From: Education Coalition of Civic Groups (See Signature Block for list of groups)

To: Hillsborough County School Board,
Hillsborough Superintendant of Schools

CC: Florida Department of Education

Subject: Letter of grievance and demands regarding CAIR gaining access to Hillsborough County Public
School Students.

It is with great concern and considerable thought, that this letter is submitted to you today. We represent civic groups from Hillsborough County, throughout the Great State of Florida, as well as nationally; we are an active, united, and ever-growing voice in regard to the education of our children and those who will be elected or re-elected as stewards to educate and protect them.

We want to place emphasis on that fact it is in a spirit of goodwill that we address you. It is our sincere desire that we will be able to work together to make course corrections within the education system that protect our children from special interest groups, whose agenda is to undermine loyalty to the institutions and specifically the Constitution of the United States. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) is one such group. The FBI has severed all ties with CAIR, and so should the Hillsborough County School District.

CAIR advocates for Sharia Law; CAIR advocates for known terrorist groups whose goal is to harm the United States. CAIR supports and is supported by Muslim Brotherhood groups who have expressed a deep hatred of American Liberty. Thus CAIR and their spokesman, such as HAMAS Operative Hassan Shibly who regularly advocate for these groups and Sharia Law, are working to subvert American law, loyalty to America, American values, and our American heritage, and they have no place in our public schools.

Hillsborough County School Board members, like many other well meaning public servants have been deceived by highly educated and soft spoken members of Muslim Brotherhood front groups in America. For example, CAIR conducted Islamic courses in cultural sensitivity for the FBI until 2009, this training was cancelled and their formal policy severed all ties to CAIR as a result of the US vs. Holy Land Foundation (HLF) Trial in 2008.

CAIR was federally designated as the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee in America aka HAMAS in the HLF trial, the largest terrorism funding case in US history. The HLF funded approximately $12.4 million to HAMAS, specifically for the families of suicide bombers. CAIR leaders were sentenced up to 65 years in prison for their terrorism funding role; in fact the HLF provided the seed money to form the front group CAIR.

Does CAIR have an ulterior motive or Agenda? We felt that this could best be answered by just a few of the many comments by CAIR leadership in their words:

Ibrahim "Dougie" Hooper
Current National Spokesman of CAIR and former employee of CAIR's (dissolved) parent organization, the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP)

"I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future. But I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through education."

(Statement by Ibrahim Hooper, Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 4, 1993)

Omar M. Ahmad

Co-founder and former National Chairman of CAIR, and former President of CAIR's (dissolved) parent organization, the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP)

Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith but to become dominant, he. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."

(Lisa Gardiner, San Ramon Valley Herald, 'American Muslim leader urges faithful to spread Islam's message,' July 4, 1998)


Ihsan Bagby
National Board Member of CAIR, Executive Committee Member of the Board of CAIR-Kentucky

"Ultimately we (Muslims) can never be full citizens of this country… because there is no way we can be fully committed to the institutions and ideologies of this country."

('Political Activities of Muslims in America,' Oxford University Press, 1991)

Ishan Bagby was recently featured in a Red County article titled “CAIR/HAMAS spreads Islamic Propaganda in Florida Approved English Textbook”. This article details the subtle subversion of our Children, which appears to be consistent with the objectives laid out by the Muslim Brotherhood.

We are deeply concerned that HAMAS operative Hassan Shibly, of the CAIR Tampa Chapter has been a regular speaker in Tampa area schools. According to CAIR’s Facebook post on December 3rd, 2011, CAIR had conducted presentations to over a dozen different AP world history and world religions classes in Tampa Public Schools to include Steinbrenner High School.

Kelly Miliziano, a World History teacher at Steinbrenner, wrote in a November 14 email: "Every year I invite a representative from CAIR to speak to our AP World History Students.", and in another email wrote "Over the years I have had many speakers from CAIR come to my classes, and it has been such a good learning experience for the students." Adding, "I would prefer to have a speaker for each period of the day so that students can really interact with the speaker and ask questions."

