CAIR Pressures OfficeMax to Stop Advertising On Michael Savage Program

Dear SP,

The brief story highlighted below reports that CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations) has successfully pressured OfficeMax to drop its advertising on the Michael Savage radio program. And notice the story says OfficeMax has “joined a growing list of companies” with its decision to stop advertising.

The decision by OfficeMax was announced the same day the Los Angeles Police Department announced it was dropping its proposed anti-terrorism program due to pressure from groups like CAIR.

This is just another example of why it’s so important that we build ACT for America into the nation’s most formidable grassroots organization. Look what’s happening! A tiny, tiny percentage of Americans are represented by CAIR, but because companies like OfficeMax don’t hear from anyone else, they cave in to CAIR’s demands.

We need to let businesses and communities know that we have a voice that is much, much larger than CAIR’s.

Please ACT! today. Here’s all you need to do:

1. Call the OfficeMax office headquarters at 630.438.7800, press "0" when asked who you want to speak to, and when you get an operator, in a polite but firm manner, tell the operator you have heard about the company’s decision to stop advertising on the Michael Savage program because of the pressure from CAIR. Tell them you will no longer shop at OfficeMax until OfficeMax reverses this ill-advised decision.
2. If the 630-438-7800 number is busy, call the Customer Service line, 800-661-5931. It’s better to call the office line first, because if enough people call their phone lines will get clogged up and they’ll know right away that something is happening. Call the 800# only if you can’t get through on the 630.438.7800 line.
3. Some people ask about sending emails in a case like this. Phone calls are better. A barrage of phone calls will get immediate attention from the company.
4. Forward this email to everyone you know, with a short personal message asking them to place a call as well.

Next week, ACT for America will launch a petition that we will take to not only OfficeMax but other companies that have caved in to CAIR, as well as companies that CAIR is pressuring right now.

If CAIR can succeed in this effort to silence Michael Savage, consider the chilling effect this will have on every talk radio host in America. Enough is enough – let’s ACT now!

© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

Trend-setting radio talk show host Michael">http://www.savage-productions.com/Sav... Savage has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the Council">http://www.cair.com">Council on American-Islamic Relations, and has accused the organization of being a "political vehicle of international terrorism" that seeks to do "material harm to those voices who speak against the violent agenda of CAIR's clients."

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in California, seeks damages equal to the ongoing donations from CAIR supporters "who expect CAIR to act in this manner in exchange for continuing financial support" as well as "actual damages according to proof."

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CAIR: Civil rights advocates or radical Islamists?

Muslim lobby group has troubling record of terror arrests

Posted: December 1, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, says its aim is "to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding."

Maybe so, but federal prosecutors have also named the group an "unindicted co-conspirator" in a plot to fund the terrorist group Hamas, several of CAIR's leaders have been convicted on terror charges since 9/11, and one of its founders has reportedly declared that America should be governed by Islamic sharia law.

Adding to the controversy over the high-profile lobby group, CAIR is now being sued by radio talk show host Michael Savage over CAIR's attacks on him and what he says constitute illegal use of his broadcasts.

The lawsuit">http://www.savage-productions.com/Sav... alleges CAIR is a "political vehicle of international terrorism" that seeks to do "material harm to those voices who speak against the violent agenda of CAIR's clients." Filed in U.S. District Court in California, the suit seeks damages equal to the ongoing donations from CAIR supporters "who expect CAIR to act in this manner in exchange for continuing financial support" as well as "actual damages according to proof."

The focal point of the lawsuit is a series">http://www.cair.com/ArticleDetails.as... of audio clips CAIR has been using in its promotions and fundraisings.

Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for CAIR, told WND the group would not comment on the action until the document had been reviewed.

Although the news media generally have portrayed CAIR as a legitimate civil rights group, the organization has had a hard time maintaining its squeaky clean image.

FBI agents arrest CAIR Texas founder Ghassan Elashi and brothers in 2002.

For instance, as WND has reported, Ghassan Elashi, a board member of CAIR's Texas chapter, was convicted in 2005 of channeling funds to a high-ranking official of Hamas – which the U.S. government officially designates a terrorist organization.

As WND reported in October 2006, Elashi was sentenced to nearly seven years in prison for financial ties to a high-ranking Hamas terrorist and for making illegal computer exports to countries that back terrorism.

