LEGISLATURE THAT CAN BAR SHARIA APPROVED IN MISSOURI

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that their own bill barring use of foreign laws has been approved by the state senate:

The Missouri Legislature has approved a bill that seeks to block the implementation of Agenda 21, a non-binding United Nations action plan that promotes sustainable development.

The anti-Agenda 21 bill now goes to Gov. Jay Nixon, following the House’s final approval of the bill Wednesday night.

“This is truly a bill that’s going to help protect Missourians and their private property rights,” said state Rep. Lyle Rowland, R-Cedarcreek.

Let's hope the governor gives it his approval.

SHARIA IS THE BIGGEST THREAT TO AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

Carla Garrison at the Wash. Times has written about the dangers Islamic sharia poses to the USA:

WASHINGTON , May 10, 2013 — Former US Attorney General Mike Mukasey spoke recently at Temple Emanuel in Greensboro, North Carolina. “Isms all want to rid the world of something. Nazism wanted to rid the world of Jews. Communism wanted to rid the world of God. Islamism wants to rid the world of infidels - that is you,” said Mukasey.

Sharia (the “path") is Islamic law. According to most sources, including the Council on Foreign Relations, shariah is made up of rules that regulate every nook and cranny of life - worship, marriage and inheritance, criminal offenses, commerce and personal conduct. “It is derived primarily from the Quran and the Sunna—the sayings, practices, and teachings of the Prophet Mohammed.”

The bombings and shootings in the name of Islam, such as the Boston Marathon, Fort Hood, the “Underwear Bomber” and 911 are just one element of how sharia law calls Muslims to fight against those who do not accept their law.

Andrew McCarthy, former federal prosecutor and co-author of Shariah: The Threat To America: An Exercise In Competitive Analysis, wrote, “American elites still deal with sharia as just a religious system, when in fact it is as totalitarian a political program as ever were those of communism, fascism, national socialism, or Japanese imperialism.”

The Muslim holy book, the Quran, says that non-Muslims are “the most vile of created beings” (Q 98:6)

Read the rest to learn about some of the terrible things that took place at universities, schools, prisons and courts of law in America when they too caved to Muslim demands for accomodation. A movement has to be formed to counter these appeasements and take back America's institutions.

WALL STREET JOURNAL MIXED UP ABOUT WESTERN WALL

Looks like the WSJ has been slipping in more ways than one:

Several hundred female Jewish worshipers at Jerusalem's Western Wall were pelted with rocks and bottles by thousands of ultraorthodox Jewish demonstrators outraged by their presence at a part of the site traditionally restricted to men.

Oh for heaven's sake. That's not so at all. They were praying in the women's section (which has less space than the men's section), and not in the men's section. It's the prayer customs that had the Haredis making a tempest in a teapot. Oddly enough, they do acknowledge those parts like the shawls and singing in the rest of the article. Nevertheless, this goof is really foolish of them.

They do say something vital though:

Mickey Rosenfeld, a police spokesman, said that security forces prevented the escalation of violence into a full-scale riot. He said confrontations could be worse next time if a compromise isn't found.

Not exactly. It could be worse next time if the Haredi education system isn't improved and they fail to stop teaching their followers to behave so nastily.

I've never denied that the WoW could be publicity hounds. Certainly not their chairwoman. But the Haredis resorting to violence over something that doesn't involve physical vandalism of any kind are only making themselves look far worse if they keep that up.

ATROCIOUS: THE NEWSEUM PUTS 2 HAMAS TERRORISTS ON THEIR HONOR LIST

JTA reported that the Newseum is tarnishing its image by including two scummy men in their database just because they were "journalists":

A spokesperson for the museum said the two, who died in an Israeli airstrike on their vehicle in Gaza last November, would remain on its roll of slain reporters despite protests from Israel’s embassy in Washington.

“Hussam Salama and Mahmoud Al-Kumi were cameramen in a car clearly marked “TV.”’ a spokesperson for the museum said. “The Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters Without Borders and The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers all consider these men journalists killed in the line duty.”

Earlier on Friday, the embassy asked the museum to remove their names saying they were members of Hamas, which Israel and the U.S. have designated as a terror group.

“Memorializing Al Aqsa TV terrorists hurts the integrity of reporters operating w/journalistic values,” the Israeli embassy wrote on its official Twitter account. ‪”@Newseum please take a 2nd look.”

But I guess they won't be. CPJ, RWB and WANNP are also hurting their reps by siding with those monsters simply because of their alleged career.

SEIU NOW TRYING TO DESTROY THE FAST FOOD INDUSTRY AND MAKE THEIR FOOD EXPENSIVE

DETAILS HERE.

HMMM... CONVENIENT FIRE IN THE WEST WING OF THE WHITE HOUSE??? I QUESTION THE TIMING...

Part of the White House was evacuated Saturday morning because of smoke from an equipment malfunction. Secret Service spokesman Max Milien told the Associated Press that smoke was seen coming out of a mechanical room closet on the first floor around 7 a.m. The West Wing, including the press area, were evacuated out of an “abundance of caution,” CNN reported. Five firetrucks responded to the scene, but departed before long. People were allowed back inside the building after about an hour.

HMMM... :

The West Wing is the building housing the official offices of the President of the United States. It is the part of the White House Complex in which the Oval Office, the Cabinet Room, the Situation Room, and the Roosevelt Room are located. Besides serving as the day-to-day office of the President, the three floors of the West Wing include offices for senior members of the Executive Office of the President of the United States and their support staff. 

HMMM... I WONDER WHAT BENGHAZI DOC'S THEY DESTROYED DURING THAT ONE HOUR EVACUATION?

WHAT IF BUSH HAD ALTERED THE RELEASED VERSION OF THE PRE-9/11 PDB SO IT MATCHED-UP WITH HIS POLITICAL CAMPAIGN?

IF BUSH HAD ALTERED CIA BRIEFINGS OR TAKING POINTS TO MATCH HIS POLICY HE WOULD HAVE BEEN CRUCIFIED BY THE  MEDIA.

AND DON'T GIVE ME ANY OF THAT "BUSH LIED ABOUT  WMD" CRAP.

BUSH DIDN'T LIE ABOUT WMD; GERMAN INTELLIGENCE HAD AN DEFECTOR/INFORMER WHO THEY BELIEVED WAS TRUTHFUL - AND SO DID MOST OF THE CONGRESS - AT THE TIME.

AND WHEN YOU REPEAT SOMETHING YOU BELIEVE TO BE TRUTHFUL, THEN YOU ARE NOT LYING.

BUT OBAMA AND HILLARY AND RICE AND CARNEY ALL LIED - THEY ALL REPEATED WHAT THEY KNEW TO BE FALSE.

THEY LIED.

AND THEY LIED - AND ARE LYING STILL - BECAUSE THEY ARE COVERING UP THEIR INCOMPETENCE AND PERHAPS EVEN WHAT THE AMBASSADOR WAS REALLY DING IN BENGHAZI.

PERHAPS HE WAS ARMING AL QAEDA, AND PERHAPS BENGHAZI I OBAMA'S IRAN-CONTRA?

IT HAS TO BE AT LEAST AS BIG, OR OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES WOULD NOT HAVE LIED SO FASTLY OR FURIOUSLY.

THREE MINUTE VIDEO: MASH-UP OF SOME OF THE BEST CAR CHASES IN MOVIE HISTORY

DURING THE TERRORIST SIEGE ON OUR AMBASSADOR IN BENGHAZI, OBAMA WAS MIA

WELL... HE DID HAVE TO GO TO VEGAS THE NEXT DAY TO CAMPAIGN...

"WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?"

VIDEO: HILLARY'S 2AM CALL AND THE BENGHAZI COVER-UP

MORE PROOF THAT SOCIALISM IS THE ROAD TO SERFDOM

WHAT KILLS MORE PEOPLE IN THE USA, GUNS OR ABORTIONS?

OBAMA WHITE HOUSE CELEBRATES PREVENTING MOTHERHOOD ON MOTHER'S DAY

IT'S THE ESSENCE OF  EVIL AND DOUBLESPEAK.

FAMILIES OF SLAIN NAVY SEALS SAY MUSLIM CLERIC DISPARAGED THEIR RELATIVES AT FUNERAL

Via Family Security Matters, some families of deceased Navy Seals provided a recording of a Muslim cleric who said something very nasty about their loved ones at a funeral. Shame on the army for allowing such a man to preach his hate at the memorial service.

EVERYTHING WRONG WITH CHINA IN ONE HEADLINE

BBC: Chinese Filmmaker Is Investigated by Family Planning OfficialsBy EDWARD WONGChina's most celebrated director, Zhang Yimou, could face a hefty fine if he is found to have fathered more children than allowed by law.

HAREDIS RIOT AT THE WESTERN WALL, MAKING THEMSELVES EVEN WORSE THAN W.O.W

The Women of the Wall held their monthly service today, and boy did the Haredis make such a mountain out of a molehill:

Riot police were out in full force Friday at the Western Wall trying to contain ultra-Orthodox demonstrators attempting to break through barricades to approach Women of the Wall supporters and activists holding their monthly prayer service in the women’s section.

Three people were arrested and two police officers were injured in the protests, in which demonstrators at several points threw water bottles and chairs in the direction of the women’s section, while calling the police “Nazis” and shouting at them “Go back to Germany.”

Police formed a human barricade to hold back the protesters when the women exited the prayer plaza after they had concluded their service. After they had passed through Dung Gate, a group of ultra-Orthodox protesters began throwing rocks in their direction. They continued to throw rocks at buses that delivered the women away from the violent protests.

It makes no difference whether it was at the Western Wall plaza proper or even at the gateway, what they did was a Chillul Hashem. What if any of that crap they threw in their tantrum hit the stones the walls are built of and damaged them? They'd be guilty of desecrating historical sites, both the prayer plaza and the city itself.

Some Haredi schoolgirls came to the Western Wall, and while many of them at the women's section wisely refrained from clashing, they did say something interesting:

Several young seminary girls questioned by Haaretz said that they had come to the Western Wall because they were told to do so. One young woman, named Rachel, who refused to provide her last name or the name of her seminary, said she had come to protest women praying in the men’s section. Women of the Wall, however, do not pray in the men’s section, but in the women’s section.

On the one hand, we seem to have a case of failure to think for themselves, depending on one's POV. On the other, we have quite an idiot telling them why she came, assuming that's accurate (I'm not blind to Haaretz's leftism).

Rabbi Aaron Frank, the principal of Beth Tefiloh, a modern Orthodox day school in Baltimore, said he had just “come to daven” at the Western Wall with a few of his students. But when a group of ultra-Orthodox noticed him being interviewed by a foreign TV crew, they began shouting in his direction: “You are a Reform Christian. You are a Muslim. You are the pope.”

“For me, what they are doing is a desecration of God’s name, and I believe that 90 percent of Orthodox Jews would see this as a desecration,” he said. “This is a very sad day for the Jewish people, but for me it’s very important that people see that not all Orthodox men are like this.”

Ronit Peskin, an ultra-Orthodox women and the director of a brand new organization called Women for the Wall, which opposes Women of the Wall, credited her own organization with the massive turnout of ultra-Orthodox women this morning. “We were the ones who got the rabbis to do this,” she claimed.

She said, however, that she and her cohorts had not asked ultra-Orthodox men to show up in force and were disappointed with their behavior.

