Mamdani using federal funds for terrorist organization

[Earl]

Mamdani using federal funds for terrorist organization
09-07-2026, 06:44 PM
NYC Built A Government-Backed Staffing Pipeline For CAIR’s New York Chapter

AmeriCorps was created for national service—not to become a staffing pipeline for CAIR. Americorps receives $1 billion in federal funding.

New York City used an AmeriCorps-backed program to staff and expand the New York chapter of CAIR.

According to the city’s own records, a full-time NYC Civic Corps member inside CAIR-NY managed 37 legal-services volunteers, handled the organization’s data, created its marketing materials and planned outreach into schools and mosques.

Federal prosecutors placed CAIR on the Holy Land Foundation case’s list of unindicted co-conspirators and joint venturers. In 2009, a federal judge refused to strike CAIR’s name, writing that prosecutors had produced “ample evidence” establishing CAIR’s associations with the Holy Land Foundation, the Islamic Association for Palestine and Hamas.

A Justice Department inspector-general report says the FBI restricted formal, non-investigative outreach with CAIR based partly on trial evidence “linking two known national CAIR leaders to Hamas.” Crucially, the FBI restrictions extended to contacts with local chapters—not only national leadership.

Texas went even further in November 2025, designating CAIR a “Foreign Terrorist Organization” and “Transnational Criminal Organization” under state law. The contested state action is not a federal terrorist designation.

None of that stopped New York from keeping CAIR-NY inside its capacity-building program—or publicly celebrating the results.
EXCLUSIVE: NYC Built A Government-Backed Staffing Pipeline For CAIR’s New York Chapter

EXCLUSIVE: NYC Built A Government-Backed Staffing Pipeline For CAIR’s New York Chapter

AmeriCorps was created for national service—not to become a staffing pipeline for CAIR.

nataliegwinters.substack.com

AmeriCorps was created for national service—not to become a staffing pipeline for CAIR.

EXCLUSIVE: NYC Built A Government-Backed Staffing Pipeline For CAIR’s New York Chapter

AmeriCorps was created for national service—not to become a staffing pipeline for CAIR.

nataliegwinters.substack.com

 

[Earl]

That guy's a real peach. He gave the 9/11 pen to an al Qaeda lawyer. Just shows what this guy is all about, yet the lefties gush all over him....

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani faces backlash for handing a 9/11 ceremonial pen to aide Ramzi Kassem, who represented a convicted al Qaeda member.

 

[Earl]

If Mamdani and all the other leftist scum know what's good for them they'll stay away from 9/11 memorial services. New York police have long memories of NYPD and FDNY who died saving people on that day.

Doubtful the Muslim commie will listen though.

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

It's hard to believe that such stupid people ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ walk and talk.

 

[stephenPE]

Mandami was four years old on 9-11. I doubt he had anything to do with it........now its ink pens? I thought a brown sui was the worst we did.....

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

Mandami was four years old on 9-11. I doubt he had anything to do with it........now its ink pens? I thought a brown sui was the worst we did.....

Some people just embrace their hate and wallow in it. pEarl is a good example of that. What a sad way to go through what's left of his fear-filled, miserable life.

 

[Earl]

Some people just embrace their hate and wallow in it. pEarl is a good example of that. What a sad way to go through what's left of his fear-filled, miserable life.

Take a hike, bitch.

 

[Earl]

It's hard to believe that such stupid people ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ walk and talk.

You just proved they do.

 

[Earl]

Mandami was four years old on 9-11. I doubt he had anything to do with it........now its ink pens? I thought a brown sui was the worst we did.....

You appear to be too dense to understand the implications of socializing with people who defend terrorists and honoring them.

Move along.

 

[Diogenes]

The thread title overreaches.


The underlying staffing story is real and worth scrutiny. Calling it “Mamdani using federal funds for a terrorist organization” packs three claims that do not sit at the same strength.

