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		<title>Libya Under Siege</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2014 04:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Egypt and the United Arab Emirates respond to a jihadist takeover -- while the U.S. stands in their way. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/libya-tripoli-airport-seized-by-islamist-militias.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239555" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/libya-tripoli-airport-seized-by-islamist-militias-421x350.jpg" alt="libya-tripoli-airport-seized-by-islamist-militias" width="328" height="273" /></a>While media attention has focused of late on the so-called Islamic State (ISIS), which has seized large swaths of territory in Syria and northern Iraq, jihadists are also on the march in Libya. A coalition of jihadists, operating under the name Dawn of Libya, has claimed to have taken control of Libya’s main international airport in its capital city Tripoli as well as some other locations in the capital city itself. Benghazi, Libya’s second largest city, is already in the hands of other jihadists including Ansar al-Shariah, some of whom may have participated in the killing of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans nearly two years ago.</p>
<p>“We will not accept the project of democracy, secular parties, nor the parties that falsely claim the Islamic cause,” a statement issued last week by an alliance of Benghazi-based jihadists, including Ansar al-Shariah, declared.</p>
<p>Whatever excuses the Obama administration may try to make with regards to the chaos brought about by ISIS in Iraq, including continued finger-pointing at the Bush administration, the mess in Libya has happened entirely on President Obama’s watch. It stems from President Obama’s decision to back the rebels in forcibly removing Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi from power without any thought about the destabilizing consequences for Libya, North Africa and the entire Middle East region. Obama himself admitted that there were lessons to be learned from the Libya regime change operation. “Do we have an answer [for] the day after?’” Obama said to New York Times op-ed columnist Thomas Friedman on Aug. 8<sup>th</sup>.</p>
<p>Qaddafi was of no strategic threat to the United States. Indeed, one of the positive byproducts of the Iraq war launched in 2003 was the fear Qaddafi had of a similar invasion that led to his decision to give up entirely his nuclear arms program. But Obama got sucked into a military conflict in Libya that morphed from a limited humanitarian rescue operation into a war to bring about regime change. Obama yielded to pressure from France, the United Kingdom and the Arab League to expand the objectives of the operation. Members of his own administration characterized his role as “leading from behind.”</p>
<p>Removing Qaddafi left a huge vacuum for the jihadists to fill. Libya lacks any real central government today. Instead, two rival parliaments appear to be emerging, the original one controlled by the jihadists and a newly elected one more closely aligned with anti-jihadists.  Weapons from Qaddafi’s stockpiles have been dispersed to militias within Libya as well as to North Africa and Syria, some falling into the jihadists’ hands. Militias in support of the jihadists and opposing the jihadists are fighting each other in Libya, with the jihadists appearing to have gained the upper hand. With the country on the brink of civil war, and a possible replication in Libya of the self-declared caliphate that ISIS has established in parts of Iraq and Syria, U.S. and other Western nations have pulled out their diplomats from Tripoli. The United Nations has reduced its presence to a bare minimum.</p>
<p>Obama’s response to all this has followed his usual pattern of dithering and indecision. But it is even worse than that. The Obama administration appears to be trying to impede Egypt and the United Arab Emirates from proceeding on their own to protect their countries from the rising tide of jihad across the Middle East, including right on Egypt’s doorstep in neighboring Libya.</p>
<p>According to an August 25<sup>th</sup> report by the New York Times, four senior American officials said that the United States was caught by surprise upon learning that “Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have secretly teamed up to launch airstrikes against Islamist-allied militias battling for control of Tripoli, Libya.”</p>
<p>Egypt reportedly provided the bases from which to launch the attacks, which occurred in the vicinity of Tripoli. The United Arab Emirates, which has one of the more proficient air forces in the region, reportedly furnished the pilots and planes to carry out the strikes.</p>
<p>Egyptian officials denied any involvement in the airstrikes in their discussions with Obama State Department diplomats. The United Arab Emirates has been cagier in its remarks on the subject.</p>
<p>According to the New York Times report, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have cooperated previously in special force operations inside Libya, targeting jihadists.</p>
<p>Instead of welcoming the operation to thwart jihadists who already have American blood on their hands, the Obama administration reacted angrily. “We don’t see this as constructive at all,” one senior American official was quoted by the New York Times as saying.</p>
<p>This foolish remark ignores the simple truth that the jihadists fighting to take over Libya are of the same ideological bent as the ISIS jihadists who beheaded Jim Foley and whom we are now fighting directly. In fact, Libya&#8217;s <a href="http://www.veooz.com/photos/RG_FLYV.html"><span style="color: #0463c1;">al-Battar brigade is working with ISIS</span></a> and has returned from fighting in Syria to join Ansar al-Shariah. It issued a statement last June warning that heads would be cut off, stomachs slit and Libya filled with graves to revenge the shooting of one of its jihadists who had fought in Syria.</p>
<p>Ramzi Yousef, a member of Ansar al-Shariah said, &#8220;The group of al-Battar, the word refers to one of the names of the sword an affiliate of Ansar al-Sharia. It was founded in Syria and all its members are from Libya. They are the fiercest because they do not negotiate but just act.&#8221;</p>
<p>Expressions of support have also been exchanged between ISIS and Libyan jihadists.</p>
<p>The Obama administration is fully aware that Qatar – the same country that is helping to bankroll Hamas and the jihadists fighting in Syria – is providing support to the Libyan-based jihadists. Just as Secretary of State John Kerry tried to push Israel into accepting a Qatari-brokered ceasefire with Hamas on largely Hamas’s terms instead of the ceasefire terms supported by Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, the Obama administration is favoring Qatar’s interests over those of Egypt and the United Arab Emirates. And this means it is effectively coming out on the side of the jihadists in Libya, as the Obama administration did in Egypt itself when it helped install, and then tried to keep in power, the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p>Against any common sense reckoning of U.S. interests in the region, the Obama administration criticized the two Arab countries trying to fend off the jihadist threat in Libya on their own -before the threat in Libya metastasizes into something much larger on the model of ISIS. Rather than fume and pressure Egypt and the United Arab Emirates to stand down, the Obama administration should welcome regional coalitions like this to fight the jihadist scourge wherever it pops up. Instead of leading from behind, President Obama should just get out of the way.</p>
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		<title>U.S. Courts Islamic Terrorists to ‘Support People of Egypt’</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2014 04:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama administration’s hypocrisy on full display.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/obama-is-a-terrorist-.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-221514" alt="obama-is-a-terrorist-" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/obama-is-a-terrorist--450x340.jpg" width="270" height="204" /></a>On March 14, in a meeting with foreign journalists in Washington, D.C., deputy spokesperson of the U.S. State Department Marie Harf confirmed, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/other-matters/u-s-still-declares-support-for-muslim-brotherhood/">once again</a>, that the United States is in “communication” with the Muslim Brotherhood but denied that this means it supports the Islamist organization.  The <a href="http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/texttrans/2014/03/20140315296358.html?CP.rss=true#ixzz2w5Fk1BcJ">exchange</a> follows:</p>
<blockquote><p>QUESTION: Okay. The second question is: The State Department has recently said that it is in constant contact with the Muslim Brotherhood, as with the other political groups, you see?</p>
<p>MS. HARF: Mm-hmm, yes.</p>
<p>QUESTION: So do you think that these contacts have any effect on the United States relations with Egypt? And are these just mere contacts or support? Because this is very important for the Egyptian public opinion. Thanks.</p>
<p>MS. HARF: Well, they’re contacts, and let’s just – I’ll put it in a little context here. We think it’s important to have contacts with all the parties in Egypt, because all the parties in Egypt ultimately are going to need to be a part of Egypt’s future, and that we want to help them be a part of that future and move Egypt out of the situation it’s in today. So we think this is important to do. Do we always agree, do they always agree with what we’re saying? Of course not. But we believe it’s important to have the dialogue.</p>
<p>We don’t support one party or one group or one person. So when we’re talking about elections, when – I know there’s a lot of conspiracy theories about us supporting the Muslim Brotherhood or supporting the military or – there’s a lot. They can’t all be true, right? Because they’re mutually exclusive. But we don’t support one group. We support the process. We support the people of Egypt who make up these parties – right – as they are trying to determine how to get Egypt back on a better path.</p></blockquote>
<p>One wonders: if the Obama administration does not “support one party or one group or one person,” why did it try to urge the Egyptian people in general, the Christian Copts in particular, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/obama-to-egyptian-christians-dont-protest-the-brotherhood/">not to protest against former president Muhammad Morsi</a> (“one person”) and his increasingly oppressive Muslim Brotherhood (“one party”)?</p>
<p>Conversely, if the Obama administration is supportive of “the people of Egypt” in general, where was it when the Muslim Brotherhood and their supporters were terrorizing Egypt, and <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/pro-brotherhood-cleric-issues-fatwa-to-terrorize-egypt/">continue to do so</a>—including by burning and destroying over 80 Christian churches? But when millions of Egyptians protested against the increasingly oppressive Morsi/Brotherhood government, leading to their ousting, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/murdered-christian-children-the-price-of-obamas-pro-brotherhood-jihad/">it was then that the Obama administration reacted by reducing aid to Egypt</a>.</p>
<p>Indeed, in regards to Harf’s claims that “We support the people of Egypt,” the other day an Egyptian TV commentator <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRKhzt2yMig">summed up</a> mainstream Egyptian opinion as follows:</p>
<blockquote><p>Harf yesterday confirmed that her nation is in communication with the Muslim Brotherhood but denied that this means it supports them.  They’re just in contact—you know, “checking up” on each other.  She said that the United States is in contact with all political parties in Egypt.  In reality, they [Brotherhood] are no longer “political parties.” They are “<i>terrorist</i> parties.”  She stressed that they do not support any particular person or political party, adding “we support the people of Egypt.”  Apparently that explains why they stopped their aid and support?  They “support the people of Egypt,” even as the Egyptian people cannot stand the Muslim Brotherhood, has rejected them, and is rejoicing because the government finally designated them as a terrorist organization.  So this is the sort of “support” Mary Harf offers to the Egyptian people—<i>that the United States is in contact with a terrorist organization</i>.  Regarding a “conspiracy” between the U.S. and the Brotherhood, she said this cannot be true, adding that they only “support the people of Egypt as they are trying to determine how to get Egypt back on a better path.”  What’s it to you?  If we want a democracy, a dictatorship, or just to stay as we are—we’re free to do so.  I really don’t understand this idea whereby they [Obama administration] always show up saying “we support democracy” in the Arab world, and yet here is the result of their support: every nation they have put their nose in, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/confirmed-u-s-chief-facilitator-of-christian-persecution/">they destroyed it</a>.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Leftist Press Frets: Jihad Truth-Tellers &#8216;Still Popular&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2014 04:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the best efforts of Religion News Service and the Washington Post.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Washington-Post.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-221038" alt="Washington-Post" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Washington-Post-450x286.jpg" width="270" height="172" /></a>A smear campaign of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) recently failed to get former FBI agent John Guandolo’s training course for law enforcement officers canceled in Culpeper County, Virginia. </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.religionnews.com/2014/03/12/anti-muslim-speakers-still-popular-law-enforcement-training/">Religion News Service ran an editorial masquerading as a news story</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/anti-muslim-speakers-still-popular-in-law-enforcement-training/2014/03/12/bc8d8e30-aa1c-11e3-8a7b-c1c684e2671f_story.html">Washington Post picked up</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, attempting to ensure that this effrontery would not be repeated.</span></p>
<div id="attachment_221042" style="width: 220px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Omar-Sacirbey_avatar.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-221042" alt="Omar-Sacirbey_avatar" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Omar-Sacirbey_avatar-350x350.jpg" width="210" height="210" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Omar Sacirbey fiercely smiling.</p></div>
<p>The fiercely smiling author, Omar Sacirbey, has refused to retract demonstrable falsehoods he has published about me in the past. In his hit piece on Guandolo he is no less magnificently unimpressed with the truth, as he assembles an impressive tissue of smears, half-truths, innuendos and lies about various foes of jihad terror, and wraps them up nicely into a “news story” that the WaPo, eager as ever to run defamation in the service of Islamic supremacists and jihadists, then presents to its hapless readers.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“Law enforcement officers in Virginia,” Sacirbey began, “will no longer receive credit for a counterterrorism course taught by a former FBI agent and anti-Muslim activist after the academy where the course was taught canceled its accreditation the day it was scheduled to begin.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Sacirbey uses “anti-Muslim” throughout this piece for foes of jihad terror, which — as I have said before when pseudo-journalistic ideologues like Sacirbey have used this term in the past — is like calling foes of Nazism “anti-German.” It shows Sacirbey’s bias and sympathy for jihadists, and should never be acceptable practice in what are supposedly respectable journalistic outlets like RNS and the WaPo. But standards go out the window when it comes to journalists covering for jihad terrorism; they do it so unanimously, zealously and unflinchingly that they must either be true believers or paid off, or both.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But as far as Sacirbey was concerned, the only one paid off was Guandolo, whose seminar, “Understanding and Investigating Jihadi Networks in America,” he noted was “advertised as $225 per trainee.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This emphasis on the fee is straight out of the Leftist/Islamic supremacist playbook. Leftist allies of Islamic supremacism such as the Center for American Progress and the Southern Poverty Law Center have millions upon millions of dollars — far more than any counter-jihad organization or individual has ever had. But it is a staple of these smear pieces that the so-called “Islamophobia industry” is a well-heeled machine in which people are just in it for the money, as if getting regular death threats and constant vilification is worth any amount of money. Anyway, $225 is a perfectly reasonable charge for a seminar like this one — indeed, far lower than what other organizations charge for programs of similar duration.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But Sacirbey is following his marching orders: </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Imply that it’s all about the money</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. Thus he claims that after 9/11, “anti-Muslim speakers began offering their courses to local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies, which paid for them with taxpayer-funded government grants. Nearly 13 years later, these speakers continue to win lucrative fees to train law enforcement officers despite a history of rhetoric that seems to undermine their credibility.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">I would have told Omar Sacirbey if he had asked me, but of course he didn’t, because he didn’t want the truth: when I was flying around the country in order to help give training seminars for the FBI, CIA, JTTF, and military groups, I didn’t get paid. Not a penny. Not even for expenses. I paid my own way, bought my own hotel rooms, etc. On a few occasions a Colonel who had me speak several times on military bases told me about a form I could fill out for reimbursement of my travel expenses. I never filled out the form. I did the training out of a sense of duty to my country, not for personal gain. If Omar Sacirbey were a journalist rather than a smear merchant, he might have asked me and some others what we were paid, whether we were paid, etc. But quite obviously he is not a journalist.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">He goes on to applaud the smear campaigns of which this claim is a part, while bemoaning their occasional lack of success: “While Muslim-American activists and media reports have raised awareness about anti-Muslim trainers, occasionally resulting in curriculum reviews and canceled classes, many say the problem persists because there are too few police administrators to properly vet courses and instructors.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">What Sacirbey means is: “</span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">The problem persists because there are too few Leftists and Islamic supremacists putting pressure on police administrators so that they don’t dare host a course that tells the truth about Islam and jihad</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But he claims that training such as Guandolo’s is actually dangerous: “The consequences, critics add, go beyond political incorrectness and include undermining public safety and obscuring real dangers as police officers chase bad leads based on profiling.