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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