Among the most notorious of these contributors is Nihad Awad, one of CAIR’s founders and its current executive director, research by Fox News reveals. It is widely alleged to have founded Hamas, and is condemned by several countries as a terrorist organization. In 2004, the FBI seized a memorandum from the home of Muslim brotherhood member and Hamas U.S.-based archivist Ismail Elbarasse. “A year later, Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmad formed CAIR. Ahmad served as CAIR chairman until 2005, and Nihad Awad remains the executive director of CAIR.”