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The Muslim Brotherhood “must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.” — Mohamed Akram, “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America,” May 22, 1991
"Obama's Muslim-Outreach Adviser Resigns," by Glenn R. Simpson and Amy Chozick for the Wall Street Journal, August 6 (thanks to all who sent this in):
The Muslim-outreach coordinator to the presidential campaign of Barack Obama has resigned amid questions about his involvement in an Islamic investment fund and various Islamic groups.Mr. Asbahi said he did not want to distract Obama's campaign.
Chicago lawyer Mazen Asbahi, who was appointed volunteer national coordinator for Muslim American affairs by the Obama campaign on July 26, stepped down Monday after an Internet newsletter wrote about his brief stint on the fund's board, which also included a fundamentalist imam.
"Mr. Asbahi has informed the campaign that he no longer wishes to serve in his volunteer position, and we are in the process of searching for a new national Arab American and Muslim American outreach coordinator," spokesman Ben LaBolt said in a statement.
A corporate lawyer at the firm of Schiff Hardin LLP, Mr. Asbahi tendered his resignation after he and the Obama campaign received emailed inquiries about his background from The Wall Street Journal. He did not respond to the email or a message left at his law office; the campaign released a letter in which Mr. Asbahi said he did not want to be a distraction....
In 2000, Mr. Asbahi briefly served on the board of Allied Assets Advisors Fund, a Delaware-registered trust. Its other board members at the time included Jamal Said, the imam at a fundamentalist-controlled mosque in Illinois.
"I served on that board for only a few weeks before resigning as soon as I became aware of public allegations against another member of the board," Mr. Asbahi said in his resignation letter. "Since concerns have been raised about that brief time, I am stepping down...to avoid distracting from Barack Obama's message of change."
The eight-year-old connection between Mr. Asbahi and Mr. Said was raised last week by the Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report, which is published by a Washington think tank and chronicles the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood, a world-wide fundamentalist group based in Egypt. Other Web sites, some pro-Republican and others critical of fundamentalist Islam, also have reported on the background of Mr. Asbahi. He is a frequent speaker before several groups in the U.S. that scholars have associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Justice Department named Mr. Said an unindicted co-conspirator in the racketeering trial last year of several alleged Hamas fundraisers, which ended in a mistrial. He has also been identified as a leading member of the group in news reports going back to 1993....
Allied Asset Advisors is a subsidiary of the North American Islamic Trust. The trust, which is supported financially by the government of Saudi Arabia, holds title to many mosques in the U.S. and promotes a conservative brand of Islam compatible with the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood and also akin to the fundamentalist style predominant in Saudi Arabia. Allied executives did not respond to inquiries.
NAIT was listed by the Brotherhood operative Akram, in that same memorandum, as a group allied with the Brotherhood's program.
Posted by Robert at August 6, 2008 8:29 AM
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Dear Mr. Obama,
The company a man keeps says a lot about him.
Sincerely,
A. Voter
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at August 6, 2008 8:50 AM
if you want sharia, Obama's right for you.
Posted by: theygottago at August 6, 2008 8:50 AM
"Obama's Muslim-Outreach Adviser?'
Unbelievable. Who in his right mind would vote for a candidate that employs a " Muslim-Outreach Adviser?"
In other news:
Looks like our friends from 'Harry's Place' have discovered the jihad, no kidding, here:
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/08/06/within-20-years-muslims-will-become-the-majority-in-europe/
at August 6, 2008 8:57 AM
if you want sharia, Obama's right for you.
Posted by: theygottago
I wonder how sharia would rule on reparations to blacks for past slavery? Considering how Islam has embraced slavery throughout its history, my guess is that it would be more likely to rule that reparations be paid to the descendants of former slave-owners whose slaves were freed without compensation.
at August 6, 2008 9:00 AM
Sharia: "Change" we'll make you believe in.
Posted by: MarisolJW at August 6, 2008 9:03 AM
Dear Mr. Obama,
The company a man keeps says a lot about him.
At least in this sense, Mr. Obama is being consistent, associating with both infidel terrorist William Ayers and muslim terrorist sympathizer Mohamed Akram.
