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Obama Administration partnered with Hamas-linked Muslim groups to purge counterterror training of truth about Islamic jihad

Mar 27, 2014 7:05 am By Robert Spencer

FBI LexiconFor several years, I gave semi-regular briefings on Islam and jihad to the FBI and its Joint Terrorism Task Force, as well as to the United States Central Command (CENTCOM), the United States Army Command and General Staff College, the U.S. Army’s Asymmetric Warfare Group, and the U.S. intelligence community. I spoke to rooms full of agents who were so deep undercover that only their first names were given on their nameplates. I received certificates of appreciation from CENTCOM and the Asymmetric Warfare Group. (The FBI gave me a couple of very nice coffee mugs.)

But in 2010, all that began to change, as Leftist “journalists” such as Spencer Ackerman and Islamic advocacy groups in the U.S. such as the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) began claiming that counterterror training was “Islamophobic,” and demanding that the Obama Administration scrub training materials of all mention of Islam and jihad in connection with terrorism, and stop bringing in “Islamophobic” trainers – including me. The Obama team quickly complied – as I explain in detail in my forthcoming book Arab Winter Comes to America: The Truth About the War We’re In.

What changed was not what I was saying, which has remained the same throughout my public career. What changed was the regime in Washington, and its willingness to appease Leftists and Islamic supremacists.

“A detailed look at ‘the purge’ of U.S. counter-terrorism training by the Obama administration,” by Patrick Poole for The Blaze, March 26:

…In what some experts have termed a hostile “political warfare campaign” driven by an alliance between the administration, Islamic organizations and cooperating media figures, analysts and subject matter experts were blacklisted, and books and training materials were purged from official counter-terrorism training programs government-wide.

This “purge” has contributed to clues being missed by the FBI in major terrorism cases, including last year’s bombing of the Boston Marathon…

One of the first indicators of these efforts was the cancellation of an anti-terrorism conference scheduled for August 10-12, 2011 hosted by the CIA’s Threat Management Unit.

As reported by veteran Pentagon reporter Bill Gertz at the Washington Times, the conference was cancelled at the demand of Islamic groups who objected to presentations that were to be conducted by former Joint Chiefs of Staff intelligence analyst and international law expert Stephen Coughlin (who is featured in tonight’s episode) and Steve Emerson of The Investigative Project on Terrorism. An email sent to conference registrants explained that the Department of Homeland Security would be formulating new guidelines for vetting speakers and screening presentation content.

The cancellation of the CIA terrorism conference was followed in September 2011 by a series of articles by far-Left blogger Spencer Ackerman at WIRED Magazine that claimed counter-terrorism trainers and materials used by the FBI were promoting “Islamophobia.” One of Ackerman’s targets was books in the library at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, that he deemed offensive. It should be noted that as a general rule banning books in government-funded libraries is considered rank censorship.

While a number of claims made by Ackerman in his series of articles were later found to be manifestly false, inside U.S. government agencies individuals targeted by Ackerman’s articles were prohibited from speaking publicly in defense of themselves and their work and “The Purge” continued apace.

Black October

Then in October 2011, a remarkable series of events dramatically shifted U.S. government policies largely fueled by Ackerman’s reporting.

The first event was the circulation by Homeland Security’s Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties to government agencies of a list of “Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Training Do’s and Don’ts.” Among those targeted in the DHS training ban were what the document called “self-professed ‘Muslim reformers,’” who the agency warned “may further an interest group agenda instead of delivering generally accepted, unbiased information.”

Among other “don’ts” declared by DHS was this warning:

Don’t use training that relies on fear or conspiracies to motivate law enforcement. Don’t use training premised on theories with little or no evidence to support them. Examples (from the report “Manufacturing the Muslim Menace”) of unsubstantiated theories include…Mainstream Muslim organizations are fronts for Islamic political organizations who true desire is to establish Sharia law in America.

Remarkably, some of the very organizations that the Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties had partnered with had been identified by the Justice Department as fronts for international terrorist organizations in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial in 2007 and 2008, including the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). At the time these guidelines were published, the president of ISNA, Imam Mohamed Majid, was serving on the DHS Countering Violent Extremism Working Group.

