Authors: Paul Sperry
2
Letter from Awad to BoA CEO Ken Lewis, 30 July 2003, 2.
3
Ibid.
4
Jamie Smith Hopkins, “Council on American-Islamic Relations Threatens Bank of America Boycott,”
Baltimore Sun
, 11 December 2003.
5
Letter from CAIR official Seyed Rizwan Mowlana to Pakistani Ambassador Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, 27 October 2003.
6
“Gul Naz Anwar v Bank of America,” CAIR memo, **CONFIDENTIAL**, November 2003, 3. The BoA lawyer allegedly made the remark on Nov. 4, 2003.
7
Letter from CAIR lawyer Hassan M. Ahmad to CEO Lewis, 12 November 2003.
8
Ibid.
9
“Agreement,” signed by Anwar and CAIR’s Mowlana, Ibrahim Moiz and lawyer Ahmad, 11 June 2004. Anwar eventually hired a private attorney to pursue the case.
10
“Gul Naz Anwar v Bank of America,” 1.
11
Tim Funk, “Muslim bank employees look for offices to pray in,”
Augusta Chronicle
(Georgia), 22 December 2007, D03.
12
Stacy Hutchins and Michelle Mittelstadt, “Family says man merely a tourist,”
Dallas Morning News
, 12 August 2004, A1.
13
“Ellison at CAIR: ‘Obama Not Our Salvation. God Is,’” The Muslim Link, 28 November 2008, 2. Also, “See how Savage lost…,” draft of CAIR flier it planned to distribute before running out of funds. “Savage said he’s lost at least $1 million in advertising revenue because of CAIR’s efforts,” the flier states under a photo of Savage at his microphone.
14
Faxed report from Hate Hurts America Community and Interfaith Coalition (HHA) to CAIR, 29 January 2009, 1-3. CAIR is a member of HHA.
15
Ibid.
16
Ibid.
17
CAIR memo regarding “oppositional research” listing individual targets for “hit sheets” under TALKING POINTS, with recommendations for Saylor and Hooper to take the “lead” in attacking the “Islamophobes” and hurting their “credibility,” 3 January 2007.
18
Ibid.
19
“A Media Analysis on Glenn Beck’s Statements on Islam and Muslims aired on CNN,” CAIR National Communication Department, 7 January 2007, 1. CAIR officials traveled to Atlanta to complain to CNN executives on Jan. 10, 2007.
20
CAIR memo regarding “oppositional research.”
21
Ibid.
22
“Council on American-Islamic Relations 2007-2008 Strategic Plan,” 2. In August 2009, CAIR co-hosted with the Hollywood-based Writers Guild of America a seminar to assist aspiring Muslim screenwriters. CAIR had held a similar seminar with Fox Entertainment.
23
The lawsuit filed by Al-Qudhaieen and al-Shalawi against America West was dismissed in 2003 by a federal judge, who ruled that even if racial profiling occurred, airline captains have wide latitude to take security precautions to protect passengers.
24
Paul Sperry, “Imams Gone Wild,”
FrontPageMagazine
, 30 November 2006.
25
Corey P. Saylor, “Conference Call on MN Imams Case,” internal memo to CAIR board, 30 November 2006, 1.
26
Internal CAIR email from Nihad Awad to Arsalan Iftikhar, “Subject: URGENT/Important Issues on 6 Imams Case,” 20 April 2007. “I raised these issues with you today in the meeting and in previous meetings (and) you became upset and made a face,” Awad fulminated. “Had you responded to my request this morning, we would not be in this situation. I asked you specifically today, and before, to follow the startegy [sic] outlined and to stay on the case.”
27
Madeleine Gruen and Edward Sloan, “Are Acts of Staged Controversy an Islamist Strategic Tactic?”
IPT News
, 27 February 2009.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD: TERRORISTS IN SUITS
1
Author (Sperry) interview by phone, 16 January 2009.
2
Author (Sperry) interview by phone, 22 March 2009.
3
Elbarassee was a founding member of the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center in nearby Falls Church, Va. One of the mosque’s imams, Johari Abdul Malik, told attendees at a 2001 Islamic conference in Chicago: “You can blow up bridges,” similar to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, as long as civilian casualties are minimized. Authorities in 2004 caught Elbarassee and his wife videotaping the bridge’s stanchions.
4
Author (Sperry) interview by email, 25 August 2005.
5
Mohamed Akram Adlouni, “An Explanatory Memorandum On the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America,” 22 May 1991, 7. Adlouni, a member of the U.S. Brotherhood shura council, attended the secret 1993 Hamas meeting in Philadelphia.
6
“Analysis of Muslim Brotherhood’s General Strategic Goals for North America Memorandum,” Stephen Coughlin, 7 September 2007, 3.
7
Author (Sperry) interview in person, 2 February 2009.
8
Richard H. Curtiss, “Omar Ahmad: Jordanian-Born Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Is Influential Muslim-American Activist,”
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
, 30 June 2000, 35, Vol. XIX; No. 5.
9
Government Exhibit, 016-0069, 3:04-CR-240-G, U.S. v. HLF, et al., 3, 4.
