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A Day Of Chaos and Terrorism or A Massacre at Boston

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APTOPIX Boston Marathon Explosions

by Justin O Smith:

I write this at 5:30pm CST on April 15th, just hours after Americans across the United States have been shocked beyond numb by another 9/11 style attack and a day of terror and chaos at the Boston Marathon. Two bombs exploded 13 seconds and 100 yards apart and about two hours after the winners crossed the finish line near Boylston Street at approximately 1:55pm CST, and, while I too am alarmed and sickened by this heinous act and the hurt and death it has wreaked upon the innocent victims, unfortunately I am not surprised… and I don’t thnk most of America is either. While Obama has been golfing, taking vacations every three months and having ‘Memphis Blues’ parties at the White House, his administration has sorely neglected the real security of our borders and the interior.

Will Ritter, spokesman for a Massachusetts Senate candidate, told NBC News that he heard the explosions and saw smoke rising near the Boston Public Library, and Jackie Bruno, a reporter for New England Cable News, said that she saw peoples legs blown off. My heart and prayers went out immediately for the victims and their families, as I saw the images streaming on various websites of terrible wounds suffered by so many… one man being wheeled to awaiting ambulances had both legs blown away!

Dr Aaron Shaw, an orthepedic surgeon, was there as a spectator, and as soon as he realized what was happening, he began setting up a field triage, until more help arrived. He told ABC that while he had seen people lose limbs in car accidents and the like, “this was something you would expect to see on a battlefield.” Dr Shaw continued, “Everthing I saw was a traumatic amputation… I couldn’t put a number n it (later he estimated 30-40); they were just lining the sidewalk.”

Dan Ventura from the Boston Herald was near the medical tent when the bombs exploded. He said, “You could see it on the people’s faces. This was not just some ordinary explosion.”

The placement and type of bombs suggest a complex operation, since the area across from the viewing stands was heavily surveilled, and the devices were small yet potent and set to detonate almost simultaneously. Authorities are describing the devices as IED types that one would find in Afghanistan and Iraq, with many of the wounds having been caused by flying ball-bearings and small metal pieces. And while the White House has finally called something…this horrific attack… “a terrorist attack”, it is not clear yet, which individual/individuals or groups are responsible or whether this is domestic or foreign terrorism.

Unofficially, some authorities have stated that two other devices were found and rendered harmless, while officially top echelon police are remaining silent on this. However, cell phone service to the entire area has been blocked to prevent one from being used to detonate any hidden devices, and all flights in and out of Boston have been stopped.

Police have also confirmed that a third explosion occurred at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library at approximately 3:30pm CST. This scene is about a mile from the marathon, and now, some confusion is surrounding this “explosion”; Reuters and some officials are now calling this simply a fire that broke out in the mechanic room, but the FBI is still looking at it closely.

Peter Bergen, Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer of CNN News all suggested that we must look at the possibility of “a planned assault by right-wing extremists”, even though Bergen acknowledged, “We’ve seen a number of failed bombing attempts by Al Qaeda.” I too agree that we must… must… look at any and all possible and potential suspects, but what I find quite despicable and disturbing was the manner and unequivocal assuredness with which they presented this unproven hypothesis.

Shortly after the immdiate chaos of this tragic, horrific terrorist attack, Barack Obama stated that his administration did not know who was responsible, but his administration would track them down and bring them to justice. I’ll go out on the proverbial limb and say that this will be proven to be an act of islamofascist terrorism. No group has come forward claiming responsibility yet, but the head of an extremist Salafi group and Al Qaeda in Jordan has rejoiced and stated soon after, “American blood isn’t more precious than Muslim blood… Let the Americans feel the pain our nations have felt.” As far as this administration tracking anyone down, I’m not overly confident in an administration that simply gave lip service to the Benghazi tragedy and an administration that has a history of coddling islamofascists under the Holder Justice Department.

In the meantime, several different sources, such as the New York Post, The Telegraph and the Hinterland Gazette have reported that “a person of interest”, a 20 year old Saudi national, is being guarded at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (in Boston’s Longwood medical area), which is under an amber code representing an external threat. This man is reported to be here on a student visa, and he was seen acting suspiciously and running from the bomb blast site, when a regular citizen tackled him. So far he has claimed his innocence, as the police are still questioning him at this hour. The Boston police are taking witness statements at this hospital, and they also have surveillance video of someone bringing multiple backpacks to the blast site, according to CBS News.

There is no way to avoid the horror of the human toll, as I am just hearing Mark Levin state that CNN is reporting two people are dead, while some agencies have the death toll as high as 15 (8:26pm CST), and one is an eight year old boy. 132 people were wounded, and of these, seventeen are in critical condition and ten are amputees. Pray America… pray for these poor souls that God helps them in their hour of need and helps them towards a speedy recovery!

