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Sympathy for the Devil - HAMAS
by Clare M. Lopez
December 2023

Although the Biden administration continues publicly to declare its firm support for Israel and its right to defend itself against HAMAS, behind the scenes there are reports that what the Biden team really wants is for Israel to finish its war in Gaza as quickly as possible and with as few civilian casualties as possible…even if that means that HAMAS and its leadership survive.
  More indicators of anti-Israel bias among Biden administration officials:
  • “Senior CIA official posted pro-Palestinian propaganda on social media” at Jewish News Syndicate, November 29, 2023
    • Interestingly, this CIA official is reported to have posted support for the International Crisis Group (ICG), the Washington, D.C. think tank formerly headed by Robert Malley, the now-suspended Biden admin envoy to the Vienna Iran nuclear talks. Others at the ICG (although not necessarily this official) were recruited by Malley to the Iran Experts Initiative, an Iranian regime influence operation deeply embedded inside the U.S. national security community.
 
Over at the Department of Veterans Affairs, an appellate attorney in the Office of the General Counsel posted a video on social media in which she appeared to mock Israel’s anguish over its people held hostage by HAMAS
 
Meanwhile, members of the Democrat Party’s ‘Jihad Squad” have come under fire for remarks that seem to diminish the horror of HAMAS atrocities, especially against Israeli women
  • “'Squad' member grilled by fellow Dems for criticizing Israel when asked about Hamas rapes” by Ray Lewis at 10 WJAR, December 4, 2023
 
Here is an expose on the Muslim Brotherhood Imam at the ADAMS Center who’s been a favorite of multiple US Presidents at Inaugural and National Prayer Days for many years. President Joe Biden even appointed him to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom in 2022. His term doesn’t expire until May 2024.
  • “Exposing Obama’s Muslim Advisor: Who is Imam Mohamed Magid?” by Frank De Varona at Liberty Sentinel, November 10, 2023  
  • ICYMI: “Imam Mohamed Magid appointed to international religious freedom commission” by Adelle M. Banks at religionnews.com, August 11, 2022  
  • “Muslim American leaders, in private meeting, tell Biden he needs to show more empathy toward Palestinians” by Kevin Liptak and Khalil Abdallah at CNN, October 27, 2023.
    • Magid was even among the Muslim invitees to a “small private meeting” with President Biden at the White House on 27 October 2023. Others included Nihad Awad, the Executive Director of CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations, unindicted co-conspirator in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation HAMAS terror funding trial) and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (whose 2008 hajj trip to Mecca was paid for by the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Muslim American Society)
 
Democrat Party Governor Gavin Newsom has awarded millions of dollars in grants to California mosques connected to the Muslim Brotherhood, whose imams’ sermons openly support Islamic jihadist attacks against Israel and the Jewish people
 
During an early November 2023 Senate confirmation hearing, Biden judicial nominee Edward Sunyol Kiel brushed off direct questions about the HAMAS Shabbat Massacre a full month earlier, saying he just hadn’t studied the issue enough to comment
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Biden Administration Focuses on ‘Islamophobia’ While Jew-Hatred Runs Rampant
by Clare M. Lopez
November 2023
 
Not even a month after the horrific Sabbath Massacre by HAMAS jihadis on 7 October 2023, and as venomous Jew-hatred runs rampant on campuses and streets across America, the Biden administration thinks it appropriate to unveil “the first ever US National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia”
 
“White House slammed for ‘tone deaf’ unveiling of anti-Islamophobia strategy as antisemitism surges” by Victor Nava at The New York Post, 2 November 2023
 
“White House Announces Anti-Islamophobia Strategy Amid Large Spike In Antisemitism” by Reagan Reese at Daily Caller, 2 November 2023
 
“Statement from White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on President Biden’s Establishment of First-Ever National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia”, White House Statement, November 1, 2023
 
The Biden Administration is riddled with officials who loathe Israel, Judaism, and the Jewish people. Hard to believe this is a vetting failure. With friends like these… 
 
“Homeland Security officer on leave after it was revealed she worked for PLO and wrote ‘F–k Israel’ post” by Yaron Steinbuch at The New York Post, October 19, 2023
 
“After exposure, Biden regime puts pro-Hamas ‘F**k Israel’ PLO spokeswoman at DHS on leave” by Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch, October 19, 2023
 
“DHS worker and former Palestinian Liberation spokeswoman Nejwa Ali is put on leave after praising Hamas terrorist attacks and saying 'F*** Israel...we are ready for your downfall'” by Noa Halff at Daily Mail, October 19, 2023
 
“Former PLO Spokeswoman Tweets ‘F— Israel’ While Working at DHS. Heritage Demands Answers.” by Tyler O’Neil at the Daily Signal, October 19, 2023
 
“Ex-Employee of Hamas Ally Worked as Pentagon Special Assistant for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Programs” by Daniel Greenfield at Jihad Watch, October 19, 2023
 
“Ted Cruz Exposes Anti-Israel Elements in Biden’s State Department” by Sara Garstka at The Daily Signal, October 20, 2023
 
Speaking of White House vetting, how does the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) host a WH roundtable with a set of Muslim Brotherhood front groups—nine days before HAMAS went on its murderous Sabbath Massacre?
 
“White House Hosts Hamas Fans” by Dexter Van Zile at Focus on Western Islamism, October 22, 2023
  • Of course, as we know, there is no such thing as “Islamism”, but this website is a project of the Middle East Forum. Among the invited guests to the FEMA roundtable were representatives of the ADAMS Center (All Dulles Area Muslim Society), the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), ICNA Relief (Islamic Circle of North America), and the Muslim Brotherhood’s political umbrella group, the USCMO (U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations). These aren’t “Islamists”: they’re devout, faithful, obedient Muslims who believe in putting their faith into practice. But why the Biden administration would honor such jihadis with a WH invitation is the question.
 
Here, we follow up on the Iranian influence operation inside the USG that we covered in last month’s posts. 
 
“Kash Patel Explains How Iranian Agents Have Infiltrated Biden Regime, Accessed Classified Secrets.” On with Steve Bannon at Real America’s Voice, 18 October 2023
 
“Visions of a new national security paradigm” by Melissa Hellmann at The Center for Public Integrity, 20 October 2023
  • In this piece of propaganda, Salam Al-Marayati, the president and co-founder of the Muslim Brotherhood-linked group, the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), attempts to play the victimized subject of USG discrimination. He is quoted, “You see a lack of representation of Muslims in the highest level of policymaking in the United States government.” Except, not so fast. How about Maher Bitar, Senior Director for Intelligence Programs at the National Security Council? Or Hady Amr, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, who oversees Israeli and Palestinian Authority affairs at the Department?
 