Well thank goodness she recognizes how destructive their attitude is! I've checked out various other reports, and if there's anything they seem to be right about, it's that pretty much ALL the demonstrators sans rationale were Haredi.

In other words, the average follower of Orthodox Judaism, even if they disagree with Reform Judaism, recognizes that going ape over mere prayer service is a fool's act. To some extent, this also can describe some Haredis. But the more insular the sect, it's clear they're the ones who cannot distinguish between constructive dissent and violent tempers.

Lynn Nadeau, a 72-year-old from Marblehead, Mass., was visiting the wall this morning on her first trip ever to Israel. “I think the men should be kept away,” she said, “because their anger is so strong and frightening. Women, however, can talk to other women even if they disagree.”

“I’m used to a pluralistic society where the chief rabbi doesn’t tell everyone how to live their lives,” she added. “It looks to me that all these ultra-Orthodox girls here have been manipulated.”

Depending on their MO, yes, in a way they have. When they grow up in a society that's all but a vacuum, that can be the result.

Because of the influence some Haredi rabbis apparently had over the Haredis who rioted at the Old City, there's now Conservative and Reform leaders petitioning the attorney-general to investigate:

The heads of the Reform and Conservative movements will demand that Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein investigate the involvement of rabbis on the government payroll in Friday’s violent demonstrations at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. [...]

The demonstrators jeered at the women as they prayed, some throwing water bottles and chairs in their direction. Dozens of riot police were on hand to separate them from the women’s prayer group and they grew increasingly violent. After the women exited Dung Gate, ultra-Orthodox demonstrators ambushed them with rocks.

“I think it is very clear today who came to worship and who came to create provocations,” Gilad Kariv, the executive director of the Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism, told Haaretz. “The troubling aspect of it all is that the rabbi of the Western Wall and his team, all public officials, were deeply involved in organizing this Haredi protest. We intend to address the matter with the attorney general and have him investigate.”

Yizhar Hess, head of the Masorti-Conservative movement in Israel, said that Shmuel Rabinovitch, the Western Wall rabbi and government appointee, was playing both sides. “In the Knesset, he talks about his support for the Sharansky compromise, but outside, he undermines peace in Jerusalem, as he did today.”

Well he did suggest there'd be a "war between brothers", and if this is how they're going to react, then he has some responsibility to bear here for causing so much of a disturbance that any tourists and foreign reporters visiting the spot are bound to come away with a very bad aftertaste. Alas, neither Rabinovitch nor many of the other Haredi moonbats are likely to care that they do the Western Wall and the Temple Mount more harm than good with their antics.

Here's another report from YnetNews:

A mass brawl erupted at the site at around 6:30 am, during which garbage, water, coffee and various objects were flung at dozens of Women of the Wall and police forming a human barrier between the female group and the ultra-Orthodox. Three yeshiva students were detained during the clashes. Two police officers were injured lightly. [...]

Knesset members Miri Regev (Likud ) and Tamar Zandberg (Meretz ) arrived on the scene. Zandberg described the scenes as "tumultuous and exciting," saying those objecting to the female group's right to pray at the site have shown themselves to be seeking antagonism at any cost. [...]

Reform Movement CEO Rabbi Gilad Kariv, who also arrived at the site, said the leaders of the haredi public "desecrated the sanctity" of the Western Wall by calling on ultra-Orthodox to confront the Women of the Wall.

You know something's wrong when a Reform rabbi ends up making the saner argument.

Women of the Wall's Catherine Leff, 17, whose father is a Conservative rabbi, said the events actually strengthened the group and encouraged the members to sing and pray even louder. She said that at some point the haredim began to spit at the women until police cleared them from the area. According to Leff, the bus which transported the Women of the Wall out of compound was pelted with huge stones, but no one was injured. [...]

Yaakov, a 21-year-old haredi, said, "What these women are doing is disgraceful and against the Torah. We will continue to fight them. A woman draped in a tallit (prayer shawl) is ridiculous. Jews do not act this way. I am willing to get arrested. Some things justify a violent reaction."

That comment is sickeningly reminiscent of how Islamofascists speak. What if God Forbid, somebody even got killed as a result of the rioting? What does it take to make them wake up, smell the coffee, and realize that WoW are hardly something to rage over?

SHAS SUPPORTERS MAIL DEATH THREATS TO BAYIT YEHUDI MK AYELET SHAKED

Shas cultists continue to drag the party's image downhill with their decidedly poor educational upbringing:

MK Ayelet Shaked (Bayit Yehudi) filed a complaint with Knesset Security Wednesday night after an onslaught of threatening text messages were sent to her phone by supporters of Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.

The threats followed the Bayit Yehudi's faction meeting on Monday, in which the party gave Yosef one week to publicly announce that he supports a deal in which the Bayit Yehudi would pass legislation allowing the reelection of Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar, and Shas would support Zionist Rabbi Yaakov Ariel for the Ashkenazi chief rabbi position.

Shas activists saw the Bayit Yehudi's limit of a week as an ultimatum to Yosef.

Soon after, Shaked's cell phone number and the following message was sent to a group of Shas activists on the instant-messaging smartphone application Whatsapp: "Friends, Ayelet Shaked hasn't apologized for her impertinence toward the genius Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, may he live a long life. How can we be quiet when an MK from a religious party gives an ultimatum to the greatest rabbi of our generation? We must all send her text messages until she apologizes."

Shaked received dozens of threatening messages, including one that says "may you burn slowly in hell."

Another message said: "Apologize to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, may he live a long life, as soon as possible, or you'll die. What have you done?"

Shaked also received an SMS telling her that her "days are numbered" for harming Yosef, and repeated a quote from the rabbi during the election earlier this year, that the Bayit Yehudi is a "house of gentiles."

"Who are you to make an ultimatum to the greatest rabbi of our generation? You're lower than garbage," a message read.

On Wednesday night, Shaked filed a complaint about the messages to Knesset security, who are currently investigating them.

I hope they catch the offenders who sent those vile messages, and send them to prison for a long, long time. This is pure idolatry, and proof that any Shas supporter who sent her those threatening messages is not a follower of the Torah at all. Yosef would do well to condemn all the offenders and demand they be tried for their nasty crime against Shaked, and make clear that he rejects their worship of him. They have stooped lower than low.

FAST & FURIOUS. GOSNELL. BENGHAZI...

FAST & FURIOUS. 

GOSNELL. 

BENGHAZI. 

BIDEN BLABBERING WHO KILLED BIN LADEN.

MORE TROOPS DYING UNDER OBAMA THAN BUSH.

MORE ATTACKS ON THE HOMELAND.

HANDING EGYPT TO THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD.

FAILING TO NEGOTIATE A TROOP AGREEMENT WITH IRAQ.

 APPEASING PUTIN ON NMD.

IF YOU'RE A LIB, AND JUST PLUGGED INTO THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE, THEN THESE THINGS NEVER HAPPENED.

THESE SCANDALOUS THINGS.

IF A TREE FALLS IN A FOREST - AND THE LIBERAL MEDIA DECIDES THAT REPORTING IT WOULD HURT THEIR AGENDA, THEN IT DOESN'T MAKE A SOUND.

TSARNAEV'S STIFF SHOULD HAVE BEEN CREMATED, NOT JUST BURIED

Newsday says that the Boston jihadist who was deservedly put to death has been buried:

Police in Worcester, Mass., say the body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried outside of the city.

Police said in a statement Thursday that "a courageous and compassionate individual came forward" to properly bury the remains, which had been at a Worcester funeral home for about a week.

Sgt. Kerry Hazelhurst says the body is no longer in Worcester and is now entombed.

Police did not disclose where the body was taken.

Tsarnaev's body had been at the Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlors for a week. Director Peter Stefan says he could not find a community willing to take the body, including Cambridge, where the family had lived for a decade. Tsarnaev's uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, had custody of the body.

Who was it who dared to give the corpse a burial it did not deserve? It should have been cremated, and to my knowledge, plenty of folks in the USA share that belief that a savage like Tsarnaev doesn't even deserve a burial, not even if it's devoid of prayer service. The police have only made themselves look foolish.

HMMM... FUNNY: TWO BIGGEST USA BANKS THAT TRADE EQUITIES HAD PERFECT RECORDS LAST QUARTER

BLOOMBERG:

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and Bank of America Corp. (BAC) had perfect trading records in the first quarter, making money every day of the period as Morgan Stanley posted losses in eight sessions and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in two. 

One daily gain at JPMorgan exceeded $200 million as the biggest U.S. bank by assets recovered from last year’s London Whale derivatives loss, the New York-based company said yesterday in a regulatory filing. Bank of America, the second-largest lender, generated more than $25 million of revenue on 97 percent of trading days, compared with 76 percent at Morgan Stanley, the firms said in separate filings. Goldman Sachs, which generated about half its revenue from trading last quarter, said its team made more than $100 million on 17 days.

TRADING STOCKS IN THE VOLATILE MARKETS AND NEVER LOSING?!?!!?

IT'S JUST MORE PROOF THAT THE STOCK MARKETS ARE RACKETS RIGGED FOR THE BIG PLAYERS.

ON THE KIDNAPPING OF THREE WOMEN THAT HAS BECOME 24/7 NEWS JUST IN TIME TO PREEMPT THE BENGHAZI HEARINGS.

These women were kidnapped, kept prisoner in the house, not allowed to leave unless supervised by one of the men, not allowed to be educated, not allowed to choose what to wear, not allowed to have friends, and, more than anything, not allowed to exercise their Freedom of Choice over any part of their lives.

In other words, what we call kidnapping and a life of horrific abuse is what women in much of the Muslim world call marriage.

benghazi tweet of the day

El SOOPer!! @SooperMexican

Republicans are at a hearing investigating Al-Qaeda attacks on #benghazi, Democrats are at same hearing investigating attacks on Obama.

1:32 PM - 8 May 2013

VIDEO: PROOF OF THE BENGHAZI COVERUP

ATTORNEY-GENERAL WILL WORK TO MAKE GENDER-SEGREGATION A CRIME

Something's being done to crack down on Haredi discrimination against women:

Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein on Wednesday adopted a Justice Ministry proposal to fight the exclusion of women from participating in public ceremonies, being featured on billboards and delivering eulogies at public cemeteries.

Weinstein contacted cabinet ministers with instructions to act quickly to implement the report’s recommendations and to eliminate the marginalization of women in the public sphere.

The separation between men and women is to be prohibited at the country’s HMOs, at all state ceremonies and state-sponsored events, and on public transportation. Moreover, the report demands that local authorities take steps to prevent signs being hung in religious neighborhoods that instruct women to walk in a certain part of the street or to dress modestly.

Gender segregation will also be prohibited in broadcasts of the ultra-Orthodox radio station Kol Berama. The report recommended that if the station does not change its policy prohibiting from women appearing on air within six months that the station be shut down.

Amazingly, a certain someone in the justice ministry has just said something positive for a change:

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni called gender segregation an “intolerable crime.” “The exclusion of women from the public sphere is not only an injury to women’s dignity, but harms our interests as a society and has no religious or moral justification. It is a phenomenon that must end,” said Livni.

But would she be saying - or doing - anything if she were in charge and wanted the Haredi parties in her coalition so much that she'd be willing to appease that kind of mindset at all costs? Maybe not, and the MSM would surely cover for her. So it's lucky she's not the prime minister here, or this kind of horrific case would still prevail.

RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS MINISTRY WILL HELP ARRANGE FOR JEWISH PRAYER ON TEMPLE MOUNT

Finally, something is being done to allow for Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount:

The Religious Services Ministry is working on ways to allow Jews to pray on the Temple Mount, ministry Director-General Elhanan Glatt said Wednesday.

The Knesset Interior Committee held a special meeting on prayer at the Temple Mount, in honor of Jerusalem Day.

Glatt told the committee his office will examine ways to arrange Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount.

"It cannot be that in the State of Israel Jews need to stand aside. The Temple Mount should be a place where people of any religion can pray," committee chairwoman Miri Regev said.

According to Regev, the Temple Mount is a mainstream issue in the heart of the Jewish People which prayed to return to Jerusalem for thousands of years.

Indeed it is. Those opposed to these arrangements include the Arab Knesset members and some of the left-wing Jewish parties.

MUFTI IN JERUSALEM ARRESTED FOR CAUSING INCITEMENT

A wise decision made by the authorities to arrest the resident mufti:

The grand mufti of Jerusalem was detained by Israel Police following an incident between Palestinians and Jews at the Temple Mount.

Sheikh Mohammad Hussein was questioned Wednesday and released hours later in connection with Tuesday's public disturbance in which Muslim worshipers threw rocks and chairs at Jews visiting the site, where the Al-Aksa Mosque is located.

Hussein's involvement is not known; senior clerics rarely are detained in Jerusalem, according to the Times of Israel.

The scuffle occurred at the start of Jerusalem Day, which marks the reunification of the city during the 1967 Six-Day War. On Wednesday, tens of thousands of Jews flocked to the Western Wall to mark the holiday.

The annual Jerusalem Day Parade through the streets of Jerusalem to the wall, known as the Dance of the Flags, is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon. Part of the parade route goes through eastern Jerusalem, which has raised tensions in the area.

It figures he and his worshipers would want to disrupt what's supposed to be a joyous day...except for the vilest of Muslims.

THANKS TO UKIP'S RECENT ELECTORAL SUCCESSES, BRITAIN TO FINALLY CRACKDOWN ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

I HOPE IT'S NOT TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE...

CALL FOR SASOL TO END BUSINESS WITH IRAN

United Against Nuclear Iran points to a South African company energy company called Sasol that's been doing business with Iran despite the evil still in charge there, and asks to campaign to get them to stop.

YAD VASHEM MAKES GOOD EFFORTS TO COLLECT NAMES OF VICTIMS

Israel's Holocaust Memorial Center continues with its honored custom of storing records:

REHOVOT, Israel (AP) - With a hand on her chest, 82-year-old Rivka Fringeru battled back tears as she reeled off a list of names she has rarely voiced in the past 70 years: her father, Moshe, then her mother, Hava, and finally her two older brothers, Michael and Yisrael.

All perished in the Holocaust after the Harabju family from Dorohoi, Romania, was rounded up in 1944 and sent to ghettos and camps. Only Rivka and her brother Marco survived, and like many others, they spent the rest of their lives trying to move on and forget.

Now, Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial and museum, is asking them to remember.

Decades after the Holocaust, experts have documented the names of about 4.2 million of the roughly 6 million Jews who were killed by the Nazis in World War II, and officials are going door-to-door in a race to record the memories of elderly survivors before their stories are lost forever.

It is a painstaking process, complicated by trauma, attempted cover-ups and limited record-keeping.

The Names Recovery Project has been Yad Vashem's flagship mission in recent years. It's a vigorous campaign to complete a central database of Holocaust victims' names by encouraging survivors to fill out pages of testimony about those they knew who were killed.

The outreach effort has taken on a greater sense of urgency, with volunteers spanning the country to engage the fewer than 200,000 remaining survivors in Israel and etch the names of their dead relatives into the pages of history. Elsewhere - primarily in the United States and the former Soviet Union - testimony also is being collected from those unable to do so online.

With the passage of the years, Fringeru's recollection of the details of her traumatic past has become sketchy, but the emotions remain raw. Her voice quavered as she tried to trace her memory, often taking a break to compose herself with a sip of water. Her voice was low and her gaze was pained as she stared at her lone memento - a faded family portrait on a cracked piece of cardboard. When she recalled the last time she saw her brother before they were separated in the Mogilov ghetto, she grabbed her chest again.

"It's hard. I never thought we were going to part so quickly," she said, her voice cracking. "I wish I would have wondered with them. I wondered on my own."

After the war, she moved to Israel and later married, had a daughter, two granddaughters and six great-grandchildren. On occasion, she would bring up an old memory with Marco, who died 10 years ago, but largely kept them to herself, even shielding stories from her immediate family. The memories mainly surfaced in her sleep, she said, as nightmares, and she saw no reason to delve further into them.

"Why suffer? Why go back into that trauma?" Fringeru said.

Now widowed, she lives with her partner Baruch Bruner, 88, a widower and fellow Holocaust survivor. Only after he sought out Yad Vashem and filled out pages of testimony about his extended family did she relent and do the same.

To help them through the process, the director of the names project, Cynthia Wroclawski, made a pair of house calls to their modest home in this city south of Tel Aviv.

Wroclawski, who oversees a staff of some 300 volunteers in Israel, held Fringeru's hand, hugged her often and patiently waited for the details to emerge. Eventually, some did. Fringeru's father owned a grocery store, one brother was a shoemaker and had six young children who also died. The other brother's wife was named Malka. Wroclawski added each smidgen of data onto the single black-and-white page.

"This is a virtual tombstone, this is a place where we can remember the person," she said. "We are bringing that person back to life in a sense, their memory at least, in the act of recording and gathering information."

Yad Vashem's goal is to collect the names of all 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. The memorial's very name - Yad Vashem is Hebrew for "a memorial and a name" - alludes to its central mission of commemorating the dead as individuals, rather than mere numbers like the Nazis did.

It hasn't been an easy task.

The project began in 1955, but over the following half century, fewer than 3 million names were collected, mostly because the project was not widely known. Many survivors refrained from reopening wounds, or they clung to hopes that their relatives might still be alive.

Later, Yad Vashem began incorporating names from other collections around the world. A big boost in names came from archival sources, such as prewar census records and data derived from analysis of books, documents and tombstones.

The names are commemorated in the museum's Hall of Names, a cone-shaped room whose walls are lined with bookshelves containing folders upon folders of testimonies. Still, until 2004, more than half of the allotted folders remained empty.

That year, the online database was launched, providing easy access to information in English, Hebrew, Russian, Spanish and German. The number has since surged to 4.2 million names, and the Internet search function has allowed tech-savvy grandchildren to research their families, leading to several emotional reunions between relatives who had thought the other to be dead.

Yad Vashem hopes that in the next five to six years, it will be able to reach the 5 million mark. Even the most optimistic, however, don't believe it will go much higher.

Contrary to popular belief, the Nazis did not keep meticulous records. They kept tabs on the identity of Jews in Germany, Austria and elsewhere in central Europe, but ordered the wholesale murder of communities elsewhere that were not documented. They also tried to cover up many of their crimes.

Yad Vashem has essentially completed its database on German Jewry during the Nazi era. Its main struggle has been documenting the victims in Poland and eastward, primarily in the former Soviet Union, the site of large scale executions and mass destruction of villages where records were not kept. Limited archival material has allowed researchers to retrace some of them, but the names of many have probably been lost forever.

Because of these difficulties, the actual number of victims remains unclear. Based on records, census data, deportation orders and other documents, most scholarly research estimates the number of Jewish victims of the Holocaust at 5.5 million to 6 million. More estimates run higher, and some lower.

The figure of 6 million that is commonly used is attributed to Adolf Eichmann, the mastermind of the Nazi "Final Solution" to destroy European Jewry.

"Our goal is to keep collecting name after name to get as close as we can to 6 million and we will continue to invest time and resources into getting there," said Yad Vashem Director Avner Shalev, whose voice is often heard in radio ads beseeching survivors to come forward. "This has huge historical and emotional significance ... it makes the historical record more accurate and by having a name it helps give a human face to those who weren't treated like humans."

While the main goal is for commemoration and research, Yad Vashem says the database also serves to combat Holocaust denial. The emphasis on filling out a signed testimony in person, rather than submitting a name, gives the database more detail, depth and authenticity - like sworn testimony in court.

"It is of incredible importance that we have the documentation," Wroclawski said. "Usually when we are finished, you can really see that it's almost like a stone has been lifted from their hearts. They know that it is being passed on."

Despite the draining effort, Fringeru said she was pleased she did it and left behind a remnant that would outlive her.

"It's important that people know," she said. "I hope that now they (my family) won't be forgotten."

I'm glad they're still as vigilant as ever in preserving history.

BOKO HARAM IN HUGE, BOLD, DEADLY ATTACK IN NIGERIA

BBC:

Fifty-five people have been killed in the north-east of Nigeria in co-ordinated attacks by the Boko Haram militant group, the Nigerian army says. It said 105 prisoners were freed in the pre-dawn raid in Bama, Borno state. Bama's police station, military barracks and government buildings were burned to the ground, said the military and witnesses. Correspondents say extremist attacks are common in the region but the scale of bloodshed makes this raid stand out. This strike - coming on the back of other deadly attacks - undermines the suggestion that the military operation against the militants has diminished the threat they pose, says the BBC's Will Ross in Lagos. ... Boko Haram, as it is popularly known, has its roots in this region of Nigeria. It is fighting to overthrow the government and set up an Islamic state.

I BLAME BUSH/ZIONISM/REPUBLICANS/TAX CUTS/CO2/POVERTY.

SERIOUSLY: THERE ISN'T A PLACE ON EARTH WHERE ISLAMISM IS DOING WORSE NOW THAN IN 2008.

A REAL REPORTER: SHARYL ATKISSON

SHARYL ATKISSON JUST MIGHT BE THE WOMAN WHO SAVES OUR NATION.

SENATOR GRAHAM: BENGHAZI IS HUGE - AS BIG AS WATERGATE

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) wrote Tuesday he believes major revelations about the lead up to the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, are imminent, in a Facebook message:

“I think the dam is about to break on Benghazi. We’re going to find a system failure before, during, and after the attacks.

“We’re going to find political manipulation seven weeks before an election. We’re going to find people asleep at the switch when it comes to the State Department, including Hillary Clinton.

“The bond that has been broken between those who serve us in harms way and the government they serve is huge — and to me every bit as damaging as Watergate.”

THE ESS IS ABOUT TO HIT THE EFF - AND PANETTA AND HILLARY WILL EITHER FALL ON THE SWORD FOR THEIR OWN INEPTITUDE OR THEY WILL BLAME OBAMA AND BRING HIM DOWN.... WHERE HE BELONGS. 

 STAY TUNED!

MORE PROOF OBAMA'S AND THE LEFT'S ANTI-GUN LAW BINGE IS PURE DEMAGOGUERY: GUN HOMICIDES AT 20 YEAR LOW

BBC: Gun homicides in the United States have fallen sharply since peaking in 1993, two studies have found.

The federal Bureau of Justice Statistics said firearms-related homicides had dropped to 11,101 in 2011 from 18,253 - a reduction of 39%. Meanwhile, the Pew Research Center found gun homicides per 100,000 people fell to 3.6% in 2010 from 7% in 1993. The figures were released three weeks after US senators rejected proposals to extend background checks on gun sales. 

President Barack Obama has campaigned for tighter firearms laws after 26 people died in a school shooting in Connecticut in December. Both reports found the rate of non-lethal crimes involving guns had also fallen significantly over that period. 