At 7:13pm CST, President Barack Obama expanded some on his initial statement: “We still don’t know who did this or why. We should not jump to conclusions. But make no mistake, we will get to the bottom of this, and we will find out who did this and why… let me reiterate, we will find out who did this and we will hold them accountable.”

You’re damned right “we will hold them accountable” Mr President. And as soon as the business day begins in the morning on April 16th, I suggest that all Americans inundate the Capitol switchboard operators with calls to their Senators and Representatives and demand that they remove any impediments to this investigation and force Homeland Security and Janet Napolitano to do their job… a trillion dollars spent on improving national security and still this administration proved inept; Representative Pete King said that this has very sign of an Al Qaeda attack. Where was the FBI, the CIA and every other government intelligence agency as this attack was being prepared? But in the end, I can agree with Obama on just this one thing, as he stated, On days like this there are no Republicans or Democrats… there are only Americans.”

God Bless America and May He Keep Her Safe and Free!

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A ‘see-no-jihad’-ist at the CIA?

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-1109429251By Frank Gaffney:

On her way out the door, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the unsayable.  Literally.  Until last month, when she repeatedly warned in congressional testimony concerning the Benghazi debacle that we confront a “global jihadist threat,” the Obama administration did not allow the use of the words jihad and threat in the same sentence.

How ironic that the principal architect of this “see-no-jihad” policy is John Brennan, President Obama’s current Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor and his choice to head the Central Intelligence Agency.  Setting aside the obvious questions about why Mrs. Clinton chose her swan song on Capitol Hill to state the obvious but impermissible truth, if she’s right, why on earth would the Senate want to entrust critical collection and analysis of intelligence to the very person who has epitomized and enforced a policy of willful blindness towards the central threat of our time: the supremacist Islamic ideology of shariah and the holy war, or jihad, its adherents are obliged to wage?

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Frank Gaffney is the Founder and President of the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C. Under Mr. Gaffney’s leadership, the Center has been nationally and internationally recognized as a resource for timely, informed and penetrating analyses of foreign and defense policy matters.

Steve Emerson, National Security Expert – Obama Refuses To Confront Radical Islam

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Steve Emerson: “Obama Not Confronting Radical Islam.” President Barack Obama refusal to admit that America’s real enemy isn’t al-Qaida but radical Islam legitimizes groups that believe there is a conspiracy against Muslims, leading terrorism and national security expert Steve Emerson tells Newsmax.TV.

Troubling Questions About al-Awlaki, Fort Hood after ‘Misleading’ FBI Testimony

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by Bridget Johnson:

A congressional probe into the Fort Hood massacre is now directed at the top of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as questions brew over whether a senior FBI official misled lawmakers in testimony before a House Appropriations subcommittee.

Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), chairman of the subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science responsible for funding the FBI, had asked Director Robert Mueller to come testify at an Aug. 1 hearing on the Webster Commission report into the November 2009 shootings, but the bureau sent Mark Giuliano, the FBI’s executive assistant director for national security.

The trial of Army Major Nidal Hasan, accused of killing 13 at Fort Hood, is expected to begin next week. Proceedings have been delayed by the question of whether or not the court can force him to shave his beard for trial.

In a lengthy letter to Mueller yesterday, Wolf raised concerns that Giuliano “made comments to the committee that I believe were misleading or incorrect with regard to the nature of findings in the Webster Commission report and the FBI’s understanding of Anwar Aulaqi at various points over the last decade.”

In all, Wolf singled out six troubling statements from the FBI official as “potentially misleading, uninformed or incomplete.”

At the hearing, Wolf grilled Giuliano on whether political correctness led to agents being gun-shy about aggressively pursing Hasan’s links with Islamic extremists.

“The report did not find political correctness was in any way, shape, or form responsible for his lack of going forward with the interview,” Giuliano responded.

But the Webster Commission report, requisitioned by the FBI and led by former FBI Director William H. Webster, says on two pages that the San Diego officers who reported suspicions about Hasan were told by officials in Washington that “political sensitivities” were a factor in the office’s decision not to investigate Hasan further.

“I repeatedly asked Mr. Giuiliano to cite the section of the report that found that there was no political correctness ‘in any way, shape, or form,’ but he refused. When I confronted him about misleading the committee, he admitted that I was correct on that point,” Wolf wrote in the letter to Mueller. “Later in the hearing reversed again and said that he and I just ‘disagree’ on that point.”

Wolf also noted that Giuliano’s assertion that Hasan and al-Awlaki never met in Virginia has been countered by numerous media reports stating that Hasan met his mentor in 2001 when the cleric presided over his mother’s funeral. “Please confirm for the record whether or not Maj. Hasan and Aulaqi met while he served as imam for the Dar al Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Virginia,” Wolf asked. “If so, please provide a summary of the FBI’s full understanding of their encounters, including the funeral.”

The third point of contention involves the FBI official classifying al-Awlaki, a radical cleric who became a recruiter for al-Qaeda in Yemen, as a “propagandist.”

