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2016 Regular Session
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 170
BY REPRESENTATIVE IVEY
A RESOLUTION
To urge and request law enforcement and governmental agencies in Louisiana to avoid and
suspend all formal contacts and formal outreach activities with the Council on
American Islamic Relations (CAIR).
WHEREAS, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has suspended all formal contacts
and formal outreach activities with the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) due
to evidence indicating a relationship between CAIR and Hamas, a designated foreign
terrorist organization; and
WHEREAS, one of CAIR's directors was sentenced to a year in federal prison for
violating U.S. sanctions against Iraq; and
WHEREAS, a CAIR director in Virginia pled guilty to terrorism-related financial
and conspiracy charges, which resulted in a federal prison sentence; and
WHEREAS, a communications specialist and civil rights coordinator for CAIR
trained with an al Qaeda-tied Kashmir organization that is listed on the Department of State's
international terror list and was also indicted on charges of conspiring to help al Qaeda and
the Taliban battle American troops in Afghanistan and was sentenced to twenty years in
prison; and
WHEREAS, CAIR's former community affairs director pled guilty to three federal
counts of bank and visa fraud and agreed to be deported to Egypt after he had funneled
money to activities supporting terrorism and had published material advocating suicide
attacks against the United States; these illegal activities took place while he was employed
by CAIR; and
WHEREAS, a CAIR fund raiser was arrested on terrorism-related charges and was
deported from the United States due to his work as executive director of the Global Relief
Foundation, which was designated as a fundraising front organization for a foreign terrorist
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organization by the U.S. Treasury Department for financing al Qaeda and other terrorist
organizations; and
WHEREAS, CAIR opened its first office in Washington, D.C., with the help of a
grant from the Holy Land Foundation; and
WHEREAS, the federal case against the Holy Land Foundation, a charitable
organization that was shut down by the United States Department of the Treasury for
funding Jihadist terrorist organizations, was the largest successful terrorism financing
prosecution in U.S. history, and the case identified CAIR as a Muslim Brotherhood front
group, and CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the trial; and
WHEREAS, the cofounder of CAIR's parent organization, Islamic Association for
Palestine, was sentenced to prison on terrorism charges for financing Palestinian Islamic
Jihad, a designated terrorist organization.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the
Legislature of Louisiana does urge and request law enforcement and governmental agencies
in Louisiana to avoid and suspend all formal contacts and formal outreach activities with the
Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR).
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that nothing in this Resolution shall be construed to
reflect a wholesale judgment of the CAIR organization and its entire membership or to
disparage or cast negative light on the Islamic community in Louisiana or those who adhere
to the Islamic faith.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Louisiana Attorney General correspond with
the United States Department of Justice to determine whether CAIR has been involved in
or supported any terrorist activity.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this Resolution shall have no effect until the
United States Department of Justice makes a determination that CAIR has been involved
in or supported any terrorist activity.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that nothing in this Resolution shall be construed to
prohibit correspondence or contact related to criminal investigations or the reporting of
suspicious activity.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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