“Top Iranian Pentagon aide keeps security clearance despite ‘spying for Tehran’ accusation”, by Mary Kay Linge at The New York Post, October 20, 2023
 
“Frontline News: Islamic Groups Infiltrate US Defense Establishment” by Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit, October 25, 2023
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Iranian Influence Operation Is Deep Inside the U.S. Government
by Clare M. Lopez
October 2023

News broke in late September 2023 that an extensive Iranian regime network had succeeded in embedding itself deep inside the Department of Defense and Department of State.
 
The Islamic Republic of Iran recruited and deployed assets into sensitive official positions across the U.S. national security community in order to sway USG policymaking in favor of Tehran’s foreign policy objectives. Those objectives particularly related to Iran’s nuclear weapons program and secret talks that began in 2012 to enable it to make steady progress toward deployment of a deliverable nuclear weapon without meaningful USG opposition.
 
This is one of the most serious and damaging compromises of U.S. national security, at least since Soviet/Russian spies of the Cold War and post-Cold War period.
 
“Iranian Spies Have Infiltrated the American Government, Lawmakers Warn” by Adam Kredo at The Free Beacon, September 27, 2023
 
“Chief of Staff of Pentagon Counterterrorism Office Served Iranian Gov.” by Daniel Greenfield at Front Page Magazine, September 28, 2023
 
“Pentagon Looking Into Suspected Case Of Official With Iran Ties” at Iran International, September 28, 2023
  • The London-based Iranian dissident Persian-language TV news channel, Iran International, was the first media outlet to obtain “purloined emails” from inside the Iranian regime; how exactly that happened is not publicly known at this time
 
“High-Level Iranian Spy Ring Busted in Washington” by Lee Smith at Tablet Magazine, October 2, 2023
Excellent and thorough overview of the entire operation and named individuals caught up in it
 
“Semafor: ‘Iran Experts Initiative’ included top aides to suspended US diplomat” at the Jewish News Syndicate, September 26, 2023. Concise overview of the full-length Semafor report itself
 
“Inside Iran’s influence operation” by Jay Solomon at Semafor, September 26, 2023
  • Jay Solomon, veteran WSJ reporter, obtained the Iranian regime email cache from contacts at Iran International and then wrote this complete report to complement and magnify the Iran International report. The emails reveal extensive details about the Iranian regime’s Foreign Ministry inner workings beginning in 2014, the year before the USG and rest of P5+1 finalized the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA or nuclear deal) with the Iranian regime. The emails also reveal the extent of penetration and co-option by Iran of multiple senior diplomats and other officials inside top levels of U.S. and European policy circles.
 
“Report: An Iranian Spy Currently Serves as Chief of Staff for Assistant Secretary of Defense For Special Operations” by Debra Heine at American Greatness, October 2, 2023
  • Even after former U.S. Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley lost his security clearance and State Department position, Ariane Tabatabai, one of his key recruits within the Iranian influence operation called “The Iran Experts Initiative” (IEI), continued to serve in her position as chief of staff for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations, Christopher Maier.
 
“Made in Tehran: The Iran Experts Who Swayed U.S. Policy” by Ken Timmerman at The Jewish Policy Center, October 2, 2023
 
“Member of Iranian Influence Network Visited Biden White House Five Times” by Adam Kredo at The Free Beacon, October 3, 2023
 
“Inside Tehran’s Soft War: How Iran Gained Influence In US Policy Centers” by Bozorgmehr Sharafedin at iranintl.com (Iran International)
 
The Sen. Bob Menendez Story: Indicted Recently for Accepting Bribes from Egyptian Business Contacts in New Jersey
 
Sen. Menendez (D-NJ) stands accused of taking large amounts of money, gold bars, and a Mercedes Benz car in return for influencing USG policy on foreign aid while serving as the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. An element of those accusations involves the allegation that Menendez and his wife, Nadine Menendez, took some of those bribes through an Islamic halal meat certifying company in Egypt.
 
Additionally, Sen. Menendez was working behind the scenes with the Imam Faisal Rauf and a NYC real estate developer to get an Islamic Center and mosque built two blocks from the site of the World Trade Center. 
 
“Sen. Menendez indicted for accepting bribes through halal certifying company with monopoly from Egyptian government” by Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch, September 24, 2023
 
“Menendez, facing bribery charges involving halal company, got $2 million in public cash for Ground Zero Mosque imam” by Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch, September 25, 2023
 
“Embattled Sen. Bob Menendez spent years helping developer and imam behind controversial ground zero mosque” by Isabel Vincent at New York Post, September 23, 2023
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Subsidizing Our Own Demise and Other Disturbing Mollycoddling
by Clare M. Lopez
September 2023

“Maryland Legislators Boast of Securing Taxpayer Funding for Hostile Turkish Regime Institution” by Sam Westrop at Focus on Western Islamism, August 9, 2023
 
  • You read that right: U.S. taxpayer dollars are set to flow to The Diyanet Center of America, thanks to the Department of Homeland Security’s ‘Nonprofit Security Grant Program’. What’s important to note here is that the Diyanet (or “Directorate of Religious Affairs in Turkey”) is an official Turkish government institution whose sprawling Lanham, MD facility is Turkish government property. It is the WDC Metro area hub for Turkey’s Muslim Brotherhood regime collaboration with the ADAMS Center (All Dulles Area Muslim Society Center), located near Dulles Airport in Northern Virginia. The ADAMS Center is headed by senior Muslim Brotherhood imam and former president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), Mohamed Magid, who is the son of Sudan’s former Grand Mufti. In 2022, Magid was appointed by the Biden White House to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. This is not ‘Islamism’. This is U.S. Federal Government-funded jihad.
 
 “Ilhan Omar Met With Al Qaeda Allies on Trip Funded by Islamic Terror States” by Daniel Greenfield at Front Page Magazine, August 24, 2023
   
  • In November 2022, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) attended the World Cup in Qatar. Annual House financial disclosure forms filed in May 2023 now show that her trip was paid for by Qatar, one of the top supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in the world and funder for both HAMAS and Hizballah. Omar also visited The Islamic Republic of Pakistan in April 2022, a trip paid for by the al-Qa’eda-and-Taliban-linked Pakistani government. Conveniently for her, House rules under the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act permit Members to take trips funded by foreign governments, even hostile ones like Qatar and Pakistan, provided they disclose that information on their annual financial statements. Omar, a member of the so-called “Squad” in the House is one of the most antisemitic, anti-Israel Members of Congress.

