Why should this come as a surprise to anyone? The leader of Connolly’s party warmly supported the Brotherhood regime in Egypt, and cut aid to Egypt when it was ousted by popular demand. Clearly the Democratic Party, and the Left in general, loves the Brotherhood.
“Muslim Brotherhood-Tied Activist to Host Fundraiser for Democrat Gerry Connolly,” by Adam Kredo for the Washington Free Beacon, March 10 (thanks to Weavo):
A Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated activist whose organization recently came under fire for holding an anti-Semitic rally in support of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi will head a fundraiser for Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly (Va.).
U.S.-based Muslim Brotherhood allies Akram Elzend and Sameh Elhennawy will co-host a fundraiser for Connolly later this month at the Fairfax residence of Mohamed Mohamed, according to a copy of the invitation obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Attendees of the March 22 fundraiser are asked to donate between $150 and $400 in order to attend the event, where supporters will have a chance to “express appreciation and have direct conversation with” Connolly, according to the invitation.
A form attached to the invitation asks donors to include their personal information and contains a message that the materials were “paid for and authorized by Connolly for Congress.”
The event has attracted the attention of some U.S.-based analysts who track the Muslim Brotherhood, particularly due to a pro-Morsi rally several weeks ago in New York City that featured anti-Semitic displays and was organized by a group Elzend cofounded.
Both Elzend and Elhennawy have been tied to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and were listed as U.S.-based cells of the group, according to a report in Egypt’s El Watan newspaper.
They also were identified on a list of Morsi supporters in America who issued an Arabic statement demanding that the former president “cleanse the media and police.” The statement additionally hailed Morsi’s power grab in Egypt as “one of his revolutionary decisions.”
Elzend is a co-founder and chair of the pro-Morsi group Egyptian Americans for Democracy and Human Rights (EADHR), which held a rally last month outside of the Saudi Arabian consulate in New York.
Demonstrators at the rally were caught accusing the Saudis of trying to “sell Egypt to the Jews” and of being “dirtier than Jews,” according to video of the event published by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT).
While Elzend’s EADHR later attempted to distance itself from the rally following negative press coverage, the group neglected to scrub several tweets organizing and promoting the rally, which was just one in a series of EADHR-sponsored pro-Morsi events.
The EADHR also helped organize a pro-Morsi demonstration last year along the Thanksgiving Day Parade route in New York City. Many of the attendees were vocal supporters of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party.
Additionally, EADHR leader Hany Saqr has been quoted in the Arabic press recently as a senior Muslim Brotherhood leader in the United States.
Elzend’s EADHR also has organized pro-Morsi briefings on Capitol Hill that have featured individuals tied to the Muslim Brotherhood and even Sami Al-Arian, a convicted terrorist who worked with Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
Elzend additionally serves as an official with Muslim American Society’s (MAS) D.C. branch. The MAS was created in part by the former head of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and is sympathetic to the group.
Asked why he is co-hosting the Connolly fundraiser, Elzend immediately said that it has “nothing to do with the organization” he works for.
Elzend added that Connolly is “a great man, he’s a great congressman, who really abides our values, American values, and principles, and he stands up for them.”
A fundraiser is “the least you can do for a good man,” Elzend said.
When asked about his reported ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, Elzend bristled.
“I don’t want to answer that question,” he responded when asked if he is a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood and has worked with it.
Pressed on the issue, Elzend declined to elaborate, saying “I’m busy, I’m driving.”
“Those questions your asking have nothing to do with what you called me for,” he added
Asked once again if he supports the Muslim Brotherhood, Elzend responded, “I don’t want to answer your questions.”
“This is an example of a patriotic American congressman who cares about our country who cares about our interests and our goals, short-term and long-term goals, and I’m encouraging other officials to really talk to Gerry Connolly and see where he’s really coming from, and see why he’s taken such a stance,” Elzend said.
“I’m not prepared to talk about anything else in my life,” he added.
Connolly, meanwhile, has personally expressed outrage over the ouster of Morsi and criticized the United States for not doing enough to back the ousted leader following his expulsion from office following last year’s democratic rallies in Egypt.
“In my view it is not okay for the United States of America to say it’s okay to overthrow a democratically elected government, however fledgling and however much we disagree with them,” Connolly said during a congressional hearing on the coup. “And it’s a sad day for me to sit here and see my government make such statements.”
Connolly campaign staffer Donald Brownlee, who is listed as the contact for the fundraiser, did not respond to a Free Beacon request for comment on the event.
