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		<title>Al-Qaeda’s Younger Brother in Florida</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2014 05:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Kaufman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Nabil el-Shukri trying to fill the shoes of his extremist lineage?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Nabil.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-248049" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Nabil-450x330.jpg" alt="Nabil" width="262" height="192" /></a>Nabil el-Shukri’s terrorist family has been decimated. His father, who was the imam of what has been labeled one of the most dangerous mosques in America and the translator for the spiritual leader of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, has long been gone. And now his older brother, a top-ranking al-Qaeda Commander, has been killed by the Pakistani military. With his two biggest influences dead, will el-Shukri choose to lead a similar path? The extremism he has exhibited and is exhibiting today leads one to believe that it is a foregone conclusion.</p>
<p>Nabil el-Shukri is the administrator and the acting imam at the Alazhar School for children, PK – 8th Grade, located in the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Tamarac, Florida. He has been with the school, since it was incorporated in September 2008. While he is married with a child, today he no doubt feels quite lonely, as he has lost yet another piece of his radical Muslim family.</p>
<p>On a raid in the tribal district of South Waziristan, which began Friday, December 5<sup>th</sup> and ended the following day, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/06/world/asia/pakistan-al-qaeda-death/">al-Qaeda Commander Adnan Gulshair el-Shukrijumah was killed</a> and confirmed dead by the Pakistani military. According to a resident from the area, he had been living there for two weeks, after having been forced out of North Waziristan during a military operation against militants <em>there</em>.</p>
<p>While with al-Qaeda, Adnan had quickly climbed ranks to reach the lofty position of head of external operations, a title once possessed by 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. In that capacity, he had been indicted by a federal grand jury for his role in the 2009 terrorist plot to blow up New York City&#8217;s subway system. At the time of his death, he was 39 years old, born in 1975 to a mother who was merely 16 years of age and a father who was 47.</p>
<p>Adnan had been on the radar of the intelligence community, since he abruptly left town in May 2001. Two years later, his father told the <em>Associated Press</em> that the reason Adnan had left was because he disliked the American lifestyle and was offended by women who wore skimpy clothing.</p>
<p>The father, Gulshair Muhammad el-Shukrijumah, had spent much of his life as a missionary for the Saudi Arabian government. In 1986, he was sent to Brooklyn, New York to head a mosque, Masjid Nur al-Islam. He also had involvement with another mosque that was located only blocks away, Masjid al-Farooq, the home for many of those involved in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.</p>
<p>Gulshair was a translator for the spiritual leader of the attack, the ‘Blind Sheikh’ Omar Abdel-Rahman. As well, during the federal trial concerning the attack, Gulshair was a chief/character witness for Clement Rodney Hampton-El, the individual who was believed to be the one who taught the terror cell how to build the bomb used in the attack. Hampton-El was one of the congregants at Gulshair’s mosque.</p>
<p>In a photo taken at Gulshair’s Brooklyn mosque, which was uploaded to the internet by his son Nabil, Gulshair is pictured reading with two young boys. Behind him, on the blackboard, it is written, “The human being is under the oppression of the kuffar [unbelievers, non-Muslims].”</p>
<p>In 1995, Gulshair moved himself and his family to Miramar in South Florida, where the Saudis once again set him up with a mosque to run. That mosque, Masjid al-Hijrah, has the dubious distinction of being named the No. 2 biggest “Sanctuary of Terror” by author Paul Sperry in his book <em>Infiltration</em>. At this mosque, Gulshair counseled the likes of convicted terrorist “Dirty Bomber” Jose Padilla, who also had dealings with Gulshair’s son, Adnan.</p>
<p>When the subject of his son’s terrorist activity became too hot, Gulshair was released from his duties as imam of al-Hijrah. He did not have to wait long to find a new job, though, as he was soon taken on as a director at the Shamsuddin Islamic Center, located in North Miami Beach. The mosque had recently moved across the street from its original location, at the same address as the American Muslim Association of North America (AMANA), a group run by Shukrijumah family friend Sofian Abdelaziz Zakkout, who was an advisor to the mosque.</p>
<p>Zakkout previously had been the Vice President of the Health Resource Center for Palestine (HRCP), a now defunct Hamas-related group run out of Deerfield Beach, Florida. Earlier this month, Zakkout posted on his Facebook page a photo of late PLO leader Yasser Arafat <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Sofian_Zakkout-Ahmed_Yassin_Yasser_Arafat.jpg">embracing late Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin</a>.</p>
<p>In June 2004, Gulshair el-Shukrijumah died at the age of 74, following a series of strokes claimed to have been brought on by news related to his oldest son, Adnan.</p>
<p>With both his older brother and father gone, Nabil el-Shukri has been left as the elder male figure in the radical Shukrijumah household. The question is will things be different with him than were with his two predecessors. The answer is probably no.</p>
<p>El-Shukri’s MySpace page is currently locked and restricted from public view. No longer can anyone go on it to see <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/NabilShukrijumah_MySpace.htm">graphics of jihadis brandishing rifles</a> and al-Qaeda black flags or photos of killed U.S. troops. However, his Facebook and YouTube pages are entirely open for scrutiny, and what is found on them is also very disturbing.</p>
<p>On his Facebook site, el-Shukri posted different items associated with the Muslim American Society or MAS, including a <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Nabil_el-Shukri_MAS.jpg">MAS produced video, titled ‘Bassem is Trying.’</a></p>
<p>Last month, it was widely reported that MAS was named a terrorist organization by the UAE, on a list that included al-Qaeda, ISIS and Boko Haram. In the recent past, MAS has used its official websites to praise Hamas and to call for violence upon and/or denigrate Jews, Christians, homosexuals and women. The National Executive Director of MAS, Mazen Mokhtar, is a proponent of suicide bombings and has previously served as a web designer for what was then the main website raising funds and recruiting fighters for al-Qaeda and the Taliban, Qoqaz.net.</p>
<p>In January 2010, El-Shukri posted on his Facebook site a video, titled ‘The Arrivals pt.47 (The Free Human),’ which includes the following anti-Semitic rant from Islamic scholar Imran Hosein:</p>
<p>“What’s the new money that Israel will use to enslave mankind, the way the United States used the dollar? … It will be electronic money. And the strange thing – the dangerous thing – about electronic money is it is controlled by the banking system around the world, and the Jews control the banking system. That’s not an uncharitable statement… That’s the truth. We said that Israel is about to wage a big war. They prepared for this, when the Israeli Mossad and the CIA attacked America on September 11 and put the blame on us, us Muslims.”</p>
<p>In another video el-Shukri posted, titled ‘The Arrivals pt.26 (The Antichrist / Dajjal is Here),’ the same Imran Hosein describes a Satanic conspiracy between Britain, the United States and Israel. The video includes an image of the anti-Semitic fraud <em>Protocols of the Elders of Zion</em>, and states that “9/11 was an inside job.”</p>
<p>El-Shukri has not been shy about voicing his own fanatical views. He has a YouTube page, where he has uploaded a number of extreme speeches he has delivered in front of a mosque congregation. In one speech he posted in February 2010, titled ‘Al-Dajjal (Anti-Christ),’ he discusses his belief that, if Muslims try to become “moderate,” they are rejecting the Islamic religion and, instead, listening to the “Dajjal” or Devil.</p>
<p>He states: “We have to understand that we have to train ourselves – what is acceptable in this dunya [world]? Have we compromised our religion of Allah SWT? How much of our din [religion] has been compromised by this dunya? What is the definition of a moderate Muslim? &#8230; A moderate Muslim does not accept the Caliphate [Islamic rule]. A moderate Muslim wants to live under democracy – abolish the Caliphate. A moderate Muslim does not want the Sharia Law.”</p>
<p>Nabil’s radical views appear to be very much in line with that of his father and older brother. As well, his life seems to mimic Adnan’s. Both Nabil and Adnan had cell phone businesses. They both were involved in website design. They both attended classes at Broward College (Nabil is still attending classes there). And they both lectured in Islam, like their dad.</p>
<p>In December 2006, more than two years after the death of his father, Nabil el-Shukri wrote the following message on the MySpace page he created for Gulshair: “As Salaam Alaikum Dad, you’re still living among all of us, will see you later but not that much later.”</p>
<p>What does “not that much later” mean?</p>
<p>Given Nabil’s radical Islamic preoccupations and family history, these four words imply something very sinister which does not portend well for the future. His present, however, as administrator and acting imam of the Alazhar School is also cause for alarm, as he has been handed a forum to indoctrinate impressionable young minds with his toxic Islamist agenda and ideology.</p>
<p>In a June 2011 video interview with al-Hikmat, the media group run by the Darul Uloom mosque located near the home of the Shukrijumahs, where a number of al-Qaeda, including at least one of the 9/11 hijackers, had come to pray, el-Shukri called himself a “role model” for the Alazhar kids.</p>
<p>Question: What kind of parents would wish for their children to have a role model such as this? Those who keep their kids in this school are giving their tacit approval to the extremism that is represented by el-Shukri and his family’s lineage.</p>
<p><em>Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.</em></p>
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		<title>NY Jets Player Spoke at Event Hosted by Designated Terrorist Group</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2014 05:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Kaufman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anti-Israel athlete regals the Muslim American Society after the group's banning from the UAE. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/unnamed.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246943" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/unnamed.jpg" alt="unnamed" width="319" height="247" /></a>The media, the NFL and the New York Jets organization can no longer overlook the problem that is Jets player Oday Aboushi. People can argue that he has the right to have pride in his family’s heritage or even that he has the right to voice his opinion against Israel, albeit in a town that has a huge Jewish population. But it is quite another thing for those to look the other way if Aboushi chooses to speak in front of a group labeled terrorist, which is exactly what he did earlier this year, when he delivered a speech to the Muslim American Society (MAS).</p>
<p>Since coming to the New York Jets as a fifth round draft pick in the 2013 NFL Draft, Oday Aboushi has been very public in his stance against the nation of Israel. On a number of occasions, he has used social media to demean and denounce the Jewish state.</p>
<p>His latest set of infractions happened this past July, when Israel’s military entered Gaza in response to thousands of rockets being fired into Israel by Hamas. Aboushi took the opportunity to bash Israel on Twitter. One of his messages could not have been clearer: “<a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Oday_Aboushi_Shame_On_You_Israel.jpg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">#SHAMEONYOUISRAEL</span></a>.”</p>
<p>There are over two million Jews who live in New York and New Jersey, the locations of the majority of Jets fans. Yet, the NFL, the Jets and the media have all stood by Aboushi, whitewashing his actions as if he is merely exhibiting pride in his Palestinian heritage.</p>
<p>Indeed, when this author pointed out in a previous article that Aboushi had spoken at a conference sponsored by the El-Bireh Palestine Society, a group that does not recognize Israel’s right to exist, whose 2013 conference Facebook site contained numerous photos of Adolf Hitler and Hamas leaders, it was not Aboushi who was attacked by the media, but it was instead this author and anyone else who appeared to voice concerns based on my information.</p>
<p>When Jonathan Mael, then-new media coordinator for Major League Baseball’s official website, MLB.com, compared Aboushi to New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez, who had just been charged with murder, stating in a tweet that the Jets were “a disgrace of an organization,” there were calls for Mael’s firing. And those calls appear to have been successful.</p>
<p>Aboushi’s speaking in front of the bigoted El-Bireh Society, though, seems to have only been a prelude to his being featured at something far worse, as he has now spoken in front of a group that would soon be designated as a terrorist organization.</p>
<p>On the night of February 7, 2014, Oday Aboushi was the featured speaker at an <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Oday_Aboushi_Muslim_American_Society.jpg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">event hosted by the Muslim American Society</span></a> (MAS), at the group’s youth center in Brooklyn, New York. The title of his speech was ‘The Easy Way vs the Right Way,’ and it was promoted by MAS on social media.</p>
<p>On November 15, it was widely reported that MAS was <a href="http://www.wam.ae/en/news/emirates-international/1395272478814.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">named a terrorist organization by United Arab Emirates</span></a> (UAE), on a list that included al-Qaeda, ISIS and Boko Haram. This was a fitting designation, as the links to terror from MAS are many and varied.</p>
<p>MAS was founded in 1993 by a group of individuals from the Muslim Brotherhood, which included the future global head of the Brotherhood (2004 &#8211; 2010), Mohammed Mahdi Akef.</p>
<p>In the recent past, MAS has used its official websites to praise Hamas and to call for violence upon and/or denigrate Jews, Christians, homosexuals and women.</p>
<p>The current National Executive Director of MAS is Mazen Mokhtar. From 1992 through 1996, Mokhtar made numerous statements on the internet in support of Hamas and suicide bombings. Prior to the September 11 attacks, Mokhtar served as a web designer for what was then the main website raising funds and recruiting fighters for al-Qaeda and the Taliban, Qoqaz.net. The site was a project of Azzam Publications, an organization named for Osama bin Laden’s mentor, Abdullah Azzam. In April 2007, Mokhtar was arrested for tax fraud.</p>
<p>The fact that Aboushi made his speech at a “youth center” does not lessen the harmful nature of his event, as MAS Youth facilities have been and remain havens for extremist activity. One must note that, prior to becoming the National Executive Director of MAS, Mazen Mokhtar served as the Youth Director of MAS-New Jersey and has been a featured speaker at a number of MAS Youth camps and children’s retreats.</p>
<p>The Youth Coordinator at MAS Youth Center, where Aboushi spoke, is Amal Hussain. According to Facebook, Hussain was an attendee at Aboushi’s speech.</p>
<p>The very first posting on Hussain’s personal Facebook page was an <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Amal_Hussain_Siraj_Wahhaj.jpg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">announcement for a speech that was to be given by Siraj Wahhaj</span></a>, the imam of the radical At-Taqwa Mosque, located in the Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn. Hussain used the announcement as her Facebook cover photo.</p>
<p>In 1995, Wahhaj was named an “unindicted co-conspirator” for the federal trial prosecuting those involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Wahhaj had been linked to the bombmaker of the attack, Clement Rodney Hampton-El, and during the trial Wahhaj was a character witness for the spiritual leader of the attack – the “Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdel Rahman – whom Wahhaj has openly praised.</p>
<p>On November 30, Amal Hussain posted a <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Amal_Hussain_Mohamed_Soltan.jpg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">photo of Egyptian prisoner Mohamed Soltan on her Facebook site</span></a>, along with the following statement above it: “[Hosni] Mubarak walks away freely while Soltan is still ‘unjustly’ detained.” Soltan is awaiting trial for charges of funding a terrorist organization and conspiracy to commit violent acts. Soltan’s father, Salah Soltan, is a high-ranking official in the Muslim Brotherhood. Mohamed’s father is also a former leader of MAS.</p>
<p>Salah Soltan is the founder and former President of the MAS-run Islamic American University (IAU), which is based in Southfield, Michigan. The former Chairman of IAU is the current spiritual leader of the international Muslim Brotherthood, Yusuf al-Qaradawi. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) refers to al-Qaradawi as “Theologian of Terror,” and about Salah Soltan, the ADL states that, in June 2013, Salah delivered a sermon labeling Jews “the enemies of God… the cursed ones.”</p>
<p>Prior to going to jail, Mohamed Soltan tweeted a photo of himself <a href="https://causingfitna.wordpress.com/there-is-no-muslim-brotherhood-in-the-united-states-ummm-correction/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">together with his father and al-Qaradawi</span></a>, at what he claimed was al-Qaradawi’s house. He also tweeted support for Hamas.</p>
<p>The day after his speech to MAS, Oday Aboushi tweeted a <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Oday_Aboushi_Muslim_American_Society_2.jpg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">thank-you note to the group</span></a>. He stated, “Thank you @MASYouthCenter for having me last night. Being available for our youth is the biggest hand we can lend in times of need.”</p>
<p>Question: Just how far is Oday Aboushi willing to go to lend a hand to a designated terrorist organization? And how far does he have to go before the NFL, the Jets and the media end their relationship with and their support for him?</p>
<p>As a professional football player, Oday Aboushi is considered by many to be a role model for kids, but what kind of role model legitimizes bigotry and terror?</p>
<p><i>Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.</i></p>
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		<title>A Radical Muslim in the Navy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2014 05:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The high military offices that CAIR's reach may extend to -- thanks to one individual. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/282005_198389416888171_294440_n.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246478" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/282005_198389416888171_294440_n-450x340.jpg" alt="282005_198389416888171_294440_n" width="352" height="266" /></a>Those who serve in the United States military and take an oath to protect our nation are lauded for their service, and rightfully so. Yet, it is highly immoral, if not outright evil and traitorous, for someone who has served in the U.S. military to exploit their military connections whilst taking leadership roles within groups associated with terror. It appears that that is what Muslim convert Wilfredo Amr Ruiz has done and is doing with his work for Islamist groups CAIR and AMANA, and his actions deserve scrutiny, reprimand and repudiation.</p>
<p>Wilfredo Ruiz has served in the U.S. Navy in two capacities, once as a lawyer under the Navy’s Judge Advocate General (JAG), from the years 1993 through 1997, and once as a chaplain under the Navy’s Chaplain Candidate Officer’s Program, which he took on after he had begun religious studies, in 2005, at a seminary in Hartford, Connecticut.</p>
<p>Sometime in 2003, during the time between his two Naval exercises, he made the decision to convert to Islam. He came to the States via Puerto Rico, where he grew up practicing Catholicism.</p>
<p>Not only did he embrace his new religion, but right away he embraced the extremist ideology that is a part of it, leading him to actively pursue a course that is causing death and destruction worldwide. According to corporate filings, in September 2003, Ruiz was the Director of the Puerto Rico office for AMANA.</p>
<p>AMANA is the brainchild of Palestinian activist Sofian Abdelaziz Zakkout. Zakkout is the former Vice President of the now defunct Health Resource Center for Palestine (HRCP), a group associated with Hamas that operated out of Deerfield Beach, Florida.</p>
<p>This past July, as <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/08/13/Palestinian-Leader-in-Miami-Boasts-about-Conquering-American-Jews"><span style="color: #0433ff;">reported in Breitbart</span></a>, Zakkout posted on his Facebook page the following in Arabic: “Praise be to God, each day we conquer the American Jews like our conquests over the Jews of Israel. Your brother, Sofian”</p>
