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Biden Administration Sides with Terrorists
by Clare M. Lopez
April 2024
Biden Administration Sides with Terrorists
Ramadan this year runs from sundown on March 10, 2024 to sundown on April 10, 2024. The White House Statement of support for the Islamic observance included sympathetic references to Gaza, where over 80% of the people have told pollsters that they support HAMAS.
“Statement from President Joe Biden on the Occasion of Ramadan”, The White House, March 10, 2024
“Biden, Kamala Send Ramadan Message Empathizing With Hamas Supporters” by Daniel Greenfield at Front Page Magazine, March 11, 2024
“AOC and 'Squad' Dems Melt Down After CNN Panelist Accuses Ilhan Omar of Hamas Connection” by Jonathan Jones at The Western Journal, March 15, 2024
“US Intel Agency Wants To Ban Terms 'Radical Islamists' and 'Jihadist' Because They're Hurtful to Muslim Americans” by Adam Kredo at The Washington Free Beacon, March 27, 2024
“Biden Regime Invites Hamas-Linked CAIR to the White House, Then Lies About It” by Robert Spencer at PJ Media, March 16, 2024
“What does MENA mean? The U.S. Census’ new category” by Joe Grimm, March 30, 2024
Even though Congress has barred the USG from awarding U.S. taxpayer dollars to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the key UN aid organization in the Gaza Strip that is nearly entirely staffed by HAMAS employees or supporters, behind the scenes, the Biden administration continues to urge donors other than the USG to continue funding it.
“Biden Condemns ‘Islamophobia’” by Robert Spencer at Front Page Magazine, March 21, 2024
At his 8 March 2024 State of the Union address, President Joe Biden announced his intention to construct a pier off the Gaza shore that would be used for bringing in humanitarian aid. But then, the White House and State Department decided to bring in Qatar to help fund and manage the pier. Qatar is the top backer, funder, and supporter of HAMAS, the Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO)-listed Islamic terror group that attacked Israel on 7 October 2023.
Biden Administration Sides with Terrorists
by Clare M. Lopez
April 2024
Biden Administration Sides with Terrorists
Ramadan this year runs from sundown on March 10, 2024 to sundown on April 10, 2024. The White House Statement of support for the Islamic observance included sympathetic references to Gaza, where over 80% of the people have told pollsters that they support HAMAS.
“Statement from President Joe Biden on the Occasion of Ramadan”, The White House, March 10, 2024
“Biden, Kamala Send Ramadan Message Empathizing With Hamas Supporters” by Daniel Greenfield at Front Page Magazine, March 11, 2024
“AOC and 'Squad' Dems Melt Down After CNN Panelist Accuses Ilhan Omar of Hamas Connection” by Jonathan Jones at The Western Journal, March 15, 2024
- Seems this one struck a little close to home!
“US Intel Agency Wants To Ban Terms 'Radical Islamists' and 'Jihadist' Because They're Hurtful to Muslim Americans” by Adam Kredo at The Washington Free Beacon, March 27, 2024
- The term “Radical Islamists” indeed ought to be banned, given that those, like “jihadis”, who are faithfully obedient to the doctrine, law & scripture of Islam are in fact mainstream, normative, and orthodox.
- More here - “DEI top dogs warn intelligence officials to avoid using words such as ‘jihadist’ and even ‘Radical Islamists’” by Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch, March 24, 2024
“Biden Regime Invites Hamas-Linked CAIR to the White House, Then Lies About It” by Robert Spencer at PJ Media, March 16, 2024
“What does MENA mean? The U.S. Census’ new category” by Joe Grimm, March 30, 2024
- The U.S. Census Bureau issued a formal announcement on March 29, 2024 that added a new category to its U.S. population count. It’s for “Middle Eastern/North African” (MENA).
- “White House releases Census revision to include Middle Eastern or North African category” by Dorothy Tucker & Samah Assad at CBS News, March 29, 2024
Even though Congress has barred the USG from awarding U.S. taxpayer dollars to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the key UN aid organization in the Gaza Strip that is nearly entirely staffed by HAMAS employees or supporters, behind the scenes, the Biden administration continues to urge donors other than the USG to continue funding it.