The Bureau of Justice Statistics, an office of the justice department, found that non-fatal firearms crimes dropped by 69% from 1.5 million to 467,300 during the period under study. However, the justice department study also suggested that the percentage of US homicides committed with a firearm had held steady at around 70% between 1993-2011. 

Despite the drop, some 56% of Americans believe gun crime is higher than two decades ago and only 12% think it is lower, according to the Pew Research Center. Pew also found that African Americans made up a disproportionate share of gun homicide victims - 55% in 2010, despite accounting for 13% of the overall population.

WE NEED TO FIX THE BLACK FAMILY - WRECKED BY THE WELFARE STATE EVER SINCE MOYNIHAN WARNED US IN THE 1960'S.

BLACK MALES RAISED IN HOMES WITHOUT RESPONSIBLE FATHER FIGURES ARE THE MAJOR PROBLEM. 

IT'S NOT THE FAULT OF THE BLACK SINGLE MOTHERS; THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH THEY CAN DO FOR THEIR YOUNG BOYS; THEY NEED DAILY RESPONSIBLE, FATHERLY MALE HELP RAISING BOYS.

AND WE NEED TO FIX THE MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM AND OUR MENTAL HEALTH LAWS.

WE DO NOT NEED MORE GUN CONTROL.

THE CALL FOR MORE GUN CONTROL IS BULLSHIT MEANT TO RILE UP THE LEFTIST BASE, AND THEY'RE IDIOTIC AND SYCOPHANTIC ENOUGH TO BUY IT.

PROOF PANETTA LIED UNDER OATH - and what must be done about it...

HUFFINGTON POST - 2/7/13:

"Time, distance, the lack of an adequate warning, events that moved very quickly on the ground prevented a more immediate response," Panetta said in likely his last Capitol Hill appearance before stepping down as Pentagon chief.

WE NOW KNOW THIS WAS A LIE. PANETTA OUGHT TO BE INDICTED FOR LYING TO CONGRESS - AND CHARGED WITH MALFEASANCE FOR FAILING TO DEFEND US TERRITORY AND US DIPLOMATS WHEN UNDER ATTACK.

PANETTA OUGHT TO BE COMPELLED TO EXPLAIN WHY HE LIED - AND IF HE WAS ORDERED TO BY OBAMA.

IF THE WHITE HOUSE COORDINATED THE LIE, THEN THEY SUBORNED PERJURY AND OBAMA SHOULD BE IMPEACHED.

CONGRESS = NEST OF THIEVES

CRIMINAL SCUM.

THE BEST REASON TO BE A CONSERVATIVE IS THIS SIMPLE FACT:

THE LESS GOVERNMENT DOES...

THE SMALLER IT IS... 

THE LOWER ITS TAXES... 

THE LESS POLITICIANS CAN STEAL, STEER TO CRONIES AND MISMANAGE.

UNREAL: THE NYTIMES WON'T REPORT ON THE BENGHAZI WHISTLEBLOWERS EXPOSING OBAMA''S LIES, BUT THEY WILL FEATURE SPRING CUISINE IN CAIRO

CAIRO JOURNALA Taste of Spring That Reeks of Tradition
Egyptians commemorate the arrival of spring with the holiday Sham el-Nessim, meaning "smell the breeze," and its signature dish, a smelly fish called feseekh.

UNFREAKINREAL.

THEY WENT FROM PROMOTING ARAB SPRING FOR DEMOCRACY TO ARAB SPRING FOR CUISINE?!?!

AND STILL NO STORIES ON THE BENGHAZI WHISTLEBLOWERS.

THE NYTIMES IS EVERY BIT AS BAD AS PRAVDA EVER WAS.

IS OBAMA DUMB REGARDING CHINA - OR WORKING FOR THEM?

NYTIMES:

U.S. Directly Blames China's Military for Cyberattacks
The Pentagon explicitly accused China of attacks on government systems and defense contractors, possibly to map "military capabilities that could be exploited during a crisis."

BUT... OBAMA SEEKS THEIR HELP TO QUELL THE NORKS!?!?

THAT'S STUPID, AT BEST.

THE NORKS DO WHAT THEY DO AT THE BEHEST OF CHINA.

WE SHOULD BE TREATING ALLIES LIKE ALLIES AND ENEMIES LIKE ENEMIES.

OBAMA DOESN'T; OBAMA TREATS OUR ALLIES THE WAY HE TREATED OUR AMBASSADOR AND HIS AIDES IN BENGHAZI.

OBAMA HAS MISTREATED ALLIES LIKE MUBARAK AND ISRAEL AND BRITAIN.

OBAMA RETREATED FROM AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ. AND AID AL QAEDA IN LIBYA AND SYRIA.

I'M BEGINNING TO THINK OBAMA TOOK OUT BIN LADEN CUZ HE VIEWED HIM AS A RIVAL.

DESPITE THE ESS HITTING THE EFF TODAY, THE NYTIMES DIDN'T POST A SINGLE STORY ABOUT THE BENGHAZI COVERUP

THE PARTISAN HACKS AT THE NYTIMES HAVE NO SHAME:

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BENGHAZI: OUR AMBASSADOR AND HIS AIDES DIED - AND PANETTA AND HILLARY CLINTON LIED

PANETTA AND HILLARY LIED.

DOCUMENTED, FOOTNOTED, PROVEN BEYOND ANY REASONABLE DOUBT: GLOBAL JIHAD - AND THE ISLAMIZATION OF THE USA - IS A REAL CONCERTED, WELL PLANNED, AND WELL FINANCED EFFORT THAT REALLY THREATENS WESTERN CIVILIZATION

History of the Muslim Brotherhood Penetration of the U.S. Government

Given the long history of Muslim Brotherhood activity in this country, its declared objective to "destroy the Western civilization from within," and the extensive evidence of successful influence operations at the highest levels of the U.S. government, it is urgent that we recognize this clear and present danger that threatens not only our Republic but the values of Western civilization.

"Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest aspiration."
-- Motto of the Muslim Brotherhood

The upheavals of 2011-2012 across the Middle East and North Africa swept aside secular rulers and the established political order with startling speed, and continue to focus world attention on the revolutionary forces driving these far-reaching events. Poverty, oppression, inequality, and lack of individual freedom are all hallmarks of the societal stagnation that has gripped the Islamic world for the better part of fourteen centuries, but the driving force of the so-called "Arab Spring" is a resurgent Islam, dominated by the forces of al-Qa'eda and the Muslim Brotherhood. Energized as Islam may be at this time, however, without the active involvement of the United States to help arm[1], fund[2], support[3], and train[4] the region's Islamic rebels, it is questionable whether they could have gotten this far, this fast.
This report describes how the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrated and suborned the U.S. government to actively assist, whether knowingly or not, the mission of its grand jihad. Its hard-won position at the forefront of the 21^st century Islamic Awakening is possible only because of decades of patient infiltration and political indoctrination (Da'wa) in the West, and especially the United States of America, even as the grassroots work of building an organizational structure advanced steadily in the land of its origin as well. It is important to recognize the sophistication of the Brotherhood's international strategy and how the takedown of U.S. national security defenses from within was critical to the current Middle East-North Africa (MENA) campaign to re-establish the Caliphate and enforce Islamic Law (shariah).

Origins of the Muslim Brotherhood

To understand the Brotherhood and how it operates, especially inside Western societies such as America's, a brief overview of where it came from and why it was established is in order. Following the early years of blindingly fast military conquests, Islam began to falter as European Christendom doggedly kept pushing back, eventually surpassing an increasingly corrupt empire that had run out of lands to conquer, people to enslave, and riches to plunder. Yoked by consensus of the scholars (ijma) to an ideology that rejected critical thought, innovation, and scientific inquiry in favor of blind obedience to revelation, the Islamic world remained largely untouched by the Renaissance, Enlightenment, and eventual Industrial and Technological revolutions that catapulted the West to global power status.[5] Eventual European colonization of the Arab and Muslim world and the stunningly successful re-establishment of the Jewish nation in the modern State of Israel brought humiliation to people raised on tales of historical supremacism over these, its traditional dhimmi victims.
Aside from Israel, which came later, this was the world into which Hassan al-Banna was born in the early 20^thcentury. An Egyptian Cairene, al-Banna seethed with frustration at Islam's diminished status in the world; in particular he resented the presence and power of the British colonial administration in Egypt. The abolishment of the last Caliphate by Kemal Ataturk in 1924 was perhaps the worst indignity, one that left al-Banna and his young Muslim university contemporaries apparently feeling unmoored. They joined together in 1928, determined (as we know from their statements and writing) to rectify things; "rectifying things," for them, seems to have meant re-establishment of the Caliphate and global enforcement of Islamic Law (shariah). The organization they founded to return Egypt, the Middle East, and eventually the world to "proper" subservience to Islam as ordained by Allah would be the Muslim Brotherhood (Al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun in Arabic).

Global Jihad

Since its inception in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood consistently has championed the cause of global jihad to "mobilize the entire Umma into one body to defend the right cause with all its strength…to jihad, to warfare…"[6] Until early 2011, its original bylaws could be found on the Brotherhood's English language website, Ikhwanweb, established in 2005 by senior Brotherhood official Khairat al-Shater. Since then, they have been preserved by Steven Emerson atThe Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT)[7]. Article (2) makes clear that the Brotherhood conceives of itself as "an international Muslim Body, which seeks to establish Allah's law in the land by achieving the spiritual goals of Islam and the true religion…establishing the Islamic State" and "…building a new basis of human civilization as is ensured by the overall teachings of Islam."[8]
In case that sounds relatively benign, Article (3) E gets more to the point: "The Islamic nation must be fully prepared to fight the tyrants and the enemies of Allah as a prelude to establishing an Islamic state."[9] This is exactly what the Brotherhood did in Egypt in the violent years before and after the 1949 death of al-Banna, until it was forcibly suppressed, only to rise again in 2011-2012 when circumstances permitted.
The story of how those circumstances shifted to permit (even compel) the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood to power not only in Egypt, but also Libya, Tunisia, and perhaps soon, Syria and elsewhere, spans 20^th century world history. World War II and the Brotherhood's close alliance with Adolf Hitler and his genocidal antisemitic Nazis provided the perfect opportunity for Islam's latest expansion into Europe, where dozens of Brotherhood branches were established. Upon the defeat of Nazi Germany, its clandestine networks of Muslim operatives were picked up by the western Allies and naively turned to the same purpose as the Nazis had pursued: to counter the influence of atheist communist Soviets.[10] So it was that Sa'id Ramadan, the son-in-law of Hasan al-Banna, and a delegation of Muslim Brothers, found themselves in the Oval Office on 23 September 1953 meeting with President Dwight D. Eisenhower.[11]

Organization and the Settlement Process

Aside from its ideology, if there is a single characteristic that defines the Brotherhood, it is organization. From its earliest days, the Ikhwan has operated with military-like efficiency. The Muslim Brotherhood plan for the infiltration and subordination of America is no different. Once again, the blueprint can be found in Hasan al-Banna's Brotherhood bylaws, where, in Article (2) D, he lists as one of the key "Objectives and means" the following:

Make every effort for the establishment of educational, social, economic and scientific institutions and the establishment of mosques, schools, clinics, shelters, clubs as well as the formation of committees to regulate zakat affairs and alms."[12]

To be sure, the patient task of Da'wa includes establishment of Islamic institutions, education of the non-Muslim population, and countering "the prejudices of Judeo-Christians against Islam," as Ikhwan scholar Shamim A. Siddiqi wrote in 1989.[13] But in Islam, Da'wa, or the call to Islam, is always followed by jihad. Siddiqi, writing for the Muslim Brotherhood cadre in the U.S., was candid with them and cautioned that "[i]n this initial stage there may not be any opposition to Dawah work. For some time the Islamic Movement of America may have some smooth sailing. But with the increase in Dawah efforts, in the number of activities and growth of the strength of the organization, the anti-Islamic forces will take notice of the multifarious activities of the Movement," "…the fight…may become a challenge for them," and "[a]larming signals will be raised by the so-called 'free press.'"[14]
"Smooth sailing" indeed would seem to characterize the early decades of the Ikhwan's Da'wa movement in America. The first official Muslim Brotherhood front organization founded in the U.S. was the Muslim Students Association (MSA), established on the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois in 1964. Today, there are over 600 MSA chapters at colleges and universities across North America, working to recruit members to the Muslim Brotherhood and jihad. According to former FBI Special Agent John Guandolo, "The MSA serves as a recruitment tool to bring Muslims into the Brotherhood…[w]hich was its original purpose: to evaluate Muslims and to bring them into the Brotherhood and to recruit non-Muslims into Islam as a dawa entity, giving them the call to Islam."[15] The MSA was the blueprint model for the thousands of Muslim Brotherhood front groups that exist, function, and continue to multiply across the U.S. today.