<p>While Zakkout is the main driving force behind AMANA, Ruiz is not a minor player. Ruiz plays a major role in promoting the group’s Islamist agenda.</p>
<p>Not only did he run the AMANA office in Puerto Rico, but he also opened another AMANA office in Hartford, Connecticut. In fact, the web address attached to the Hartford office was the same one used by the national office, al-amana.org.</p>
<p>In the time Ruiz has been involved with AMANA, the group’s website has included various material vilifying Jews, Christians and homosexuals; the website linked to al-Qaeda financing and recruitment sites; and the website prominently featured an anti-Semitic video of David Duke on it, which brought on a condemnation of AMANA by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).</p>
<p>In one article <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/ICBR_and_AMANA_Articles_About_Jews.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">previously found on Ruiz’s AMANA website</span></a>, it is stated, “Every believer [Muslim] should firmly believe that the Jews and Christians are kuffaar [infidels] and enemies of Allaah, His deen, the Prophet Muhammad, and the Believers… The efforts to gain the friendship of the Jews and Christians are useless, as they will never be pleased with the Muslims until the Muslims follow their religion.”</p>
<p>Ruiz additionally is the Executive Director of AMANA’s sister organization, American Muslims for Emergency and Relief (AMER). AMER uses the same Miami physical and mailing addresses as AMANA.</p>
<p>From 2005 till 2007, Ruiz attended the Hartford Seminary, where he worked on his Masters in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations. The entire time Ruiz was there, the professor of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations was a fellow Islamist convert named Ingrid Mattson.</p>
<p>When Ruiz started at the seminary, Mattson was the Vice President of the largest Muslim Brotherhood-related group in the United States, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). In the following year, 2006, she became President of ISNA.</p>
<p>Mattson founded the Islamic Chaplaincy program at Hartford Seminary. As mentioned, after beginning his education at the seminary, Ruiz worked to become a chaplain for the Navy, specifically a Muslim Chaplain.</p>
<p>According to Ruiz’s bio, he worked as a chaplain at the Immigration Service Processing Centers in Puerto Rico and in Miami. Question: Did Wifredo Amr Ruiz go to seminary and take up chaplaincy specifically to better serve the radical Islamic goals of his bigoted group AMANA.</p>
<p>Today, Ruiz acts as AMANA’s legal advisor. However, he also does legal work for another Islamist organization, CAIR. He is CAIR-Florida’s legal counsel.</p>
<p>CAIR was established as being part of the American Palestine Committee, an umbrella organization acting as a terrorist enterprise run by then-global Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook, who was based in the U.S. at the time and who now operates out of Egypt as a spokesman for Hamas. In 2007 and 2008, amidst two federal trials, the U.S. government named CAIR a co-conspirator in the raising of millions of dollars for Hamas.</p>
<p>No doubt, having Ruiz represent both CAIR and AMANA serves to bring the two groups together, helping them to exert more influence. Indeed, in 2012, 2013 and 2014, the groups joined to co-sponsor rallies to speak out about violence in Syria, Egypt and Gaza. The latter event took place in Downtown Miami on July 20, 2014.</p>
<p>The rally was supposed to be in support of Gaza, but it quickly turned into one that was instead pro-Hamas. A smiling Sofian Zakkout is seen on video, as coordinated chants of “Let’s go Hamas” and “We are Hamas” are shouted from the crowd. A reporter was also assaulted by rally goers, targeted for being Jewish (“Zionist”).</p>
<p>CAIR issued a statement saying that it had nothing to do with the rally, but a flyer for the event clearly shows the CAIR-Florida logo next to its AMANA logo counterpart. AMANA’s Zakkout organized the rally, and numerous pictures of the flyer are <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/AMANA_CAIR_Hamas_Rally_July_2014.jpg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">still found on his Facebook site</span></a>. These flyers are not unlike the flyers that were made up for the other rallies involving CAIR and AMANA, containing CAIR and AMANA logos.</p>
<p>On November 15, Ruiz participated in the CAIR-South Florida annual banquet held at a hotel in Fort Lauderdale. He stood up on stage with the other CAIR-Florida leaders, including CAIR-South Florida Executive Director Nezar Hamze and CAIR-Tampa Executive Director Hassan Shibly, who has stated that he believes Hezbollah is not a terrorist organization.</p>
<p>Earlier in the day – the same day as the banquet – the government of United Arab Emirates (UAE) named CAIR a terrorist organization, along with violent groups such as al-Qaeda, Boco Haraam and ISIS.</p>
<p>Ruiz brought his family, including his wife and two underage kids, with him to the banquet. Given the radical Islamic nature of the groups sponsoring the event, one can argue that this was child abuse.</p>
<p>Outside the banquet was a peaceful protest, which this author attended and delivered a speech at. Ruiz came outside to intimidate and take photos of all the protesters.</p>
<p>Ruiz was <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/11/20/CAIR-Attorneys-Harass-Protesters"><span style="color: #0433ff;">caught on video having words with the protest organizer</span></a>. He asked the organizer if he had “ever served” [in the military]. He asked the organizer if he knew “who is a patriot,” and then stated emphatically “I’m a Naval officer, brother.”</p>
<p>Question: Can Ruiz operate under the guise of a patriot having served or currently serving in the U.S. military, while at the same time aiding and abetting organizations involved with Islamic terrorism?</p>
<p>In Ruiz’s case, the answer is clear. His involvement with CAIR and AMANA negates any pretense of patriotism, and instead open the door for questions about subversion.</p>
<p><i>Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.</i></p>
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		<title>Boca Mosque Targets Jews, Christians and the West</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2014 05:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/icbr.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-245687" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/icbr.png" alt="icbr" width="300" height="300" /></a>For the Islamic Center of Boca Raton (ICBR) some things have changed and some have stayed the same. The center went from a storefront, where it began, to a nearly 30,000 square foot mosque. That was a huge change. It has also lost a number of imams along the way, a couple of whom have been charged with crimes. Many of the faces still remain, though, and so does the hate that was exhibited when the center was established over 15 years ago.</p>
<p>ICBR started as a result of an effort by the Muslim Student Organization (MSO) at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) and FAU Professor Bassem Alhalabi, who helped create the MSO. The founding directors of the center included three persons: Alhalabi, travel agency owner Khalid Qureshi, and then-FAU student Syed Ahmad, who was also a website designer for Hamas in Gaza.</p>
<p>Alhalabi, prior to getting his job at FAU, was an assistant to Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami al-Arian, while they were together at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa.</p>
<p>Today, two out of the three, Alhalabi and Qureshi, are still directors at the mosque.</p>
<p>From October 1999 through September 2001 – roughly three years – the website of ICBR had an essay prominently posted on it, entitled ‘Why can’t the Jews and Muslims live together in peace?’</p>
<p>The essay stated, “<a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/ICBR_and_AMANA_Articles_About_Jews.htm">There cannot be harmony between Jews</a> &#8211; who are usurpers and aggressors, who have oppressed and persecuted others… Jews are people of treachery and betrayal; it is not possible to trust them at all… As the Muslims and Jews are enemies residing in opposing religious and doctrinal camps, it is not possible for them to be brought together unless one is made to submit to the other by force… [Muhammad] said, ‘You will fight the Jews and will prevail over them, so that a rock will say, O Muslim! There is Jew behind me, kill him!’”</p>
<p>The imam of the center at the time, Ibrahim Dremali, claimed that the essay appearing on the center&#8217;s website was the result of hackers, even though much of the other material that had been on the site was derived from the <a href="http://islamqa.info/en/1098">same place that the essay came from</a>, the violently anti-Semitic IslamQA.com.</p>
<p>Dremali’s rendition of the facts were contradicted by then-Spokesman for ICBR, Dan McBride, a Muslim convert who said that the only reason why they took the essay off the site was because they received numerous complaints about it.</p>
<p>Today, there is a new imam leading the mosque, Fathi Kalfi, but the rhetoric coming from him and another ICBR official shows that absolutely nothing regarding the center’s bigotry towards others has changed.</p>
<p>On the ICBR website, there is currently a section which allows one to listen to speeches given by the Islamic center’s leaders to the center’s congregants. The first page is for Fathi Kalfi, ICBR’s present imam. In his speech titled ‘Fitns after Prophet (pbuh) and Abu Baker (ra),’ he incorporates an anti-Semitc and anti-Christian message, in order to make a point about what is taking place in Syria.</p>
<p>Kalfi says, “Damascus – used to be the capitol of every Muslim from Yemen to Andalusia [Spain] to Heng [China]. All of them, the capitol was Damascus, so it has a special place in the hearts of believers. Today, it’s controlled by Batiniyah Nusairiyah [sect of Shiah Islam]… Batiniyah have the same steps; they have the same direction – the same goal. You know what’s their goal? Destroy Islam… Bathiniyah, Ibn Taymiyyah [an Islamic scholar] said they are worse than Jews and Christians. So their goal is to destroy Islam – kill the Muslims and occupy their land… But Allah al-Jenna will not let them, Inshallah, because they will be defeated soon.”</p>
<p>In a second speech, Kalfi rails against the West and complains about Muslims who adopt or admire anything coming from the West, even if it is something positive. In his ‘Fitns &amp; Situation of Muslim Uma,’ he states, “Brothers and sisters, Muslims live in a time of fitn, temptations, religious innovations, time of myths and deviation. What made it worse, brothers and sisters, is the advancement of the West, especially in the worldly matter, which led some Muslims to get influenced by that and they started to glorify or embrace anything that comes from the West, either it’s good or bad.”</p>
<p>Kalfi later speaks about an end of time conspiracy, where Muslims will war against the West. If the imam were saying these things from overseas as a member of Isis or al-Qaeda, it would make more sense. But Kalfi is spewing his hate from Boca Raton, Florida, a symbol in America of Western affluence and containing a sizeable Jewish population.</p>
<p>Another page on ICBR contains the speeches of Mounir Bourkiza, the General Manager at Garden of the Sahaba Academy, ICBR’s children’s school. In his speech to the congregants, titled ‘Major Shirk,’ he states that Christian belief is “nonsense.”</p>
<p>Bourkiza says in the speech, “Or as the Christians believe… They apply the same characteristics of the creation of a human to Allah al-Jenna. They say Allah is the father and he has a son and all this kind of nonsense.”</p>
<p>Most probably due to past infractions, which included a link from the ICBR website to a site raising funds and recruiting fighters for al-Qaeda and the Taliban, ICBR has taken the step of placing a disclaimer on its website’s ‘About Us’ page. What is both interesting and ironic is that the mosque put, at the end of the disclaimer, a statement regarding anti-Semitism. It reads, “It must be clear that ICBR condemns Anti-Semitism whether it originates from Muslim, or any other sources.”</p>
<p>Evidently, ICBR does not condemn anti-Semitism enough, because the mosque’s own imam actively spreads anti-Semitism, and the mosque is so proud of it that it moved to place the anti-Semitic content on its website for everyone to listen to. And not only has the imam targeted Jews, but both he and the GM of the ICBR children’s school have targeted Christians as well.</p>
<p>Furthermore, Kalfi has spoken out against the entire West, where he happens to reside, which only adds to the disturbing nature of his statements, as his words can incite listeners to commit hateful and violent acts on our own shores.</p>
<p>One former ICBR congregant who appeared to have been influenced by the extremism of ICBR is Dr. Rafiq Sabir. Today, Sabir is serving out a 25-year prison sentence for swearing allegiance to and providing material support to al-Qaeda.</p>
<p>No one can use the excuse now that the ICBR website has been hacked, because the hate statements presently found on it were made by those representing ICBR themselves, making the disclaimer seem more an exercise in deception than transparency.</p>
<p><em>Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.</em></p>
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		<title>CAIR, 20 Years of Terror</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2014 05:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rooted in faith or rooted in Hamas?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/cair.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244934" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/cair-450x187.jpg" alt="cair" width="303" height="126" /></a>On the night of Saturday, November 8, the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of CAIR held its 20<sup>th</sup> Anniversary Banquet at the Santa Clara Convention Center. It was fitting that two out of three of the event’s featured speakers have been associated with terrorism, as 20 years ago CAIR was founded as a main component of a Palestinian terrorist enterprise inside the United States.</p>
<p>CAIR or the Council on American-Islamic Relations has been in existence for 20 years &#8212; since June 1994 &#8212; when it opened up its national headquarters in Washington, D.C. The group was established as being a part of the American Palestine Committee, an umbrella organization run by then-global Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook, who was based in the U.S. at the time and who now operates out of Egypt as a spokesman for Hamas.</p>
<p>The other members of the umbrella included a Hamas financing wing, Holy Land Foundation (HLF); a Hamas propaganda wing, Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP); and a Hamas command center, United Association for Studies and Research (UASR), which was then led by Ahmed Yousef, who later left the U.S. for Gaza to become Senior Political Adviser to Hamas leader Ismail Haniya.</p>
<p>The founding and current National Executive Director of CAIR is Nihad Awad. Just prior to co-founding CAIR, Awad held the position of Public Relations Director for the IAP. As the propaganda wing of Hamas, the IAP had been involved in distributing Hamas terrorist videos and publishing vehemently anti-Jewish and anti-Israel materials, including the Hamas charter in different languages.</p>
<p>Only months before the creation of CAIR, Awad announced his support for Hamas.</p>
<p>Under Awad’s leadership, CAIR has had a number of representatives cited for terrorist-related activity. CAIR officials have been convicted and imprisoned for terror-related crimes and/or deported from the United States. As well, during Awad’s tenure, CAIR has been cited <em>itself</em>. In 2007 and 2008, amidst two federal trials, the U.S. government named the group a co-conspirator in the raising of millions of dollars for Hamas. The individuals who had been indicted for the trials (CAIR was named an “unindicted co-conspirator”) were found guilty of all charges.</p>
<p>This past Saturday night, Awad was not at his home base in D.C. Instead, he was speaking at a banquet for CAIR’s San Francisco Bay Area (SFBA) chapter. San Francisco was the home of CAIR’s first regional U.S. chapter, established not long after CAIR National was established, hence the California group celebrating its <em>20<sup>th</sup> Anniversary</em>.</p>
<p>A second featured speaker at the Saturday banquet was Siraj Wahhaj, the imam of the At-Taqwa Mosque, located in the Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn, New York. Wahhaj frequently speaks at CAIR sponsored events. Indeed, Wahhaj previously sat on CAIR’s National Board of Advisors.</p>
<p>Wahhaj has been associated with terrorism far beyond his involvement with CAIR.</p>
<p>In 1995, much like CAIR’s trials, Wahhaj was named an “unindicted co-conspirator” for the federal trial prosecuting those involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Wahhaj had been linked to the bombmaker of the attack, Clement Rodney Hampton-El, and during the trial he was a character witness for the spiritual leader of the attack &#8212; the “Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdel Rahman &#8212; whom Wahhaj has openly praised.</p>
<p>Wahhaj has recently taken up the cause of speaking at functions for and doing fundraising for rabid anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan.</p>
<p>Also speaking at the banquet was Nihad Awad’s San Francisco counterpart, Executive Director of CAIR-SFBA Zahra Billoo. Billoo has made a number of extremist statements in the past. She has written that “one amazing reason to get married” is to “raise fighters” (children) to attack the nation of Israel. She wrote that to celebrate Columbus Day is “the same as having Jews celebrate Hitler and the Holocaust.” She refers to U.S. troops as “scum.”</p>
<p>Billoo proudly announced on her blog that her younger brother, Ahmed, was quoted in an article in the <em>Los Angeles Jewish Journal</em> &#8212; an article that discusses in length about how her brother supports suicide bombings. Billoo wrote that she, herself, had thoughts of committing suicide, after she viewed a pro-Israel advertisement on a San Francisco train.</p>
<p>On her Twitter account, Billoo boasted that her CAIR event was sold out, and the pictures taken at it do <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/SFBA_Nihad_Awad_11-8-2014.jpg">show a full house</a>. This is a frightening indication that many Muslims in America appear to support and approve of CAIR’s agenda. Certainly given the amount of information available about the speakers at the event, one would be hard pressed to believe that the attendees weren’t at least somewhat aware of CAIR’s terror-related background.</p>
<p>While CAIR has attempted to present itself as a Muslim civil rights organization, the individuals involved with CAIR reveal that the group is cynically exploiting this designation.</p>
<p>The title of CAIR’s weekend event was ‘<a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/SFBA_Rooted_in_Faith_11-8-2014.jpg">Rooted in Faith</a>,’ but one has to question what type of faith would have radical luminaries who are associated with terrorism representing it.</p>
<p><em>Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.</em></p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2014 04:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The DNC chair leaves Andrew Tahmooressi behind.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Debbie.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234638" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Debbie-450x254.jpg" alt="Debbie" width="317" height="179" /></a>On March 31, 2014, Marine Sergeant Andrew Tahmooressi accidentally made a wrong turn from the United States into Mexico. He has been held in prison there ever since. Tahmooressi had been heading to San Diego, California to seek treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD which resulted from his time spent in combat overseas in Afghanistan. He had with him all of his belongings, including three firearms, which triggered the response from Mexican authorities.</p>
<p>Tahmooressi is a recent resident of the South Florida city of Weston; his mother, Jill, still resides there. The congressional representative for Weston is Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Wasserman Schultz is also the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Since Tahmooressi’s arrest, Wasserman Schultz has played a dual game of assisting Tahmooressi, while providing cover for the Mexican government and his captors.</p>
<p>Reports have stated that Wasserman Schultz has been in contact with both the State Department and Vice President Joe Biden regarding the Tahmooressi case. For the head of the Democratic Party and someone who is a phone call away from the President himself, this would seem to be the bare minimum, and it has resulted in no action as Sgt. Tahmooressi continues to languish behind bars in a foreign nation.</p>
<p>On May 28th, Wasserman Schultz took the time to speak with the comedy radio duo, Paul and Young Ron, on Miami, Florida’s Big 105.9. There, she made a few statements that, instead of helping Tahmooressi, made her out to be a shill for the Mexican government and those who have recklessly held him in Mexico for what is now nearly three months.</p>
<p>“The Mexican government has not done anything wrong here, so let’s be clear,” she insistently told the show’s hosts. She then began to speak about how Mexico has laws, which according to Wasserman Schultz, it “appears” he had violated.</p>
<p>Wasserman Schultz has stated that her office is “working diligently with the Mexican Embassy.” She said that she had spoken with the Mexican Ambassador, “who assured me that this is being worked on diligently and that they will do everything they can to expedite the situation.”</p>