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">What’s behind this absolutely baseless charge (for which Sacirbey offers no evidence, because there is none) is the ongoing effort by Hamas-linked CAIR and other groups like it to end all surveillance of Muslim communities, including the NYPD’s program which just withstood a Leftist/Islamic supremacist challenge in court.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">That’s just the beginning of Sacirbey’s baseless charges and sly smears:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">For example, Guandolo, who taught the Culpeper class, is seen saying in a YouTube video with anti-Muslim blogger Robert Spencer that CIA Director John Brennan converted to Islam. In another recording, he claims that Brennan is “unfit for duty,” because he has brought in leaders of Hamas to advise the government.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Note again the identifier intended to demean: I’m an “anti-Muslim blogger.” Not, say, “bestselling author and former FBI trainer.” Daniel Martin Varisco, another “Islamophobia” smear merchant, has a blog and was </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/03/georgetown-u-seminar-fear-of-robert-spencer-fear-of-jihad-watch">recently whining about how it was less popular than Jihad Watch</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. But you can be sure that Sacirbey would never, ever refer to Varisco as a “blogger.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Anyway, Sacirbey presents Guandolo’s charge that Brennan is a Muslim as if it were self-evidently false. On what basis? Has Brennan ever denied this? No. Is it widely known that there is a top intelligence official in the Obama Administration’s CIA who has converted to Islam? Yes. It was reported in none other than </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/03/at-cia-a-convert-to">the Washington Post in 2012</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. Why couldn’t it be Brennan? Did Sacirbey speak to Brennan? If he did, he doesn’t mention it in the article. What is much more likely is that Sacirbey didn’t speak to Brennan, and has no idea whether or not he is a Muslim, but since Brennan hasn’t said anything one way or the other about the charge, he uses it to portray Guandolo as crazy. (You can see the video of my interview with Guandolo </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRZcI_Dk0Mk">here</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.)</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">And not just crazy, but depraved: “In addition, federal court papers claim that as an undercover FBI agent, Guandolo had a sexual affair with a witness that could have interfered with an investigation into corruption by former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, a Democrat from New Orleans.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“Could have.” Anyway, what does this have to do with whether or not John Guandolo is qualified to speak about the jihad terror threat? Why, nothing. Nothing at all. But it’s a stick that Sacirbey can use to beat Guandolo, and that’s good enough for him.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">As if all this weren’t enough, Sacirbey then turns to Hamas-linked CAIR for an expert opinion:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“His views on Islam are the equivalent of historical anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic falsehoods,” said Corey Saylor, national legislative director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, wrote in a letter to Jenkins. “Guandolo offers only his own prejudiced and inaccurate conspiratorial views, not solid counterterrorism training.”</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It is no surprise at all that Sacirbey doesn’t bother to mention that CAIR is an </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/016754.php">unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR operatives have repeatedly </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014963.php">refused</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/016017.php">to</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014790.php">denounce</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2003/06/cairs-legal-tribulations.html">former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53303">Islamic supremacist statements</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. Its </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/01/cairs-honest-ibe-hooper-admits-dont-talk-to-the-fbi-poster-crossed-a-line-but-those-who-noticed-that.html">California chapter distributed a poster</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> telling Muslims not to talk to the FBI. CAIR has opposed every anti-terror measure that has ever been proposed or implemented.</span></p>
<p>If one unsavory Leftist group is good, two is better: “The Southern Poverty Law Center calls Guandolo ‘a notorious Muslim-basher and conspiracy theorist.’”</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It is also no surprise that Sacirbey doesn’t bother to note that although the SPLC lists hundreds of groups as “hate groups,” they lump legitimate conservative groups in with neo-Nazis and racist groups, and include few, if any, Leftist and Muslim groups on the list. Nor does he mention that the SPLC’s “hate group” designation against the Family Research Council </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/20/splc-inspired-shooter-floyd-lee-corkins-sentenced-to-25-years/">led one of its followers to storm the FRC offices with a gun, determined to murder the chief of the FRC</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. This shows that these kinds of charges shouldn’t be thrown around frivolously, as tools to demonize and marginalize those whose politics the SPLC dislikes. But that is exactly what they do. Its hard-Left leanings are well known and well documented. </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/king-fearmongers_714573.html">This Weekly Standard article</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> sums up much of what is wrong with the SPLC.</span></p>
<p>Sacirbey breezes by the questionable aspects of these groups: “Guandolo did not agree to be interviewed but instead provided a reporter with a list of associations between founding members of CAIR and people alleged to be connected with Hamas.”</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Note that Sacirbey provides no examples, and implies that CAIR’s connection to Hamas is a matter of association, and that Guandolo or one of his fellow “Islamophobes” originated it, rather than noting that it comes from the Justice Department.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Other anti-Muslim activists who regularly teach police officers include Sam Kharoba, a Jordanian-born Christian who preaches that Islam is inherently violent and that a Muslim wearing a headband signifies he wants to be a martyr, and Walid Shoebat, a Christian convert who claims to be a former PLO terrorist. Shoebat believes terrorism and Islam are inseparable.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>“All Islamic organizations in America should be the No. 1 enemy. All of them,” he said.</p>
<p>I don’t know Kharoba, but I doubt he said that “a Muslim wearing a headband signifies he wants to be a martyr.” Sacirbey isn’t a trustworthy source. Meanwhile, by simply heaping scorn on the assertions that “Islam is inherently violent” and that “terrorism and Islam are inseparable,” Sacirbey hinders the public discussion that needs to be had about how Islamic jihadists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and supremacism. Anyone who is honest and observant can see that there is a unique problem with Islam and violence; consigning the entire question to “anti-Muslim bigotry” only actually reinforces suspicion of Islam and Muslims that non-Muslims do have.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Spencer, founder of the JihadWatch.com blog and whose anti-Muslim writings were cited by Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik, has given seminars on Islam and jihad to the U.S. Central Command, Army Command, the Army’s Asymmetric Warfare Group, the FBI, the Joint Terrorism Task Force, and the U.S. intelligence community, according to CAIR.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">You’d think Sacirbey would be ashamed to play the Breivik card after </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/01/murderer-breivik-opposed-spencer-and-other-counter-jihadists-identified-with-them-to-destroy-counter-jihad-movement">Breivik himself has publicly stated</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that he associated himself with the counter-jihad movement in order to discredit that movement. Of course, maybe Breivik was a convinced counter-jihadist and then tried to throw people off the scent with his recent claim; even if that were true, Sacirbey is trying to associate me with Breivik’s murders while not bothering to mention that Breivik actually criticized me for not calling for violence, saying of me, Bat Ye’or and other critics of jihad terror: “If these authors are to [sic] scared to propagate a conservative revolution and armed resistance then other authors will have to.” (Breivik, </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">2083: A European Declaration of Independence</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, p. 743) Breivik explains in his manifesto that he was “radicalized” by his experiences with Muslim immigrants in the early 1990s, before I had published anything about Islam (See Breivik, p. 1348). That Sacirbey omits all this is nothing short of libelous, and shows yet again his propagandistic agenda.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It’s funny also how Sacirbey attributes those items from my resume to CAIR, as if they investigated me and ferreted all that out. Actually they only had to search as far as </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/about-robert">my bio on this site</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. If Sacirbey wants proof that I did this training, I have plenty, including certificates of appreciation from Central Command and the Asymmetric Warfare Group. But of course, he didn’t ask.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In July 2011, Gawker reported two of Spencer’s most criticized books, “The Truth about Muhammad” and “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam,” are recommended in FBI training materials.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Criticized by whom, exactly, and for what agenda? Sacirbey doesn’t say. What in either of them is factually inaccurate? Sacirbey doesn’t say, because he can’t, because the books are accurate.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Critics of these speakers have in some cases succeeded in getting their courses canceled. In Illinois, three sessions of a course taught by Kharoba were canceled last year; the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said it would no longer use Kharoba. In 2011, the FBI did a review of its materials and trainers after news reports that their materials contained anti-Islamic instruction.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Actually they did it after 57 Muslim groups, including many with ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, wrote to John Brennan demanding that I be removed as an FBI trainer and that counter-terror materials be scrubbed of references to Islam and jihad. Brennan immediately agreed, without any apparent thought to the associations and allegiances of the groups that were making their demand, or to their goal in all this.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Prior to Guandolo’s course, Jenkins agreed to let local Muslims and Saylor deliver a presentation to officers where they described the history and beliefs of Islam, and warned about stereotypes and misperceptions about Muslims.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This is how those Islamic supremacist liars and smear artists at Hamas-linked CAIR get a foot in the door. Jenkins, had he been informed enough, would have done better to tell Saylor that no group with ties to Hamas was going to make any presentation.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“I think they looked at his resume, former FBI and former Marine, and did not look much further,” said Saylor. “A quick Internet search reveals his professional and bias issues.”</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This is how groups like Hamas-linked CAIR and their “journalist” allies like Sacirbey operate: they pile up false charges and half-truths, creating the appearance of “professional and bias issues,” so that officials who are busy and harried and careless (i.e., most officials) simply don’t want the controversy, and shy away from the speakers CAIR targets. It’s insidious and dishonest, but all too often it works. The possibility that a group with associations and positions like CAIR’s might want to silence foes of jihad terror simply because they are foes of jihad terror doesn’t enter into the mind of too many people.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Steve Emmons, executive director of Oklahoma’s Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training, said his agency doesn’t have enough personnel to vet the 3,000 course requests the council gets annually….</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It wouldn’t take much to avoid future controversies like this, Emmons said.</span></p>
<p>“If we even had two or three people who did nothing else but look at the paperwork that comes in with the course materials and lesson plans and that kind of thing, yeah, we’d be able to review those things.”</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">They should also look long and hard at who is doing the complaining, and ponder what their agenda might be. And what Omar Sacirbey’s is, quite obviously.</span></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/2013-06-03-basbakan_erdogan.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-220723" alt="2013-06-03-basbakan_erdogan" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/2013-06-03-basbakan_erdogan.jpg" width="308" height="231" /></a>Reeling from a series of embarrassing public disclosures involving </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/03/03/3971911/erdogans-party-leader-concedes.html">embezzlement</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, bribery, undue influence and strong-arm tactics, Turkey’s neo-Ottoman, Islamist Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, threatened to </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.euronews.com/2014/03/07/turkey-pm-erdogan-in-threat-to-ban-facebook-and-youtube-over-immorality-and-/">ban</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the popular social media sites of Facebook and YouTube, accusing them of encouraging “every kind of immorality and espionage for their own ends.” Erdoğan has recently resorted to a series of desperate measures, including sacking hundreds of police officers, prosecutors and judges, in a frantic effort to keep a growing corruption scandal centered on him and his cronies from spiraling out of control.</span></p>
<p>Erdoğan’s AKP government, once touted by President Obama as a shining example of Islam’s compatibility with democracy, has turned out to be as, if not more xenophobic than the autocracies currently governing the Arab and Islamic worlds. As for Erdoğan, he has proven himself to be nothing more than a petty, paranoid thug, full of hubris and delusions of grandeur.</p>
<p>Under Erdoğan, Turkey has become the world’s leading <a href="http://cpj.org/reports/2013/12/second-worst-year-on-record-for-jailed-journalists.php">incarcerator of journalists</a> followed by those democracy stalwarts of Iran and China. He has successfully usurped control from the once independent Turkish judiciary and has imposed <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/05/28/turkey-alcohol/2366649/">creeping <i>sharia</i></a><i> </i>on secular Turks.  But it is Erdoğan’s rhetoric concerning Jews and Israel where his penchant for the bizarre truly comes to fore.</p>
<p>It began in December 2009 when Erdoğan made a spectacle of himself at the World Economic Forum in Davos after moderator David Ignatius noted that Erdoğan had gone over his allotted time to speak. Erdoğan then turned to Israel’s president Shimon Peres and bellowed, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/30/world/europe/30clash.html?_r=0">“When it comes to killing, you know well how to kill.”</a> Then he stormed off the stage like a spoiled child. His theatrics played well in the Arab world but left most westerners scratching their heads.</p>
<p>In September 2011 Erdoğan outrageously claimed that Israel had killed <a href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=1278">“hundreds of thousands”</a> of Palestinians in Gaza and in classic anti-Semitic fashion boorishly stated that Israel used the Holocaust as a tool to gain world sympathy.</p>
<p>In February 2013 Erdoğan compared Zionism to fascism and further declared Zionism to be a <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/erdogan-calls-zionism-a-crime-against-humanity/">“crime against humanity.”</a></p>
<p>In June 2013 while facing mounting protests against his autocratic rule and brute thuggery, Erdoğan suggested that the “<a href="http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2013-06-27/erdogan-s-paranoia-and-turkey-s-economy">interest rate lobby</a>,” (a convenient euphemistic catch-all phrase for the all-powerful Jewish banking cabal) was behind the unrest. If there were any lingering doubts about Erdoğan’s gist, his deputy prime minister, Besir Atalay, taking cue from his boss, put them to rest when he blamed the “<a href="http://forward.com/articles/179717/turkish-official-blames-jews-for-stoking-street-pr/">Jewish diaspora</a>” for the strife. It is shocking that the leader of the second largest army in NATO can – not unlike Germany under Hitler – lay blame for his own faults on the Jews and actually get away with it without so much as even a mild reprimand. The EU’s Catherine Ashton must have been too busy condemning Israel to pay any mind to Erdoğan’s anti-Semitic rant.</p>
<p>If anyone still had any doubts about Erdoğan’s sanity, he put them to rest with his zaniest conspiracy theory yet, that French-Jewish intellectual <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/bernard-henri-levy-conspiracy-theories/2013/09/11/id/525134">Bernard-Henri Levy</a> and Israel orchestrated the military coup that deposed Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood leader, Mohammed Morsi. That outrageous claim proved too much to bear even for the State Department which termed Erdogan’s histrionics as <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/20/us-turkey-egypt-israel-usa-idUSBRE97J0S820130820">“offensive, unsubstantiated, and wrong.”</a></p>
<p>Turkey maintains NATO’s second largest army, borders three very problematic Mideast nations (Iran, Iraq and Syria), is in close proximity to Crimea and secures a substantial portion of NATO’s southern flank. But Turkey under Erdoğan has cozied up to Iran’s mullahs, has <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/turkeys-erdogan-quietly-wooing-americas-enemies-2846">opted to purchase Chinese arms</a> that are incompatible with NATO’s defense systems and has established itself as the <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-spy-boss-rails-against-turkeys-reported-betrayal-of-mossad/">premiere betrayer of intelligence agents</a>.</p>
<p>Considering Turkey’s strategic importance, an unbalanced, erratic and unpredictable Erdoğan should be a source of concern for the free world. Should Erdoğan’s AKP maintain or expand its parliamentary hold on power in the next general elections, NATO should give serious consideration to reassessing Turkey’s role in the alliance.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2014 05:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another jihadist world power rises. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Turkey-Protests_Horo-31-e1381964471291.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-218922" alt="Turkey-Protests_Horo-31-e1381964471291" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Turkey-Protests_Horo-31-e1381964471291-450x333.jpg" width="315" height="233" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Column-one-Why-Turkey-is-gone-for-good-341421">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p>Last Thursday, two Turkish businessmen stopped for lunch in a fish restaurant during a business trip to Edirne in the Babaeski region.</p>
