Tim Kaine and the Muslim Brotherhood
He couldn't be Hillary's Vice President without ties to
the Democratic party's friends at the Muslim Brotherhood.
In 2007, Kaine was the Governor of Virginia and, of all people, chose
Muslim American Society (MAS) President Esam Omeish to the state’s
Immigration Commission. A Muslim organization against Islamism criticized the appointment and reckless lack of vetting.
Federal prosecutors said in a 2008 court filing that MAS was “founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America.” A Chicago Tribune investigation
in 2004 confirmed it, as well as MAS’ crafty use of deceptive semantics
to appear moderate. Convicted terrorist and admitted U.S. Muslim
Brotherhood member Abdurrahman Alamoudi testified in 2012, “Everyone knows that MAS is the Muslim Brotherhood.”
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According to Omeish’s website, he was also President of the National Muslim Students Association (click there to read our profile about its Muslim Brotherhood origins) and served for two years on the national board of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA),
which the Justice Department also labeled as a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood
entity and unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas-financing trial.
His website says he was Vice President of Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center,
a radical mosque known for its history of terror ties including having
future Al-Qaeda operative Anwar Al-Awlaki as its imam and being
frequented by two of the 9/11 hijackers and the perpetrator of the Fort
Hood shooting. Omeish’s website says he remains a board member.
It says he was chairman of the board of Islamic American University,
which had Hamas financier and Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader
Yousef Al-Qaradawi as chairman of its board until at least 2006. Omeish
was also chairman of the board for the Islamic Center of Passaic County,
a New Jersey mosque with heavy terrorist ties and an imam that the
Department of Homeland Security wants to deport for having links to
Hamas.
Omeish directly expressed extremism before Kaine appointed him. He
claimed the Brotherhood is “moderate” and admitted that he and MAS are
influenced by the Islamist movement. In 2004, Omeish praised the Hamas spiritual leader as “our beloved Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.” Videotape from 2000 also surfaced where Omeish pledged to help Palestinians who understand “the jihad way is the way to liberate your land” (he denied this was an endorsement of violence). [Emphasis mine. CiJ]
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In September 2011, Kaine spoke at a “Candidates Night” dinner organized by the New Dominion PAC that presented a Lifetime Achievement Award for Jamal Barzinji, who the Global Muslim Brotherhood Watch describes as a “founding father of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood.”
He first came on to the FBI’s radar in 1987-1988 when an informant inside the Brotherhood identified Barzinji and his associated groups
as being part of a network of Brotherhood fronts to “institute the
Islamic Revolution in the United States.” The source said Barzinji and
his colleagues were “organizing political support which involves
influencing both public opinion in the United States as well as the
United States Government” using “political action front groups with no
traceable ties.”
Barzinji had his home searched as part of a terrorism investigation
in 2003. U.S. Customs Service Senior Special Agent David Kane said
in a sworn affidavit that Barzinji and the network of entities he led
were investigated because he “is not only closed associated with PIJ
[Palestinian Islamic Jihad]…but also with Hamas.” Counter-terrorism
reporter Patrick Poole broke the story that Barzinji was nearly prosecuted but the Obama Justice Department dropped plans for indictment.
Barzinji played a major role in nearly every Brotherhood front in the U.S. and was vice president of the International Institute of Islamic Thought,
which came under terrorism investigation also. Barzinji’s group was so
close to Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative Sami Al-Arian that IIIT’s
President considered his group and Al-Arian’s to be essentially one entity.
The indictment of Al-Arian and his colleagues says that they “would
and did seek to obtain support from influential individuals, in the
United States under the guise of promoting and protecting Arab rights” (emphasis mine).
The quotes about Brotherhood operative Barzinji’s aspirations to use
civil rights advocacy as a means to influence politicians are especially
relevant when you consider that video
from the event honoring Barzinji shows Kaine saying that it was his
fourth time at the annual dinner and thanked his “friends” that
organized it for helping him in his campaign for Lieutenant-Governor and
Governor and asked them to help his Senate campaign.
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Barzinji’s organization, IIIT, donated $10,000
in 2011 to the New Dominion PAC, the organization that held the event
honoring Barzinji that Kaine spoke at. The Barzinji-tied New Dominion
PAC donated $43,050
to Kaine’s gubernatorial campaign between 2003 and 2005. That figure
doesn’t even include other political recipients that assisted Kaine’s
campaign.
