Moran headlining banquet with terrorist sympathizer

Jim Moran is headlining a banquet tonight for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, better known as CAIR.

CAIR’s history is shady, and they have been suspected by various government officials of ties to terrorism and ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. CAIR had extensive ties to the now-defunct Holy Land Foundation, which was shut down by the U.S. government after it was found to be funding the terrorist group Hamas and its founders were sentenced to life in prison for terrorist financing. But the most troubling part of Moran’s appearance at this event is the man who is also headlining the event: Imam Siraj Wahhaj.

Wahhaj was named in 1995 by the Justice Department as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that killed six people and injured over a thousand.  Wahhaj has defended the convicted WTC bombers, called the FBI and the CIA “the real terrorists”, and said he wants all Americans to become Muslim. (Source: New York Post)

Wahhaj was invited to a meeting in 2009 with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, but Bloomberg’s staff said he should never have been invited and that they should have checked his background. (Source: New York Daily News)

Moran has had ties to terrorists and terrorist sympathizers before. As we note in Moran’s Greatest Hits, in 2002, Moran received $2,000 in campaign contributions from Abdurahman Alamoudi, who voiced support for the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah. After the American Jewish Committee called on Moran to return the money, he did. (Source: Washington Post) In 2003, Moran received $11,450 in campaign contributions from three officers of Muslim organizations that were raided by federal agents because of their link to terrorist financing. Moran returned that money as well. (Source: Washington Post)

Moran should call off his appearance at the fundraiser tonight and disavow CAIR for associating with a terrorist sympathizer. Call Moran’s district office at 703-971-4700 and tell him to do the right thing.