<p>At some point during their meal, the restaurant owner figured out that they were Jews.</p>
<p>Rather than show them the hospitality Turkey is renowned for, he said he won’t serve Jews, and began cursing them and the Torah. He then took a long knife off the counter and threatened to kill them.</p>
<p>The men ran for their lives.</p>
<p>Anti-Semitic attacks have become regular events in Turkey. In December, after leaving an anti-corruption rally in Istanbul, a young woman was attacked by 10 to 15 supporters of Prime Minister Recip Tayyip Erdogan who had just left a support rally for the premier.</p>
<p>They accused her of being a Jew, as they beat her up.</p>
<p>In an interview with The Times of Israel, Turkish opposition MP Ayken Kerdemir said that Erdogan has cultivated Turkish anti-Semitism. “He is not only capitalizing on the existing sentiments, Kerdemir explained. Erdogan is “fueling some of that anti-Israel and anti-Semitic feeling… with his rhetoric, conspiracy theories, campaign slogans and actions.”</p>
<p>Kerdemir explained that Erdogan’s cultivation of anti-Semitism in Turkish society will continue to affect Turkey’s behavior and social values long after he is gone. “Even after Erdogan and AKP are gone, even if [the opposition party] CHP comes to power, it will take us quite some time to mend inter-societal relations through dialogue, awareness raising and sensitivity training.”</p>
<p>Once you let that genie out of the bottle, it is very hard to stuff it back inside.</p>
<p>Erdogan’s anti-Semitism is not opportunistic. He isn’t simply exploiting a popular prejudice for his own benefit. He is an anti-Semite. And his anti-Semitism informs his behavior toward Israel.</p>
<p>In Kerdemir’s view, Erdogan’s uncontrollable hatred of Jews makes it impossible for him to agree to reconcile Turkey’s relations with Israel.</p>
<p>As he put it, “Erdogan’s core values vis-à-vis Jews and Israel prevent him from dealing with this issue in a tolerant, embracing and sustainable way.”</p>
<p>Against this backdrop it should surprise no one that this week Erdogan sunk prospects for a renewal of Turkish ties with Israel.</p>
<p>Immediately after he took office 10 years ago, Erdogan began systematically downgrading Turkey’s strategic alliance with Israel. This process, which began gradually and accelerated after Hamas won the 2006 Palestinian elections, reached its peak in 2010.</p>
<p>In May 2010, Erdogan sponsored the pro-Hamas flotilla to Gaza whose aim was to undermine Israel’s lawful maritime blockade of the terrorist-controlled Gaza coast. The flotilla’s flagship, the Mavi Marmara, was controlled by the al-Qaida-aligned IHH organization. Its passengers included terrorists who, armed with iron bars, knives and other weaponry tried to kill IDF naval commandos when they boarded the Gaza-bound ship to enforce the blockade. In the ensuing battle, the commandos killed nine IHH terrorists.</p>
<p>Erdogan used the incident on the Mavi Marmara as a means of ending what remained of Turkey’s ties to Israel. For three years, he insisted that he would only restore full diplomatic relations if Israel ended its blockade of Hamas-controlled Gaza, apologized for its forces’ actions on board the Mavi Marmara, and paid reparations to the families of the IHH terrorists killed in their assault on the IDF commandos.</p>
<p>In March 2013, Erdogan relented in his demand that Israel end the blockade and acceded to a reconciliation deal offered by US President Barack Obama in a three-way telephone call with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that took place during Obama’s visit to Israel.</p>
<p>Following the phone call, Netanyahu apologized for “operational errors,” by IDF sailors aboard the Mavi Marmara and offered to compensate the families.</p>
<p>Negotiations toward the reinstatement of diplomatic relations were to ensue immediately.</p>
<p>But just after Netanyahu made his required gesture of appeasement, Erdogan began delaying the talks, while continuing his anti-Semitic assaults.</p>
<p>Talks eventually did start. And according to Israeli sources, they were about to conclude this week.</p>
<p>Netanyahu was beginning to build political support for his decision to agree to Turkey’s demand for a massive $20 million settlement of claims against Israel by the dead terrorists’ families.</p>
<p>But then Erdogan walked away.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, Erdogan reinstated his initial demand that Israel must end its lawful naval blockade of terrorist-controlled Gaza before he restores ties to the Jewish state.</p>
<p>In many quarters of the Israeli media, Erdogan’s action was met with surprise. Reporters who for years have insisted that Israel can make the problem go away by bowing to Erdogan’s demands are stumped by his behavior.</p>
<p>But they shouldn’t have been.</p>
<p>It isn’t simply that Erdogan cannot reconcile with Israel because he hates Jews. As is almost always the case with anti-Semites, Erdogan’s anti-Semitism is part of his general authoritarian outlook informed by a paranoid mindset.</p>
<p>Erdogan sees a Jewish conspiracy behind every independent power base in Turkey. And his rejection of Israel is an integral part of his rejection of all forces in Turkey that are not dependent on his good offices.</p>
<p>Over the past 10 years, and with ever increasing brutality, paranoia and intensity, Erdogan has sought to destroy all independent power bases in the country. He purged the military by placing hundreds of generals in prison in his delusional Ergenekon conspiracy in which they were accused of seeking to overthrow his Islamist government.</p>
<p>He has destroyed most of the independent media in the country and sent hundreds of journalists and editors to prison.</p>
<p>The same is the case with independent businessmen.</p>
<p>Over the past year, Erdogan destroyed whatever remained of the plausible deniability he initially fostered between himself and the systematic abrogation of civil rights and the rule of law in Turkey.</p>
<p>This week, 17 people were sentenced to two years each in prison for “deliberately insulting the premier and not regretting their actions,” during a small demonstration in 2012 protesting the government’s health policy.</p>
<p>Also this week, Erdogan acknowledged that he calls television broadcasters in the middle of news shows and orders them to stop the broadcast of information he doesn’t want the public to know.</p>
<p>This has included ending the live broadcast of a speech in parliament by the opposition leader, ending coverage of the mass anti-government demonstrations last summer, and removing a news ticker that reported on the corruption scandals surrounding Erdogan and his cronies. Erdogan has also reacted to the corruption investigations of his cronies by firing the public prosecutors and police officers involved in the investigations.</p>
<p>To maintain the public’s support for his burgeoning dictatorship, Erdogan has adopted populist economic policies that have sunk the Turkish economy. To buy the public’s allegiance, Erdogan has borrowed heavily internationally and artificially lowered Turkey’s interest rates, even as the local currency dropped in value in international markets and Turkey’s current accounts deficits outpaced Greece’s on the eve of its economic meltdown.</p>
<p>As David Goldman explained last week in a financial analysis of Turkey’s incipient economic meltdown in The Asia Times, rather than raise consumer interests rates, Erdogan has blamed the Jews by railing against “the interest rate lobby.”</p>
<p>Indeed, since he first invoked the term during the anti-government demonstrations last August, Erdogan has taken to blaming the interest rate cabal for all of Turkey’s woes.</p>
<p>Goldman argues that part of Turkey’s credit crisis owes to its apparent reliance on interbank loans from Saudi Arabia. In part due to their anger at Erdogan for his support for the Muslim Brotherhood, the Saudis have apparently stopped loaning to Turkish banks.</p>
<p>The Saudis’ action has pushed Erdogan into the waiting arms of Iran’s ayatollahs. In an interview with Business Insider,Australia, terror financing expert Jonathan Schanzer said Turkey and Iran were able to minimize the impact of the international sanctions on Iran’s energy sector. Between June 2012 and June 2013, the Turkish-Iranian “gas for gold” sanctions-busting scheme brought Iran $13 billion in hard currency.</p>
<p>Erdogan’s hatred of Jews, his authoritarian mindset and his Islamist ideology informed his decision to transform Turkey into one of the leading sponsors of terrorism. In addition to its massive support for Hamas, beginning in the 2006 First Lebanon War Turkey began providing assistance to Hezbollah.</p>
<p>Then there is al-Qaida. Turkey has long harbored al-Qaida financiers. And according to IDF Intelligence head Maj.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi, Turkey hosts three al-Qaida bases on its territory that enable terrorists to transit between Europe and Syria.</p>
<p>Erdogan’s ideological underpinning directs his embrace of Iran, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Hezbollah and al-Qaida. But his decimation of Turkey’s economy has made him view Iran as Turkey’s economic savior. And that in turn pushes Turkey even deeper into the jihadist camp.</p>
<p>Obviously in this situation, the chances that Turkey will agree to reconcile with Israel, at any price, is inconceivable.</p>
<p>The surprise that many Israeli journalists have expressed over Erdogan’s seeming about-face on the reconciliation deal brings us to the larger lesson of his transformation of Turkey.</p>
<p>These journalists believe that Israel’s bilateral relations with other countries are based on tit for tat. If I do something to upset you, you will get upset. If I apologize and try to make things right, then you will be satisfied and everything will go back to normal.</p>
<p>This simplistic view of the world is attractive because it places Israel in a position of power. If the only reason that Turkey is mad at Israel is that Israel will not apologize for its response to Turkey’s illegal aggression, then Israel should apologize and pay whatever damages Erdogan demands.</p>
<p>Moreover, Israel should make Erdogan believe the sincerity of its apology by maintaining faith with the myth that he is a responsible actor on the world stage, rather than a prominent sponsor of terrorism and the hangman of Turkish democracy and economic prosperity.</p>
<p>Appeasement is a seductive policy because it is gives its purveyors a sense of empowerment. And at times, when faced with a simple, limited dispute it can work.</p>
<p>But Turkey’s rejection of Israel is not a linear response to a specific Israeli action. It is a consequence of the nature of Erdogan’s regime, and due to his anti-Semitic and anti-Israel incitement, it is increasingly a consequence of the nature of Turkish society.</p>
<p>Kerdemir argued that Turkish anti-Semitism does not necessitate a rejection of Jews and Israel. And that’s true.</p>
<p>The problem is that when anti-Semitism is tied to several other political and economic pathologies, as it is in the case of Turkey, it is impossible as a practical matter for any accommodation to be reached.</p>
<p>THE SWORD-WIELDING restaurateur who responded to the mere presence of Jewish diners in his establishment with murderous rage is no more exceptional than lynch mobs in Ramallah. And as Erdogan’s economic plight worsens and his embrace of Iran and jihadist groups tightens, Turkey’s behavior will only become more extreme, unappeasable and dangerous.<br />
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2014 05:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/140128_sotu_obama_ap_328.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-217513" alt="Barack Obama" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/140128_sotu_obama_ap_328.jpg" width="240" height="197" /></a></b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">President Obama’s State of the Union gave us a look at the premises driving his foreign policy. It showed that he believes Islamic terrorists to be driven by frustration over perceived injustices at the hands of the West, rather than an ideology. It is because of this frame of mind that he can defend the faulty nuclear deal with Iran and depict the regime as a less threatening version of the Soviet Union.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Three key lines in the speech illustrated the fundamentals underlying the Obama Administration’s foreign policy.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">First, Obama indicated that he sees terrorism-sponsoring Islamist regimes as comparable to the communists of the Cold War. Both are primarily motivated by power and wealth and are open to mutually-beneficial deals. He said:</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“If John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan could negotiate with the Soviet Union, then surely a strong and confident America can negotiate with less powerful adversaries today.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This comparison overlooks the ideological differences between the two. If the Iranian regime had purely selfish interests, it would not engage in its self-injuring radical behavior. The preamble to its constitution would not state that its founding objective is “the establishment of a universal holy government and the downfall of all others.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The second noteworthy line implies that anti-Americanism and Islamic radicalism is a reaction to Western domination and military actions. He said:</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“I’ve imposed prudent limits on the use of drones—for we will not be safer if people abroad believe we strike within their countries without regard for consequence.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Drone strikes are not carried out recklessly or without concern for civilian casualties. Anti-American fervors, whether they are aimed at drone strikes or another element of U.S. policy, are not based on a careful analysis. They are stoked by governments like our “allies” in Pakistan and Islamist provocateurs. Increased regulations on drone strikes, or even the complete abandonment of drone strikes, will do nothing to stem their incendiary rhetoric.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Thirdly, President Obama criticized “large-scale deployments that drain our strength and may ultimately feed extremism.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This is one small step away from saying, “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.” Again, President Obama argues that Islamic extremists are reacting to Western heavy-handedness.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Each individual’s radicalization can be prompted by many factors, and disagreement with Western policy may be one of them, but it is not the decisive factor. Yet, it is the factor that President Obama most references.</span></p>
<p>A recent example would be that of Terry Lee Loewen, a 58-year-old convert to Islam who was <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/witcheta-suicide-bomber-radicalized-online">arrested</a> after he was caught planning to bomb an airport in Wichita, Kansas. When he explained his thoughts to undercover FBI agents, he said:</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“I have been studying subjects like </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">jihad</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, martyrdom operations and </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.clarionproject.org/glossary/sharia/"><i>Sharia</i></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> law. I don’t understand how you can read the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.clarionproject.org/glossary/quran/">Quran</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> and the </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">sunnah</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> of the Prophet and not understand that </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">jihad</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> and implementation of </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">sharia</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> is absolutely demanded of all the Muslim </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.clarionproject.org/glossary/ummah/"><i>ummah</i></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The same terrorists who target the U.S. support all sorts of despicable things that have nothing to do with Western foreign policy. Their grievances against the U.S. stem from an overall Islamist worldview that the Obama Administration does not recognize as the core problem.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This brings us to the statement, “From Tunisia to Burma, we’re supporting those who are willing to do the hard work of building democracy.” Because Islamism is not defined as the threat, Islamists that are not Al-Qaeda and vote are viewed as components of democracy. The result is that the U.S. has failed to capitalize on the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/anti-brotherhood-wave-weeping-middle-east">anti-Islamist backlash</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> in the region.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This is why Egypt went unmentioned in the speech. President Obama defended the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, but understands that mentioning its overthrow now will only offend the current Egyptian government.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The section of the State of the Union speech with the largest holes was about Iran.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Obama first misleadingly claimed the deal “has halted the progress of Iran’s nuclear program and rolled parts of that program back” and that “Iran has begun to eliminate its stockpile of higher levels of enriched uranium.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">He didn’t mention that the “rolled back” portions of the program are easily reversible. The Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304027204579332964034504576">said</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, “We can return again to 20% enrichment in less than one day, and we can convert the material again.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">That’s not just bluster. Two credible nuclear experts </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/irans-nuclear-plans">write</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that the re-conversion of this material is technically feasible. It can be done quickly and possibly without Western intelligence knowing it has begun.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The progress of Iran’s program is not necessarily “halted” either. The deal does not cover Iran’s ballistic missile program, the training of scientists and other personnel or any nuclear work done in North Korea.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Notice President Obama’s careful word usage when he said, “[Iran] is not installing advanced centrifuges.” The Iranian regime is openly </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-1-226166-Iran-defends-development-of-advanced-centrifuges">building them</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, though. Once completed, they will quicken the pace of uranium enrichment and shorten the time needed to make a nuclear bomb.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The term “rolled back” gives the public the impression that parts of the nuclear program are being dismantled. That is false. </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">None</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> of the infrastructure is being taken down. The Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister said, “the structure of our nuclear program is preserved” and the Foreign Minister </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/iran-nuclear-agreement-dismantling-102507.html">boasted</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that Iran “did not agree to dismantle anything.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">One bright spot of the speech was in regard to Afghanistan. President Obama said that leaving entirely is an option if an agreement is not negotiated. It is important for the treacherous President Karzai to understand this.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">His praise of the sacrifice of the troops is commendable and Americans need to be reminded of what they go through for us. What was missing was a narrative of success.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">President Obama quickly mentioned that Afghan forces are taking the lead, but the world needs to know about the victories our troops have fought for. The capabilities of the Afghan forces have </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/kagan-afghanistan-Karzai-foothold/2014/01/28/id/549439">greatly increased</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> and there are </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/17/the-afghan-war-is-not-a-lost-cause/%20">plenty of facts and stories</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that can be told as U.S. troops leave. The enemy’s propaganda needs to be confronted, but the word “Taliban” was not even mentioned.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The common thread tying all of these errors together is that the Islamist ideology is not pinpointed as the problem. Until the threat is accurately crystallized, American foreign policy will be flawed.</span></p>
