Report: Facebook and Twitter Consult With Terror-Tied CAIR Over Who Gets Banned From Platforms
The Hamas-tied Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), which is best known as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism financing case in U.S. history, appears to have access to high-ranking Facebook and Twitter executives and has communicated with these individuals about who should be allowed to stay on their platforms, according to a Wall Street Journal report published Tuesday.
The Wall Street Journal reports that CAIR officials “complained to Twitter” about activist Laura Loomer, citing a tweet in which she called the anti-Semitic Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., an anti-Semite and an apologist for Sharia law. Loomer was later permanently banned from Twitter.
Zahra Billoo, the executive director of CAIR’s San Francisco chapter, was quoted in the Journal piece as an individual who appears to have special access to both Twitter and Facebook.
“The council doesn’t often step in to advocate against other users, says Executive Director Zahra Billoo, but did so in the case of Ms. Loomer based on her previous comments about Muslims,” the piece explains.
Yet the Wall Street Journal fails to note that Billoo herself is a proven radical extremist. In tweets that remain publicly available, Billoo has expressed her support for an Islamic caliphate and Sharia law. She also claims, in multiple tweets, that ISIS is on the same moral plane as American and Israeli soldiers, adding that “our troops are engaged in terrorism.”
This is the CAIR Director who is consulting with Facebook and Twitter on who gets to stay on their platforms, according to a new report in the WSJ today:https://t.co/1Nb3u7XFxi pic.twitter.com/9I24SuzIRZ
— Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) January 8, 2019
@Stormcrow6 and to be clear, I would argue that many of our troops are engaged in terrorism. Should you have your rights shredded too? #NN12
— Zahra Billoo (@ZahraBilloo) June 9, 2012
Speaking of killers in Iraq, how many decades have our troops been there now? #SOTU
— Zahra Billoo (@ZahraBilloo) January 31, 2018
Is the CIA less brutal and grotesque than ISIS?
— Zahra Billoo (@ZahraBilloo) February 19, 2015
I'm more afraid of racist Zionists who support Apartheid Israel than of the mentally ill young people the #FBI recruits to join ISIS. #CVE
— Zahra Billoo (@ZahraBilloo) February 18, 2015
Billoo is not an anomaly at CAIR. Her views reflect the mainstream consensus within the organization, which over the years has attempted to transform itself from a clandestine Hamas-funding operation to a mainstream Muslim “civil rights organization.” CAIR directors have cheered terrorist attacks, publicly declared support for terrorist groups, and engage in regular bigotry against various religions, ethnicities, women, homosexuals, and others.
However, not everyone is buying into this supposed transformation. In 2014, the United Arab Emirates classified CAIR as a terrorist organization, given its ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Several bills have been introduced in both houses of Congress designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. It remains unclear if CAIR would be included, given its substantial ties to Hamas and, by extension, the Muslim Brotherhood.
For years, Silicon Valley tech giants have been all too eager to look the other way and allow groups like CAIR to use their platform to spread propaganda completely unchecked. Others have bought into the group’s newfound “civil rights group” label and even funded CAIR’s advocacy. Now, the social media titans appear to be consulting with CAIR on the censoring and banning of unwanted individuals and groups. (For more from the author of “Report: Facebook and Twitter Consult With Terror-Tied CAIR Over Who Gets Banned From Platforms” please click HERE)
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