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Erick Stakelbeck: Boston Bombing – Which Mosque Did Terrorist Attend?
Erick Stakelbeck sat down with Frontpagemag.com editor Jamie Glazov, author of High Noon for America: The Coming Showdown and William “Kirk” Kilpatrick, author of Christianity, Islam and Atheism.
The show focused on the unholy alliance between radical Islamists and the radical Left and what can be done to preserve Judeo-Christian, Western civilization:
Erick examines the growing trend of mega-mosques across the West, including an on-the-ground report from Cologne, Germany, where the Islamist-led Turkish government is building what will be one the largest mosques in Europe.
Video includes interviews with Gavin Boby, the man they call “The Mosquebuster,” and Joseph Farah, CEO of WND.com and author of The Tea Party Manifesto:
Erick Stakelbeck:
The so-called Arab Spring has seen the Muslim Brotherhood rise to power in the Middle East and North Africa.
But those aren’t the only regions where the group is spreading its influence: the Brotherhood has also been active in the West for decades.
CBN News recently traveled to Europe to discover how the Muslim Brotherhood got here and what it has planned.
Sparking a Capitol Debate
It’s an issue that continues to heat up on Capitol Hill.
When Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., and four other GOP House members called for an investigation recently into Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the U.S. government, they were widely criticized, even by some of their Republican colleagues.
Yet documents captured by the FBI show cleary that the Muslim Brotherhood is active in the United States.
And Egypt’s new president, Mohammed Morsi, reportedly joined the group while he was a student at the University of Southern California in the late 1970s and early 80s.
Establishing a Toehold
The Brotherhood’s presence in the West, however, goes back much further than that.
CBN News recently visited the Islamic Center of Munich, which many consider the birthplace of radical Islam in the West.
It was there that the Muslim Brotherhood first established a presence in the West and spread its tentacles throughout Europe and the United States.
“Initially, the mosque was an idea of the West Germans, who also wanted to harness Islam for its political purposes in the Cold War,” said Ian Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Mosque in Munich.
“But the project was taken over by young students, mostly members or sympathizers with the Muslim Brotherhood,” he said.
Johnson told CBN News the United States and West Germany initially supported the mosque as a buffer against Soviet communism during the Cold War.
It soon became much more than that.
“It was a refuge for senior key Brotherhood people,” Johnson explained. “The board of directors was a who’s who of radical Islam people, from Pakistan, Egypt, Syria, North Africa, and of course, Europe.”
“It really had nothing to do with Munich. It wasn’t a local mosque for local Muslims,” he continued. “It was a political entity that was trying to organize political Islam around the world.”
From Munich, and with the help of funding from Saudi Arabia, the Brotherhood soon began establishing mosques throughout Europe and America.
“People who were key members of the mosque in Munich moved to the United States and helped set-up and organize Islam there as well,” Johnson said.
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Erick Stakelbeck:On this must-see week’s edition of the Stakelbeck on Terror show, CBN News examines the growing threat of biological terrorism on U.S. soil. From Al-Qaeda to Iran to Syria and North Korea, some of America’s greatest enemies have acquired or are working to acquire biological weapons.
Leading national security experts Chet Nagle and Clare Lopez join us to break down what a bioterror attack would look like, how it would affect America, and why our leaders are unprepared to deal with this very real threat.
Retired Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin’s courage leading missions in war zones like Iraq, Somalia, and Panama earned him a Bronze Star and Purple Heart.
Yet an invitation to speak at a West Point prayer breakfast resulted in anything but a hero’s welcome.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, joined a coalition of far left groups protesting Boykin’s appearance because of his alleged “Islamophobia.”
Boykin, a strong critic of radical Islamist groups like the Brotherhood, eventually withdrew from the event.
“In consultation with the faculty and staff at West Point — who clearly wanted me to withdraw to save them the embarrassment of cancelling my invitation — I did so,” Boykin said.
CAIR, which led the charge against Boykin, has come under major scrutiny from federal authorities in recent years.
In 2007, it was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism financing trial in American history.
In 2009, a federal judge ruled that “ample evidence” exists linking CAIR to the terror group Hamas.
And in a 2011 congressional testimony, FBI Director Robert Mueller said “no formal relationship” existed with CAIR because of concerns about the group’s national leadership.
Nevertheless, CAIR remains a go-to source for the mainstream media and has seen success lobbying against critics of Islamic supremacy.