Other CAIR figures convicted since 9-11 are Randall Todd "Ismail" Royer, a former communications specialist and civil rights coordinator, and Bassem Khafagi, former director of community relations.

Royer was sentenced to 20 years in prison on charges he trained in Virginia for holy war against the United States and sent several members to Pakistan to join Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Kashmiri terrorist group with reported ties to al-Qaida.

In a plea bargain, Royer claimed he never intended to hurt anyone but admitted he organized the holy warriors after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S.

After his arrest, Royer sought legal counsel from Hamas lawyer Stanley Cohen, who said after 9-11 he would consider serving as a defense lawyer for Osama bin Laden if the al-Qaida leader were captured.

Khafagi was arrested in January 2003 while serving with CAIR and convicted on fraud and terrorism charges.

Current CAIR leaders also have made statements in support of Hamas and the domination of the U.S. by Islam.

As WorldNetDaily reported, CAIR's chairman of the board, Omar Ahmad, was cited by a California newspaper in 1998 declaring the Quran should be America's highest authority.

He also was reported to have said Islam is not in America to be equal to any other religion but to be dominant.

Just this past June, CAIR itself was named, along with two other prominent U.S. Islamic groups, as an "unindicted co-conspirator" in a plot to fund Hamas. Federal prosecutors also cited the Islamic Society of North America and the North American Islamic Trust as participants in a plot with five officials of the defunct Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development.

CAIR is a spinoff of the defunct Islamic Association for Palestine, launched by Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook and former university professor Sami al-Arian, who pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy to provide services to Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

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Last March, the House Republican Conference urged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to cancel an event hosted on Capitol Hill by CAIR, calling the group "terrorist apologists."

And the group's regular meetings with the Justice Department and FBI have prompted complaints from case agents, who say the bureau rarely can make a move in the Muslim community without first consulting with CAIR, which sits on its advisory board.

CAIR has even conducted "sensitivity" and cultural training with federal agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement and with the military. In June of last year, a senior Department of Homeland Security official from Washington guided CAIR officials on a behind-the-scenes tour of Customs screening operations at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport in response to CAIR complaints that Muslim travelers were being unfairly delayed as they entered the U.S. from abroad.

Last year, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., withdrew an award she gave to a local CAIR official, saying she was concerned about some statements by CAIR leaders.

Savage's lawsuit follows a CAIR campaign to influence advertisers to abandon the popular talker's program. CAIR's recent announcement said OfficeMax, a leading office products retailer, had joined "a growing list of companies" withdrawing advertising from Savage's program because of his opinions regarding Islam.

That prompted http://www.actforamerica.org the group ACT for America to launch an alert suggesting people call OfficeMax">http://www.officemax.com/omax/custome... to encourage the company to reverse its decision.

"Call the OfficeMax office headquarters … and when you get an operator, in a polite but firm manner, tell the operator you have heard about the company's decision to stop advertising on the Michael Savage program because of the pressure from CAIR. Tell them you will no longer shop at OfficeMax until OfficeMax reverses this ill-advised decision," the advisory said.

"If CAIR can succeed in this effort to silence Michael Savage, consider the chilling effect this will have on every talk radio host in America," wrote American Congress for Truth founder Brigitte Gabriel in the alert.

Rayj00....CAIR is trying to PUSH their muslim agenda and ways on OUR country. They need to BACK OFF Michael Savage. I will be making a few phone calls to their head office...what I have to say won't be very nice or politically correct. Is there any way we can get a list of sponsors for the Michael Savage show? I can only take the man in small doses, but he still deserves a good defense considering the charges are BOGUS!

I'd like to send CAIR a huge slab of pork ribs and a lovely keg of beer with a VERY RELIGIOUS Christmas card and a Teddy Bear named Mohammed!

CAIR's Headquarters:

453 New Jersey Avenue, S.E.
Washington, DC 20003
Tel: 202.488.8787
Fax: 202.488.0833
info@cair.com
www.cair.com

I THINK A NICE CHRISTMAS CARD WITH A PIG ON IT AND A MERRY CHRISTMAS IS A FINE IDEA!