“Crocodile Tears from Jailed Muslim Brotherhood Cleric Earns Sympathy from Congress” by Benjamin Baird at Focus on Western Islamism, August 18, 2023
 
  • Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) has fallen for Islamic crocodile tears from Salah Soltan, a former legal resident of the U.S., who relocated to Egypt during the 2011-2012 Islamic Uprising (sometimes still called the “Arab Spring”) and was convicted on charges including terrorism, murder, and use of explosives. Soltan is serving a life sentence in Egyptian prison, but recently penned a letter expressing supposed remorse for “the error of his ways”. Cardin and other Democratic colleagues have been urging that U.S. military aid to Egypt be conditioned on Soltan’s release from prison. None of them have taken note of Soltan’s vicious antisemitism or close support for the Muslim Brotherhood. Soltan is not an “Islamist”. He’s a devout, faithful, practicing Muslim jihadi.

“Milley: Islamic State’s ‘ideology is not yet dead,’ so US will be in Syria for ‘many many years and decades to come’” by Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch, August 27, 2023
 
  • “US military occupation of Syria hinges on 'ISIS threat': Milley” at The Cradle.co, August 25, 2023
 
  • Speaking on August 24, 2023 to Jordanian TV, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley said that U.S. forces will remain in Syria for the foreseeable future “to fight ISIS”. The reason, Milley said, is that “the ideology” of the Islamic State is “not yet dead”. Someone might remind Milley that “ISIS” (Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham) changed its name to simply “Islamic State” or IS in June 2014, because the Islamic terror group had by then expanded its reach far beyond the Middle East. Of course, Milley never says what that “ideology” of IS actually is—perhaps because that would require him and the U.S. military to acknowledge that the “ideology” of IS is defined by Islamic doctrine, law, and scripture.
 
“Biden Admin is the ‘Single Largest Donor’ To Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan Since Botched Withdrawal, Watchdog Says” by Jake Smith at The Daily Caller, August 8, 2023
 
  • According to an August 2023 report from the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR), the Biden administration has given $2.35 billion to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan since the catastrophic flight from Kabul in August 2021. SIGAR head, John Sopko, warned Congress that he could not be sure U.S. taxpayer dollars are not funding the Taliban, in part because the Biden administration is blocking efforts to investigate where exactly U.S. money is going.
 
“Biden Regime Used ‘Iran Lobby’ Founder to Broker New Iran Deal” by Daniel Greenfield    at Jihad Watch, August 3, 2023
 
  • Desperate to revive the moribund Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action), the Biden administration turned once again to the same Iran Lobby crew involved in the original 2015 deal during the Obama administration. Among them was Trita Parsi, one of the founders of NIAC (National Iranian American Council); Robert Malley, the Biden administration’s point man for the Iran nuclear talks (now removed for unspecified national security reasons); and Ali Vaez, Malley’s former right-hand man at the Soros-funded International Crisis Group. Vaez and Parsi currently work at the Soros-and-Koch-brother-funded Quincy Institute. Despite the best efforts of these Iran Lobby stalwarts, however, the Iranian regime has not agreed to return to the nuclear negotiating table.
 
“GOP reps raise alarm bells over Iran’s influence in 'American religious institutions'” by Benjamin Weinthal at Fox News, August 1, 2023
 
  • Republican Members of Congress sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, warning of influence by the Islamic Republic of Iran in at least four Shi’ite U.S. mosques and Islamic Centers. Named were the Islamic Education Center (IEC) in Potomac, Maryland; the Islamic Education Center (IEC) in Houston, TX; the Islamic House of Wisdom (IHW) in Dearborn Heights, Michigan; and the Manassas Mosque in Manassas, Virginia. The Members’ awareness of Iranian regime attempts to infiltrate its influence inside U.S. mosques and Islamic Centers and efforts to call attention to them are laudable, but one wonders where they have been for the last six or seven decades as the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood was spreading its jihadist agenda across the country.
 
“Bangladeshi Fury After U.S. Visa Granted to Dangerous Hate Preacher” by Sam Westrop at Focus on Western Islamism, August 16, 2023
 
  • A Bangladeshi preacher named Mizanur Rahman Azhari was granted entry into the U.S. to speak at the 17 August 2023 Muslim Ummah of North America (MUNA) conference in Philadelphia, PA. His profile shows him to be a mainstream devout, faithful, practicing Muslim, who adheres vocally to Islamic doctrine on apostasy, Jew-hatred, and jihad. He likewise condemns the Ahmadiyya Muslim community because of its failure to adhere to Islamic doctrine on jihad. Unfortunately, neither U.S. border authorities nor many others understand that such positions, while hateful, are clearly within the mainstream, normative, orthodox doctrine of Islam.
 
“What to Make of CNN’s Exclusive About an ISIS Smuggler Who Moved Uzbeks Over the Border” by Todd Bensman at The Center for Immigration Studies, August 29, 2023
 
  • In August 2023, an FBI manhunt was underway for a group of Uzbek nationals who reportedly were brought into the U.S. over our open southern border by a human smuggler with connections to ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham – since June 2014, simply “IS” or “Islamic State”). It’s not clear from the report whether the Uzbeks were located and interviewed or vetted, but Bensman’s reporting highlights the chaotic situation on the U.S. southern border, where Customs and Border Protection agents are understaffed, under-resourced, and deliberately prevented by the Biden administration and Alejandro Mayorkas’ Department of Homeland Security from carrying out their duty to secure that border. 
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Penetrated U.S. Government Works with Islamic Terror Charity
by Clare M. Lopez
August 2023

“UN bodies receive millions from ‘terror charities’ – opinion” by Jordan Cope at the Jerusalem Post, July 30, 2023.
Four different UN agencies “have partnered with and accepted [millions of dollars] from the terrorism-affiliated NGO Qatar Charity”, which presents itself as a humanitarian organization (https://www.qcharity.org/en/qa)
  • “Terrorists Benefit from Qatar’s Goodwill and Charity” by Hussain Abdul-Hussain at Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), January 30, 2022. 
 