<p><em>The <a href="http://www.theird.org/">Institute on Religion and Democracy</a> contributed to this article.</em></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2014 05:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>An Islamist Thanksgiving</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[While America celebrated, Muslim extremists and their supporters gathered in Illinois. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/american-muslims-for-palestine-ad-metro-north.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-212440" alt="american-muslims-for-palestine-ad-metro-north" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/american-muslims-for-palestine-ad-metro-north.jpg" width="294" height="221" /></a>Islamists even see Thanksgiving as a time to advance their cause. In the morning, Islamists exploited the parade and in the evening, Islamists assembled in Illinois for the “Conference for Palestine in the U.S.” And one of their favorite evangelicals was there to join them.</p>
<p>The organizer of the event was <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/american-muslims-palestine-amp">American Muslims for Palestine</a> (AMP) and it took place at Crowne Plaza O’Hare in Rosemont, Illinois from November 28 to December 1. The Islamist group often works with interfaith coalitions and one of its very partners is Presbyterian Reverend Donald Wagner, former director and <a href="http://www.emeu.net/media/EMEU_Brochure.pdf">current board member</a> of Evangelicals for Middle East Understanding.</p>
<p>Last year’s AMP conference <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/illinois-islamist-conference-indoctrination-children-key-focus">had at least 13 Islamist speakers</a> with pro-Hamas and pro-Muslim Brotherhood agendas and had <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/illinois-islamist-conference-indoctrination-children-key-focus">education for children</a> about their cause. Reverend Wagner was also on the speaker’s roster and is back again this year.</p>
<p>The AMP explicitly says that he “works internationally to educate Christians about the problems of Christian Zionism.” He falsely states that evangelicals support Israel only to trigger an Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ. To put it another way, Wagner and his group see them as the Christian equivalent of Ahmadinejad.</p>
<p>And his group isn’t just talking among themselves and to Islamists that don’t need convincing. In November 2012, Wagner’s group held a <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/ryan-mauro/israel-haters-invade-wheaton-college/">Middle East briefing at the Billy Graham Center of Wheaton College.</a> The speakers were hostile to Israel and support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign.</p>
<p>Wagner’s fellow speakers at the Thanksgiving Weekend conference are prominent Islamists whose backgrounds are simple to find. He and the other non-Muslim speakers like Max Blumenthal and Josh Ruebner, National Advocacy Director of the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, have no excuse. They are either don’t care about the conference’s extremism or don’t care to know.</p>
<p><b>AMP Chairman Hatem Bazian</b> is one of the Islamist co-founders of <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/zaytuna-college">Zaytuna College</a> in California. In 2004, he was videotaped calling for an “intifada” in America to “change fundamentally the political dynamics here.” He told Muslims to follow in the footsteps of Palestinians fighting Israel and Iraqis fighting U.S. forces.</p>
<p><b>Osama Abu Irshaid</b> is a board member of the AMP. He used to be the editor for a Muslim Brotherhood front in the U.S. and legitimized Hamas’s attacks on Israel in 2010 as legally justifiable. He also has called Hamas “the resistance.”</p>
<p><b>Rashid Khalidi</b> of Columbia University is well-known for his incendiary comments. He <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1347">says</a> he is a “severe critic” of Hamas but described the killing of Israeli soldiers as “resistance” in 2002. His wife also worked for the PLO when it was officially designated as a terrorist group by the U.S.</p>
<p><b>Abdelfattah Mourou</b> is a co-founder of the Ennahda Party that currently leads Tunisia. The population that once elected it to power has since turned against it. It is essentially the Brotherhood’s branch there and he co-founded it with Rachid Ghannouchi, a prominent Islamist with a long record of extremism.</p>
<p><b>Sheikh Kifah Mustapha</b> is an imam and Associate Director at the <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/mosque-foundation">Mosque Foundation</a> in Bridgeview, Illinois. He is an <a href="http://media.radicalislam.org/misc/pdf/List+of+Unindicted+HLF+Co-conspirators.pdf">unindicted co-conspirator</a> in the trial of the Holy Land Foundation.</p>
<p>The U.S. government specifically listed him as an elite operative of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood as a member of its secret Palestine Committee. These operatives covertly advance the interests of Hamas through a web of fronts. He was even in a pro-Hamas band.</p>
<p>According to AMP, Mustapha is the chairman of the Quran Institute of the Chicago chapter of the <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/muslim-american-society-mas">Muslim American Society.</a> He is also the President of the Shura of Islamic Family Counselors of America and chairman of the Illinois Council of Imams and Scholars. Several other positions are listed in his bio, reflecting the success the Brotherhood has had in building and infiltrating Islamic institutions in America.</p>
<p><b>Rafeeq Jaber</b> is a co-founder of the <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/council-islamic-relations-cair">Council on American-Islamic Relations</a>, another U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity and unindicted co-conspirator. He is on the Board of Directors of the Mosque Foundation, making him a colleague of Mustapha’s. He is also the regional director of the Greater Chicago Area for the Muslim Legal Fund of America, a group that defended the Holy Land Foundation officials that were convicted.</p>
<p><b>Mohammed Kaiseruddin</b> is the chairman of the Board of Trustees for the IMAN Fund. The organization shares an address with the <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/north-american-islamic-trust-nait">North American Islamic Trust</a>, another U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity and unindicted co-conspirator.</p>
<p>He is also the chairman of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago and vice chairman of the Downtown Islamic Center.</p>
<p><b>Safaa Zarzour</b> is the former secretary-general of the <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/islamic-society-north-america-isna">Islamic Society of North America</a>, which is—you guessed it—<i>another</i> U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity and unindicted co-conspirator. He leads the Zakat Foundation and is a board member of the Council of Islamic Schools of North America.</p>
<p>He’s also part of the <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/mb-front-succeeds-partnering-us-universities">Islamist involvement in colleges</a> and interfaith programs. He is an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School, where he teaches Education and Islamic Law. He is also an official with the St. Xavier School of Education, Governor State University Foundation and Bernadine Center at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago.</p>
<p><b>Lamis Deek</b> is a board member of the New York chapter of CAIR. She <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/cair-officials-celebrate-muslim-brotherhood-victory">supports the Muslim Brotherhood</a>, defends Hamas and wants <i>jihadists</i> to fight in Israel instead of Syria.</p>
<p><b>Othman Atta</b> is the executive director of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee. . He <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/3346/american-muslims-for-palestine-web-of-hamas">opposes</a> the labeling of Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist groups. He legitimizes violence against Israelis, saying “it’s within the right of an occupied people to resist their occupiers” but condemns attacks on “innocent civilians.”</p>
<p>A 2001 FBI memo <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/3346/american-muslims-for-palestine-web-of-hamas">documented</a> that some members of the mosque were fundraising for the Holy Land Foundation.</p>
<p><b>Sheikh Amin Al-Ali</b> is the imam of the Islamic Community Center of Illinois. His mosque’s website has had a page of recommended reading about the “Islamic movement and training” that features the work of the Muslim Brotherhood’s founder, the Brotherhood’s current terrorism-supporting spiritual leader and the founder of Jamaat-e-Islami, essentially the Brotherhood branch of Pakistan.</p>
<p>Warner is joining at least seven speakers with documented ties to the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood network and three more with known Muslim Brotherhood allegiances. And this evangelical activist and other interfaith allies of this network are dedicated to their mission of winning Christians to their side.</p>
<p>Islamists never take holidays off from their ideology. And some of their interfaith allies don’t either.</p>
<p><strong>The <a href="http://www.theird.org">Institute on Religion and Democracy</a> contributed to this article.</strong></p>
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		<title>Sharia on Tour</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2013 04:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Siraj-Wahhaj.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-211332" alt="Siraj-Wahhaj" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Siraj-Wahhaj.jpg" width="234" height="175" /></a>If you live near Baltimore, Houston, Atlanta or Rochester and want to see a Sharia-promoting show, you’re in luck. The <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/islamic-circle-north-america-icna">Islamic Circle of North America</a> and <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/muslim-american-society-mas">Muslim American Society</a>, two groups linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, have announced four conferences featuring rock stars of the Islamist movement.</p>
<p>ICNA is identified as one of “our organizations and the organizations of our friends” in a once-secret <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/Muslim_Brotherhood_Explanatory_Memorandum">1991 U.S. Muslim Brotherhood memo.</a> It explicitly states the network’s “work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within…”</p>
<p>The organization is a derivative of the Jamaat-e-Islami group in Pakistan. One of ICNA’s former leaders, Ashrafuzzaman Khan, was recently <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/usmuslim-leader-sentenced-death-bangladesh-war-crimes">sentenced to death</a> in Bangladesh for his involvement in Jamaat-e-Islami’s war crimes. Unsurprisingly, ICNA is <a href="http://www.icna.org/icna-expresses-concern-over-bangladesh-tribunals/">upset</a> at the ruling.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/475.pdf">2010 ICNA handbook</a> advocates a gradualist strategy that culminates in a “united Islamic state, governed by an elected khalifah in accordance with the laws of shari’ah (Islamic law).” The Islamist leaders that the handbook looks to for guidance include the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Brotherhood’s current spiritual leader and the founder of Jamaat-e-Islami.</p>
<p>MAS was “founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America,” according to federal prosecutors in a <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/542.pdf">2008 case.</a> Last year, a former U.S. Muslim Brotherhood leader <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/3486/under-oath-alamoudi-ties-mas-to-brotherhood">testified</a> that “everyone knows that the MAS is the Muslim Brotherhood.”</p>
<p>Both groups have <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/america-islamist-groups-hold-rallies-morsi">held rallies</a> to protest the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood and President Morsi in Egypt.</p>
<p>Houston is the first stop on the ICNA-MAS Sharia tour. From November 29 to December 1, they will be holding their joint <a href="http://icnatexas.org/">South Central Convention</a> at a JW Marriott Hotel. The overall theme is, “Blueprint for a Lasting Legacy.”</p>
<p>One of the speakers is Imam Khalid Griggs, the chairman of the ICNA Council for Social Justice. Former CIA case officer Clare Lopez <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/wake-forest-universitys-radical-imam">found out</a> that he used to be involved with the Islamic Party of North America, a group that explicitly preaches “a revolutionary Islam.” Its inspirers include Khomeini, Qutb, Qaddafi and Maududi, the founder of Jamaat-e-Islami.</p>
<p>Another speaker is Sheikh Omar Suleiman. According to his <a href="http://gamuslimevents.org/icnaseconvention/speaker/siraj-we/">bio</a>, he studied under Sheikh Salah As-Sawy and Dr. Hatem al-Haj. These are two Salafist clerics that lead the very radical <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/assembly-muslim-jurists-america">Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America</a>. The closest the organization can bring itself to foreswearing violent jihad is to <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/american-muslim-jurists-group-aspiring-towards-jihad">oppose it</a> because “the Islamic community does not possess the strength to engage in offensive jihad <b>at this time</b> [emphasis added].”</p>
<p>On November 30, ICNA is holding its first conference in upstate New York at Rochester Riverside Convention Center, themed as “Islam: The Pursuit of Happiness.”</p>
<p>Speakers include the notorious Imam Siraj Wahhaj, whose version of “pursuing happiness” includes violent jihad and replacing Western democracy with Sharia Law.</p>
<p>Wahhaj has an <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/masjid-taqwa">undeniable, documented record of extremism</a> that would make any genuinely “moderate” Muslim group sprint away from him. He’s had to tame down his anti-Americanism and support for violent jihad and theocracy in the post-9/11 atmosphere, but that doesn’t mean his beliefs have changed.</p>
<p>At the 2011 ICNA-MAS national convention, he <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/popular-muslim-iman-working-towards-sharia-america">advised</a> Muslims to avoid talking to non-Muslims about Sharia because “we are not there yet.” More recently, the NYPD <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/evidence-supports-nypd-counter-terrorism-ops">revealed</a> that it had evidence that the security team at Wahhaj’s mosque was involved in illegal weapons trafficking, anti-police martial arts training and paintball trips described as preparation for jihad. Of course, Wahhaj and his allies accuse the NYPD of “racial profiling.”</p>
<p>Another speaker in Rochester is Jamal Barzinji, one of the founding fathers of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood network. His home was <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/891.pdf">raided</a> in 2003 because he “is not only closely associated with PIJ [Palestinian Islamic Jihad]…but also with Hamas.” The Justice Department <a href="http://pjmedia.com/blog/pjm-exclusive-holders-doj-scuttled-more-terror-related-prosecutions/?singlepage=true">reportedly</a> cancelled a planned indictment of him in 2011.</p>
<p>If you live in the Atlanta area, you can get your dose of Islamist indoctrination at the joint ICNA-MAS <a href="http://www.icnaga.org/">Southeast Annual Convention</a> on December 27-29 at the Renaissance Atlanta Waverly Hotel. Its <a href="http://www.icna.org/are-you-ready-for-upcoming-icna-conventions/">preachers</a> include the aforementioned Wahhaj, Suleiman, Griggs and many others.</p>
<p>ICNA and MAS also announced that their <a href="http://www.icnaconvention.org/">39th annual convention</a> will be held on May 24-26 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Maryland. Its speakers have not been decided yet but if the convention’s past content is any indication, then be ready for some subtle and not-so-subtle Islamist preaching.</p>
<p>As mentioned above, the 2011 convention included Wahhaj’s message to avoid conversations about Sharia for the time being. His recommendation was similar to another speaker at the 2002 convention who <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/chi-0409190261sep19,0,3008717.story">said</a>, “We may all feel emotionally attached to the goal of an Islamic state…[but] we mustn’t cross hurdles we can’t jump yet.”</p>
<p>At last year’s convention, radical cleric Zaid Shakir <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/popular-us-imam-replace-constitution-sharia">preached</a> that the U.S. Constitution had failed and Islam (meaning Sharia) provides a superior model of governance because it denies equality. He said:</p>
<p>“Secularism says we keep religion out. Why? Because if we have religion and religion is the basis of membership in the community, we can’t have perfect equality. We can’t have perfect equality. If Islam is the basis, the <i>kafir</i> won’t be equal with the Muslim. The Christian or the Jew will be a <i>dhimmi.</i> They won’t be equal with the Muslim.”</p>
<p>The Islamists are going on tour but if you miss them this time around, don’t worry—they won’t be retiring anytime soon.</p>
<p><em>The <a href="http://www.theird.org/">Institute on Religion and Democracy</a> contributed to this article.</em></p>
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		<title>Kerry&#8217;s Surprising Defiance of the White House on Egypt</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2013 04:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/22C7436A-F8C9-413D-8ABE-34453E6E8A2C_mw1024_n_s.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-211138" alt="22C7436A-F8C9-413D-8ABE-34453E6E8A2C_mw1024_n_s" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/22C7436A-F8C9-413D-8ABE-34453E6E8A2C_mw1024_n_s-450x302.jpg" width="315" height="211" /></a>Josh Rogin reported in the <a title="" href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/18/exclusive-john-kerry-defies-the-white-house-on-egypt-policy.html" target="_blank">Daily Beast</a> Monday that there is a rift in Barack Obama’s foreign policy team over Egypt. “Before <a title="" href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2013/11/03/kerry-arrives-in-egypt.html" target="_blank">Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent trip to Cairo</a>,” Rogin wrote, “National Security Adviser Susan Rice told him to make strong statements in public and private about the trial of deposed President Mohamed Morsi. On his own, Kerry decided to disregard the White House’s instructions.”</p>