The PAC has very strong ties to the Democratic Party in Virginia, with the Virginia Public Access Project tallying almost $257,000 in donations. This likely explains why Barzinji’s grandson served
in Governor McAuliffe’s administration and then became the Obama
Administration’s liaison to the Muslim-American community.
And I see people writing every day on social media about how Trump is an anti-Semite.
Read the whole thing.
Labels: Hamas, Hillary Clinton, Holy Land Foundation, Muslim Brotherhood, Sami al-Arian, Tim Kaine, US presidential campaign 2016
Well, color me shocked
I'm sure you'll all be shocked to hear that Seddique Mateen, the father of the terrorist who murdered 49 people in a gay nightclub in Orlando last week, has connections to several radical Islamic groups, including some who set
attacking Israel as their primary goal.
The father of Orlando mass shooter Omar Mateen has longstanding connections to prominent Islamist groups in the U.S., a document discovered by the Investigative Project on Terrorism shows. Seddique Matin is listed as president of a then-new American Muslim Alliance (AMA) chapter in Fort Pierce in a July 1997 announcement archived by the IPT.
The AMA sponsored several radical conferences in the U.S. and its
leader, Agha Saeed, has spoken in defense of convicted terrorists,
including Aafia Siddiqui (a.k.a "Lady al-Qaida"), Palestinian Islamic Jihad board member Sami Al-Arian, and Pakistani intelligence lobbyist Ghulam Nabi Fai.
The Fort Pierce chapter is among 10 new AMA chapters opened, the announcement in an AMA bulletin says.
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AMA no longer exists as a registered nonprofit and it last filed tax
returns in 2010. But the organization continues to maintain an active Facebook account. In its posts, the AMA refuses to consider any Islamist motivation for the attack and lays the blame for Omar Mateen's massacre which killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub solely on the country's lax gun laws. [Sounds like the Obama administration. CiJ].
The organization has a history of working with radical Islamist
groups and has issued statements in support of several terrorists later
convicted in the U.S. The FBI cut off outreach communication
with CAIR, for example, after uncovering evidence placing the
organization and its leaders in a U.S.-based Hamas-support network.
In October 2000, AMA co-sponsored a rally in Washington's Lafayette Park where AMC's then-executive director Abdurahman Alamoudi announced his support for Hamas and Hizballah.
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In 2003, Saeed testified on Al-Arian's behalf, describing the man who ran "the active arm"
of Palestinian Islamic Jihad as "my friend and during the last ten
years we have worked together to mainstream American politics. We have
worked together to replace the culture of despair with culture of hope
and the culture of bullet with the culture of ballot." AMA's website
also featured a section entitled "Valiant Civil Rights Struggle of Dr. Sami Al Arian."
There's more.
Read the whole thing. Haters are going to hate.
Labels: Hamas, Hezbullah, ISIS, Islamic terrorism, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Sami al-Arian
@SamsClub (a subsidiary of Walmart) donates $2,500 to Florida mosque named after Hamas 'military wing'
It was recently discovered that the popular American wholesaler Sam's Club, a subsidiary of Walmart,
donated $2,500 to a Tampa, Florida mosque named after Hamas' al-Qassam Brigades (Hat Tip:
Ellen S).
A
Florida Family Association supporter happened to look up at the wall
behind the checkout line at the Sam’s Club located at 2021 Brandon
Boulevard in Brandon, Florida. He saw a large photograph of a check
made out from Sam’s Club in the amount of $2,500 payable to the Islamic
Community of Tampa located in the top left prominent position on the
wall. Florida Family Association snapped a cellphone photograph. Photographs indicated that no other non-profit organization received more than $500.
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- The Islamic Community of Tampa is also known as the Al-Qassam mosque. The Military Wing of the Palestinian Hamas is called the Al-Qassam Brigade. InvestigativeProject.org reports “The
mosque, according to Sami Al-Arian, was named after Izzedin al-Qassam.
Al-Qassam, a Syrian killed fighting the British mandate in 1935, ‘is
the main source of inspiration for the Islamic Jihad movement’
Palestinian scholar Ziad Abu Amr wrote in his book, Islamic
Fundamentalism in the West Bank and Gaza. ‘The Islamic Jihad’s
supporters have elevated him almost to a saintly status.’”