Giuliano characterized the terrorist as such when refusing to answer a committee question on whether violent Islamic extremism was at the root of the Fort Hood massacre.

Under questioning from ranking member Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.), Giuliano said that al-Awlaki “changed and he changed a lot over the years. When he went to prison in Yemen in, you know, ’06, ’07 and as he came out and came back up online in early ’08, he still had somewhat of a moderate tone but – but began to be more of a propagandist, began to show more radical tendencies, but we could not and the [Intelligence Committee] did not see him as operational or in an operational role at that time.”

“This statement, quite simply, is fundamentally false,” Wolf wrote, citing a 2008 Washington Post article in which a U.S. counterterrorism official said there was good reason to believe al-Awlaki “has been involved in very serious terrorist activities since leaving the United States” — the same time period in which the FBI official said he “still had somewhat of a moderate tone.”

Al-Awlaki also had amassed a lengthy record of radical writings by this time, including praise of the 9/11 hijackers and Palestinian suicide bombers — far from a “moderate” tone. He even wrote of his own radicalization path, beginning with the mujahadeen in Afghanistan in the early 1990s, for al-Qaeda’s Inspire magazine shortly before his death.

The Webster Commission report, Wolf pointed out, specifically notes that at least certain sections of the bureau perceived the threat posed by Awlaki around 2009 as more serious than a mere “propagandist” or radicalizer, and the Treasury Department noted al-Awlaki’s operational role in terrorist activities in announcing his July 2010 placement on the sanctions list.

Citing additional evidence from an NYPD analysis on al-Awlaki, which showed even more terror ties, Wolf said that as early as 14 years ago the FBI was keeping a sharp eye on the radical cleric — which made Giuliano’s assertions all the more confusing.

“Given this public information demonstrating Aulaqi’s long history with al-Qaeda-affiliated groups and multiple bureau investigations, please confirm for the record whether the bureau viewed Aulaqi only as ‘propagandist’ with a ‘moderate tone’ as late as 2008, or in fact regarded him as a more complex and substantial threat than Mr. Giuliano described?” Wolf wrote.

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Five Congressmen Call for Muslim Brotherhood Influence Investigations

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By Ryan Mauro:

In what could prove to be a watershed moment in the fight against radical  Islam, five prominent members of Congress wrote  letters on June 13 to the Inspector Generals of the Departments of State,  Justice, Defense, Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National  Intelligence requesting investigations into the influence of Muslim  Brotherhood-tied groups and individuals.

The letters were signed by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Rep. Tom Rooney  (R-FL) and Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) of the House Permanent Select Committee  on Intelligence; Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) of the House Armed Services Committee  and Rep. Louie Gohmert, the Vice Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee’s  Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security.

The letters refers to a 10-part, freely-available online course created by  the Center for Security Policy titled, “Muslim  Brotherhood in America,” narrated by Frank Gaffney, who served as Assistant  Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy under the Reagan  Administration. Each letter mentions incidents where the respective departments  worked with entities or individuals tied to the Muslim Brotherhood.

A secret document by  the American branch of the Muslim Brotherhood from 1991 states that its “work in  America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying Western  civilization from within.” The Brotherhood’s documents also identify many of its  fronts in the U.S., such as the Islamic  Society of North America, the Islamic  Circle of North America, the North  American Islamic Trust, the Muslim  Students Association, the International  Institute of Islamic Thought and the Islamic  Association for Palestine, from which the Council  on American-Islamic Relations was birthed.

Overseas, the Muslim Brotherhood strategy of “civilization jihad” is referred  to as “gradualism,” a doctrine I discussed at length here.  “Gradualism,” often called “stealth jihad” in the West, refers to an  incremental, phased approach towards advancing the Islamist cause that includes  a cost-benefit analysis. Western observers often misinterpret the Muslim  Brotherhood’s restraint as proof that it is moderate. In reality, this judgment  is an intelligence  failure. Israeli officials say  the Muslim Brotherhood leadership in Egypt ordered Hamas to fire rockets at  Israel just this past weekend. Hamas’ founding charter says it is a wing of the  Brotherhood and the terrorist group changed  its official name in December to reflect this.

There is a wealth of information showing why the investigations called for by  the members of Congress is necessary. The impact of the Muslim Brotherhood-tied  groups and other Islamists on the current and past administrations, both  political parties and the law enforcement and intelligence communities is  disturbing. Their agendas are aided by a media eager to defame their critics and  businesses, officials and religious organizations embracing them in the name of  interfaith relations.

