<< C.A.I.R.'s Cooperation with FBI Helping the FBI to Research & Surveil Muslim Communities by Kaukab Siddique, Ph.D According to a press release (dated September 16) distributed by a group calling itself CAIR, its representative, along with others, "met with FBI" officials. CAIR describes its meeting with FBI officials as "friendly and constructive." The CAIR release says that the FBI wants a "cultural diversity presentation" which could be "incorporated into ongoing training for FBI agents." CAIR also says "FBI participation in a community outreach symposium" being prepared by another clique was discussed. A "suggestion" was made that the FBI work with a Muslim Chaplain. Also the FBI would help provide "security" at mosques. The CAIR release concludes with an invitation to listen to Siraj Wahhaj at a fund raiser. All this was supposedly done because some Muslims have been harrassed by the FBI. Dear Muslims: think of the implications of CAIR's close cooperation with the FBI. 1. Who does not know that the FBI is not a friend of the Muslims or of any other oppressed people. The Muslim community is the target of the FBI. Anyone who helps the FBI in this process is either a traitor or a fool. 2. The claim that the FBI is mistakenly harrasing innocent Muslims is absurd. The FBI knows exactly what it is doing. An innocent Muslim, Director of a mosque in Brooklyn, Br. Nasser Ahmed has been kept in prison for three and a half years because he refused to cooperate with the FBI. (Look at the case of Br. Jihad Abdul Mumit, in Lewisburg prison, again for not cooperating with the FBI. The FBI wants to turn Muslims into informers and CAIR is playing a dastardly role in this process.) 3. Research carried out by New Trend's think tank shows that the FBI wants to create divisions within Muslim ranks by claiming that most Muslims are "good guys" but the activists among them should be checked for "association with terrorist organizations" (FBI jargon for Islamic movements like Hamas, Gamaa al-Islamiyya, Harakat al-Ansar, FIS, Jihad, Hizbullah and all others fighting for Allah's cause.). CAIR is helping the FBI to create this impression among the general population of Muslims that if they behave themselves, the FBI will not bother them. However, if they become activists, they are asking for trouble. 4. Human rrights organizations are unanimous that ANY information provided to the FBI (whether a "cultural diversity" survey or any other), helps the FBI to carry out its work of divide-and-rule. The FBI is basically a bureaucracy and it can only succeed if it has dossiers on people, some of whom it will reward and some it will punish. 5. By including the FBI in "security" for mosques, again CAIR is supporting the process by which enemy agents are being brought into our places of worship. 6. It's not clear what CAIR means by the "suggestion" that the NEW YORK FBI work with a Muslim chaplain. Does that mean helping the FBI keep an eye on Muslim inmates? Such action could be seriously hurtful to the growth of authentic Islam in the prison system. CAIR's credentials need scrutiny. Where did CAIR get the funds to carry out a countrywide campaign of infiltration into mosques? Where did its seed money come from? CAIR has hurt the Muslims in big ways while helping in small human rights cases where its help was not really needed. When the Shaikh Omar trial was about to begin, CAIR's Hooper came on the Zionist radio network NPR and claimed that Shaikh Omar has nothing to do with the Muslims of America. In the latest issue of CAIR's newsletter we see a Kafir, a democrat congressman standing in a CAIR influenced mosque (Dar al-Hijra, Virginia) giving a speech. As we all know the democratic party supports the imposition of sanctions on Iraq which has resulted in the slow death of 750,000 Iraqi children. Democrats also support homosexuality which negates basic Islamic values. The man in the CAIR newsletter (and all others in America's power structure) also support the creation of Israel in Palestine. CAIR owes Muslims an apology for its shameless cooperation with the FBI. THERE IS NO SCOPE IN ISLAM FOR COOPERATION WITH OPPRESSORS AND OPPONENTS OF ISLAMIC POWER. The Qur'an says: "O ye who believe! take not the Jews and the Christians for your protecting friends and guardians. They are but friends and guardians to each other. And he among you that turns to them (for such friendship) is of them. Surely Allah guides not a people unjust." (5:51) (Commentators agree that this verse does not have to do with personal friendship but with inclusion of alien power structures into the Muslim community.) "O ye who believe! Take not into your intimacy those outside your ranks: They will not fail to corrupt you. They only desire for you to suffer: Rank hatred has already appeared from their mouths: What their hearts conceal is far worse. We have made plain to you the Signs, if you have wisdom." (3:118) "O ye who believe! Take not My enemies and yours as protecting friends - offering them love, even though they have rejected the Truth that has come to you ...(60:1) Surely Allah has spoken the Truth. ****************************************************************************** ************ Kaukab Siddique, originally from Pakistan, is author of six books on Islam including THE STRUGGLE OF MUSLIM WOMEN which has sold out 4 editions. He has worked with major Islamic movements since 1966 and carried out widely read interviews with Maulana Maudoodi, Imam Khomeini, Azam Taleghani, Shaikh Omar 'Abdel Rahman and various Afghan mujahideen leaders. He is editor of New Trend, published regularly since 1977, International Ameer of Jamaat al-Muslimeen and Convenor of the Committee to Free Shaikh Omar 'Abdel Rahman. He initiated the first mass protests among Muslims against the embargoes on Iraq and Sudan. Dr. Siddique's Ph.D is in English Literature. He teaches World Literature, Journalism and English Composition at America's oldest Historically Black university. ****************************************************************************** ******* >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------