See that building? According to a Robert Spencer FrontPage Magazine article, it was built with the help of Saudi money. It's CAIR's headquarters, conveniently located a few blocks from Capitol Hill on New Jersey Avenue.From FrontPage:
A few days ago Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American Islamic Relations was on Tucker Carlson's MSNBC show to discuss Pope Rage, and Carlson did a fairly good job pressing him on some points -- although Hooper was so combative that Carlson twice had to calm him down and reassure him that he agreed with him.
At the end of the segment, however, after he got Hooper to tell the Saudi government that execution for apostasy was wrong, Carlson challenged Hooper on CAIR's receiving money from the Saudi government. Hooper declared: "To my knowledge we don't take money from the government of Saudi Arabia."
Well, I know that Ibrahim Hooper words his statements as carefully as the Pope does, as in the memorable incident when Hooper told Rachel Neuwirth about allegations that CAIR supported Hamas and Hizballah: "CAIR does not support these groups publicly." So I'm not quite sure how to take this new statement. Does he mean that they don't take money from the Saudi government, but from individual Saudis? Or that CAIR may take money from the Saudi government, but if it does, no one is telling Ibrahim?
Spencer goes on to quote passages from Frank Gaffney and friend of the blog Daniel Pipes, who note that money that originally came from Saudis, but maybe, maybe not from the Saudi government, does end up in CAIR's bank account.
It's a tough task to make sense of financial dealings from the Islamic world, but to be sure, some of CAIR's cash was really at one time Saudi riyals.
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