“Qatar Charity” has been sanctioned for links to Islamic terrorism by several Arab countries and remains affiliated with the “Union of Good” umbrella organization that is banned by the U.S. Treasury Department because of funding provided to HAMAS. “Qatar Charity” nevertheless has worked with USAID (US Agency for International Development) and several UN agencies as well. Among those UN agencies is UNRWA (UN Relief & Works Agency), which is closely affiliated with HAMAS, and the UNHCR (UN High Commission on Refugees). Another UN recipient of Qatar Charity funding is the International Organization of Migration (IOM), which is deeply involved with moving illegal aliens across the U.S. southern border.
 
“U.S. Taxpayers Donated $391K to Terrorist-Defending Imam’s Two Organizaations”, Focus on Western Islamism, July 28, 2023
Almost $400,000 in Massachusetts taxpayer funding was given to Imam Abdullah Faaruuq, an Islamic jihadi, for two of his “charity” groups. Note that there is nothing remotely “Islamist” about Imam Faaruuq: he is a devout, faithful, practicing Muslim.
 
“Biden Regime Lied to Senators About Iran Envoy Under FBI Investigation”, by Daniel Greenfield at Jihad Watch, July 16, 2023.
This is the curious story of Robert Malley, former Biden administration envoy for the Iran nuclear talks. It is still not clear why he lost his security clearance or was relieved of his position because neither the U.S. Department of State nor the FBI has clarified publicly what “mishandling of classified information” actually means in his case. Suffice to say, however, that Malley long has been known as sympathetic to the Islamic Republic of Iran’s jihadist regime and earlier, during Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, Malley was dropped from his advisory position there due to overly close relationships with HAMAS.
 
“Iraq pays billions to Iran after US waives sanctions that prohibited such payments”, by Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch, June 25, 2023.
Another Iran-linked story that illustrates yet one more method by which the U.S. Government favors the Islamic Republic of Iran’s regime. Here, we have an example of the USG waiving mandatory sanctions that previously prohibited Iraq from paying Iran for natural gas imports.
 
“Muslims Sue FBI for Religious Discrimination, Feds Base Their Defense on ‘Secret Evidence’” by Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch, June 12, 2023.  
These two stories deal with the offended feelings of some Muslims from mosques in Southern California which were infiltrated by an FBI informant in the mid-2000s. Now plaintiffs from the mosques, in collusion with the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) and Muslim Brotherhood-HAMAS-linked CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations), are suing the FBI, claiming religious discrimination.
 
“Ignored several times already, designated terrorist group CAIR again is demanding the US Congress appoint Special Envoy to monitor and combat so-called “Islamophobia” around the world, no less”, Bare Naked Islam, July 9, 2023.
CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations), the U.S. branch of terror-designated HAMAS, is squawking again to get Congress to appoint an official U.S. Special Envoy for “Islamophobia”.
 
“Biden, Whose Regime Includes Terrorists, Blasts Israeli Government as ‘Extreme’”, by Daniel Greenfield at Jihad Watch, July 11, 2023.
  • “A Gitmo Terror Lawyer Who Threw Stones at Israel Goes to the White House” by Daniel Greenfield at Jihad Watch, June 12, 2023. 
  • “Anti-America/Anti-Israel Guantánamo Bay Muslim terrorist lawyer, Ramzi Kassan, is now serving as Joe Biden’s ‘Senior Policy Advisor for Immigration’”, Bare Naked Islam, June 11, 2023.
 
These last three articles highlight the presence of senior officials in the Biden administration whose profiles raise questions about their suitability for either the positions or the security clearances they hold. The Biden administration includes a number of high-ranking officials whose anti-Israel animus permeates White House policy. Ramzi Kassem, a Syrian national who grew up in Lebanon, Iraq, and other Islamic terror states, is one of them. He serves as a Senior Policy Advisor for Immigration at the White House Domestic Policy Council.
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Biden Pretzel Logic: ‘We Must Embrace Antisemites to Fight Antisemites’
by Clare M. Lopez
July 2023

This month, we continue to highlight the utter hypocrisy of the Biden Administration and its May 2023 National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism (NSCA) for partnering openly with the Muslim Brotherhood front group CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations)—an insult and slap in the face to all Jews.
 
“Special Envoy for Antisemitism Explains Need to Get Into Bed With Antisemites” by Daniel Greenfield at Jihad Watch, June 13, 2023
As Daniel Greenfield notes of Deborah Lipstadt, U.S. Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Antisemitism, “It’s always awkward when you have to explain how, as part of the price of fighting antisemitism, you have to ally with antisemites”. His piece here references the Biden White House antisemitism plan that explicitly names the Muslim Brotherhood front group, CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations), the U.S. branch of HAMAS, as a partner in its program. Lipstadt did assure us, however, that “I’m not naïve”.  Then what? Complicit, perhaps?
 
“CAIR is no solution to antisemitism: It’s part of the problem”, by James Sinkinson in Jewish News Syndicate, July 3, 2023
 
“Asking CAIR’s help in Biden’s national fight against antisemitism insults all victims of Jew hatred”, FLAME, July 8, 2023
 
“From Joe Biden’s ‘You just can’t make this stuff up’ file” from Bare Naked Islam, June 14, 2023
Envoy Deborah Lipstadt actually says that “forgiving the Hamas-linked Islamic organization for its history of terror support and anti-Semitism was a fundamental Jewish value.”
 
“EXCLUSIVE: Why Did Biden’s Antisemitism Strategy Involve CAIR? New Tolerance Campaign Demands Answers” by Tyler O’Neil in Daily Signal, June 28, 2023
 
“MUSLIM TERRORISTS and their pals at Hamas-linked CAIR are doing a happy dance over new DOJ terrorism policy” at Bare Naked Islam, May 17, 2023
Related: The Department of Justice has a “new anti-discrimination policy that would expand restrictions against use of protected characteristics in law enforcement activities”, no matter whether such ‘protected characteristics’ (such as ethnicity or sharia adherence) to identify a suspect or develop a human source might otherwise be lawful.
 
“Weaponizing Accusations: Examining the Dangerous Targeting of Amy Mek by a Muslim GOP Candidate” by RAIR Foundation, July 8, 2023
Shukri Abdullahi Abdirahman was a 2022 GOP candidate for the 5th Congressional District in Minnesota who touts herself as a MAGA Republican. More recently however, she has unleashed a dangerous torrent of criticism aimed at Amy Mek, the founder of the RAIR Foundation, accusing her of Islamophobia. As Abdirahman, a devout, sharia-adherent Muslim, well knows, such an accusation not only exposed Mek to an outpouring of attacks on social media but carries with it as well an invitation to even more violent, possibly physical, attacks. While there is no indication that Abdirahman maintains ties to Muslim Brotherhood-linked individuals or groups, the obligations of Islamic Law are binding on all faithful Muslims. And finally, of course, there is no such thing as freedom of speech under Islamic Law (sharia). 
Editor's Corner

Does this Muslim in the State Department’s Foreign Service believe in sharia supremacy and violent jihad as the means to achieve it, as all observant Muslims are supposed to do?  We don’t know, because nobody in our irresponsible federal government has asked. 