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- Sami Al-Arian was indicted in February 2003 on 17 counts under the Patriot Act for allegedly being the leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). In 2006, Al-Arian pleaded guilty
to one count of conspiring to make or receive contributions of funds,
goods or services for the benefit of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
and was sentenced to 57 months in prison.
- Sami Al-Arian refused to testify before a Federal Grand Jury regarding other Jihad activities. U.S. District Judge James Moody
ruled that Al-Arian must testify. A Virginia District Court held that
Sami Al-Arian had no legal basis to refuse to testify. The court held
him in civil contempt, and imprisoned him on November 16, 2006. Sami
Al-Arian was released from prison on June 27, 2014 after the United
States Department of Justice dropped charges.
Read the whole thing.
Labels: al-Qassam Brigades, CAIR, Florida, Islam, ISNA, Izzadin Kassam Brigades, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Sami al-Arian, Sharia law
Kerry consulting with umbrella group for Muslim terrorism on 'peace process'
According to the group's web site, US Secretary of State John Kerry and US National Security Adviser Susan Rice
consulted regarding the 'peace process' last week with representatives of the Islamic Society of North America.
The group expressed their optimism in this process and hope that with
further commitment from the Obama administration as the lead broker, as
well as willingness from Palestinian and Israeli authorities, these
talks will bear fruit.
Dr. Elsanousi expressed appreciation to
Secretary Kerry's for his hard work on this issue and encouraged the
officials to seek a mechanism to involve faith-based groups and other
under-represented constituencies in this process to ensure grassroots
support.
ISNA is a member of the National Inter-Religious
Initiative for Peace in the Middle East and continues to work with its
interfaith partners to support peace in the Middle East. Just last month
ISNA President Imam Mohamed Magid and ISNA National Director for
Interfaith & Community Alliances, Dr. Sayyid M. Syeed, sent a letter along
with 28 religious leaders to Secretary Kerry voicing “strong support
for his determined initiative for Israeli-Palestinian peace.”
ISNA
leaders also called on key members of Congress “to support Secretary
Kerry’s continuing urgent efforts for peace.” Religious leaders have
stood with ISNA in their support for resuming peace talks, noting that
“while these talks have yet to yield a blueprint for peace, they have
identified ideas for addressing key issues that must be resolved in a
manner acceptable to both sides.”
ISNA is funded by 'our friends the Saudis' and was established by the Muslim Students of North America along with 'Palestinian' Islamic Jihad founder
Sami al-Arian. It controls anywhere from
50-80% of the mosques in North America.
ISNA focuses heavily on providing Wahhabi
theological indoctrination materials to a large percentage of
the mosques in North America. Many of these mosques were recently built
with Saudi money and are required, by their Saudi benefactors, to
strictly follow the dictates of Wahhabi imams -- an edict that affects
the tone and content of the sermons given in the mosques, the selection
of books and periodicals that may be read in mosque libraries or sold
in mosque bookshops, and the policies governing the exclusion or
suppression of dissenters from the congregations.
Through its affiliate, the North American Islamic Trust -- a Saudi government-backed organization created to fund Islamist enterprises in North America -- the Saudi-subsidized ISNA reportedly holds the mortgages on 50 to 80 percent of
all mosques in the U.S. and Canada. Thus the organization can freely
exercise ultimate authority over these houses of worship and their
teachings.
Writes Kaukab Siddique, the editor of New Trend,
an Islamic periodical of extremist views that is nonetheless opposed to
Wahhabi domination of American Islam: "ISNA controls most mosques in
America and thus also controls who will speak at every Friday prayer,
and which literature will be distributed there."
Islam scholar Stephen Schwartz describes ISNA as "one of the chief
conduits through which the radical Saudi form of Islam passes into the
United States." Adds Schwartz:
"Our view is that the number of mosques under Wahhabi control actually
totals at least 600 out of the official total of 1,200, while, as noted,
Shia community leaders endorse the figure of 80 percent Wahhabi
control. But we also offer a number of 4-6,000 mosques overall,
including small and diverse congregations of many kinds."
