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MacFarquhar gets off on the right foot, noting, "Several federal officials said CAIR's Washington office frequently issued controversial statements that made it hard for senior government figures to be associated with the group." But he cites none of these "controversial statements." Nor does he mention the CAIR-sponsored fund-raisers and conferences featuring former neo-Nazi leader William Baker and jihadist cleric Wagdy Ghoneim. (At a 1998 CAIR event, Ghoneim sang, "No to the Jews, descendants of the apes." And, after he was deported in 2004 for overstaying his visa, Hussam Ayloush, CAIR's Southern California director, called Ghoneim's removal from the U.S. "a dent in our civil rights struggle.")</blockquote></ref>
MacFarquhar gets off on the right foot, noting, "Several federal officials said CAIR's Washington office frequently issued controversial statements that made it hard for senior government figures to be associated with the group." But he cites none of these "controversial statements." Nor does he mention the CAIR-sponsored fund-raisers and conferences featuring former neo-Nazi leader William Baker and jihadist cleric Wagdy Ghoneim. (At a 1998 CAIR event, Ghoneim sang, "No to the Jews, descendants of the apes." And, after he was deported in 2004 for overstaying his visa, Hussam Ayloush, CAIR's Southern California director, called Ghoneim's removal from the U.S. "a dent in our civil rights struggle.")</blockquote></ref>
==CAIR FL==
A 2019 report:<ref>Christina Armes, [https://spectator.org/broward-county-has-another-extremism-problem/ Broward County Has Another Extremism Problem], ''American Spectator'', June 21, 2019. [https://www.meforum.org/islamist-watch/58780/broward-county-has-another-extremism-problem].</ref>
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Hamze's SFMF is an umbrella group for a number of Islamic organizations in Florida. Both SFMF and several of its member-bodies boast ties to extremist operatives. On June 2, for example, just a week before the Group Violence Initiative event, SFMF promoted an event featuring hardline Islamist speakers and hosted by one of its member-organizations. The Islamic Foundation of South Florida's "Grand Iftar" featured prominent Islamist activist Yusuf Abdallah as a keynote speaker. In February, Abdallah was the subject of international news coverage after it emerged that he was to share a stage with Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, despite Abdallah's well-documented history of violently-themed anti-Semitism. On his Facebook account, Abdallah posted a "very beautiful" story about a 'resistance hero' named Zharif al-Tawl, who took revenge against Jewish "gangs" by providing guns to "kill more than 20 jews" and "fire rockets at Tel Aviv."
This dangerous rhetoric is typical of the company that SFMF officials keep. Before leading SFMF, Hamze served as the "executive and operations director" of the Florida branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Under his watch, in July 2014, CAIR-Florida sponsored a pro-Hamas rally in Miami, at which participants chanted "We are Hamas! We are Jihad!" CAIR has repeatedly denied involvement, yet CAIR was listed on Facebook as a sponsor of the event and CAIR affiliates organized and attended the event.
In fact, Hamze's SFMF and CAIR-Florida continue to share officials. For example, Wilfredo Ruiz is an Executive Committee Member for Public Relations at SFMF, and also the communications director for CAIR Florida. Ruiz's history, like many others at CAIR and SFMF, is riddled with working with pro-Hamas and anti-Semitic groups. In an article Ruiz wrote for a Spanish Islamic website, he offers an anti-Semitic conspiracy that the Talmud, an ancient Jewish text, [sic] instructs Jews to [falsely claimed] "throw dead dogs and monkeys" at the graves of Jesus and Mohammad. In another instance, Ruiz 'liked' a Facebook post denying the Holocaust and claiming "Hitler was not to [sic] bad after all."
Currently, SFMF's Facebook is managed by Abdur Rahman al-Ghani, who offers similar extreme rhetoric. He has used his personal Facebook page to denounce Jews, calling them "demonic" and "the most evil on earth."</blockquote>
==Abubakar Osman / Sadiqq Abu Osman==
==Abubakar Osman / Sadiqq Abu Osman==
CAIR-MN Official Abubakar Osman, or Sadiqq Abu Osman, posted on Facebook back in 2008: “i wish hitler was alive to f*** up the jewish ppl.”<ref>M Olson, [https://alphanews.org/cair-mn-official-says-i-wish-hitler-was-alive-to-f-up-the-jewish-ppl/ CAIR-MN Official says “i wish hitler was alive to f*** up the jewish ppl”], Alpha, April 17, 2019.<blockquote>
CAIR-MN Official Abubakar Osman, or Sadiqq Abu Osman, posted on Facebook back in 2008: “i wish hitler was alive to f*** up the jewish ppl.”<ref>M Olson, [https://alphanews.org/cair-mn-official-says-i-wish-hitler-was-alive-to-f-up-the-jewish-ppl/ CAIR-MN Official says “i wish hitler was alive to f*** up the jewish ppl”], Alpha, April 17, 2019.<blockquote>