<p>When asked if they were treating him well, she replied, “As far as I know, yes they are.”</p>
<p>On May 29th, just one day after the Wasserman Schultz interview, Tahmooressi appeared via phone on Fox News’ On the Record with Greta Van Susteren show. On it, he spoke of the nightmare he went through in Mexico.</p>
<p>He said that his fellow inmates threatened to rape and kill him. He said he was chained to a bed on three separate occasions, including chained standing up, as a form of “punishment.” He told Van Susteren he was punched in the stomach “to the point that I couldn’t breathe.” He said he was struck in his jaw by prison guards so many times his jaw moved out of place.</p>
<p>Wasserman Schultz’s statement that Andrew Tahmooressi was being treated well was either based on complete ignorance of his situation or a way to shield the Mexican government from harm. Considering that she made it a point to say that the Mexican government did nothing wrong – that they should be exempt from criticism – makes one come to the conclusion that it is the latter.</p>
<p>On May 31st, President Barack Obama traded five Taliban commanders for Bowe Bergdahl, an Army troop who had been held captive by the Taliban since June 2009. It was a highly controversial move not only for the violence associated with the terrorist commanders, but for the fact that Bergdahl has been considered by many to be a troop deserter who walked away from his camp.</p>
<p>Sgt. Tahmooressi, on the other hand, has been lauded as a hero for saving at least eight of his fellow troops’ lives in Afghanistan. So while President Obama traded five Taliban leaders for a possible troop deserter, the hero Tahmooressi has been made to suffer behind bars in Mexico with his family’s own government representative doing the least possible to see to his freedom.</p>
<p>Tahmooressi’s mother, Jill, said that never in all his time during four years as a Marine and two tours in Afghanistan was her son treated so badly as he has been in Mexico. But that may only be her opinion, as people like Debbie Wasserman Schultz believe he’s been treated just fine and Mexico did nothing wrong.</p>
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		<title>Florida Congressman Accepts Money from Radical Muslim Group</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2014 04:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Garcia gets in bed with the enemy.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/garcia-joe.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-226563" alt="garcia-joe" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/garcia-joe-450x321.jpg" width="315" height="225" /></a>Emerge USA is a Florida-based organization whose unstated goal is to give radical Muslims a political voice in America. One way they do this is by getting their leaders placed in key positions of power. Another way is by making friends with those <i>already in power</i>. United States Representative from Florida, Joe Garcia, is one of those friends. He has accepted thousands of dollars from Emerge for his 2014 reelection bid, and he has returned the favor by helping the group raise more money.</p>
<p>Earlier this month, Emerge held its annual fundraising dinner in Miami, at the DoubleTree Hotel and Airport Convention Center. Featured at the event was Sayed Ammar Nakshawani, an Islamic lecturer from England who is a devotee of Iran’s deceased terrorist leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and who has called for the destruction of Israel.</p>
<p>In a speech found on YouTube and the lecture section of his website, titled ‘Sayed Khomeini’s Quds Day,’ Nakshawani states, “The shame in this world is that, if we put ourselves down to a two-state solution, we would allow a country which has broken 60 UN resolutions to have their own freedom of peace. It is barbaric that this Zionist state is allowed to continue.”</p>
<p>Emerge <a href="http://s1227.photobucket.com/user/kaufmanforcongress/media/Sayed_Ammar_Nakshawani_Emerge.jpg.html">advertised Nakshawani in an event flyer</a> as well as an Emerge-produced video of Nakshawani telling people to attend.</p>
<p>Given Emerge’s past, having this man speak was no surprise. What was a surprise, though, was that a sitting U.S. Congressman, Joe Garcia, would also be speaking at the event, even after the leader of his political party, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, cancelled her keynote address in front of the same group just two years prior.</p>
<p>One of the two co-chairmen of Emerge is South Florida attorney Khurrum Basir Wahid. According to his bio, Wahid specializes in defending “individuals charged with allegedly committing or conspiring to commit acts of terrorism.”</p>
<p>Wahid’s clients include: Rafiq Abdus Sabir, who received a 25 year prison sentence for conspiring to provide material support to al-Qaeda; al-Qaeda member Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, who was given a life sentence for plotting to assassinate President George W. Bush; Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami al-Arian, who is presently under house arrest in Virginia; and Hafiz Muhammed Sher Ali Khan, a Miami, Florida imam who was convicted of funneling tens of thousands of dollars to the Taliban for the express purpose of murdering American troops.</p>
<p>Prior to helping found Emerge, Wahid was a legal advisor for the national office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and a director of CAIR’s Florida chapter. In 2007 and 2008, CAIR was named by the U.S. Justice Department as a co-conspirator to the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas.</p>
<p>In 2011, Wahid himself was placed on a <a href="http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2012-02-02/news/miami-imams-accused-of-funding-terrorists-hate-and-redemption/full/">U.S. government terrorist watch list</a>.</p>
<p>The other co-chairman of Emerge is Afaq J. Durrani. Durrani is the General Secretary of the Islamic Society of Greater Houston (ISGH), a sizable community organization consisting of 19 area mosques. ISGH is a subsidiary of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which like CAIR, was named by the U.S. government a co-conspirator in the financing of Hamas.</p>
<p>Durrani is heavily involved in the Democratic Party. According to his Emerge bio, he is part of the Texas State Democratic Executive Committee; he is President of the Asian American Democrats of Texas; and in 2012, he served as a National Delegate to the 2012 Democratic National Convention.</p>
<p>Durrani’s attachment to the Democratic Party may be a big reason for Emerge’s attraction to having Democrat members of Congress speak at Emerge annual functions. That, of course, does not mean that those Congressmen need to oblige the group. Though, Garcia certainly has.</p>
<p>Ten <a href="http://s1227.photobucket.com/user/kaufmanforcongress/media/Joe_Garcia_Emerge_Photos.jpg.html">photos featuring Congressman Garcia</a> at the fundraising banquet are found on the Emerge Facebook page, some showing him speaking at the podium, many with a huge smile on his face. One of the photos is of him playfully grabbing the arm of co-founder and former Emerge President Farooq Mitha.</p>
<p>Mitha, who serves in the Obama Administration as the Special Assistant to the Director of the Department of Defense Office of Small Business Programs (DOD OSBP), has spoken at at least one ISNA conference. As well, in February 2011, he participated in an event sponsored by the Center for American Progress (CAP), a group exposed less than a year later as being a vehicle for anti-Semitic and anti-Israel statements and positions.</p>
<p>It is interesting that Garcia would agree to speak at an Emerge function, as the head of the Democratic Party Debbie Wasserman Schultz canceled her keynote address in front of Emerge just two years earlier, after the group was <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/joe-kaufman-and-beila-rabinowitz/debbie-wasserman-schultz-empowers-a-radical-muslim-fundraiser/">exposed by this author as an extremist front</a>. Congressman Alcee Hastings also cancelled his participation at the same event.</p>
<p>Last year’s speaker was Democrat Congressman Keith Ellison. Garcia should not look to Ellison as someone to be emulated, though, because Ellison is widely seen as a prominent supporter of radical Muslim groups and an Islamist himself. Ellison’s involvement with organizations such as Emerge is to be expected.</p>
<p>Regardless of the circumstances revolving around past Emerge participants, Garcia had a separate motivation that many involved in politics have been drawn to, that being money.</p>
<p>Garcia’s campaign quarterly finance reports covering July 1, 2013 through December 31, 2013 show that Emerge and its leadership donated thousands of dollars towards his reelection. In December, the Emerge USA Federal PAC <a href="http://s1227.photobucket.com/user/kaufmanforcongress/media/Joe_Garcia_Emerge_Donations.jpg.html">donated $1000 to the Garcia campaign</a>. In November, Emerge co-chair Khurrum Wahid gave $750 to Garcia. Wahid also donated $247 worth of food to Garcia, at a November 7th reception for Garcia held at Wahid’s law firm. Host committee members from the event, Khalid Mirza and Ashraf Amdani, each gave $1000.</p>
<p>On November 16, Emerge Secretary Amira Ishoof gave $750. Amira and her husband Saif Ishoof both attended the Garcia Emerge banquet. Saif is a founding director of Emerge. Prior to getting involved with the group, Saif <a href="http://s1227.photobucket.com/user/kaufmanforcongress/media/Saif_Ishoof_Emerge.jpg.html">was the rally organizer and contact</a> for the extreme anti-Israel group, March for Justice. The other contact and spokesman of the group was Nidal Sakr, who was arrested this past March after returning to the U.S. from Egypt where he was a rally organizer for the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p>Today, Saif Ishoof is a director for Nur-Ul-Islam Academy, a Muslim children’s school located in Cooper City, Florida whose former Vice President was Raed Musa Awad. Awad was the Florida representative for the Holy Land Foundation (HLF), a Hamas charity that was shut down by the U.S. government in December 2001. Awad was also the imam who oversaw the conversion to Islam by convicted terrorist and “Dirty Bomber,” Jose Padilla.</p>
<p>Joe Garcia’s willingness to accept money from an organization such as Emerge is troubling to say the least, and his enthusiasm and eagerness to speak in front of the group is evidence that his acceptance of the money was no mistake. Garcia’s interaction with Emerge could very well be his political undoing.</p>
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		<title>Tampa Terror Radio</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2014 04:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ahmed Bedier: promoter of Jew-hate and terrorist activity. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/mj.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-223950" alt="FBI Arrests" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/mj-279x350.jpg" width="279" height="350" /></a>For the past nine years, a radio show has been broadcast out of Tampa Bay, Florida every Friday representing the viewpoints of radical Islamists. The subjects on the show, ironically called ‘True Talk,’ almost always revolve around two subjects: extreme hatred of Israel and/or support for those associated with terrorism.</p>
<p>During the month of March, different anti-Israel and terror-related content made its way over the airwaves with the blessing of one of the show’s co-hosts, Ahmed Bedier.</p>
<p>On March 14th, over half of Bedier’s radio show consisted of a recorded speech given by Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi discussing strides being made by the boycott movement against Israel. Khalidi has previously been identified in different news reports as “a PLO spokesman” and “a director of the Palestinian press agency, Wafa” (Wikalat al-Anba al-Filastinija), which Khalidi himself has described as “the PLO’s news agency.”</p>
<p>According to the U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act of 1987, signed into law by then-President Ronald Reagan, “The PLO and its constituent groups have taken credit for, and been implicated in, the murders of dozens of American citizens abroad… [T]he Congress determines that the PLO and its affiliates are a terrorist organization and a threat to the interests of the United States, its allies, and to international law…”</p>
<p>Bedier took calls in response to Khalidi’s speech, while lauding him as a “Middle East scholar.”</p>
<p>The previous week, on March 7th, Bedier had as a guest on the show the mother of convicted terrorist Ziyad Yaghi. According to the indictment against him, “the multiple defendants in the case,” Yaghi included, “prepared themselves to engage in violent acts and were willing to die as martyrs. They also offered training in weapons and financing and helped arrange overseas travel and contacts so others could wage violent acts overseas.” Yaghi was convicted on all counts and was sentenced to 31+ years in prison. He and his fellow co-conspirators lost their appeal.</p>
<p>According to his mom, Laila, Ziyad did nothing wrong. She called him a “goofy young man… a young man having fun.” She said that his only crime in the eyes of the prosecutors was that he was a Muslim.</p>
<p>Bedier agreed with the racism angle. But even if Yaghi was a terrorist, for Bedier it was not a problem, because<i> </i>Yaghi<i> didn’t actually carry out any violence</i>. He said it was “shocking” that Yaghi was arrested before he actually did anything. He asked, “What kind of jihad and terrorism did these guys commit?&#8230; Did they commit any violence? Did they kill anybody? Did they hurt anyone? Did they shoot anyone?” Bedier called it a “preemptive prosecution” or arresting a terrorist before the crime takes place. What he failed to understand was that a conspiracy to commit terrorism<i> is a crime in itself</i>. For Bedier, it’s just a case of Freedom of Speech.</p>
<p>The ringleader of the group was Daniel Patrick Boyd a.k.a. Saifullah (“Sword of Allah”). Boyd, a convert to Islam, received training in terrorist camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Boyd recruited and trained others to go overseas and undertake violent jihad. He had discussed attacking the Quantico, Virginia Marine Corps base, while in possession of a large arsenal of firearms. He pled guilty to one count of conspiring to “provide material support to terrorists” and one count of conspiring to “murder, kidnap, maim and injure persons in a foreign country.”</p>
<p>Yaghi’s mom said, much as her feelings towards her son, that she didn’t think Boyd “did anything wrong.” She said he was coerced by his lawyers into pleading guilty. Bedier, on the other hand, parodied Boyd as a Duck Dynasty wannabe, who probably just liked to go hunting.</p>
<p>One of the subjects brought up during Bedier’s interview of Laila Yaghi was that of Ziyad Yaghi’s intention to get married overseas, a subject that came up during the trial. Laila made light of this saying that Muslims get married at a young age, and Bedier flippantly asked if intending to get married was “against the law.” However, this subject in reality dealt with a conversation that Ziyad Yaghi had with Daniel Boyd, where Ziyad was discussing his intention to become “married” to the battlefield in jihad. Either Laila Yaghi was totally in the dark about her son’s militant plans or she was covering up for him.</p>
<p>While these things may seem to be merely show material for the station’s listeners, for Bedier it’s much more than that, as he himself has been directly involved with groups and individuals connected to terrorism.</p>
<p>Bedier was the Executive Director of the Tampa office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). CAIR has been named by the U.S. Justice Department as a co-conspirator for two federal trials dealing with the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas. CAIR was using its national website to raise money for the main group on trial, the Holy Land Foundation (HLF), which along with its leadership was found guilty on all charges.</p>
<p>During his tenure with CAIR, Bedier became a spokesman for Sami al-Arian, a co-founder and North American leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). In discussing the al-Arian case on a local Tampa TV news show, Bedier stated that, “before 1995, there was nothing immoral” about associating with PIJ. Prior to 1995, PIJ took credit for five terrorist attacks, which included a suicide bombing. The attacks resulted in the murders of eight innocent individuals.</p>
<p>Bedier has been a representative, as well, for Islamic Relief (IR). In 2006, Israel labeled IR a front for Hamas, after arresting the group’s Gaza program manager for providing “funds and assistance to various Hamas institutions and organizations.” In 1999, IR gave millions of dollars to and received tens of thousands of dollars from groups associated with al-Qaeda. Bedier is still involved with IR, attending a fundraiser for the group as recently as last month.</p>
<p>Bedier has (or more appropriately had) his own association with al-Qaeda, as his brother, Amir, was a devoted follower of Osama bin Laden. Last August, Ahmed accompanied Amir, who Ahmed has exalted as a “hero,” to a Muslim Brotherhood demonstration in Cairo against Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. This was days before Amir was shot and killed at the same location by the Egyptian military in a disbursement action against terrorists. Ahmed helped with the dead bodies, the next morning.</p>
<p>On a regular basis, Ahmed Bedier uses his radio program, found on WMNF 88.5 FM Tampa, to provide a forum for radicals, including himself, who wish to spout hatred and/or protect those associated with terrorist activity.</p>
<p>The show and Bedier’s actions outside the show are evils in our democratic society that need to be exposed.</p>
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		<title>MAS Islamist Hugs for Hatred and Terror</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 05:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mahdi Bray's Louis Farrakhan and Muslim Brotherhood odyssey.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/farr.gif"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-217351" alt="farr" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/farr.gif" width="268" height="148" /></a>It’s said that you wouldn’t want to wish serious illness on your worst enemy. Well, in December 2010, such an illness did indeed come to one of America’s worst enemies, Muslim extremist Mahdi Bray. Bray, then-Executive Director of the MAS Freedom Foundation, the former activist arm of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood front, the Muslim American Society, suffered what was described as a “massive stroke.” Now, three years later, he is back doing what he does best, embracing hatemongers and getting involved in the pro-terror cause.</p>
<p>Johari Abdul-Malik is the Outreach Director of Falls Church, Virginia’s Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center. He was brought in to head the mosque, after his predecessor, Anwar al-Awlaki, left the United States to become al-Qaeda’s leader in Yemen. Since Abdul-Malik has been employed by al-Hijrah, he has supported and/or <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/joe-kaufman/cairs-tampa-terror-banquet/">defended a number of convicted terrorists</a>, including one that plotted to assassinate Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah; one that plotted to assassinate President George W. Bush; and one who instructed his followers to wage war on the United States.</p>
<p>Abdul-Malik has a YouTube page, where he actively uploads videos. On September 25, he uploaded a 28-second one featuring himself and the Executive Director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), Salam al-Marayati. Marayati, who is close to the Obama White House, is a defender of Hezbollah and has previously <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/17/watchdogs-oppose-appointment-israel-critic-al-marayati-to-us-delegation/">suggested that Israel be named a suspect</a> in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.</p>
<p>However, the main event of Abdul-Malik’s video short was Mahdi Bray and Louis Farrakhan, the controversial leader of the Nation of Islam (NOI), <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co5vXQDDM-0">hugging and professing their love</a> for one another.</p>
<p>Farrakhan is known for his inflammatory rhetoric against whites, Jews and homosexuals. He has called whites “potential humans [who] haven’t evolved yet.” He has referred to Jews as “satanic” and “wicked.” And he has called gays “degenerate.” Farrakhan’s group currently publishes a number of anti-Semitic books and DVDs for sale on its website, including such titles as ‘<a href="http://store.finalcall.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=HLF890827DVD">And the Jews Planned</a>’ and ‘Jews Selling Blacks.’</p>
<p>The scene from the video is not the first time Bray has embraced such a vile individual as Farrakhan. In March 2009, a photo of Ahmed Yassin, the former spiritual leader and founder of Hamas who was killed in an Israeli airstrike, was <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/Mahdi_Bray's_Photos.html">uploaded to Bray’s personal web page</a> found on what used to be a MAS Freedom website. [The MAS Freedom organization was shut down shortly after Bray’s stroke.]</p>
<p>The Muslim American Society was founded in 1992 by associates from the Muslim Brotherhood, including Mohammed Mahdi Akef, who would later become the international head of the Brotherhood. Given the radical roots of the organization, it stands to reason that Bray would cling to such extremism – as he did last month, when he attended an event sponsored by a group advocating for the restoration of the regime of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi in Egypt. Morsi was taken from power by the Egyptian Military, which has since outlawed the Brotherhood, designating the Islamist group a terrorist organization.</p>