- “Biden Admin Coordinates With UNRWA After Congress Banned Taxpayer Dollars, State Department Says” by Adam Kredo at The Washington Free Beacon, March 29, 2024
“Biden Condemns ‘Islamophobia’” by Robert Spencer at Front Page Magazine, March 21, 2024
At his 8 March 2024 State of the Union address, President Joe Biden announced his intention to construct a pier off the Gaza shore that would be used for bringing in humanitarian aid. But then, the White House and State Department decided to bring in Qatar to help fund and manage the pier. Qatar is the top backer, funder, and supporter of HAMAS, the Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO)-listed Islamic terror group that attacked Israel on 7 October 2023.
- “US Taps Qatar to Fund Gaza Pier, Selects Hamas-Linked Contractor” by Baruch Yedid at Jewish Press, March 19, 2024
- “US invites Qatar to help build Gaza pier, over Israeli objections” by Itamar Eichner, Yuval Kami at y net news, March 20, 2024
- “‘US taps Hamas ally Qatar to build port in Gaza’” by David Isaac at Jewish News Syndicate, March 19, 2024
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Inflection Point: Biden Administration Must Pander to the Muslim Vote
by Clare M. Lopez
March 2024
Topping the list this month has to be the Biden administration’s desperate outreach to Michigan Muslims in a must-win state it fears he may lose over his support of Israel. In early February 2024, Biden’s White House sent a clutch of senior officials to Michigan to listen to the foreign policy demands of Muslim voters there. No evidence the Biden admin’s groveling swayed any of Michigan’s Muslim electorate, but its shameful public appeasement certainly showed our ally Israel – and the rest of the world, friends and enemies alike - what its pledges of friendship really mean.
“Biden is sending aides to Michigan to see Arab American and Muslim leaders over the Israel-Hamas war” by JOEY CAPPELLETTI, AAMER MADHANI and SEUNG MIN KIM at the Associated Press/ABC 8 News, February 7, 2024
“Top Biden Official Panders to US-Arab Leaders in Closed-Door Meeting, Says He Has ‘No Confidence’ in Israeli Government” by Margaret Flavin at Gateway Pundit, February 10, 2024
“In Private Remarks to Arab Americans, Biden Aide Expresses Regrets on Gaza” by Reid J. Epstein and Erica L. Green at the New York Times, February 9, 2024
“KASSAM: Biden’s White House is Outsourcing Foreign Policy to Michigan’s Muslim Leaders” by Raheem Kassam at National Pulse, February 10, 2024
“Biden sends delegation to meet with Hamas supporter” by Daniel Greenfield at Israel Today, February 11, 2024
“Biden invited Muslim leader who publicly supported terror group Hezbollah to meet with his top aides” by Joe Schoffstall at Fox News, February 8, 2024
“Biden Betrays Israel at WH Press Conference with Jordanian King Who Called Israel an Illegal State on Arab Land, Praised UNRWA” at Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), February 13, 2024
And if we wonder why there’s been scant progress in Qatar-mediated talks to free Israeli, American and other hostages, Doha’s massive funding operation with U.S. think tanks and universities, among others, may provide a clue:
“Hamas Patron Qatar Has Spent $6 Billion Lobbying the U.S. Government and Funding Universities” by Adam Kredo at Free Beacon, February 9, 2024
In Other News
“Biden Staffer Who Mishandled China, Iran Secrets Retains High-Security Pentagon Job” by Paul Sperry at Real Clear Investigations, February 15, 2024
Inflection Point: Biden Administration Must Pander to the Muslim Vote
by Clare M. Lopez
March 2024
Topping the list this month has to be the Biden administration’s desperate outreach to Michigan Muslims in a must-win state it fears he may lose over his support of Israel. In early February 2024, Biden’s White House sent a clutch of senior officials to Michigan to listen to the foreign policy demands of Muslim voters there. No evidence the Biden admin’s groveling swayed any of Michigan’s Muslim electorate, but its shameful public appeasement certainly showed our ally Israel – and the rest of the world, friends and enemies alike - what its pledges of friendship really mean.
