[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 44 (Wednesday, March 14, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H2490]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              CAIR MEETING

  (Mr. McHENRY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Speaker, House Democrats and the Speaker of the 
House arranged for a conference room in the Capitol to be used by the 
Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, an Islamic advocacy 
group which refuses to disavow terrorist groups like Hamas and 
Hezbollah.
  CAIR officials have been charged with, and some convicted of, 
offenses related to the support of terrorism, including a CAIR 
fundraiser, Rabih Haddad, as well as a founding board member and a 
former CAIR civil rights coordinator.
  Most notably, the CAIR fund-raiser Haddad was deported to Lebanon in 
2003 after being arrested in a raid on an Islamic charity that Federal 
officials said, ``provided assistance to Osama bin Laden and the al 
Qaeda network and other known terrorist groups.''
  Apparently, the Democrats live in some parallel universe where it is 
okay to set up a meeting in the Capitol for a group with known 
terrorist ties. The American people must ask about this colossal 
failure of judgment. With friends like these, imagine our enemies.

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