The leaders of Council on American Islamic Relations – CAIR Florida – recently met with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida. Those leaders included CAIR leaders Wilfredo Amr Ruiz and Nezar Hamze.* This meeting was held within the context of a federal program called Group Violence Initiative, which is designed to counter gang violence in inner-city communities.

PJ Media FBI policy has formally prohibited the federal law enforcement agency from associating with CAIR since 2008, due to the group’s documented ties to organizations involved with financing the terrorist group Hamas.

A similar policy does not exist for the U.S. Department of Justice despite previous efforts in Congress to encourage the DOJ to institute such a policy, despite federal prosecutors writing that “from its founding by Muslim Brotherhood leaders, CAIR conspired with other affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood to support terrorists.”

CAIR has also been designated as a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates.

FBI policy has formally prohibited the federal law enforcement agency from associating with CAIR since 2008, due to the group’s documented ties to organizations involved with financing the terrorist group Hamas.

At the time, CAIR Florida officials were overjoyed regarding the opportunity to mingle with federal officials. “We appreciated the opportunity to communicate how restricting liberty promotes hate crimes and violence and that preserving liberty is key to preserving security and peace,” CAIR Florida Executive Director Hassan Shibly stated in his press release.

According to a press release from CAIR Florida in 2014 , they met with federal officials to discuss anti-terrorism efforts and hate crimes. They described the effort as an attempt by Muslims to work with the federal government to combat terrorism and promote national security.

The press release also stated, “CAIR Florida officials have attended similar meetings statewide with various federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies over the past 14 years to combat terrorism, to repudiate extremism, and to protect civil liberties endangered by some government policies.

If CAIR Florida wants to help law enforcement combat terrorism, they have a funny way of showing it. Shibly himself has a documented record of repeatedly endorsing terrorist groups. In May 2019, Shibly used the CAIR Florida headquarters in Tampa, Florida , to host a meeting with Hatem Naji Fariz. Fariz is a convicted Palestinian Islamic jihad operative who pled guilty to serving associates of PIJ in July 2006 and received a 37-month prison sentence.

In August 2014, he tweeted that “Israel and its supporters are enemies of God.” In November 2006, following the Lebanon war between Israel and Hezbollah, Shibly declared that Hezbollah was “basically a resistance movement and “absolutely not a terrorist organization.”

Another example of law enforcement in South Florida ignoring FBI guidelines, is the proven corrupt Sheriff of Broward County, Scott Israel (below), whose deputies did nothing to help the Florida students from being shot up in their school by Nikolas Cruz. Israel hired Nezar Hamze* as a deputy sheriff, despite 3 high ranking officials in the Broward County Sheriff Department saying “NO” to the hiring of Hamze.

The United Arab Emirates released a list of designated terrorist groups and organizations, including CAIR, with more than 80 different groups from around the world blacklisted.