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'''Mazen Asbahi''' is a Chicago-area lawyer with many prominent positions within the Arab and Muslim community. <ref>[http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080806/NEWS03/80806062/1005/NEWS03 Ex-metro Detroiter quits Obama post] Free Press, August 6, 2008</ref>  He made national news by resigning one week after [[Barack Obama]]'s campaign made him a 'liaison', an outreach coordinator to the [[Muslim]] community .  

'''Mazen Asbahi''' is a Chicago-area lawyer with many prominent positions within the Arab and Muslim community.<ref>[http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080806/NEWS03/80806062/1005/NEWS03 Ex-metro Detroiter quits Obama post] Free Press, August 6, 2008</ref>  He made national news by resigning one week after [[Barack Obama]]'s campaign made him a 'liaison', an outreach coordinator to the [[Muslim]] community .  

==About==

==About==

*National Association of Muslim Lawyers, which is tied closely with [[CAIR]], the Council on American Islamic Relations. Unindicted co-conspirator in America's largest terror prosecution, U.S. v. Holy Land Foundation.

*National Association of Muslim Lawyers, which is tied closely with [[CAIR]], the Council on American Islamic Relations. Unindicted co-conspirator in America's largest terror prosecution, U.S. v. Holy Land Foundation.

*Muslim Student's Association. Asbahi was student president, the MSA has strong ties with the World Assembly of Muslim Youth. That organization been a central focus of federal investigation for terrorist funding and laundering money by Islamist groups following September 11th. <ref>[http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.845/pub_detail.asp U.S. Muslim Brotherhood Employs Standard Rhetorical Tactics in Defense of Former Obama Campaign Adviser] Family Security Matters, August 11, 2008</ref>

*Muslim Student's Association. Asbahi was student president, the MSA has strong ties with the World Assembly of Muslim Youth. That organization been a central focus of federal investigation for terrorist funding and laundering money by Islamist groups following September 11.<ref>[http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.845/pub_detail.asp U.S. Muslim Brotherhood Employs Standard Rhetorical Tactics in Defense of Former Obama Campaign Adviser] Family Security Matters, August 11, 2008</ref>

   

   

*An eight-year-old connection between Asbahi and [[Jamal Said]], imam at a fundamentalist Bridgeview mosque in [[Illinois]]. Together both had board positions with [[Allied Assets Advisors Fund]], the subsidiary of the North American Islamic Trust. Jamal Said was named in the racketeering trial last year of several alleged Hamas fund-raisers, which ended in a mistrial. <ref>[http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/08/obamas_muslim_affairs_advisor.html Obama's Muslim Affairs Advisor Resigns] American Thinker.com, August 06, 2008</ref>

*An eight-year-old connection between Asbahi and [[Jamal Said]], imam at a fundamentalist Bridgeview mosque in [[Illinois]]. Together both had board positions with [[Allied Assets Advisors Fund]], the subsidiary of the North American Islamic Trust. Jamal Said was named in the racketeering trial last year of several alleged Hamas fund-raisers, which ended in a mistrial.<ref>[http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/08/obamas_muslim_affairs_advisor.html Obama's Muslim Affairs Advisor Resigns] American Thinker.com, August 06, 2008</ref>

==Ties With Democrats==

==Ties With Democrats==

Once allegations started to surface in 2005, Democrats started distancing themselves from Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR groups. As printed in [[Newsweek]], [[Barbara Boxer]] of California has rescinded an award to an Islamic activist in her home state because of the man’s connections to a major American Muslim organization that recently has been courted by leading political figures and even the FBI. <ref>[http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=23817_Barbara_Boxer_Rescinds_Award_to_CAIR&only Barbara Boxer Rescinds Award to CAIR] Newsweek, Dec 29, 2006</ref> Senators [[Charles Schumer]] and [[Richard Durbin]] followed Boxer's lead. '''Mazen Asbahi''' is tied with CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood and [[Democrats]].

Once allegations started to surface in 2005, Democrats started distancing themselves from Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR groups. As printed in [[Newsweek]], [[Barbara Boxer]] of California has rescinded an award to an Islamic activist in her home state because of the man’s connections to a major American Muslim organization that recently has been courted by leading political figures and even the FBI.<ref>[http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=23817_Barbara_Boxer_Rescinds_Award_to_CAIR&only Barbara Boxer Rescinds Award to CAIR] Newsweek, Dec 29, 2006</ref> Senators [[Charles Schumer]] and [[Richard Durbin]] followed Boxer's lead. '''Mazen Asbahi''' is tied with CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood and [[Democrats]].

==Criticism==

==Criticism==

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