<p>As reported <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/4234/ipt-exclusive-al-arian-resurfaces-in-new-american">by Steve Emerson and the Investigative Project on Terrorism</a> (IPT), also attending was ex-USF professor Sami al-Arian, who previously had been sentenced to prison for his role as a North American leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and is currently under a separate indictment for criminal contempt in another terrorism case.</p>
<p>The affair’s sponsor, the Egypt Freedom Foundation (EFF), was incorporated in Washington, D.C. in October 2013. The group’s organizer is Ahmed Bedier, a former director for the Hamas-related CAIR and former unofficial spokesman in the media for al-Arian. Bedier’s involvement with this new group can, at least in part, be explained by the fact that his beloved brother, Amir, a fervent supporter of Osama bin Laden, was <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/joe-kaufman/ahmed-bediers-al-qaeda-family-stain-removal/">shot dead by the Egyptian Military</a> during a Muslim Brotherhood demonstration, which Amir had taken part in.</p>
<p>The similarity between Bedier’s group’s name and Bray’s former group’s may not be all coincidence. MAS has coordinated activities with EFF, co-sponsoring at least one event together at the Chicago-area Mosque Foundation (MF), a radical mosque that has held fundraisers for Palestinian terror-related entities.</p>
<p>In its short existence, EFF has managed to attract terrorists, run events in terror-related mosques, and on top of that, invite Nazis to speak at their functions, as they did when they organized a lecture at Georgetown University <a href="http://freebeacon.com/georgetown-university-to-host-member-of-egypts-nazi-party/">featuring Egyptian Nazi Party co-founder, Ramy Jan</a>.</p>
<p>About the particular event Mahdi Bray attended, he [Bray] tweeted, “Attending hearing on democracy &amp; rule of law in #Egypt…” Ahmed Bedier, for his part, posted on Facebook and tweeted a photo of Morsi behind bars with the caption, “<a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Ahmed_Bedier_Mohamed_Morsi.jpg">DEMOCRACY IN A CAGE</a>.”</p>
<p>Bray, Bedier and most probably the other attendees confidently believe that the ousting of terror-leader Morsi was a blow to democracy, and the “rule of law” Bray mentioned was, no doubt, the Sharia law that accompanied Morsi to Egypt’s highest level of power.</p>
<p>It is fair to say that most people in civilized society reject the radical views and hatred which Louis Farrakhan and Ramy Jan espouse. They also realize that terrorist leaders such as Mohamed Morsi are antithetical to democracy. But Mahdi Bray, Ahmed Bedier and their ilk exist in a parallel universe where good is evil and evil is good. The fact that they live and prosper in the West makes their world view all the more perverse.</p>
<p>It is this sociopathic lack of conscience and any vestige of morality which makes the Islamist a menace to society and the greatest danger facing Western civilization in our time.</p>
<p><i>Beila Rabinowitz, director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.</i></p>
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		<title>Baby Food Jihad</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2013 05:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet the halal certification group whose board member calls Jews corrupt apes and swine. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/unnamed.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-213777" alt="unnamed" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/unnamed-450x346.jpg" width="270" height="208" /></a>Baby formula is vital to an infant’s health, as it contains the nutrients necessary for proper physical and mental development. Some baby food, though, while being healthy for babies, is associated with terrorism and bigotry.</p>
<p>For Orthodox Jews and others, the baby formula that their children consume needs to conform to kosher dietary laws, meaning that the food excludes ingredients that would render it religiously inedible. A hechsher or kashruth symbol is placed on a number of products to let those concerned know that they are okay to eat. The most prominent hechsher found on U.S. baby food is the “U” with an “O” around it, the symbol of the group Orthodox Union.</p>
<p>Recently, the Muslim community has gotten into the act, creating a market for Islamic halal (permissible) food, as they too have restrictions regarding food consumption – halal being the Muslim equivalent of kosher. This, though, seems to be more about something other than religious duty, as Jewish dietary laws are more stringent than Muslim ones, rendering kosher food perfectly acceptable to Muslims and halal food entirely unnecessary.</p>
<p>One reason for the existence of halal deals with money. The margin of profit can be great when it comes to the food industry, especially baby food. The other reason seems to be political motivation. Placing Muslim symbols on products is a convenient way to push Islamist culture into non-Muslim American households.</p>
<p>The world’s largest halal food certification company is the Islamic Food and Nutrition Council of America (IFANCA), based in Park Ridge, Illinois, an affluent suburb of Chicago. IFANCA’s symbol, a crescent alongside an “M,” can be found on different baby formulas, including ones made by leading brands Similac and Gerber, their Crescent-M dwarfing the <a href="http://www.ou.org/contact/">O-U kosher hechsher</a> sitting next to it.</p>
<p>Those seeking kosher food – even those seeking halal food – or anyone else who uses these baby food products may be shocked to find out that IFANCA is linked to international terrorism and bigotry.</p>
<p>IFANCA is <a href="http://halalfocus.net/usa-halal-alliances-isna-and-ifanca/">working with the Islamic Society of North America</a> (ISNA) to create a national halal standards and accreditation body. In 2007 and 2008, ISNA, which was co-founded by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) leader Sami al-Arian, was named by the United Sates Justice Department as a co-conspirator in the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas. Just this past September, the Canadian government stripped ISNA of its tax status in Canada for the financing of a Pakistani terrorist group.</p>
<p>IFANCA is an active <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/2ghr9rrkzs5jn5h/CIOGC_Member_Organizations.jpg">member of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago</a> (CIOGC). Other members include: the Mosque Foundation (MF), which has held fundraisers for individuals and groups associated with PIJ and Hamas; Islamic Relief (IR), which has been associated with al-Qaeda financing and that was named by the Israeli government a front for Hamas; Helping Hand (HH), which partnered with a Pakistani charity at the same time that charity delivered close to $100,000 to the residence of the head of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal; and the Muslim American Society (MAS), which has used the internet to propagate materials degrading women, cursing Christians, and calling for the murder of Jews and homosexuals.</p>
<p>IFANCA’s terror and hate-related affiliations are understandable, given the individuals who are in charge of the organization.</p>
<p>Muhammad Munir Chaudry is a Founding Board Member and President of IFANCA. He is listed, along with a photo, on the <a href="http://www.isna.net/speaker-biographies.html">“Speaker” page of ISNA</a>. Sharing the page with him are fellow ISNA speakers: Esam Omeish, who resigned from the Virginia Commission on Immigration, after videos surfaced depicting him calling for violent jihad; Nihad Awad, National Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a reported front for Hamas; Siraj Wahhaj, who was named a party to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; and Zulfiqar Ali Shah, the former South Asia Division Coordinator for KindHearts, a charity whose funds were frozen by the U.S. Treasury Department in February 2006 for its alleged role as a Hamas financier.</p>
<p>Roger Othman is the Executive Director of IFANCA. According to his <a href="http://www.ifanca.org/media/IFANCA%20Biography%20Profiles.pdf">bio found on the IFANCA website</a>, Othman “has served on the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the Mosque Foundation.” As mentioned earlier, MF has been involved in Palestinian terror-related fundraising. In July 2007, one of Othman’s fellow MF Executive Committee alumni, Muhammad Salah, was convicted of obstruction of justice for making false statements during a legal proceeding and was sentenced to 21 months in prison. According to the FBI, Salah was recruiting and training Hamas members and was raising money for Hamas.</p>
<p>Ahmad Hussein Sakr is a member of IFANCA’s Board of Directors and has been with IFANCA since its inception. Prior to IFANCA, he was a <a href="http://www.ahmadsakr.com/bio.html">founding member and president of the Muslim Students Association</a> (MSA), ISNA’s main youth group and the first major Muslim Brotherhood organization inside the U.S. Sakr also served as an officer and sat on the Board of Directors of the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), ISNA’s financing wing. Like ISNA, NAIT was named by the United States government as a co-conspirator to the financing of Hamas. As well, Sakr served as the first director and representative of the Muslim World League (MWL), a group that has reportedly been involved in the funding of Hamas, al-Qaeda and other terrorist outfits.</p>
<p>Sakr is the author of the book, ‘Pork: Possible Reasons for its Prohibition.’ In it, he describes Jews as being cursed, monkey-like, filthy and corrupt. He wrote: “It is known that some of the children of Israel regularly disobeyed Allah and as a result, were cursed. Some of them stagnated spiritually and mentally and hence became idol-worshippers; others lost their mission in life as human beings and became entertainers (if such a term is to be used) like monkeys, apes and chimpanzies [sic], and still others became filthy of mind and body, gluttonous eaters of carnivorous animals, and lived totally a corrupted life as swines [sic].”</p>
<p>Sakr’s book was published in 1993 by Sakr’s group, the Foundation for Islamic Knowledge, and is still in circulation as a paperback. A <a href="http://msa.evansville.edu/PagesForNonMuslims/Dialogue/WhyPorkIsHaram.pdf">copy of the text is located</a> on the website of the MSA at the University of Evansville, Indiana, in a section ironically titled, ‘Pages for Non-Muslims.’</p>
<p>It would make sense for Jews and others to be outraged that such an organization as IFANCA would be able to place its symbol on the packaging of major brand baby formula, let alone get paid to do so, <i>and they are – very well!</i> And it’s not just baby formula. The Crescent-M is found on a number of other types of products, including soups, ice cream, chicken and cheese.</p>
<p>Parents have a choice. They could go with a baby formula that has a terror and bigotry-associated symbol on it, as found on Similac and Gerber products, or they can go with a product that is IFANCA-free, such as Enfamil.</p>
<p>Companies have a choice, too. This author contacted one of them – <a href="https://svcs.abbott.com/abtcontactus/contact.do?">Abbott which makes Similac and PediaSure</a>, a kids’ nutrition supplement which also sports the Crescent-M – and was told that the company only wishes to cater to the Muslim community.</p>
<p>Question: Does catering to Muslims mean having to cater to extremists?</p>
<p>In the case of halal certification, it appears that even baby formula has become a symbol of how violence and bigotry is insinuating itself into the very essence of American family life.</p>
<p><i>Beila Rabinowitz, director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.</i></p>
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		<title>Same ISNA, Same Terror</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2013 05:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISNA Canada loses its tax status because of terrorist financing. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/isba.gif"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-212870" alt="isba" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/isba.gif" width="245" height="244" /></a>The Islamic Society of North America or ISNA, as its name implies, is a function of both the United States and Canada. Given that that is the case, a question might arise as to whether the group operates as two separate entities, one in each of its respective countries, or one single organization. And if the two entities are actually one, if one part has action taken against it regarding a terror-related matter, should not the other suffer the same fate or should it instead be embraced by the government?</p>
<p>In September of this year, following an audit it had done of ISNA, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), an arm of the Canadian government, <a href="http://www.torontosun.com/2013/09/20/islamic-groups-charitable-status-revoked-over-alleged-link-to-terror-organization">stripped the group of its charitable tax status</a>. According to the CRA, ISNA had a “funding arrangement” with the Kashmiri Canadian Council/Kashmiri Relief Fund of Canada, a charity run by Jamaat-e-Islami, which is the largest Islamist group in South Asia.</p>
<p>Jamaat-e-Islami has been associated with terrorist funding before. In August 2006, the group’s main charity, the al-Khidmat Foundation, led a delegation to Damascus, Syria <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/ICNA_Financing_Hamas.html">to hand $6 million rupees ($99,000 U.S.)</a> to the global head of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, at Meshaal’s then-Syrian residence. The delegation delivered a “special message” from Jamaat-e-Islami’s then-Amir (President) Qazi Hussain Ahmad to the Hamas leader. Meshaal thanked them for the gift and said Hamas would continue to wage jihad (war) against Israel.</p>
<p>As well, Jamaat-e-Islami supports the overthrow of the Indian government through its militant wing, Hizbul Mujahideen, an outfit that has been involved in numerous terrorist attacks against Indian troops and civilians alike.</p>
<p>Hizbul Mujahideen became known globally, when reports surfaced showing that it <a href="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/hizbul-mujahideen-owned-hideout-of-osama-in-pak-report/1/137083.html">held ownership of the Pakistani compound</a> where Osama bin Laden was hiding/living and where he later was found/killed. Yet, while Hizbul Mujahideen is considered a terrorist organization by the European Union and India, the U.S. government does not recognize it as such. Nor does the U.S. government recognize any of the other aforementioned groups as terrorist organizations.</p>
<p>And while ISNA has lost its tax status in Canada, the group has only been embraced by the White House. ISNA has boasted about its ability to arrange White House tours and brief White House staff, and highlights from one of ISNA’s conferences are discussed <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/07/07/highlights-islamic-society-north-america-s-48th-annual-convention">right on the White House website</a>.</p>
<p>It wasn’t always like this. Similar to its Canadian counterpart, the U.S. office of ISNA has been implicated in the financing of terrorism.</p>
<p>In 2007 and 2008, ISNA, along with a cadre of other Islamist groups and individuals, was <a href="http://www.nysun.com/national/islamic-groups-named-in-hamas-funding-case/55778/">named by the United States Justice Department</a> as a co-conspirator to two federal trials dealing with the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas. The defendants of the trials were the leaders of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) and HLF itself. In the end, each was found guilty of all charges.</p>
<p>There was good reason for ISNA to be named. For years, since the HLF charity was established in 1987 as the Occupied Land Fund (OLF), the terror group advertised its Plainfield, Indiana mailing address as the same one being used (to this day) by ISNA. ISNA’s main youth group, the Muslim Students Association (MSA), asked for donations to be sent to the address in OLF’s name.</p>
<p>Even now, ISNA places full color, full page ads in its magazine, <i>Islamic Horizons,</i> for Muslim charities associated with terrorism. <a href="http://issuu.com/isnacreative/docs/ih_nov-dec_13">This month’s issue includes ads for:</a></p>
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<li>Helping Hand, a partner organization to Jamaat-e-Islami’s al-Khidmat, at the time when the group traveled to Syria to give the $99,000 to the head of Hamas</li>
<li>Islamic Relief, a former financier of millions of dollars to al-Qaeda-related Chechen rebels and a charity that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2006/may/31/voluntarysector.israel">Israel has labeled a front for Hamas</a></li>
<li>International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), a former financier of a Palestinian Islamic Jihad front and a charity that had its offices raided by the FBI in a March 2002 terror probe</li>
<li>Mercy-USA, a group that has had a number of terror-related individuals serve as board members, including convicted terrorist Abdurahman Alamoudi, and the U.S. office of Mercy International, a charity implicated in the al-Qaeda-perpetrated 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania</li>
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<p>According to ISNA’s main website, the organization has two Vice Presidents, one for the U.S., Azhar Azeez, and one for Canada, Mohamed Bekkari. However, the site <a href="http://www.isna.net/board-of-directors.html">shows that it only has one President</a>, that being Mohamed Magid.</p>
<p>Magid has become dangerously close to the U.S. government, so much so that he has been appointed to a position administered by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), ironically as a member of a working group <a href="http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/hsac_cve_working_group_recommendations.pdf">dealing with “countering violent extremism.”</a></p>
<p>Placing a terror-associated Islamist, as is Magid, in such a position of power could have negative effects on both American national security and American foreign policy. We may not realize how much damage has already been done because of appointments like this.</p>
<p>Canada, for its part, has recognized that Magid’s organization is a threat to society. A sane policy would be for the U.S. to follow suit, as both ISNA Canada and ISNA USA suffer from the identical radical Islamic malady.</p>
<p>Indeed, they are one and the same.</p>
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		<title>CAIR’s Tampa Terror Banquet</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2013 05:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The infamous "civil-rights" organization features terror-related speakers and raises big bucks. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/siraj.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-211912" alt="072408Wahhaj3wf" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/siraj.jpg" width="300" height="300" /></a>When someone linked to the ’93 bombing of the World Trade Center is a featured speaker at a fundraiser sponsored by a group created by Hamas operatives and run by a Hezbollah defender, one could easily surmise that the function described would be taking place in the Middle East. Yet, this event, which was held this past weekend and raised a large amount of money, took place in a major American city, Tampa, Florida.</p>
<p>On the night of Saturday, November 23rd, the Tampa chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Tampa) sponsored a fundraising banquet featuring what should be considered highly controversial figures from the Muslim community. One of these individuals was an imam who goes by the name of Johari Abdul-Malik.</p>
<p>Abdul-Malik is the Outreach Director of Falls Church, Virginia’s Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center. He was brought in to head the mosque, after his predecessor, Anwar al-Awlaki, left the United States to become al-Qaeda’s leader in Yemen. And shortly before <i>Awlaki became the mosque’s imam,</i> Hamas fundraiser Mohammad al-Hanooti held the position. [Today, al-Hanooti is <a href="http://www.daralhijrah.net/ns/?page_id=5153">listed on al-Hijrah’s website as the center’s Mufti</a>.] According to the Investigative Project on Terrorism, al-Hijrah itself has been considered by federal law enforcement officials to be <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/1944/government-pays-mosque-it-considers-radical">a front for Hamas</a>.</p>
<p>Since Abdul-Malik has been employed by al-Hijrah, he has supported and/or defended a number of convicted terrorists. They include: Abdul Rahman al-Amoudi, who was sentenced to 23 years in prison, in part for his role in a plot to assassinate Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah; Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, a former al-Hijrah teacher and camp counselor, who is serving a life prison sentence for providing material support to al-Qaeda and for plotting to assassinate President George W. Bush; and Ali al-Timimi, who received a life prison sentence for instructing his Northern Virginia followers to wage war on the United States.</p>
<p>Another of the <a href="http://www.cairflorida.org/event/banquet9.html#Speakers">featured speakers at CAIR-Tampa’s Saturday banquet</a> was the imam of Brooklyn, New York’s at-Taqwa Mosque, Siraj Wahhaj.</p>
