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‘WTF’? Terror Front CAIR Changes Name – Again
Experts say group runs ‘global criminal money laundering operation’ out of D.C.
WND
Officially, the Council on American-Islamic Relations no longer exists.
The organization that’s so closely connected to the Hamas terror network that the FBI won’t let its agents use it as a liaison to the Muslim community, and yet so politically valuable to the Democrat Party that the Obama administration won’t prosecute it for terrorist activities, is now known as the Washington Trust Foundation – or “WTF” for short.
The timing of the name change, quietly filed three months ago with the District of Columbia, is suspicious.
CAIR hasn’t filed a complete tax return with the IRS in five years. But it has filed numerous requests for reincorporation with the District of Columbia.
The different iterations of the embattled organization are dizzying. Here’s a quick history:
- 1994: CAIR incorporates as 501(c)(4) nonprofit.
- 2005: CAIR operates as CAIR Foundation Inc.
- 2007: CAIR applies for new 501(c)(3) status under CAIR Foundation.
- 2009: CAIR formally renames itself CAIR-Action Network Inc.
- 2011: CAIR also operates as for-profit “CAIR Inc.”
- June 2013: CAIR reincorporates as Washington Trust Foundation.
Congressional investigators worry CAIR is creating shell entities to hide foreign donations in violation of federal law. Since 2008, when the FBI publicly cut off ties to CAIR, the group has struggled to raise money inside the United States and has stepped up its overseas fundraising, mainly in the Middle East.
That same year, 2008, CAIR also created an entity known as the Muslim Peace Foundation.
One of the foundation’s principals is listed as Winslow Seale, a black Muslim convert who later changed his name to Johari Abdul Malik. Malik was a close friend of the late al-Qaida cleric Anwar Awlaki, who ministered to some of the 9/11 hijackers at the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center outside Washington before fleeing the country and helping lead al-Qaida’s operations in Yemen. Malik still works at the mosque.
A 2009 letter uncovered by the Investigative Project on Terrorism reveals CAIR Director Nihad Awad solicited then-Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi for his financial support in launching the Muslim Peace Foundation. Awad also sought donations from Sudanese President Omar Bashir.
“I am concerned that Awad and CAIR may be soliciting – and receiving – funds from other unsavory foreign governments and organizations, including some that may be sponsors of terror,” wrote Republican Rep. Frank Wolf, who heads a House judiciary subcommittee, in a letter to the IRS commissioner.
Former FBI agent John Guandolo says CAIR is really “Hamas in the United States, doing business as the Council on American-Islamic Relations.”
Reposted with permission.
