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[Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
In Old Joe Biden’s America, those who hate the country and want to see it radically “transformed” into a state without borders, the freedom of speech, the right to bear arms and other annoying obstacles to socialist internationalism, are in the driver’s seat. And they’re raking in millions. This includes the left’s pro-Hamas allies, most notably the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Nihad Awad, CAIR’s cofounder and longtime executive director, recently came under fire for saying of the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre of 1,200 Israeli civilians: “And yes, I was happy to see people breaking the siege and throwing down the shackles of their own land, and walk free into their land, which they were not allowed to walk in.” This was too much even for the Biden regime, which removed CAIR from its campaign to combat antisemitism. CAIR, loaded as it is with jihad supporters and Jew-haters, never should have been part of that initiative in the first place, but was likely included because it enjoys so much favor among those who make up the Biden regime’s hard-left base. And that favor has translated into millions of dollars in donations for this sinister, unsavory group.
The Jewish News Syndicate reported Wednesday that some of the nation’s most prominent and well-heeled leftist philanthrophic groups shoveled massive amounts of cash to CAIR, despite its lengthy record of smearing foes of jihad violence, justifying that violence, and engaging in jaw-dropping antisemitism. The chief offenders were the American Online Giving Foundation, which gave Awad and his henchmen $1,637,087, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, which was close behind with $1,499,447, and Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, which forked over $1,474,868.
Then there was California Endowment, which contributed $785,604 for CAIR’s victim-blaming and jihad-enabling;Schwab Charitable Fund, which added $782,178; California Community Foundation which kicked in $781,065; and many others: Sierra Health Foundation gave $637,558; Tides Foundation $631,300; Weingart Foundation $602,950; and K. Kellogg Foundation $500,000. JNS adds: “The remaining 10 organizations each provided more than $300,000. These include the San Francisco Foundation ($494,000); Network for Good ($489,800); MarJac Foundation, which Mauro [Ryan Mauro, author of the original study] describes as a group linked to the Muslim Brotherhood ($450,000); Charities Aid Foundation ($406,000); California Wellness Foundation ($350,000); Movement Voter Project ($348,240); Columbus Foundation ($336,250); American Endowment Foundation ($315,600); Levi Strauss Foundation ($310,000); and the Orange County Community Federation ($301,255).”
This adds up to some very serious money for Hamas-linked CAIR, and doesn’t even represent its entire donor base. CAIR reportedly took in $7.78 million in 2021, and had assets as of that year of $15.6 million. And all that was for a group about which federal prosecutors said this in 2007: “From its founding by Muslim Brotherhood leaders, CAIR conspired with other affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood to support terrorists…the conspirators agreed to use deception to conceal from the American public their connections to terrorists.”
Meanwhile, organizations that speak honestly about the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat, including Jihad Watch, the American Freedom Defense Initiative, and others continue with a small fraction of that funding, and are generally struggling financially. Most would-be donors have been scared away by smears and defamation from the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League; others have been lulled into complacency by lies about how much these organizations actually receive in donations.
It is a symptom of the insanity of our times that groups dedicated to the defense of the United States and Western civilization are shunned, marginalized, and deplatformed, while those dedicated to the destruction of both are prospering and getting richer by the day. CAIR has temporarily lost favor with the Biden regime, but the money will keep rolling in from leftist foundations and other fellow travelers and dupes, and the establishment media will continue to treat this group as if it really were simply a civil rights organization. We are not free of its baneful influence by a long shot.
William Butler Yeats said it in his apocalyptic poem “The Second Coming”: “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” In the age of absurdity, we can go Yeats one better, and observe that the best lack all funding, while the worst are full of donations from witless, deluded leftists who think they’re contributing to “diversity” while all they’re really doing is providing the funding for their own eventual ruin.
Assuming what has been said here re CAIR is a sad testimony about what is happening in our country.. These people and organizations are either brain washed, stupid or against what has allowed them to prosper in the US. Organizations like CAIR need to be wiped off the face of the earth. Otherwise we’re destined to live under despotic rule.
Thanks for this exposure, no aware thinking individual should be seen to wear Levi’s
Great article as always Mister Spencer. No one knows more about these threats than you do.
WHY ARE GROUPS, individuals, not arrested for sending funds, directly or indirectly, to State Department designated Terrorist groups? Any mention of a Muslim group, is Islamophobia so they then get away with it but the person who exposes these groups is the problem, even arrested for hate speech and a hate crime?
