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		<title>Samar Ali: Her Father’s Organization Wants to Destroy Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2014 05:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David James]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/samar.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-216781" alt="samar" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/samar.jpg" width="300" height="460" /></a>Dr. Subhi Ali, Chairman of the Jerusalem Fund, is the father of Haslam appointee Samar Ali.  Dr. Ali’s organization advocates BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) against Israel as a way to end Israel as a Jewish state; to destroy it by any means possible.</p>
<p>Hisham Sharabi, who founded the the Jerusalem Fund (JF) in 1990, along with its programmatic arms including the Palestine Center (previously named the Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine), endorsed the anti-Israel rhetoric and actions of pro-Palestinian groups like Hamas.</p>
<p>As detailed in <a href="http://tn4politicaljustice.wordpress.com/2012/08/23/newsletter-39-dr-subhi-ali-and-the-jerusalem-fund/" target="_blank">Newsletter #39</a>, Dr. Ali joined the JF in 2000, became Vice-Chair in 2004 alongside founder Sharabi and has served as Chairman since 2005.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/www.thejerusalemfund.org/carryover/documents/charter.html" target="_blank">Hamas Charter</a> is posted on the JF website, along with position papers and information briefs suggesting that there are positive aspects to Hamas. Is this JF’s effort to help legitimize Hamas regardless of its terrorist designation?  Or is it because JF’s founder Sharabi supported Hamas’ strikes against Israel?</p>
<p>The terrorism financing prosecution referred to as “The Holy Foundation” (HLF) involved the largest pro-Palestinian Islamic charity in the U.S.  It was designated as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist” and shut down by the U.S. government.  Its leadership was convicted for raising money for the designated terrorist group, Hamas.  Just like the Jerusalem Fund, HLF’s mission was to provide humanitarian assistance to needy Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza.  But HLF was proven to be a funding source for Hamas whose avowed purpose is to destroy Israel.  The Hamas charter advocates <a href="http://www.charityandsecurity.org/system/files/HLF%205c%20Opinion%20%281%29.pdf" target="_blank">violent jihad as the only solution</a>.  The charter identifies Hamas as Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p>A 1979 report “<a href="http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/downloadFile.cfm?FileID=17768" target="_blank">Anti-Israel Influences in American Churches</a>” referred to “Dr. Hisham Sharabi, president of the National Association of Arab Americans, who has been publicly criticized by moderate Arab-American leaders for his defense of Palestinian terrorist tactics.”  A former student also noted Sharabi’s <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/11150" target="_blank">support</a> of “radical Palestinian terror groups.”</p>
<p>Sharabi <a href="http://www.e-ir.info/2011/06/22/on-hamas-a-fresh-analysis-of-an-old-%E2%80%98problem%E2%80%99/" target="_blank">described</a> Hamas as “the true fida’i (self-sacrifice) resistance in Palestine since the outbreak of the Palestinian intifada.” In <a href="http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/cpap_conference_israel_s_policy_of_apartheid_and_ethnic_cleansing_" target="_blank">2003</a> he said:</p>
<p>“In the face of relentless Israeli force, the only weapon the helpless and desperate have is to           fling their bodies against the beast.  Suicide bombings are no longer the lone act of desperate         fanatics, but have become a conscious weapon of resistance and war.  The culture of death          and self-sacrifice is spreading in many Arab and Muslim countries.”</p>
<p>Of course when you consider Sharabi’s affiliation with <a href="http://tn4politicaljustice.wordpress.com/?s=jerusalem+fund" target="_blank">WISE</a> and Sami al-Arian of Palestinian Islamic Jihad notoriety, it all makes more sense.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Jerusalem Fund and BDS</span></p>
<p>Keeping with its anti-Israel campaign,Yousef Munayyer in his position as Director of the Jerusalem Fund, openly supports and advocates for BDS against the State of Israel.</p>
<p>In a January 2013 “Palestine Note” <a href="http://www.palestinenote.com/people-for-palestine/people-palestine-yousef-munayyer/" target="_blank">video interview</a>, JF’s Munayyer discusses his support for BDS. While he is disappointed that BDS has not yet been adopted by world governments, being blocked for  now by the U.S. at the UN Security Council, Munayyer resigns himself to accepting BDS initiatives from non-state actors.  As he says, “while BDS is not the most efficient way, BDS is the only option people have left.”</p>