<p>John Kerry, defender of freedom? Rice certainly made it seem that way when she publicly contradicted Kerry’s statement that Egypt, having rid itself of the Muslim Brotherhood regime, was “on the path to democracy.” How one answers the question of whether Egypt has experienced a military coup or a popular uprising that has placed it on the path to democracy depends on one’s opinion of the Brotherhood and willingness to ignore the tens of millions of anti-Brotherhood protesters who took to the streets in uprisings that ultimately brought down the Morsi regime.</p>
<p>Kerry seems unwilling to ignore them, and at a November 3 press conference in Cairo, <a title="" href="http://translations.state.gov/st/english/texttrans/2013/11/20131103285682.html" target="_blank">said</a> in effect that post-Brotherhood Egypt was on the right track: “The roadmap [to democracy] is being carried out to the best of our perception. There are questions we have here and there about one thing or another, but Foreign Minister Fahmy has reemphasized to me again and again that they have every intent and they are determined to fulfill that particular decision and that track.”</p>
<p>An unnamed Obama official <a title="" href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/18/exclusive-john-kerry-defies-the-white-house-on-egypt-policy.html" target="_blank">observed</a>: “John Kerry doesn’t agree with Susan Rice on big portions of our Egypt policy, and he made a deliberate and conscious decision not to mention Morsi in his Cairo meetings. Susan Rice wasn’t happy about it.”</p>
<p>Indeed not, for on November 13, Rice <a title="" href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/18/exclusive-john-kerry-defies-the-white-house-on-egypt-policy.html" target="_blank">said</a> in a speech:</p>
<blockquote><p>We have tried to indicate to the Egyptian people and the Egyptian government that we support them in their transition back to an elected democratic government. But that government needs to be inclusive. It needs to be brought about through a process in which all Egyptians can participate, and without violence. So when, in August, in the process of trying to clear the protesters from some of the squares in Cairo, over 1,000 people were killed, the United States, I think quite rightly, said, you know, &#8220;We have a problem with that. And we can’t pretend to conduct business as usual on the context of a government, however friendly, taking that kind of action against its people.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Business as usual was indeed scuttled in early October, when the State Department <a title="" href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/state-department-us-suspending-hundreds-millions-military-and-other-aid-egypt" target="_blank">announced</a> that it was cutting hundreds of millions in military and other aid to Egypt, casting a large vote for the restoration of the Muslim Brotherhood to power and sending the Egyptian military regime into a new friendship with the Russians. Yet according to a person whom <a title="" href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/18/exclusive-john-kerry-defies-the-white-house-on-egypt-policy.html" target="_blank">Rogin identifies</a> as a “Washington Egypt expert with close ties to the administration,” “We wouldn’t have had any aid suspension at all if it had been up to John Kerry and Chuck Hagel.”</p>
<p>Obama has not publicly rebuked Kerry, but it is clear where his sympathies lie. He has supported the Brotherhood from the earliest days of the “Arab Spring.” On January 31, 2011, when the Mubarak regime was on the verge of falling in the Arab Spring uprising, a former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, Frank Wisner, met <a title="" href="http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=258405" target="_blank">secretly</a> in Cairo with Issam El-Erian, a senior Brotherhood leader. That meeting came a week after a Mubarak government official announced the regime’s suspicions that Brotherhood and other opposition leaders were coordinating the Egyptian uprising with the Obama State Department.</p>
<p>Then <a title="" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/30/us-usa-egypt-brotherhood-idUSTRE75T0GD20110630" target="_blank">in June 2011</a>, the Administration announced that it was going to establish formal ties with the Brotherhood. The U.S.’s special coordinator for transitions in the Middle East, William Taylor, <a title="" href="http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/US-would-be-satisfied-with-Brotherhood-win-in-Egypt" target="_blank">announced</a> in November 2011 that the U.S. would be “satisfied” with a Muslim Brotherhood victory in the Egyptian elections. <a title="" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/25/us-davos-usa-egypt-idUSTRE80O24G20120125" target="_blank">In January 2012</a>, Obama announced that he was speeding up the delivery of aid to Egypt, just as U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns <a title="" href="http://news.yahoo.com/us-official-meets-egypts-islamists-171212768.html" target="_blank">held talks</a> with Brotherhood leaders – a move apparently calculated to demoralize the Brotherhood’s opposition in the Egyptian elections.</p>
<p>Kerry’s predecessor as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, hurried to Cairo to meet with the new Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi <a title="" href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765589901/Hillary-Clinton-meets-Egypts-new-Islamist-president-Mohammed-Morsi.html" target="_blank">in July 2012</a>, as anti-Brotherhood protesters gathered outside the U.S. Embassy complex there. The Obama administration’s support for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt had been so glaringly obvious that foes of the Brotherhood regime pelted her motorcade with tomatoes and shoes for delivering that country up to the rule of the Brotherhood. Protestors held signs reading “Message to Hillary: Egypt will never be Pakistan”; “To Hillary: Hamas will never rule Egypt” and “If you like the Ikhwan [Brotherhood], take them with you!”</p>
<p>Likewise, when millions of Egyptians took to the streets last summer to protest against the Brotherhood regime and it was suddenly and unexpectedly toppled from power, numerous anti-Brotherhood protesters held signs accusing Obama of supporting terrorists. One foe of the Brotherhood made a music video <a title="" href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/05/hey-obama-you-are-stupid-bad-man-viral-egyptian-music-video-accuses-obama-of-supporting-terrorism-muslim-brotherhood/" target="_blank">including the lyrics</a>: “Hey Obama, support the terrorism/Traitor like the Brotherhood members/Obama say it’s a coup/That’s not your business dirty man.” A protestor in Tahrir Square held up a sign <a title="" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/01/sign-in-tahrir-square-obama-you-jerk-muslim-brotherhoods-are-killing-the-egyptians.html" target="_blank">saying</a>, “Obama you jerk, Muslim Brotherhoods are killing the Egyptians.” Signs like that one became commonplace at anti-Morsi protests; another read, “Hey Obama, your bitch is our dictator.”</p>
<p>Yet despite the abundant evidence that the removal of the Brotherhood regime was the result of a popular uprising against an oppressive regime, Obama has remained chilly toward the military regime. So will John Kerry be replaced as Secretary of State? Or at least told privately to support the Brotherhood more energetically, and do what Susan Rice tells him in that regard? In such an event, Kerry, a canny and ambitious political animal, will doubtless fall into line, and not repeat his mistake. But for one moment, in any case, he was the unlikeliest advocate for the free people of Egypt.</p>
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		<title>Al-Qaeda’s Jihad Supported by Muslim Brotherhood</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New revelations from the leader of al-Qaeda. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/3687858.bin_.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-210918" alt="3687858.bin_" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/3687858.bin_.jpg" width="248" height="186" /></a>While some are convinced that the various Islamic organizations are discreet and disparate phenomena with divergent goals, once again information appears indicating that, all semantics aside, they are better viewed as branches emanating from one root — branches that complement and work with one another for the same goal: the empowerment of Islam, whether through jihad or <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/sharias-sinister-smiles/" target="_blank">suits and smiley faces</a>.</p>
<p>Many are aware that the current al-Qaeda leader, the Egyptian Ayman Zawahiri is a former Brotherhood member (<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/ayman-zawahiri-and-egypt-a-trip-through-time/" target="_blank">read here</a>); yet few know that the original al-Qaeda leader, the Saudi (and “Wahhabi”) Osama bin Laden was also a Brotherhood member. While Zawahiri made as much clear in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YYsrsU4tSc">a recent video</a>, more interestingly, he indicated that the Brotherhood also supported bin Laden’s jihad.</p>
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<p>In Zawahiri’s words:</p>
<blockquote><p>Sheikh Osama used to say: “I was evicted from my organization.  Although I was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood organization, I was rejected by the organizations.”  Sheikh Osama bin Laden was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood group in the Arabian Peninsula. After the Russian invasion in Afghanistan, he immediately went to Pakistan to make the acquaintance of and work with the mujahidin. The group of Islamists gave him instructions to remain in Lahore to orchestrate aid; yet he was not to leave Lahore, but remain there and they would deliver aid and relief and he decide how to use it.</p></blockquote>
<p>Interesting here is Zawahiri’s use of the term “the group of Islamists.”  While some may think this is a reference to al-Gam’a al-Islamiyya of Egypt — literally, “the Islamic Organization” — based on the context of his discussion, it is clear that Zawahiri is generically referring to the Muslim Brotherhood, as in <em>that</em> “group of Islamists.”</p>
<p>This only further confirms what recent events, especially in Egypt, demonstrate — that the Muslim Brotherhood is an inciter and supporter of the jihad around the world, also known in the West as “terrorism” — and that ousted president <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/new-evidence-ties-ousted-morsi-government-to-al-qaeda/" target="_blank">Morsi was in league with al-Qaeda</a>.</p>
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		<title>The Muslim Brotherhood’s Man in the White House</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama’s affection for the Islamic supremacist group has been unstinting. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/obama-egypt.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-208268" alt="obama-egypt" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/obama-egypt-450x338.jpg" width="315" height="237" /></a>When the State Department <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/state-department-us-suspending-hundreds-millions-military-and-other-aid-egypt">announced</a> early in October that it was cutting hundreds of millions in military and other aid to Egypt, it was yet another manifestation of Barack Obama’s unstinting support for the Muslim Brotherhood,<b> </b>a support that has already thrown Egypt back into the Russian orbit. The aid cut was essentially giving the Egyptian people a choice between Muslim Brotherhood rule and economic collapse. Nothing else could have been expected from Obama, who has been a Brotherhood man from the beginning.</p>
<p>Obama’s support for the Brotherhood goes back to the beginning of his presidency. <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/01/head-of-muslim-group-with-admitted-hamas-ties-to-offer-prayer-at-obama-inauguration.html">He even invited Ingrid Mattson</a>, then-president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), to offer a prayer at the National Cathedral on his first Inauguration Day – despite the fact that <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/732/isna-admits-hamas-ties">ISNA has admitted its ties to the Brotherhood</a>. The previous summer, federal prosecutors rejected a request from ISNA to remove its unindicted co-conspirator status. Obama didn’t ask Mattson to explain ISNA’s links to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. On the contrary: he sent his Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett to be the keynote speaker at ISNA’s national convention in 2009.</p>
<p>Even worse, in April 2009, Obama appointed Arif Alikhan, the deputy mayor of Los Angeles, as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development at the Department of Homeland Security. Just two weeks before he received this appointment, Alikhan (who once called the jihad terror group Hizballah a “liberation movement”) participated in a fundraiser for the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). Like ISNA, MPAC has links to the Muslim Brotherhood. In a book entitled <i>In Fraternity: A Message to Muslims in America, </i>coauthor Hassan Hathout, a former MPAC president, is identified as “a close disciple of the late Hassan al-Banna of Egypt.” The MPAC-linked magazine <i>The Minaret</i> spoke of Hassan Hathout’s closeness to al-Banna in a 1997 article: “My father would tell me that Hassan Hathout was a companion of Hassan al-Banna&#8230;.Hassan Hathout would speak of al-Banna with such love and adoration; he would speak of a relationship not guided by politics or law but by a basic sense of human decency.”</p>
<p>Al-Banna, of course, was the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, an admirer of Hitler and a leader of the movement to (in his words) “push the Jews into the sea.”</p>
<p>Terror researcher Steven Emerson’s Investigative Project has documented MPAC’s indefatigable and consistent opposition to virtually every domestic anti-terror initiative; its magazine <i>The Minaret</i> has dismissed key counterterror operations as part of “[t]he American crusade against Islam and Muslims.” For his part, while Alikhan was deputy mayor of Los Angeles, he blocked a Los Angeles Police Department project to assemble data about the ethnic makeup of mosques in the Los Angeles area. This was not an attempt to conduct surveillance of the mosques or monitor them in any way. LAPD Deputy Chief Michael P. Downing explained that it was actually an outreach program: “We want to know where the Pakistanis, Iranians and Chechens are so we can reach out to those communities.” But Alikhan and other Muslim leaders claimed that the project manifested racism and “Islamophobia,” and the LAPD ultimately discarded all plans to study the mosques.</p>
<p>And early in 2009, when the Muslim Brotherhood was still outlawed in Egypt, <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/obama-met-muslim-brotherhood-members-in-u-s-1.277306">Obama met with its leaders</a>. He <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2009/06/-brotherhood-invited-to-obama-speech-by-us/18693/">made sure to invite Brotherhood leaders</a> to attend his notorious speech to the Islamic world in Cairo in June 4, 2009, making it impossible for then-President Hosni Mubarak to attend the speech, since he would not appear with the leaders of the outlawed group.</p>
<p>Then on January 31, 2011, when the Mubarak regime was on the verge of falling in the Arab Spring uprising, a former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, Frank Wisner, met <a href="http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=258405">secretly</a> in Cairo with Issam El-Erian, a senior Brotherhood leader. That meeting came a week after a Mubarak government official announced the regime’s suspicions that Brotherhood and other opposition leaders were coordinating the Egyptian uprising with the Obama State Department.</p>
<p>Early in February, Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, tried to allay concerns about a Muslim Brotherhood takeover in Egypt by claiming, preposterously, that the group was “<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/02/10/administration-corrects-dni-clapper-claim-muslim-brotherhood-secular/">largely secular</a>.” Although the subsequent torrent of ridicule compelled the Obama camp to issue a correction, the subtext of Clapper’s statement was clear: the Obama Administration had no problem with Muslim Brotherhood rule in Egypt, and was not only going to do nothing to stop it, but was going actively to enable it.</p>
<p>And so <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/30/us-usa-egypt-brotherhood-idUSTRE75T0GD20110630">in June 2011</a>, the Administration announced that it was going to establish formal ties with the Brotherhood. The U.S.’s special coordinator for transitions in the Middle East, William Taylor, <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/US-would-be-satisfied-with-Brotherhood-win-in-Egypt">announced</a> in November 2011 that the U.S. would be “satisfied” with a Muslim Brotherhood victory in the Egyptian elections. <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/25/us-davos-usa-egypt-idUSTRE80O24G20120125">In January 2012</a>, Obama announced that he was speeding up the delivery of aid to Egypt, just as U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/us-official-meets-egypts-islamists-171212768.html">held talks</a> with Brotherhood leaders – a move apparently calculated to demoralize the Brotherhood’s opposition in the Egyptian elections.</p>
<p>Not surprisingly, when Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi was declared the winner of Egypt’s 2012 presidential election, <a href="http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/06/white-house-congratulates-egypts-morsi-127117.html">Obama immediately called Morsi</a> to congratulate him. Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hurried to Cairo to meet with Morsi <a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765589901/Hillary-Clinton-meets-Egypts-new-Islamist-president-Mohammed-Morsi.html">in July 2012</a>, as anti-Brotherhood protesters gathered outside the U.S. Embassy complex there. The Obama administration’s support for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt had been so glaringly obvious that foes of the Brotherhood regime pelted her motorcade with tomatoes and shoes for delivering that country up to the rule of the Brotherhood. Protestors held signs reading “Message to Hillary: Egypt will never be Pakistan”; “To Hillary: Hamas will never rule Egypt” and “If you like the Ikhwan [Brotherhood], take them with you!”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765589901/Hillary-Clinton-meets-Egypts-new-Islamist-president-Mohammed-Morsi.html">Obama invited Morsi</a> to visit the U.S., although by September 2012, when Morsi had called for the release of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the 1993 World Trade Center jihad attack plotter, as well as for restrictions on the freedom of speech, and persecution of Egyptian Christians had increased dramatically, Obama <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/24/obama-cancels-election-season-meeting-with-egyptian-islamist-morsi/">quietly canceled</a> the proposed meeting.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Obama’s foreign policy displayed a decided pro-Brotherhood orientation. Former U.S. prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy has <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/354351/huma-unmentionables-andrew-c-mccarthy">listed</a> a great many strange collaborations between Obama’s State Department and Muslim Brotherhood organizations, including:</p>
