Free Muslim Mafia by Paul Sperry

al-Qaida-trained terrorist, even after he made a detailed confession. 8 After a federal jury convicted Abu Ali on all counts of aiding al-Qaida and plotting terrorist attacks, CAIR continued to support and defend him. The young terrorist, who was recently linked to the al-Qaida ringleader of the London suicide bombings, is serving a life sentence in a supermax facility.
    Entries in CAIR’s visitor register reveal its headquarters has an open door policy for such terrorists. CAIR is the only place in America (outside of criminal defense law firms) where terrorists are valued clients.
    Curiously, there are no clients or visitors listed in CAIR’s national register during the month of September 2001. By comparison, numerous visitors made entries during the months of August 2001 and October 2001.
    SAMI AL-ARIAN
     
    CAIR has long championed the case of this convicted Palestinian terrorist, including co-sponsoring the premiere of a documentary film lionizing him. CAIR in 2007 hosted the screening of USA vs. Al-Arian at a Washington theater just a year after al-Arian was sentenced to fifty-seven months in prison followed by deportation. 9
    In a plea deal, he copped to a reduced charge of “conspiracy to make or receive contributions of funds, goods, or services to, or for the benefit of, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad,” a federally designated terror group.
    After the former Florida professor was released from prison last year, CAIR issued a congratulatory statement. “We welcome Dr. al-Arian’s release and hope that it is an indication that justice may ultimately be served in this disturbing case,” said CAIR chief Awad. 10
    However, al-Arian remains under house arrest in northern Virginia on a federal contempt citation after refusing to testify in front of a Virginia grand jury investigating a network of Muslim Brotherhood fronts known as the Safa group, despite being granted immunity from prosecution. Al-Arian, a senior Muslim Brotherhood member, received funds from leaders of the Safa group.
    TAHA AL-AWANI
     
    Federal prosecutors listed al-Alwani as an unindicted co-conspirator in the al-Arian terror case. His International Institute of Islamic Thought, or IIIT, was the single biggest donor for al-Arian’s Tampa-based terror front group. 11
    The Virginia think tank IIIT (pronounced “triple I-T”) is at the center of a long-running terror financing probe vehemently protested by CAIR.
    After federal agents raided IIIT and the other Brotherhood fronts in the Safa group network after 9/11, CAIR rushed to their defense, even lobbying members of Congress to pressure the Treasury Department and FBI to back off their investigations, internal CAIR documents detail. 12
    In one of its internal phone directories, CAIR lists another IIIT honcho among its “Recommended Community Leaders.” Jamal Barzinji, a senior Muslim Brotherhood leader, remains the subject of a federal terror financing investigation. “Barzinji is not only closely associated with PIJ [Palestinian Islamic Jihad], but also with Hamas,” said senior federal agent David Kane in a sworn court affdavit. 13
    CAIR has a lot at stake in the Safa investigation. The ties between it and the Saudi-backed group are incestuous. For starters, CAIR contracts with Barzinji’s brother’s printing company to publish the books and other propaganda materials it distributes. Amana Limited’s offices were among those searched after 9/11.
    Also, CAIR opened its Maryland/Virginia chapter right across the street from IIIT in Herndon, Virginia in an office owned by another Safa entity, Sterling Management Group. 14 CAIR’s landlord, Sterling CEO Yaqub Mirza, a Safa ringleader also under terror suspicion, attended its ribbon-cutting ceremony in 2004. 15
    Of all the office space available in Fairfax County, CAIR chose to set up shop not just in Herndon, but on Grove Street, where many of the companies raided by federal agents are located. It was a natural fit, of course. CAIR intern