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Biden Elevating Islam at the Expense of Christians and Jews
by Clare M. Lopez
June 2023
 
The first set of pieces linked here this month all address the Biden Administration’s newly unveiled “National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism”. The plan includes steps to raise awareness of antisemitism and produce annual threat assessments about antisemitism by the FBI and National Counterterrorism Center. Unfortunately, though, the Biden strategy fails to include the full International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism—or any other, making enforcement impossible. This is the IHRA definition of antisemitism:
 
“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”
 
Further, the plan fails to condemn the “Boycott, Divest, Sanction” movement that claims boycotting goods made in Judea/Samaria or Israel is not antisemitic. Brief mention is made of rampant antisemitism on American university campuses but does not address where that Jew-hatred comes from, which is often black activists, the Left, and Muslim Brotherhood instigation from groups like the Muslim Student Association (MSA). Finally, and perhaps worst of all, the Biden plan included among its partner groups the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the U.S. branch of HAMAS, the Gaza branch of the Muslim Brotherhood that is listed on the U.S. Foreign Terrorist Organizations list.
   
  • “New U.S. National Strategy Plan to Combat Antisemitism Shaped by American Muslim Group with Antisemitic History”, The Foreign Desk, May 26, 2023
   
  • “Biden’s Antisemitism Strategy Fails to Condemn BDS, Includes Hamas-Linked CAIR” by Daniel Greenfield, Jihad Watch, May 27, 2023
   
Next, there was the 2 May 2023 “listening session” at the White House for a klatch of HAMAS-and-Muslim-Brotherhood-linked front groups that included CAIR, ISNA (Islamic Society of North America), and MPAC (Muslim Public Affairs Council)…the first two of which were listed by the Department of Justice as Unindicted Co-Conspirators in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation terror funding trial.

   
  • “CAIR Visits White House for Meeting on Islamophobia, Raises Watchlist Concerns”, Council on American-Islamic Relations, May 3, 2023
 
Rashad Hussain is the Biden Administration’s U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom and formerly served as the Obama Administration’s Special Envoy to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The U.S. State Department released its new report on International Religious Freedom on 15 May 2023. While the report documents human rights abuses in Islamic societies including for apostasy and blasphemy and calls out the Taliban for robbing women and girls of access to education and other services “in the name of religion”, he pointedly avoids specifying that such violations of human rights and religious expression are in fact encoded in Islamic doctrine and law. In this, he, like his predecessor Amb. Sam Brownback, misuses his position to advance Islam and an “Islamophobia” narrative.
 
A 27 April 2023 report issued by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has been criticized by advocates for persecuted Christians in Nigeria for painting the Muslim Fulani ethnic group there as persecuted victims, when in fact, it is Christians who overwhelmingly are those being slaughtered by Islamic jihadis. 
     
And finally, there was the commemoration of the antisemitic “Nakba” event in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing room on 10 May 2023. After House Speaker Kevin McCarthy blocked the use of the Capitol Visitors Center auditorium, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), with the approval of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), stepped in to offer the hearing room of the Senate committee that he chairs to the viciously antisemitic Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).
   
  • “Schumer and Senate Dems Give Rashida Tlaib Platform for Anti-Semitic Event Mourning Israel's Creation After McCarthy Thwarts Plans” by Adam Kredo at the Washington Free Beacon, May 11, 2023
   
Why Does Biden Want to ‘Include’ People Who Want to Kill Us?
by Clare M. Lopez
May 2023
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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
  • 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.” 

Biden Regime Taps Ilhan Omar to Speak at Religious Freedom Event, Then Hides Invitation
  • 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  
Ilhan Omar’s Islamophobia Resolution: Bad Idea
by Clare M. Lopez
April 2023
PERMALINK

At a press conference held outside the U.S. Capitol on 23 March 2023, the first day of Ramadan, Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib, (D-MI) jointly introduced a bill they claim is intended to combat “Islamophobia”. The bill was co-sponsored by 20 Democrat Party members of the U.S. House of Representatives. In December 2021, Omar led an initiative in the House to pass a bill that would establish a special U.S. government envoy on “Islamophobia”, although the term is nowhere officially defined. To date, no “Islamophobia” envoy has yet been designated by the Biden administration, although Secretary of State Antony Blinken did issue a formal statement on 15 March 2023 in support of “International Day to Combat Islamophobia”.

H.Res.250 — 118th Congress (2023-2024) (track it here - no action as of this writing after it was introduced in the House)
 
  • “Tell your Congress Rep to reject this “Islamophobia” Resolution being promoted by Ilhan Omar and designated terrorist group CAIR”, Bare Naked Islam, 27 March 2023
       
Editor’s Note
 
As the Sharia TipSheet noted on 11/7/22, Islamophobia legislation is a bad idea, starting with the free speech problems it would create.   Defining ‘Islamophobia’ was under consideration in Britain in 2022, but the government abandoned the attempt.  B’nai Brith points out the problems with trying to define the term:  B’nai Brith: “The group says the broad definition could lead to students or staff being punished for expressing dislike for the Republic of Iran’s persecution of LGBTQ people or restrictions placed on women in Saudi Arabia.”   British government officials said defining the term would also hamper counterterrorism operations and stoke community tensions.  Moreover, Islamophobia legislation criminalizes scholarship and public debate reaching to, among other things, university cultural studies, and political science, as well as criminal justice studies textbooks, discussions, research papers, theses, and dissertations. For example, see page 11, 38, and 93 of the text, The Criminal Investigator-Intelligence Analyst’s Handbook of Islam, for World View discussions that would run afoul of Islamophobia legislation.
 
