strategy to generate negative press for Israel by deliberately firing rockets from densely populated civilian areas in Gaza, using hospitals, disability centers, mosques and schools as launching sites.
 
So will Glenn Greenwald take back his false story that the U.S. government monitored the email of CAIR Executive Director Awad solely because he is a Muslim?  Will he concede that CAIR has clear ties to the terrorist organization Hamas and is playing a key role in promoting Hamas’ agenda in the United States?  Will Greenwald condemn CAIR’s one-sided attacks on Israel and its failure to call for an end to Hamas rocket attacks and its human shield strategy that is designed to cause the deaths of Palestinian women and children?
 
Not likely.  It turns out that Greenwald has close ties to CAIR and has been paid thousands of dollars to speak at CAIR fundraising banquets, according to a July 20, 2014 Newbusters article. 
 
Edward Snowden’s credibility has been undermined by assessments by U.S. intelligence experts that he was working for Russian intelligence.  Now there is clear evidence that Glenn Greenwald, Snowden’s principal media collaborator, is a shill for an American offshoot of an Islamist terrorist organization.
 
Hopefully the news media soon start seeing Snowden and Greenwald as the charlatans that they are.  Their 15 minutes of fame cannot end soon enough.
Fred Fleitz
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