“CAIR is still very influential,” Boykin told CBN News. “And the leadership in America today — and I don’t just mean at the national level but all over — is still catering to CAIR, still giving them credibility and giving them the opportunity to wield power in America.”
That power was on full display recently in New York City, where CAIR successfully pressured the New York Police Department to stop showing a documentary called “The Third Jihad” at counter-terrorism training courses.
The film, narrated by a moderate Muslim, details the rise of Muslim Brotherhood front groups in America.
“‘The Third Jihad,’ by the way, criticizes CAIR and exposes them, so of course they don’t want the NYPD to know about that,” said Ryan Mauro, a national security expert with the Clarion Fund, the group that produced “The Third Jihad.”
“The NYPD and government agencies will say, ‘Well, if we want to have cooperation with the Muslim community, we have to please CAIR,’” Mauro told CBN News.
Pleasing CAIR apparently includes shutting down testimonies of ex-Muslims like Kamal Saleem, a former Islamic terrorist who became a Christian.
Saleem told CBN News that his recent speech at a Michigan high school was cancelled after the local CAIR chapter complained.
“People like us, who are talking about their secrets, their ideology — they try to swiftly destroy,” he said.
Erick Stakelbeck:I’m currently wrapping up a report that will air on tomorrow’s CBN’s ”The 700 Club” program about the recent string of successful pressure campaigns orchestrated by the notorious Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in silencing critics of the Muslim Brotherhood.
You won’t want to miss this one, featuring Gen. Jerry Boykin, former Islamic terrorist Kamal Saleem, and others. I’ll be posting the video here on the blog tomorrow.
In the meantime, however, working on this story and observing the furor over the accidental Afghan Koran burning–and the mainstream media’s choice to scold the American military while soft-pedaling–even excusing–the deadly Islamic riots that followed–has raised a few questions in my mind that I’d like to pose to our leftist, “tolerant” and ever-faithful multi-culti chums at The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, NPR, NBC, etc. Here goes (in no particular order):
1) Why do you regularly seek out CAIR officials for quotes and soundbites in news reports as if they represent a legitimate, mainstream and moderate Muslim organization without mentioning the following facts? A) In 2007, CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism financing trial in American history. B) In 2009, a federal judge ruled that “ample evidence” existed linking CAIR to the terrorist group Hamas.
2) How many of you have summoned up the intellectual curiosity to actually read the Koran and hadiths and study Islamic history? Shouldn’t you have at least a passing knowledge of the subject matter before making the knee-jerk, uneducated, wishful conclusion that Islam is, at its core, a “religion of peace?”
3) How many of you have read the 1991 Muslim Brotherhood Explanatory Memorandum that was uncovered by the FBI in 2004 in the home of a top Brotherhood operative living in northern Virginia? Talk about a huge story that the public should know about! It lays out the MB’s plan to destroy America from within and identifies several of the groups you and the U.S. government are so fond of–including the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the Muslim American Public Affairs Council (MPAC)–as Brotherhood-connected entities. This document literally represents the enemy’s battle plan to take down the United States. And you are playing right into their hands. Do you even care?
4) In your rush to warn against military action against Iran’s nuclear facilites and assure us that Iran is a rational actor that can be contained, have any of you taken the time to research the apocalyptic, expansionist, Mahdi-and-martyrdom obsessed ideology of Iran’s regime? Here is a good place to start.
5) When will you admit that the so-called “Arab Spring” that you were so thrilled about has devolved into a long, dark Islamist Winter that has empowered Islamic fanatics across the Middle East and North Africa and seriously endangered the security of America and Israel?
Any MSMers who can answer these questions with a semblance of rationality, clarity and intellectual honesty will receive an American flag lapel pin that they can easily bury in their office drawers.
Erick Stakelbeck
On this week’s edition of the Stakelbeck on Terror show, CBN News sits down with two leading legal experts to discuss their new organization, the American Freedom Law Center, and its fight against creeping Sharia and stealth jihad in the United States.
From defending Christian evangelists in the Muslim hotspot of Dearborn, Mich., to battling the Islamist pressure campaigns of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), David Yerushalmi and Robert Muise are on the front lines in the battle to preserve Judeo-Christian civilization.
Frank Gaffney and Gen. Jerry Boykin join Erick Stakelbeck and Glenn Beck on GBTV to discuss the rise of the new caliphate and creeping shariah. Boykin and Gaffney are authors of Shariah: The Threat to America