<p>In 1995, Wahhaj was named by the United States government as an “unindicted co-conspirator” for a federal trial dealing with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, an act which resulted in the deaths of six innocent Americans. Wahhaj had been linked to the bomb-maker of the attack, Clement Rodney Hampton-El, and during the trial, he was a character witness for the spiritual leader of the attack, the “Blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, whom Wahhaj has openly praised.</p>
<p>This was not the first time CAIR has brought Wahhaj in as a speaker for one of its affairs, so CAIR’s representatives can’t make the excuse that they didn’t know about his insidious background. Indeed, Wahhaj has spoken at a large number of CAIR events and has previously served as a member of CAIR-National’s Board of Advisers.</p>
<p>In reality, no one can expect CAIR to vet terror-related speakers, when the group itself has been, in large part, associated with terrorism.</p>
<p>CAIR was founded in June 1994 as a part of an umbrella organization led by then-global leader of Hamas, Mousa Abu Marzook. In 2007 and 2008, CAIR was named an “unindicted co-conspirator” by the U.S. Justice Department for two federal trials dealing with the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas. The three original founders of CAIR, one of which is still the national Executive Director, were coming from the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), the then-American propaganda wing of Hamas. CAIR had used its website to raise funds for the then-American financing arm of Hamas, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF).</p>
<p>Hassan Shibly is the Executive Director of CAIR-Tampa. In June 2011, the <i>Tampa Tribune</i> reported on <a href="http://tbo.com/news/new-cair-leader-draws-starkly-different-reactions-240304">previous statements Shibly had made regarding Hezbollah</a>. Shibly had stated that Hezbollah was “basically a resistance movement” and “absolutely not a terrorist organization.” In 1983, Hezbollah perpetrated a suicide attack which resulted in the murders of 241 American troops stationed in Beirut, Lebanon. Today, Hezbollah is involved with the government of Bashar al-Assad in the mass slaughter of Syrian civilians.</p>
<p>CAIR-Tampa’s banquet – deceptively titled ‘Faith in Freedom’ – <a href="http://www.cairflorida.org/blog/thank_you_for_a_successful_banquet.html">according to Shibly, raised over $200,000</a>. With 400 guests attending, that’s over $500 per person.</p>
<p>Terrorism creates fear in itself. That’s its purpose. But the fact that a group associated with such acts of horror could raise so much money inside the United States should put the fear in all of us.</p>
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		<title>CAIR’s Court Jew</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2013 04:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jacob Bender becomes “Executive Director” of the Philadelphia office.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Jacob_Bender.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-207720" alt="Jacob_Bender" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Jacob_Bender.jpg" width="280" height="231" /></a>For the past decade or so, a strange phenomenon has taken place whereby a small group of extreme leftist Jews have willingly aligned themselves with Islamists, mainly out of a common animosity towards the foreign policies of America, Israel and other Western Capitalist societies. These Jews generally function as political pawns and stooges acting against their own best interests, but none of them have gone on to head the Islamist organizations they have teamed with. That is, until now.</p>
<p>On October 15th, the Philadelphia office of the radical Muslim group CAIR put out a press release <a href="http://pa.cair.com/pressrelease/cair-philadelphia-hires-jacob-bender-as-executive-director/">announcing that it had hired Jacob Bender</a>, a left-wing Jewish activist and filmmaker, as its new Executive Director.</p>
<p>Hiring Bender was a public relations win for CAIR. For Bender, he joins a group that, in his estimation, appears to be like-minded, especially on the issue of Israel.</p>
<p>CAIR or the Council on American-Islamic Relations was founded in June 1994 as a part of an umbrella organization led by then-global leader of Hamas, Mousa Abu Marzook. In 2007 and 2008, CAIR was named a co-conspirator by the U.S. Justice Department for two federal trials dealing with the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas. The three original founders of CAIR, one of which is still the national Executive Director, were coming from the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), the then-American propaganda wing of Hamas. CAIR had used its website to raise funds for the then-American financing arm of Hamas, the Holy Land Foundation (HLF).</p>
<p>Jacob Bender, for his part, has spent a good portion of his life denouncing the Jewish state. He blames all problems regarding Palestinians on Israel. <a href="http://myrightword.blogspot.com/2007/10/bender-bends-it-yet-again.html">In one letter to a newspaper</a>, he writes, “The vast settlement project… is only the most visible manifestation of Israel&#8217;s four-decade long rule over Palestinian territory, an occupation that has included torture, political assassination, home demolitions and economic strangulation.”</p>
<p>And what does Bender think about “the growth of terrorism and Islamist extremism” from Israel’s enemies? He blames that on Israel, as well. He writes, <a href="http://myrightword.blogspot.com/2007/03/bend-it-like-bender.html">in another letter</a>, that they are “a direct result of its oppression of the Palestinians.”</p>
<p>One thing he does acknowledge, though, is that there is widespread “antipathy” for Jews throughout the Muslim world. He <a href="http://myrightword.blogspot.com/2007/10/bender-bends-it-yet-again.html">quotes a Pew survey</a> reporting on its findings and saying as such. But that does not give him pause from his blame-Jew-first mentality.</p>
<p>Indeed, the organization he now joins, along with a number of its representatives, has long been associated with anti-Semitism. Even today, CAIR continues to propagate hatred against Jews. On its ‘Explore the Quran’ website, the group features versions of the Quran <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/mingxrosnhtxqlq/Jews-Explore-the-Quran.jpg">that spread the worst of bigotry</a>. In English, the site labels Muslims, who take Jews or Christians as allies, “evildoers.” It refers to Jews as “men who will listen to any lie.” Of Jews and Christians, the site states, “Allah’s curse be on them.”</p>
<p>Previously, CAIR had distributed to libraries across America an English language Quran that had been banned by the Los Angeles public school system for containing numerous anti-Jewish commentaries. The initiative had been funded by Alwaleed bin Talal, a wealthy Saudi who, in April 2002, donated $27 million to a telethon raising money for Palestinian suicide bombers.</p>
<p>Jacob Bender, himself, is no stranger to bin Talal. The <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/8sulr17dfl6myrp/Out_of_Cordoba.jpg">Alwaleed bin Talal Foundation was the top donor</a> to Bender’s anti-Israel “documentary” film, ‘Out of Cordoba.’</p>
<p>Another large donor of the film was the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). In March 2002, IIIT <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/13/AR2006111301205.html">had its Virginia offices raided by the FBI</a> in a probe that targeted over a dozen businesses accused of financing terrorism. One of the groups IIIT was said to have financed was the World and Islam Studies Enterprise (WISE), a now-defunct Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) front run by PIJ leader Sami al-Arian. The raids led to the convictions of two individuals.</p>
<p>Another donor was the Alavi Foundation, an Iranian group that had its Manhattan office tower seized by the United States, last month, in what prosecutors described as the “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/25/realestate/commercial/with-judges-ruling-seizure-of-650-fifth-avenue-grinds-on.html?_r=0">country’s largest-ever terrorism-related forfeiture</a>.” According to prosecutors, the foundation was engaged in money laundering for the government of Iran.</p>
<p>Yet another donor was the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). Like CAIR, ISNA was named a co-conspirator by the Justice Department for two federal trials dealing with the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas. The defendants in the trials were the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) and its officials. For years, since HLF was established in 1987 as the Occupied Land Fund (OLF), the group advertised its Plainfield, Indiana mailing address as the same one being used (to this day) by ISNA. ISNA’s main youth group, the Muslim Students Association (MSA), asked for donations to be sent to the address in OLF’s name.</p>
<p>ISNA took an active role in the <a href="http://interfaith2013.qatarconferences.org/pdf/topic_english/Jacob%20Bender.pdf">distribution of Bender’s film</a>, and former ISNA heads and current ISNA representatives, Muzammil Siddiqi and Sayyid Syeed, acted as advisors to the film.</p>
<p>Jacob Bender was not the first Jew CAIR-Philadelphia was able to exploit. In April 2007, the group featured Rabbi Arthur Waskow, the director of the Philadelphia-based Shalom Center, as a speaker at its first annual banquet. Soon, he would be <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq0_sQOjt2k&amp;list=FL1mjLtZhevxvve0nkt79Z-A">featured on a CAIR-National PSA</a> and would become a contributing writer for CAIR-Los Angeles’s <i>InFocus</i> publication.</p>
<p>However, while Waskow was a willing participant with CAIR’s Islamist operation, Bender has been the only Jew to become an actual leader of the group. It’s a dubious honor, as it furthers a cause that has been built on violence and bigotry against Jews and others, but it’s obviously one that he can live with.</p>
<p>Jacob Bender can sleep well with the pride of being a useful idiot for a terror front.</p>
<p><i>Beila Rabinowitz, director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.</i></p>
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<p><em>Don&#8217;t miss <strong>Jamie Glazov&#8217;s</strong> video interview with <b>Steven Emerson </b>on The Sordid World of CAIR: <strong><br />
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		<title>Obituary for a Beloved Egyptian Terror Supporter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 04:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amir Bedier’s death wish finally becomes a reality.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/gh1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-201536" alt="gh" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/gh1.jpg" width="280" height="158" /></a>Few outside of Egypt and <i>FrontPage Magazine</i> readership know the name Amir Bedier. Any knowledge of this man, save for his family, is by extension of his two semi-famous brothers, Ahmed, a Muslim activist based in Florida, and Osama, a once high-ranking executive of Paypal and Google. This past week, though, Amir finally made the network news, but unless there were any television sets in hell, he probably wasn’t able to watch.</p>
<p>Amir Bedier had already escaped death once. He was shot in the face outside Egypt’s presidential palace, during the aftermath of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. An x-ray taken of his head showed the bullet lodged in his neck.</p>
<p>Of the incident, his brother Ahmed wrote, “Last night my younger brother Amir was shot in the head outside the presidential palace… He went there, not to protest, but to help the injured… When we asked him who he thinks shot him, he did not blame opponents or supporters of [Mohamed] Morsi… WHEN THE MEDIA CAME TO INTERVIEW HIM TODAY AT THE HOSPITAL, because he was the only critically shot but survived, he refused to see them. Because he does not want the media to use his story to fuel more hate. Amir represents the good people of Egypt, the heroes. I’m proud of him…”</p>
<p>In reading Ahmed’s kind words about his brother, one might come away thinking that Amir Bedier was a courageous man with an altruistic soul. But when they discover who the real Amir Bedier was and what he supported, there can be no mistaking him for anything good or generous. Indeed, Amir Bedier was a follower of al-Qaeda.</p>
<p>Evidence of this was revealed on his Facebook page, when a little over three months ago, Amir changed his Facebook profile picture to that of the founder of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden. He soon <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/8dbxp0l8k3qsg3z/Amir_Bedier_profile_pics.jpg">followed that up by changing the picture to that of Abdullah Azzam</a>, the deceased mentor of bin Laden who is known as the father of global jihad.</p>
<p>Following an <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/joe-kaufman/ahmed-bediers-egyptian-family-jihad/">article written by this author about Amir and his family’s extremism</a>, Amir changed the profile name of his Facebook site but kept all the old material. The new name of the site was/is “Accountant Ma,” which is his profession and what seems to be a much less extreme alter ego. As well, he changed his profile picture from Azzam to that of one featuring Mohamed Morsi, who had been removed from power by the Egyptian military only days earlier.</p>
<p>Morsi, apart from being a President of Egypt, was a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, a worldwide jihadist movement whose headquarters happens to be located in the capital of Egypt, Cairo. While serving as President, Morsi and his fellow Islamists in power instituted Sharia law, which, to the dismay of many secular and Christian Egyptians, moved Egypt towards becoming an Islamic state. This, in turn, brought massive protests, which culminated in Morsi’s removal.</p>
<p>Amir would use his Facebook page to promote Brotherhood protests and to post Brotherhood communiques. As well, he posted gruesome photos to his site, including that of dead bodies and a young boy with his arm torn off.</p>
<p>He did this up until the afternoon of August 14, when he was shot and killed by Egyptian police at Nasr City’s Rabaa al-Adawiya Square, which is considered to be the epicenter of the pro-Morsi protest camp.</p>
<p>According to his brother Ahmed, Amir had been attending protests at Rabaa for the past month. He would do his accounting job during the day and join the demonstrations at night. According to Ahmed, on the day Amir died, he had been protesting since early in the morning. He had left to see his wife around 1:00 pm, after sustaining injuries. He later went back to protest and was <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/115gz5ials5l3zd/Amir_Bedier_dead_neck.jpg">shot and killed soon after, ironically in the neck</a>, where the other bullet remained.</p>
<p>Ahmed and his parents discovered the body at the local mosque, amongst possibly 200 other bodies. A video shows the father, Mostafa, who is himself a supporter of the Brotherhood and Sharia law, <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/9ljtfjekv36dj2l/Mostafa_%26_Ahmed_Bedier_pita.jpg">give Ahmed what appears to be a pita bread to eat</a> as they stand by the lifeless body. Prior to the body arriving at the mosque, Amir had been left in the street by his fellow protesters to die, according to Ahmed, for twelve hours.</p>
<p>Both Osama and Ahmed described the protests Amir took part in as strictly peaceful ones; Ahmed labeled them sit-ins. Question: How do you call something “peaceful,” when it is being organized by a terrorist organization?</p>
<p>According to the BBC, “Before the security forces attacked, many Muslim Brotherhood supporters talked about martyrdom,” so they were more than ready to give up their lives. And when these “sit-ins” were dispersed by police, the protesters went on a rampage, attacking police stations and burning down dozens of area churches and Christian-owned shops, some of which had been marked previously by pro-Morsi forces with red graffiti.</p>
<p>Two days later, the Brotherhood called for a ‘Day of Rage,’ where many more lives were lost.</p>
<p>Today, the profile picture on Amir Bedier’s Facebook site is that of <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/b8s8fd42cnx2mnx/Amir_Bedier_dead_profile.jpg">himself post-mortem in a white shroud</a>. He’ll be remembered by his Islamist family, who distort reality and cannot describe him in anything except glowing terms, painting Amir as a saint. But to the rest of the world that knows the truth, he’ll be nothing more than just another dead bin Laden-supporting jihadi.</p>
<p><i>Beila Rabinowitz, director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.</i></p>
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		<title>NY Jets Player Speaks at Extreme Anti-Israel Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 04:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is Oday Aboushi associating with terrorism supporters and anti-Semites? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Oday-Aboushi-playercard.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-196216" alt="Oday-Aboushi-playercard" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Oday-Aboushi-playercard-450x342.jpg" width="270" height="205" /></a>Oday Aboushi has been touted as being the first Palestinian-American player in the National Football League (NFL), but his radical behavior since being drafted by the New York Jets less than three months ago could get him sent home early. His latest infraction was made as he gave a speech at a radical Muslim conference sponsored by a group denying Israel’s right to exist and associated with blatantly anti-Semitic and terrorist propaganda.</p>
<p>When the New York Jets chose Offensive Lineman Oday Aboushi in the fifth round of the 2013 NFL draft, they did so because of Aboushi’s athletic skills. It seems, though, that his personal life was not a consideration, at least not enough to stop the team from picking him. Problems in the NFL usually revolve around drugs or alcohol abuse or players being bad influences in the locker rooms. Aboushi’s problem is an unusual one for pro sports. He’s a Muslim extremist.</p>
<p>In January, Aboushi posted a photo to his personal Twitter page <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/dfjk2xh6etk2gmx/Oday_Aboushi_old_woman_anti-semitic_photo.jpg">depicting an old woman looking down</a> while three clearly Orthodox Jews converse with one another in the background. The photo, which is attributed to the anti-Israel publication Middle East Monitor (MEM), was part of a large-scale smear campaign against the Jewish state. The caption over Aboushi’s tweet reads, “88 year-old Palestinian evicted from home in Jerusalem by Israel authorities to make room 4 Orthodox Jews.”</p>
<p>Aboushi might have gotten the idea to post the propaganda from his relative, Fatina Abuzahrieh, who also grew up in and resides in New York City. In November of last year, Abuzahrieh posted on her Facebook page a shockingly <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/uh8xwdu6mlmir56/Fatina_Abuzahrieh_Oday_Aboushi_anti-Jewish_cartoon.jpg">anti-Semitic cartoon portraying an evil looking Orthodox Jew</a> with a huge smile on his face, wearing an Israeli flag across his chest, and an old Palestinian woman looking down, crying, claiming to be “thrown out” of her “own home.”</p>
<p>From there, Aboushi’s conduct has continued to get more extreme.</p>
<p>On April 19th, just one week prior to the draft, Aboushi <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/cy8f70fbsakwu1m/Oday_Aboushi_Islamic-Relief.jpg">praised a conference sponsored by Islamic Relief</a> (IR), a charity that the Israeli government has labeled a front for Hamas and that has been cited for both receiving and giving huge sums of money to al-Qaeda related groups.</p>
<p>Only weeks after the draft, Aboushi tweeted the following: “<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/krl4qsnkde2h5kf/Nakba_Oday_Aboushi.jpg">65th anniversary of the Nakba</a> and palestinians all across the world are still thriving.” For persons unaware of the term “Nakba,” the statement might seem innocuous, but for those who care about Israel, the term is a very dangerous and provocative one. The Nakba or Catastrophe is a derogatory reference to Israel’s May 1948 founding as an independent Jewish state. It is used to spread enmity against Israel and to fuel terrorist attacks from groups like Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).</p>
<p>Lest anyone believe this was an honest misunderstanding on Aboushi’s part, Aboushi solidified his extreme anti-Israelism late last month when he was a featured speaker at a conference run by an organization which denies Israel’s existence and associates with those involved in violence against her citizens.</p>
<p>According to the group sponsoring the event, “El-Bireh Palestine Society was founded to perpetuate the strong ties among its members and to link their communities around the world together and with their ancestral roots in El-Bireh, Palestine.” One of the ways the group accomplishes this is by holding annual conferences.</p>
<p>Speaking at the Society’s <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/5fzncde8kfafe4c/Fouad_Rafeedie_El-Bireh_Palestine_Society.jpg">August 1986 Fifth National Convention</a> held in Dearborn, Michigan was Fouad Rafeedie. Two years later, the INS charged Rafeedie with being a high-ranking member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a terrorist group. The PFLP is currently named as such on the U.S. State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Also speaking was Osama Siblani, the publisher of Arab American News (Sada al-Watan) and a public supporter of Hezbollah and Hamas.</p>
