In part 9 of the Investigative Project’s devastating, highly detailed exposé of the Council on American Islamic Relations, the subject is CAIR’s blatant antisemitism and extreme hate speech: Leaders’ Statements Illustrate CAIR’s Extremism, Anti-Semitism.

Repeated statements by CAIR’s leaders illustrate the group’s extremist and anti-Semitic positions.

Today’s installment in the Investigative Project on Terrorism’s detailed analysis of the self-proclaimed civil rights group, the ninth in a series, presents a compilation of those statements.

Here are some of the highlights:

* CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper is on record as supporting financial assistance to the families of “martyrs.” Reporting in 2002 on tens of millions of dollars that Saudi Arabia had paid to the families of Palestinians killed or injured during the Intifada — including the families of suicide bombers — United Press International quoted Hooper as saying that the Islamic faith enjoins Muslims to take care of widows and especially orphans, and that the families of suicide bombers are just as needy as those killed by military attacks.

Hooper was further quoted as challenging critics to “give us a list of Palestinian widows and orphans so Muslims can comply with dictates of not feeding the wrong people,” and asking, “Are you supposed to penalize some child, some widow, because of what their father did or did not do?”

* Hussam Ayloush, the director of CAIR-Southern California, has used the term “zionazi” to describe Israeli Jews. “Indeed,” he wrote in e-mail correspondence, “the zionazis are a bunch of nice people; just like their nazi brethren! It is just that the world keeps making up lies about them! It is so unfair.”

* CAIR has routinely claimed that Jews control the U.S. government and push an anti-Muslim foreign policy. Executive Director Nihad Awad told a Muslim Students Association audience in 1998, for example, to ponder the Jewish origin of many Clinton administration officials.

“Who is opposing the latest agreement with Iraq?” Awad asked. “Look at their names. Look at their ethnic, their ethnic or religious or racial background … . These are the same people who are pushing the United States to go to war on behalf of a third party, and they are the same people who are opposing the peace process,” he said.

At a “Meet Your Congressman” event two months later, Omar Ahmad, CAIR’s founding chairman, declared that “Muslims in the U.S. are willing to be a catalyst to unite the Muslim world with Washington. It is the Israeli lobby that is demonizing Islam.”

Again, in August 2001, CAIR-NY circulated an open letter addressed to President Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell asserting that “political intimidation by the domestic Zionist and pro-Israeli lobbying groups should never prevent the U.S., a ‘superpower,’ from upholding the basic standards of international law and human rights.”

* On a web page that he published while a graduate student in the mid-1990s, Ahmed Rehab, now CAIR-Chicago’s executive director, challenged Holocaust history, calling it “the established opinions of the able Jewish historians regarding the details of the holocaust.” Non-Jews, he suggested, would be “less likely to be biased and non-objectively sympathetic.”

It goes on and on. When you read this stuff, it really brings home the fact that mainstream media are utterly failing in their jobs, as they continue to treat CAIR as a “civil rights group.”

An accompanying PDF file has more details, and sources for all quotes.

Previous LGF posts on the IPT CAIR exposé:
Major New IPT Report: CAIR Exposed
CAIR’s Funding
CAIR Officials Convicted of Crimes
CAIR’s Ties With Hamas
CAIR Questioned Al Qaeda’s Role in 9/11
CAIR Portrays ‘War on Terrorism’ As Malicious ‘War on Islam’
CAIR Seeks To Define Away Threat Posed by Radical Islamists
CAIR Backs Islamist Meetings, Denigrates Muslim Moderates