Posted by: Bigfoot at August 6, 2008 9:16 AM
And what about present, or potential future clients of Schiff Hardin? Will they wish to continue to use that law firm, when there are so very many firms one can go to these days, or will they choose to re-think the use of that law firm, if it retains someone whose frequent talks to groups associated with the Muslim Brotherhood should be seen, and are now being seen by many, as no different from the case of someone who, round about 1948, frequently appeared before sympathetic audiences of enthusiasts of Soviet policy in Eastern Europe, and Joseph Stalin, or --in 1942 -- continued to address, unembarrasedly, diehard supporters of America First or, still worse, those who still dared to appear at meetings of Fritz Kuhn's German-American Bund.
at August 6, 2008 9:23 AM
B. Hussein Obama is just living up to his name and his 4 years of Madrassa training. He probably has some type of histrionic multiple personalities as a result of this training.
Posted by: Spot on at August 6, 2008 9:24 AM
Not to be rude, but what is with the creeping hairline?
Posted by: Mr.Fitnah at August 6, 2008 9:46 AM
I am only going to say this once, so all US politicians listen up. Anyone, connected to "muslim outreach" is going to be tainted. Either they will have questionable financial ties to terrorist groups/fronts or they are dhimmis. Neither are to be trusted, so just once, ONCE in your life, do the research on you own about a subject. Your life, and ours, just may depend on it.
God, why did that last sentence just send a shiver up my spine???
at August 6, 2008 10:25 AM
The Ikhwan never meets its recruitment quotas on Jupiter--isn't that so, Kevin?
Posted by: John C at August 6, 2008 11:38 AM
To learn more about Obama, get the book " The Obama Nation". The ties to support of islam are there, with reference.
Some of it is quite shocking.
Posted by: Islofob IS-1 at August 6, 2008 1:54 PM
Clean house all you want, Obama, but you will never get my vote!! Trickster!!
There are too many skeletons in your closet that you will need to get rid of before you could even APPEAR legitimate. The magicians circuit could certainly use your kind, because you are very good at creating the Illusion of being a good man, and good for our nation; when in fact you are a very dangerous and calculating politician, as revealed by numerous sources.
It bears repeating, folks, over & over, if need be....
NOBAMA '08!!! NOBAMA '08!!! X 1000!!
(NOT sorry for being a broken record)
Posted by: champ at August 6, 2008 2:18 PM
NOBAMA throws another under the bus, it is sure getting crowed under that bus!!
Posted by: ZenaWarriorPrincess at August 6, 2008 8:46 PM
Look closely at those eyes. Feel them looking back at you. Think about what you know about the Qur'an, and what that book makes him think about you. Don't trust that look anymore.
Posted by: Concerned Citizen at August 6, 2008 11:53 PM
Did anyone see the CAIR liar on O'Reily discussing this tonight? I don't know what is worse, what the liar said on O'Reily or the fact that O'Reily gives CAIR respectability.
Posted by: I_am_me at August 7, 2008 12:02 AM
If I were running for any public office--and I have no desire to do so--I would NOT have any kind of moslem-outreach effort. In fact, I wouldn't want any moslems to vote for me at all! It would be an insult. Another reason not to trust B. HUSSEIN Obamination.
Posted by: MadAggie at August 7, 2008 8:43 AM
When are people going to wake up about Obama? When are they going to see what this person is really all about?
Funny thing is, any Democrat that I have talked to, has said they did NOT vote for this clown in the primaries and that people they know or have talked to did not vote for him either.......
Posted by: samhein at August 7, 2008 8:54 AM
Let's be fair, Barak Hussein Osama is not a muslim. He is half muslim and half Christian. While he will not take us to sharia law, he will take us half way there. The rest becomes up to the next sercret muslim to complete the job.
Posted by: American at August 7, 2008 10:20 AM
We Americans are crying from our fear of islam and no one is listening to us. By the time someone listens to us it will be too late.
May God help America!
Posted by: American at August 7, 2008 10:23 AM
The Ikhwan never meets its recruitment quotas on Jupiter--isn't that so, Kevin?
Posted by: John C at August 6, 2008 11:38 AM
First, sorry for my late response. Too much to comment on, so little time. Feel like a kid in a candy store and the owner left me in charge with the key.
You are right. The Ikhwan knows what happens when they spew their garbage. Off to Io baby. You don't even get a chance to change underwear. Hence the importance of always following your mother's advice. Io makes Ganymede look like Tahiti.
at August 7, 2008 5:35 PM
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