HAMAS operative Hassan Shibly, has defended designated terrorist groups such as Hezbollah, characterizing it as a "resistance movement" that provides valued social services to the Lebanese people. "They're absolutely not a terrorist organization," Shibly said, and "any war against them is illegitimate.”

However, Just last month, Manhattan U.S. District Judge George B. Daniels, ruled in Havlish, et a.v. bin Ladin, et al., in open court on Thursday December 15, 2011, that Iran and Hezbollah materially and directly supported al Qaeda in the September 11, 2001 attacks and are legally responsible for damages to hundreds of family members of 9/11 victims who are plaintiffs in the case.

Consistent with CAIR’s desire to make Islamic Sharia Law the law of the land in America, Shibly said that Sharia law and not democracy should be implemented in countries where Muslims are the majority during a 2010 interview.

Like it or not, we have been participants in what the Muslim Brotherhood refers to as a “Civilization Jihadist Process” against ourselves, as laid out in the “Strategic Goals for the Group in North America”, a Muslim Brotherhood document captured by Law Enforcement in Annandale Virginia, in the basement of a Senior Muslim Brotherhood leader and subsequently entered into evidence in the HLF trial.

The Ikhwan (M.B.) must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. (Excerpt from “Strategic Goals for the Group in North America”)

This previously classified document details the strategy to destroy and subvert America from within, complete with a list of their groups and those of their friends who support this work. Three of the groups listed; Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP), Occupied Land Fund (OLF) later renamed HLF, and the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR) formed the Leading Muslim “Civil Rights” group in America today known as CAIR.

CAIR leaders and former leaders like Ahmed Bedier of the Tampa Human Rights Commission try to explain this designation away, so it is important to note that additional prosecutions were scheduled for April 2010, until quashed by attorney general Eric Holder despite successful conviction of all defendants on 108 separate counts, as well as the fact several petitions submitted by ISNA, CAIR, and NAIT requesting removal from the Co-Conspirators list in the HLF Trial were denied:

The appeals court upheld the lower courts unindicted co-conspirator designation of ISNA, NAIT, and CAIR ordering the list to be subsequently sealed.

· Following further petitions to the court by ISNA, a 2009 ruling by U.S. Federal Judge Solis, unsealed in July 2010, stated as follows:

“During the early years of OLF/HLF’s operation, OLF raised money and supported Hamas through a bank account that it held with ISNA and NAIT. Indeed, OLF operated from within ISNA in Plainfield, Indiana where Defendant Baker was employed. ISNA checks deposited into the ISNA/NAIT account for OLF were often made payable to ‘the Palestinian Mujahedeen (holy warriors),’ the original name for the Hamas military wing.”

· “The Government has produced ample evidence to establish the associations of CAIR, ISNA, and NAIT with HLF, the Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP), and with Hamas.”

Judge Solis did not remove ISNA, NAIT, or CAIR from the list of unindicted co-conspirators. In the ruling, Judge Solis detailed key evidence demonstrating CAIR was created as a front for Hamas in the United States.

Islamic outreach in America has been primarily conducted by the Muslim Brotherhood and those sympathetic to their cause. Consider Shabbir Mansouri, Founder and Director of the Council on Islamic Education (CIE), which is virtually responsible for all textbook content regarding Islam, Mansouri stated “I am waging a Bloodless Revolution in America’s Public Schools” . The CIE recently changed its name to the Institute on Religion and Civic Values (IRCV) to help camouflage its true nature.

Islamic Indoctrination in our textbooks and public schools has reached epidemic proportions as detailed in reports by A California ACT for America Chapter, American Textbook Council, and most recently a report by Citizens For National Security (CFNS) which cites over 200 false or misleading excerpts in (27) twenty seven of Florida’s approved History and Social Studies textbooks.