The Center for Security Policy’s course calls out several serving members of  the current administration for having close ties to Muslim Brotherhood  affiliates. These include:

  • Rashad  Hussain, the current Special Envoy to the Organization  of Islamic Cooperation. He previously was a Deputy Associate Council in the  White House involved in national security policy and Muslim outreach.
  • Dalia  Mogahed, a close associate of John  Esposito, one of the foremost defenders of the Muslim Brotherhood and its  affiliates. She is in the White House’s Office of Faith-Based Neighborhood  Partnerships and is credited as the person who most  influenced President Obama’s 2009 speech in Cairo. She is a member of the  Department of Homeland Security’s Countering Violent Extremism Working  Group.
  • Huma Abedein, Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton  and wife of former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY). Several of her relatives have  ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, especially her mother who belongs  to the Muslim Sisterhood.
  • Mohamed Elibiary, who serves on the Homeland Security Advisory Committee  and reportedly  tried to leak documents to the press to paint Texas Governor Rick Perry as  having an anti-Muslim bias. He is a member of the Department of Homeland  Security’s Countering Violent Extremism Working Group.
  • Imam Mohamed Magid, President of the Islamic Society of North America  (ISNA), who has close ties with administration officials and is a member of the  Department of Homeland Security’s Countering Violent Extremism Working  Group.

 

The letter sent to the DHS says  that, in addition to the aforementioned three members of the Countering Violent  Extremism Working Group, “five other members…appear to share their sympathy  for Islamist causes in addition to sharing some of their associations with  organizers that are advancing such agendas in the U.S.”

Azizah  al-Hibri, who stated that “Islamic fiqh is deeper and better than Western  codes of law” and has relations with Brotherhood-tied groups, serves on the U.S.  Commission on International Religious Freedom. In April 2010, the CEO of Islamic  Relief USA, another group with with  Hamas/Brotherhood ties, was appointed to the U.S. Agency for  International Development Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid. In  November 2011, he was appointed to the State Department’s Religion and Foreign  Policy Working Group. Sahar Aziz, who served in the Department of Homeland  Security’s Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties from 2008 to 2009, spoke  at the annual fundraiser for CAIR-Michigan on March 25. She shared the stage  with Siraj Wahhaj, an anti-American Islamist preacher.

Recently, the White House’s new Director for Community Partnerships said that  there have been “hundreds”  of meetings between departments and agencies with the Council on  American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), despite the fact that the FBI ended  outreach efforts with CAIR after the government labeled it an “unindicted  co-conspirator” in the Holy  Land Foundation trial. This designation was subsequently upheld  by a federal judge. A 2007 federal court filing  also calls CAIR a Muslim Brotherhood front that uses deception to support  terrorists. ISNA and the North American Islamic Trust were also labeled  “unindicted co-conspirators.” It has been reported  that the Justice Department actually blocked the planned prosecution of a CAIR  co-founder and others on the list  of “unindicted co-conspirators.”

The Executive-Director of CAIR’s Greater Los Angeles chapter, Hussam Ayloush,  was just elected  as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. In August 2010, Bill  Aossey, a prominent member of the radical Islamic  Center of Cedar Rapids, went to the White House and sat at President Obama’s  table for an Iftar celebration. In 2008, then-presidential candidate Obama’s  Muslim outreach director, Mazen Asbahi, resigned  after his associations with Brotherhood-tied groups were exposed.

The administration’s interfaith efforts involve the same individuals and  groups that the five members of Congress are concerned about. Then-President of  ISNA, Ingrid  Mattson, took part in President Obama’s inaugural prayer services. The  President’s top counter-terrorism advisor, John Brennan, spoke  alongside her at New York University. Senior presidential advisor Valerie  Jarrett was the keynote  speaker at ISNA’s annual convention in 2009. After President Obama’s famous  speech in Cairo in 2009, Secretary of State Clinton invited Esam  Omeish, a supporter of Hamas involved with the Brotherhood, to take part in  a conference call.

The “Muslim Brotherhood  in America” course reveals that in 2010, the U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor  and Combat Anti-Semitism, Hannah Rosenthal, took an interfaith trip to Auschwitz  alongside eight individuals with strong Muslim Brotherhood ties. After the Fort  Hood terrorist attack, an official from ISNA was approved  to come to the base for a lecture about Islam. In February, a top Pentagon  official apologized  for the accidental burning of a Koran in Afghanistan at the mosque led by ISNA’s  president. In March 2011, Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough spoke  at the mosque and praised Magid.

Individuals and organizations like these are responsible for the  administration’s belief that the Muslim Brotherhood is genuinely moderate,  non-violent and a force we can work with. This opinion was on full  display when Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified  before Congress that the Muslim Brotherhood is “secular.” He portrayed the  Brotherhood in a positive light and continues  to do so to this day. A National Security Council spokesperson did  the same when asked about the White House’s meetings with Brotherhood  officials from Egypt. The director of the State Department’s Special Coordinator  of the Office of Middle East Transitions, William Taylor, is similarly  positive towards the Brotherhood. His office even gave election  training to Islamists in Egypt.

The relationships between these groups and law enforcement and intelligence  agencies are particularly alarming. Administration officials, including  Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric  Holder, have met with the Muslim  Public Affairs Council (MPAC), over  two dozen times. MPAC was founded by Muslim Brotherhood supporters and works  in tandem with the other mentioned groups. On January 27-28, 2010, ISNA and a known  Brotherhood front called the Muslim  American Society joined MPAC in meeting  with Napolitano and other DHS officials.

