Did you know that presidential candidate Kamala Harris has close ties to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a radical Hamas-linked organization, whose executive director celebrated the October 7th Hamas terror attack on Israel?

ROBERT SPENCER The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) describes itself as “America’s largest Muslim civil liberties organization.” In that guise, and as it has championed numerous far-left causes, it has become a respected member of the leftist establishment, with numerous ignorant and self-serving politicians lavishing praise on this unsavory gang in hopes of gaining Muslim votes. Among them has been, not surprisingly, Kamala Harris.

Back in Oct. 2020, the Washington Free Beacon reported that “as California’s attorney general and then as U.S. senator, Harris forged a relationship with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), one of the nation’s top anti-Israel groups and advocates for boycotts of the Jewish state.” After the Hamas massacres of Oct. 7, 2023, this matters more than ever. 

CAIR, the Free Beacon added, “advised Harris on community issues during her time in California politics, and she later offered the group her ‘gratitude and admiration’ in a 2018 personal letter to the group.” Specifically, “Hussam Ayloush, executive director of CAIR’s Los Angeles office, praised Harris in 2015 for including the group in an interfaith meeting with law enforcement officials. Harris, he said, ‘exemplified leadership’ by vowing to tackle Islamophobia at a time when the state’s Jewish institutions were facing threats.”

Even worse, long before he praised Kamala Harris, Hussam Ayloush has repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. In 2017, with Donald Trump in the White House, Ayloush called for the overthrow of the U.S. government. 

Yet the following year, Harris wrote to CAIR: “Please accept my gratitude and admiration for your tireless work to promote peace, justice, and mutual understanding,”

CAIR’s cofounder and longtime executive director Nihad Awad infamously said that he was “happy” about Hamas’ Oct. 7 jihad massacre of 1,200 Israelis. In April 2024, Awad eulogized a Muslim Brotherhood cleric, Sheikh Abdul-Majid al-Zindani, who had ties to al-Qaeda as well as Hamas. Al-Zindani was on the UN Security Council’s list of specially designated terrorists. 

Dr Rich Swier  (h/t Alan) In a video that surfaced on X on July 25, Harris told an appreciative audience at the Islamic Center of Southern California, “We must have the courage to object when they use that term, ‘radical Islamic terrorism.‘”

🚨REVEALED: FAR-LEFT KAMALA’S SYMPATHY FOR TERRORISTS🚨

Speaking to the Islamic Center of Southern California, Kamala Harris says the term “radical Islamic terrorism” should be abolished.

Harris is affiliated with NIAC, a pro-Khamenei lobby group for the Islamic Republic. pic.twitter.com/pnIcI2pMKl

— Shelley G (@ShelleyGldschmt) July 26, 2024

According to ROBERT SPENCER, Harris has been paying obeisance to all the Left’s gods, especially the anti-Israel ones.. This has meant a call for a ceasefire in Gaza that would allow Hamas to survive and murder more Israeli civilians in the future, as it has vowed to do.

If Kamala Harris really wants to demonstrate her courage, she should try bucking the prevailing winds and stating the readily demonstrable fact that core texts of the religion of Islam teach that Muslims should wage war against and subjugate unbelievers. She will, of course, never do such a thing.

Harris’ statement at the Islamic Center of Southern California is just a variant of the same theme, as is her subsequent explanation that to speak of “radical Islamic terrorism” supposedly ignored the fact that Muslims have been “the greatest victims of terror” while also ignoring the fact that Islamic law mandates death for heresy and apostasy. 

If there is any actual problem with the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism,” it is with the word “radical.” Violence against unbelievers is unfortunately mainstream in Islamic theology and function of the Islamic state in Islamic theology and law is to “establish Islam as the dominant reigning ideology over the entire world. That’s the ultimate goal of Islamic terrorism: to weaken and ultimately destroy governments that aren’t based on Islamic law so that they can be replaced with Islamic ones.

The problem with Harris’ call for “courage” is that it not only ignores the unpleasant reality of Islamic jihad violence, but it also perpetuates the longtime leftist strategy of shaming and silencing those who tell the truth about such violence. The ultimate beneficiaries of this willful ignorance are the Islamic jihadis themselves; if Harris and her ilk have their way and silence all those whom they smear as “racists” and “bigots” for speaking honestly about jihad, the jihadis will be able to go about their work unopposed and unhindered.

CAIR lobbied against legislation that would have increased security funding for Jewish day schools and other institutions threatened by anti-Semites. It also opposed a widely supported bill denouncing boycotts of the Jewish state, known as the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.

Republican political operatives view Harris’s work with CAIR as an example of the Democratic Party’s very public embrace of anti-Israel activists.

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, on at least five occasions as governor of Minnesota, hosted a Muslim cleric who celebrated Hamas‘s Oct. 7 attack last year on Israel and promoted a film popular among Neo-Nazis that glorifies Adolf Hitler, the Washington Examiner found.

As Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, Harris’s pick for VP, repeatedly hosted a Muslim cleric who celebrated October 7 and shared a link to a pro-Hitler website. Besides, the cleric’s radical Islamist group has also received over $100,000 in state funding. Walz as VP would be a dream come true for terrorists around the world.

On at least five occasions as governor of Minnesota, Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz hosted a Muslim cleric who celebrated Hamas‘s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel and promoted a Neo-Nazi film that glorifies Adolf Hitler.

The Washington Examiner reported that, in May 2023, Imam Asad Zaman of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota joined other Muslim leaders for a mosque security meeting with Walz’s state’s gubernatorial office.

According to funding records reviewed by the Washington Examiner, under Gov. Tim Walz, the state of Minnesota awarded over $2 million to an Islamic group that fundraises for a charity linked to an al Qaeda affiliate. What will we learn about him next? How much worse can it get?