It is through education that we will maintain or lose our national identity and produce or fail to produce patriotic Americans. A nation without a strong belief system and/or heritage has no national identity, and therefore lacks the ability to produce a patriotic citizenry with the courage or motivation to defend itself.

Muslim Brotherhood groups in America are in the pre-violent phase and primarily operate in an information battle space. They conduct outreach to the government, law enforcement, media, schools, the religious community, and others for one reason - to subvert them in furtherance of their objectives - implementation of Sharia law as the law of the land.

Allowing CAIR access to our children is tantamount to advocating overturning the Constitution in favor of Sharia Law. This causes our school children to question their loyalty and patriotism.
We assume giving CAIR entre’ into the Hillsborough schools was done without knowledge of who CAIR is. We trust you agree that this organization should not have access to our children, furthermore, that we can no longer tolerate the political correctness or ignorance which has allowed this injustice to be perpetrated on our children.

There are in fact Islamic groups which would be a much better choice to speak to our children, one such group is American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD).

We request the following actions immediately be taken;

1. The School District sever all connections with CAIR/HAMAS and its membership to include HAMAS operative Hassan Shibly.
2. We request a vetting process be implemented to ensure Islamic groups have no connections or affiliations to Muslim Brotherhood entities listed in Attachment “A” of HLF court documents.
3. A list of all schools and classes which CAIR or other Islamic Groups have been allowed to speak to in the Hillsborough School District, be provided to this Coalition.
4. We request equal time with each of these classes to give a factual presentation by experts of our choice to speak on similar topics.
5. We request that all School Board Members to include the superintendant of Schools attend a briefing on “Islamic Indoctrination in America’s Public Schools” by our experts.
6. We request that a presentation on “Islamic Indoctrination in America’s Public Schools” be presented to faculty of each school in the district twice annually by our experts.
7. We request that factual supplements be prepared in conjunction with our experts and textbook teams, as well as their implementation as soon as possible.

Respectfully submitted by:

Dr. Gene A. Youngblood, Conservative Theological University president@conservative.edu
State of Florida, Faith Based Higher Education Advisory Council
Terry Kemple, Tampa – Community Issues Council tkemple@integrity.com
Sheri Krass, Eye on US Education (EUSE) sheri1449@gmail.com
Diane Kepus & Karen Schoen, Florida Assessment Committee for Education (FACE) Keepie@cfl.rr.com
Dr. Alison Rampersad, Textbook Action Network (TAN) sitaramc@comcast.net
Bill Korach, The Report Card http://www.thereportcard.org/
Fmr Commander USNR, Past President of the Navy League, St Augustine Council which was Voted Outstanding Council for 2010.
Clare M. Lopez, Expert Witness Havlish, et al. v. Islamic Republic of Iran, et al.
Sharon Calvert, Tampa TEA Party scalvert@tampabay.rr.com
Tim Curtis, Tampa 912, tcurtis12@hotmail.com
Randy McDaniels, ACT! for America - Jacksonville Chapter ACTjacksonville@gmail.com
Marine Veteran, Occupational Specialties - Counter Intelligence and Operations
Dr. Richard Swier, The United West (TUW) drswier@gmail.com
Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret.) Army Intelligence
Jason Campbell, Program Director, Christian Action Network (CAN) Jpcampbell70@msn.com
Debbie Gonzales, First Coast TEA Party Education gonzojd@comcast.net
Rolando Perez, Bear Witness Central, captainrp23@gmail.com
Roger Homefield, THE JOE CITIZEN SHOW joe@joecitizenshow.com
Stephen Hunter, TEA Party Solutions, Ocala shuntersr@netzero.com
Morgan Thomas, Nassau Patriots, sharkeeman@gmail.com
Sid Van Landingham, United Conservative Group centurian3333@gmail.com

Kathy Haddon, Pinellas Patriots 912 kathy@pinellaspatriots.org

James Long III, Spruce Creek Patriots sprucecreekpatriots@gmail.com

Ann Lindholm, American Soldiers Wife & P91 ranblc@gmail.com