<p>• Secretary Clinton personally intervened to reverse a Bush-administration ruling that barred Tariq Ramadan, grandson of the Brotherhood’s founder and son of one of its most influential early leaders, from entering the United States.</p>
<p>• The State Department collaborated with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, a bloc of governments heavily influenced by the Brotherhood, in seeking to restrict American free-speech rights in deference to sharia proscriptions against negative criticism of Islam.</p>
<p>• The State Department excluded Israel, the world’s leading target of terrorism, from its “Global Counterterrorism Forum,” a group that brings the United States together with several Islamist governments, prominently including its co-chair, Turkey — which now finances Hamas and avidly supports the flotillas that seek to break Israel’s blockade of Hamas. At the forum’s kickoff, Secretary Clinton decried various terrorist attacks and groups; but she did not mention Hamas or attacks against Israel — in transparent deference to the Islamist governments, which echo the Brotherhood’s position that Hamas is not a terrorist organization and that attacks against Israel are not terrorism.</p>
<p>• The State Department and the Obama administration waived congressional restrictions in order to transfer $1.5 billion dollars in aid to Egypt after the Muslim Brotherhood’s victory in the parliamentary elections.</p>
<p>• The State Department and the Obama administration waived congressional restrictions in order to transfer millions of dollars in aid to the Palestinian territories notwithstanding that Gaza is ruled by the terrorist organization Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestinian branch.</p>
<p>• The State Department and the administration hosted a contingent from Egypt’s newly elected parliament that included not only Muslim Brotherhood members but a member of the Islamic Group (Gamaa al-Islamiyya), which is formally designated as a foreign terrorist organization. The State Department refused to provide Americans with information about the process by which it issued a visa to a member of a designated terrorist organization, about how the members of the Egyptian delegation were selected, or about what security procedures were followed before the delegation was allowed to enter our country.</p>
<p>Once in power in Egypt, the Brotherhood government <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/11/egypt-new-constitution-denies-freedom-of-speech-and-equality-of-rights-for-women-but-omits-ban-on-sl.html">drafted a new constitution</a>, enshrining Islamic law as the highest law of the land, restricting the freedom of speech and denying equality of rights for women. The <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_EGYPT_CONSTITUTION_GLANCE?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2012-11-29-20-23-22">Associated Press</a> reported that the  constitution reflected the “vision of the Islamists, with articles that rights activists, liberals and Christians fear will lead to restrictions on the rights of women and minorities and civil liberties in general.”</p>
<p>AP reported that the constitution’s wording gave the Muslim Brotherhood “the tool for insisting on stricter implementation of rulings of Shariah,” and that “a new article states that Egypt’s most respected Islamic institution, Al-Azhar, must be consulted on any matters related to Shariah, a measure critics fear will lead to oversight of legislation by clerics.”</p>
<p>Cairo’s Al-Azhar is the foremost exponent of Sunni orthodoxy. Its characterization of what constitutes that orthodoxy carries immense weight in the Islamic world. It hews to age-old formulations of Islamic law mandating second-class dhimmi status for non-Muslims, institutionalized discrimination against women, and sharp restrictions on the freedom of speech, particularly in regard to Islam. Al-Azhar’s having a role in the government of Egypt and its administration of Sharia meant the end of any remaining freedom in Egyptian society.</p>
<p>While forcing this constitution on Egyptians, the Morsi regime became increasingly <a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2012/12/11/Nine-shot-in-anti-Muslim-Bros-protests/UPI-26721355237936/">brutal toward dissenters</a>. In a move reminiscent of Communist governments, the Brotherhood regime had opposition leaders <a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Tensions-rising-in-Egypt-as-opposition-leaders-are-investigated-for-high-treason-26731.html">investigated</a> for high treason. Morsi even <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/11/27/clashes-resume-in-cairo-ahead-opposition-rally-against-morsi-power-grab/">tried to arrogate </a>dictatorial powers for himself, although he <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/12/09/egypt-opposition-calls-more-protests-after-president-makes-partial-concession/">backed off</a> after protests. <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/11/27/clashes-resume-in-cairo-ahead-opposition-rally-against-morsi-power-grab/">Huge crowds</a> came out to protest against the Morsi regime – a clear indication that if Obama had backed the Brotherhood because he thought it represented the popular will of the vast majority of Egyptians, he was dead wrong. Yet as all this was happening, Hillary Clinton demonstrated how out of touch the Obama Administration was with what was really happening in Egypt when she said, according to <a href="http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/01/29/hillary-clinton-on-egypt-we-must-make-sure-the-revolution-isnt-hijacked-by-extremists/">Fox News</a>, that “the U.S. must work with the international community and the people in Egypt to ensure that the revolution isn’t hijacked by extremists.”</p>
<p>The Arab Spring “revolution” was “hijacked by extremists” as soon as the Muslim Brotherhood regime took power. Yet as the turmoil in Egypt increased, Obama responded not by admonishing the Muslim Brotherhood regime to respect the human rights of all its citizens, but by <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/12/10/us-sending-20-more-f-16s-to-egypt-despite-turmoil-in-cairo/">shipping over twenty F-16 fighter jets to Egypt</a>, as part of an aid package amounting to over a billion dollars. A Republican congressional aide noted at the time that “the Morsi-led Muslim Brotherhood government has not proven to be a partner for democracy as they had promised, given the recent attempted power grab.” The Obama Administration <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/12/05/white-house-downplays-islamist-push-for-power-in-egypt/">responded</a> by downplaying the significance of the Brotherhood’s increasing authoritarianism, speaking blandly about “Egypt’s democratic transition and the need to move forward with a peaceful and inclusive transition that respects the rights of all Egyptians.”</p>
<p>It was no surprise last summer, then, when millions of Egyptians took to the streets to protest against the Brotherhood regime and it was suddenly and unexpectedly toppled from power, that numerous anti-Brotherhood protesters held signs accusing Obama of supporting terrorists. One foe of the Brotherhood made a music video <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/05/hey-obama-you-are-stupid-bad-man-viral-egyptian-music-video-accuses-obama-of-supporting-terrorism-muslim-brotherhood/">including the lyrics</a>: “Hey Obama, support the terrorism/Traitor like the Brotherhood members/Obama say it’s a coup/That’s not your business dirty man.” A protestor in Tahrir Square held up a sign <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/01/sign-in-tahrir-square-obama-you-jerk-muslim-brotherhoods-are-killing-the-egyptians.html">saying</a>, “Obama you jerk, Muslim Brotherhoods are killing the Egyptians.” Signs like that one became commonplace at anti-Morsi protests; another read, “Hey Obama, your bitch is our dictator.”</p>
<p>Yet as the anti-Muslim Brotherhood riots reached their peak, Obama responded by <a href="http://www.kcentv.com/story/22647545/riot-control-training">sending</a> a group of American soldiers to Egypt to help with riot control.</p>
<p>As <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/3868/a-man-and-6-of-the-brotherhood-in-the-white-house">an Egyptian newspaper crowed</a> about the influence of Muslim Brotherhood operatives within the Obama Administration, it was no surprise that Obama would want them in power in Egypt as well. By cutting off aid in October 2013, he was strong-arming the Egyptians until they would have no choice but to agree – or turn to the Russians, as <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/16/us-egypt-usa-idUSBRE99F07220131016">Egypt’s military regime has recently said it might do</a>. Egypt has been an American ally, but is now returning to the sphere of influence of a resurgent Russia – thanks to Barack Obama’s uncritical support for the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p>Egypt, albeit imperfect, was a reliable and pivotal ally of the U.S. in the Middle East for three decades. With the Camp David Accords it kept an uneasy but unmistakable peace with Israel, while the Sadat and Mubarak regimes kept a lid on the Brotherhood and Salafist forces that were clamoring for Egypt to declare a new jihad against the Jewish State. Egypt’s unwillingness to go to war with Israel during that period stymied the anti-Israel bloodlust in neighboring Muslim countries as well, for Egypt’s size, position, and history give it a unique stature in the Islamic world.</p>
<p>All that is gone now. Egypt is on the way to renewing its alliance with Russia, which led it to mount two wars against Israel, in 1967 and 1973. Obama has alienated America’s allies and emboldened her enemies, all in a vain attempt to appease a group that was never going to be a friend of the U.S. in the first place. If he didn’t have so many other blots on his record, this could be the most dangerous aspect of his legacy.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/1375972566000-XXX-AL-JAZEERA-network-hdb3.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-207766" alt="1375972566000-XXX-AL-JAZEERA-network-hdb3" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/1375972566000-XXX-AL-JAZEERA-network-hdb3-450x337.jpg" width="270" height="202" /></a>It has been almost two months since Al Jazeera America (AJA), the American outlet of Qatar-based news network Al Jazeera, debuted in the U.S. Viewers of the network note its impressive graphics and lack of commercials, a welcomed change of pace compared to most cable news in the States. The network also employs a host of familiar faces that help bolster AJA&#8217;s image as just another news network. It remains to be seen just how radical AJA will let its coverage becomes once it grows more assured of its acceptance into the mainstream. Already AJA&#8217;s Sunni sponsors have let the mask slip.</p>
<p>Despite a petition <a href="http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/dropaljazeera">drive</a> to exclude AJA from cable distribution, AJA’s coverage is definitely on the rise.  Last spring and summer, AJA went on a hiring spree, hiring producers, writers, technicians, and hundreds of other staffers.  AJA also snapped up big news names like Joie Chen, David Shuster and Soledad O’Brien, and then opened 12 American bureau offices.  Broadcasting began August 20.</p>
<p>Of course, AJA is not just another news network.  AJA’s parent company, Al Jazeera, is owned by the government of Qatar, the tiny, oil-rich, Sunni Muslim state in the Persian Gulf, bordering Saudi Arabia.  Qatar is ruled by Shiekh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, who, despite his personal business dealings with Israel, is pro-Hamas, pro-Muslim Brotherhood and <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Features/Front-Lines/Qatari-power-and-irresponsibility-set-to-continue-318030">anti-Israel</a>.  Al Jazeera’s news coverage has reflected those views.</p>
<p>In fact, Al Jazeera is so pro-Muslim Brotherhood it recently got <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/01/us-egypt-protests-jazeera-idUSBRE97S0ZL20130901">kicked</a> out of Egypt for instigating Muslim Brotherhood protests there.  In 2008, Al Jazeera’s Beirut bureau chief threw an on-air birthday <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIkrQGz5ats">party</a> for Samir Kuntar, convicted killer of an Israeli family.</p>
<p>Americans learned to hate Al Jazeera in the days after 9-11, when Al Jazeera first repeated the charge that American Jews were warned beforehand of the attacks in New York, then repeatedly broadcast interviews of Osama bin Laden.  Al Jazeera has even described the War on Terror as “so-called,” and suicide bombings as “paradise operations.”</p>
<p>Through the years Al Jazeera has had on-air personalities who were blatantly anti-Semitic.  One popular Al Jazeera show, “Shari’a and Life,” features a host who regularly <a href="http://www.meforum.org/3147/al-jazeera#_ftn64">criticizes</a> Shiites, Americans and Jews.</p>
<p>During the height of the Iraqi war years, then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/opinion/12cohen.html">described</a> Al Jazeera as “the mouthpiece of Al Qaeda,” while President George W. Bush <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/al-jazeera-terrorist-mouthpiece-or-credible-news-organization">referred</a> to Al Jazeera as “a terrorist organization.” Upon the initial invasion of Afghanistan and later in Iraq, US military forces bombed local Al Jazeera offices because of the support they had given terrorists.</p>
<p>Now that AJA is on the air in the US, Americans will get to judge for themselves if AJA will be an independent news network covering news items important to Americans, or if AJA possesses the dispositions of its parent company.</p>
<p>While the network’s foreign news coverage is acceptable, the viewer gets the feeling that AJA is “up to something” whenever the news involves Israel, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, or the Mideast in general.</p>
<p>Take for example the network’s coverage of the civil war in Syria.  A Pew <a href="http://www.journalism.org/2013/09/16/how-al-jazeera-tackled-the-crisis-over-syria/">study</a> revealed that most of the Syrian coverage by AJA was similar to most other American networks, but AJA spent much more time covering the humanitarian aspects of the story and the hardships of the rebels.  And no wonder – Qatar has <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/qatar/10022759/Qatar-playing-with-fire-as-it-funds-Syrian-Islamists-in-quest-for-global-influence.html">funded</a> the rebels.</p>
<p>In its domestic news coverage, AJA is clearly left-leaning.  Typical of a pattern, in a recent day’s news broadcast, President Obama is shown speaking and blaming Republicans for the government shut-down, then the GOP response was only paraphrased in passing by the show’s anchor.</p>
<p>Strictly as a marketing issue, this liberal domestic news slant puts AJA in the same crowded category as most other American news channels, like ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, NPR and MSNBC, leaving Fox News alone in the right-of-center TV news coverage.  Granted, AJA is only weeks old, but so far it is positioning its domestic news coverage in a pretty crowded field.</p>
<p>One recent episode of an in-depth news talk show on AJA, “The Stream,” revealed a definite anti-Israeli bias.  The episode addressed the issue of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and how to get Israel to discuss peace.  Special guests included members of the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6233">International Solidarity Movement</a> (ISM), which is a scandal in and of itself. The ISM is an organization, not of peace activists, but of para-militants who actively work with Palestinian terrorists and who call for armed force against Israel. ISM activists protect weapons-smuggling tunnels and have been photographed with assault weapons. Another group on the show calling itself Combatants For Peace (CFP) equates Israeli soldiers with Palestinian &#8220;combatants&#8221; (i.e. terrorists).  Neither the CFP nor ISM&#8217;s websites acknowledges Israel’s right to exist, even with defensible borders.  The Stream even included a former Israeli soldier, who complained of Israeli aggression against Palestinians.  He was probably trying to be Israel’s version of John Kerry, circa 1971.</p>
<p>The show featured furrowed brows and hand-wringing about how to get “both sides to stop talking past each other,” and how to “open a dialogue.”  A stream of viewer tweets across the bottom of the screen confirmed that the viewers were of the same mindset.  There was also some talk of “Israel’s occupation” and the need to boycott Israel’s products in order to foster peace talks.</p>
<p>AJA also maintains a website to supplement its on-air overage.  Recently, the website reported on a study that calculated the number of deaths from the Iraqi war to be over 500,000, dramatically higher than estimates from most other studies.  The website also included a letter from an inmate and hunger-striker at Guantanamo, complaining of the force-feeding he has to endure to keep him alive.  Poor guy!</p>
<p>So what is a news-watcher to do?  When it comes to foreign news coverage, most of the important news involves Middle East matters, a subject where AJA is pretty biased. For domestic news, so far AJA’s coverage is similar to the coverage of several other networks.</p>
<p>But beyond these questions, what is the point of Al Jazeera even coming to America?  Why would the Emir of Qatar go through the hassle and expense?  One theory could be that AJA is some sort of pan-Arab pride project.  And it is true that most significant regions of the world have at least one major news network.  Some have also speculated that AJA is just a vanity project on the part of the Emir of Qatar, which is possible.</p>
<p>One other theory, and it is speculative but worth pondering, is that AJA may be getting into the American mainstream, slowly getting accepted, so that if there is another 9-11, a war involving Israel, or some other mass terrorist event, AJA will be there to share its pro-Al Qaeda or anti-Israel side to American viewers.  Kind of an “embedded news network,” ready to propagandize at a moment’s notice. Given Al Jazeera’s past loyalties to Al Qaeda and positions against the US and Israel, it is certainly possible.</p>
<p>When Al Gore sold Current TV to Al Jazeera, he is reported to have said that Al Jazeera “gives a voice to those who are not typically heard,” and “speaks truth to power.” Actually, in the event of a war involving Israel or another large-scale terrorist attack against Americans, AJA will be a vehicle for arguing <i>against</i> speaking truth to terrorist powers. It may in fact be terrorized Americans who will be forced to speak truth to AJA.</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>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Kaufman]]></dc:creator>
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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>Understanding Egypt&#8217;s Second Revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 04:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Harrod]]></dc:creator>
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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/2013/10/anti-morsi.si_.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-206248" alt="anti-morsi.si" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/anti-morsi.si_-437x350.jpg" width="306" height="245" /></a>The Egyptian military’s recent removal from office of Egyptian President <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18371427">Mohammad Morsi</a> “was not a coup,” judged the former United States Air Force lieutenant colonel and Middle East expert <a href="http://www.francona.com/index.html">Rick Francona</a>, but rather the “people rising up.”  Francona spoke at Washington, DC’s <a href="http://press.org/">National Press Club</a> during an October 1, 2013, panel featuring national security experts who had just completed a three-day visit on behalf of the <a href="http://www.westminster-institute.org/">Westminster Institute</a>.  The panel expressed dismay that the United States was not properly responding to developments in country described by Westminster Institute executive director <a href="http://www.westminster-institute.org/about/">Katherine Gorka</a> as “pivotal” to American interests in the region.</span></b></p>
