CAIR Director at Al-Arian Fundraiser
Tomorrow in Tampa, Florida, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations will take part in a fundraiser for accused Islamic Jihad kingpin Sami Al-Arian: PR-Nihad Awad & Eric Vickers Speaking at Al-Arian Release Fundraiser.
(Coral Springs, FL) According to an e-mail that was sent out by Ahmed Bedier, the Spokesman for the Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Florida), a fundraiser will be taking place tomorrow for the release of terrorist Sami Al-Arian. Al-Arian is currently awaiting a second trial for his role as a leader in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
The event will be held at Masjid Al-Qassam (a.k.a. Islamic Community of Tampa), the mosque Al-Arian helped create.
Speaking at the event will be Nihad Awad, the Executive Director of the national CAIR headquarters. Also speaking will be Eric Erfan Vickers, the former Executive Director of the American Muslim Council (AMC). Vickers resigned from his position at AMC, after he was exposed for calling the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster “an act of divine retribution against Israel.”