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1. Speeches from the CAIR Banquet, November 18, 2006

    All speeches were recorded at the CAIR Annual Banquet November 18, 2006. Please download and distribute. Help expand public awareness of our increasing danger from CAIR and similar organizations forcing our civic and governmental institutions into dhimmitude.

    1. Keith Ellison, Congressman-elect (D-MN) - first Muslim Congressman

    [CNSNews.com: First Muslim Congressman Won't Address Muslim Group After All
    Bridget Cusick, a spokeswoman for Ellison, told Cybercast News Service Wednesday that Ellison had never accepted the group's invitation and was never scheduled to appear at the banquet...]
    Ellison excuse #1: From Introduction: “He sent a very short video apologizing for not being here, but he promised the next time he will work with scheduler very closely so that he doesn’t miss a chance...  He promised to be at every CAIR function. So with that, in a couple minutes Keith Ellison who wanted to be here. The right wing media tried to exploit the fact that he was not coming here, and he said, I’ll step in, I’ll do the video to prove them wrong, I support CAIR, I support the Muslim community, and I give thanks to Allah that CAIR and the Muslim community has supported me…So next time he will be here with us, but we just wanted to get this video...”
    Ellison Excuse #2: Ellison: “Unfortunately I can’t be there in person as I’d like to be because we had a conflict in schedules. It was a mistake that I made. Very sorry about that. But I am pleased to be here with you through video...

    2. Albert Wynn, Congressman (D-MD)

    Ellison Excuse #3: “My colleague Keith Ellison was scheduled to be here but I understand that he has a family situation that prevented him from coming…”

    3. Sheila Jackson Lee, Congressman (D-TX)

    Jackson Lee Excuse: “My deepest regrets for not being able to join you this evening.  I am celebrating the 50th anniversary of Houston’s firefighters.”

    4. Mike Honda, Congressman (D-CA)

    5. Joseph Persichini, FBI Washington Field Office

    [CAIR Press Release 7/14/2004: “The Muslim community ... wants to play a positive role in protecting our nation's security, but that role is made more difficult if the FBI is perceived as pursuing suspects much more actively than it is searching for community partners.”]
    “I also am on a mailing list for my blackberry for CAIR. Now Mr. Hooper, I don’t know what he does all day…I must get ten emails a day from CAIR. And if I was not aware of what was going on at CAIR, I would be at a loss (loud applause)….  Yesterday, Imam [Majid] told the audience he had an opportunity to sit with our director of the FBI. And he told him, I go to bed at night and stay awake like you do thinking about ‘hope nothing happens in this country.’  And that’s the dialogue, how we will move forward…If anyone from our council has an issue, they can get hold of me or our staff 24 hours a day and we can have that dialogue...We need you.  We need your help….We can’t do it by ourselves…it is with collaboration that we will protect this nation...”

    6. Colonel David M. Rohrer, Fairfax County Chief of Police

    7. Jeremy Henzell Thomas, The Book Foundation

    8. Parvez Ahmed, CAIR National Board Chairman

    “The U.S. government’s lack of any serious attempt to forge people-to-people dialogue with Muslims both at home and abroad is both a source and indicator of our misguided policies. To overcome this misunderstanding, it is time for policymakers to constructively engage with mainstream Muslim voices both here and abroad...the rising religiosity in the Muslim world needs to be engaged, not marginalized.” 

    9. Soundtrack from 2006 CAIR “New Brand” video

    10. Nihad Awad, CAIR Executive Director, fundraising appeal

    [5//2006 Gulf News: “A US delegation led by CAIR officials yesterday held discussions with Al Habtoor group chairman Khalaf Al Habtoor and other in Dubai about a $50-million public relations campaign that the US group has launched in the US to change negative public perceptions about Islam...CAIR, which is located near the US Senate, plans to boost its activities with a new $24-million office building.  It has acquired land for a new seven-storey building and is now raising funds to start construction.”]
    [5//2006 UAE Interact News: “Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and UAE Minister of Finance and Industry, has endorsed a proposal to build a property in the United States to serve as an endowment for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), according to a senior official at the Washington DC-based organisation.”]
    11/18/2006 Nihad Awad: “CAIR’s budget is only $4 million dollars.”

2. CAIR Fundraising Practices - November 18, 2006

CAIR claims that the banquet raised over $620,000. However, of that amount, the second $300,000 was allegedly donated by an unnamed “family” as a “match”  for the first $300,000 raised.  “Families” attended the banquet from the embassies of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, among others.

Even that initial $300,000 was not raised entirely from the Washington area. The master of ceremonies for the fundraising segment at the banquet, Rodwan Saleh (President, Islamic Society of Greater Houston), brought two contributors from Texas with him. The first donation of $50,000 and the second donation of $25,000 were both from his fellow Texans. The third donation of $25,000 came from the Unity Chamber of Commerce of Minnesota, constituents of the absent Congressman-elect.

The major corporate supporter of CAIR is Citibank, who provided several attendees.

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