<p>The three-day El-Bireh Convention 2013 (&#8220;Connect 2013&#8243;) began this past June 28thin Arlington, Virginia. Featured as a speaker at the event was Oday Aboushi. Also participating in the conference was Nitham Hasan, the President of the Islamic Center of South Florida (ICOSF). ICOSF’s mosque property is <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/uexe7l7nr56fl38/ICOSF_NAIT_3.jpg">owned by the North American Islamic Trust</a> (NAIT), a group named by the U.S. Justice Department as being a party to the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas.</p>
<p>El-Bireh Palestine Society’s logo, found atop the organization’s website, contains a graphic of the <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/c5owt1ef4tau7re/El-Bireh_Convention_Oday_Aboushi_speaker.jpg">entire nation of Israel covered in a Palestinian flag</a> – a patent denial of Israel’s legitimacy and right to exist. Like Aboushi’s Nakba, images such as this fuel terrorism and hate abroad and potentially here at home as well. Worse still, the <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/pq3igq4v4y8fxdj/El-Bireh_Convention_2013_Facebook_page.jpg">Facebook page for the conference</a> – which is administered by the same individual who created the Society’s website, Ashraf Abed – is accompanied by horrifically anti-Semitic, anti-Christian and terrorist propaganda.</p>
<p>On the same El-Bireh Facebook site as the conference, there are contained different <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/wboi7hxbjraz7rr/Hitler_Deedat_El-Bireh_Facebook.jpg">images of Hitler</a> and rabid anti-Christian cleric Ahmed Deedat, who authored the infamous work <i>CRUCIFIXION OR CRUCI-FICTION?</i> There are <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/yctrkg8naes6m9t/Rantisi_Yassin_Arafat_Ayyash_PRC_El-Bireh_Facebook.jpg">terrorist memorials for Hamas leader Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi</a>, PLO leader Yasser Arafat, Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin and Hamas bomb maker Yahya Ayyash. About Arafat and Yassin, the site states in Arabic, “The martyr leader Yasser Arafat with the Mujahid Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. G-d have mercy on them.”</p>
<p>As well, there are a number of pictures of the imprisoned head of the PFLP, Ahmad Saadat, and a photo <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/yctrkg8naes6m9t/Rantisi_Yassin_Arafat_Ayyash_PRC_El-Bireh_Facebook.jpg">glorifying members of the Popular Resistance Committees</a> (PRC) in the process of launching rockets into Israel. There is also a photo of Oday Aboushi’s friend, Linda Sarsour, the Executive Director of the Arab American Association of New York (AAANY), and a picture of four individuals <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/x693d6zu3khc3ib/American_Flag_Stomp_El-Bireh.jpg">stomping on an American flag</a>, which they pulled down from atop a sign.</p>
<p>Following the conference, Aboushi tweeted, “<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/95tt4ek7ozh854b/El-Bireh_Convention_Oday_Aboushi_tweet.jpg">Al bireh convention was a pleasure.</a> Proud Palestinians is always a good sight.”</p>
<p>It is okay to be proud of one’s heritage. Few, if any, would disagree. But what is not okay is when the heritage that you are praising instills hatred and violence in its followers and threatens and brings terror to the lives of others. It is apparent that that is exactly what the organization Oday Aboushi spoke in front of believes.</p>
<p><b>What will the Jets do?</b></p>
<p>In a <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/joe-kaufman/new-york-jets-draft-pick-tweets-against-israel/">previous article</a>, this author detailed the extremist ties and behavior of football player Oday Aboushi, which resulted in Aboushi <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/3sfwnltre1aiy19/Mohamed_Mabrouk_missing_fr_Oday_Aboushi_Likes.jpg">removing material from his Facebook site</a>. Yet, to this day, the New York Jets have ignored the actions of their Islamist draft pick, only to see his behavior get worse. So far, the team has appeared to put Aboushi’s athletic ability over his ties to Muslim fanaticism. This author, however, believes that the Jets have much more to worry about than whether or not Aboushi can create holes in the opposing team’s defense or if he can provide protection for the quarterback.</p>
<p>Given the actions he continues to engage in and the dangerous persons and groups he chooses to surround himself with, the Jets must change the game plan they originally had when they took Oday Aboushi in the 2013 NFL Draft and release this player. In the end, those individuals Aboushi truly wishes to protect may very well be the ones we have to worry about the most.</p>
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<p><i>Beila Rabinowitz, director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.</i></p>
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		<title>Ahmed Bedier’s al-Qaeda Family Stain Removal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 04:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ahmed and his brother Amir delete web pages pointing to their love affair with terror. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/amir.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-193253" alt="amir" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/amir-313x350.jpg" width="313" height="350" /></a>On December 5, 2012, Amir Bedier, a Cairo accountant, was shot in the face outside the Egyptian presidential palace. His older brother, Ahmed, a Muslim activist from Florida, lauded him as a hero for risking his life to help others. Unfortunately for him, the man he was spinning as a hero is a follower of Osama bin Laden. When the <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/joe-kaufman/ahmed-bediers-egyptian-family-jihad/">information about this was exposed</a>, within days, the two moved to delete the evidence. Yet, thanks to computer screenshots of the offenses and a need for the public to be educated on the matter, the information lives on.</p>
<p>Both Amir Bedier and Ahmed Bedier spent at least part of their childhoods in the United States. While their father worked on his PhD at the University of Oregon in Corvallis, the siblings stayed in the area going to local schools. Amir’s photo is shown on Corvallis’ <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/7oxoc9jygnyeu6k/Adams_Elementary_School_Amir_Bedier.jpg">Adams Elementary School graduating class of 1986 – 1987</a>. Ahmed’s name is found on a web page devoted to swim team record-holders for Corvallis High School (He set his record in 1989).</p>
<p>The atmosphere in Corvallis, Oregon was as far from radical Islam as possible. According to Sperling’s Best Places, only <a href="http://www.bestplaces.net/religion/city/oregon/corvallis">.36% of the population of Corvallis practices Islam</a> today. As Bedier brother Osama Bedier quipped about <i>his</i> early life in Corvallis, “I felt like the only Egyptian there.”</p>
<p>The lack of a significant Islamic infrastructure did not stop Ahmed and Amir Bedier from becoming radicalized in the future, however.</p>
<p>After a stint as Outreach Director of a radical mosque, the <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=6125">Islamic Society of Pinellas County</a>, Ahmed Bedier became involved with the terror-related group CAIR.</p>
<p>CAIR or the Council on American-Islamic Relations was created as a division of global Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook’s American Palestine Committee. In 2007 and 2008, CAIR was named by the U.S. Justice Department as a party to the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas. CAIR had <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/cw/hlf&amp;grf_cw.htm">used its national website to raise funds</a> for the Hamas charity Holy Land Foundation (HLF) and the al-Qaeda charity Global Relief Foundation (GRF). Bedier served as the Communications Director of CAIR-Florida and the Executive Director of CAIR-Tampa.</p>
<p>As he began his career with CAIR, Ahmed Bedier would as well become the unofficial <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/releases/PR-BedierPIJ.htm">spokesman for terrorist Sami al-Arian</a>. Al-Arian had co-founded and was the North American leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), an organization that targets Israeli civilians with suicide and rocket attacks and has also been responsible for the deaths of Americans. After a long, drawn-out trial, al-Arian was sentenced to prison for his involvement in the terror group.</p>
<p>Today, Ahmed Bedier is a <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/og5fqamzw1bvfsr/Ahmed_Bedier_Islamic_Relief.jpg">Florida events coordinator for Islamic Relief</a> (IR). In May 2006, Israel labeled IR a front for Hamas, after arresting the group’s Gaza program manager, Ayaz Ali, for providing “funds and assistance to various Hamas institutions and organizations.” Ali admitted that he had cooperated with local Hamas operatives.</p>
<p>In 1999, Islamic Relief collected and sent more than $6 million to Chechen rebels with ties to al-Qaeda. The same year, IR received $50,000 from Human Concern International (HCI), a charity that the U.S. Department of Treasury described as a “bin Laden front.” Shortly after the September 11 attacks, IR was investigated by the Treasury Department as a “<a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2001/nov/04/news/mn-79/2">possible source of funding for al-Qaeda</a> and other terrorist organizations.”</p>
<p>Last December, his brother Amir Bedier was shot in the face outside the executive office of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. It was an area where many clashes between police and anti-Mubarak rioters had taken place.</p>
<p>Ahmed Bedier, who had flown to Egypt to join in the revolution against Mubarak, <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/39mwa71xuas8kc5/Amir_Bedier_shot_bullet_Ahmed_Bedier.jpg">created a graphic of the incident</a>, containing a photo of a smiling Amir, an x-ray of the bullet that was lodged in his neck, and an illustration of a person depicting where the bullet entered and where it now remains.</p>
<p>Along with the graphic, <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/39mwa71xuas8kc5/Amir_Bedier_shot_bullet_Ahmed_Bedier.jpg">Ahmed praised his brother</a>, writing, “Last night my younger brother Amir was shot in the head outside the presidential palace… He went there, not to protest, but to help the injured… When we asked him who he thinks shot him, he did not blame opponents or supporters of [Mohamed] Morsi… WHEN THE MEDIA CAME TO INTERVIEW HIMTODAY AT THE HOSPITAL, because he was the only critically shot but survived, he refused to see them. Because he does not want the media to use his story to fuel more hate. Amir represents the good people of Egypt, the heroes. I’m proud of him…”</p>
<p>Another brother, Ashraf Bedier, posted a gruesome picture of Amir looking near-dead with blood flowing from his eye, calling him the “<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/7xsn4yk0na458sm/Ashraf_Bedier_Amir_Bedier_shot_bullet.jpg">most peaceful person U’ll meet</a>.”</p>
<p>The kind words from his brothers were put into question, when, relating to the injury, another member of the family, Reham Bedeer, <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/1nef5r4mt1j9anv/Reham_Bedeer_Amir_Bedier_Lord_forgive_him.jpg">sought forgiveness for Amir</a> for something he had done and may have <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/yqhphcxd3qirt41/Reham_Bedeer_Amir_Bedier_shot_bullet.jpg">believed he committed an act of “evil.”</a></p>
<p>It turns out Amir Bedier – the man who Ahmed called a “hero” and Ashraf described as “peaceful” – has a lot to be forgiven for, as he has been a public supporter of al-Qaeda.</p>
<p>At least, <i>he was public about it.</i> <b>Now, the web page where the information was located is gone.</b></p>
<p>In May 2013, Amir Bedier <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/c8l94n7o27dpraz/Amir_Bedier_Osama_bin_Laden_Abdullah_Azzam.jpg">posted photos of Osama bin Laden and his mentor, Abdullah Azzam</a>, on his Facebook page. He used one of the photos of bin Laden and, later, the photo of Azzam as his Facebook profile picture.</p>
<p>His Facebook friends included many of the members of his family as well as individuals who <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/8esi4fnjo9g05q1/Amir_Bedier_friend_Mohamed_Arafa_Hitler.jpg">posted offensive pictures of Adolf Hitler</a> and, like Amir, photos of al-Qaeda leaders.</p>
<p>Three days after this author put out a story regarding this information for <i>FrontPage Magazine,</i> titled ‘All in the Islamist-CAIR Family,’ Amir Bedier’s entire Facebook site was deleted. It now has been replaced with the following note: “<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/5y27hdgoisck6fn/Deleted_Facebook_Amir_Bedier.jpg">Sorry, this page isn’t available</a>. The link you followed may be broken, or the page may have been removed.”</p>
<p>The precise reason why he removed his Facebook page is unknown. It may have been due to pressure from the family. Maybe it was out of concern about him being prevented from international travel. He has lived in Saint Petersburg, Florida, where his brother Ahmed makes his home. Or possibly it was for business considerations. <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/an306tgr3nwdwti/LinkedIn_Amir_Bedier_OEX_Outsourcing_CCA_Firm.jpg">According to Amir’s LinkedIn page</a>, he is currently associated with two corporations located in Cairo, OEX Outsourcing Experts and CCA Firm: Consultants &amp; Chartered Accountants. Bedier claims to be a “Partner” at both.</p>
<p>Amir wasn’t the only one to delete information. Ahmed Bedier <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/74af5dll7l1no1a/Deleted_Facebook_Ahmed_Bedier.jpg">deleted the graphic he created</a> for his brother.</p>
<p>Regardless of why the Bedier brothers destroyed this evidence, the public has a right to know its contents. This is to protect current members of society from those who would look to do them harm, and it should serve as a wake-up call to future generations about Islamist intentions.</p>
<p>For the Bedier brothers, their mission to corrupt future generations has begun, as witnessed recently when Ahmed Bedier <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/4yppw3xhxm92xjt/Ahmed_Bedier_son_Palestine_brainwashing.jpg">dressed his young son, Malek, in extremist Palestinian garb</a> and protested side-by-side with him. He called it “on the job training” – working hard to see that the radical Bedier legacy lives on.</p>
<p><i>Joe Kaufman is an expert in the fields of counter-terrorism, foreign affairs and energy independence for America. He has been featured on all major cable networks, including Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and C-SPAN. Kaufman has served as a consultant to different government agencies, and he has been instrumental in getting U.S.-based terrorist charities shut down and terror-related individuals put behind bars. Exactly one month prior to the September 11 attacks, Kaufman predicted the attacks by stating that the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was not an aberration and that it would happen again.<br />
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<p><i>Beila Rabinowitz, director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.</i></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 04:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Ahmed Bedier’s Egyptian family jihad.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Amir-Bedier.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-191415" alt="Amir Bedier" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Amir-Bedier-450x337.jpg" width="315" height="236" /></a>When war broke out in Egypt, in January 2011, U.S. Muslim activist Ahmed Bedier knew he had to get involved. Revolution in Egypt was in his DNA, passed down to him and his brothers by his Islamist father. While Bedier attempts to whitewash his and his family’s extremism – and the mainstream media has generally given him a pass – the truth must now be told, including the truth about his al-Qaeda supporting sibling.</p>
<p>Ahmed Mostafa Bedier – the middle name is from his father, Mostafa – <a href="http://www.sptimes.com/2005/11/16/Tampabay/Trying_to_teach__not_.shtml">moved to the United States from Egypt when he was eight years old</a>, spending his youth in both Indiana and Oregon. When his parents relocated back to Egypt, he elected to remain, as he had gotten used to secular American society.</p>
<p>In time, Bedier headed south to sunny Florida, where he came to be somewhat of a financial success, purchasing real estate, shopping at upscale stores, and driving a fancy BMW.</p>
<p>Around 2000, though, Bedier’s life began to shift dramatically. He became an observant Muslim and <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=6125">started hanging out at a radical mosque</a>, the Islamic Society of Pinellas County (ISPC). By his description, he traded his car for the Quran. He took a position as Outreach Director for the mosque and used it as a stepping stone to become the Communications Director of the Florida office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a group with strong ties to Hamas.</p>
<p>Coinciding with his new job at CAIR, Bedier got involved in the well-publicized case of terrorist Sami al-Arian, <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=8217">becoming al-Arian’s unofficial spokesman in the media</a>. Al-Arian was a co-founder and the North American leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), an organization that targets Israeli civilians with suicide and rocket attacks and has also been responsible for the deaths of Americans. After a long, drawn-out trial, al-Arian was sentenced to prison for his involvement in the terror group.</p>
<p>During a December 2005 television interview of Bedier, when asked if he believed al-Arian’s involvement with PIJ was immoral, Bedier notoriously answered, “To a certain degree. Now, <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/releases/PR-BedierPIJ.htm">before 1995, there was nothing immoral about it</a>.” This, while prior to 1995, PIJ took credit for five terrorist attacks – attacks which resulted in the murders of eight innocent people.</p>
<p>Today, Bedier is a <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/og5fqamzw1bvfsr/Ahmed_Bedier_Islamic_Relief.jpg">Florida events coordinator for Islamic Relief</a> (IR). In May 2006, Israel labeled IR a front for Hamas, after arresting the group’s Gaza program manager, Ayaz Ali, for providing “<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2006/may/31/voluntarysector.israel">funds and assistance to various Hamas institutions and organizations</a>.” Ali admitted that he had cooperated with local Hamas operatives.</p>
<p>One of the IR events Bedier was involved with was a December 2011 benefit dinner and concert titled ‘Songs for the Children.’ <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/3z78ote73dtsg6l/Kifah_Mustapha_Islamic_Relief.jpg">Speaking at the event was Kifah Mustapha</a>, a Chicago-area imam who was named a co-conspirator by the U.S. Justice Department for two federal trials dealing with the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas. The Mosque Foundation, the center Mustapha is affiliated with, itself, has been a <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0402080265feb08,0,6712137,full.story">hub for Palestinian terror-related activity</a>.</p>
<p>No doubt, much of Ahmed Bedier’s life has centered around individuals and groups seeking to do harm to Israel, so when the opportunity arose to throw Israel’s peace partner, Hosni Mubarak, and the rest of his cabinet out of power in Bedier’s birthplace, Bedier couldn’t wait to hop on a plane to assist.</p>
<p>January 25, 2011 <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/25/mubarak-faces-egypt-prote_n_813572.html">marked the “Day of Rage” in Egypt</a>, when thousands of young Egyptians took to the streets to riot and call for the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Muslims from around the world, including members of terrorist organizations, traveled to Egypt to join in the violence.</p>
<p>Ahmed Bedier has a number of family members in Egypt, including his parents, but that’s not why he was there in February 2011. He openly stated on his Tampa radio show, <i>True Talk,</i> in March of that year, “I went to Egypt for the revolution…” And he got what he wanted – the fall of Mubarak.</p>
<p>To mark the end of the Mubarak regime, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the global Muslim Brotherhood, the main group opposing Mubarak, traveled to Cairo to give a Friday sermon to the revolutionaries.</p>
<p>Qaradawi’s presence was a powerful statement in itself, as he had been banned from entering Egypt for the past three decades. Currently he is banned from entering the U.S. and England. According to <i>The New York Times,</i> over one million people packed Tahrir Square to hear his speech, including his prayer for <a href="http://www.memri.org/report/en/print5020.htm">the re-conquest of Jerusalem by the Muslims</a>. Ahmed Bedier was a witness to it, as he broadcast his radio show live from the event.</p>
<p>On an undated video found on Bedier’s Facebook site, Bedier is <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/oyp2c98wonpun4k/Keith_Ellison_Ahmed_Bedier_Tahrir_Square_Egypt.jpg">standing with U.S. Representative Keith Ellison</a> next to a crowd – also in Tahrir Square – while an elderly man in a baseball cap recites a poem about the revolution. It makes sense for Ellison to be at an event such as this, as he has regularly participated at various radical Muslim functions, including speaking engagements at conferences sponsored by the Minnesota chapter of the Muslim American Society (MAS-Minnesota), at the same time the group was propagating <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/MAS_Statements.htm">material on its website praising Hamas and calling for the murder of Jews</a>.</p>