"The process of settlement is a "Civilization-Jihadist Process" with all the word means. The Ikhwan 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 God's religion is made victorious over all other religions.
-- 'An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America,' 1981[16]

Holy Land Foundation Trial

The 2008 Holy Land Foundation terror-funding trial[17] has proven extremely valuable, well beyond its success in putting a U.S.-based jihad money channel out of business that had that sent millions of dollars to HAMAS, the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestinian branch. Hundreds of documents presented as evidence in the trial by U.S. Department of Justice prosecutors were subsequently placed online.[18] Among these was a transcript of a talk given in the U.S. in the early 1980s by a Muslim Brotherhood executive-level leader, Zeid al-Noman.[19] In it, al-Noman provided a remarkably detailed description of the history and mission of the Muslim Brotherhood in America, beginning with the establishment of the first front groups, such as the MSA, and proceeding according to the Ikhwan Bylaws to expand the network in a methodical, organized manner.[20] Today, this infrastructure extends its reach within every single pillar of societal support in America – academia, government, intelligence, legal community, media, military, society, and the workplace – and demonstrably exerts a powerful influence on U.S. policy, both domestic and foreign, at the highest levels.
The recruitment process begins with identifying and cultivating Muslims who show, by their dedication to living a devout Islamic life, that they might be susceptible to Brotherhood da'wa.[21] In a 27 December 2012 essay, Eric Trager, a Next Generation fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, provided a detailed look at the intensive process by which the Egyptian Brotherhood conducts its recruitment and training of young Muslim membership candidates; develops, reinforces, and repeatedly tests their commitment over a multi-year period, and ultimately incorporates them into its nationwide hierarchical organization.[22] What he describes tracks closely with al-Noman's U.S. lecture from three decades earlier—which itself references a process modeled on Hassan al-Banna's original vision. The ideological continuity and internal discipline manifested by the Brotherhood's ability to maintain and replicate its "settlement process" across the world, and a span of more than eight decades, is remarkable. This is a formidable enemy.
The "Explanatory Memorandum" cited above, and also in the documentary evidence at the Holy Land Foundation trial, likewise provides a telling glimpse into "the process of settlement" that the Brotherhood termed "civilization jihad."[23]Quite literally, the Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the U.S. began as an immigration and settlement experience. As al-Noman recounts in his talk, "the first generation of the Muslim Ikhwan in north [sic] America composed [sic] of a team which included he who was an Ikhwan in his country…," among others.[24] After that, 'the Movement,' as he calls it, slowly established the organizational structures from basic cell level all the way to leadership Councils that define the Brotherhood's extensive presence in Egypt and elsewhere. The emphasis on an internal stealth jihad, to "sabotage" the West from within, characterized the movement from the beginning and drove the strategic decision to use front groups that are calculated to arouse little concern in an open and democratic society such as the U.S. Although not the focus of this report, it should be noted that massive financial support from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf sheikhdoms has always played a central and deeply important role in the ability of the Brotherhood to fund its global expansion, especially in the U.S. -- the ultimate prize for Islamic colonization.
The last page of the "Explanatory Memorandum" listed 29 Muslim Brotherhood groups under the heading, "A list of our organizations and the organizations of our friends."[25] Among these are the names of some of the best-known,mainstream Islamic organizations in the U.S. today, including a number whose Muslim Brotherhood-linked officials advise[26], socialize with[27], and train[28] the leadership of key agencies within the U.S. national security community. The list includes the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP, the immediate parent organization of the Council on Islamic American Relations or CAIR), the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), the International Institute for Islamic Thought (IIIT), the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), and the Muslim Students Association (MSA). This is, of course, but a small sampling of North American Muslim Brotherhood front groups, but gives an idea of the level of "acceptability," among both mainstream Muslim and U.S. society in general, that the groups have achieved by stealth and deception.
One of the most "mainstream" of these front groups is the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), named, by the Justice Dept., an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror funding case. According to Frank Gaffney, the president of the Center for Security Policy (CSP)[29], ISNA functions as a kind of umbrella organization for many hundreds of offshoot Islamic Societies across North America. Yet, in spite of its DoJ status as a front group for the jihadist Muslim Brotherhood, ISNA still has been granted a coveted advisory role with the National Security Council (NSC) of the Obama White House.[30] ISNA's president, Muhammed Magid, is not only the Director of the All-Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) Center, but also an A-list invitee to White House iftar dinners, and a member of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) "Countering Violent Extremism" Advisory Council.[31] In that capacity, Magid participated in a July 2012 CIA training session, speaking at Langley about "Building Communities of Trust: A Local Example of a Partnership between the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) and Law Enforcement."[32]

The Project

There is one more document, called simply "The Project," that should be examined in the study of the Brotherhood's expansion into Western society in general, and the U.S. government in particular. A November 2001 raid by Swiss authorities on a villa belonging to Yousef Nada, the Muslim Brotherhood director of the Al-Taqwa bank (which had been funding al-Qa'eda), recovered this 14-page plan, written in Arabic and dated December 1, 1982. "The Project" presents a "flexible, multi-phased, long-term approach to the 'cultural invasion' of the West," according to Patrick Poole, a counterterrorism and Muslim Brotherhood expert. [33] Rather than relying primarily on terrorism, as al-Qa'eda and other kinetic-approach jihadis do, the Muslim Brotherhood opted instead for a progressive infiltration of the very structures of Western society in order to achieve the same end result that al-Qa'eda seeks: Islamic domination over the West.
In view of the alarming success this approach has achieved to date, not only across the Middle East and North Africa, but inside Europe and the U.S., it is worthwhile to quote from Poole's articles just some of the tactics outlined in "The Project:" [emphasis added]

• Networking and coordinating actions between likeminded Islamist organizations;
• Avoiding open alliances with known terrorist organizations and individuals to maintain the appearance of "moderation";
• Infiltrating and taking over existing Muslim organizations to realign them towards the Muslim Brotherhood's collective goals;
• Using deception to mask the intended goals of Islamist actions, as long as it doesn't conflict with shari'a law;
• Establishing financial networks to fund the work of conversion of the West, including the support of full-time administrators and workers;
• Putting into place a watchdog system for monitoring Western media to warn Muslims of "international plots fomented against them";
• Cultivating an Islamist intellectual community, including the establishment of think-tanks and advocacy groups, and publishing "academic" studies, to legitimize Islamist positions and to chronicle the history of Islamist movements;
• Building extensive social networks of schools, hospitals and charitable organizations dedicated to Islamist ideals so that contact with the movement for Muslims in the West is constant;
• Involving ideologically committed Muslims in democratically-elected institutions on all levels in the West, including government, NGOs, private organizations and labor unions;
• Instrumentally using existing Western institutions until they can be converted and put into service of Islam;
• Instituting alliances with Western "progressive" organizations that share similar goals;
• Inflaming violence and keeping Muslims living in the West "in a jihad frame of mind";
• Supporting jihad movements across the Muslim world through preaching, propaganda, personnel, funding, and technical and operational support;
• Instigating a constant campaign to incite hatred by Muslims against Jews and rejecting any discussions of conciliation or coexistence with them;
• Collecting sufficient funds to indefinitely perpetuate and support jihad around the world[34]

Information Dominance
With all of this information so readily available in the public domain, the obvious question must be, "Why doesn't the U.S. government know that it is a target, realize that it is penetrated, and take steps to correct an obviously dangerous situation?" The answer can be summarized in two words: information dominance. As described in preceding pages, the Muslim Brotherhood approached its campaign to subvert U.S. society in a comprehensive but also a stealthy way. Recall the wording from the "Explanatory Memorandum," which stated it would sabotage [our] "miserable house by their [our] hands."[35] What this means is that the Ikhwan intend to co-opt the leadership of this country by fooling it into "believing a counterfactual understanding of Islam and the nature of the Muslim Brotherhood, thereby manipulating or coercing these leaders to enforce the MB narrative on their subordinates."[36] Siddiqui, too, emphasized how the fight to impose Islam will intensify with "the help and involvement of the people of the land."[37]As the evidence indicates, this is already happening.
As with any totalitarian system, controlling the information that the U.S. government is allowed to know about Islamic doctrine, history, law, and scriptures is paramount for the Brotherhood. If its sabotage operation were to be successful, the Ikhwan knew it would have to keep its targets ignorant of the true nature of Islamic jihad and shariah. This objective also fulfills the parallel objective to implement Islamic Law on slander and blasphemy, which says that "slander (ghiba) means to mention anything concerning a person [that is, a Muslim] that he would dislike."[38] The truth about Islam's violent history, savage penal system, inherent inequality and supremacism, and legal commitment to "warfare to establish the religion"[39] obviously would not be helpful in lulling unsuspecting kufr (infidels) into somnolence.
One of the early and most important indicators of the Brotherhood's surreptitious expanding influence within the Intelligence Community [IC] showed up as a terminology scrub of official strategic documents dealing with counterterrorism. As Robert Spencer explains, the trend toward politically correct Global War on Terror (GWOT) language began with a misguided effort by Jim Guirard, the founder and president of the TrueSpeak Institute[40], a lobbying group influenced by input from the Muslim Brotherhood, including Yousef al-Qaradawi, the senior jurist of the Muslim Brotherhood. Unfortunately, thanks to Mr. Guirard, senior U.S. government officials, either incompetent or unwilling to fulfill their professional duty to "know the enemy," fell under the Brotherhood's influence and began substituting a garbled lexicon of inaccurate Arabic vocabulary[41] in place of the actual words the enemy uses to describe what he does and why he does it.[42]
As a consequence, for example, where the 2004 9/11 Commission Report contained hundreds of instances of the use of words like "Jihad," "Muslim," and "Islam," by the time the FBI published its unclassified Counterterrorism Lexicon in 2008, those words were gone, entirely missing from the document.[43] That same year, the State Department, DHS, and the National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC) all instructed their employees to refrain from using the words "jihad" or "mujahedeen" to describe Islamic terrorism and its perpetrators. A flurry of publications such as DHS's "Terminology to Define the Terrorists: Recommendations from American Muslims"[44] and NCTC's "Words That Work and Words That Don't: A Guide for Counterterrorism Communication"[45] advised that using such terms (that is, accurately, as the jihadis themselves do), could confer some level of religious credibility on terrorists or even possibly alienate moderate Muslims.[46] The 2009 National Intelligence Strategy[47] and 2010 National Security Strategy[48]both followed suit, avoiding the use of "jihad," "Muslim," "Islam," the "Muslim Brotherhood" or "shariah" (except to say that these were not what U.S. strategy was about except in terms of "engagement" or "partnership"). By 2012, the entire Executive Branch, including DHS and the Defense, Justice, and State Departments, of the U.S. government was busy purging all instructors and training curriculum that associated Islamic doctrine, law, and scriptures with Islamic terrorism.[49]
The sheer absurdity of America's unilateral rejection of the vocabulary required appropriately to describe, understand, and counter the enemy is topped only by the sophistication of that enemy's tactics in getting us to do it. If the officials whose professional responsibility it is to implement countermeasures based on the enemy's threat doctrine are not allowed even to speak the words that explain the ideology that drives that enemy's hatred, there is no chance these officials will be able effectively to direct a national security strategy. And that, of course, is the whole point.
The full-court press came in October 2011. On 19 October, an editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times by Salam al-Marayati, president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), that threatened the FBI and Dept. of Justice with a refusal from the U.S. Muslim community to assist in counterterrorism efforts if alleged "deep anti-Muslim sentiment" in training materials were not "immediately addressed."[50] Piling on, a group of 57 "top U.S. Muslim groups," including Muslim Brotherhood front groups, delivered a letter the same day to NSC counterterrorism advisor John Brennan, urging him to begin an "independent, effective investigation into the federal government's training of its agents and other law enforcement" and institute a "purge" of any material that the undersigned organizations deemed unacceptable."[51]
The official U.S. response followed closely at a 19 October meeting held at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. that was attended by representatives of many of the groups which had signed the letter and top officials from the Justice Department. Reportedly, the Muslims lobbied for "cutbacks in anti-terror funding, changes in agents' training manuals, additional curbs on investigators and a legal declaration that U.S. citizens' criticism of Islam constitutes racial discrimination."[52] By early 2012, it was reported that the FBI had "purged hundreds of bureau documents of instructional material about Muslims, some of which characterized them as prone to violence or terrorism."[53]
This is what is meant by the Brotherhood term, "by their hands," from the Explanatory Memorandum.

