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From The Investigative Project on Terrorism:
- Obama Admin Spends Christmas Trying To Get Islamist Groups Off Terror List
From the Daily Caller: The Obama administration spent Christmas week trying to get two Islamist organizations off a foreign country’s terror list. The Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim American Society are both listed as Islamist...
- Evil Leading The Blind
The United States government's stepped-up courting of Islamist groups is on display at the State Department web portal www.america.gov. The site bills itself as a place to "meet the people" and "explore the values and ideas that define the character...
- Video: Jihad! In America (with Addendum)
In an earlier thread, reminded me of Steven Emerson's documentary Jihad! In America, which aired on PBS in 1994. You can watch the documentary HERE. The 2001 DVD release, Terrorists Among Us - Jihad in America, can be purchased at Amazon. Important...
- Group That Funded Rep. Ellison's Pilgrimage To Mecca Called A Front For Extremism
Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison took a trip to Mecca in December that was funded by a group terrorism experts say is tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, an international Islamist movement.By Joseph AbramsFOXNews.comThursday, January 08, 2009 Minnesota Rep. Keith...
- Is Cair Finally In Legal Trouble?
From this source, on June 4, 2007: Federal prosecutors have named three prominent Islamic organizations in America as participants in an alleged criminal conspiracy to support a Palestinian Arab terrorist group, Hamas. Prosecutors applied the label of...
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Steven Emerson's Recent Congressional Testimony
From The Investigative Project on Terrorism:
Rep. Sherman, Emerson, Ponder State Department ReformsRegular IBA readers might not find much new in the report, but it does serve as a good review. Whether or not Congress and the State Department will take appropriate action remains to be seen. I'm not holding my breath.
IPT News
July 31, 2008
The State Department has collaborated with many radical Islamist organizations and individuals in its attempts to engage in outreach to the American Muslim community at large, Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) Executive Director Steven Emerson told a congressional panel Thursday. Many of the individuals in charge of these organizations, and the organizations themselves, have been convicted, indicted, or designated as unindicted co-conspirators in terrorism cases throughout the United States.
(For detailed examples, see Emerson's complete written testimony here.)
Emerson's appeared before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade came despite the protests of some of the same Islamist organizations. Emerson urged Congress to review the State Department's interaction with these organizations in its attempts to reach out to the Muslim community.
Emerson outlined some of the more troubling aspects of participation with these groups: namely their ties to terrorist entities and promotion of radical Islamic ideology. A number of groups that the State Department has cooperated with have links to entities such as Al Qaeda, Hamas and Hizballah - which are designated as terrorist organizations by the United States government. The groups partnering with the State Department help to support an ideology that focuses on eliminating secular Western powers and promoting their stringent ideas of Sharia law, or law as governed by Islamic text.
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In response to the protests [from various Moslem groups], Congressman Sherman issued a press release in which he stated, "This hearing will go on. We need to make sure that the State Department is not giving U.S. tax dollars to those on the other side in the war on terrorism." He added "The Muslim Public Affairs Council should apologize for the statements of its executive director on September 11, 2001."
MPAC, ISNA and a constellation of other radical groups and individuals have been supported by the State Department. Perhaps Thursday's testimony will signal a turning point, seeing the State Department implement stricter guidelines to avoid past mistakes and embarrassments, which have damaged America's national security.
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"I think one of the greatest fears of people in the United States is somebody may call you a racist...they may call you an Islamophobe," he said in the hearing. "And what we've seen with some of these organizations is their message is clear: ‘Give us money or we'll call you an Islamophobe'...that's what they say to the State Department. What they say to us in Congress is ‘Don't question the fact that we're getting money or we'll call you an Islamophobe.'"
- Obama Admin Spends Christmas Trying To Get Islamist Groups Off Terror List
From the Daily Caller: The Obama administration spent Christmas week trying to get two Islamist organizations off a foreign country’s terror list. The Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim American Society are both listed as Islamist...
- Evil Leading The Blind
The United States government's stepped-up courting of Islamist groups is on display at the State Department web portal www.america.gov. The site bills itself as a place to "meet the people" and "explore the values and ideas that define the character...
- Video: Jihad! In America (with Addendum)
In an earlier thread, reminded me of Steven Emerson's documentary Jihad! In America, which aired on PBS in 1994. You can watch the documentary HERE. The 2001 DVD release, Terrorists Among Us - Jihad in America, can be purchased at Amazon. Important...
- Group That Funded Rep. Ellison's Pilgrimage To Mecca Called A Front For Extremism
Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison took a trip to Mecca in December that was funded by a group terrorism experts say is tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, an international Islamist movement.By Joseph AbramsFOXNews.comThursday, January 08, 2009 Minnesota Rep. Keith...
- Is Cair Finally In Legal Trouble?
From this source, on June 4, 2007: Federal prosecutors have named three prominent Islamic organizations in America as participants in an alleged criminal conspiracy to support a Palestinian Arab terrorist group, Hamas. Prosecutors applied the label of...