According to Sufi leader Sheikh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani’s testimony
before a State Department Open Forum on January 7, 1999, extremists
have taken over “more than 80 percent of the mosques in the United
States ... This means that the ideology of extremism has been spread to
80 percent of the Muslim population, mostly the youth and the new
generation.” Kabbani based his statement on his personal investigation
of 114 American mosques. “Ninety of them,” he said,
“were mostly exposed, and I say exposed, to extreme or radical
ideology, based on their speeches, books and board members.” This is
largely due to the efforts of ISNA.
According to terrorism expert Steven Emerson, ISNA “is a radical group hiding under a false veneer of moderation”; “convenes annual conferences
where Islamist militants have been given a platform to incite violence
and promote hatred” (for instance, al Qaeda supporter and PLO official Yusuf Al-Qaradhawi was invited to speak at an ISNA conference); has held fundraisers for terrorists (after Hamas leader Mousa Marzook
was arrested and eventually deported in 1997, ISNA raised money for his
defense); has condemned the U.S. government’s post-9/11 seizure of
Hamas’ and Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s financial assets; and publishes a bi-monthly magazine, Islamic Horizons, that “often champions militant Islamist doctrine.”
Adds Emerson:
“I think ISNA has been an umbrella, also a promoter of groups that have
been involved in terrorism. I am not going to accuse the ISNA of being
directly involved in terrorism. I will say ISNA has sponsored
extremists, racists, people who call for Jihad against the United States.”
Just the kind of people you'd want involved in a 'peace process'....
Labels: Hamas, Islamic Society of North America, John Kerry, Middle East peace process, our friends the Saudis, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Sami al-Arian, Susan Rice
As protesters fight Egyptian military outside Israeli embassy, Sandmonkey on his way to accept a degree from Terror U
The University of South Florida is giving an honorary degree to Mahmoud Salem, better known to most of you as the Sandmonkey or the Egyptian Sandmonkey (Hat Tip:
Sunlight). I have to wonder what he hopes to accomplish by accepting it. In these parts, USF is known mainly for shielding Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror financier
Sami al-Arian for several years.
The Sandmonkey is also wondering whether he should be going, but for different reasons.
The 'incident' at which his friends were arrested was a
violent protest outside the Israeli embassy in Giza, a suburb of Cairo. The demonstration - as usual - was calling for Egypt to open the Rafah crossing with Gaza so that the weapons can flow freely, to cut diplomatic relations with Israel and expel its ambassador, to abrogate the Camp David treaty and to stop selling us gas. Of course.
The rally in Cairo followed calls on Facebook for Arabs to march on Israel on Sunday in support of the Palestinians, who were holding annual ceremonies marking the "nakba," or "catastrophe" — the term Palestinians use to describe their defeat and displacement in the war that followed Israel's 1948 founding.
Egypt's Health Ministry said at least 353 people were hurt outside the embassy, mostly from smoke inhalation. A security official said that some protesters sustained bullet wounds and that one protester was in critical condition. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to talk to the media.
The protesters set fire to an Israeli flag, chanted anti-Israeli slogans and called for the expulsion of Israel's ambassador and the closure of the embassy.
A youth organization, which played a key role in the uprising that toppled former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, said on its Facebook page that the protest in front of the embassy was "civilized," and questioned the riot police's use of force in dealing with the demonstrators.
A witness, who wouldn't give his name fearing reprisals, claimed the police used unjustified force.
Egypt's state-run news agency MENA said the protesters managed to push aside barricades placed around the embassy building and attempted to storm the embassy itself to tear down the Israeli flag, which prompted the police action.
I used to think that the Sandmonkey was a guy who would live in peace with us. He gave me hope that there were other Egyptians that might someday live in peace with us as well. Combined with what I
discovered on his website on Sunday, I now have my doubts.
Well, sorry, but even in the West, if you get violent at a demonstration - and sometimes even if you don't - you will be arrested.
There's no such thing as an unfettered right to demonstrate.
UPDATE TUESDAY 12:31 AMAn Egyptian source says that USF in this case is the
University of San Francisco (another notoriously anti-Semitic campus, but not as bad as the other USF) and not the University of South Florida (Hat Tip:
Raquel R).
Labels: blogosphere, Egypt, Egyptian regime change, Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, Israeli embassy, Sami al-Arian, Sandmonkey, University of South Florida
