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Daewoo Walid

Isn’t this a perfect exhibition of their basic strategy?

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by Joe Kaufman

On Tuesday, April 8, 2008, the head of the Michigan office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Dawud Walid, will be giving a speech about extremism and terrorism, at Grand Valley State University, in Allendale, Michigan, hosted by the Muslim Students Association. But how can such topics be discussed, when the speaker is a known extremist, and the organization he represents has been involved in terrorism?

Dawud Walid is the Executive Director of CAIR-Michigan. The organization is a local chapter of the group that was recently named a co-conspirator for a Hamas financing trial that took place in Dallas, Texas. As well, in a December 2007 court brief filed by the United States government for a different Hamas-related trial, it is stated that “CAIR conspired with other affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood to support terrorists.”

Walid has held his position with CAIR, since July of 2005. In the nearly three years he has sat at the group’s helm, Walid has issued numerous statements that can be described as nothing less that outrageous.

When a Hezbollah-linked entity, the Al-Mabarrat Charitable Organization, was raided by federal agents in July of 2007, Walid posted on his website that it was still perfectly fine to donate to it, as well as to another terror-linked charity that had been raided, Life for Relief and Development (LIFE). He stated, “Al Mabarrat is still open for business like LIFE. [sic] Unfortantely, these charities may continue to have suspicion cast over them, and may never get their days in court to clear their names from suspicion. I repeat that it is still LEGAL to donate to Al-Mabarrat as well as LIFE.”

One month prior to the Al-Mabarrat raid, Walid gave a speech at the American Moslem Society (a.k.a. Masjid Dearborn), titled ‘Know Your Rights,’ during which he told the center’s congregants that it was alright, at times, to violate the law. He stated, “We should obey the laws of the United States of America, except when those laws bar us from those things that are obligations [of] our religion.”

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