Washington State Taxpayers Are Funding Hamas by Rep. Matt Shea

WASHINGTON STATE TAXPAYERS ARE FUNDING HAMAS

by Rep. Matt Shea

What would say if your tax money was going to fund a terrorist organization? That’s not possible you might respond, not in America. And that would be indicative of how effective the deception campaign has been by the Islamic Counter State in America.

First, a little background. The Holy Land Foundation Trial in 2008 was the largest successfully prosecuted terror financing trial in U.S. History. It revealed a vast and complex terror funding and outreach network in the United States of America.

As part of the trial, and later upheld on appeal, a federal district court found that one of the unindicted co-conspirators was the Council on American Islamic Relations (C.A.I.R.). A mountain of evidence in that trial showed clearly that C.A.I.R. is Hamas.¹ Specifically, in 1994, the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee (Hamas) created the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR).² Hamas is designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the United States and many other countries.

In 2019, the State of Washington gave a $200,000.00 grant contract to C.A.I.R. for “Benton, Clark, King, Pierce Snohomish, Spokane, and Thurston County” to “Train 75-100 youth ambassadors” and “Produce educational materials, webinars, social media campaign in multiple languages” ostensibly for the census. This raises serious questions. What is the accountability mechanism for the expenditures? What materials are being used including the training materials for the youth?

Today C.A.I.R. tries to hold itself out as a purely civic organization that pursues that conducts outreach for the betterment of the whole community. In fact, he has publicly pledged the “Muslim community’s support and cooperation in every positive effort he will undertake for peace, justice and the betterment of humanity.”³

However, in March, 1994, C.A.I.R. founder and current CEO Nihad Awad stated at Barry University “I am in support of the Hamas Movement…” C.A.I.R. Founder and Chairman Emeritus Omar Ahmad stated in the Argus Newspaper on July 4^th, 1998, “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant…The Koran, the muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.” Yes, he stated that on a day many of were celebrating the Declaration of Independence.

Even more interesting, following a 2004 FBI raid the archives of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States were discovered. One of the documents found listed the leaders of the U.S. Palestinian Committee (Hamas). The list of names included Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmad.⁴

So which is it? A civic organization with laudable goals or a grand deception? Clearly the facts and evidence both in and outside of court show that C.A.I.R. is Hamas. If so, then C.A.I.R. is not just trying to deceive an unwitting American public and elected officials into believing they are just another civic organization. The leaders of C.A.I.R. are also trying to get us to fund the deception, with taxpayer dollars. This falls perfectly in line with the Muslim Brotherhood’s strategic goals for America including “The Ikwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”⁵

It has been said that warfare is deception. This is why we must follow the facts and realize if such a grand deception is indeed occurring, we are at war. The Muslim Brotherhood has clearly stated this. Yet, Washington State Taxpayers are funding Hamas and the United States has still not designated the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization. In light of what was proven in the Holy Land Foundation trial that is mind boggling.

So what can you do?

Is your state funding Hamas? Have they petitioned the President to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization? Do your research, get involved, educate your legislators, petition President Trump, and stop the taxpayer funding of the Islamic Counter State. A great place to start is UnderstandingtheThreat.com. Let’s put freedom back on the offensive where it belongs.