Not only had the Justice Department named these organizations as unindicted co-conspirators during the trial, but federal prosecutors had outline in court documents that these organizations were integral parts of an international conspiracy to funnel money to the terrorist group HAMAS. In one Justice Department filing, prosecutors noted that “numerous exhibits were entered into evidence establishing both ISNA’s and NAIT’s intimate relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood, the Palestine Committee, and the defendants in this case.” In another filing they observed:

ISNA and NAIT, in fact, shared more with HLF than just a parent organization. They were intimately connected with the HLF and its assigned task of providing financing support to HAMAS. Shortly after HAMAS was founded in 1987, as an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood, Govt. Exh. 21-61, the International Muslim Brotherhood ordered the Muslim Brotherhood chapters throughout the world to create Palestine Committees, whose job it was to support HAMAS with “media, money and men.” Govt. Exh. 3-15. The U.S. Muslim Brotherhood created the U.S. Palestine Committee, which documents reflect was initially comprised of three organizations: the OLF (HLF), the IAP [Islamic Association for Palestine], and the UASR [United Association for Studies and Research]. CAIR was later added to these organizations. Govt. Exh. 3-78 (listing IAP, HLF, UASR and CAIR as part of the Palestine Committee, and stating that there is “[n]o doubt America is the ideal location to train the necessary resources to support the Movement worldwide…”). The mandate of these organizations, per the International Muslim Brotherhood, was to support HAMAS, and the HLF’s particular role was to raise money to support HAMAS’ organization inside the Palestinian terrories. (p. 13, emphasis added)

During the Holy Land trial, FBI Agent Lara Burns testified in court that CAIR was a front for HAMAS. One trial exhibit submitted by federal prosecutors – and stipulated to by the defense in the case – explained that these organizations were dedicated to a “civilizational-jihadist process” to destroy America from within and replace the Constitution with sharia (Islamic law):

The Ikhwah [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 God’s religion [Islam] is made victorious over all other religions. (p. 21)

Federal prosecutors specifically cited this internal Muslim Brotherhood planning document as the strategic goal of these U.S.-based Islamic groups – the very same group advising the Obama Administration. The federal judge in the Holy Foundation case agreed with the case presented by the federal prosecutors had made regarding these organizations, stating in one ruling that “the Government has produced ample evidence to establish the associations with CAIR, ISNA and NAIT with HLF…and with HAMAS.” (p. 14-15)

One of the architects of the new DHS guidelines was Mohamed Elibiary, who served on the DHS Countering Violent Extremism Working Group, was appointed in October 2010 by Secretary Janet Napolitano to the Homeland Security Advisory Council and is now a senior fellow for the agency, who has publicly admitted to his role in developing the DHS guidelines. Unsurprisingly, he was a regular source for WIRED’s Spencer Ackerman.

Elibiary served in these roles despite his long history of speaking at extremist events, and more recently his public statement in support of radical jihadist ideologues from the Muslim Brotherhood and declaring America “an Islamic country,”…

There is much more. Read it all.

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  1. duh_ swami says

    Mar 27, 2014 at 7:48 am

    These efforts are highly traitorous if not treasonous. But look who is in charge. So what is the ultimate purpose of this doctrine of, ‘protect the Image of Islam at all cost’? Is that really the function of government? Speaking of gov, why is not Congress pzzed off about it? There’s no doubt the top layers are infested with vipers. What we desperately need is viper repellent. But they don’t sell it at any of the marts, and there’s none for sale on e-bay. So we are going to have to do it the old fashion way, remove the snakes a few at a time, starting with the top snake, until they are all gone.

  2. boakai ngombu says

    Mar 27, 2014 at 10:06 am

    a leaked document from DHS demonstrates the result of the purge …

    POTUS and company are now watching out for “Free Americans against Socialists Tyranny” and their sympathizers , according to an article by Kris Zane, poster 26May14 at: http://www. westernjournalism.com

    makes ya feel needed

    • boakai ngombu says

      Mar 27, 2014 at 10:16 am

      hope this works:

      http://www.westernjournalism.com

  3. mortimer says

    Mar 27, 2014 at 10:08 am

    Cultural Marxism has till now been the underlying culture of Obama and his voters.