The influence of these groups became much  greater after the controversy over the content of counter-terrorism training  materials started. A complete review of the materials began with outside  help and indeed, some of it was inappropriate. The desire to tame Muslim  outrage led to an embrace of some of these Islamist groups who consistently  misrepresent counter-terrorism practices, defame their critics as bigots and feed off  of feelings of victimization and persecution.

In October 2011, the DHS and the National Counterterrorism center distributed guidelines  on Countering Violent Extremism for law enforcement agencies to follow. It was  cleansed of references to the Islamist ideology. An MPAC paper was one of only  two non-governmental sources cited. The website of Sheriff Lee Baca, a prominent  ally of CAIR and similar groups, was also used. This is to be expected  considering who is in the DHS Countering Violent Extremism Working Group.

On February 8, FBI Director Robert Mueller met with an interfaith group that  included ISNA and MPAC. The FBI confirmed afterwards that it would consider a  proposal by the attendees to establish a committee to oversee the review of  counter-terrorism training materials.  Even now, the FBI will  not say who the three experts on Islam guiding the review are.

The Chicago Police Superintendent, Garry McCarthy, spoke  at a CAIR fundraiser in March. As mentioned before, Los Angeles County  Sheriff Lee Baca is a huge supporter of the Brotherhood-tied groups and was honored  by CAIR. The Los Angeles Police Department’s Commanding Officer of the  Counter-Terrorism and Special Operations Bureau, Deputy Chief Michael Downing,  even outrageously said at an event  with MPAC that “the message is not to demonize the Brotherhood” because it has  “evolved and changed.”

The case  of Kifah Mustapha highlights how bad things are. He was personally designated by  the federal government as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the Holy Land trial  because he is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s secret “Palestine Committee”  set up in the U.S. to covertly assist Hamas. The documentation of his extremism  is irrefutable. Still, he was able to go on a six-week tour of sensitive FBI  facilities where he, as you probably assumed, asked tons of questions about  counter-terrorism procedures.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. The “Muslim  Brotherhood in America” course spends an enormous amount of time on how this  is a bi-partisan problem that became much  worse under the Bush Administration. Today, Republican New Jersey Governor  Chris Christie (click here  and here)  and Republican Senator Lindsey  Graham serve as good examples. The problem extends to state and local  governments, such as the Illinois Governor’s Muslim American Advisory Council  that includes  officials from Brotherhood groups.

It also goes beyond the government. Islamist influence,  facilitated by political  correctness, is present  in our education system.  Those concerned about this issue are oftenmocked, dismissed, misquoted and misrepresented in the media.  One stunning example  of Hollywood’s role  is how the producer of the hit films, The Matrix and The Lord of the  Rings, brought onboard Shiekh Yousef al-Qaradawi, a top  terrorism-supporting cleric, as an advisor for his film about Mohammed.

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Conservatives For Shariah

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By Frank Gaffney, Jr.

The rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East has caused many Americans to reflect on that group’s stated ambition to impose worldwide the totalitarian, supremacist Islamic doctrine known as shariah.  Particularly unsettling is evidence of the group’s goal in America, namely of “destroying Western civilization from within,” as documented in the Holy Land Foundation trial in Dallas in 2008.

But for some prominent conservatives, such facts are not just inconvenient.  They – and any who point them out – must be denied, ignored or suppressed.

The latest examples involve a pair of articles published in two of the Right’s most prominent online outlets: Townhall and National Review Online.  The former recently distributed an essay by Chicago Tribune columnist Steve Chapman (
http://townhall.com/columnists/stevechapman/2012/06/10/the_bogus_threat_from_shariah_law/page/2
).  He was joined on June 13 by Matthew Schmitz in NRO (
http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/302280
).  Both caricatured the “bogus” threat of “creeping shariah” as a figment of the superheated imagination of its American opponents.

Schmitz went further, wrongly describing shariah as “not one rigid legal system but rather an immensely varied set of legal, cultural, and ethical understandings.”  In fact, shariah as practiced by mainstream Islam is, indeed, one very rigid legal system that has simply been enforced to varying degrees around the Muslim world.  Its Brotherhood and other adherents are now aggressively seeking to impose conformity with all of its tenets in Egypt, in Iraq, in Indonesia and, in due course, here.  Schmitz even went so far as to describe those determined to resist that last prospect as “anti-Muslim bigots” who are “undermin[ing] our national security.”

Specifically, Messrs. Chapman and Schmitz find fault with those of us supporting state-level legislation aimed at countering stealthy civilization jihad in U.S. courts.  It is known as American Law for American Courts (ALAC) – a statute already enacted in four states and under consideration in many more.  ALAC prevents foreign laws, including but not limited to shariah, from being used in court to deny constitutional rights.  Incredibly, the authors contend that such laws are a threat to religious freedom in this country.