Paleologos says
To paraphrase Bush “W” in an unfortunate comment, “… one of the world’s ‘great’ religions hijacked by terrorists” …
… so, no problem, right? …
I will tell the board something ELSE.
THERE WERE WMD IN IRAQ!
… for some reason … I could speculate why, maybe, in another post …
A long truck caravan was allowed to ride out of Iraq into, if memory serves me correctly, Syria … WITHOUT BEING INSPECTED!
I will tell the board something else that happened during the Iraq War. We had a drone eyeballing a Taliban funeral and did NOTHING because the lawyers calling the “moral shots” in D.C. said don’t kill them.
So how many of those assholes went out afterwards, and killed our troops?
R/
Paleologos
bikeboy says
I have a friend that always says it is not the politicians but the money that runs the country. So this was under Bush’s watch. They are all scumbags.
Paleologos says
bikeboy,
Why do you post out here? You don’t really “get” islam, do you?
“I have a friend that always says it is not the politicians but the money that runs the country. So this was under Bush’s watch. They are all scumbags.”
Question 1: Is your “friend” muslim?
Question 2: Do you know how long our brave Robert Spencer has been out here, islamic asshole directed death threats, notwithstanding?
You still don’t get THE MESSAGE:
… islam is an anti-western ideology, hell bent on conquering the world, all the while masquerading as a religion …
THAT’S THE MESSAGE!
“W”, for all his “not really getting islam, like you”, is not a scumbag.
Our current muslim, pos POTUS … now THAT’S a scumbag.
Stop muddying the waters. You are as bad as all those idiots who put the Israelis on the same moral plain as the muslims trying to kill them, because the Israelis defend themselves against all the asshole islamic groups trying to perform their non peaceful jihad on all the infidels.
Amen.
Crack open a history book not rewritten to suit the muslims, then respond, if you wish.
R/
Paleologos
bikeboy says
Paleologos, you do not know me at all. I most certainly do understand Islam and I detest it, I certainly do understand Israel, and i get Mr. Spencer. Your comments to me are condescending and inappropriate. If you are such an expert show me, don’t lecture me, you act like a little child because he did not like what he heard. Can you say the Money of this country does not run the politicians, can you say that the money of the Brotherhood is not running Connolly? I made a point about the fact that not one of our politicians in my eyes are worth counting on, that was what I said, I never said a word against Mr. Spensor. My comment was to your post about what you say your saw in Iraq and I said to you “I have a friend that always says it is not the politicians but the money that runs the country. So this was under Bush’s watch. They are all scumbags”.
This was what you said:
“To paraphrase Bush “W” in an unfortunate comment, “… one of the world’s ‘great’ religions hijacked by terrorists” …
… so, no problem, right? …
I will tell the board something ELSE.
THERE WERE WMD IN IRAQ!
… for some reason … I could speculate why, maybe, in another post …
A long truck caravan was allowed to ride out of Iraq into, if memory serves me correctly, Syria … WITHOUT BEING INSPECTED!
I will tell the board something else that happened during the Iraq War. We had a drone eyeballing a Taliban funeral and did NOTHING because the lawyers calling the “moral shots” in D.C. said don’t kill them.
So how many of those assholes went out afterwards, and killed our troops?”
So by your words, your words I repeat, it was under the Bush administration when you were in Iraq that the Lawyers said stand down. Be careful who you call an asshole it might turn and bit you.
Kalliope says
@Free Speech
You’re correct.
Even before Carter, I might add:
Washington’s Secret History with the Muslim Brotherhood
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2011/feb/05/washingtons-secret-history-muslim-brotherhood/
All American presidents have been woefully ignorant of the true ramifications of normative ʾIslām.
Kalliope says
@ Paleologos
Per the article that I linked above, “Washington’s Secret History with the Muslim Brotherhood”, American presidents have been playing footsie with the Muslim Brotherhood for quite some time.
Will you also call the other American presidents “scumbags”, or is that disgusting un-Christian moniker just reserved for President Obama alone?
richard Sherman says
Connolly and the Muslim Brotherhood both revere the SOCIOPATH MUHAMMAD WHO PERSONALLY DECAPITATED 900 UNARMED JEWS in 627…Sociopaths reversing a sociopath…What a surprise?
bikeboy says
And this guy thinks we should vote for him, and either he thinks it is no big deal to take money from the Brotherhood, or nobody will find out or care.
Salah says
The Muslim Brotherhood mafia is dying. Too bad for their PC puppets!
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain…and counting.