In Other News
 
“IRS Allows Islamic Terrorists to Fundraise Through Leftist Nonprofit” by Daniel Greenfield, Jihad Watch, March 6, 2023
  • The IRS stands accused of allowing Non-Profit 501(c)(3) status for groups with questionable ties to leftist and even terror-linked organizations.
Biden Puts Muslim Brotherhood in Key Diplomatic and Intelligence Roles
by Clare M. Lopez
March 2023
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Hady Amr is a Beirut-born Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Biden Administration
 
  • “Biden Sends Pro-Hamas Envoy ‘Inspired by Intifada’ to Mediate Between Israel and Jihad Terrorists”, Jihad Watch, by Daniel Greenfield, May 14, 2021
 
  • “Hady Amr’s transformational policy”, Jewish News Syndicate, by Caroline Glick, March 2, 2023

  • Hady Amr is the U.S. Special Representative for Palestinian Affairs
 
Maher Bitar is a Palestinian American, appointed as Senior Director for Intelligence Programs at Biden’s National Security Council. He was an Executive Board member of Georgetown University’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, which is associated with American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), a founding member of the Muslim Brotherhood political umbrella group, the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO, founded in 2014
 
  • “Biden appoints Palestinian American to key intelligence role”, Jewish News Syndicate, by Netta Bar, January 25, 2021
 
  • “Maher Bitar and Israel’s ideological elections”, Jewish News Syndicate, by Caroline Glick, January 31, 2021
 
Rashad Hussain is Biden’s Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom & served previously in the Obama Administration as Ambassador to the Muslim Brotherhood-dominated Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)
       
Ilhan Omar is a Muslim immigrant from Somalia and U.S. representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district since 2019. She met with visiting Turkey’s Muslim Brotherhood President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2017; mere months later the Islamic Association of North America (IANA), formerly known as The North American Council of Somali Imams (NACSI), joined the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood political umbrella organization, the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO). Omar also was a former Advisory Board member for Minnesota Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)
   
  • “Press Release: Christian Pro Israel Advocate Calls For Investigation of Ilhan Omar’s Ties To Terrorism”, Proclaiming Justice to the Nations, February 13, 2023
 
Retired General John R. Allen secretly lobbied for the Muslim Brotherhood-dominated government of Qatar, lied to investigators about his role, and tried to withhold evidence sought by a federal subpoena, according to court documents
 “Feds drop probe of far-Left general accused of lobbying for Muslim Brotherhood-dominated Qatar”, Jihad Watch, by Robert Spencer, February 5, 2023
Joe Biden Cozies Up to Hamas
by Clare M. Lopez

February 2023
 
“Biden vows continued cooperation with Hamas-linked Islamic Society of North America”, Jihad Watch by Robert Spencer, September 29, 2022
 
“Top Biden National Security Official Served on Board of Pro-Terror Group”, Jihad Watch by Daniel Greenfield, December 11, 2022
 
“U.S. Rep Challenges USAID on Funding to Charity Tied to South Asian Jihadists”, Islamism News, 1 February 2023
 
“Ilhan Omar gets the boot: House votes her off Foreign Affairs Committee as Democrats cite 'racism'”, Fox News, February 2, 2023
  • “CAIR, Coalition Condemn House GOP’s “Baseless and Islamophobic” Vote to Remove Rep. Omar from Foreign Affairs Committee”, CAIR Press Release, February 2, 2023
 
“CAIR Urges FBI to Stop Distributing Secret Terror Watchlists After Leaks Show ‘Almost Entirely Lists of Arabic and Muslim Names’”, CAIR Press Release, January 23, 2023
 
“CAIR Releases Report on ‘Congressional Legislative Priorities in the 118th Congress’”, CAIR Press Release, January 11, 2023
 
“U.S. Ambassador Under Fire for Wearing Hijab at Lebanon’s Request”, Washington Free Beacon, December 1, 2022
Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act Reintroduced

November 2021

Senators reintroduce Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act

Biden wants Egypt to free Muslim Brotherhood prisoners, may be withholding $130 million in security aid to make it happen

New U.S. ambassador to Israel led delegation as Deputy Secretary of State to shore up Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood government in 2012

Supreme Court hears arguments on the FBI’s surveillance of mosques

October 2021

lhan Omar introduces bill to create a government office to “monitor and combat Islamophobia” around the world; critics say she wants the U.S. to silence the truth about the standard Islamic doctrines of sharia supremacy and jihad

Biden administration resettles more than 3,000 refugees from countries known to export terrorism

September 2021

John D. Cohen, DHS Counterterrorism official, joins Muslim Brotherhood leader on webinar to discuss national security after 9/11

Squad Member Was Guest of Honor at Fundraiser Hosted By Pro-Erdogan Group - “Jamaal Bowman has formed close ties to controversial Turkish group”

Federal judge throws out charges against a Muslim doctor in Michigan accused of performing female genital mutilations, calling the prosecution for lying to the FBI vindictive given that he had ruled earlier charges unconstitutional

August 2021

Congressional candidate Barbara Sharief in South Florida schmoozing Muslim figures linked to bigotry and violence, speaks at terror-tied mosque

Lindsey Graham and other Republicans join Ilhan Omar in supporting the Muslim Brotherhood in Tunisia

Rashida Tlaib promotes fundraiser for Texas nonprofit tied to Hamas and the Taliban

July 2021

Justice Department Inspector General finds inmates incarcerated for terrorism-related crimes, or with known connections to terrorist organizations, are leading religious services in 4 of 12 prisons audited

DHS scraps regulation requiring security vetting and oversight of F-1 student visa holders from Egypt and other Muslim-majority countries of national security concern; article lists F-1 jihadi plotters and attackers

Biden nominates Rashad Hussain (linked to the Muslim Brotherhood) and Khizr Khan to international freedom posts
  • Group sends Hussain, who has memorized the Quran, pointed questions about sharia:
    • a. Do you agree with interpretations of Sharia that take a supremacist position toward
followers of other religions?
  • b. For example, do you consider adherents to other faiths to be kafir (infidels), who
must be treated as dhimmis (inferior to Muslims) with limited legal rights, and that
they should be compelled to submit to Islam or suffer severe punishment, including
death?
  • c. Do you consider Muslims who convert to another faith to be apostates who should
be punished with the death penalty?
  • d. Do you consider Muslims who disagree with the prevailing interpretation of Islam in
their communities or who profess that they are atheists or agnostics to be
apostates?
  • e. As a committed Muslim, in the execution of your office as AAL, will you be able to
consider members of all faiths or of no faith equally worthy of U.S. protection from
persecution by state and non-state actors?

