Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Look who screened refugees, by Francis Chartrand
It's well known that Khaled Mouammar wants Ottawa to remove Hamas and Hezbollah from a list of banned organizations and replace them with the Israel Defence Forces.
It's well known that the president of the Canadian Arab Federation recently called Jason Kenney, the Minister of Immigration, a "professional whore" for supporting Israel and criticizing the presence of Hamas and Hezbollah flags at a recent protest, prompting Mr. Kenney to say he would review the CAF's federal funding.
But it is less well known that Mr. Mouammar spent the 11 years prior to February, 2005, sitting as a member of the Immigration and Refugee Board, deciding whether refugee claimants from such North African countries as Morocco, Egypt, Algeria and Somalia should be allowed to stay in Canada.
No details are available on how many refugees Mr. Mouammar waved through the Canadian system, although one immigration lawyer who remembers him from his IRB days says he was known to have a "very high" acceptance rate. Board members typically have sole discretion over whether to admit a refugee claimant.
But his public advocacy of terror groups should raise questions about how a known partisan could possibly pass the IRB's screening process. How did someone who has long been sympathetic to terror groups come to hold a crucial position in the body designed to protect Canadians from terrorists? Phrases about foxes and chicken coops spring to mind.
The IRB has a code of conduct that requires members to conserve and enhance the organization's "integrity, objectivity and impartiality." Mr. Mouammar did not return calls seeking comment but readers can make up their own mind about his impartiality.
Since becoming president, the CAF head has shown a Robert Mugabe-like paranoia for blaming others, while ignoring the shortcomings of the side he supports.
Hamas and Hezbollah are "legitimate political parties"; Israel is a genocidal regime, guilty of "war crimes." "One day the nightmare brought about by Zionism and colonialism will come to an end," he wrote in a piece entitled Impressions of Palestine: 1948 and Today -- a clear rejection of a two-state solution in the Middle East.
Mr. Mouammar, a 68-year-old orthodox Christian who was born in Palestine and emigrated to Canada in 1965, has become a magnet for controversy.
In 2006, he was accused of circulating a flyer at the Liberal leadership convention denouncing candidate Bob Rae because his wife was vice-president of the Canadian Jewish Congress, "a lobby group which supports Israeli apartheid."
Last year, the CAF sponsored an essay-writing contest that encouraged Canadian high school students to consider "the ethnic cleansing of Palestine."
An organization that used to work on behalf of all Arabs in Canada, promoting civil liberties and human rights, while combating racism and hate, has been transformed into a single-issue distiller of venom.
In the past, the CAF has documented anti-Arab incidents during the Gulf War; debated the pros and cons of the Oslo Peace Accord; and argued at the Arar commission that there is no contradiction between security and "the fundamental values we share as Canadians." Now, it has been radicalized by its president and others.
Quite how such a man was allowed to become a gatekeeper of Canada's refugee process beggars belief, although his contributions to the Liberal party provide one possible explanation.
Mr. Kenney said that a man with such extreme views, who had already been president of the CAF before he joined the IRB, would not make the cut today.
"Khaled Mouammar was a Liberal political appointee to the IRB, who I gather has deep links in that party. His appointment by the Liberals illustrates the ways in which they abused the IRB appointment process, which we have reformed," he said. Candidates for IRB appointment must now pass through a thorough vetting process conducted by the IRB administration, he added.
Let's hope Mr. Kenney is right, for all our sakes. It might not be a bad idea to dust off some of those old files and see who did get into the country while Mr. Mouammar worked at the IRB. Meantime, the 40 or so Arab groups that make up the CAF should take action to oust a leader who has brought their organization into disrepute.
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Labels: Canada, Francis Chartrand, Hamas, Hezbollah, Secularism
Monday, February 09, 2009
USA - Members of Congress: "Beware of CAIR", by Anne Humphreys
Recently, the FBI announced it was cutting all ties with Cair because of its links with the terrorist group Hamas. The blog American Muslims Against Sharia welcomed this news and was awarded to CAIR's Islamofascism price of the year.
The Canadian division of CAIR, CAIR-CAN, remains active with us where she is known for his efforts of Islamization of society, including through legal jihad. CAIR-CAN was founded by Sheema Khan, a columnist with The Globe and Mail. She recently wrote a column where it calls for the application of Sharia (after perfidiously blamed malice Canadians ...). Fortunately, the overwhelming majority of 170 comments displayed as chronic, if not all, rejected the plea of the Islamist Khan.
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Incorporated in Bivouac-ID: "Beware of CAIR" write elected U.S. Congress to their colleagues
Washington: In a letter with the letterhead of the U.S. Congress aimed at all members, 5 elected to write their colleagues to invite them to be wary of the organization for the civil rights of Muslims [and terrorists in particular] CAIR with which the FBI has to break all contact because of its proven links with Hamas (click here for evidence of government).
Source : Red Country
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Labels: Anne Humphreys, Hamas, Religion and fanaticism, Terrorism, United States
USA - The FBI has cut all contact with CAIR because of its links with the terrorist organization Hamas, by Noémie Cournoyer
How to make a hero of Hamas?
How to make a hero of Hamas?
Video directed by Pierre Rehov.
Hamas is listed on the list of terrorist entities maintained by Public Safety Canada: click here for details
Just yesterday, the Islamist Sheema Khan, founder of CAIR-CAN, argued in the Globe and Mail for the recognition of sharia in Canada!
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Translation of excerpts:
The Investigative Project on Terrorism has learned that the FBI has cut all contact with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) because of growing concerns about the links of the defense of Muslims with network support Hamas.
The decision to end contact with CAIR has quietly made last summer when federal prosecutors were preparing the second trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), an Islamic charity accused of providing money and political support to the terrorist organization Hamas, according to people briefed on the question.
The decision to end contact with CAIR is an important policy change for the FBI. For years the FBI has worked with the national organization and its chapters in different states with respect to concerns of the Muslim community about potential hate crimes and other violations of civil liberties in the wake of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.
But critics say the FBI has conferred legitimacy inappropriate CAIR official's meeting even though its own investigation files contained evidence of links between the leaders of CAIR and Hamas.
Last fall, the offices of the FBI began to notify the CAIR chapters in the various statements that the FBI would not be able to meet until the national leadership of CAIR in Washington has responded to questions raised by the HLF trial, according to people with knowledge of this opinion.
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Labels: Canada, Hamas, Islam, Noémie Cournoyer, Religion and fanaticism, Terrorism, United States
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