<p>Sounds eerily similar to the justification given for why Palestinian suicide bombers blow themselves up in civilian settings like the <a href="http://www.zionism-israel.com/dic/Sbarro_Pizzeria_Massacre.htm" target="_blank">Sbarro pizza restaurant</a> and why the terrorists are subsequently <a href="http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=5581" target="_blank">glorified</a> by their media.</p>
<p>Why does the leadership of the Jerusalem Fund promote BDS? Because the end goal of the BDS movement is to end Israel as a Jewish state.  And destroying Israel means destroying Jews.  Same objective as the “radical Palestinian terror groups” Sharabi is reported to have supported.  Just a different means.</p>
<p>Law school professor William Jacobson <a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/10/bds-movement-distilled-when-israeli-soldiers-not-raping-arab-women-is-racist/" target="_blank">explains</a>, “BDS should being seen for the anti-Semitic movement it is, a movement that demonizes only the Jewish State, holds only the Jewish State to the highest standards no one else meets (certainly not in the Middle East), and seeks the destruction only of the sole Jewish State in a sea of Islamic States.”</p>
<p>Former <a href="http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/ht/display/ReleaseDetails/i/2305/pid/2255" target="_blank">Jerusalem Fund Palestine Fellow</a>, and <a href="http://electronicintifada.net" target="_blank">Electronic Intifada</a> co-founder Ali Abuminah is a virulently<a href="http://home.earthlink.net/%7Eedgerider/bds-electronic-intifada.html" target="_blank"> hateful</a> anti-Israel voice on the internet and on the speaking circuit, including college campuses.  Abuminah served as Vice-President on the board of the Arab American Action Network, a controversial anti-Israel organization founded by Rashid Khalidi and his wife who coincidentally <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/activist-for-anti-israel-group-with-ties-to-obama-exposed-as-terrorist/" target="_blank">are friendly with the Obamas</a>.</p>
<p>Sharabi, Ali, Munayyer, Abuminah and their fellow Israel haters well understood that the Palestinian suicide bombers of the second intifada in 2000 laid the foundation for the BDS assault on Israel’s legitimacy and right to exist.</p>
<p>There is also the matter of Subhi Ali’s <a href="http://tn4politicaljustice.wordpress.com/2012/06/24/newsletter-23-the-company-we-keep/" target="_blank">financial support</a> for anti-Israel politicians like U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney.  Is that why he <a href="http://tn4politicaljustice.wordpress.com/2012/06/24/newsletter-23-the-company-we-keep/" target="_blank">also donated</a> to Tennessee Senator Mark Norris?</p>
<p>When news first broke and questions were raised about Samar Ali’s hiring, ECD Commissioner Bill Hagerty told the June session of First Tuesday that Subhi Ali called him and asked him to look at Samar’s <a href="http://tn4politicaljustice.wordpress.com/2012/08/23/newsletter-39-dr-subhi-ali-and-the-jerusalem-fund/" target="_blank">resume</a>, which includes work done on behalf of the Jerusalem Fund.   Sounds like Haggerty knows Subhi Ali and his family pretty well.  Makes you wonder whether Haggerty agrees with their politics?</p>
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<p>Subhi Ali has chosen to align himself with and lead an organization that has committed itself to a course of action which at its core, is intended to destroy the State of Israel.</p>
<p>Politics may make strange bedfellows, but you always have a choice about who you wake up to in the morning.</p>
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		<title>A Sharia Financier in the TN Governor&#8217;s Office</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 04:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/arnold-ahlert/a-sharia-financier-in-the-tn-governors-office/samar-ali-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-167735"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-167735" title="samar-ali-2" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/samar-ali-2.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="191" /></a>In Tennessee last May, Republican Gov. Bill Haslam <a href="http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/42403">appointed</a> Samar Ali as international director of the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development (ECD). Attempts to connect her to stealth jihad have been <a href="http://nashvillecitypaper.com/content/city-news/state-tea-partiers-focus-anti-islamic-sentiment-highly-accomplished-native-tenness">ridiculed.</a> Yet when one connects the dots between Ali and several organizations and individuals, a number of troubling relationships arise, especially regarding the phenomenon known as Sharia-compliant finance (SCF).</p>