June 2021

Senate confirms first Muslim federal judge without properly vetting his views on sharia law

Lina Khan becomes first Muslim to chair the FTC

Pentagon linguist sentenced for passing intel to Hezbollah, including covert human assets and American targets

May 2021

Woke Pentagon:  Biden Brings in Islamic Activists to Investigate U.S. Military for ‘Extremism’
  • The Pentagon has brought in the discredited Southern Poverty Law Center and a slew of Islamic activists to go after supposed extremists.  One criticism of the entire exercise has been that it could easily turn into a witch hunt.  Nobody knows how far it will go or what will be deemed ‘extreme’.  So if a soldier criticizes Islamic doctrines of sharia supremacy and jihad, will the soldier be caught up in the dragnet?  It seems likely given the people the Pentagon has hired to do the work. 

Biden Frees Al Qaeda Ally Who Plotted to Smuggle Nukes Into US

April 2021

Terror-tied CAIR holds webinar on how Muslims can obtain U.S. government grant money to structurally harden mosques and Islamic organizations

DHS and FEMA instructing terror-tied groups on how to get federal grants to harden mosques
  • The Explanatory Memorandum, which declares a “grand jihad” to destroy Western civilization, and other Muslim Brotherhood documents state the mosque ‘constitutes the “axis” of our Movement,  …the “base” for our rise … to prepare us and supply our battalions in addition to being the “niche” of our prayers’.

March 2021

Woke Pentagon distributing “simplified” Quran to troops worldwide so they learn Allah curses Jews and Christians, Muslims are commanded to fight nonbelievers, and nonbelievers are headed straight to hell

Biden’s HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge has repeatedly praised CAIR which is Hamas in America
3/22/21

Biden Administration Continues Pro-Sharia Tilt

Biden Middle East policy is reviving the Muslim Brotherhood, a fanatic group that destroyed democracy in Turkey and boosted Hamas’ reign of terror in the Gaza Strip

Biden names lobbyist for Qatar as a senior advisor (Erin Pelton); Qatar “has close ties to Iran and is a central hub for terrorism financing”

Biden pick for National Economic Council has ties to movement that sympathizes with violent Islamic Kashmiri separatists and South Asian terrorist groups (Sameera Fazili) (the chain of associations goes back to the siege of Mumbai in 2008 in which Islamic militants killed 164 people)

Congressman asks Justice Department to investigate Democrat donation portal ActBlue for possibly violating U.S. anti-terrorism laws by facilitating donations to a Palestinian organization that is directing funds to terrorist groups

U.S. military graduates first female Muslim chaplain
  • What’s the problem with this?  Glad you asked.  In case you haven’t heard, standard Islamic doctrine teaches world domination under sharia law and jihad as the means to achieve it.  Do we need more people in our military who think like that?  I don’t think so.  
      
Domestic terrorism bill carves out exception from domestic terrorism for acts inspired by foreigners

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Biden Populates Administration with Sharia Sympathizers

Joe Biden promised to have Muslim voices as part of his administration...

2/4/21
Pro-Palestinian Hady Amr, who has ties to terror-abetting Qatar, lands important State Department Middle East policy position

2/4/21
Senate confirms Muslim Brotherhood sympathizer Denis McDonough as Secretary of the Veterans Administration

1/26/21
4th Circuit hears arguments on the terror watch list (found unconstitutional by a lower court judge)

2020

Your Tax Dollars Support Islamic Terror and Violence

12/7/20
The feds gave COVID relief funds to numerous Islamic groups with ties to violence

12/30/20
A Senate report shows the Obama administration sent at least $150,000 in taxpayer funds through a humanitarian organization to a terror-tied Al Qaeda affiliate, despite being informed the affiliate was a sanctioned entity

1/29/21
The Trump administration handed out MORE, not less, money to Islamic organizations than any previous administration, e.g., 9/11 mosque in Virginia received $100,000 under a security program

1/27/21
Biden appoints anti-Israel BDS activist to National Security Council intelligence post

11/17/20
Off-the-rails federal government manipulating narratives with TEVUS database (Terrorism and Extremist Violence in the United States) - classifies Arab 9/11 hijackers as “White/Caucasian non-Hispanic”

12/30/20
The CIA failed to properly vet an asset who turned out to be a double agent, a suicide bomber who killed seven U.S. service members

12/14/20
New Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock praised the racist anti-Semitic Nation of Islam in 2013 speech

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Biden Administration Tilting to Muslim Brotherhood, Weakening Terrorism Prevention

12/5/20
Look for Biden to stock his administration with Muslim Brotherhood supporters at every level

11/25/20
Biden White House official spoke approvingly of suicide bombers, tries to disown comments

9/30/20
Biden to end terrorism prevention program, focus on discrimination against Muslims

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12/22/20
CAIR wants Biden administration to terminate FBI use of Muslim informants, hire Muslims, fund Muslim programs, and defer to Muslim organizations

12/7/20
Ted Cruz reintroduces bill to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group

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6/2/20 - CAIR and 70 other groups send letter to DHS objecting to CVE program as ‘junk science’ and targeting Muslims (Editor’s Note: first, CAIR and its allies succeeding in watering down counterterrorism training and now they’re trying to get rid of it altogether)
https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-joins-70-civil-rights-groups-in-letter-to-dhs-opposing-countering-violent-extremism-cve-program-based-on-junk-science-targeting-vulnerable-communities/

6/1/20 - Mueller team and the FBI investigated 2016 Trump campaign adviser Walid Phares for allegedly working for the Egyptian government to influence the incoming administration; investigation closed without action
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/06/fbi-investigated-trump-campaign-foreign-policy-adviser-walid-phares

4/6/20 - Bureau of Prisons failing to adequately monitor the communications of prisoners with terrorist ties; also failed to fulfill the FBI’s request for lists of convicts with terrorist ties who were set to be released
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/06/fitton-federal-prisons-ignore-terrorist-risk/

3/19/20 - New book ‘American Ingrate’ describes Ilhan Omar’s life of privilege in America (luxury condo, scandals bounce off, far better than in war-torn Somalia her family fled), yet she views the U.S. as nothing but oppression and bigotry
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/03/new-book-exposes-american-ingrate-ilhan-omar

3/9/20 - House passes amendment to keep TSA from hiring terrorists; 174 Democrats (including “the squad”) voted against
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/03/most-house-democrats-vote-against-amendment-that-would-keep-convicted-terrorists-from-working-for-the-tsa

3/6/20 - Raymond Ibrahim long-delayed speech at the U.S. Army War College went off without a hitch (“MASTERFUL”, “people were riveted”)
https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2020/03/06/conclusion-army-war-college-cair-and-raymond-ibrahim/