There are now multiple GAZA RELIEF SITES begging for money and it has already been proven that aid, material and financial support, is stolen and hoarded by HAMAS.
There is a video going around where an elderly Gazan woman is complaining that HAMAS is stealing the aid. “They can shoot me if they want!” The IDF entered a home with boxes of UN aid, on the bottom of the pile, were weapons. Now they’re booby-trapping toys?
THE UNIVERSITIES are now being taken over by the Far-Left and Muslims are running for office, all radicals who support Jihad. The Democrat’s obsession with THE FIRST ______ is how they get in regardless of qualifications.
QUESTION: “When, not if, the Jihad comes to our country, who will CAIR, Muslims, many in Congress who took The Oath, college students/profs, SIDE WITH?”
In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny, “what a maroon”.
Really, to them you’re an infidel and they’ll do those things to YOU and even more as you scream that you support them. They’ll then know you’re a chicken and begging which will make it worse. They have no soul as they’ll decapitate with a smile.
I bet you’d even go hide behind a card-carrying NRA PATRIOT that you just hate because all of your CULT’S obsession against guns so that PATRIOT could take the bullets and die for you, a TRAITOR! Besides, how could you fight with them since you are peace-loving and don’t have guns? To them, you’re still an infidel.
You better start learning the Koran because they’d probably test you on it to prove you’re worthy of being a Martyr and to get you reward in heaven. Like Akkkkmed on the Jeff Dunman Show: “It turns out it wasn’t 72 virgins, it was a 72-year-old virgin.” ENJOY!
You have a real problem with identifying the author of evil.
You are somewhere below pond scum. Please move Yemen or Gaza. Your life expectancy will be measure in minutes there.
Also, I suppose we’ll see if my comment gets posted. Will tell me a lot about how honest the intentions here are.
I appreciate the honesty!
We simply need one Law – NO ISLAM in the USA! It’s shown it’s true colors as a world dominating cult that is not compatible to civilized nations! Many Nations are waking up – FAST (well, after their Nations were invaded by “immigrants” and chaos ensued! I think we might see many other Nations have enough people who say “ENOUGH” and begin the difficult task of removing the threats! Now as far as Religion is concerned, everyone has a right to practice their RELIGION as long as it is not in DIRECT CONFLICT with Our LAWS! There’s only ONE “religion” that operates as an ideology based on conquering the WORLD – by any mean necessary! Well, maybe two if you look at the Communists ruling the Vatican! We better wake up and start deporting a LOT of people before it’s WAY too late! It’s already “too late” but not near a fatal limit – YET!
I have no doubt CAIR has tax-exempt status. Why not petition the IRS to revoke it?
You need to get back on your meds, buddy. Anti-semite much?
see this doesn’t help either, when someone says something true that happens to be true about someone who happens to be Jewish – play the antisemite card.
Bad look. No better than the BLM mentality.
But upvoted for at least having decency to respond. Thank you.
Thanks Robert, some of the major foundations you listed shocked me.
You said, “leftists who think they’re contributing to “diversity” while all they’re really doing is providing the funding for their own eventual ruin.”
It would seem that anyone who favors “diversity” would avoid CAIR completely, don’t they represent one of the least diverse entities in America and elsewhere.
P.S.
After an another look at your list, I don’t know if I should get a new credit card, change my bank account, stop eating breakfast cereal or burn my blue jeans.
The Left has teamed up with radicals in their unity to fundamentally change America, and force the acceptance of Sharia Law on the country. Thats why there are caliphates of Islamic law all over the country. We are seeing the end of Minneapolis, Minnesota, because of the complacency to stand up for our own culture and sovereignty against this takeover and great replacement by 3rd world countries.
Also, it’d be nice if someone downvotes my comment, they also say why. Responses are far more impressive than reactions.
Anyone who finanace’s these Terrorists should be charged tried convicted and given Life without Parole
hello hy nice artile
You are missing the point that just “being Jewish” doesn’t solve the problem that Jews ALSO succumb to evil.
Not missing at it all. The problem is that prominent Jews have been a primary force in building the progressive, pro-hamas, anti-Israel, anti-semitic machine. And many continue to do so. 80% of US jews vote lefty. There is no getting around that fact.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-true-face-of-the-anti-israel-movement-fa3e94fe?st=mkzorr6ntca20n7&reflink=article_imessage_share
Read WSJ article about CAIR ….