U.S. Government in the Bull's-Eye

To reach this level of influence, the Muslim Brotherhood had moved gradually, in the classical stepped process patterned after Muhammad and his early followers, and that Sayyed Qutb outlined in his seminal monograph, "Milestones."[54] The establishment of Islamic centers, mosques, communities, and front group organizations was the first step in the "civilization jihad." The mainstreaming of their existence—and ultimately their messaging—in American society formed the foundation of a Brotherhood campaign to target U.S. government circles in all three branches (executive, judicial, and legislative) at the federal, state, and local levels. The national security and intelligence communities were top priority, but law enforcement, military and penal institutions, the media, think tanks and policy groups, academia, and non-Muslim religious communities were also part of the overall strategy. The remainder of this paper will focus in more closely on Muslim Brotherhood penetration of U.S. government agencies, especially at the senior executive level.
The careful insinuation of Muslim Brothers into positions from which they can exercise influence on U.S. policy began long before the attacks of 9/11, although their success has accelerated dramatically under the administration of President Barack Obama. The massive Muslim Brotherhood organizational network in the U.S., so patiently built up over the decades since that first Oval Office meeting in 1953, eventually gave it a prominence and (false) reputation of credibility that was unmatched by any other Islamic groups, moderate or otherwise. Using a combination of taqiyya(deceit, dissimulation) and intimidation, the Muslim Brotherhood succeeded not only in making itself the "go-to" authority on all things related to Islam, but in suppressing those who would speak truth about Islam—again, often by persuading the U.S.'s own senior officials to do the job for them: "by their hands". When Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, publicly excoriated, then fired, US Army LTC Matthew Dooley, an instructor at National Defense University, in April 2012 over an earlier-approved course on Islam, and then ordered Dooley's career-ending Negative Officer Evaluation Report, the lesson was meant to serve as a stark warning to anyone else in the DoD who might be tempted to become accurately educated about Islam.[55]
The horrific violence of terror attacks such as 9/11 also played a role by softening up the intended target: Western society. As Pakistani Brigadier S.K. Malik wrote in 1979, "Terror struck into the hearts of the enemies is not only a means, it is the end in itself. Once a condition of terror into the opponent's heart is obtained, hardly anything is left to be achieved."[56] By contrast with jihadis, who would fly airplanes into skyscrapers and send suicide bombers into pizza parlors full of women and children, the Muslim Brotherhood looked tame. That its ideology and ultimate objectives — re-establishment of the Caliphate and universal enforcement of Islamic Law — were identical to those of al-Qa'eda was part of the Ikhwan's Information Operation to control what U.S. officials are allowed to know.
The first task was to maneuver Muslim Brothers into positions of trust with key U.S. government officials. One of the most successful Brotherhood placement and influence operations discovered to date involved Abdurahman Alamoudi, who penetrated the upper echelons of both Democratic and Republican presidential administrations. A naturalized American citizen who emigrated from Eritrea in 1979, Alamoudi parlayed his leadership roles with dozens of Muslim organizations all the way to the White House.[57] Despite being a member of the Muslim Brotherhood who openly had declared his support for HAMAS, he was accepted as a "moderate Muslim" and became an advisor to President Bill Clinton and then-First Lady Hillary Clinton. He was permitted to establish the Muslim Chaplain Program for the Department of Defense and then served as its nominating and certifying authority from 1993-98.[58] Deciding to hedge his bets by 1998, Alamoudi provided at least $20,000 in start-up funds to Republican activist Grover Norquist "to establish what would become a Muslim Brotherhood front organization" called the Islamic Free Market Institute, which aimed to penetrate Republican Party circles and the campaign of future President George W. Bush.[59] Along the way, Alamoudi inserted his long-time deputy, Khaled Saffuri, and eventually another prominent Ikhwan operative, Sami al-Arian, into the Bush presidential campaign. Alamoudi's moves paid off: after Bush's victory, another Alamoudi protégé with vast Brotherhood connections, Suhail Khan, was appointed to the White House Office of Public Liaison, from which key position he was able to manage the access of the U.S. Muslim community to the White House. This position gave the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood unprecedented opportunities to influence operations at the top levels of U.S. policymaking.[60] Grover Norquist himself escaped scrutiny for years thereafter as he continued operating within the conservative movement.[61]
Despite Alamoudi's eventual fall from grace, arrest and imprisonment following conviction on terrorism-related charges as a senior al-Qa'eda financier, the damage was done. Even the eventual unmasking of Sami al-Arian as a senior operative of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) did not seem to jolt the counterintelligence instincts of the U.S. intelligence community. The U.S. executive branch, from the president to the NSC and key Cabinet Departments, had been effectively neutered at the very start of the Global War on Terror. This is how President Bush could stand on 17 September 2001 inside the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C., flanked by Nihad Awad, Executive Director of CAIR (the U.S. branch of HAMAS), and in all sincerity, declare that "Islam is peace."[62]
The George W. Bush administration was targeted with a multifaceted, sophisticated information operation designed to deceive national security officials about the true nature of the Islamic jihadist enemy that attacked the homeland on 9/11. Surrounded by Muslim Brotherhood voices which told him true Islam had been "hijacked" by a "tiny minority of extremists," President Bush responded by flinging U.S. military might against those who had physically carried out those attacks. Far more importantly, however, is that he was successfully deterred from investigating the belief system that inspired those hijackers by a blanket of Muslim Brotherhood taqiyya that successfully smothered inquiry about the very Islamic doctrine that al-Qa'eda and the hijackers themselves declared to be their motivation. Although few realize it to this day, the crippling of the Bush administration's GWOT response marked a crucial turning point in the U.S. ability to defend itself against Islamic jihad.
Hesham Islam was a senior advisor for international affairs who worked for Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England in the George W. Bush administration. A native of Cairo, Egypt, Islam, who is a Muslim, acted as point man for Pentagon outreach program to the Muslim community.[63] Among the groups with which Islam brokered contacts for the Defense Department was ISNA (Islamic Society of North America), an acknowledged affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood[64] that was named by the Justice Department in the summer of 2008 an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation's HAMAS terror-funding trial.[65] Thanks to Islam's efforts, England forged close ties with ISNA, attended its conventions and hosted ISNA delegations at Pentagon events, even inside England's own office.[66]
Also serving in the Bush administration, in the intelligence section of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), was Army Reserve Major Stephen Coughlin, a lawyer by training, who had become the Pentagon's top expert in Islamic law and jihad.[67] His 2007 master's thesis, "'To Our Great Detriment': Ignoring What Extremists Say About Jihad,"[68]accepted at the National Defense Intelligence College, has become the standard classic on the subject of what Islamic law teaches about jihad. Coughlin conducted countless briefings on his findings for senior Defense Department officials, and in 2007 prepared an analysis on the evidence being submitted by Justice Department prosecutors in the Holy Land Foundation case. That evidence, based on the Brotherhood's own documents, demonstrated that U.S. Islamic organizations established as front groups by the Muslim Brotherhood were waging a "civilization jihad" to "destroy the Western civilization from within," to use its own words. Among the organizations actively involved in channeling illicit funding to the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood offshoot, HAMAS, was ISNA, one of the largest and most prominent of such front groups — and, thanks to Mr. Islam[69], a Pentagon outreach partner. Hesham Islam moved swiftly to defend his own position, ISNA, and the Brotherhood. In March 2008,[70] as a result of Hesham Islam's campaign to have him removed, Coughlin's contract with the JCS was not renewed.
Louay Safi is a Syrian-American Muslim who has held official positions with the Brotherhood-affiliated ISNA and the International Institute for Islamic Thought (IIIT). As ISNA's Executive Director of Leadership Development,[71] Safi served for a number of years in the mid-2000s as an endorsing agent for the Pentagon's Muslim military chaplain program.[72] He also served as IIIT's executive director (1995-97), and director of research (1999-2003);[73] IIIT is another listed Muslim Brotherhood organization.[74] Safi was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2003 trial of Sami al-Arian, who was convicted as a fundraiser for the terrorist group, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).[75]
Despite this documented resume, Safi was hired by the Pentagon under a Naval Postgraduate School contract to teach Islam to U.S. troops about to depart on deployments to Afghanistan.[76] Safi was at Ft. Bliss, TX on the day in November 2007 when Army Major Nidal Hassan gunned down thirteen service members and civilian employees at Ft. Hood, TX. The Army Criminal Investigations Division subsequently opened an investigation into the Army's use of Safi to provide seminars on Islam -- and those seminars were ended.[77] Grieving family members were outraged in early December 2011 when Safi was permitted access to Ft. Hood in an attempt to present a check to them on behalf of ISNA; called "blood money" by at least one military source, the check was refused.[78]
Later, Safi's 2011 book, "Peace and the Limits of War" (published by IIIT), openly justified violence against apostates from Islam as well as "preemptive strikes" against troops preparing to attack Muslims.[79] Apparently in search of new employment for his skills, in August 2011, Safi reappeared as a founding member and director of the political office of the Syrian National Council (SNC), a Syrian rebel group dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood.[80] His photo and profile appear on the SNC website[81]
As bad as these developments were, things became immeasurably worse for American national security under the administration of Barack Obama. Whereas President Bush and most of his administration insiders remained largely unaware that they had been manipulated by the Muslim Brotherhood, Obama and his close advisors proactively chose to reach out to the Brotherhood, its affiliates, and supporters for advice, training, and even administration appointments.
Another senior affiliate, Rashad Hussain, is the Obama administration's envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). Hussain's background is replete with Muslim Brotherhood associations, including the American Muslim Council (founded by al-Qa'eda and Muslim Brotherhood operative, Abdurahman Alamoudi); the IIIT (which is on the Brotherhood's own list of "our friends and the organizations of our friends"); and the Muslim Students Association (MSA, the original Brotherhood front group in the U.S.).[82] In his official capacity, Hussain is responsible for providing advice on national security and Muslim outreach. He assisted in writing the President's June 2009 Cairo speech, in which Obama announced a new approach to the Muslim world and essentially declared war on his host, then-President Hosni Mubarak, by publicly signaling his recognition of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. Hussain also acts as point man for the Obama administration's cooperation with the Istanbul Process, the OIC effort to criminalize internationally any criticism of Islam. The current administration's weeks-long duplicity in the aftermath of the 11 September 2012 terror attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, when it repeatedly and mendaciously claimed that an Internet video trailer sparked a protest there that got out of hand, appears to have been carefully scripted not just with the OIC but Muslim Brotherhood organizations in the U.S., as well.
Eboo Patel, Obama Administration Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships, spoke at a Muslim Students Association and ISNA convention, appearing on a panel[83] alongside Tariq Ramadan, grandson of the Muslim Brotherhood's founder, and Siraj Wahhaj, who was named as a possible co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and has defended the convicted WTC bombers. Wahhaj allegedly advocates the Islamic takeover of America.
Huma Abedin, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Deputy Chief of Staff, has served her in various capacities since first coming to the White House as an intern in 1996, while a student at George Washington University in Washington DC (where she was a member of the MSA Executive Board).[84] For decades, she and members of her immediate family — mother, father, brother, and sister — have been closely associated with individuals among the top ranks of the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qa'eda financial support organizations, and the Saudi royal family. Given Abedin's security clearance and responsibilities to advise the Secretary on Middle East policy and politics, these affiliations must raise serious questions about her suitability for this post.
To begin, Abedin's mother, Dr. Saleha Abedin[85] is a senior member of the Muslim Sisterhood (the distaff side of the Muslim Brotherhood) and is on record publicly supporting female genital mutilation, child marriage, marital rape, as well as stoning and lashing for adultery because they are consistent with Islamic shariah.[86] A co-founder with Dr. Abedin of the Dar el-Hekma Women's College in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Yaseen Abdullah Kadi, is a Treasury Department "specially designated global terrorist."[87] In February 2010, at the behest of Huma Abedin,[88] Secretary Clinton visited and spoke at Dar el-Hekma.
The most troubling associate of the Abedin family, however, is Abdullah Omar Nasseef,[89] a senior Muslim Brotherhood leadership figure and Saudi royal family insider with direct connections to financial entities implicated in pre-9/11 funding of al-Qa'eda. During his long career, Nasseef has been the President of the Muslim World Congress, Vice President of the Saudi Shura Council, President of King Abdul Azziz University, and Secretary General of the Muslim World League (MWL, co-founded by al-Banna son-in-law Ramadan and the parent organization of International Islamic Relief Organization [IIRO], an al-Qa'eda front tied to the 1993 World Trade Center and 1998 East Africa Embassy bombings[90]). Nasseef and his financial organizations were listed as defendants in post-9/11 legal cases[91] based on his involvement with Al-Baraka Investment and the Rabita Trust (which Nasseef founded in 1988), a subsidiary of the Muslim World League, and a Special Designated Global Entity listed by the UN Security Council for financing al-Qa'eda.
Abdullah Omar Nasseef has been a close associate and benefactor of the Abedin family for well over 30 years.[92]While President of King Abdul Azziz University in the 1970s, Nasseef named Huma Abedin's father, Zainul Abedin (who was a visiting professor) the head of his newly-established Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA) and editor of its journal (JMMA). From then through at least 2012, the Abedin family — both parents, Huma, her brother Hassan, and sister Heba A. Khalid — has been responsible for editorial production of the IMMA journal. For twelve years, from 1996-2008, Huma Abedin and Nasseef, the al-Qa'eda financier, served together on the JMMA's editorial board.[93]This included the time when Huma Abedin was serving as a White House intern, then as assistant during and after Clinton's Senate campaigns, and finally as Clinton's traveling chief of staff during her 2008 presidential campaign.
During the years that Huma Abedin has been a close to Hillary Clinton, the Department of State, like the U.S. government as a whole, has undergone a drastic shift in policy direction. Free speech issues and US government support for the al-Qa'eda/Muslim Brotherhood role in the MENA region revolts certainly top the list of concerns. While no outsider can know what advice Abedin provides behind closed doors, she has given no indication that her own world view or allegiance to the Muslim Brotherhood differs in any major respect from that of her family or life-long family associates.

