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Why Does Biden Want to ‘Include’ People Who Want to Kill Us?
by Clare M. Lopez
May 2023
Our articles this month focus on the Biden administration's embrace of Islamic Movement/Muslim Brotherhood pet themes timed for the end of Ramadan on 21 April 2023. As many of us may know - but the Biden administration seems not to - the last day of Ramadan, Eid al-Fitr, is the Islamic commemoration of the 624 CE Battle of Badr, in which Muslim forces defeated Jews on the field of battle for the first time. President Biden's announcement of a new Inter-agency task force to tackle 'Islamophobia' was timed to mark this occasion along with a statement congratulating Muslims on their month of Ramadan. Although FBI 'hate crime' statistics show that Jews and other groups are far more often targeted than Muslims in America, the Biden administration seems determined to demonstrate its 'inclusivity' credentials.
Biden Establishes 'Interagency Task Force With Senior Government Officials' to Stop 'Islamophobia'
In other news:
All the President’s Islamists
Why Does Biden Want to ‘Include’ People Who Want to Kill Us?
by Clare M. Lopez
May 2023
Our articles this month focus on the Biden administration's embrace of Islamic Movement/Muslim Brotherhood pet themes timed for the end of Ramadan on 21 April 2023. As many of us may know - but the Biden administration seems not to - the last day of Ramadan, Eid al-Fitr, is the Islamic commemoration of the 624 CE Battle of Badr, in which Muslim forces defeated Jews on the field of battle for the first time. President Biden's announcement of a new Inter-agency task force to tackle 'Islamophobia' was timed to mark this occasion along with a statement congratulating Muslims on their month of Ramadan. Although FBI 'hate crime' statistics show that Jews and other groups are far more often targeted than Muslims in America, the Biden administration seems determined to demonstrate its 'inclusivity' credentials.
Biden Establishes 'Interagency Task Force With Senior Government Officials' to Stop 'Islamophobia'
- In Eid message, Biden boasts of 'inter-agency task force with senior government officials to tackle' Islamophobia
- Biden's New Muslim Liaison to Fight 'Institutional Islamophobia'
- Mazen Basrawi, a close associate of Muslim Brotherhood organizations such as the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA, named an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation terror funding trial), and already previously appointed by Biden to the position of Director of Global Engagement at the National Security Council, has now been named to do double duty as Biden's new liaison to Muslim communities to fight 'Islamophobia'.
- Editor’s Note - As the Sharia TipSheet has noted many times, going after ‘Islamophobia’ is a bad idea, starting with the free speech problems it creates.
In other news:
All the President’s Islamists
- A good, comprehensive listing of the Biden administration's extensive team of Muslim staffers, many of whom have long been affiliated in one way or another with Muslim Brotherhood front groups
- Editor’s Note - With all due respect to the author, there are no ‘Islamists’. Jihad and sharia supremacy come straight from standard Islamic doctrine, not from fringe or ‘Islamist’ interpretations of Islam. As Turkish President Erdogan put it: “Recently the concept of ‘moderate Islam’ has received attention. But the patent of this concept originated in the West.... Islam cannot be either ‘moderate’ or ‘not moderate.’ Islam can only be one thing.”
- The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), a USG agency whose mission is advancing "international freedom of religious belief, by independently assessing and unflinchingly confronting threats to this fundamental right", apparently invited, of all people, the notoriously anti-Semitic Somali-born Islamic apologist Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), to speak at its April 25, 2023 event to release its 2023 Annual Report. A date change to May 1, 2023 and the fact that the event will be held virtually plus a bit of a confusing statement from the USCIRF add some uncertainty around Omar's actual speaking appearance at the event, but in all likelihood, according to Robert Spencer, she will speak.
- By way of background, this would be the same USCIRF whose 1998 creation was sponsored by former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Amb. Sam Brownback, who long has associated closely with top Muslim Brotherhood figures, both U.S. and international. It's also the same USCIRF to which Pres. Joe Biden appointed key U.S. Muslim Brother, former president of ISNA, and imam at the Northern VA ADAMS Center, Mohamed Magid. Magid's term at USCIRF runs until 2024.
- More on Magid - USCIRF bio