Unfortunately, these pundits are not the only conservatives hostile to admonitions about shariah’s advent in America.  As documented in a new Center for Security Policy online curriculum entitled “The Muslim Brotherhood in America: The Enemy Within” (www.MuslimBrotherhoodinAmerica.com), some are actually enabling the Brotherhood’s influence operations.  This is done through sponsorship of its operatives, facilitating their access toother conservatives and promotion of their agendas.

Sadly, still other conservatives appear determined to remain willfully blind to such behavior.  They have engaged in purges from some of the Right’s conclaves.  They have also sought to suppress warnings and assiduously deny that the Brotherhood is “inside the wire” – including, in at least one instance, a formal condemnation for raising the alarm.

The good news is that five leading Members of Congress have recently joined the ranks of those determined to expose the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence operations and counter their effect on government policy and the danger they pose to our Constitution and freedoms. They are:

  • Rep. Michele Bachmann, a member of the House Intelligence Committee and Chairwoman of the House Tea Party Caucus;
  • Rep. Louie Gohmert, Vice Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security;
  • Rep. Trent Franks, Chairman of the House Judiciary’s Subcommittee on the Constitution a member of the House Armed Services Committee and
  • Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee’s Oversight Subcommittee; and
  •  Rep. Tom Rooney, Deputy Majority Whip and member of the House Armed Services Committee.

In a joint press release (
http://bachmann.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=299447
) dated June 13, each of these influential legislators made clear their view that the Muslim Brotherhood represents a serious threat here in America.  They expressed a determination to establish the nature and extent of the Brotherhood’s “civilization jihad” inside the United States and to counter it.

To that end, the Members of Congress last week drew on evidence presented in the Center for Security Policy’s course to ask the Inspectors General of the Departments of State, Judiciary, Defense and Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to investigate the extent and impact of Muslim Brotherhood penetration of their agencies.  They requested that the IGs provide their findings within ninety days.

In addition, Congressman Frank Wolf, Chairman of the House Appropriations State, Commerce and Justice Subcommittee, is pressing the Department of Justice to ensure compliance with the FBI’s stated policy of not dealing in non-investigative contexts with one of the Muslim Brotherhood’s most notorious fronts, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR).  This effort took on even greater urgency in light of the revelation earlier this month by a White House official that the administration had had ”hundreds of meetings” with CAIR.

Conservatives and other Republicans face, in short, a time of choosing.  Are they going to ignore the real and present danger posed by shariah and its adherents like the Muslim Brotherhood?  Will they therefore be recorded by history as having enabled, whether directly or indirectly, such stealthy threats to our republic and its government society?

Or are prominent conservatives going to help our countrymen of all political stripes understand the challenge we face and lead in developing and executing strategies for defeating it?

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. is President of the Center for Security Policy (www.SecureFreedom.org), a columnist for the Washington Times and host of the nationally syndicated program, Secure Freedom Radio, heard in Washington weeknights at 9:00 p.m. on WRC 1260 AM.

Congressional Leaders Call for Investigations of Muslim Brotherhood Penetration of the Obama Administration

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Center for Security Policy | Jun 15, 2012

Washington, DC, June 14, 2012: Five influential Members of  Congress called yesterday for the inspectors general (IGs) of government  departments with national security responsibilities to investigate  whether their agencies are being subjected to influence operations  mounted as part of what the Muslim Brotherhood calls its “civilization  jihad.”  This initiative holds out hope that a grave, and largely  unremarked, threat may thus be recognized and thwarted in time.
The authors of letters sent to the IGs for the Departments of State, Justice, Defense and Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence are:
  • Rep. Michele Bachman, a member of the House Intelligence Committee and Chairwoman of the House Tea Party Caucus
  • Rep. Trent Franks, Chairman of the House Judiciary’s Subcommittee on the Constitution a member of the House Armed Services Committee
  • Rep. Louie Gohmert, Vice Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security
  • Rep. Tom Rooney, Deputy Majority Whip and member of the House Armed Services Committee
  • Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee’s   Oversight Subcommittee; and
In a joint press statement,  each of these congressional leaders expressed profound concern about  the dangers posed by the Muslim Brotherhood and the need to understand  that threat here in the United States.  What is more, they cited  in their letters evidence of the penetration of Brotherhood operatives  and allies inside the Obama administration, and examples of policies  that appear to have been influenced as a result.
The legislators explicitly draw upon documentation of that evidence  contained in Parts 8 and 9 the Center for Security Policy’s new,  ten-part online video curriculum: The Muslim Brotherhood in America: The Enemy Within (www.MuslimBrotherhoodinAmerica.com).
Center President Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. said:
“These five key legislators are to  be commended for their exemplary leadership on a matter of utmost peril  to this country – namely, the stealthy effort being made by avowed  enemies of this country, the Muslim Brotherhood, to destroy us ‘from  within.’  Their request for the five inspectors general to conduct  investigations of the Brotherhood’s progress toward that end – and  report back within ninety days – will hopefully be seconded by others in  both parties and be swiftly addressed by the IGs, given their  responsibility for conducting such independent inquiries within  executive branch agencies.  The Center for Security Policy’s extensive  research, and the online course that presents it, shows those inquiries  are fully warranted and urgently needed – as are, for that matter,  corresponding investigations by the Congress, as well.”
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Fort Hood Massacre Investigated in “Fox Files: The Enemy Within” (Airs 6/15 at 10pm)

