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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
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 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
Ilhan Omar’s Islamophobia Resolution: Bad Idea
by Clare M. Lopez
April 2023
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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)
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
by Clare M. Lopez
April 2023
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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
- “TOMORROW: CAIR to Join Press Conference Hosted by Rep. Omar to Announce Resolution Combating Islamophobia”, CAIR, March 22, 2023
- “Observing the First International Day to Combat Islamophobia”, Press Statement by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, March 15, 2023
- Last Congress: “House passes Ilhan Omar’s legislation to combat Islamophobia”, by Daniella Diaz, CNN, December 14, 2021
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
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
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)
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
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)
- “Top Biden National Security Official Served on Board of Pro-Terror Group”, Jihad Watch by Daniel Greenfield, December 11, 2022
- “USCIRF Welcomes Confirmation of a New Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom”, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, December 17, 2021
- “Two Biden administration officials attend ISNA convention, State Department distances itself from pro-jihad rhetoric”, Jihad Watch, by Robert Spencer
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)
- “Photos Surface Revealing 2017 'Closed-Door' Meeting Between Rep. Ilhan Omar and Turkish President Erdogan”, PJ Media, by Clare M. Lopez, April 11, 2019
- “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 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
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
they should be compelled to submit to Islam or suffer severe punishment, including
death?
apostates?
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’
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
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
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
- b. For example, do you consider adherents to other faiths to be kafir (infidels), who
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
- d. Do you consider Muslims who disagree with the prevailing interpretation of Islam in
apostates?
- e. As a committed Muslim, in the execution of your office as AAL, will you be able to
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.
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’.
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
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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
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.
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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

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