A former CAIR national board member (2007 wayback archive - a third party web page archiver), Nabil Sadoun, who was also the chairman of CAIR's board (wayback archive), in Texas, at one time, was described by CAIR as a "teacher and principal" in a number of American schools. Last Friday he was ordered deported after the judge concluded he lied about his ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. CAIR claimed he left the board a "few months" ago. According the the Dallas Morning News, Sadoun was an imam at a mosque in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the 1990s.
In Oklahoma, a newly formed group of concerned citizens; Oklahomans Against CAIR HATE called for condemnation of CAIR yesterday in a press release.
"...CAIR claims to be a civil rights group for Muslims, but CAIR's numerous documented associations with terrorists like Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood show CAIR's true intent," said Cindy Crenshaw, President of Oklahomans Against CAIR Hate (OACH)...
Below are some of the details of the judge's orders:
An immigration judge in Dallas on Friday ordered an outspoken Islamic leader deported after the U.S. government alleged he had ties to terrorist groups in the Middle East.Nabil Sadoun a Dallas resident and former board member of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, was deported to his native Jordan after he failed to appear at his immigration hearing. He entered the U.S. in August 1993.
In the hearing, Judge Anthony Rogersof the Executive Office for Immigration Review, said Sadoun "made a decision to leave the U.S." and forfeited his right to fight his deportation. He said the decision was final and could not be appealed.
In court, the judge made vague references to the government's voluminous motion to deport him, including alleged involvement with Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. The judge concluded Sadoun lied on government forms when he denied he was a member...
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Muslim activist group CAIR is unusually quiet about longtime board member's deportationFederal authorities say Sadoun, when applying for an immigrant visa in 1993, failed to disclose his role in founding the United Association for Studies and Research, my Dallas Morning News colleague Jason Trahan reports. The FBI says the UASR, based in a suburb of Washington, D.C., and now defunct, was formed to benefit Hamas.
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