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28 Jan 2008 05:42:05 AM |
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Department of the Defenseless
By Joe Kaufman
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, January 28, 2008
There used to be a time when the greatest threat within the United
States government emanated from Arabists in the State Department,
Arabists meaning those persons who favor Arab interests and positions
in international affairs. Today, a new threat has emerged and from the
most unlikely of places, the Department of Defense (DOD), and this
time it's not from Arabists but from Islamists, coming from outside
the department, looking to infiltrate the most sensitive of areas in
our nation.
On September 1, 2006, Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon R. England
was featured as a speaker at the 43rd annual convention of the Islamic
Society of North America or ISNA. He began his speech by stating the
following:
Friends, fellow Americans, people of faith - Good afternoon! Thank you
to Dr. Louay Safi for the kind introduction, and a special thank you
to Sheikh Muhammad Nur Abdulla, and Dr. Ingrid Mattson, for your
leadership and for the invitation to join you at this Islamic Society
of North America conference.
Thank you also for the pleasant lunch, and the opportunity to dialog
with the Society's leadership. It was most beneficial to share ideas
and values.
It is a profound honor for me to be here with you today, representing
all the men and women in the United States military, and all the
civilians who serve America in the Department of Defense and
throughout the US Government.
ISNA was established by the Muslim Brotherhood (MB)-associated Muslim
Students Association (MSA) in 1981, helped into existence by a group
of MSA alumni and a teaching assistant at North Carolina State
University (NCSU) named Sami Al-Arian, who only two years prior co-
founded Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in Egypt. ISNA was
incorporated using the same physical address as the MSA, which was
also the address used to incorporate the American Hamas financing
wing, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF).
In December of 2003, ISNA was the subject of a terrorism investigation
launched by the U.S. Senate Finance Committee "into possible links
between nongovernmental organizations and terrorist financing
networks."
In June of 2007, ISNA was named an "unindicted co-conspirator" in a
legal case brought by the Justice Department against HLF officials
that dealt with the funding of millions of dollars to Hamas. During
the trial, a May 1991 MB document bearing ISNA's name was presented as
evidence, stating: "The Ikhwan [Brotherhood] must understand that
their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and
destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its
miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that
it is eliminated and G-d's religion is made victorious over all other
religions."
Even today, right on ISNA's official website, one can read the
following quotes: "May Allah fight the jews and the christians. They
took the graves of their Prophets as places of prostration . Two deens
[religions] shall not co-exist in the land of the Arabs." And "The
Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the
stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. 'O Muslim! There is
a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.'" The statements have been on
ISNA's site since March of 2006, months before England gave his
speech.
Furthermore, ISNA Executive Council member Muhammad Nur Abdullah (see
above) and board members Jamal Badawi, Yusuf Ziya Kavakci, and
Muzammil Siddiqi all currently serve as Sharia Scholars for the 'Fatwa
Bank' on Islam Online. Contained in it is a fatwa (religious ruling)
mandating violence against American troops, entitled 'Seeking
Martyrdom by Attacking US Military Bases in the Gulf.' It states,
"[A]ttacking American soldiers who came to launch war against Muslims
is an obligation and Jihad, as they are true invaders. Hence, killing
any transgressing American soldier is an obligation and a kind of
Jihad since those occupying troops came to invade Muslim lands."
For such a high-ranking government official, as Deputy Secretary
England is, to participate in an event sponsored by ISNA is alarming
to say the least, but the series of events that followed the speech
were far worse and will have much greater implications for the future.
England was named Deputy Secretary in May of 2005. Prior to that, he
had held two terms as Secretary of the Navy. Serving on England's
staff, while he was with the Navy, was an individual by the name of
Hesham Islam. Islam, an Egyptian-born former Naval officer (Retired
Commander) and former Merchant Marine for Saddam Hussein's Iraq, while
at Naval Postgraduate School, wrote a thesis exhibiting what has been
described as anti-Israel and anti-Semitic viewpoints. Islam has since
moved on to join Deputy Secretary England's DOD staff as his Special
Assistant for International Affairs.
It has been reported that it was Commander Islam that suggested
England address ISNA's annual conference. And of course, England going
to ISNA was an open invitation for ISNA to return the favor by coming
to DOD, which the group took advantage of.
On April 26, 2007, DOD issued a "News Article" about ISNA's visit with
the agency the day before. A photo in the release depicts Deputy
Secretary England with the President of ISNA Ingrid Mattson and the
U.S. Vice President of ISNA Mohamed Hagmagid Ali. It was taken at
England's office in the Pentagon.
Also attending the event was the President of the Muslim American
Society (MAS) Esam Omeish, who, last September, resigned his
government appointed position to the Virginia Commission of
Immigration, after a video surfaced showing him advocating violent
jihad. Information regarding Omeish's attendance is found on the
website of American Muslims for Constructive Engagement (AMCE), an
organization created by the International Institute for Islamic
Thought (IIIT) to bring radical Muslims closer to the U.S. government.
In March of 2002, IIIT's Virginia offices were raided by the FBI in a
terror financing probe. In March of 2006, DOD helped pay for an IIIT
conference.
Now, it needs to be said that the April photo op and the England
speech were not the first times DOD had had dealings with ISNA. In
truth, ISNA has been a part of DOD's Muslim chaplaincy program since
July of 2002, when it was named as an "endorser of Chaplains."
However, not everyone was happy about ISNA's involvement in this
program.