<p>SCF is best <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/2008/04/04/shariacompliant-finance-funds-jihad/">explained</a> by Deroy Murdock in a 2008 column: &#8220;Turn your clock back 70 years. Imagine that Wall Street banks and brokerages sold Nuremberg-compliant bonds and stock funds in 1938,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;American Nazi sympathizers bought financial instruments certified by Berlin-based advisors as free of &#8216;Jewish profits&#8217; from, say, Salomon Brothers and Bloomingdale’s.&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the first half the equation. Then comes the far more important second half. &#8220;In turn, a percentage of such funds’ gains underwrote pro-Nazi charities, like the German-American Bund, and similar organizations in the Fatherland, like the Hitler Youth.&#8221; In short, Murdock is using an apt analogy to illuminate the true nature of SCF: it is a money-laundering operation used to underwrite international terrorism.</p>
<p>Samar Ali was appointed as a member of the 2010-2011 class of White House Fellows. Her bio <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/white-house-appoints-2010-2011-class-white-house-fellows">noted</a> that she was an associate with the firm Hogan Lovells US LLP, responsible for counseling clients on mergers and acquisitions, cross-border transactions and Sharia-compliant financial transactions. In fact, the Hogan law firm <a href="http://www.hoganlovells.com/islamic-finance/">specializes</a> in SCF, calling it &#8220;one of the fastest growing financial sectors&#8221; in the world, with projections reaching more than $2.8 trillion by 2015. &#8220;Robust demand has led to new challenges for the Islamic finance industry…Indeed, many eminent Sharia scholars commonly recommend us to financial institutions that approach them for advice,&#8221; the firm reveals.</p>
<p>The White House press release also noted that Ali is &#8220;a founding member of the first U.S. Delegation to the World Islamic Economic Forum&#8221; (WIEF). The Shariah Finance Watch blog <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2010/06/170617/">noted,</a> “[I]t was at the World Islamic Economic Forum where key leaders declared Shariah finance to be &#8216;dawa&#8217; (missionary) activity to promote Islam and Shariah.”</p>
<p>Listed as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Islamic_Economic_Forum">member</a> of the WEIF&#8217;s International Advisory Panel is Saleh Abdullah Kamel, who is also a <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1483">founding member</a> of the Al Shamal Islamic Bank. The Al Shamal Islamic Bank was established by Osama bin Laden to <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100576435457804240.html">fund</a> jihadists and terrorism across the globe. Furthermore, the WEIF is a subsidiary of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The OIC is a bloc of 57 Muslim countries currently <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3474/blasphemy-laws-europe">pressuring</a> Western countries to make criticism Islam or Mohammed an international crime. Such suppression of free speech is another integral part of Sharia law.</p>
<p>Ali also worked as a <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/samar-ali/5/715/994">legal intern</a> for the Islamic International Arab Bank (IIAB) where she &#8220;rotated through various banking units,&#8221; gaining exposure to SCF products and related contracts. According to its website, the IIAB <a href="http://www.iiabank.com.jo/en/OurProfile/Ourhistory.aspx">&#8220;commenced</a> its banking operations in accordance with Islamic Sharia rules&#8221; in 1998. According to <em>Der Spiegel</em>, the bank <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/arab-bank-pays-out-blood-money-life-insurance-for-palestinian-suicide-bombers-a-465438.html">offered</a> a type of life insurance payable to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers. &#8220;The funds take a circuitous route to the accounts of those families that prove the death of their son by showing a death certificate at the Arab Bank branch in the Palestinian Territories,&#8221; the article states.</p>
<p>When Ali was appointed, several GOP county organizations <a href="http://nashvillecitypaper.com/content/city-news/state-tea-partiers-focus-anti-islamic-sentiment-highly-accomplished-native-tenness">criticized</a> Gov. Haslam for allowing her to work in his administration, with at least two passing resolutions asserting a link between Ali and SCF. Like others, they were undoubtedly concerned that Ali&#8217;s appointment might make Tennessee an attractive place to conduct Sharia-compliant financial transactions.</p>
<p>Yet for making such information known, and opposing her appointment, Ali&#8217;s critics were attacked. &#8220;In Tennessee, A Rising Star Targeted By Anti-Muslim Smears,&#8221; is the title of an <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/samar_ali_tennessee_tea_partiers.php">article</a> that completely dismisses such concerns, especially those made by the &#8220;Frank Gaffney-led Center for Security Policy&#8211;a hub of Islamophobia,&#8221; as completely without merit. Another article refers to any criticism of Ali&#8217;s appointment as &#8220;McCarthy-esque dot-connecting&#8221; similar to &#8220;the paranoia in Washington, D.C.&#8221; regarding charges made against Hillary Clinton&#8217;s aide, Huma Abedin, and her association with the Muslim Brotherhood. (That Huma Abedin&#8217;s mother <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/312211/huma-abedin-s-muslim-brotherhood-ties-andrew-c-mccarthy">belongs</a> to the Muslim Sisterhood is apparently irrelevant.)</p>