<p>Bedier’s younger brother, Abdellatif, accompanied Ahmed on his trip and acted as his cameraman. A <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/mt7mpxlvam5lchj/Ahmed_Bedier_Amir_Bedier_Abdellatif_Bedier.jpg">picture of Abdellatif along with Ahmed and two other brothers on a boat</a> can be found on Abdellatif’s Facebook page.</p>
<p>One of those brothers, Amir, became very involved in Egypt’s turmoil, so much so that he wound up getting shot in the face outside Mubarak’s executive office, where many clashes between police and rioters took place.</p>
<p>Ahmed Bedier <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/39mwa71xuas8kc5/Amir_Bedier_shot_bullet_Ahmed_Bedier.jpg">created a graphic of the event</a>, containing a photo of a smiling Amir, an x-ray of the bullet that was lodged in his neck, and an illustration of a person depicting where the bullet entered and where it now remains. One of Ahmed’s relatives, Reham Bedeer, posted the same graphic to her Facebook page, <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/yqhphcxd3qirt41/Reham_Bedeer_Amir_Bedier_shot_bullet.jpg">appending to it a gruesome photo of Amir</a> lying near-dead on a hospital gurney with blood flowing from his eye.</p>
<p>In recounting the incident, Ahmed Bedier portrayed his brother as a saintly man. He wrote, “Last night my younger brother Amir was shot in the head outside the presidential palace&#8230; He went there, not to protest, but to help the injured… When we asked him who he thinks shot him, he did not blame opponents or supporters of [Mohamed] Morsi… WHEN THE MEDIA CAME TO INTERVIEW HIM TODAY AT THE HOSPITAL, because he was the only critically shot but survived, he refused to see them. Because he does not want the media to use his story to fuel more hate. Amir represents the good people of Egypt, the heroes. I&#8217;m proud of him&#8230;”</p>
<p>Brother Ashraf Bedier called him the “<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/7xsn4yk0na458sm/Ashraf_Bedier_Amir_Bedier_shot_bullet.jpg">most peaceful person U’ll meet</a>.”</p>
<p>However, just as he has many times in the past, when he’s labeled himself a “civil rights advocate,” Ahmed Bedier was not being honest about his brother. The truth is, Ahmed’s brother, Amir Bedier – the individual Ahmed said he’s proud of and the man Ashraf said is “peaceful” – is a follower of al-Qaeda.</p>
<p>Ahmed’s “hero”  brother, <i>just this month,</i> posted to his Facebook page <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/c8l94n7o27dpraz/Amir_Bedier_Osama_bin_Laden_Abdullah_Azzam.jpg">pictures of Osama bin Laden and bin Laden’s mentor, Abdullah Azzam</a>. In fact, he changed his profile picture from one of him as a youngster playing with his brother Abdellatif to that of bin Laden. Now, his profile photo is that of Azzam.</p>
<p>One of Amir Bedier’s Facebook friends, Mohamed Arafa, ‘Liked’ Amir’s bin Laden posting. Arafa, who claims to be located in New York City, posted a bin Laden picture to his own Facebook page, stating about it in Arabic, “G-d’s mercy be upon you, oh Arab Sheikh, oh Emir of the Mujahideen, Sword of Islam.” He also posted a graphic of a bleeding red Star of David with the caption, “The World’s Leading Terrorist – Israel,” stating about it, “<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/8esi4fnjo9g05q1/Amir_Bedier_friend_Mohamed_Arafa_Hitler.jpg">Let’s go guys kill those M****F****</a>.” And he posted different pictures of Hitler, one with the following quote, “I killed half the Jews and left the other half for you to discover why I killed the first.”</p>
<p>Another friend of Amir’s, Karim Gamal, posted <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/psxy2hrkhvockgg/Amir_Bedier_friend_Karim_Gamal_bin_Laden_Zawahiri.jpg">photos of bin Laden and current leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri</a>, to <i>his</i> Facebook page. And he used one of the bin Laden photos for his profile pic.</p>
<p>Yet another Facebook friend of Amir Bedier ironically goes by the name Osama but does not seem to have any affiliation with al-Qaida. It is Amir’s brother, Osama Bedier.</p>
<p>Like his older brother Ahmed, Osama <a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/1588671/whos-next-osama-bedier">came to the United States with his parents when he was a kid</a>, and like Ahmed, when his parents went back to Egypt, he decided he wanted to keep the U.S. as his home. He created an internet networking and website development company with Ahmed – with two locations. Ahmed ran the main operation out of Tampa Bay, Florida, and Osama ran the sister office out of California, where he had settled and where he currently lives.</p>
<p>When Ahmed became radicalized, the company was abandoned. However, Osama stuck with the computing field, going to work for PayPal and then Google, where he just this month <a href="http://www.mainstreet.com/article/smart-spending/technology/google-wallet-rip">was ousted from his job</a> after his Google Wallet creation had been deemed a failure. His departure from PayPal wasn’t on a positive note either, as PayPal had sued him for allegedly divulging “trade secrets” to Google.</p>
<p>Osama Bedier’s main focus may be computers, but he still has very strong views when it comes to his heritage. This past April, days after the Boston Marathon bombing, following the killing of bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the capture of suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Osama callously tweeted, “Study: Threat of Muslim-American terrorism in U.S. exaggerated” along with a link to the January 2010 article discussing the more-than-three-year-old study. Not one mention of the bombers or victims was made by Bedier.</p>
<p>On the day Hosni Mubarak stepped down as leader of Egypt, February 11, 2011, Osama Bedier, in his excitement, tweeted, “Welcome back [E]gypt, back on the road [to] your historic glory” and “<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/ghymm18ek0e0hfy/Osama_Bedier_Boston_Marathon_Bombing_Egyptian_Revolution.jpg">So happy for the people’s revolution in my homeland</a>.”</p>
<p>The revolution Osama Bedier was talking about <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/world/middleeast/25egypt.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=2&amp;hp">was being led by the Muslim Brotherhood</a> (mentioned earlier), an Islamist movement whose headquarters is located in Cairo, where the Bediers were born. For many Muslims, an Egypt ruled by Islam is the only preferred choice, even if the ruling group is a terrorist organization.</p>
<p>The extremist attitudes and actions of the Bedier brothers were passed down to them by the patriarch of the family, their father Mostafa.</p>
<p>When his son Ahmed created a graphic of Egyptian presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq speaking with then-President Hosni Mubarak with the caption, “NO TO AHMAD SHAFIQ – Because a vote for Shafiq is a vote against the Revolution,” Mostafa placed it on his Facebook page and, <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/7zn1dubhl1g008q/Mostafa_Bedier_Ahmad_Shafiq_Choose_Sharia.jpg">above it in Arabic, wrote, “Choose Sharia.”</a></p>
<p>Sharia is the moral code and religious law of Islam. It can be interpreted to include such acts of brutality as the chopping off of limbs, the beating of disobedient wives, the stoning of suspected adulterers, and the throwing of homosexuals from tall buildings. Because of its violent nature, Sharia law has been deemed incompatible with democratic society and Western values, and this has caused some U.S. lawmakers to work to pass legislation banning it from being applied in American courts in cases involving Muslims.</p>
<p>Ahmed Bedier has been one of the leaders in the fight against such legislation, but given his Islamist background we can understand why.</p>
<p>To the joy of Ahmed Bedier and his Islamist father Mostafa, Ahmed Shafiq would lose his election to Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi. Since then, Morsi and his government allies <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/30/world/middleeast/panel-drafting-egypts-constitution-prepares-quick-vote.html?ref=world&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0">passed a new Egyptian Constitution</a>, which in fact did include Sharia law.</p>
<p>In November 2012, TIME magazine gave Morsi an exclusive interview to discuss a number of subjects, including Morsi’s beginnings with the Brotherhood. About this, Ahmed Bedier posted to Facebook – no doubt, echoing the twisted sentiments of his family – “<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/vphrbtcixc1csy8/Mohamed_Morsi_Ahmed_Bedier_TIME.jpg">It’s MORSI TIME!</a>”</p>
<p><i>Beila Rabinowitz, director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.</i></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 04:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/OD.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-189871" alt="OD" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/OD.jpg" width="280" height="288" /></a>Oday Aboushi leads a double life. On the one hand, he is an American football player with professional-level athletic skills. On the other, he is a fundamentalist Muslim with radical associations and a heritage that pushes him towards a destructive world of violence and hate.</p>
<p>When the New York Jets football team chose Oday Aboushi with the eighth pick of the fifth round of the April 2013 NFL Draft (141st pick overall), the organization knew that it was getting an elite player who could wreak havoc on the field – one of the top offensive linemen in the entire draft. At 6-foot-5, 310 pounds, no doubt, Abousi is an imposing figure. What the Jets didn’t know, though, was the type of havoc he could potentially cause off the field.</p>
<p>Although Aboushi was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, he proudly refers to himself as a “Palestinian-American.” His parents both arrived in the U.S. from the town of Beit Hanina in the West Bank. The first time he had been to the area was during his freshman year of college. In an <a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/jets/post/_/id/23229/a-closer-look-oday-aboushi">article published by ESPN</a>, the sports network stated about Aboushi’s trip, “It was a completely different world, although filled with the same kinds of people he knew growing up in Brooklyn.”</p>
<p>One long-time friend of the family is Linda Sarsour, a rabid anti-Israel activist, who has Hamas-related family serving prison sentences in Israel and has herself been questioned by U.S. authorities. Less than one year ago, Sarsour posted on her Twitter account, <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/3791/more-radicalism-from-another-white-house-guest">“Nothing is creepier than Zionism.”</a> In a May 2012 tweet, she claimed that the al-Qaeda “Underwear Bomber,” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who plotted to blow up a civilian aircraft, was actually a CIA operative.</p>
<p>When Aboushi was chosen by the Jets in the draft, Sarsour used that same Twitter account she placed her fanatic missives on to post two dozen messages about it, including <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/03qqgb9q7frj3cq/Linda_Sarsour_Oday_Aboushi_1.jpg">Twitter conversations with Aboushi</a>. She also tweeted <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/29up6covagdyzcw/Linda_Sarsour_Oday_Aboushi_4.jpg">photos of herself with Aboushi</a>.</p>
<p>Sarsour holds the position of Executive Director of the Arab American Association of New York (AAANY). Oday Aboushi’s sister, Tahanie, who also uses Twitter to attack Israel, is a lawyer for the organization. Together with the Executive Director of CAIR-NY, Muneer Awad, Tahanie Aboushi <a href="http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/09/staten_island_spokespersons_re.html">condemned ads speaking out against Islamic jihad</a> – ads which would soon be placed throughout New York City’s subway stations.</p>
<p>Awad, like Sarsour, is obsessed with Israel and has used Twitter to attack the Jewish state. He tweeted <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/at9xdej9gmpguym/Muneer_Awad_CAIR-NY_Israel_1.jpg">“GOP kissing Israel’s ass hurts Israel,”</a> and condemned a speech made by President Barack Obama in praise of Israel as <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/gp1l4e9r84rddkn/Muneer_Awad_CAIR-NY_Israel_2.jpg">“racist and untrue.”</a> For Awad to state such things makes sense, given the fact that the organization he works for, CAIR, has its roots with Hamas.</p>
<p>And like Sarsour, CAIR-NY went out of its way to praise the Jets drafting of Aboushi. The group called the signing <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/xvz0bcgmexabbvy/CAIR-NY_praises_Oday_Aboushi.jpg">“an American dream story.”</a></p>
<p>Far from being an American dream, Oday Aboushi has exhibited this exact type of extremism. He too has targeted Israel with his Twitter account, one tweet even having anti-Semitic overtones. This past January, he posted a photo depicting an old woman looking down while three clearly Orthodox Jews talk to each other in the background. The caption reads, “88 year-old Palestinian evicted from home in Jerusalem by Israel authorities <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/dfjk2xh6etk2gmx/Oday_Aboushi_old_woman_anti-semitic_photo.jpg">to make room 4 Orthodox Jews</a>.”</p>
<p>The photo contains the logo of Middle East Monitor (MEM), an anti-Zionist publication based in England. The picture has recently been used in a smear campaign against Israel and her observant Jewish citizens. Aboushi chose to be one of the smear merchants.</p>
<p>On April 19, one week before the NFL Draft, Aboushi wrote a <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/cy8f70fbsakwu1m/Oday_Aboushi_Islamic-Relief.jpg">tweet exalting a fundraising dinner</a> sponsored by Islamic Relief (IR), an organization with numerous ties to terrorism. He wrote, “Beautiful NJ fundraiser event for the kids of Palestine in refugee camps.” The affair was held in Hasbrouk Heights, New Jersey and was titled, ‘A Night for Palestine.’</p>
<p>In May 2006, Israel <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2006/may/31/voluntarysector.israel">labeled Islamic Relief a front for Hamas</a> after arresting the group’s Gaza program manager, Ayaz Ali, for providing “funds and assistance to various Hamas institutions and organizations.” Ali admitted that he had cooperated with local Hamas operatives.</p>
<p>As well, in 1999, IR collected and <a href="http://www.tribuneindia.com/1999/99nov02/world.htm">sent more than $6 million</a> to Chechen rebels with ties to al-Qaeda. The same year, IR received $50,000 from Human Concern International (HCI), a charity that the U.S. Department of Treasury described as a “Bin Laden front.” Shortly after the September 11 attacks, IR itself was <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2001/nov/04/news/mn-79/2">investigated by the Treasury Department</a> as a possible source of funding for al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.”</p>
<p>Besides Twitter, Oday Aboushi also has a Facebook account. Currently in the <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/2cbwu5uxt70mc2n/Oday_Aboushi_Mohamed_Mabrouk.jpg">‘Likes’ section of his Facebook page</a> is the imam of the Islamic Center of Temecula Valley (ICTV), Mohamed Mabrouk. Mabrouk was previously the imam of the Islamic Society of Greater Lansing (ISGL). Both of these mosques have ties to terrorism.</p>
<p>Last March, ICTV held a conference and banquet at the Anaheim Hilton, titled, <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/gown35m3pbz39fu/Islamic_Center_of_Temecula_Valley_Islamic_Relief_Conference.jpg">‘Muhammad (pbuh): The Prophet for Our Times.’</a> The event was co-sponsored by Islamic Relief. Among the speakers for the function was the imam of Brooklyn’s al-Taqwa mosque, Siraj Wahhaj. Wahhaj had previously been named by the U.S. government as an “unindicted co-conspirator” for a trial dealing with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Wahhaj had been <a href="http://www.moralgroup.com/NewsItems/Islam/p13.htm">linked to the bombmaker of the attack</a>, Clement Rodney Hampton-El, and during the trial, he was a character witness for the spiritual leader of the attack, Omar Abdel Rahman, whom Wahhaj has openly praised.</p>
<p>According to the January 2006 ISGL Constitution, which is located on the official ISGL website, the ownership of the mosque property was <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/6bw7mtwnakyt0ff/Islamic_Society_of_Greater_Lansing_NAIT.jpg">“entrusted” to the North American Islamic Trust</a> (NAIT). And according to the ISGL website, ISGL is a subsidiary of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). In 2007 and 2008, both NAIT and ISNA were named by the U.S. Justice Department as <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/dx8rkppus3ek665/ISNA_NAIT_Unindicted_Co-Conspirator_List.jpg">“unindicted co-conspirators”</a> for two federal trials dealing with the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas. ISNA, as well, was co-founded by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) convicted terrorist Sami al-Arian.</p>
<p>Oday Aboushi, himself, is an observant Muslim. While playing football for the University of Virginia, during the month of Ramadan, he would fast every day from sunrise to sunset. This bit of information has made its way into a number of articles written about Aboushi, in admiration for his commitment to his religion. But what cannot be praised or tolerated are the radical behavior and associations that Aboushi has embraced.</p>
<p>During <a href="http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/oday-aboushi-nfl-american-dream/5183de1502a76036530003e0">one of his post-draft interviews</a>, Aboushi mentioned how each of the teams interested in picking him sat him in a room and “grilled” him with questions for up to a quarter-of-an-hour. He said that these “formal meetings” were attended by all the team staff, including athletic director, head coach and owner.</p>
<p>At their meeting, either the Jets didn’t ask the right questions about Aboushi’s personal background and affiliations which might conflict or cause damage to the Jets’ image or Aboushi didn’t answer the questions honestly. The only other possibility is that the team only cares about Aboushi the exceptional athlete and nothing else.</p>
<p>In April 2009, the Jets front office <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/jets/jewish-fans-jolt-jets-nfl-article-1.363585">contacted the NFL</a> to ask that the date of its home opener be moved, as it was going to coincide with the Jewish high holiday of Rosh Hashanah. The team did the right thing to complain on behalf of their Jewish fan base, and they need to do the same in the case of their Islamist draft pick.</p>
<p>As of now, Aboushi’s name <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/rdmkd96m0dcufqw/Jets_roster_Oday_Aboushi.jpg">sits atop the Jets website roster</a>. How long he will remain there is up to management.</p>
<p><i>Beila Rabinowitz, director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.</i></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 04:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Tsarnaev-Brothers-Planning-Bombings-Independence-Day.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-188971" alt="Tsarnaev-Brothers-Planning-Bombings-Independence-Day" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Tsarnaev-Brothers-Planning-Bombings-Independence-Day.jpg" width="267" height="205" /></a>On Monday, April 15, Chechen-born Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his younger brother Dzhokhar placed and detonated two shrapnel-packed pressure cooker bombs near the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon, killing three and hospitalizing over 200 others. As well, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/21/us-usa-explosion-boston-police-idUSBRE93K06G20130421">the two murdered a policeman</a>, while trying to avoid capture. If the two had not been stopped when they were, according to the FBI, the brothers were headed for New York City to create further carnage. The motivation for the attacks were the brothers’ religious beliefs.</span></b></p>
<p>During preliminary interviews, following his arrest and the death of the older brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told authorities that the bombing <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2313218/Boston-bombing-investigation-Marathon-bomber-Dzhokhar-Tsarnaev-reveals-DID-act-alone.html">had been carried out to “defend Islam,”</a> which he said his brother believed was itself under attack by the United States. What brought the two former refugees to the point of plotting to brutally murder innocent civilians in their adopted country has been a matter of speculation. However, there are some relevant pieces of information that could be used as a basis to form a valid opinion on the matter.</p>
<p>On January 12, 2012, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, flew into Moscow, Russia and, from there, spent the next six months travelling to locations in Chechnya and Dagestan, two areas known for heavy militant Islamic activity and both home to terror cells. While in Dagestan, Tsarnaev was seen making <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10008638/Boston-bomber-FBI-dropped-the-ball-over-Tamerlan-Tsarnaev.html">six visits to a known militant at a mosque</a>. Previously, in 2011, Russian authorities had asked the FBI to investigate Tsarnaev for possible links to extremist groups.</p>