Egypt declares Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/12/25/egypt-declares-muslim-brotherhood-terrorist-group/
Saudi Arabia designates Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/07/us-saudi-security-idUSBREA260SM20140307
UAE labeled Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization
https://pressall.wordpress.com/2014/03/09/uae-labeled-muslim-brotherhood-as-a-terrorist-organization/
Paleologos says
bikeboy,
I guess you need reading lessons too.
Did I call you an asshole?
The only people I call assholes out here are muslims, and they can try and nibble on my white ass anytime they want.
They don’t scare me. I am from New York. We New Yorkers don’t suffer the remarks of fools or suicidal muslims.
R/
Paleologos
bikeboy says
We have one thing in common, i am a NY’er as well, but i think a bit away from your generation. It was not what you said but how and your insinuation. Be that as it may, we are probably closer than further apart.
Paleologos says
Kalliope,
obama is a scumbag muslim.
I am a Catholic Crusader, high up on the muslim hit list.
I am NOT a turn the other cheek Christian.
islam has been taking advantage of turn the other cheek Christians since pedophile mo hallucinated his moon god allah, circa 750 A.D.
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Paleologos
bikeboy says
You have to stand behind me and other Jews on the hit list. We are all on the hit list, that is what too many ( not here), miss.
Paleologos says
bikeboy,
I stand behind no man.
I stand with Robert Spencer, Geert Wilders, and all the others exposing the vile truth about islam.
I stand WITH BIBI NETANYAHU, and especially, fellow Catholic , Pope Benedict XVI, who called out islam for conversion by the sword in his famous Regensburg speech …
http://pontificateofpopebenedictxvi.blogspot.com/2008/08/regensburg-address-faith-reason-and.html
part of this speech …
I was reminded of all this recently, when I read the edition by Professor Theodore Khoury (Münster) of part of the dialogue carried on – perhaps in 1391 in the winter barracks near Ankara – by the erudite Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus and an educated Persian on the subject of Christianity and Islam, and the truth of both.[1] It was presumably the emperor himself who set down this dialogue, during the siege of Constantinople between 1394 and 1402; and this would explain why his arguments are given in greater detail than those of his Persian interlocutor.[2] The dialogue ranges widely over the structures of faith contained in the Bible and in the Qur’an, and deals especially with the image of God and of man, while necessarily returning repeatedly to the relationship between – as they were called – three “Laws” or “rules of life”: the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Qur’an. It is not my intention to discuss this question in the present lecture; here I would like to discuss only one point – itself rather marginal to the dialogue as a whole – which, in the context of the issue of “faith and reason”, I found interesting and which can serve as the starting-point for my reflections on this issue.
In the seventh conversation (διάλεξις – controversy) edited by Professor Khoury, the emperor touches on the theme of the holy war. The emperor must have known that surah 2, 256 reads: “There is no compulsion in religion”. According to some of the experts, this is probably one of the suras of the early period, when Mohammed was still powerless and under threat. But naturally the emperor also knew the instructions, developed later and recorded in the Qur’an, concerning holy war. Without descending to details, such as the difference in treatment accorded to those who have the “Book” and the “infidels”, he addresses his interlocutor with a startling brusqueness, a brusqueness that we find unacceptable, on the central question about the relationship between religion and violence in general, saying: “Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”[3] The emperor, after having expressed himself so forcefully, goes on to explain in detail the reasons why spreading the faith through violence is something unreasonable. Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul. “God”, he says, “is not pleased by blood – and not acting reasonably (σὺν λόγω) is contrary to God’s nature. Faith is born of the soul, not the body. Whoever would lead someone to faith needs the ability to speak well and to reason properly, without violence and threats… To convince a reasonable soul, one does not need a strong arm, or weapons of any kind, or any other means of threatening a person with death…”.[4]
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The muslim response?
The muslim asshole response was to murder a Roman Catholic nun who spent 40 years of her life trying to educate those muslim shit for brains.
Let a muslim give me shit about this to my face.
He better duck or run, because I will put him in a hospital.
We New Yorkers never, ever back down
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Paleologos
bikeboy says
I am not sure where in NY you grew up or live. I grew up in a semi rough area, shit we did not put up with, nor should we now. My statement of standing behind me was the fact that Jews will be first on the Hit List here in the US. Christians are being persecuted in the ME because they are not Islamic and Jews are for the most part in Israel. When/if the war comes here i have made one promise to myself, i will not be a victim.