- [Editor’s Note - A former French President expressed support for Israel, but retracted it after one of his ministers pointed out the fact that France has a lot of Muslim residents and expressing support for Israel was no longer smart as a matter of domestic politics. It appears the Democrat Party in the U.S. has reached the same inflection point.]
“Biden is sending aides to Michigan to see Arab American and Muslim leaders over the Israel-Hamas war” by JOEY CAPPELLETTI, AAMER MADHANI and SEUNG MIN KIM at the Associated Press/ABC 8 News, February 7, 2024
“Top Biden Official Panders to US-Arab Leaders in Closed-Door Meeting, Says He Has ‘No Confidence’ in Israeli Government” by Margaret Flavin at Gateway Pundit, February 10, 2024
“In Private Remarks to Arab Americans, Biden Aide Expresses Regrets on Gaza” by Reid J. Epstein and Erica L. Green at the New York Times, February 9, 2024
“KASSAM: Biden’s White House is Outsourcing Foreign Policy to Michigan’s Muslim Leaders” by Raheem Kassam at National Pulse, February 10, 2024
“Biden sends delegation to meet with Hamas supporter” by Daniel Greenfield at Israel Today, February 11, 2024
- And it wasn’t just a “HAMAS supporter” – Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer met with one Osama Siblani who has openly declared his support for HAMAS, Hizballah and other Islamic factions whom he calls “freedom fighters”.
“Biden invited Muslim leader who publicly supported terror group Hezbollah to meet with his top aides” by Joe Schoffstall at Fox News, February 8, 2024
“Biden Betrays Israel at WH Press Conference with Jordanian King Who Called Israel an Illegal State on Arab Land, Praised UNRWA” at Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), February 13, 2024
- President Joe Biden offered no pushback as Jordan’s King Abdullah “denied and denigrated Israel’s legitimate, lawful right to exist” and “made false claims about Muslims being denied worship rights in Jerusalem”. The worst might have been Biden’s and Abdullah’s joint call for yet another Arab Muslim terror state – the so-called “two-state solution”.
And if we wonder why there’s been scant progress in Qatar-mediated talks to free Israeli, American and other hostages, Doha’s massive funding operation with U.S. think tanks and universities, among others, may provide a clue:
“Hamas Patron Qatar Has Spent $6 Billion Lobbying the U.S. Government and Funding Universities” by Adam Kredo at Free Beacon, February 9, 2024
In Other News
“Biden Staffer Who Mishandled China, Iran Secrets Retains High-Security Pentagon Job” by Paul Sperry at Real Clear Investigations, February 15, 2024
- This is a follow-up on an earlier story about how President Biden threw his long-time assistant, Kathy Sang-ok Chung, under the bus to avoid blame for highly classified documents that were packed up as he left the Vice President’s office in 2017. Questions about her role in mishandling boxes of documents containing top secret files have been brushed off and Chung has retained her security clearance and remains in a sensitive Pentagon position.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) Pledges Allegiance to Somalia
by Clare M. Lopez
February 2024
“Video of Ilhan Omar Repeatedly Calling Somali Leader “Our President”; Saying, “The President and I Have a Special Relationship, I Call Him Uncle and He Calls Me His Girl””, by Kristinn Taylor, Gateway Pundit, January 31, 2024
Biden Administration Continues Shelling Out Millions to Taliban Regime in Afghanistan
“United States Confirms Sending $80 Million To Afghanistan Every 10-14 Days”, Afghanistan International, 01/19/24
Inside the Gate
“US government employees plan walkout over Biden’s Gaza policies” by Joyce Karam & Elizabeth Hagedorn, Al Monitor, January 12, 2024
“Biden’s Department of Education Investigating San Diego State University for ‘Islamophobia’ Over Statement Condemning Oct. 7 Hamas Terrorist Attacks” by Margaret Flavin at Gateway Pundit, January 5, 2024
“Bay Area Muslim organizations hold first-of-its-kind FBI training on Islamophobia” by Answer Hassan at ABC 7 News, January 23, 2024
