Thursday, August 9, 2007
All those Muslim Brotherhood connections sure are making life difficult. The danger is that, with Brotherhood and terror financing links so pervasive with "mainstream" Muslim groups, some folks in power may just decide it's easier to ignore or gloss over those links. What's that expression? Was it from Hobbes? If two plus two equals four becomes a political question, rest assured a faction will emerge to take the opposite view.
Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball describe how Alberto Gonzalez canceled an appearance: An Unwelcome Guest
The Justice Department this summer abruptly cancelled a high-profile “Muslim outreach†event featuring Attorney General Alberto Gonzales after discovering that one of the invited guests was an officer of an organization just named as an “unindicted co-conspirator†in a major terrorism case.
The scheduled event was slated to take place in the main department auditorium known as the Great Hall of Justice on June 27—with Gonzales billed as the keynote speaker. The program was titled “Securing America: Law Enforcement Partnerships with American Muslim, Arab, Middle Eastern and South Asian Communities,†according to the official invitation, which went out to scores of groups and individuals last spring.
But after the invites went out, aides to Gonzales suddenly became alarmed that it could create a new embarrassment for the embattled attorney general. The reason: one of the featured speakers was a prominent Northern Virginia imam who serves as vice president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which had just been branded by federal prosecutors in court papers as a U.S. branch of the Muslim Brotherhood—the international movement, based in Egypt, dedicated to the creation of a worldwide Islamic caliphate. ISNA, which has not been charged with any crime, was among more than a hundred organizations and individuals who were listed in late May as “unindicted co-conspirators†in the prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation—the Texas-based group now on trial in Dallas for allegedly conspiring to funnel funds to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas...
Inconvenient! The featured speaker was Mohamed Magid. We've seen him before when a somewhat ominous email went out on the Islamic Society of Boston email list that seemed to be a veiled threat against those, like Magid, who would cooperate with law enforcement: A Warning to those like Magid?.
Speaking of unindicted co-conspirators, the Holy Land Foundation and the Brotherhood, Doug Farah discusses some of the links between several domestic Muslim orgs and the Brotherhood that emerging for the record in the HLF trial: More Gleaned from the Holy Land Foundation Exhibits
These public documents, collected by the NEFA Foundation give a pretty clear picture of the Muslim Brotherhood structure, motives and aims in the United States and more broadly.
The first thing the exhibits lay out is the organic, granular link of the Brotherhood to the organizations in the United States such as MSA, NAIT, ICNA and others (CAIR was not founded when most of these were written, but is an unindicted co-conspirator in the case as well, and named as a Brotherhood entity).
A second is that there is a military component and strict security measures to keep the Brotherhood out from government scrutiny...
Here's Steve Emerson: FBI Fingers CAIR as Part of Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee
Burns also said that both Omar Ahmed and Nihad Awad, CAIR co-founders who today serve as CAIR’s chairman emeritus and executive director, respectively, were also listed as individual members the Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee in America.
Awad and Ahmed are further connected to the Palestine Committee based on their positions as president and public relations director of the IAP, a Hamas front group that was responsible for the dissemination of propaganda, and has since been closed down as a result of a multi-million dollar civil judgment in a trial involving the murder of an American teenager by HAMAS terrorists...