2/14/20 - lawmakers want to know how an Iraqi Al Qaeda leader was admitted to the U.S. as a ‘refugee’ in 2008 and later became a U.S. citizen
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2020/02/14/grassley-wants-to-know-how-the-hell-an-al-qaeda-terrorist-became-a-us-citizen-n2561307

2/10/20 - FEMA teaching hopelessly flawed Obama-era Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) counterterrorism approach to police, community leaders, and government officials across the country
https://www.understandingthethreat.com/the-disinformation-campaign-at-the-ground-level-carrollton-texas/

1/18/20 - federal tax dollars continue to flow to dangerous Islamist organizations, including CAIR; total exceeds $41 million since 2007
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/01/dhs-approves-100000-grant-of-taxpayers-money-to-hamas-linked-cair

1/16/20 - Senators Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar join 120 other members of Congress in sending congratulatory support letters to terror-tied CAIR (link to letters at end)
https://freebeacon.com/issues/more-than-120-members-of-congress-issue-letters-of-support-to-leading-anti-israel-group/

1/14/20 - new bill could make radical Islamist organizations eligible for $75 million in DHS grants
https://clarionproject.org/muslim-patrol-new-bill-could-fund-islamist-vigilante-groups/

1/14/20 - vaguely worded bill meant to protect houses of worship could fund Islamic vigilante groups like NYC’s Muslim patrol (bill still pending)
https://clarionproject.org/muslim-patrol-new-bill-could-fund-islamist-vigilante-groups/

2019

12/19/19 - Muslim Brotherhood influence among liberal Democrats has stymied the Trump administration’s plans to designate the group as a terrorist organization
https://clarionproject.org/designating-the-brotherhood-liberal-dems-trump/

12/13/19 - Nancy Pelosi meets with Muslim groups about overturning Trump’s travel ban; group led by Muslim Advocates which played a key role in weakening border patrol efforts to screen for radical Islamists while Obama was in office
https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/13/pelosi-meets-with-islamist-groups-about-overturning-muslim-ban-impeaching-trump/

12/11/19 - Federal government continues to fund Muslim Brotherhood front-group Islamic Relief, despite the charity’s being designated a terrorism financing organization by other countries and its directors being known to support terrorism; FEMA and the Ag Department continue to partner with Islamic Relief even though the charity has been under federal investigation for years
https://www.meforum.org/60098/trump-administration-funds-islamist-group

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DHS Willfully Blind to Islamic Threats to the Homeland
 October 16, 2019





Re-posted at

The Department of Homeland Security is to be commended for expressly naming what it calls the “Radical Islamist Terrorist Threat” in its new Strategic Framework for Countering Terrorism and Targeted Violence.  However, once again, DHS comes up woefully short in recognizing significant aspects of the threat.

The Framework discusses the threat at length (p. 9-10), but confines its discussion to foreign groups such as Islamic State (IS), Al Qaeda, and Hezbollah, their internationally mobile returning fighters, and the ‘homegrown violent extremists’ (HVEs) these groups inspire domestically. 

No mention is made of the threat posed by Islam’s core doctrine of jihad or of the fact that many mosques in America have been rated Dangerous, Very Dangerous, or Extremely Dangerous by Dave Gaubatz, a well-known author and analyst with national security credentials.   Apparently, in DHS’ view, a threat is not a threat if it’s a political hot potato.  (The Justice Department and FBI so far refuse to cough up any records regarding their view of mosques in a pending FOIA case.)

Instead of parsing the threats posed by Islamic core doctrine and sharia (Islamic law), the DHS Framework descends into more of the same homogenized CVE mush it spouted during the Obama administration (Countering Violent Extremism).  DHS began to move away from CVE and return to reality-based counterterrorism analysis and training early in the Trump administration. Unfortunately, the Department halted that work and reversed course once again towards CVE under former DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.  The Framework is replete with CVE concepts and terminology as, for example, when it discusses “a more holistic approach to preventing terrorism.” (p.1)  CVE has been heavily criticized elsewhere for years, but one problem with treating all terrorist threats - from animal rights activists to jihadis - as the same is that it leaves counterterrorism personnel ill-equipped to deal with the specific means and methods employed by each discrete group of terrorists. 

Finally, no mention is made at all of the Muslim Brotherhood or its U.S. front groups.  Any Framework that fails to address this unsurpassed threat to the homeland is doomed from the outset.   The Brotherhood’s main front group in the U.S. is CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations).  CAIR poses as a civil rights group but its true nature is indicated by its status as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism-financing trial. 

According to a recently published report on CAIR:
  • a “number of individuals associated with CAIR have been convicted of terrorism-related charges over the years”
  • “CAIR’s [Nihad] Awad has publicly allied himself with both the PLO and HAMAS terrorist groups in the past, and CAIR refuses to denounce HAMAS.”
  • “As urgent as international threats undeniably are and will continue to be, top level U.S. national security leadership attention must be turned to the domestic insurgency threat posed by the subversive, jihadist agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood and the rest of the Islamic Movement in this country. CAIR is undoubtedly the lead Brotherhood front group driving this threat, but its top position within the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) and, in turn, its close working relationship with the pro-Muslim Brotherhood, HAMAS-supporting regime of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, add a further and foreign dimension to the threat that must not be ignored.”
  • “The Trump administration must confront the Muslim Brotherhood’s many tentacles in the U.S. Federal law enforcement should begin a renewed effort to investigate Brotherhood groups in the U.S. and at the very least, revoke CAIR’s tax exempt status. It is plain from this report that CAIR is not a “civil rights” organization, but one intent on imposing the Muslim Brotherhood’s malevolent ‘…grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers…’”

DHS and the entire U.S. government need to go beyond merely naming the “Radical Islamist Terrorist Threat” and deal with the multi-faceted dimensions of the threat, starting with bringing back fact-based training that educates counterterrorism personnel on the specifics they need to counter the threat.  Until that happens, DHS and the federal government are dismally failing at job one - keeping the U.S. homeland safe.

DHS, go back to the drawing board and get real. 

SEEN AND AGREED:
  • David Bores
  • Philip B. Haney, Founding Member, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Customs & Border Protection (CBP - Ret.)
  • Andrew E. Harrod
  • Robert Heffley
  • Vince Hughes
  • James Lafferty  - Chairman, Virginia Anti-Shariah Task Force (VAST)
  • Clare Lopez
  • Dick Manasseri
  • Jim Simpson
  • Chris Wright - Sharia TipSheet - Liberato.US