Robin Blick says
For the umpteenth time, it is necessary to make clear that it is not the case that ‘the left in general’ ‘loves the Muslim Brotherhood’, as this story claims. The fact is that both in the USA and in Europe, the left is divided over its reponse to the rise of Jihadism. Whether it is Sharia law in universities and schools, halal meat smuggled into the food chain, enforced gender segregation, female genital mutilation or homophobia, gang rape, rampant anti-semitism, holocaust denial, the oppression of women, suppression of free speech in the name of preventing ‘offence’ and the persecution of secularists, apostates, atheists, christians and socialists in countries ruled by Islamo-Nazi theocracies, in the UK it is the secular left which has been the most outspoken opponent of Jihadist Islam. Others on the left, for example, the soi-disant ‘Socialist Workers Party’, have, it is perfectly true, ranged themselves on the other side of the battle lines, on the basis of the naive assumption that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, the enemy in question being western liberal democracy. By sop doing, they have become apologists for or deniers of the most hideous deeds of Islamic barbarism, including the murder in Iran of countless secular socialists. It should also be made clear that here in the UK, Christians and Conservatives have stood aside from the struggle, or event taken the other side, either out of genuine apreciation of Islam, or for fear of being labelled islamophobic or anti-faith. Indeed, our current government has, with the declared intention of ‘Doing God’ (our PM’s very words) for the first time created the office of ‘Minister of Faith’, the minister in question being a Muslim, Baroness (no less) Warsi. However, leading from the front, Prime Minister Cameron takes it upon himself, after every new Islamic atrocity, to sing the praise of what he calls the ‘religion of peace’, a refrain echoed by a motley chorus of pc brigaders, clergymen (including the current Pope) and theocratic Trotskyists. But not the secular left. Its position on Islam, Jihadism and the left is is clearly laid out in the the document ‘Siding with the Opressor’ and can be accessed on google. For my part, am still guided by the judgment of a much despised (by Islam) 19th century Jewish thinker: Religion (all religion) is the opium of the people, and its criticism is the beginning all criticism.
bikeboy says
I was far left, not anymore. I have talked to many who say they do not like this or that, but when this or that is criticized they get irate and abusive. How do i know who to believe, what that they are saying to believe? I know you are not wrong, but tell me how do i know who…….
Defcon 4 says
At least we know where Gerry Connolly stands and who he stands with, as we do w/the zero.
gravenimage says
Fairfax, Virginia—right outside the US capitol—has become quite the nest of Jihadists. *Ugh*.
You can see from Congressman Connolly’s voting record that he is fairly muddled on foreign policy, and probably hasn’t let himself learn much of anything about Islam:
http://www.ontheissues.org/va/Gerry_Connolly_Foreign_Policy.htm
And so, he’s let himself become another dhimmi tool…
Isabellathecrusader says
Graven, Connolly was given $17,000+ from the Saudis and $500 apiece from two CAIR execs, one being Nihad Awad under an assumed name, back when he originally ran for Congress.
He doesn’t want to learn. He wants the money and he is willing to run you and me over with a Mac truck to get it. So much for being our “representative”.
dumbledoresarmy says
Isabella!
Hi!
Not sure if you’ll see this, but it’s a relief to see your moniker again – I’d wondered where you were.
I guess you’re still doing stuff with ACT for America? How’s that going? I get their email updates and it does sound like they’re making *some* headway.
I have this sort of feeling that if – all over the west, and in places beyond it – we the Islamoaware just grit our teeth and keep on keeping on, educating and lobbying, educating and lobbying, some kind of paradigm shift *will* happen. Indeed, I think it *is* beginning to happen.
Paleologos says
bikeboy,
The battle HAS reached the American shores.
We have a muslim president backed by many muslim ass kissing Democrats.
NYC just got through the reign of one of the stupidest NYC mayors in NY state history, death wish Jew, Mike Bloomberg, ever see this speech? …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQsHc1EHgQY
islam attacks all infidels, Jews, Christians, etc.,
Jews are always a primary target, but there is NO excuse, ever, for muslim ass kissing Jews. Good riddance, Bloomberg, you moron.
BTW, the new NYC mayor looks just as bad.
What the hell are your fellow New Yorkers doing back there?
R/
Paleologos
bikeboy says
It appears politicians are very cheap to buy, sad indeed. Sell your country for a pittance.
bikeboy says
@ Paleologos
I have no idea why most NY’ers are the way the are. Maybe it is their high tolerance for diversity, which can be a good thing, but not when Islam is concerned.
bikeboy says
And what about your New Yorkers?
voegelinian says
New Yorkers are hardly unique in this regard. The entire West has a multifarious far-flung Majority — from Australia to Europe to the UK to North America — who are more or less PC MC idiots about Islam: not quite Carl Sagan’s billions and billions, but close.