“Qatar allegedly hired ex-CIA agent to discredit Sen. Ted Cruz, other lawmakers opposed to Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood” by Benjamin Weinthal, FOX News at New York Post, January 20, 2024
ICYMI: “Boom Times for Turkey’s Lobbyists in Trump’s Washington” by Adam Klasfeld at Courthouse News Service, October 31, 2019
“Biden’s Senior Director for Intelligence Programs on NSC was UNRWA official while it was aiding Hamas” by Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch, January 31, 2024
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) Pledges Allegiance to Somalia
by Clare M. Lopez
February 2024
“Video of Ilhan Omar Repeatedly Calling Somali Leader “Our President”; Saying, “The President and I Have a Special Relationship, I Call Him Uncle and He Calls Me His Girl””, by Kristinn Taylor, Gateway Pundit, January 31, 2024
- “EXCLUSIVE: Emmer calls on Ilhan Omar to resign for ‘appalling, Somalia-first’ speech” by Luke Sprinkel, Alpha News, January 29, 2024
- “Ilhan Omar Speech on Representing Somalia in Congress Goes Viral With Calls to Expel Her From the House” by Kristinn Taylor, Gateway Pundit, January 28, 2024
- “Rep. Ilhan Omar Represents Everything Wrong With America’s Immigration System” by John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist, January 30, 2024
- Insightful essay on what America’s Immigration System ought to be for…which is a set of shared principles and values - “I’ve Been Identifying Ilhan Omar as ‘D-Mogadishu’ for Years. It Turns Out I Was Right.” by Robert Spencer at PJ Media, January 29, 2024
- Robert Spencer’s take on whom Rep. Omar really is in Congress to represent – it’s not the American citizens of her Minneapolis district - “Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) Pledges Allegiance to Somalia” by Hugh Fitzgerald at Jihad Watch, January 31, 2024
Biden Administration Continues Shelling Out Millions to Taliban Regime in Afghanistan
“United States Confirms Sending $80 Million To Afghanistan Every 10-14 Days”, Afghanistan International, 01/19/24
- The $85 billion in top-of-the-line military equipment & weaponry that the Biden admin left behind in August 2021 apparently wasn’t enough.
Inside the Gate
“US government employees plan walkout over Biden’s Gaza policies” by Joyce Karam & Elizabeth Hagedorn, Al Monitor, January 12, 2024
- “US education official resigns over Biden’s Israel-Gaza policy: ‘I cannot stay silent’”, by Reuters at the New York Post, January 4, 2024
“Biden’s Department of Education Investigating San Diego State University for ‘Islamophobia’ Over Statement Condemning Oct. 7 Hamas Terrorist Attacks” by Margaret Flavin at Gateway Pundit, January 5, 2024
- Why? Because the university issued a statement condemning the October 7, 2023 HAMAS attack against Israel & offered support to campus members
“Bay Area Muslim organizations hold first-of-its-kind FBI training on Islamophobia” by Answer Hassan at ABC 7 News, January 23, 2024
- Speaking of ‘Inside the gate’…Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC) President Salam al-Marayati was among the participants
“Qatar allegedly hired ex-CIA agent to discredit Sen. Ted Cruz, other lawmakers opposed to Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood” by Benjamin Weinthal, FOX News at New York Post, January 20, 2024
- This was a Qatar operation, home-away-from-home for the Muslim Brotherhood & HAMAS leadership
ICYMI: “Boom Times for Turkey’s Lobbyists in Trump’s Washington” by Adam Klasfeld at Courthouse News Service, October 31, 2019
- From 2019, but apropos for today given the extensive lobbying network Turkey has set up in Washington, DC. Among that network, not shown in this piece’s graphic, are the Diyanet Center of America in Lanham, MD, which is the U.S. hub for Turkish Muslim Brotherhood operations in collaboration with the ADAMS Center of Northern VA near Dulles Airport. Founding member of the Brotherhood’s USCMO (U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations), the American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), with close ties to Turkey’s ruling AKP (Justice & Development Party), is the parent organization of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), that has been the instigator of so much antisemitism on U.S. campuses.