I AM READY TO START THE CHRISTMAS CARDS GOING TO THE ACLU, 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor New York, NY 10004  AT LEAST A DOZEN!!!! DIFFERENT RETURN ADDRESS

(CM) BiotechBabe said:

Rayj00....CAIR is trying to PUSH their muslim agenda and ways on OUR country. They need to BACK OFF Michael Savage. I will be making a few phone calls to their head office...what I have to say won't be very nice or politically correct. Is there any way we can get a list of sponsors for the Michael Savage show? I can only take the man in small doses, but he still deserves a good defense considering the charges are BOGUS!

I'd like to send CAIR a huge slab of pork ribs and a lovely keg of beer with a VERY RELIGIOUS Christmas card and a Teddy Bear named Mohammed!

  I would say that swissamerica.com is supporting him. They are on his website and I have heard them on his radio show. So, if you are considering a gold purchase, please use swissamerica.com and tell them "The Savage Nation sent you"!!!

Also, Buy Direct is a sponsor....but I haven't heard an ad in a couple of days. While I was listening, I heard these: FreeCreditReport.com, Max71.com, 8008163631(something to do with medical health care), Heritage Foundation (myheritage.com), fhu.com, Midwest National Health Insurance 8882879093,

If by chance you happen to talk to other conservative talk show hosts, please ask them why they are not defending him?

I wrote such a nice polemic on Islam in general, and Islam in America...but then I couldn't post it. I knew I would get in trouble for using words like genocide, neutron warhead airbursts, military coup, uncivilized, barbarian, false prophet, etc...

So I'll just say this. When will the patriots in our society and our military services decide that they have had enough?

Inquiring minds want to know...

Robert Rogers said:

I wrote such a nice polemic on Islam in general, and Islam in America...but then I couldn't post it. I knew I would get in trouble for using words like genocide, neutron warhead airbursts, military coup, uncivilized, barbarian, false prophet, etc...

So I'll just say this. When will the patriots in our society and our military services decide that they have had enough?

Inquiring minds want to know...

Robert....I've had ENOUGH! And P Hunt...thanks for the address for CAIR...today Boortz said one of their members said they will NOT STOP until America is ruled under ISLAMIC LAW!

If I am ever FORCED to live under Islamic law, wear a burqa and be treated like an animal (as muslim women are ) in MY America......I will wield a machete, invoke the name LORENA BOBBIT and ALL muslim males will be castrated.

I am not afraid to say that because those that know me...know I am NOT EVIL or malicious...BUT- if the above scenario ever comes to fruition...I WILL STAND AND FIGHT FOR MY COUNTRY AND MY FREEDOM!

Pork Chop anyone?!

I'm with you CM....but may I suggest a Glock instead of the machete...it's much cleaner and more sanitary.... 

I have to get back to studying for finals...just wanted to leave you guys with a little joke to brighten your day:

Good one....only if I were the Texan, I would have said: Fill it with water and......crocodiles, water mochasins, pirahna.....alligators......

 You can read the entire lawsuit on Michaels website.

Michael has mentioned a sponsor CEO that has personally pledged $10,000 to his defense fund!!!

I pledged and I hope all of you reading this would consider going to his website and donating to his defense fund. $5.00....$10.00...$100.00.....whatever you can afford....

This organization (CAIR) MUST be stopped!!! 

Thanks to all of you for understanding that my post is not mere rhetoric. I would be more encouraged if I were aware of a true American (in the historical sense) leader who understands that politics is part of the problem, not the solution, and could unite patriotic Americans into a militant movement capable of resolving the situation. 

Unfortunately, if such a person exists, I don't know who it is. If he or she does not arise soon, I fear it will be too late. The Soviet Union collapsed practically overnight. It can happen here.

God Bless America!

OTHERS ALSO BEING PRESSURED TO STOP SUPPORT:

The WorldNetDaily story below is a triumph of good investigative
journalism.  CAIR (The Council on American-Islamic Relations) repeatedly
denies ties to terrorist organizations, but the evidence disputing those
denials continues to grow.  As the old saying goes, "where there's smoke,
there's fire."  In CAIR's case, there's so much smoke CAIR must be
hoping that the smoke will blind our eyes from seeing the fire.   


HOMELAND INSECURITY                                       
CAIR called 'turnstile' for terrorist suspects              
'Proven record of senior officials being indicted, imprisoned, deported
from U.S.'