<p>One month after arriving back in the States, Tamerlan created a YouTube page and began posting radical Islamic videos to it. The videos included ones associated with Imarat Kavkaz (IK or Caucasus Emirate), an al-Qaeda-linked organization that the U.S. State Department has <a href="http://www.nctc.gov/site/groups/cent_eurasian.html">labeled a Specially Designated Terrorist Group</a>. Much like the Boston Marathon bombing, IK is notorious for targeting civilians, including with suicide attacks, one of the methods said to have been considered by the Tsarnaev brothers. Indeed, IK <a href="http://www.rferl.org/content/Surge_In_North_Caucasus_Violence_Reflects_Diversification_Of_Resistance_Tactics/1802629.html">has its own suicide battalion</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/muazseyfullah">Tsarnaev’s YouTube page</a> also contains lectures made by Feiz Mohammed, an Australian Islamic leader who has, on numerous occasions, been reported for inciting violence. In his infamous &#8220;Death Series&#8221; DVD set, Mohammed curses non-Muslims and <a href="http://www.news.com.au/national-news/police-probe-sheiks-dvds/story-e6frfkwi-1111112847164">urges Muslim youth to be prepared to sacrifice themselves</a> for their religion. On one of the DVDs, he states, “We want to have children and offer them as soldiers defending Islam. Teach them this: There is nothing more beloved to me than wanting to die as a mujahid (holy warrior). Put in their soft, tender hearts the zeal of jihad and a love of martyrdom.”</p>
<p>Over the last couple of years, Tamerlan and his wife, Katherine Russell (Tsarnaeva), had become religiously observant. Russell had converted to Islam in 2010, at the behest of Tsarnaev. She became pregnant with their daughter, dropped out of school, and began distancing herself from friends and family. Today, Russell can be found donning the female Islamic head covering. It’s a noticeable difference from her mug shot, when she had been <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2317936/Katherine-Russell-Boston-Bomber-widows-fresh-faced-mugshot-following-2007-arrest-shoplifting-clothes-store.html">arrested in June 2007 for shoplifting</a> – a foreshadowing of her mother-in-law Zubeidat Tsarnaeva’s arrest for the same crime four years later.</p>
<p>According to his aunt in Dagestan, Patimat Suleimanova, whilst he was overseas, Tsarnaev would speak with his wife <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/aunt-boston-bombings-suspect-struggled-islam-125631550.html">every day via the computer program Skype</a>. And when he would lapse in his Islamic duties, according to Sueimanova, his wife would council him on how to observe properly. Though a number of people have claimed that she was verbally abused by Tamerlan, the two no doubt remained close. His aunt said that, prior to leaving, he had considered bringing Russell with him to Dagestan.</p>
<p>Russell is currently an FBI &#8220;Person of Interest&#8221; and as such has hired an attorney, Joshua Dratel, who <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/widow-bombing-suspect-hires-criminal-lawyer-19137943#.UYtqurWfhCY">specializes in terror-related cases</a>, to defend her. Dratel handled the case of Lynn Stewart, the lawyer who was convicted of smuggling messages between her then-client, the spiritual leader of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Omar Abdel Rahman, and followers of an Egyptian terrorist group, and he represented Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks, who had attended an al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan.</p>
<p>Russell has claimed that she knew nothing of the marathon bomb plot, yet it was her and Tsarnaev’s less-than-sizeable Cambridge apartment where the bombs were built and where explosive residue was found throughout the residence, including in the kitchen and bathroom. It is in her personal computer, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2319895/Katherine-Russell-Tsarnaev-Boston-bombers-widow-goes-Chipotle-daughter-friend-FBI-investigate-Islamic-links.html">where the FBI found a downloaded copy of <i>Inspire</i></a><i>,</i> an al-Qaeda publication which discusses how to build homemade bombs. It is she who phoned Tamerlan, following the attack, <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/feds-further-investigating-role-bombers-wife_719130.html">to inform him that he was “being watched.”</a></p>
<p>According to his uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, Tamerlan had become enamored with a religious leader in Cambridge, Massachusetts who, as suspected by Tsarni, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2312470/Tamerlan-Tsarnaev-Boston-bomber-thrown-mosque-raged-filled-rant-Martin-Luther-King.html">succeeded in radicalizing both Tsarnaev and his younger brother</a>. If there is any truth to what the uncle has said, that leader could very well have come from the Islamic Society of Boston (ISB), a Cambridge-based radical mosque frequented by both brothers.</p>
<p>The imam of ISB is Basyouny Nehela. On his bio, it says he has served as ISB’s imam for the past decade. The bio is <a href="http://masboston.org/live/?page_id=47">found on the website of the Boston chapter of the Muslim American Society</a> (MAS-Boston), where Nehela sits on its Board of Directors. From 2004 to 2008, Nehela served as the head of the MAS Tarbiyah (Education) Department. Nehela also teaches Islamic Studies and Comparative Religion at MAS’s Islamic American University (IAU), a Michigan-based institution chaired by the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Yusuf al-Qaradawi.</p>
<p>MAS and ISB are not exactly separate entities. MAS runs the ISB’s sister mosque, the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center (ISBCC), located in Roxbury Crossing. A big MAS logo is found on every page of <a href="http://isbcc.org/">the ISBCC website</a>. All of this is daunting, given the terrorist ties of both MAS and ISB.</p>
<p>MAS was <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/chi-0409190261sep19,0,4605917,full.story">founded by members of the Muslim Brotherhood in 1993</a>, including the former global head of the Brotherhood, Mohammed Mahdi Akef. The National Executive Director of MAS is currently Mazen Mokhtar. From 1992 through 1996, Mokhtar proudly used the Internet to announce his support for Hamas and suicide bombings. Prior to the September 11 attacks, Mokhtar served as a <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=32635">web designer for what was then the main website</a> raising funds and recruiting fighters for al-Qaeda and the Taliban, Qoqaz.net. The site was a project of Azzam Publications, an organization named for Osama bin Laden’s mentor, Abdullah Azzam.</p>
<p>ISB was co-founded by convicted terrorist Abdurahman Alamoudi. In March of 2003, Alamoudi became part of a Libyan plot to assassinate Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah. Alamoudi helped to recruit participants for the plot and assisted in the transfer of hundreds of thousands of dollars to be used to finance the operation. In July 2004, Alamoudi pled guilty to three federal offenses, which included terror-related charges. Later, he was <a href="http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2004/October/04_crm_698.htm">sentenced to 23 years in prison</a>.</p>
<p>This could very well be the reason why the imam of ISBCC, Suhaib Webb, was <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/04/19/muslim-brotherhood-linked-mosque%25E2%2580%2599s-imam-replaced-as-speaker-at-service-for-boston-marathon-attack-victims/">replaced as the representative for the Boston Muslim community</a> with a little known individual, in a ceremony honoring the victims of the marathon attack, featuring an address made by President Barack Obama.</p>
<p>Another figure that had an effect on the Tsarnaev brothers was Anwar al-Awlaki, a senior leader of al-Qaeda, who was killed in a targeted drone strike in Yemen. Tamerlan and Dzokhar had <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/26/the-awlaki-connection.html">spent time studying his teachings</a>, teachings that had inspired a number of other terrorists, including Nidal Hasan, who took the lives of 13 servicemen at Fort Hood where he was stationed; the underwear bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who threatened to blow up a U.S. airliner; and Faisal Shahzad, who attempted to detonate a bomb in Times Square.</p>
<p>Had they not been discovered acting suspiciously in Boston on surveillance video, Tamerlan and Dzokhar Tsarnaev might very well have succeeded where Shahzad had failed. According to Dzokhar, the two brothers had planned to, as well, carry out bombings in New York City’s Times Square following the Boston Marathon attack.</p>
<p>In April 2012, Dzokhar traveled to Times Square with a group of his friends. It has been speculated that this trip might have been a scouting mission for the future attack. A photograph from the trip depicts Dzokhar and four other individuals arm in arm. Two of those in the photo, Dias Kadyrbayev (who <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/unlhrttriunbz3p/Dzokhar_Tsarnaev_Dias_Azamat_Ayat_Times_Square.jpg">uploaded the photo to the web</a>) and Azamat Tahayakov, Muslim foreign exchange students from Kazakhstan, have since been arrested for a crime related to the bombing.</p>
<p>Along with another individual, Robel Phillipos, after receiving a text message from Dzokhar advising them to take his possessions, the three allegedly entered Dzokhar’s dormitory room at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where they were all students, and <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/boston-pd-arrested-bombing-article-1.1332039">plotted to get rid of evidence from the bombing</a>. Kadyrbayev proceeded to remove from the room a backpack filled with firework shells that had been emptied of gunpowder, Dzokhar’s laptop computer, and a jar of Vaseline which he suspected was used to make the bombs. The three dumped the backpack and fireworks in the trash, though the materials were later recovered by authorities.</p>
<p>Dzokhar hung out at Tazhayakov and Kadyrbayev’s apartment until midnight two days after the attack. One month prior to the bombing, Dzokhar had told Kadyrbayev and Tahayakov, who both drove around in a BMW with a front licence plate which read, “Terrorista #1,” that he <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/boston-pd-arrested-bombing-article-1.1332039">knew how to make a bomb</a>.</p>
<p>Kadyrbayev and Tahayakov, who had previously been arrested for violating their student visas, face up to five years in prison. Phillipos faces up to eight years in prison for lying about his involvement in the crime.</p>
<p>Another individual from the Times Square photograph, Ayat Abdussalamov, also from Khazakhstan and also a student at UM Dartmouth, had traveled to Times Square previously. In August 2011, Ayat visited the area with someone with the same last name as his, Ruslan Abdussalamov. The two took photos of each other alongside an ominous sign which read, “WELCOME 2 KHAZAKHSTAN.”</p>
<p>Ayat’s photo is currently <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/dij7jadh365fu63/Ayat_Abdussalamov_Times_Square_banner.jpg">the banner for his Facebook page</a>. And Ruslan uploaded his (Ruslan’s) photo to his own Facebook page. Also on Ruslan’s Facebook are various photos of a two-year-old boy, who is his relation, possibly a younger brother. One of the photos has the boy dressed in Islamic garb praying. Another is of the boy <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/0am4fcnwu8cki7d/Ruslan_Abdussalamov_2.jpg">carrying an assault rifle with scope mount</a>. Next to the photo, one friend commented, “Boevik!” meaning Chechen militant or terrorist.</p>
<p>Undoubtedly, much of the above contributed to Tamerlan and Dzokhar Tsarnaev’s extremist behavior. Their actions were evil to the core, yet in their minds, they were perpetrated for a perfectly legitimate reason – to defend their religion – which in their warped set of beliefs was somehow being endangered by Bostonians, New Yorkers and Americans in general.</p>
<p>While everyone now understands who al-Qaeda is, the Tsarnaev brothers brought to the public eye another strain of radical Islam, one that Russians recognize and Americans are quickly learning about. Tamerlan and Dzokhar were not Middle Eastern or South Asian. They weren’t Palestinian or Pakistani. They were Chechen. It’s the latest terror link that the United States needs to be on guard for – a link that proved that exposure to the American way of life is no antidote for Islamic-based terror.</p>
<p><i>Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.</i></p>
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		<title>Keith Ellison Headlines Group Run by Terror Lawyer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 04:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Kaufman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The disturbing ties of the Islamist group Emerge-USA -- and the politicians who participate in its events. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/joe-kaufman/keith-ellison-headlines-group-run-by-terror-lawyer/ellison_091610-thumb-640xauto-1029-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-184738"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-184738" title="ellison_091610-thumb-640xauto-1029" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/ellison_091610-thumb-640xauto-10291-450x322.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="193" /></a>Last year’s annual event for Emerge-USA was a disaster, losing keynote speaker Debbie Wasserman Schultz last minute over criticism leveled against her for helping to raise money for an organization whose leadership actively supports terror-related groups and individuals targeting the U.S. and Israel. Now, Emerge is taking no chances and will be holding a banquet featuring a Congressman (and fellow traveler) who is not as shy about his Islamist support, Keith Ellison.</p>
<p>On Saturday, April 20, Emerge will be sponsoring a “benefit dinner” with United States Representative Keith Ellison as the featured speaker. A <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/avvthhhrnj2n2lq/Emerge_Keith_Ellison.jpg">colorful flyer advertising the event</a> – complete with a big picture of Ellison – is currently found on the homepage of Emerge’s official website. As stated on the flyer, the contact for the event is Rasha Mubarak, who has held the position of Central Florida Regional Field Coordinator for Emerge since October 2011.</p>
<p>Mubarak is a fervent Palestinian activist. In January 2009, she organized a march in Orlando to condemn Israel for waging a war against Hamas in Gaza. During the march, there were repeated chants of “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” This chant is a Hamas slogan, whose meaning is the destruction of the entire state of Israel. At another anti-Israel demonstration Mubarak organized this past November, she herself questioned Israel’s current right to exist. She stated, “Israel has a right to exist, <a href="http://www.peoplesworld.org/floridians-rally-to-end-occupation-of-gaza/">but not as they presently do</a>&#8230;”</p>
<p>Emerge’s Tampa-area Regional Field Coordinator is Laila Abdelaziz. Not unlike her counterpart Mubarak, Abdelaziz is obsessed with the Jewish state. In January 2010, during a town hall meeting for Barack Obama, she denounced Israel in a question she posed to the President. “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ3rqAoahAw">[W]hy have we not condemned Israel</a> and Egypt’s human rights violations against the occupied Palestinian people, and yet we continue supporting them financially with billions of dollars from our tax dollars?” she belligerently asked.</p>
<p>In November 2012, when Israel invaded Gaza, in order to stop Hamas from continuing to target her citizens with rockets – over 2000 rockets in less than one year – Abdelaziz tweeted, “Don’t worry ya Gaza, <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/fhsmzaltqbq9do0/Laila_Abdelaziz_Dont_worry_ya_Gaza.jpg">we’re working hard for you in Florida</a>.”</p>
<p>It is not unusual for Keith Ellison – a former member of Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam – to accept a speaking engagement from a radical Muslim organization, such as Emerge. He has been a regular at events sponsored by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), two groups the U.S. Justice Department has labeled co-conspirators in the raising of millions of dollars for Hamas. He, as well, spoke at events sponsored by the Minnesota chapter of the Muslim American Society (MAS), at the same time the group was propagating material on its website <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/MAS_Statements.htm">calling for the murder of Jews</a>.</p>
<p>Almost exactly one year previous to this upcoming April banquet, Emerge was going to hold a similar event <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/ts1nw79m83ssf42/Emerge_Debbie_Wasserman_Schultz.jpg">featuring as its keynote speaker</a> the head of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. After this author publicly called on her to cancel her speech and <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/joe-kaufman-and-beila-rabinowitz/debbie-wasserman-schultz-empowers-a-radical-muslim-fundraiser/">co-authored a piece criticizing her</a> for involving herself with such a group, both Wasserman Schultz and U.S. Representative Alcee Hastings withdrew their participation.</p>
<p>Much evidence was put forward to show why no government official should allow himself/herself to be taken in by this organization. The evidence contained disturbing details about the main individual behind Emerge, Khurrum Wahid.</p>
<p>According to his bio found on Emerge-USA’s website, Wahid is “a founding member and current Vice-Chair” of the group. Wahid is also a South Florida criminal defense attorney and previously served as a legal advisor to Hamas-related CAIR. His <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2011/winter/preventing-the-radicalization-of-musl">list of terrorist clients</a> include: Rafiq Abdus Sabir, who received a 25 year prison sentence for conspiring to provide material support to al-Qaeda; Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, who was given a life sentence for being a member of al-Qaeda and for plotting to assassinate President George W. Bush; and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) leader Sami al-Arian, who is at present under house arrest in Northern Virginia.</p>
<p>Recently, Wahid represented Hafiz Muhammed Sher Ali Khan, who was convicted of funneling tens of thousands of dollars to the Pakistani Taliban for the express purpose of murdering American troops overseas. Even after the conviction, Wahid is <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/ao4sbhds19jkk6q/Khurrum_Wahid_Hafiz_Khan.jpg">still raising money for Khan</a> on his law firm’s website.</p>
<p>None of this is strange, considering that, in 2011, Wahid himself was <a href="http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2012-02-02/news/miami-imams-accused-of-funding-terrorists-hate-and-redemption/full/">placed on a U.S. government terrorist watch list</a>.</p>
<p>The Executive Director of Emerge and the Vice Chairman of Emerge’s Political Action Committee (PAC) is Nauman Sabit Abbasi. Both Abbasi and Wahid are involved with the Islamic Foundation of South Florida (IFSF), a radical mosque located in Sunrise, Florida. Abbasi is the President of Public Relations for IFSF. Wahid is the registered agent for the mosque’s corporation.</p>
<p>The Youth Director of IFSF is Abdur Rahman al-Ghani, a fan of Hizb ut-Tahrir, whose Facebook site is littered with fanatical anti-America, anti-Israel and Islamic supremacist language. Last December, he wrote on Facebook, “Zionist/Israelis are not holy people. <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/z7xuzdqrtgbq168/Abdur_Rahman_al-Ghani_Israelis_demonic_evil.jpg">They are demonic and the most evil on earth</a>.” In February 2012, he wrote, “[Y]es, Allah (SWT) has Decreed that we will over-take the World in numbers…” In that same month, he posted a graphic of the CIA logo spattered in blood with a caption that read in part, “You wipe out the organization that is solely responsible for every terrorist act committed since it’s creation. <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/io8qr1hscl80q2f/Abdur_Rahman_al-Ghani_Wipe_out_CIA.jpg">You wipe out the CIA</a>.”</p>
<p>According to Nauman Abbasi’s Linkedin page, the Emerge PAC has “strongly supported” Keith Ellison. The PAC has also given support to Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn. While taking money from an extremist group like Emerge is of no concern to Congressman Ellison, it could very well cause Mayor Buckhorn some unease.</p>
<p>In February 2012, at an event to promote Emerge’s Tampa chapter, Buckhorn <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/ucfxfm2sn8rze3h/CAIR_Hassan_Shibly_Tampa_Mayor_Bob_Buckhorn.jpg">shared the stage with the Executive Director of CAIR-Tampa</a>, Hassan Shibly. Shibly previously had stated that Hezbollah was “basically a resistance movement” and “<a href="http://www2.tbo.com/news/breaking-news/2011/jun/28/4/new-cair-leader-draws-starkly-different-reactions-ar-240304/">absolutely not a terrorist organization</a>.”</p>
<p>This was not the first event Mayor Buckhorn has had with Emerge, but it should be his last.</p>
<p>If it were just one individual within the group, it could be seen as a fluke, but there are too many extremists within the leadership of Emerge for Mayor Buckhorn or others to allow themselves to participate in Emerge-sponsored events or to grant the organization any degree of legitimacy. Emerge-USA is an innocuous name with what appears to be sinister motives.</p>
<p>For Islamists like Keith Ellison, this is of no consequence. For others, they may just be willing to sell out their values and their souls for a buck and a vote.</p>
<p><em>Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.</em></p>
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