Pakistani Muslim Ahmad Abrar Saleem, Orlando Regional Director of the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)conviction now adds ‘sexual predators’ to CAIR’s growing list of reasons why it should lose its tax exempt status granted by Obama and then be shut down by the Trump administration.
Frontpage It took well over a year, but the verdict is finally in. Ahmad Saleem, the former head of the Orlando, Florida office for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is headed to prison after a major child sex trafficking ring bust where sex with children as young as 10 years old was promoted.
On the night of May 20, 2015, Ahmad Abrar Saleem was arrested in Clermont, Florida, a short distance from his Orlando home. He was charged with “use of computer to seduce/solicit/entice a child to commit sex act” and “travel to seduce, solicit, lure a child to commit sex act.”
Saleem was intending to meet the twelve-year-old girl he had been chatting with online, but instead, Saleem met Sheriff’s deputies waiting for him and 21 others in a child sex sting operation. He was detained at 9:35 pm and booked at one-in-the-morning.
This event surely had erased much happier times for Saleem. It was only a few months earlier that he had met with his fellow CAIR leaders to discuss organizational strategy.
Below is a photo taken in February 2015 shows a grinning Saleem (far left) posing alongside CAIR-Florida Executive Director Hassan Shibly (center), CAIR-Florida CEO and Regional Operations Director Nezar Hamze, CAIR-Florida Immigration/Asylum Attorney Floyd Huntz, CAIR-Florida Research & Special Projects Coordinator Muazz Hassan, and then-CAIR-Florida Communications Coordinator Ali Akin Kurnaz. Palm trees and the ocean fill the idyllic scenery behind them.
On December 1, 2016, a judge found Saleem guilty of “Child Abuse.” He was sentenced to two years in a state prison. At the end of the two years, Saleem will be responsible for $36,500 in incarceration costs and another $1000 in fines and fees.
Following his stay, he may have an issue finding a job as a ‘sexual offender.’ He probably will not be able to rely on his parents, as both their jobs deal with youth, his father being a pediatrician and his mother being a school teacher. And it is doubtful his Psychology degree from UCF will help, except to demonstrate that he was more suited as a patient than a student.
Also, his job at the Orlando office of CAIR has been taken up by Rasha Mubarak, a past organizer of anti-Semitic, anti-Israel demonstrations. For CAIR to bring back a convicted pedophile would certainly be viewed as a lot worse than the fact that they hired him in the first place.
However, Ahmad Saleem’s predicament did and does hurt CAIR. While some people are willing to overlook CAIR’s association with international terrorism and even defend it, no one wishes to be associated with the stigma of sexual predation and deviancy.
Saleem’s conviction is yet another example of CAIR’s disreputable track record of hiring controversial figures who would later serve jail terms, usually for offenses related to terror and violence. Sexual predation can now officially be added to the list of sordid activities coming from CAIR representatives.
Joint Sheriff press conference about child sex sting arrests. To left is Lake County Sheriff Gary Borders, and Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd holds picture of “poster child” Ahmad Saleem
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