ICE has just arrested a prominent Muslim leader in Dallas, TX.
54-year-old Marwan Marou — who was the director of public relations and fundraising for the Muslim American Society — is now facing deportation over accusations that he made donations to a Hamas-linked terrorist nonprofit group.
This clip from Fox News dove deeper:
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Marouf will be deported to Jordan, where he is a citizen.
The Dallas Express has more:
Marouf was charged with lack of a valid entry document, solicitation of funds for a Tier III undesignated terrorist organization, and “material support” of terrorism, according to his lawyers at Muslim Legal Fund of America.
The ICE spokeswoman said Marouf is an “illegal alien from Jordan,” who entered America in Dallas on June 5, 2009. He had a non-immigrant visa at the time, allowing him to remain in the country until February 12, 2011.
“Marouf failed to depart the U.S. as agreed on the conditions of his admission,” she said. “He has been living in the U.S. illegally for over a decade.”
ICE-Dallas arrested him on September 22, processed him, and served him a notice to appear before an immigration judge, according to the spokeswoman.
“ICE is executing its mission of identifying and removing criminal aliens and others who have violated our nation’s immigration laws,” per the spokesperson. “All aliens in violation of U.S. immigration law may be subject to arrest, detention, and, if found removable by final order, removal from the United States, regardless of nationality.”
During his immigration trial, Marouf requested voluntary departure, according to KERA. Judge Abdias Tida denied this, citing past donations he made to the Hamas front group Holy Land Foundation.
Marouf’s lawyers claimed none of the charges applied.
“DHS is trying to alchemize a terror case out of thin air – no charge, no conviction, no contemporaneous evidence – just retroactive labels and innuendo,” said Attorney Hassan Ahmad in the release. “They point to 1990s charitable activity, a post-PATRIOT Act legal framework, and post-2001 designations, then pretend that equals ‘terrorism.’ It doesn’t.”
Marouf allegedly made donations to the Holy Land Foundation, a Richardson nonprofit designated a terrorist organization and convicted in 2008 for acting as a front group for Hamas. The group was the largest American Muslim charity until the government shut it down in 2001.
“From its inception, HLF existed to support Hamas,” reads a Department of Justice press release from the time.
Marouf is also the brother-in-law of the Elashi family, convicted in 2004 for doing business with a Hamas terrorist through the computer and internet company Infocom. Years later, in 2008, Marouf’s in-law, Ghassan Elashi, was also convicted in the Holy Land Foundation trial.
The Council on American Islamic Relations, which has numerous links to terrorists, called for Marouf’s release soon after his arrest in September.
CAIR Texas Executive Director Mustafaa Carroll called Marouf a “pillar of the community.”
Marouf is also an active leader in the MAS-DFW. In 2008, federal prosecutors alleged that MAS was “founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States.”
Gov. Greg Abbott designated CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist organizations on November 18, as The Dallas Express reported. The Muslim Brotherhood is linked to violence across the globe through terrorist offshoots like Hamas.
In response to the news, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott released this statement:
Good riddance…
Get this guy, and any others who support terrorist organizations, out of our country!
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