<p>Retired United States Army Major General <a href="http://www.standupamericaus.org/about-sua/general-vallely/">Paul E. Vallely</a> referenced a popular Egyptian understanding of Morsi’s <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12313405">Muslim Brotherhood</a> (MB) government’s fall as a “second revolution” following the “first revolution” ousting Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak.  Katherine’s husband, counterinsurgency expert <a href="http://www.defenddemocracy.org/about-fdd/team-overview/sebastian-gorka/">Sebastian Gorka</a>, noted that a petition presented to Morsi calling for early elections had gathered <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23131953">22 million signatures</a>.  Subsequently an <a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2013/07/egypt-protest-photos-night/66762/">estimated 33 million</a> had taken to the streets to call for Morsi’s removal in early July 2013 in a <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/eg.html">country of 85 million</a>.</p>
<p>Vallely’s army colleague, the former colonel and military commentator <a href="http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/authors/detail/colonel-kenneth-allard-us-army-ret">Ken Allard</a>, discussed a popular Egyptian perception of MB as “terrorists” given their treatment of women and minorities.  Francona in particular cited anti-Christian violence by MB supporters that destroyed <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3992/egypt-christians-ethnic-cleansing">1,000 Christian homes</a> after Morsi fell.  Allard likewise discussed the delegation’s meeting with the Coptic Church’s <a href="http://copticchurch.net/topics/pope/pope_tawadros_ii.html">Pope Tawadros II</a>, a man “who watched his churches burn.” Many Egyptians additionally felt that the MB in power merely “governed for themselves,” Sebastian Gorka related.</p>
<p>As a result, the Egyptian military commander General <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19256730">Abdul Fattah al-Sisi</a> spoke of a “civil war” absent Morsi’s removal in a meeting with Gorka and the other panelists.  This was particularly true given that there was “no impeachment vehicle” in the old Egyptian constitution, as Vallely noted, a provision now contemplated for a <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/357010/egypts-new-draft-constitution-some-steps-forward-many-flaws-nina-shea">new constitution</a>.  The “Egyptians are more united in” supporting the military’s actions “than we might think,” Francona judged.  Everyone with whom the delegation spoke similarly surprised Sebastian Gorka because they “sounded like they were coordinating their message” but were not.</p>
<p>In contrast to MB, the Egyptian people had a “level of trust” in their military, Allard observed, because conscription meant that the military “in Egypt…is us.”  Given what Vallely described as a “great relationship” between the Egyptian and American militaries, Allard also noted that Egyptian military leaders had learned to respect civilian authority from American training.  Egyptian military leaders, Francona noted, for example, argued that the Egyptian military does not have a history of attacking the populace. Rather, after the military intervention against MB the “people felt comfortable going out into the streets.” El-Sisi’s personal qualities, meanwhile, struck Sebastian Gorka as “really sterling stuff” and he wished “to have some generals in the US military” like El-Sisi.</p>
<p>The Obama Administration’s unwillingness to support the popularly-backed Egyptian military has the majority of Egyptians “very upset with the United States,” according to Vallely.  Egyptians were “incredulous” towards current American policy in the Middle East, according to Francona, and asked Americans “why are you doing this to us now,” in Sebastian Gorka’s words.  “Friends do not treat friends this way,” Allard quoted Egyptian military leaders as saying, who wondered along with other Egyptians why the United States would not oppose MB.  In this respect of American support for MB, Ambassador Anne Patterson “was a hot topic” in Egypt, Vallely observed.  Yet to such Egyptian criticism of American support for MB, Francona retorted, “Why did you elect them?”</p>
<p>Egyptians complained about Americans who “push everything in our eyes” on to others with respect to democratic development, Vallely added.  Yet the message reported from Egypt by Sebastian Gorka was “don’t judge us by your criteria” when evaluating the Egyptian military’s action.  After all, America’s own democratic development was a long process involving events such as a civil war.</p>
<p>Speculating about the motives behind current American Egypt policy, Allard wondered it resulted “by agenda or by design” or was just “totally inept.”  Sebastian Gorka in particular could not believe one American government analyst’s view that MB “will save us from Al Qaeda,” even though the two groups merely differ in tactics, not strategic goals. For Allard, a media that had transformed from a “watch dog” to a “lap dog” aggravated poor policy formation.  In this vein Sebastian Gorka noted one incident in which media coverage showed violence in a public square while a man living there filmed it at peace with his smartphone.  With respect to public relations, though, Francona critiqued that the Egyptian military was “not doing a good job selling” its position.</p>
<p>Yet the panel agreed that Egypt, beset by multiple problems, needed all the help it could get.  Allard noted that banks refused to exchange his Egyptian money after leaving Egypt because economic conditions there made an exchange rate impossible to determine. Sebastian Gorka as well observed “absolutely empty” hotels in Egypt, a sign of how that country’s critically important tourist industry was suffering, in part due to travel advisories from various governments.</p>
<p>“What came up more than anything was Libya,” Vallely remembered from the trip.  Egypt’s border here was “highly exposed,” raising concerns expressed by the investigative reporter <a href="http://www.kentimmerman.com/">Ken Timmerman</a> in the audience that Libya could become a “staging ground” for weapons and terrorists.  Vallely as well analogized the Sinai to southern Lebanon as a terrorist base and MB tactics of winning popular support with aid efforts to similar Hezbollah tactics in Lebanon. In contrast, “Israel is the least of their worries,” was how Francona assessed Egyptian threat perception.</p>
<p>The lack of American support had serious consequences in this situation.  Without American logistical support, for example, the Egyptians could not use their AH-64 Apache attack helicopters to monitor the Libyan border.  Egyptian military leaders had also noted that Apaches would enable “precision attacks” on “bad guys,” Sebastian Gorka said.  The lack of American logistical support also meant that Egypt could not operate its recently delivered F-16 fighters, while older American-made F-4 Phantom fighters were no longer operational due to unavailable spare parts.  Thus the Egyptian military had to resort to using Egypt’s stock of Soviet-built MiG-21 fighters, a measure that presented the possibility of Russia renewing its influence in Egypt with logistical support for this weaponry.</p>
<p>Loss of American influence in Egypt was no trivial matter, for this country is the “center of gravity” for the region, Sebastian Gorka reminded.  Despite the global attention given to recent events, “Syria is practically irrelevant compared to Egypt,” he noted, citing Egypt’s population and the presence of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Azhar_University">Al Azhar University</a> in Cairo, Sunni Islam’s leading theological center.  Allard worried about the United States being “in danger of losing a strategic ally” in both the “East-West” dimension with respect to Israel as well as the “North-South” dimension with respect to the Nile.  Vallely as well noted the importance of the Suez Canal that Egyptian officials vowed to protect.</p>
<p>Sebastian Gorka also recalled Egypt’s role as the birthplace of the MB, an organization that works “hand in glove with Al Qaeda.”  The West, meanwhile, is “losing Turkey” as a country which Islamist forces have “taken back in time” to before the legacy of Ataturk.  Thus Sebastian Gorka advocated international efforts should to counteract this development by making Egypt a “modern Muslim state.”  “We will be safer,” he said, if Egypt rejects MB.</p>
<p>Perhaps Francona best summarized the panel’s theme.  Egyptians know the importance of Egypt, he said, but “they wonder if we know.”</p>
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		<title>Pro-Islamist Fake News?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 04:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNN's questionable coverage of the Syria crisis. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Picture-31.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-204423" alt="Picture-3" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Picture-31.jpg" width="280" height="173" /></a>According to a <a href="http://friendsofsyria.co/2013/09/01/cnn-caught-staging-news-segments-on-syria-with-actors/">new report</a>, “Anderson Cooper and CNN have been caught staging fake news about Syria to justify military intervention. The primary ‘witness’ that the mainstream media is using as a source in Syria has been caught staging fake news segments. Recent video evidence proves that ‘Syria Danny,’ the supposed activist who has been begging for military intervention on CNN, is really just a paid actor and a liar.” Go to the link, read it all and decide for yourself.</p>
<p>To be sure, this is not the first time that pro-Islamist media have been accused and/or busted faking things. In Egypt, for example, where the military was trying to save the nation from the violence and chaos the Muslim Brotherhood tried to engulf them in — including unprecedented persecution of Christians — the media, following Al Jazeera, portrayed the Brotherhood and its supporters as innocent victims being slaughtered by an authoritarian military — without bothering to report on all <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/inside-egypts-terrorist-camps-torture-rape-mass-murder/">the atrocities the Brotherhood was committing</a>.</p>
<p>For example, there was Al Jazeera’s now infamous footage of a “zombie” — that is, a Muslim Brotherhood supporter supposedly killed by the Egyptian military who unfortuitously comes back to life, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/exposed-al-jazeera-airs-fake-brotherhood-injuries-and-deaths/">first posted here</a>.</p>
<p>Below is another video indicating how such things are all staged — according to Prophet Muhammad’s dictum, “war is deceit.” Right before the camera starts rolling, Brotherhood supporters, holding pro-Morsi signs (in English, for your benefit) start chanting “down, down with military rule!” before going into various dramatic poses indicating they’re being hit while cameramen take snapshots.</p>
<p>While this video has gotten little attention in the West, in Egypt, it has appeared on major, independent media, cited as authentic.</p>
<p>Watch the video and see how “reality” can easily be manufactured in our so-called “Information Age.”</p>
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		<title>The Delusions of Caliph Erdogan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 04:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Magdi Khalil]]></dc:creator>
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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/2013/09/ry.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-204262" alt="A masked member of Hamas stands in front of a banner during a protest in Central Gaza Strip" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/ry-450x323.jpg" width="315" height="226" /></a>Years ago, when Turkey Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was the mayor of Istanbul, he gave a fiery speech to a crowd of followers where he proclaimed that &#8220;Democracy is merely a train that we ride until we reach our goal. Mosques are our military barracks, minarets are our spears, and domes are our helmets.” When these words landed him in prison, he most likely realized that there are lines which should not be crossed in a secular state. It seemed like he had learned his lesson, especially in light of what happened at the time to the powerful military establishment of the Virtue Party (later re-established as the Happiness Party<sup>*</sup>) which was led by Islamic Prime Minister Erbakan. As many Islamists currently do, Erdogan went on to destroy secularism by pretending to embrace it, and to undermine democracy by actively participating in the democratic process.</span></b></p>
<p>Despite a successful and stable rule after having “tamed” Turkish state institutions in his party’s favor, Erdogan was still obsessed with his most cherished dream: to become the Caliph of all Muslims, under the umbrella of the Muslim Brotherhood rather than the Ottoman Empire. After being diagnosed with cancer, the matter became more urgent, as Erdogan wished to see his dream realized before his time on earth ran out.</p>
<p>Thus, he sought the help of Ahmad Dawood Oglu – a personal friend, who is both an academician and a Muslim Brotherhood adherent – to devise a road map for an Islamic caliphate. The main aspects of this plan can be deduced through a careful observation of Erdogan’s conduct and his party’s actions, as follows:</p>
<p>First: to manage relations with neighboring countries based on a zero-conflict strategy, which was proposed by Ahmad Dawood Oglu. This strategy aims to promote friendly relations and build trust between neighbor States, as a necessary first step to achieve dominance over the region. Thus, the image of a friendly, non-antagonistic Turkey was cultivated by eliminating any conflicts with its neighbors, hence the term “zero-conflict.” Indeed, Erdogan seemingly took on the role of peacekeeper, seeking to achieve constructive cooperation with all of Turkey’s neighbors.</p>
<p>Second: to be perceived in the Western World as one that possesses a magical formula to transform militant Islam into democratic Islam, which is particularly important in the aftermath of September 11. This formula is presented to the West as a means capable of attracting and containing political and <i>Jihadist</i> Islam movements, led by the Muslim Brotherhood, within a peaceful democratic process. In its eagerness to contain these movements, the United States rushed to embrace Erdogan’s proposition, to a point where Washington started referring to Erdogan and his Party as a role model and pioneer that managed to pull off a miracle that Muslims have failed to achieve for 1400 years.</p>
<p>Third: to achieve an economic boom as a means to establish and strengthen power and even help in dismantling the structures of the old State in favor of the new model, with the blessing and support of the Western World. Erdogan followed two approaches to achieve this economic boom: first, by encouraging and promoting Western investments in Turkey to help in the success of this model; second, by working to increase the volume of Turkish exports to Islamic countries once all conflicts were eliminated, as well as to attract Islamic and Arab investments to Turkey. Though the resulting economic boom was more of a bubble that can burst at any moment it still did its part in consolidating Erdogan&#8217;s power.</p>
<p>Fourth: to implement dominance and “brotherhoodization” strategies. With the US and Western World’s involvement, these strategies will eventually bring the entire region under Islamist control, and particularly a Muslim Brotherhood rule, which will pave the way for Erdogan to finally live out his dream of becoming a Caliph.</p>
<p>However, Erdogan’s temper, arrogance and mad scrambling to achieve his dream worked against him, revealing the truth about the man and his designs, as his plan started to unravel bit by bit.</p>
<p>The first revelation came through a clash with Israel. Preening like a peacock, Erdogan has been introducing himself to the Arabs as one of the knights of old, coming to deliver Palestine. Instead, he was taught a bloody lesson by Israel, which made him realize his own stature in the context of this complex issue, and forced him to recognize the international redlines.</p>
<p>The Taksim Square redevelopment project provided another clue. Erdogan had allied himself to a number of corrupt businessmen, including his son-in-law who owned the contracting company managing the project. The public fury against him was stunning, and being a conspiracy theorist, he believed that he was the victim of an international conspiracy designed to depose him. The conflict with his own people revealed an ugly and tyrannical side of Erdogan. Suffice it to say that Turkey has currently the largest rate of imprisoned reporters globally.</p>
<p>However, the major eye-opener was the so called Arab Spring, or what should by rights be called the Muslim Brotherhood Spring. Erdogan was part of the international powers that formed an alliance to strike Libya. When Libya fell, followed by Tunisia and Egypt falling into the hands of Islamists, he rushed to pay these countries a visit, with Intelligence agents in tow, presenting himself as a major player and supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s rule. Erdogan’s obsession reached new heights, even though he tried to pretend otherwise while visiting Cairo, making a show of rebuking the Muslim Brothers in Egypt for rushing into proclaiming their vision of an Islamic caliphate while the region was not yet amenable to the idea. However, he left all pretense and reason behind when it became obvious that Syria was not easily succumbing to the Muslim Brotherhood. He turned Turkey’s borders with Syria into an assembly of hardened terrorists brought in from all over the world, equipped with weapons and funds and aiming to bring Bashar Al-Assad down. Finally, the collapse of the Muslim Brotherhood rule in Egypt seemed to have pushed him over the edge. Faced with the loss of his long-held dream, he became semi-hysterical, ranting, raving and throwing accusations right and left.</p>
<p>The Arabs have ever been suspicious of Erdogan’s attempts to establish closer relations. There were reservations about his ambitious agenda and the role he played in the Arab Spring. These reservations were particularly justified when, in the course of Davos Forum, he told an Arab president during a special meeting that, “western democracy is akin to a bus station but the final destination is the Islamic caliphate.” Later, the façade totally crumbled and his ugly side was fully revealed after the June 30<sup>th</sup> revolution in Egypt.</p>
<p>Since the beginning, the Arab attitude towards Erdogan seemed mostly along those lines: we accept you as a trade partner in an interconnected world, but we reject any attempt to revive the ugly Ottoman history, and reject a return to a Caliphate that we contributed to topple. We accept you as a Turkish but not as a Muslim Brotherhood adherent. We recognize you as a regional power, but we reject you as a dominant power. We have suspicions regarding your role as an agent of the West seeking to reshape a region labelled as “the sick man of the world.”</p>
<p>Erdogan’s model has failed regionally and internationally on both political and religious levels. The economic bubble will most likely burst soon, heralding an internal collapse. Eventually, he will be exposed as an individual who ruthlessly pursues his Ottoman and Muslim Brotherhood-inspired dreams at any cost, even if the people of the region will inevitably be the ones to pay the ultimate price.</p>
