Thank you, all, for coming out to this most important event.

Since the founding of HAMAS by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, thousands of lives have been shattered. And we’re not just talking about those innocents that have been brutally murdered. We’re talking about all those that have been injured and maimed… those that have lost limbs… those that can no longer walk… those that can no longer hear or see… those friends and families that have to live out the rest of their lives with the pain of knowing that their loved ones’ lives were extinguished in the most evil way known to man.

HAMAS is suicide squads… troops of children, many of whom were born to commit suicide. It is an assembly line of death and destruction! These kids – kids – teenagers – young adults – are promised an afterlife of paradise with the fulfillment of all of their sexual desires… their families are promised money…

The majority of the locals in their area agree... that it’s the right thing to do… that it’s a legitimate form of resistance! They praise them as shaheeds… martyrs. They say they’re fighting for a cause. But what cause takes an infant and breeds that infant into becoming a human time bomb? What cause promises a child heaven, while putting scores of innocent people through a living hell?

HAMAS is the ultimate evil in the world, and HAMAS must be stopped before its suicide squads are unleashed right here on our shores.

It was just a week ago that the new leader of HAMAS, Abdel Aziz Rantisi, stated, “We knew that Bush is the enemy of G-d, the enemy of Islam and Muslims. America declared war against G-d. [Ariel] Sharon declared war against G-d and G-d declared war against America, Bush and Sharon. The war of G-d continues against them and I can see the victory coming up from the land of Palestine by the hand of HAMAS.”

My friends, we are not here to warn people about HAMAS’s threats. We are gathered here to tell the public that HAMAS is already here. In fact, HAMAS has been here since the mid 70’s, when HAMAS was known by its predecessor’s name, the Islamic Association… which, incidentally, was also formed by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.

It is then not hard to understand that, in 1981, one of the highest ranking members of HAMAS, Mousa Abu Marzook – who is still a leader in HAMAS – created an organization in Chicago, Illinois named the Islamic Association for Palestine.

The Islamic Association for Palestine is credited with publishing the actual HAMAS charter that calls for the annihilation of Israel. And sources have indicated that the Islamic Association for Palestine wrote parts of the charter.

For the past 23 years – nearly a quarter century – the Islamic Association for Palestine has grown and thrived in America, and it is continuing to grow and seek power.

Let it be known that this organization is none other than a HAMAS front… and one of its past leaders, Nihad Awad, is currently speaking right here in this hotel… at a banquet, in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida!

The group that Nihad Awad is speaking in front of is CAIR or the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Awad is CAIR’s national Executive Director.

CAIR calls itself an Islamic civil rights organization, but this is no more of a fantasy than the one that says the suicide bombers are going to heaven.

CAIR was formed in 1994 by three leaders of the Islamic Association for Palestine with $5000 from the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, a pseudo-charity that was later shut down for raising millions of dollars for HAMAS.

Most probably, the founding of CAIR was to take heat off of the Islamic Association for Palestine, after the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, and to assist those that were involved in the bombing, as CAIR did.

The support for HAMAS by Nihad Awad – who again is speaking in this hotel behind us – has been blatant. While he was with the Islamic Association for Palestine, he became an editor for the Muslim World Monitor, a publication that, according to counter-terrorism expert Steven Emerson, “celebrates successful Hamas terrorist attacks.”

In 1994, Awad defended HAMAS on CBS’s ’60 Minutes.’ When asked if he supports “the military undertakings of HAMAS,” he said, “The United Nations Charter grants people who are under occupation [the right] to defend themselves against illegal occupation.”

And that same year, while at a symposium at Barry University in Florida, Awad stated his feelings in as clear language as possible. He stated, “…after I researched the situation inside and outside Palestine, I am in support of the Hamas movement…”

My friends, Nihad Awad should not be eating a fancy meal at a formal banquet in Ft. Lauderdale. He should be eating out of a metal bowl in Gitmo!!!

“But Joe, how can you say such a thing? We have Freedom of Speech in this country! You need proof of wrongdoing!”

That is correct, and that is what I’m going to provide you with now… proof that the organization CAIR, in 2001, appeared to have materially supported terrorists.

According to the Justice Department (Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 113B, Section 2339A, entitled 'Providing material support to terrorists'), such support can result in life imprisonment.

In 2001, right after the September 11th attacks, CAIR placed on their website, under a picture of the World Trade Center in flames, a plea for donations. It read, “Donate to the NY/DC Emergency Relief Fund.” Yet, when people clicked on the link, it did not take them to any NY/DC Emergency Relief Fund. No, it took them straight to the website of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, a pseudo-charity that was created by the same HAMAS leader that created the Islamic Association for Palestine, and as stated earlier, a pseudo-charity that was closed down by the United States for raising millions for HAMAS.

The fact that CAIR was toying with the emotions of persons wanting to give money to a fund that CAIR disguised as one related to the 9/11 attacks is despicable… The fact that CAIR was asking people to donate to an organization that was raising millions for a terrorist organization that regularly sends suicide squads to murder innocent people is criminal.

On December 2, 2001, while CAIR had this link to the Holy Land Foundation on their site, a member of HAMAS detonated a bomb attached to himself inside a bus in Haifa, Israel, murdering 15 and wounding 40 others. And a day earlier, 11 young people were killed by a suicide bombing in an entertainment area in Jerusalem.

Now, someone might say, “But Joe, CAIR took down the link to the Holy Land Foundation the same day the pseudo-charity was shut down. In the months that CAIR had the link to the Holy Land Foundation on their site, maybe CAIR didn’t know about the terrorist connections of the charity.”

Yes, someone might say that. However, when one finds out that the head of the Holy Land Foundation, Ghassan Elashi, was none other than one of the founding board members of CAIR’s Texas chapter – when one finds out that the head of the Holy Land Foundation was a leader in CAIR who now sits in a United States prison – that paints an entirely different picture altogether.

And as stated previously, the Holy Land Foundation was founded by the same individual who founded CAIR’s parent organization, the Islamic Association for Palestine.

Furthermore, around the same time that CAIR asked for donations for the Holy Land Foundation, they asked people to donate money to another pseudo-charity that was shut down by the U.S. Government for raising funds for HAMAS, Al Qaeda and other terrorist entities, the Global Relief Foundation… and its leader, Rabih Haddad, was deported by the United States.

CAIR described the closure of the Global Relief Foundation as the racial profiling of an organization that “had established a track record of effective relief work.”

And CAIR called the closure of the Holy Land Foundation “unjust” and “disturbing.”

My friends, the closure of this phony charity was neither “unjust” nor “disturbing.” No, what is unjust and disturbing is the fact that CAIR – an organization that has been created by a front for the terrorist group HAMAS – is having a banquet in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. That is what’s unjust and disturbing! They shouldn’t be having a fancy banquet… They should be behind bars. And I hope, very soon, America wakes up out of its sleep and puts them there.

Thank you very much.

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