In a meeting of the terrorism subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary
Committee held in October of 2003, Senators Charles Schumer, Jon Kyl
and Dianne Feinstein voiced concern over ISNA's role at DOD. Senator
Schumer cited the fact that Siraj Wahhaj, an individual named by the
U.S. government as a possible co-conspirator of the 1993 World Trade
Center bombing, was at the time a board member of ISNA. Nonetheless,
little was done; ISNA kept its position.
Today, thanks to its chief advocate in the government, Hesham Islam,
ISNA's role within the Department of Defense is stronger than ever. As
has been discussed in depth by such journalists as Bill Gertz, Frank
Gaffney and Kenneth Timmerman, this relationship has forced the
Islamic law expert for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Stephen Coughlin,
out of his job.
Coughlin, a major in the Army Reserves working as a civilian
contractor for the Joint Staff, had recently put together a 333-page
document exposing radical Islam's threat to the West, entitled "TO OUR
GREAT DETRIMENT": IGNORING WHAT EXTREMISTS SAY ABOUT JIHAD [PDF]. As
well, he had raised concerns about the dangerous ties of ISNA and
other groups that have been courted by Commander Islam. Coughlin
understood what many inside the government do not, that there are
mainstream American Muslim organizations that threaten our country
from within.
While groups like ISNA and MAS work hard to create a false aura of
moderation and modernity, and while they cunningly strive to make
inroads in the most sensitive of U.S. government sectors, these same
groups hide within their websites declarations of violence aimed at
non-Muslims. In reality, they hide their true self. And when
individuals, such as Stephen Coughlin, come along, they try to
discredit them and remove them from the process. This time, they were
successful.
Earlier this month, DOD's Central Command (CENTCOM) canceled a speech
that was to be given in front of its personnel by Ahmed Bedier, a
leader of the Hamas-related Council on American-Islamic Relations
(CAIR). In doing as such, CENTCOM, the arm of the government
responsible for combat operations abroad, exhibited integrity.
It is time for the Defense Department to follow its military offspring
and match that integrity by removing ISNA and its friends from its
offices. These organizations are threats to our security and have no
business taking part in our government, let alone being in our
country.
DOD does a great job protecting us, by fighting our enemies abroad. It
mustn't forget that those same enemies have counterparts stationed
here, as well.
"Ultimately we can never be full citizens of this country... because
there is no way we can be fully committed to the institutions and
ideologies of this country."
- ISNA board member, Ihsan Bagby, 'Political Activities of Muslims in
America,' 1991
"We are those who have given a pledge of allegiance to Muhammad that
we will carry on Jihad as long as we live."
- ISNA official website,'Fighting in the Cause of Allah (Jihaad),'
March 17, 2006 - Present
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| User: "JTEM" |
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| Title: Are all Republicans psychotic? |
28 Jan 2008 06:55:27 AM |
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Kurt Nicklas <nickl...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
There used to be a time when the greatest threat within
the United States government emanated from Arabists
in the State Department,
That must have been before they moved into the Whitehouse,
with the help of traitors like you.
Bush's relationship with the Saudi royals extends well before
he entered "public life." The guy holds hands with the Saudi
royals, and even kisses them!
And, heck, that's what he's willing to do when there's people
and cameras around to witness everything. Imagine what your
man Dubya is willing to do when he's alone with the Saudis,
without any cameras around!
...Betcha there's a lot of robes being sent out to the dry
cleaners...
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| User: "Crawford Pussy" |
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28 Jan 2008 08:28:20 AM |
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"JTEM" <jtem01@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:da19f448-fe64-4244-9ff1-9775d0e0ccfe@v29g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
Kurt Nicklas <nickl...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
There used to be a time when the greatest threat within
the United States government emanated from Arabists
in the State Department,
That must have been before they moved into the Whitehouse,
with the help of traitors like you.
Bush's relationship with the Saudi royals extends well before
he entered "public life." The guy holds hands with the Saudi
royals, and even kisses them!
And, heck, that's what he's willing to do when there's people
and cameras around to witness everything. Imagine what your
man Dubya is willing to do when he's alone with the Saudis,
without any cameras around!
...Betcha there's a lot of robes being sent out to the dry
cleaners...
heh, heh...........
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| User: "raven1" |
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| Title: Re: #Department of the Defenseless |
28 Jan 2008 09:42:04 AM |
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On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:42:05 -0800 (PST), Kurt Nicklas
<nicklask@bellsouth.net> wrote:
There used to be a time when the greatest threat within the United
States government emanated from Arabists in the State Department
"Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Arabist Party?".
Now that Communism is no longer a threat, the Right-wingnuts need a
new all-purpose villain for their scaremongering.
---
"Faith may not move mountains, but you should see what it does to skyscrapers..."
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| User: "Free Lunch" |
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| Title: Re: #Department of the Defenseless |
28 Jan 2008 06:42:18 PM |
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On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:42:05 -0800 (PST), in alt.atheism
Kurt Nicklas <nicklask@bellsouth.net> wrote in
<c4077b38-89fb-4102-91ee-14b84f488ae0@m34g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>:
Department of the Defenseless
By Joe Kaufman
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, January 28, 2008
There used to be a time when the greatest threat within the United
States government emanated from Arabists in the State Department,
Arabists meaning those persons who favor Arab interests and positions
in international affairs. Today, a new threat has emerged and from the
most unlikely of places, the Department of Defense (DOD), and this
time it's not from Arabists but from Islamists, coming from outside
the department, looking to infiltrate the most sensitive of areas in
our nation.
George Bush kowtows to the Saud Family. What the rest of our government
does cannot undo his evil.
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