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Nidal Hasan & Anwar al-Awlaki

By Catherine Herridge:

The American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki used more than 60 email addresses and  sent several thousand emails to his followers, some with encryption and code  words, while under FBI surveillance — according to a five-month investigation  by Fox News. Some of those emails were exchanged with accused Fort Hood shooter  Maj. Nidal Hasan.

“Fox Files: The Enemy Within,” which debuts on Fox News Channel June 15 at 10  p.m. ET, draws on exclusive interviews and first-hand accounts of the Fort Hood  massacre which killed 13 and injured at least 43 others on Nov. 5, 2009. For the  first time, victims of the shooting, as well as senior investigators, break  their silence about the worst act of terrorism on U.S. soil since  9/11.

“He (Anwar al-Awlaki) was incredibly busy. He — during his peak period –  had upwards of 60 email accounts that he was using at any given time,” retired  FBI agent Keith Slotter told Fox Files.

Slotter, whose career spanned 25 years at the Bureau, was the special agent  in charge of the San Diego field office from 2007 to 2012. His agents at  the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), which included detailees assigned to the  FBI, tracked the cleric who was the public face of Al Qaeda 2.0 and the new  digital jihad.

Since the attacks of 9/11, there are now more than 100 JTTFs across the  country.

But in the 2011 Senate Homeland Security Committee  investigation of the Fort Hood massacre,  the FBI came under criticism for failing to act as an “effective interagency  information sharing and operation coordination mechanism.”

In other words, at times the FBI failed to share key information with  intelligence analysts under their supervision.

Slotter, who now works at a private international investigative firm  specializing in cyber crime and digital forensics, characterized the number as  “thousands of emails … over a three-year period, tens of thousands.”

By 2009, the cleric, the first American on the CIA’s kill-or-capture list,  understood he was the target of U.S. and foreign intelligence services. Fox  Files has learned al-Awlaki shunned the use of phones and turned to his keyboard  because he believed email communications were more secure.

“He’d let some (email accounts) go dark, and he’d use 10 or 15, and then  those would go dark, and he’d go to a different set. So he was constantly  revolving,” Slotter explained. “As you can imagine with that many accounts, it  was quite a lot to stay on top of.”

Asked how much of it was encrypted or used code words, Slotter replied: “I’ll  simply say, some was encrypted. And leave it at that. I don’t want to get into  the technological aspects.”

Slotter has reviewed the emails between al-Awlaki and Major Hasan. The former  FBI agent went to them many times after the attack to consider if anything was  missed.

“I reviewed those emails many times. I had them bound on my desk, had  all of them. There was nothing really in there that would indicate al-Awlaki  prompting Major Hasan to do something.”

Also in 2009, at the same time al-Awlaki was exchanging emails with Hasan,  Fox Files has confirmed the radical American cleric was sending highly encrypted  emails calling for a major terrorist attack.

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South Carolina’s “Holy Islamville”

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by RYAN MAURO at FSM: 

A radical Pakistani cleric named Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani and his followers testify to the holiness of a shrine where miracles allegedly prove his supernatural powers. The shrine isn’t in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia or anywhere in the Islamic world. It’s in York County, South Carolina, inside a commune about 36 acres large called “Holy Islamville,” located on a street named Islamville Way.

It was founded in 1982 by a group called Muslims of the Americas (MOA), led by the aforementioned Gilani. The Department of Homeland Security says it is linked to Jamaat ul-Fuqra, a Pakistani militant group also led by Glani. The State Department describes ul-Fuqra as “an Islamic sect that seeks to purify Islam through violence.”

Fuqra was behind many assassinations and bombings between 1979 and the early 1990s. Its biggest plot aimed to kill 4,500 Indians in Toronto during the Festival of Lights in 1991. Its destructive capacity first caught the FBI’s attention in 1989 because of a raid on a storage locker in Colorado Springs. They discovered weapons and plans for various attacks, including a scheme to murder Imam Rashad Khalifa in Arizona in 1990. They succeeded, killing him exactly as the seized papers said they would. Two Fuqra members were allegedly involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and dramatic plots against New York City.