10
“It was mentioned that the United States provided them with a secure, legal base from which to operate,” says former FBI official Dale Watson, describing in a high-level Nov. 5, 2001, memo what Ahmad and other Brotherhood and Hamas leaders discussed during their wiretapped 1993 meeting in Philadelphia.
11
Affidavit in Support of Application for Search Warrant, 31, 36.
12
The FBI believes Shukri Abu Baker “is a U.S.-based leader of Hamas.” A Texas resident, he has paid visits to CAIR’s headquarters in Washington. His name appears on CAIR’s visitors register on March 27, 2001, for example. (See Appendix.)
13
Affidavit in Support of Application for Search Warrant, 36.
14
Department of Justice, Attachment A, List of Unindicted Co-Conspirators, U.S. vs. Holy Land Foundation; “An Explanatory Memorandum On the General Strategic Goal for the Group In North America,” 22 May 1991, 18; Attachment C, Safa Group Businesses and Corporations, Affidavit in The Matter of Searches Involving 555 Grove Street, Herndon, Virginia, and Related Locations, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, unredacted, October 2003.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: THE ‘IKHWAN MAFIA’
1
Author (Sperry) interview in person, 15 April 2005.
2
Government Exhibit, Elbarasse-Search-10, 3:04-CR-240-G, U.S. v. HLF, et al., chart (“Committee Chairman/Palestinian Action Aspects”). “List of Unindicted Co-conspirators,” 6. Government Exhibit, Ashqar Wiretap-1, 3:04-CR-240-G, U.S. v. HLF, et al., 2, 6 (recorded 13 September 1993). Also, Government Exhibit, 016-0047, 3:04-CR-240-G, U.S. v. HLF, et al., 11. Also, Author (Sperry) interview by phone, 22 March 2009. The Muslim Brotherhood has not been designated a terrorist organization by the U.S., and it is not a crime to belong to it.
3
Steven Merley, “The Muslim Brotherhood in the United States,” Hudson Institute, April 2009. Also, Author (Sperry) interview by phone, 22 March 2009. The Muslim Brotherhood has not been designated a terrorist organization by the U.S., and it is not a crime to belong to it.
4
The Brothers also quote the Quran (Surah 49:10): “The believers are but a single Brotherhood,” which revered Quranic scholar Abdullah Yusuf Ali interprets to mean: “The enforcement of the Muslim Brotherhood is the greatest social ideal of Islam. On it was based the Prophet’s Sermon at his last pilgrimage, and Islam cannot be completely realized until this ideal is achieved.”
5
Indictment, U.S. v HLF, et al., U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, 26 July 2004, 7.
6
Merley, “The Muslim Brotherhood in the United States.”
7
“CAIR Maryland and Virginia Chapter 1st Leadership and Empowerment Conference.” Also, Khan’s name and contact info was found in CAIR National’s email directory under the heading “VIP.” Khan, moreover, served as an official on ISNA’s 2004 convention coordinating committee.
8
Government Exhibit, Elbarasse-Search-2, 3:04-CR-240-G, U.S. v. HLF, et al., 13.
9
Affidavit in Support of Application for Search Warrant, 31.
10
Ibid.
11
“An Explanatory Memorandum On the General Strategic Goal for the Group In North America,” 22 May 1991, 17.
12
Government Exhibit 003-0092, 3:04-CR-240-G, U.S. v. HLF, et al., 23.
13
“An Explanatory Memorandum On the General Strategic Goal for the Group In North America,” 10, 11.
14
Government Exhibit (Elbarasse Search - 11) 3:04-CR-240-G, U.S. v. HLF, et al., 3.
15
Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, Sam Roe and Laurie Cohen, “A rare look at secretive Brotherhood in America: Muslims divided on Brotherhood,”
Chicago Tribune
, 19 September 2004, C01.
16
Author (Sperry) interview in person, 19 April 2005.
17
Sperry,
Infiltration
, 314.
18
“Mahdi Bray’s Secret, Checkered Past,”
IPT News
, 25 March 2009.
19
Author (Sperry) interview in person, 15 April 2005.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: FAKING OUT THE INFIDEL
1
Government Exhibit 003-0069, 3:04-CR-240-G, U.S. v. HLF, et al.
2
Ibid.
3
Ibid. Abu Baker and Ahmad echo the 9/11 planners, who boasted of blindsiding U.S. intelligence through superior deception. “As the prophet has stated: ‘War is to deceive,’” wrote al-Qaida detainees Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Walid bin Attash, Ramzi bin As-shibh, Ali Abd Al-Aziz Ali, and Mustafa Ahmed Al-Hawsawi, in their February statement responding to U.S. military charges.
4
Ibid.
5
“The Islamist Head Fake,” editorial,
Investor’s Business Daily
, 28 September 2007.
6
Ibid.
7
Ibid.
8
“The Islamist Head Fake,” editorial,
Investor’s Business Daily
. Al-Timimi is serving a life term in prison.
9
Mahdi Bray, “Counterpoint: We’re proud of our Muslim ‘face,’”
Dallas Morning News
, 18 December 2005.