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CAIR: Official
By: Jacob Edelist
Published: June 9th, 2012
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White House new director for community partnerships George Selim admits
to hundreds of meetings with CAIR.
White House new director for community partnerships George Selim admits
to hundreds of meetings with CAIR.
Photo Credit: Edward Cash
According to the Daily Caller, aides to President Barack Obama have been
holding “hundreds” of meetings behind closed-doors with representatives
of the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR), America’s largest
Muslim advocacy organization, with close ties to Hamas and its parent
organization, the Muslim Brotherhood.
George Selim, the White House new director for community partnerships, a
position formed this year to ensure cooperation by law enforcement and
Muslim social service agencies, was the source of the information
regarding CAIR and the White House.
In response to a question by the Daily Caller whether or not his office
refuses to meet with any Muslim groups, Selim said that there are
“hundreds of examples of departments and agencies that meet with CAIR on
a range of issues.”
Dr. George Selim used to be a policy advisor for the Office of Civil
Liberties and Civil Rights in the Department of Homeland Security.
During the 2009 Holy Land Foundation (HLF) trial, Federal prosecutors
proved that CAIR and its founders were part of a group set up by the
Muslim Brotherhood to support Hamas. The trial ended with guilty
verdicts on all charges against HLF and five of its officers. They were
sentenced to between 15 and 65 years in prison, including 65 years for
Ghassan Elashi, the founder of CAIR’s Dallas chapter
Neil Munro, the Daily Caller reporter, writes that after Selim admitted
to his office’s the extensive ties with CAIR, he walked away, then came
back to threaten Munro that he was not allowed to record his comments.
Selim’s deputy director, Adnan Kifayat, also tried to intimidate Munro
on taping the interview with Selim. “That was wrong… it is really bad
form,” he said, threatening that taping his boss without permission
could be a felony.
It isn’t. But it could be a felony for White House employees to
communicate with CAIR. Last month, the House of Representatives ordered
the Department of Justice to end all contacts with CAIR. The committee
report accompanying the 2013 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations
bill, passed in May by the House, clearly reads:
“The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has an existing policy
prohibiting its employees from engaging in any formal non-investigative
cooperation with CAIR [and] the committee encourages the attorney
general to adopt a similar policy for all department officials.”
For more background on CAIR we recommend the Middle East Quarterly’s
“CAIR: Islamists Fooling the Establishment.”
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