    The purpose of cultural Marxism is to identify Western values of freedom and democracy with the ‘oppressors’…white males. In so doing, the Cultural Marxists can oppose and deny all Western thought and culture. Other cultures get a free ride and are NEVER criticized. FGM, child marriage, pedophilia gangs, forced cousin marriage, wife-beating, religious persecution and murder of 100,000 Christians per year are merely ‘cultural values’, rather than crimes.

    Obama and his followers are guilty of showing the misogynists and supremacists that they are weak. The enemies of women, freedom and equality get a free ride. They do as they please, increase Sharia intolerance and basically kick sand in Obama’s face.

  4. Jay Boo says

    Mar 27, 2014 at 10:17 am

    pseudo- intellectual jihad
    Go to the phone call 1-800-COEXIST to be sold on a pile of Islamic bullsh–

  5. Jay Boo says

    Mar 27, 2014 at 10:42 am

    WANTED:
    Dysfunctional codependent sharia compliant coexist appeasers.
    Apply with Muslim Brotherhood

    • kikorikid says

      Mar 28, 2014 at 8:08 pm

      JB, Good! Somebody used the “Operative Term” here.
      All of the “word purges” and “Workplace Violence”
      are Shariah Compliance on the part of Obama.
      One (1) is too many for Muslim Brotherhood operatives
      to be in our Government. Obama has appointed dozens,
      including, recently, Mohammed Elibary, a known Brotherhood
      operative into the position, Assistant Director Security Policy, Dept.
      of Homeland Security. The MB has declared Jihad against us
      and Obama protects and promotes their cause.

  6. Brian C. Hoff says

    Mar 27, 2014 at 3:23 pm

    Here is than video showing how cary you Islamoprobic people are https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yvIWoJfKsE. They got upset because the mosque layter ask the judge to remove himself from the case as he is bias against Islam and muslim he rule against than new mosque being built by peaceful muslim that live there for over 20 years, than federal judge overturn his bias ruleing he want to retire with his persion plan. I hight disbelieve that there are any valid death threat against that woman.

  7. Brian C. Hoff says

    Mar 27, 2014 at 3:31 pm

    Here is than other video on the teabager in the area many people in that country think they are carzy.

    • Brian C. Hoff says

      Mar 27, 2014 at 3:57 pm

      Here is the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydNfIr2CqI8.

  8. Brian C. Hoff says

    Mar 27, 2014 at 3:55 pm

    Here is coverage by than state newpaper not sure it is locial.

    • Brian C. Hoff says

      Mar 27, 2014 at 3:58 pm

      Here is the link http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/26/tn-tea-partiers-freak-out-on-tv-reporter-for-covering-their-effort-to-block-muslim-cemetery/.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 29, 2014 at 10:39 pm

      In other words, “Brian C. Hoff” (our old “DefenderofIslam”) is saying that the real problem is “Islamophobia”, not the bloody horror of Jihad.

      Nice try…

  9. Stand Fast in the Liberty says

    Mar 27, 2014 at 4:04 pm

    Go away, Defender of Islam. (Brian C. Hoff) We know it’s you because you don’t know what the word “than” means.

  10. Will Doohan says

    Mar 28, 2014 at 2:17 am

    Brian C. Hoff is a Troll. Don’t respond to him or, in internet parlance – Don’t feed the Troll!

  11. Brian C. Hoff says

    Mar 28, 2014 at 2:59 am

    Well those teabagger sueing the mosque are sure nut job the way they react when the judge remove hinself from the trail. The people of that country are tire of then giveing the country than bad name.

  12. Bronson says

    Mar 28, 2014 at 5:33 am

    Surely the agents would be able to avail themselves of the material on this and other websites. I would imagine the effect of the purge would be that none of this knowledge acquired privately could ever be seen to be used in considering security issues caused by muslim penetration of the government whereas on the other hand their propaganda can be used and is used to direct any decisions made.

  13. gravenimage says

    Mar 29, 2014 at 11:40 pm

    Obama Administration partnered with Hamas-linked Muslim groups to purge counterterror training of truth about Islamic jihad
    ……………………………

    Madness….

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