This is, of course, a direct result of the wholesale failure to assess adequately the enemy that hit us on September 11, 2001. Political correctness and fear keep us from examining his belief system in detail, and accordingly appraising realistically others who hold the same belief system. And so the FBI and others continue to enter into disastrous and wrongheaded partnerships like these. “FBI Partners With Jihad Groups,” by Rowan Scarborough for Human Events, September 10 (thanks to all who sent this in):
The FBI since the September 11 attacks has forged ties with a number of Muslim groups linked to a secretive organization that calls for the methodical takeover of the United States.
HUMAN EVENTS has obtained an eight-page memo written by Washington Field Office officials which celebrates the way the FBI, whose mission is law enforcement, has created these “partnerships.”
Critics, some within the FBI, say the bureau is increasing the statue of groups whose long-term ideological goal is to bring Islamic law to America through jihad, or struggle.
A former agent told HUMAN EVENTS the bureau is dealing with the groups that maintain an under-the-radar alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood. The ultra-secretive Muslim Brotherhood, with chapters worldwide, is the glue for a network of Islamic groups.
“The FBI leadership is relying on the Muslim leaders, who are known Muslim Brotherhood, to give them direction on how to go after the enemy in the community,” the ex-agent said. “These are the very people who have advocated overthrowing the American government.”
The former agent pointed to the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood manifesto (“An Explanatory Memorandum On the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America”) discovered in 2004 in an FBI raid on a suspected Islamic extremist, Ismael Selim Elbarasse.
The document first came to light in 2007, when Justice Department prosecutors filed it in the case against the Holy Land Foundation, a Palestinian Hamas front that funneled millions of dollars to the outlaw terrorist group.
Written by a group of Brotherhood members in 1991, the paper says the group has begun “A new stage of Islamic activism stages in this continent.” It said the goals were approved four years earlier at secret conferences of Muslims in this country.
One section states it goal of taking over the United States:
“Understanding the role of the Muslim Brother in North America: The process of settlement is a “Civilization-Jihadist Process” with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”
“All those documents in Elbarasse’s home were phenomenally important because for the first time it revealed the Muslim Brotherhood’s existence,” said Steve Emerson, who runs the Investigative Project on Terrorism and exposes radical Islam. “They disclosed the whole structure of the Muslim Brotherhood, which up until that point had not been known. It showed their agenda. That discovery was absolutely the greatest intelligence yield in 40 years.”
HUMAN EVENTS examined the Islamic groups the FBI has befriended, presented with awards, invited to agent conferences and shared the speakers platform — all under the guise of outreach to the Islamic community.
The most prevalent is the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a prominent Brotherhood member, according to Justice Department documents. The department named ISNA among scores of unindicted co-conspirators in the successful prosecution of Holy Land and its operatives.
The FBI has given awards to ISNA officials. It placed ads in its monthly publication asking Muslims to apply to become agents. “Today’s FBI. It’s for you,” the ad says.
ISNA ran an ad that says, “We congratulate the FBI on 100 years of service to our country. Here’s to continuing a shared partnership in securing the values, rights and freedoms we all hold dear as Americans.” There is no endorsement of the FBI’s counter-terrorism role….
There is much more. Read it all.