ACT for America

[Excerpt:  "A 1991 internal memo to Palestine Committee members reveals that members of the committee intended to further the Muslim Brotherhood’s goals “on the American front.” Mustapha appeared on the list due to his positions with HLF and Hamas’ U.S. propaganda arm, the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP)."]

To that end, read her AP piece linked below. While she parrots CAIR’s talking points from CAIR’s lawsuit, Tareen provides the reader with no background on the unindicted co-conspirator, terror-linked “group” CAIR. She claims to have attempted to contact the Investigative Project on Terrorism, and may well have, but she failed to provide any of IPT’s readily and publicly available information on the ousted Muslim chaplain Kifah Mustapha.

Group sues Ill. police over Muslim chaplain flap | By SOPHIA TAREEN The Associated Press

CHICAGO — A Muslim advocacy group filed a federal discrimination lawsuit Monday over an Illinois State Police decision to revoke the appointment of the agency’s first Muslim chaplain.

Kifah Mustapha, a Chicago-area imam, was named a chaplain in December along with chaplains of other faiths. He underwent training, passed a background check and was issued state identification. But shortly after, the appointment was criticized by the Washington-based Investigative Project on Terrorism, which said Mustapha was a “radical fundraiser” and alleged he had links to Palestinian militant group Hamas.

[Excerpt: "Assistant U.S. Attorney Chris Cardani told jurors in opening statements that Seda, an Iranian immigrant and naturalized U.S. citizen, became the boss of the U.S. chapter of Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation Inc., a charity based in Saudi Arabia. Cardani said the foundation was based on a radical form of Islam that distributed Qurans calling for holy war, and was dedicated to helping Muslim fighters battling the Russian Army in Chechnya."]

EUGENE, Ore. — The prosecution said Monday the founder of the U.S. branch of an Islamic charity accused of trying to smuggle $150,000 to Muslim fighters in Chechnya took extreme steps to leave no paper trail.

But the defense countered tax-form mistakes key to the prosecution's case were made by the charity's accountant, not the defendant.

Pete Seda, also known as Pirouz Sedaghaty, is in U.S. District Court on charges of conspiracy, tax fraud and failing to report sending $150,000 out of the country. He has pleaded not guilty, contending the money was for refugees, not Muslim fighters trying to overthrow the government of Chechnya.

[Excerpt:  "The website BigPeace.com uncovered a scrubbed section of the Cordoba website that detailed a sister project of the organization founded by Rauf called Shari'ah Index Project.

The project's stated goal was to "define, interpret and implement the concept of the Islamic State in modern times."

"Imagine: a Perfectly Islamic State," stated the deleted section of Cordoba's website."]

[Excerpt:  "Sources say one of the men, Ahmed Mohammed Nasser al Soofi, had $7,000 in cash and what looked like mock explosive devices in 2 checked bags, seven cell phones - some of them we're told were taped to empty bottles - and watches taped to shampoo bottles."]