<p>Also apparently irrelevant are the questionable associations of Samar Ali&#8217;s father, Dr. Subhi Ali. From 2005 until the present, Dr. Ali has <a href="http://tn4politicaljustice.wordpress.com/category/jerusalem-fund/">served</a> as the Chairman of the Jerusalem Fund. On its <a href="http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/ht/d/sp/i/189/pid/189">website</a>, the Jerusalem Fund claims it is &#8220;an independent, non-profit, non-political, non-sectarian organization based in Washington, D.C.&#8221; Yet the language used to describe its programs reveals a distinctly anti-Israeli slant, emphasizing such concepts as the Palestinian &#8220;Right of Return,&#8221; and referring to Israel as &#8220;the Occupied Territory.&#8221; Articles on the site also refer to Israel&#8217;s occupation of Palestine, Israeli &#8220;apartheid,&#8221; and how the two-state solution is &#8220;morally debased&#8217; and &#8220;antiquated.&#8221; The site attempts to obscure its biased agenda with a disclaimer at the bottom of each article, stating that such views &#8220;do not necessarily reflect those of The Jerusalem Fund.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yet the Fund has also been associated with several people and organizations with links to terrorism. Its founder, Dr. Hisham Sharabi, PhD., was on the Board of Trustees of World and Islam Studies Enterprise (WISE), an organization incorporated by Sami Al-Arian as an Islamic think tank. Al-Arian was <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/21/AR2008032102775.html">sentenced</a> to 57 months in jail for conspiracy to &#8220;make or receive funds&#8230;for the benefit of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad&#8221; (PIJ). Tarik Hamdi, identified as an officer/staff member of WISE, is listed in a federal affidavit as providing material support to Al-Qaeda, Bin Laden and the PIJ.</p>
<p>Other WISE board members include Taha Jabir al Alwani, an unindicted co-conspirator in the same Holy Land Foundation case that resulted in Al-Arian&#8217;s conviction; Basheer Nafi, who was charged with “conspiracy to murder, maim or injure persons outside the United States;” Ramadan Abdullah, aka Ramadan Shallah, on the FBI&#8217;s Most Wanted List as a “Specially Designated Terrorist;&#8221; and Mazin an Najjar, a founding member of WISE, arrested on secret FBI evidence revealing his support for terrorism.</p>
<p>Yet as far as &#8220;see no Islamic evil&#8221; politicians, both Democrats <em>and</em> Republicans, Americans in general, and Tennesseans in particular, are supposed to believe that Samar Ali was either completely unaware of these associations, or that none of them are germane with regard to her position as a director of Tennessee&#8217;s ECD. Moreover, none of these associations should be questioned, criticized or investigated &#8212; lest one be branded Islamophobic for daring to do so.</p>
<p>In the prevailing political climate, such an attitude is to be expected. During the presidential campaign, Americans were <a href="http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2012/10/17/obama-dropping-al-qaeda-run-stump-speech">told</a> by President Obama that al-Qaeda is &#8220;on the run,&#8221; even as four Americans were murdered in Benghazi, and the ensuing disinformation campaign blaming it on a video was perpetrated by a willing media. The &#8220;Arab Spring&#8221; has been an equally enduring myth that is rapidly coming undone, as Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi brutally <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2241374/Muslim-Brotherhood-paying-gangs-rape-women-beat-men-protesting-Egypt-thousands-demonstrators-pour-streets.html">consolidates</a> his Muslim Brotherhood-dominated dictatorship. The administration now considers it &#8220;feasible&#8221; to <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/28/guantanamo-detainees_n_2207811.html">move</a> Guantanamo Bay terrorists to U.S. prisons, even as potential terror attacks to free them are ignored. Thus, for the true believers, the potential of Sharia finance occurring in Tennessee, or anywhere else in the country for that matter, is nothing more than the stuff of overwrought imaginations &#8220;Islamophobia.&#8221;</p>
<p>In an essay entitled “Islamic Finance or Financing Islamism,”Alex Alexiev, senior analyst with the national security division of the Rand Corporation, contends that if Western banks endorse Sharia finance, they will “end up becoming what Lenin called useful idiots or worse to the Islamists. And it is a very thin line between that and outright complicity in the Islamist agenda.” When the only reasons for endorsing Sharia fiance come down to willful blindness, or outright collaboration with Islamic terror, America&#8217;s political priorities are seriously out of whack.</p>
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