by Yoram Ettinger
yoramtex@netvision.net.il

August 8, 2001

1. HAMAS, ISLAMIC JIHAD AND BIN-LADEN HAVE SET SHOPS IN THE US, focusing on fund-raising, weapon training, terrorist recruitment, P.R. and lobbying. Their aim has been to benefit the perpetrators of anti-US terrorism in NY (Twin Towers), Aden (USS Cole), Saudi Arabia (Khobar Towers) and US embassies in Sudan (' 73), Lebanon (' 83), Kenya and Tanzania (' 98). They have intimidated moderate Moslems, replacing them as the supposed representatives of the Moslem community in the US.
    

2. CONGRESS HAS BEEN LOBBIED BY ISLAMIC ORGANIZATIONS, TO ROLL BACK ANTI-TERRORIST LAWS AND TO LIFT SANCTIONS AGAINST TERRORIST STATES such as Iraq, Iran, Libya, Sudan and Syria. Islamic organizations have taken advantage of US civil liberties, in order to legitimize terror organizations, to undermine FBI&INS efforts to apprehend terrorists upon entering the US, and to force US authorities to disclose secret intelligence data to suspected terrorists.
    

3. THE HOLY LAND FOUNDATION FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT (HLF), based in Richardson, TX, is one of the largest fund raising organizations for Hamas in the US. It was established by Musa Abu Marzook, who was deported by the US, finding a safe haven in Damascus, heading Hamas' political wing. The HLF has raised some $6MN annually for Hamas, transferring annuities to families of suicide bombers!
    

4. THE ISLAMIC ASSOCIATION FOR PALESTINE (IAP), the US propaganda arm of Hamas, is a sister organization of the HLF, disseminating the Hamas Charter, which incites for the murder of Jews. Oliver Revell, former head of FBI counter-terrorism has defined IAP as " Hamas' front." Members of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the anti-Hashemite Jordan Islamic Action Front lectured at IAP's events. IAP's publications have supported Islamic terrorists in Egypt, Algeria, Philippines and Kashmir. IAP's summer camps have served as recruiting and training ground for Islamic terrorists and suicide bombings.
    

5. THE COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS (CAIR), headquartered in Washington, DC, is an offshoot of IAP, entrusted with lobbying Congress. Its Executive Director was a co-founder and PR Director of IAP. Two other co-founders of CAIR served as presidents of IAP.
    

6. THE AMERICAN MUSLIM COUNCIL'S Abdoulrahman Alamoudi praised Hamas and Hizballah at an October 2000 rally in front of the White House. Imad a-Din and Khalid Turaani, of the American Muslims for Jerusalem and the US-based Minaret of Freedom participated at a Beirut terrorist conference, featuring Hamas leaders Khaled Mashal and Mussa Abu Marzook and Iranian, Islamic Jihad and Hizballah officials.
    

7. SHOULD THE US TOLERATE TERROR-SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS ON ITS SOIL, WHILE IT VIEWS ISLAMIC TERRORISM AS AN IMMINENT THREAT?! Shouldn't the US be wary of deadly coral snakes, posing as harmless skipjack snakes?!