CAIR chief's designs to 'run' U.S. revealed

CAIR chief's designs to 'run' U.S. revealed: "The same national Muslim leader who's launched an 'education campaign' to quell American fears over Shariah law once gave a full-throated speech to Muslims advocating an Islamic rise to power in America.

In a newly surfaced video of a 2000 speech to the Islamic Society of North America, Council on American-Islamic Relations Executive Director Nihad Awad told his Muslim audience: 'Muslims in America are in the best position to show Islam and to show action and to show vision – not only for a Muslim school, how it should be run, but for an entire society, how it should be run. Who better can lead America than Muslims?'

The Justice Department named both ISNA and CAIR unindicted co-conspirators in a criminal scheme to funnel millions of dollars to Hamas suicide bombers and their families.

In the same speech, 'Participating in Public Affairs: Strategies for the Year 2000,' Awad encouraged Muslim-Americans to be more assertive with U.S. politicians.

'They should be a servant to our issues,' he said. 'We should be respected.'"

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