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December 15, 2023

Last week, the Biden administration discontinued working with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), on a national strategy to combat anti-Semitism.

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Reports surfaced that CAIR executive director, Nihad Awad, told a pro-Palestine gathering this November “he was ‘happy’ to witness Hamas’ terror attack against Israel on Oct 7.” He also said, “Israel as an occupying power does not have [the] right to self-defense.”

To anyone familiar with CAIR’s true mission — not its disguise as a “Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization” — Awad’s remarks are no surprise. As far back as 1994 Awad publicly announced his support for “the Hamas movement.”

But some of you might be asking, What is CAIR, anyhow?

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The better question is, What is the Muslim Brotherhood? Because CAIR is the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States.  

The Muslim Brotherhood is “without question the world’s most influential modern Islamist organization.” It was founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, Islamic scholar and admirer of Hitler and the Nazis. He coined the term “Islamist” as part of his work towards a politicized Islam able to achieve total global conquest: “It is in the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.”

“[T[he parent organization of Hamas and al Qaeda (and Islamic Jihad),” explains Islam expert Robert Spencer, Muslim Brotherhood Alumni include 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, al Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Islamism’s chief expounder, the late Yusuf al-Qaradawi.  

In Egypt, the Brotherhood’s efforts to “dominate” included assassinating the Egyptian prime minister in 1948, attempting to assassinate President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1954, and participating in the assassination of President Anwar Sadat in 1981 for making peace with Israel.

Frequently banished from Egypt, the Brotherhood grew a substantial membership in Syria, Jordan,  Libya, Tunisia – up to 80 countries today — western countries included. In democracies like the U.S., the Brotherhood avoids jihadist rhetoric, relying instead on deception and “camouflage,” to “appear moderate and use existing institutions to gain power.” A 1991 Muslim Brotherhood “Explanatory Memorandum” describes the “process for settlement” in North America as a “civilizational-jihadist process… a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house… so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”

The Brotherhood spun off the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in 1979. The PIJ’s mission is “to establish an Islamist Palestinian state that is committed to the destruction of Israel.” It was the PIJ’s misfired rocket, intended for Israel, that exploded in the parking lot of Gaza’s Al-Ahli Arab Hospital.