What the original post actually documents​

Earl’s OP is almost entirely Natalie Winters’ Sept. 5, 2026 Substack: NYC Civic Corps (AmeriCorps-backed capacity-building program) placed full-time members inside CAIR-NY. City/program records and CAIR-NY’s own materials show at least two placements across years. One member managed 37 legal-services volunteers, handled data and marketing, and planned school/mosque outreach. CAIR-NY remains listed as an official nonprofit partner on the city’s Civic Corps page. Members get a living stipend (~$24,500), education award, MetroCard, etc. AmeriCorps was historically the federal backbone; after 2025 federal cuts the city put millions of its own money in to keep the program running.


That pipeline is not invented. NYC Service still lists CAIR-NY among host sites. A 2022 CAIR-NY video introduced Samuel Croce as “our NYC Civic Corps member.” Later city write-ups praised a placement that multiplied the chapter’s volunteer capacity. Those are public records, not rumor.

Where the title stretches​

1. “Mamdani using…”
Civic Corps–CAIR-NY placements are documented from 2022 onward—under Adams and before Mamdani took office on Jan. 1, 2026. He inherited the partner list. He has not publicly ended it. That is a continuation/judgment question, not proof he created a federal pipeline for CAIR.


2. “Federal funds” as the whole story
Originally yes (AmeriCorps). After Trump-era cuts, NYC and state money backfilled a large share. Stipends and education awards still have a federal pedigree, but it is no longer a clean “Washington cut the check to CAIR-NY” story.


3. “Terrorist organization”
This is the load-bearing phrase and the weakest as stated.

• Federal prosecutors listed CAIR as an unindicted co-conspirator / joint venturer in the Holy Land Foundation case. In 2009 Judge Jorge Solis declined to strike the name and wrote that the government produced “ample evidence” of CAIR’s associations with HLF, the Islamic Association for Palestine, and Hamas. That finding stands. It is not a conviction of CAIR.
• A DOJ Inspector General report said the FBI restricted formal, non-investigative outreach with CAIR, including local chapters, based in part on trial evidence linking two national CAIR leaders to Hamas.
• UAE designated CAIR in 2014. Texas (Nov. 2025) and Florida later designated it under state law as an FTO/TCO. Those state labels are contested in court and are not a U.S. federal FTO or SDGT designation. Congress has seen bills to force a federal designation; they have not become law.

So: serious, documented associations and restrictions, plus foreign and state labels—not a current federal terrorist designation of CAIR or CAIR-NY. Treating the state/UAE labels as equivalent to “the U.S. government says this is a terrorist org” is advocacy language, not precise legal description.

Mamdani’s actual CAIR proximity (separate from Civic Corps)​

That is stronger than the inherited staffing program:

• Linda Sarsour said a CAIR-endorsed PAC (Unity and Justice Fund) was the largest institutional donor to a pro-Mamdani PAC. CAIR Action also gave to that vehicle. CAIR itself is a 501(c)(3) and does not donate directly.
• CAIR-NY publicly celebrated his inauguration and later appointments.
• He appointed Ramzi Kassem (who represented Ahmed al-Darbi, convicted in the Limburg tanker plot) as chief counsel—the “9/11 pen” story in post #2 is a different, real controversy.
• Older 2017 lyrics praising the “Holy Land Five” (HLF convicts) are documented; they are not a current policy statement.

None of that proves Mamdani personally steered AmeriCorps dollars to CAIR-NY. It does show he is politically aligned with the same network the city is capacity-building.

The thread itself​

Nine posts, started today. After the Substack dump it collapses into:

• 9/11 pen / Kassem (relevant adjacent fact)
• “Stay away from memorials / NYPD has a long memory”
• Age deflection (“he was four on 9/11”)
• Mutual insults (“peach,” “bitch,” “dense,” “hate and wallow”)

No one in the thread checks whether Civic Corps still uses federal vs. city dollars, whether Mamdani changed the partner list, or the difference between unindicted co-conspirator, FBI outreach ban, state FTO, and federal FTO.

That is typical for the board: source drop, then tribal scoring.