Posted: December 4, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

(c) 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

As the Council on American-Islamic Relations lobbies Congress to help
strike its name from a list of co-conspirators in a federal terror case,
WND has learned the Muslim group's ties to terrorism and extremism are
far more extensive than first believed.

Although CAIR is a nonprofit organization, it does not disclose
complete directories of its staff or advisory boards, and even refuses to make
its federal tax filings readily available to the public.

But a review of federal criminal court documents, past IRS 990 tax
records and Federal Election Commission records detailing donor
occupations, reveals that Washington-based CAIR has been associated with a
disturbing number of convicted terrorists or felons in terrorism probes, as
well as suspected terrorists and active targets of terrorism
investigations.

"Their offices have been a turnstile for terrorists and their
supporters," said one FBI veteran familiar with recent and ongoing cases
involving CAIR officials.

As previously reported, three CAIR officials have been linked to
terrorism. But WND has learned that at least 11 other CAIR officials have
been caught up in terror investigations, bringing the total to 14.

Congressional leaders say they are warning lawmakers and other
Washington officials to disassociate from the group due to its growing terror
ties.

"Groups like CAIR have a proven record of senior officials being
indicted and either imprisoned or deported from the United States," said U.S.
Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., co-founder of the House Anti-Terrorism/Jihad
Caucus.

CAIR itself recently was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in an
alleged scheme to funnel $12 million to the terrorist group Hamas. In the
Holy Land Foundation case, federal prosecutors also listed CAIR as a
member of the U.S. branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, a worldwide
jihadist movement that gave rise to Hamas, al-Qaida and other terrorist
groups. The government will retry the Holy Land case, which ended in a hung
jury.

"There was a lot of evidence presented at the recent Holy Land
Foundation trial which exposed CAIR and others as front groups for the Muslim
Brotherhood in the United States," Myrick said.

Still, CAIR is lobbying House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers
and other sympathetic members of Congress to pressure the Justice
Department to expunge its name from the case, arguing the negative
publicity has hurt membership and fundraising.

The federal judge during the trial refused a written request by the
group to strike its name from the list of co-conspirators. The petition is
still pending before the court.

CAIR denies supporting terrorism and continues to claim to be a
"moderate" voice for Muslims in America. The group says its critics are the
extremists, including radio personality Michael Savage, whom the group is
now attacking with a boycott campaign. So far it has convinced
Wal-Mart, OfficeMax, AT&T, JCPenney and other companies to stop advertising on
Savage's popular show.

In response, Savage last week filed a lawsuit against CAIR, accusing
the organization of being a "political vehicle of international
terrorism" that seeks to do "material harm to those voices who speak against the
violent agenda of CAIR's clients."

Ibrahim Hooper, communications director for CAIR, told WND the group
would not comment on Savage's action until the document had been
reviewed.

CAIR, which runs 33 offices and chapters nationwide, also recently
helped defeat an anti-terror plan by Los Angeles police to map the local
Muslim community for extremist neighborhoods. Now it's pressuring GOP
presidential hopeful Mitt Romney to back down from his position against
appointing a Muslim to his Cabinet.

Critics counter that CAIR has no legitimate voice to make such
complaints, because the group is itself an extremist organization that has
employed or appointed to its boards of directors and advisers an inordinate
number of radical co-conspirators, suspected and convicted terrorists,
and other criminals.

To read the rest of this article, click here:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59026

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Pay attention to where those debate questions are coming from....(from wnd)

ELECTION 2008
CAIR's Islamist quizzers
featured at prez debates
Activists posing as ordinary citizens influencing national security dialogue

Radical Islamist groups are planting activists posing as ordinary Muslim Americans to ask candidates questions at the presidential debates.

Most recently, the controversial http://www.cair.com"> color="#0000ff">Council on American-Islamic Relations, several of whose leaders have been prosecuted on terror-related charges, sent the executive director of its Chicago chapter to take part in the Democratic presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa, which was supposed to be an opportunity for "ordinary people" to ply candidates with questions.

Ahmed Rehab

At Saturday's debate, aired on C-Span, CAIR-Chicago Executive Director Ahmed Rehab stood up and asked Sen. John Edwards if he would help Muslims fight "prejudice" and other "abuses" such as hate crimes.