“Biden’s Senior Director for Intelligence Programs on NSC was UNRWA official while it was aiding Hamas” by Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch, January 31, 2024
- “Biden Appoints Former Palestinian UNRWA Official as Director of NSC Intelligence” by David Israel at The Jewish Press, January 24, 2021
- A look back to the beginning of the Biden administration when Maher Bitar was first appointed to the NSC
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Washington Promoting Jihad in Schools
by Clare M. Lopez
January 2024
“Blame Federal Government for Rise of Teen Jihadists” by Carole Hornsby Haynes at World Net Daily, December 8, 2023
“Pro-Hamas White House Staffers Protest Biden’s Support for Israel in Front of White House” by Kristinn Taylor at Gateway Pundit, December 13, 2023
“White House condemns CAIR director’s recent comments about Oct. 7 attack” by Alex Gangitano at The Hill, December 8, 2023
“Biden’s ‘Historic’ Muslim Judicial Nominee Served on Board of Anti-Israel, Terrorist-Loving Think Tank” by Chuck Ross at the Free Beacon, December 13, 2023
“Israel’s neighbors could be doing more to help civilians in Gaza” by Shoshana Bryen at the Washington Times, January 3, 2023
“As Christians Are Slaughtered “for Sport,” Biden Says Nothing” by Selwyn Duke, January 3, 2024
Washington Promoting Jihad in Schools
by Clare M. Lopez
January 2024
“Blame Federal Government for Rise of Teen Jihadists” by Carole Hornsby Haynes at World Net Daily, December 8, 2023
- What is allowed to be taught in GovEd schools across America is influencing impressionable young students to accept and even embrace Islam, sharia, and jihad
“Pro-Hamas White House Staffers Protest Biden’s Support for Israel in Front of White House” by Kristinn Taylor at Gateway Pundit, December 13, 2023
- Why were White House staffers allowed to demonstrate on White House grounds against Israel and in support of HAMAS? Did they face any consequences for their actions?
“White House condemns CAIR director’s recent comments about Oct. 7 attack” by Alex Gangitano at The Hill, December 8, 2023
- A follow-up here on the Biden administration distancing itself from Nihad Awad’s despicable post-October 7 comments
“Biden’s ‘Historic’ Muslim Judicial Nominee Served on Board of Anti-Israel, Terrorist-Loving Think Tank” by Chuck Ross at the Free Beacon, December 13, 2023
- Did the Biden White House do any vetting at all on this nominee? And if so, and still nominated him, that’s even worse.
- Note: Adeel Abdullah Mangi’s Nomination was returned by the Senate to President Biden on January 3, 2024. He’s expected to be re-nominated but in the interim at least the case was raised to public awareness.
- Editor’s Note: This is the fourth Muslim judicial nominee. The Republicans have not yet summoned the courage to raise the core issue with respect to Muslim nominees:
Muslim Judicial Nominee Won’t Answer Questions About Sharia Supremacy and Jihad (Adeel Mangi - in the Sharia TipSheet)
“Israel’s neighbors could be doing more to help civilians in Gaza” by Shoshana Bryen at the Washington Times, January 3, 2023
- Real story here is that the Biden administration continues to financially support UNRWA and other NGO’s that work hand-in-glove with HAMAS
“As Christians Are Slaughtered “for Sport,” Biden Says Nothing” by Selwyn Duke, January 3, 2024
- As Christians continue to be slaughtered by jihadis in Nigeria, the Biden White House remains entirely silent. We’ll recall that, as reported by the Christian Post in February 2023, the “U.S. State Department has reaffirmed its decision to remove Nigeria from its list of countries of particular concern for religious freedom violations after conducting a ‘careful review’ following objections from Nigerian Christians, human rights groups and members of Congress.”
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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.
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
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.
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
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.