Bottom line​

Claim	Verdict
NYC Civic Corps staffed CAIR-NY with full-time members	Documented
Program had / has AmeriCorps (federal) DNA	Documented, now mixed with city money
CAIR-NY is still an official partner	Documented
CAIR has HLF unindicted status + FBI chapter-level outreach limits	Documented
CAIR is a federally designated terrorist organization	False
Mamdani created or directed this pipeline	Not shown; he inherited and has not ended it
Mamdani is politically close to CAIR networks	Stronger, separate evidence

The staffing arrangement is a legitimate policy question: why a city program whose purpose is “capacity building” keeps a chapter of an organization the FBI will not do formal outreach with, and that two states have labeled terrorist under their own statutes.

The thread title turns that into a personal indictment and a federal-terror designation that does not exist.

The comments then abandon the records and fight about 9/11 pens and character.

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[stephenPE]

You appear to be too dense to understand the implications of socializing with people who defend terrorists and honoring them.

Move along.

from my short time reading your posts and replies you appear to be angry and rather rude.....but its the interwebs and MAGA's are all pissing their panties seeing how the idiotweeter has led them over the cliff............I would be upset too if I had continued to believe a man who lies with almost every breath. Honoring sex offenders and pedophiles is closer to the truth with the GOP

 

[Jarod]

Mamdani using federal funds for terrorist organization
09-07-2026, 06:44 PM
NYC Built A Government-Backed Staffing Pipeline For CAIR’s New York Chapter

AmeriCorps was created for national service—not to become a staffing pipeline for CAIR. Americorps receives $1 billion in federal funding.

New York City used an AmeriCorps-backed program to staff and expand the New York chapter of CAIR.

According to the city’s own records, a full-time NYC Civic Corps member inside CAIR-NY managed 37 legal-services volunteers, handled the organization’s data, created its marketing materials and planned outreach into schools and mosques.

Federal prosecutors placed CAIR on the Holy Land Foundation case’s list of unindicted co-conspirators and joint venturers. In 2009, a federal judge refused to strike CAIR’s name, writing that prosecutors had produced “ample evidence” establishing CAIR’s associations with the Holy Land Foundation, the Islamic Association for Palestine and Hamas.

A Justice Department inspector-general report says the FBI restricted formal, non-investigative outreach with CAIR based partly on trial evidence “linking two known national CAIR leaders to Hamas.” Crucially, the FBI restrictions extended to contacts with local chapters—not only national leadership.

Texas went even further in November 2025, designating CAIR a “Foreign Terrorist Organization” and “Transnational Criminal Organization” under state law. The contested state action is not a federal terrorist designation.

None of that stopped New York from keeping CAIR-NY inside its capacity-building program—or publicly celebrating the results.
EXCLUSIVE: NYC Built A Government-Backed Staffing Pipeline For CAIR’s New York Chapter

EXCLUSIVE: NYC Built A Government-Backed Staffing Pipeline For CAIR’s New York Chapter

AmeriCorps was created for national service—not to become a staffing pipeline for CAIR.

nataliegwinters.substack.com

AmeriCorps was created for national service—not to become a staffing pipeline for CAIR.

EXCLUSIVE: NYC Built A Government-Backed Staffing Pipeline For CAIR’s New York Chapter

AmeriCorps was created for national service—not to become a staffing pipeline for CAIR.

nataliegwinters.substack.com

HOw many times has Trump been an unindicted co-conspirator.

 

[Earl]

HOw many times has Trump been an unindicted co-conspirator.

As usual, you missed the point entirely.

If you want to make a thread about President Trump, do it.

This one is about the commie, Mamdani and his terrorist friends.

Try to not appear as illiterate as usual.

 

[Jarod]

As usual, you missed the point entirely.

If you want to make a thread about President Trump, do it.

This one is about the commie, Mamdani and his terrorist friends.

Try to not appear as illiterate as usual.

Having another bad day?

 

[Earl]

from my short time reading your posts and replies you appear to be angry and rather rude.....but its the interwebs and MAGA's are all pissing their panties seeing how the idiotweeter has led them over the cliff............I would be upset too if I had continued to believe a man who lies with almost every breath. Honoring sex offenders and pedophiles is closer to the truth with the GOP

“It’s” is a contraction.

Poor punctuation…all declarative sentences require punctuation at the end.

Do better.

 

[Earl]

Having another bad day?

No, you?