"It seems we're facing a culture of fear-mongering," Rehab complained.

"Senator, in the '60s, Malcolm and Martin gave up their lives fighting for justice for all," he added. "The civil rights movement is not over. It's not done yet. We're still fighting.

"Senator," he continued, "we would like to know if you will fight with us if elected president."

A number of Muslim activists around Rehab erupted into applause and cheers.

 

"You've got some fans," Edwards remarked, before vowing to end "profiling" of and "spying" on Muslim terrorist suspects. He also promised to "close Guantanamo" and stop the "torture" of terrorist detainees.

Despite Rehab's assertion that Muslims are victims of hate crimes and other abuses on a "regular basis," the FBI last month released 2006 data showing anti-Islamic crimes have fallen 68 percent since 2001, and represent just 11 percent of all religiously motivated attacks. According to a report in Investor's Business Daily, the overwhelming majority of such crimes – 66 percent – target Jews.

Also, at last month's Republican debate in St. Petersburg, Fla., a former CAIR intern was selected by host CNN to challenge GOP presidential hopefuls about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and complain about the anger they've created in the Muslim world.

Yasmin Elhady

Wearing a hijab, Yasmin Elhady complained they've created anger in the Muslim world. "My question has to do with the current crisis in Iraq, as well as the U.S. efforts in Afghanistan," she said.

"After living abroad personally in the Middle East for a year, I realized just how much damage the Iraq war and the perception of invasion has done to the image of America," Elhady added. "What would you do as president to repair the image of America in the eyes of the Muslim world?"

CNN, which claimed to pick questioners at random from a pool of "undecided voters," did not cite Elhady's activist background with CAIR. The network simply identified her as "Yasmin from Huntsville, Ala." (She actually lives in Los Angeles, where she attends college at UCLA.)

Federal prosecutors have named CAIR as an unindicted co-conspirator in an ongoing terror fund-raising case. Moreover, as WND first reported, no fewer than 14 CAIR officials – including the Washington-based group's founder and its executive director – have either been convicted or named in terrorism investigations.

Earlier, at CNN's Democratic debate in Las Vegas, another Muslim activist associated with CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood was handed the microphone.

Again, CNN failed to identify him as anything but an average American Muslim.

Khalid Khan

"Our next questioner is – Khalid Khan, if you would please stand for a moment," CNN host Suzanne Malveaux said. "You and I spoke very briefly, and you said you have some concerns about racial profiling."

"Yes, I do," Khan said, sternly. "I am an American citizen and have been profiled all the time at the airport. Since 9/11, hundreds of thousands of Americans have been profiled. And, you know, it is like harassment."

Edwards, who fielded the question first, responded that the Patriot Act needs to be "dramatically changed," to which Khan nodded in agreement.

But Khan, an immigrant from Pakistan, is no ordinary American citizen. He's president of the Islamic Society of Nevada, which has its roots with the radical Muslim Student Association. MSA, which was founded by members of the notorious Muslim Brotherhood, is the forerunner of the Islamic Society of North America, an unindicted co-conspirator in the same terror case with CAIR.

Khan runs the largest mosque in Las Vegas, and hired its controversial imam, Aslam Abdullah, former vice chairman of MPAC in Los Angeles.

In June 2004, Abdullah, who heads an Islamic "seminary" in Pakistan, accused President Bush of engaging in "a religious and racist agenda and prejudice against Islam, Muslims and Arabs." He also has likened Marines in Iraq to the 9/11 terrorists, and publicly questioned whether videotapes showing Osama bin Laden gloating over the attacks were authentic.

Abdullah claims to be moderate, even "progressive," but terror expert Steve Emerson says he is in fact an Islamic extremist.

"The record of Aslam Abdullah's comments during the past few years demonstrates an ideology of militant Islamic extremism," Emerson said. "Pretending to be moderate, his radical agenda typifies the deception of groups that falsely assert to be non-extremist."

Khan, who runs several businesses registered at his home address in Henderson, Nev., had his access badge revoked in 2004 by officials at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas.

The FBI suspects several of the 9/11 hijackers, who met in Vegas before the attacks, may have visited Khan's mosque, Jamia Masjid. The mosque's website links to CAIR's website.