Conclusion

As we can see, as early as the George W. Bush administration period, the Muslim Brotherhood already had achieved an information dominance that, in coming years, would only intensify. Not only did figures associated and identified with the Muslim Brotherhood achieve broad penetration at senior levels of U.S. policymaking, but voices that warned of their true agenda (such as Stephen Coughlin's) were actively excluded. That information dominance has contributed to startling consequences, most evident in the U.S. policy towards the al-Qa'eda and Muslim Brotherhood-dominated revolutions that many call the "Arab Spring," but which in fact are more accurately termed an "Islamic Awakening." Under the Muslim Brotherhood-influenced Obama administration, U.S. policy has undergone such a drastic shift in the direction of outright support for these jihadist movements — from al-Qa'eda militias in Libya, to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and both al-Qa'eda and Muslim Brotherhood-linked rebels in Syria — that it is scarcely recognizable as American any more. The infiltration of individuals such as Magid, Hussain, and Abedin, to name just a few, with such close Muslim Brotherhood identifications, to positions of influence at the highest levels of U.S. policymaking must be considered, at a minimum, a contributing factor.
In June 2012, five courageous U.S. Congressional representatives (Michele Bachmann, Trent Franks, Louie Gohmert, Tom Rooney, and Lynn Westmoreland) sent letters to the Inspectors General of the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Justice, and State as well as the Office of the Director of National Security, requesting an investigation of Muslim Brotherhood influence within those agencies. That their patriotic initiative in defense of the security of U.S. policymaking should have been met only with an overwhelming barrage of criticism is tragic testament to the extent of success the Muslim Brotherhood has achieved in suppressing even the duty to counterintelligence awareness that is the first defense of a free people.[94] Given the long history of Muslim Brotherhood activity in this country, its declared objective to "destroy the Western civilization from within," and the extensive evidence of successful influence operations at the highest levels of the U.S. government, it is urgent that we recognize this clear and present danger that threatens not only our Republic but the values of Western civilization.

Clare M. Lopez, a strategic policy and intelligence expert, is a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy and the Clarion Fund. She was formerly a career operations officer with the Central Intelligence Agency.

