'Bouncers': CAIR leaders block reporter from Muslim congresswoman

In🇺🇸today, I reported on CAIR & Linda Sarsour anti-Israel, anti-Semitic #IStandWithIlhan lobbying. CAIR reps & backers (♀yellow coat, tall♂) acted as bouncers to Rashida Tlaib's office, blocking me from entry, then taunting me. Done, they returned to their base: CAIR. pic.twitter.com/yrYDaimGLc

— 💓 Asra Q. Nomani, PI 💓 (@AsraNomani) March 7, 2019

Video is circulating on social media showing far-left Muslim activist Linda Sarsour, a co-founder of the Women's March, ordering accompanying leaders of the Council on American-Islamic Relations to block a reporter from entering the office of freshmen Muslim Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.

The Investigative Project on Terrorism reported Asra Nomani, a former Wall Street journal reporter and a leader in the Muslim Reform Movement, documented her attempt to enter Tlaib’s office.

She said CAIR leaders "acted as bouncers," blocking her from entry, then taunted her.

The video shows Sarsour accompanied by the executive director of CAIR, Nihad Awad, who helped found the group as a front for the Muslim Brotherhood and its spinoff Hamas, according to FBI evidence.

Ahmed Bedier, former director of CAIR's Tampa chapter, and CAIR's government affairs director, Robert McCaw, also are seen in the entourage.

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IPT noted the group was on Capitol Hill to lobby against a resolution, passed Thursday, condemning anti-Semitic statements from Tlaib's colleague, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., even though the resolution does not name Omar.

The video shows Sarsour, speaking Arabic, ordering people in her entourage to block Nomani.

IPT translates.

"Don't let her be one of the first ones in. Do you all hear me?" Sarsour says.

She turns to Nomani.

"Come stand here," demands Sarsour.

"Don't let her be one of the first ones in," she then says to the CAIR leaders.

Sarsour, IPT pointed out, has espoused anti-Semitic smears worse than Omar's. She advocates a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, meaning Israel would be eliminated. Rejecting Israel's existence is a form of anti-Jewish bigotry according to the State Department's definition of anti-Semitism.

"I am an unapologetic pro-BDS, one-state solution supporting resistance supporter here in the U.S.," Sarsour told an audience at the Islamic Society of North America's annual convention in September, IPT reported.

Tlaib is a regular at CAIR fundraising events across the country.

The same day, Sarsour was photographed in front of the office of fellow freshman Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. She was flanked by Awad and Jinan Shbat, CAIR's national outreach manager.

A Twitter message with the photo by the far-left group Jewish Voice For Peace said: "This is how we win. Palestinian, Muslim, Jewish, Black solidarity. #istandwithilhan"

Conservative Review reported in January that Shbat declared support for Hamas in a tweet last June.

"If people can't understand by now that Hamas was created mid-80s as a resistance to Israel, that they are the only ones fighting for Palestinians from within Palestine (screw the PA), then you all need to just f*** off," she wrote.

Watered-down resolution

WND reported Thursday CAIR criticized the original resolution, which was meant to condemn Omar's anti-Semitic remarks, and praised the many additions that watered it down. Among the additions were condemnations of "Islamophobia," white supremacism, anti-Catholic remarks against John F. Kennedy and treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Significantly, CAIR echoed remarks by Omar that drew bipartisan denunciation, saying the resolution's original intent was "introduced to silence legitimate criticism of domestic support for the discriminatory and segregationist policies of a foreign government that receives billions of American taxpayer dollars," referring to Israel.

CAIR said it welcomed changes to the resolution "made in response to criticism by grassroots coalitions and voices of conscience within the House."

The resolution was approved late Thursday afternoon by a 407-23 vote. While 23 Republicans said they voted against the resolution because it was "watered down," it specifically condemned the "dual allegiance" sentiments Omar expressed toward supporters of Israel.

Last week, Omar said her critics represent a "political influence in this country that says it is OK to push for allegiance to a foreign country," meaning Israel.

WND reported Omar is in company with the likes of radical Muslim activist Linda Sarsour and CAIR in accusing Jews of having a "dual loyalty" to the United States and Israel.

CAIR Executive Director Awad said in December 2017 when the U.S. announced the move of its embassy to Jerusalem that "this administration will put the interests of Israel and its lobby here in the United States above the interests of the United States."

The FBI blacklisted CAIR from outreach programs after the Islamic organization was named an unindicted co-conspirator in a plot to fund Hamas, a State Department-designated foreign terrorist organization.

During the trial, the FBI presented evidence CAIR was founded as a Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas front group. More than a dozen CAIR leaders have been charged or convicted of terrorism-related crimes. And the group also was designated a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates.

Omar: Israel's 'evil doings'

Omar in 2012 accused Israel of "hypnotizing the world" and prayed that "Allah awaken the people and help them see [its] evil doings."

In February, she responded to a tweet from journalist Glenn Greenwald about House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy threatening to punish her and another congresswoman for being critical of Israel.

Omar tweeted in response: "It's all about the Benjamins baby."

In another tweet she named AIPAC as a group funding Republican support for Israel.

After criticism from Pelosi and other Democratic leaders, Omar issued a qualified apology, pledging to learn more about "the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes" while also blaming Jewish money for driving the criticism. Two days later, she took a personal swipe at a Jewish diplomat during a congressional hearing.

President Trump called on her to resign or be barred from serving on congressional committees, saying, "Anti-Semitism has no place in the United States Congress."

Since then, it's been reported she is scheduled to speak alongside a notorious, anti-Semitic Muslim leader.