<p><em><sup>*</sup> “Saadet” or Happiness party is a pro-Islamist political party that has been set up in Turkey in 2001 by members of the Virtue Party, which was shut down in 2001 by the country&#8217;s Constitutional Court.</em></p>
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		<title>The Myth of the Moderate Syrian Rebels</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 04:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why there’s no hope for Obama's plan for intervention. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/raqqa.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-203505" alt="raqqa" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/raqqa.jpg" width="248" height="183" /></a>The moderate Syrian rebels, like the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, are a myth; an imaginary character used to tell soothing stories to children. Unfortunately the storytellers think that we’re the children.</p>
<p>The Syrian Civil War is a religious war. It’s not a war over democracy or freedom. It’s a conflict between two totalitarian systems, one loosely based on a mixture of Islam and Socialism, and the other more rigidly based on Islam. Both are brutal and merciless to anyone who doesn’t belong. Both have their death squads and extensive corruption on the inside.</p>
<p>Both are evil.</p>
<p>It’s also an ethnic conflict being played out between Iran and the Arab world. And it even has elements of Ottoman revivalism on the Turkish side of the border where its Islamist rulers dream of reclaiming an empire.</p>
<p>None of that is a recipe for moderation. There are no moderates in a religious war. There are no moderates in an ethnic conflict. There are no moderates among those who would start such a war or those who intend to finish it.</p>
<p>Neither side is seeking freedom. Both are seeking absolute supremacy.</p>
<p>The Syrian opposition that we hear about on the evening news and in the columns of newspapers is an elaborate Potemkin village masterminded by the Muslim Brotherhood, Turkey and Qatar to convince Americans and Europeans that the rebels have a governmental structure and are ready to take power.</p>
<p>The Syrian National Council (full abbreviation SNCORF) is a bunch of names and letters peopled by ambitious men. It commands less of Syria than it does of Washington and Brussels. If it tried to give anyone an order in Aleppo, there would be laughter. But it keeps getting away with giving orders in D.C.</p>
<p>The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire and the Free Syrian Army is neither free, nor Syrian, nor an army. It’s a grab bag of guerrilla fighters, many of them foreign Islamists, who expect to receive American weapons and money and are occasionally willing to play along with the pretense that there is some kind of united army of national liberation for America to aid.</p>
<p>The political structures built up in Turkey and Qatar are fictional. The official leaders lead nothing. General Salim Idris commands nothing. All the organizations with Syria in their name are good for little except fooling Westerners into giving them weapons to funnel to the various rebel brigades, in exchange for promises of future influence and business deals, and plotting to take over the country afterward.</p>
<p>The only commanders who matter are the ones on the ground. And not only are they Islamists, but they are also far less housebroken than Idris. They’re the sort that casually kill prisoners and eat their lungs. They wouldn’t make a very convincing case for democracy and freedom in Washington, D.C.</p>
<p>The actual fighters have few allegiances except to wealth and religion. Some fight for pay, others fight for Jihad. Many for both. None resemble the mythical brigades of free officers fighting for a secular Syria that some senators still believe in.</p>
<p>Even the brigades and their names are smoke on a battlefield. Fighters move from one brigade to another. Brigades move from one association and alliance to another.</p>
<p>The boundaries between the Free Syrian Army and the Al-Nusra Front are not hard and fast. Some Islamist brigades play on both teams. Identifications are a matter of convenience. The vast majority of fighters, whatever associations they may have, are fighting to impose a Sunni Islamist system on Syria.</p>
<p>General Idris originally refused to cut ties with the Al-Nusra Front. After enough pressure and promises from Washington, he went along with the charade, but the actual commanders on the ground didn’t. FSA forces continued conducting joint operations with the Al-Nusra Front and recently four out of five front commanders signed a letter demanding to work with the Al-Qaeda group.</p>
<p>The letter is another attempt to pressure Washington D.C. into providing weapons and air support. The Syrian opposition leaders have insisted that the only possible way that we would be able to “moderate” the rebels and marginalize Al Qaeda was by backing them to the hilt. In reality, the various brigades that are compatible will go on working together regardless of what D.C. does.</p>
<p>And none of them are our friends.</p>
<p>The “Al-Aqsa Islamic Brigades,&#8221; an FSA-allied group, was caught sticking a photoshopped image of Washington, D.C. burning at the hands of Syrian rebel fighters on its Facebook page. An analyst was quoted as wondering why a group affiliated with “the generally pro-Western Free Syrian Army” would do such a thing.</p>
<p>“It raises the unfortunate but inescapable fact that not every group within the Free Syrian Army is closely aligned with U.S. interests in the region,” he said.</p>
<p>More accurately, not a single group within the FSA is either pro-American or aligned with US interests.</p>
<p>Why would they be? An Islamic brigade has as its goal the replacement of Western political and judicial systems with Islamic ones through armed force. And the majority of the FSA consists of Islamic brigades. Islamists with that goal tend to think of Western political and judicial systems as idolatry and heresy. To the Salafi, idolaters and heretics have less right to live than sheep in a butcher shop.</p>
<p>As reporters tried to learn more about the “Al-Aqsa Islamic Brigades,&#8221; they found a maze of splinter groups and alliances with the Al-Nusra Front that revealed that all the artificial structural overlays imposed by Western experts on bands of Eastern fighters don’t actually matter in the real world.</p>
<p>There is no Free Syrian Army. There is no Syrian opposition. There are just groups of fighters carving out territory, seizing homes, oil depots and bakeries, raping women, killing Christians, and behaving exactly the way that armed gangs with heavy firepower and no law to restrain them do.</p>
<p>There are no moderate Syrian rebels. There isn’t even a Syrian rebellion; only Muslim Brotherhood men in Turkey who act as gatekeepers for Qatari and Turkish weapons flowing to thousands and thousands of fighters, drifting in and out of gangs, killing their way across Syria the way that their distant ancestors might have during the original conquests of Islam.</p>
<p>Islam is their identity. It is a far more significant identity than the names of the brigades and alliances that they occasionally align with. It is their law, in the same way that the Pirate Code was the law of the buccaneers and the Thieves Law was the code of the Russian criminal. It dispenses rough justice and enables them to split the loot while remaining devout men who after every rape bow to Mecca.</p>
<p>What is happening in Syria is not a war between two sides. It’s Afghanistan. It’s Libya. It’s the collapse of a country into warring bands. The only difference is that this collapse has been carefully orchestrated.</p>
<p>Slaughter in Syria will go on with the unrestrained savagery that can only be carried out by men who believe that other men are subhuman. It will go on with knives, with machine guns and with nerve gas. It will go on whether we bomb Assad or write him a sternly worded letter.</p>
<p>It will go on because there are no moderates in a religious war. Only the killers and the killed.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 04:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The administration's perverse understanding of "human rights." ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Rebels_24092012-600x350.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-202427" alt="Rebels_24092012-600x350" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Rebels_24092012-600x350-450x343.jpg" width="315" height="240" /></a>By now it should be obvious that whenever the U.S. interferes in another nation’s politics in the name of “human rights,” that that is only a pretext. So it is in Syria, as Obama prepares to plunge America in a war with that nation, and, inevitably, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23845800">its allies</a>. The United States’ stated reason for intervention, as articulated by John Kerry, is that Syrian President Assad used chemical weapons on the rebels, many of whom are jihadis — including <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/syrias-graphic-beheading-videos/">terrorists</a>, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/new-fatwa-permits-rape-of-non-sunni-women-in-syria/">rapists</a>, and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/16/putin-warns-against-arming-syrian-rebels">cannibals </a>– and thus violated their human rights.</p>
<p>Kerry is certainly consistent. Earlier he <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/obama-administration-calls-for-the-human-rights-of-jihadi-murderers/">worried about the “human rights” of Nigeria’s genocidal Islamic terrorists</a>, Boko Haram, while ignoring their victims — thousands of slaughtered Christians and destroyed churches.</p>
<p>And this is the point: when the human rights of others, such as Christian minorities, are being grossly violated — specifically by the Islamists and jihadis that Obama has enabled and empowered, in Libya, Syria, Egypt, and elsewhere — then there is no U.S. talk of intervention. Indeed, there’s’ hardly any talk at all, sometimes not even perfunctory condemnation. Other times, the White House <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/obama-admin-criticized-for-joke-over-christians-attacked-in-egypt-103059/">makes jokes</a> about Muslim persecution of Christians, for example, concerning the recent spate of church attacks in Egypt.</p>
<p>It is therefore unsurprising that Obama is ignoring the fact that there is <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/6/syrian-rebels-used-sarin-nerve-gas-not-assads-regi/">strong evidence</a>, including from the victims themselves, that gas attacks in Syria are the work of al-Qaeda-linked terrorists. After all, who used chemical weapons on who is irrelevant to the U.S president. Based on pattern and precedent, what matters is apparently finding an excuse to support the jihadis.</p>
<p>In Egypt, for example, after millions of Egyptians, supported by their military, ousted the Muslim Brotherhood — which was violating the human rights of others, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/arab-spring-egypts-legal-persecution-of-christians/">especially Christians</a> – the U.S. government, far from simply leaving Egypt to work out its own internal problems, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/john-mccain-proves-u-s-leadership-allied-to-muslim-brotherhood/">continues interfering, agitating, and threatening on behalf of the Brotherhood</a>.</p>
<p>Thus while Obama claims that Assad crossed the “red line” by reportedly using chemical weapons, it’s well to remember that, in fact, it is Obama who continues crossing red lines, as the Egyptian military quite literally declared, when it recently sent the Pentagon a message saying that Obama’s consistent support for terrorists is “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/egyptian-military-warns-obama-supporting-terrorism-in-egypt-is-red-line/">crossing the red line</a>.”</p>
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		<title>The Million Muslim March and Its Foreign Islamist Ties</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mauro]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Truthers and Hamas supporters to join forces in Washington. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/hqdefault.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-202440" alt="hqdefault" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/hqdefault.jpg" width="255" height="207" /></a>The 9/11 Truther organizers of the “Million American March Against Fear on 9/11,” formerly known as the “Million Muslim March,” aren’t keen on those who <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/million-muslim-march-911-linked-islamist-radicals">dig up</a> their alliances with foreign Islamist groups like Viva Palestina in the U.K. and Jamaat-e-Islami in Bangladesh. In a recent conference call, one of the organizers even attacked me as a “Nazi bulldog.”</p>
<p>The American Muslim Political Action Committee (<a href="http://ampacus.webs.com/">AMPAC</a>) leads the “Million American March Against Fear on 9/11.” Its <a href="http://ampacus.webs.com/">website</a> claims that “’Al-Qaeda is a joke. And so is the whole ‘war on terror’” and “the so-called ‘Islamic terrorist threat’ is pure hallucination.” Formerly known as the “Million Muslim March,” the event’s name was <a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2013/08/16/there-is-no-more-million-muslim-march-on-911">rebranded</a> after 9/11 Truth groups joined it.</p>
<p>AMPAC is based in Missouri and is led by MD Rabbi Alam, who has suggested that Jews were responsible for 9/11. He also leads the Missouri Democratic Party Asian American Caucus and received significant attention when the Missouri Right to Life PAC <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/missouri-right-life-group-endorses-islamist-911-doubter">endorsed his bid</a> to become Secretary of State.</p>
<p>On August 22, the <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/"><i>Clarion Project</i></a> published an expose of how Alam and the leadership of his Missouri Democratic Party Asian American Caucus are <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/million-muslim-march-911-linked-islamist-radicals">linked to the pro-Hamas Viva Palestina group</a>. Viva Palestina is led by anti-American politician George Galloway and is <a href="http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/governance/news/content/15800/charity_commission_opens_inquiry_into_galloway_charity">facing a second investigation</a> by the British government for failing to disclose its finances.</p>
<p>“[T]he Viva Palestina campaign is more about supporting and legitimizing Hamas than it is about providing aid to the needy…They treat Hamas leaders as the legitimate representatives of the Palestinian people and provide both material and political support to the terrorist organization,” <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/322.pdf">writes the Investigative Project on Terrorism.</a></p>
<p>Alam also organized a <a href="http://causingfitna.wordpress.com/million-muslim-march-organizer-plans-million-muslim-march-in-bangladesh/">&#8220;Million Muslim March&#8221;</a> in his home country of Bangladesh to protest “violence against Islam.” The enemy of Islam he is referring to is Bangladesh’s popularly-elected secular government and the group he is defending is Jamaat-e-Islami, an Islamist group with leaders that are on trial for war crimes.</p>
<p>In February, there were <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/uprising-bangladesh-media-isn%E2%80%99t-covering">massive demonstrations</a> demanding action against the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami group that wants to implement Shariah Law. The protests began after a Jamat-e-Islami leader was sentenced to life in prison, eliciting a smile and victory hand signal from the convicted war criminal. The Islamist group has responded with protests of its own; a campaign that Alam is contributing to. The group was recently <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/icnas-parent-organization-outlawed-bagladesh">prohibited from taking part in elections</a> by a Bangladeshi court.</p>
<p>On August 24, two days after the <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/"><i>Clarion Project</i></a> article was posted, the Million American March Against Fear organizers had a <a href="http://mamaf.webs.com/apps/podcast/podcast/317379">conference call</a> that was posted on its website.</p>
<p>“I’m gonna say this, with like, overwhelming concern. There’s this story on a website called the <i>Clarion Project</i>,” says one speaker at about 24 minutes in.</p>
<p>“There’s definitely, without question, when it gets to a level like that, where Ryan Mauro, the guy who wrote that story, he’s another Nazi bulldog, and they are trying to call out, like, the highest order against us here,” he then says.</p>
<p>The march organizers are particularly incensed with devout Muslim Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, whose American Islamic Forum for Democracy <a href="http://aifdemocracy.org/misguided-million-muslim-march-wont-be-just-be-sparse-its-also-a-disgrace/">condemned the event</a>. Alam’s group <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/md-alam/million-american-march-against-fear-thrives-as-hate-group-attacks-backfire-mamaf/645689548782529">responded ferociously</a>, calling him a “house Muslim” that is the “least popular Muslim in America” that is despised by almost every Muslim-American.</p>
<p>Actually, Alam and his group are the unpopular ones. The event’s <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/MAMAF-Million-American-March-Against-Fear-on-9-11/222129701260572">Facebook page</a> has 130 “likes” and his organization’s <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AMPACus">Facebook page</a> has 126. Jasser’s group has <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AmericanIslamicForumForDemocracy">almost 1,500 &#8220;likes,&#8221;</a> so the supposed “least popular Muslim in America” has ten times <i>more</i> support than Alam.</p>
<p>Many of the march’s original supporters have run away since it started getting negative attention. A <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20130818044624/http:/mamaf.webs.com">screenshot from August 18</a> lists the American Muslim Task Force; Hussam Ayloush, director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations chapter in Los Angeles and Imam Mahdi Bray of the Muslim American Society as endorsers. These three groups <a href="http://mamaf.webs.com/">no longer appear on the website</a>.</p>
<p>One of the objectives of the rally is to unite Muslims and non-Muslims behind the idea that the U.S. government is essentially evil; that the U.S. government would murder 3,000 of its own citizens just to have a pretext to murder and persecute innocent Muslims around the world.</p>
<p>That’s where Dr. Kevin Barrett, the Director of Media and Outreach for the march comes in. He is the founder of the <a href="http://www.mujca.com/default.htm">Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth.</a> It has <a href="http://www.mujca.com/endorsers.htm">a small number of endorsements</a> from writers, theology professors and ministers. It promotes a <a href="http://www.mujca.com/day_of_prayer.htm">Day of Prayer for 9/11 Truth</a> and has <a href="http://www.mujca.com/religiousoutreach.htm">instructions</a> on how to influence clergy.</p>
<p>The Million American March Against Fear on 9/11 will begin at noon at the National Mall and then move to Congress, the Supreme Court and the White House. At 2 PM, the rally will merge with the March Against Drones. More specific details about the route are available at the website.</p>
<p>There are few things more offensive than a march on 9/11 that’s designed to shift attention away from Al-Qaeda’s victims to “Islamophobia,” so-called American “imperialism” and 9/11 conspiracy theories. The refusal of CAIR, MAS, ISNA and others to rally behind the event shows there are some lines that even the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood knows not to cross.</p>
<p><em>This article was sponsored by the <a href="http://www.theird.org/">Institute on Religion and Democracy.</a></em></p>
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