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[1] Risen, James, Mark Mazzetti, Michael S. Schmidt, "U.S.-Approved Arms for Libya Rebels Fell into Jihadis' Hands," New York Times, December 5, 2012. Accessed online 5 January 2013 athttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/world/africa/weapons-sent-to-libyan-rebels-with-us-approval-fell-into-islamist-hands.html
[2] Sparshott, Jeffrey, "Group Gets U.S. License to Fund Syria Rebels," Wall Street Journal, July 31, 2012. Accessed online 5 January 2013 athttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444405804577561482242140956.html
[3] Labott, Elise, "Obama authorized covert support for Syrian rebels, sources say," CNN, August 1, 2012. Accessed online 5 January 2013 at http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/01/us/syria-rebels-us-aid/index.html
[4] Enders, David, "Syrian rebels say Americans, Britons helped train them in Jordan," McClatchy Newspapers, 14 December 2012. Accessed online 5 January 2013 at http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/12/14/177474/syrian-rebels-say-americans-britons.html
[5] See Robert R. Reilly's, "The Closing of the Muslim Mind," ISI Books, 2010 for an astute analysis of the causes of the dysfunctionality that characterizes Islamic culture.
[6] "On Jihad," by Hasan al-Banna. Accessed online 1 January 2013 at http://www.islamic-world.net/book/jihad_preface.htm
[7] See http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/673.pdf
[8] Ibid, Article (2) A,F, G
[9] Bylaws
[10] See "A Mosque in Munich," by Ian Johnson. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in Boston, New York, 2010. See also Jerry Gordon's summary of this period, "How the CIA Helped the Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrate the West,"New English Review, August 2011. Accessed online 4 January 2013 athttp://www.newenglishreview.org/Jerry_Gordon/How_the_CIA_Helped_The_Muslim_Brotherhood_Infiltrate_the_West/
[11] Johnson, pg. 117.
[12] bylaws
[13] Siddiqi, Shamim A., "The Methodology of Dawah in American Perspective." Accessed online 4 January 2013 athttp://www.dawahinamericas.com/bookspdf/MethodologyofDawah.pdf
[14] Ibid
[15] Stakelbeck, Erick, "Muslim Student Group a Gateway to Jihad?" CBN News, August 29, 2011. Accessed online 1 January 2013 at http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2011/March/Muslim-Student-Group-a-Gateway-to-Jihad/
[16] United States District Court, Northern District of Texas, "USA v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, ElBarasse Search-3." Accessed online 9 January 2013 at http://www.txnd.uscourts.gov/judges/hlf2/09-25-08/Elbarasse%20Search%203.pdf
[17] See the November 24, 2008 Department of Justice Press release about the convictions. Accessed online 1 January 2013 at http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2008/November/08-nsd-1046.html
[18] United States District Court, Northern District of Texas, "USA v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development" Accessed online 1 January 2013 at http://www.txnd.uscourts.gov/judges/hlf2.html
[19] "Enter the Brotherhood," Investigative Project on Terrorism, September 25, 2008. Accessed online 3 January 2013 at http://www.investigativeproject.org/778/enter-the-brotherhood
[20] See Tape/CD#: T-13-T-18 1Ikhwan in America. Zeid. Accessed online 3 January 2013 athttp://www.investigativeproject.org/redirect/Ikhwan_in_American-Zeid_Al-Nomann.pdf
[21] Siddiqi
[22] Trager, Eric, "Egypt's Looming Competitive Theocracy," Hudson Center, December 27, 2012. Accessed online 3 January 2013 at http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Trager20121227.pdf
[23] 'Explanatory Memorandum'
[24] Al-Zeid
[25] 'Explanatory Memorandum'
[26] "Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Working Group Homeland Security Advisory Council, Spring 2010." Accessed online 3 January 2013 athttp://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/hsac_cve_working_group_recommendations.pdf
[27]"Obama praises patriotism of Anthony Wiener's wife at White House Ramadan dinner," Daily Mail, 11 August 2012. In addition to the photos of Huma Abedin, the video embedded in this article shows Muhammed Magid, ISNA president, seated at one of the front tables next to President Obama's podium together with Abedin. Accessed online 5 January 2012 at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2186957/Obama-praises-Anthony-Weiners-wife-patriotism-White-House-Ramadan-dinner.html
[28] Guandolo, John, "CIA Hosts Training by Muslim Brotherhood Leader and HAMAS Supporter," Breitbart Big Peace, 24 October 2012. Accessed online 5 January 2012 at http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/10/23/CIA-Hosts-Training-By-Muslim-Brotherhood-Leader-and-Hamas-Supporter
[29] The Center for Security Policy is a WDC-based think tank focused on national defense and security issues. The author serves as a Senior Fellow at CSP. Its website, accessed 3 January 2013, is athttp://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.xml See also Frank Gaffney's encompassing 10-part online video series on "The Muslim Brotherhood in America" at http://muslimbrotherhoodinamerica.com/
[30] See this March 7, 2011 video from the White House website of Deputy National Security Advisor, Denis McDonough, delivering remarks at the ADAMS Center. Accessed online 3 January 2013 athttp://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2011/03/07/deputy-national-security-advisor-denis-mcdonough-speaks-adams-cent
[31] "Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Working Group Homeland Security Advisory Council, Spring 2010." Accessed online 3 January 2013 athttp://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/hsac_cve_working_group_recommendations.pdf
[32] Guandolo
[33] Poole, Patrick, "The Muslim Brotherhood 'Project' " and "The Muslim Brotherhood 'Project' (Continued)," Front Page Magazine, May 11, 2006. Accessed 3 January 2013 online athttp://archive.frontpagemag.com/readarticle.aspx?artid=4476 and http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readarticle.aspx?artid=4475
[34] Poole
[35] Explanatory Memorandum
[36] "Shariah: The Threat to America. An Exercise in Competitive Analysis, Report of Team B II," Center for Security Policy, 2010. Available as a PDF online at http://shariahthethreat.org/ , on Kindle, iPad, or athttp://www.amazon.com/Shariah-America-Exercise-Competitive-Analysis/dp/098229476X
[37] Siddiqi
[38] "Reliance of the Traveler: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law," Section r2.2. Accessed online 3 January 2013 at http://www.shafiifiqh.com/maktabah/relianceoftraveller.pdf
[39] Reliance, Section o9.0
[40] The home page of the TrueSpeak online website is here: http://www.truespeak.org/ Accessed 4 January 2013.
[41] A TrueSpeak "Mini Glossary," February 2, 2007. Accessed online 4 January 2013 athttp://www.truespeak.org/contents/view/threeminiglossariesupdated
[42] Spencer, Robert, "Stealth Jihad," Regnery Publishing, Inc., Washington, D.C., 2008 (pgs. 66-70).
[43] Federal Bureau of Investigation Counterterrorism Analytical Lexicon, accessed online 3 January 2013 athttp://www.scribd.com/doc/93235898/FBI-Counterterrorism-Analytical-Lexicon
[44] "Terminology to Define the Terrorists: Recommendations from American Muslims," Department of Homeland Security. Accessed online 5 January 2012 at http://www.dhs.gov/terminology-define-terrorists-recommendations-american-muslims
[45] "Words That Work and Words That Don't: A Guide for Counterterrorism Communication," National Counterterrorism Center, March 14, 2008. Accessed online 5 January 2013 athttp://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/127.pdf
[46] Lee, Matthew, "'Jihadist' booted from government lexicon," Fox News, December 31, 2008. Accessed online 3 January 2013 at http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Apr24/0,4670,JihadLingo,00.html
[47] The National Intelligence Strategy, August 2009. Accessed online 5 January 2013 athttp://www.slideshare.net/Alistercrowe/2009-national-intelligence-strategy
[48] National Security Strategy, May 2010. Accessed online 5 January 2013 athttp://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/national_security_strategy.pdf
[49] Picket, Kerry, "Muslim advocacy groups influence heavily on U.S. national security protocol and lexicon," The Washington Times, 24 September 2012. Accessed online 3 January 2013 athttp://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2012/sep/24/picket-muslim-advocacy-groups-influence-heavily-us/
[50] Al-Marayati, Salam, "The wrong way to fight terrorism," Los Angeles Times, 19 October 2011. Accessed online 3 January 2013 at http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/19/opinion/la-oe-almarayati-fbi-20111019
[51] Poole, Patrick, "57 Top U.S. Muslim Groups Demanded Government-Wide 'Islamophobia purge' in Letter to White House," PJ Media, 25 September 2012. Accessed online 4 January 2013 at http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/09/25/57-top-u-s-muslim-groups-demanded-government-wide-islamophobia-purge-in-letter-to-white-house/?print=1
[52] Munro, Neil, "Progressives, Islamists huddle at Justice Department," The Daily Caller, 21 October 2011. Accessed online 4 January 2013 at http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/21/progressives-islamists-huddle-at-justice-department/?print=1
[53] Ackerman, Spencer, "FBI Purges Hundreds of Terrorism Documents in Islamophobia Probe," Wired Magazine, 15 February 2012. Accessed online 4 January 2013 at http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/02/hundreds-fbi-documents-muslims/
[54] Available at Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Milestones-Seyyid-Qutb/dp/0934905142
[55] "Bombshell—Pentagon Buries the Truth—Newly Revealed Document Vindicates Army Lt. Colonel Matthew Dooley In Anti-Islam Controversy," The Thomas More Law Center, December 2012. Accessed online 4 January 2013 at http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=adf1a83154acea60d091b413c&id=ebe19f964a&e=a2b6ac9a0c
[56] Brigadier S.K. Malik, "The Quranic Concept of War," reprinted by Himalayan Books, New Delhi, India, 1986 (pg. 59).
[57] Shariah the Threat, pg.127
[58] Ibid
[59] Ibid, pg. 128
[60] Shariah the Threat, pg. 128
[61] The Muslim Brotherhood in America online course by Frank Gaffney, Center for Security Policy. Accessed online 4 January 2013 at http://muslimbrotherhoodinamerica.com/part-8-team-obama-the-islamist-agenda/
[62] "Islam is Peace" says the President," Remarks by the President at the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C., 17 September 2001. Accessed online 3 January 2013 at http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010917-11.html
[63] Rosett, Claudia, "Questions for the Pentagon," National Review Online, January 25, 2008. Accessed online 9 January 2013 at http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/223495/questions-pentagon/claudia-rosett#
[64] Explanatory Memorandum
[65] USA v. Holy Land Foundation
[66] Rosett
[67] Poole, Patrick, "10 Failures of the U.S. Government on the Domestic Islamist Threat," Center for Security Policy, 2010. Accessed online 9 January 2013 athttp://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/upload/wysiwyg/article%20pdfs/10_Failures_Patrick_Poole_1115.pdf
[68] Coughlin, Stephen Collins, "'To Our Great Detriment': Ignoring What Extremists Say About Jihad," National Defense Intelligence College, July 2007. Accessed online 9 January 2013 athttp://www.carlisle.army.mil/DIME/documents/20080107_Coughlin_ExtremistJihad.pdf
[69] Poole, 10 Failures
[70] Ibid
[71] Louay M. Safi's online bio at the Saudi-funded Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University, WDC. Accessed online 9 January 2013 athttp://acmcu.georgetown.edu/119500.html
[72] Winter, Jana, "EXCLUSIVE: Former Defense IG Raises Concerns About Military Chaplain Vetting," Fox News, 1 December 2010. Accessed online 9 January 2013 at http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/01/exclusive-concerns-military-chaplain-vetting-policy/
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/01/exclusive-concerns-military-chaplain-vetting-policy/#ixzz2Hd4ovKf9
[73] Georgetown bio
[74] Explanatory Memorandum
[75] Ibid
[76] Poole, 10 Failures
[77] Poole, 10 Failures
[78] McCarthy, Andrew, "Somebody at Ft. Hood Should be Walking the Plank," National Review Online, 3 December 2011. Accessed online 9 January 2013 at http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/191177/somebody-fort-hood-should-be-walking-plank-andrew-c-mccarthy
[79] Safi, Louay, "Peace and the Limits of War," International Institute of Islamic Thought, 2011 (pg.35).
[80] "Dissidents Unite to Topple Assad," August 24, 2011. Accessed online 9 January 2013 athttp://www.news.com.au/world-old/new-council-plans-to-topple-assad/story-fn6sb9br-1226120862688; see also "EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Brotherhood Leader Central Figure in Newly Formed Syrian Opposition Council," Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report, September 18, 2011. Accessed online 9 January 2013 at http://globalmbreport.com/?p=5046; and Barnard, Anne, "Syrian Opposition Group is Routed and Divided," New York Times, March 14, 2012. Accessed online 9 January 2013 at http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/world/middleeast/syria-torture-report-military-maintains-assaults.html?_r=0
[81] Syrian National Council, accessed online 9 January 2013 at http://www.syriancouncil.org/en/members/item/239-loai-safi.html
[82] "Muslim Students Association: The Investigative Project on Terrorism, A Dossier," The Investigative Project on Terrorism, accessed online 9 January 2013 at http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/31.pdf
[83] Klein, Aaron, "Obama Adviser Eboo Patel Speaks Alongside Defender of WTC Bombers [incl. Tariq Ramadan],World Net Daily, 5 July 2011. Online at http://www.wnd.com/2011/07/319021/
[84] For a screen shot of the GWU MSA Executive Board listings, see Preston, Byron, "So, Hillary Clinton Adviser Huma Abedin was on the Board of a Muslim Brotherhood Front?," PJMedia August 16, 2012. Accessed online 9 January 2013 at http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/08/16/so-hillary-clinton-adviser-huma-abedin-was-on-the-board-of-a-muslim-brotherhood-front/
[85] "Revealed: Weiner's In-Laws' Secret Muslim Brotherhood Connections," PJ Media, June 16, 2011. Accessed online 9 January 2013 at http://pjmedia.com/blog/revealed-weiners-in-laws-secret-muslim-brotherhood-connections/
[86] Dr. Saleha Abedin helped to edit, translate, and publish "Women in Islam: A Discourse in Rights and Obligations," by Fatima Umar Naseef, New Dawn Books, 1999, which extols Islam and shariah on these issues.
[87] Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control. Accessed 4 January 2013 athttp://www.treasury.gov/ofac/downloads/t11sdn.pdf
[88] For a transcript of Secretary Clinton's remarks at Dar Al Hekma, seehttp://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2010/02/136789.htm For photos of the visit, seehttp://secretaryclinton.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/february-17th-sos-hillary-clintons-daily-appointment-schedule/
[89] Dr. Omar Abdullah Nasseef's website, accessed online 9 January 2013 at http://drabdullahomarnasseef.org/
[90] See United States District Court Southern District of New York, "IN RE: TERRORIST ATTACKS ON SEPTEMBER 01, 2001 at http://www.5rb.com/docs/Burnett-v-Al%20Baraka%2018%20Jan%202005.pdf
[91] John P. O'Neill, Sr. et al. v. Al Baraka Investment and Development Corporation, et. al., 04 CV 01923 (RCC).Accessed online 4 January 2012 at http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/225.pdf
[92] McCarthy, Andrew, "Huma Abedin's Brotherhood Ties Are Not Just a Family Affair," PJMedia, July 27, 2012. Accessed online 9 January 2013 at http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2012/07/27/huma-abedins-brotherhood-ties-are-not-just-a-family-affair/?singlepage=true
[93] Ibid
[94] See copies of the letters at the official website of Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (MN-R), accessed 4 January 2012 at http://bachmann.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=299447