In October 1992, Fuqra’s 101-acre compound at Buena Vista, Colorado was shut down. The authorities discovered it was a full-blown terrorist training camp. The members financed their efforts through a web of fake companies and various criminal activities. A poem by Gilani was found that reads: “Come join my troops and army/Says our Sheikh Gilani/Prepare to sacrifice your head/A true believer is never dead/Say ‘Victory is in the Air’/The kafir’s blood will not be spared.” That’s the sheikh who the residents of Islamville and the other MOA compounds view as a representative of Allah that meets with Jesus in heaven, heals diseases, transforms into animals, instantly transports and leaves his body at will.

The MOA says it has 22 “villages” around the country, with its Islamberg headquarters in Hancock, New York being the most notorious. In a secret recruitment tape made by Gilani, he states the purpose of these villages: “We are establishing training camps.” He tells viewers that they “are most welcome to join one of the most advanced training courses in Islamic military warfare” by contacting the group’s offices in Pakistan or several locations in the U.S., including South Carolina. That’s Islamville.

The video then shows the type of training being offered: Hijacking vehicles, use of firearms, hijacking vehicles, setting off explosives, etc. Gilani makes it clear that he isn’t just focused on Kashmir. “We are fighting to destroy the enemy. We are dealing with evil at its roots and its roots are America,” he says. Excerpts from the tape were first released in a film titled Homegrown Jihad and later in The Third Jihad.

The tape was dismissed by some because of its old age and the fact that it was filmed in Pakistan. A law enforcement source later provided me with two more of the MOA’s films. The first showed women living at Islamberg in New York training in guerilla warfare, complete in military fatigue. The second is a propaganda tape where MOA leaders declare America a Muslim country and vow to defend it from foreign and domestic enemies. I gave the films to the Christian Action Network to release to the public.

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Ryan Mauro is Family Security Matters’ national security analyst. He is a fellow with RadicalIslam.org, the founder of WorldThreats.com and a frequent national security analyst for Fox News Channel. He can be contacted at ryanmauro1986@gmail.com.

Terror agents walk among us

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by Michael Carl at WND:

A preliminary report issued by the U. S. House Committee on Homeland Security estimates that there could be “hundreds, maybe even thousands” of Hezbollah agents operating in the United States and specifically in New York City.

The report issued following last month’s hearings says that the exact number of operatives is hard to determine.

“Pinning down a reliable estimate of the number of Hezbollah operatives who now reside inside the U.S. is difficult because of their operational security expertise,” the report states. “But some officials estimate that, based on cases uncovered since 9/11, there are likely several thousand sympathetic donors, while operatives probably number in the hundreds.”

Center for Security Policy Senior Fellow Clare Lopez agrees there are a significant number of Hezbollah sympathizers and terror cells at work in the U.S.

“During the recent Rep. Peter King hearings on Capitol Hill on Iran and the Hezbollah threat to the homeland, New York Police Department Intelligence Chief Mitch Silber was one of the witnesses,” Lopez said. “Although it was King who referred to ‘hundreds’ of Hezbollah operatives on American soil, Silber did not contradict him and added his own testimony about Iranian U.N. ‘diplomats’ conducting what appears to be, in fact, pre-attack surveillance casing.”

Although Silber hasn’t responded to WND’s request for an interview, he did testify before the committee that Hezbollah is known to have scouted for terrorism targets after the 9/11 attacks.

“We believe this is neither an idle nor a new threat,” Silber said. “Between 2002 and 2010, the NYPD and federal authorities detected at least six events involving Iranian diplomatic personnel that we struggle to categorize as anything other than hostile reconnaissance of New York City.”

“The first event occurred in June of 2002 and involved Iranian Mission security guards. The second event occurred at 2 a.m. on November 16, 2003, when uniformed NYPD officers riding a southbound 7 train observed two males filming the subway train tracks,” Silber said. “The men, who initially claimed diplomatic immunity, turned out to be security guards at the Iranian Mission who had recently arrived in New York. Despite two warnings from the State Department about this inappropriate behavior, in May 2004, two more Iranian Mission security guards were observed videotaping infrastructure, public transportation and New York City landmarks.

“One month later, the guards were expelled by the United States for ‘engaging in activities that were not consistent with their duties’ – in other words, spying,” Silber said.

Report data was compiled by staff members of the committee and other U. S. intelligence agencies, but Florida Security Council President and United West leader Tom Trento says he believes the present administration didn’t contribute much to the report.

“Though the United States Government has the capability to track and extrapolate probable terrorists fairly well,” Trento said, “this particular administration does not see that has a significant issue.”

Trento, who also contributed to the Center for Security Policy Team 2B’s report on Shariah, adds that because of the Obama administration’s lethargy about Islamic terrorism, the figure could also be an unreliable estimate.

“This type of information usually comes from educated guesses by experts often based on leaks from some of the good guys that are still operating in the United States government,” Trento said. “I would conclude that there is a significant ‘fifth column’ of thousands of Muslim bad guys in the U.S., primarily coming through Mexico via help from the cartels.”

Lopez is confident in the figure because of the sources of the information.

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