- “Biden Wants Hamas To Win” by Jed Babbin at The American Spectator, December 3, 2023
- “The Biden Regime’s Epic Betrayal of Israel” by Robert Spencer at Front Page Magazine, December 4, 2023
- “Blinken said to warn war cabinet Israel may not have months to topple Hamas” by Jacob Magid at The Times of Israel, 1 December 2023
- “Behind Biden's shift on Israel-Hamas war: Gaza deaths, international pressure” by Steve Holland, Matt Spetalnick and Humeyra Pamuk at Reuters, October 27, 2023
- “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
- “VA Investigates Employee for Mocking Israel, Hostages” by Mark Swanson at Newsmax, November 28, 2023
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
- “Gavin Newsom Gave Millions to Mosques that Cheer the Annihilation of Jews” by Chuck Ross at The Washington Free Beacon, November 16, 2023
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
- “Biden Judicial Nominee Says He 'Hasn't Studied' Enough To Condemn Hamas” by Joseph Simonson at Washington Free Beacon, November 3, 2023
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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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“Ilhan Omar Met With Al Qaeda Allies on Trip Funded by Islamic Terror States” by Daniel Greenfield at Front Page Magazine, August 24, 2023
“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
“Biden Regime Used ‘Iran Lobby’ Founder to Broker New Iran Deal” by Daniel Greenfield at Jihad Watch, August 3, 2023
“GOP reps raise alarm bells over Iran’s influence in 'American religious institutions'” by Benjamin Weinthal at Fox News, August 1, 2023
“Bangladeshi Fury After U.S. Visa Granted to Dangerous Hate Preacher” by Sam Westrop at Focus on Western Islamism, August 16, 2023
“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
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
- “Ilhan Omar, who decried Israeli money in US politics, got free World Cup trip from Muslim Brotherhood-linked Qatar” by Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch, August 17, 2023
- “Ilhan Omar’s Excellent Adventure In Qatar” by Hugh Fitzgerald at Jihad Watch, August 19, 2023
- “For Ilhan Omar, not all foreign influence spending is bad” by Matthew Kassel at Jewish Insider, August 16, 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.
- 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.
- “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)
“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.
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.
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.
- “Qatari charity on new terror list has ties to USAID, UN”, by Ben Evansky at Fox News, June 20, 2017.
“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.
- “FBI Claims Secret Evidence Trumps Religious Discrimination Charges in Domestic Spying Case”, by Sanya Mansoor at Yahoo News/TIME, June 8, 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).
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.
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.
Federal Government Watch -
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.
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.
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).
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.
- “The U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism: Key Actions by Pillar”, The White House, June 2, 2023
- “New U.S. National Strategy Plan to Combat Antisemitism Shaped by American Muslim Group with Antisemitic History”, The Foreign Desk, May 26, 2023
- “Asking the wrong question about Biden’s flawed antisemitism plan” by Jonathan S. Tobin, Jewish News Syndicate, May 30, 2023
- “Biden’s Antisemitism Strategy Fails to Condemn BDS, Includes Hamas-Linked CAIR” by Daniel Greenfield, Jihad Watch, May 27, 2023
- “The Biden administration’s anti-antisemitism travesty”, by Melanie Phillips, June 2, 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.
- “Readout of White House Listening Session on Islamophobia”, The White House, May 3, 2023
- “American Muslim Coalition Engages White House on Combating Islamophobia”, Muslim Public Affairs Council, May 4, 2023
- “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.
- “Int'l Religious Freedom Report calls out violations in China, Iran, India” by Sheri Walsh at UPI, May 15, 2023
- “US government religious freedom report ignores jihad atrocities against Christians, paints Fulani jihadis as victims” by Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch, May 11, 2023
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).
- “EXCLUSIVE: McCarthy Blocks Rashida Tlaib's Anti-Semitic Congressional Event”, by Adam Kredo at the Washington Free Beacon, May 9, 2023
- “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
- “Bernie Sanders helps Rashida Tlaib host 'Nakba' event as rockets rain on Israel” by Lahav Harkov at The Jerusalem Post, May 11, 2023
- “Senate Dems Host Event Celebrating Islamic Terrorists Killing Jews” by Daniel Greenfield at Front Page Magazine, 16 May 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
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