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Virginia: Hamas-linked CAIR enraged that sheriff’s office hosting seminar on jihad threat

Oct 25, 2016 3:46 pm By Robert Spencer

This vicious little hit piece is a textbook example of how the bought-and-paid-for establishment propaganda media defames freedom fighters and mainstreams allies and enablers of jihad terrorists. Much more below.

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“CIA Director A ‘Secret Muslim’? Anti-Islam Conspiracy-Theorist Group Set To Speak At Virginia Law Enforcement Event,” by Jason Le Miere, International Business Times, October 25, 2016:

The Muslim community has reacted with anger after the sheriff’s office of Greene County, Virginia, announced plans to host a seminar on the alleged threat posed by Muslims. The event, scheduled for Nov. 5, will also feature a representative of a group led by former FBI agent and conspiracy theorist John Guandolo who has claimed that CIA Director John Brennan is a “secret Muslim” who has acted as an agent for the Saudi Arabian government.

IBT “journalist” Jason Le Miere presents Guandolo’s charge that Brennan is a Muslim as if it were self-evidently false, the raving of a “conspiracy theorist.” On what basis? Has Brennan ever denied being a Muslim? No. Does Guandolo have any basis for saying so? He says it was widely known when he was in the FBI that Brennan had converted while serving in Saudi Arabia. Is that inherently implausible? No. Is it widely known that there is a top intelligence official in the Obama Administration’s CIA who has converted to Islam? Yes. It was reported in none other than the Washington Post in 2012. Why couldn’t it be Brennan? The movie Zero Dark Thirty about the killing of Osama bin Laden, for which the moviemakers gained access to classified material (the Obama administration was criticized for making it available to them) featured a top counter-terror official who strongly resembled Brennan and was shown performing Muslim prayers. Were the filmmakers hinting at something they knew? Did Le Miere speak to Brennan? If he did, he doesn’t mention it in the article. What is much more likely is that Le Miere didn’t speak to Brennan, and has no idea whether or not he is a Muslim, but since Brennan hasn’t said anything one way or the other about the charge, he uses it to portray Guandolo as a “conspiracy theorist.” (You can see the video of my interview with Guandolo, in which he discusses this charge, here.)

Greene County Sheriff Steven Smith posted on Facebook this past weekend that his office would be sponsoring a seminar for residents titled “Understanding the Threat, a very interesting and informative class on the Muslim religion.”

Following a backlash, Smith has since apologized for the wording of the original post and changed the title of the seminar to “Understanding the Jihadi Threat.”

“It’s not to say all Muslims are bad,” Smith told local station CBS19. “We’re not saying that at all and when the post first came out, I apologize for the way it was worded, it didn’t have Jihad in there, it does now. People that know me here in Greene County know I’m not like that. It’s just an educational tool.”

On Tuesday, Smith held an impromptu poll on his Facebook page asking the residents of Greene County to decide whether the event should still go ahead. Just a few minutes latest he wrote, “The seminar is on.”…

But the proposed presence of Guandolo’s group, as well as Suzanne Shattuck, a local activist who has called for the deportation of all Muslims who are “Sharia-adherent,” has drawn condemnation from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization.

In a letter to Smith, CAIR Department to Monitor and Combat Islamophobia Director Corey Taylor [sic!] called for the sheriff’s office to drop the seminar.

The hapless lackey Le Miere can’t even get the names of his masters right. It’s Saylor, not Taylor. No need to thank me, Corey.

“Everyone, even anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant bigots, have the First Amendment right to spew their hatred and conspiracy theories, but that bigotry should not have the implicit endorsement of a law enforcement agency,” the letter read. “Let these individuals pay for their own private speaking venue and be ignored, as they deserve.”

“The sponsorship of this event by the sheriff’s office sends the message to members of the local Muslim community that they may not be protected against the growing number of hate incidents targeting Muslims nationwide due to rising Islamophobia.”

The objective of this hateful and hysterical rhetoric is to stigmatize and demonize any honest discussion of how Islamic jihadists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and supremacism, and to promote a spurious association between such a discussion and supposed “hate incidents targeting Muslims,” although no connection has ever been established. The obvious goal is to make it impossible to examine the motivating ideology of jihad terrorists, which would allow them to advance unhindered and unopposed.

The United States, which is home to 3.3 million Muslims, has in recent months seen anti-Muslim hate crimes rise to their highest levels since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Le Miere’s link goes to a New York Times story; here is Hugh Fitzgerald’s surgical evisceration of that story.

Guandolo, who has also stated that Muslims “do not have a First Amendment right to do anything,” resigned from the FBI in 2008 ahead of an investigation for misconduct. Since then, he has toured the country speaking to citizens and at anti-terrorism training seminars given to law enforcement agencies.

Last week he also spoke at a high school in northern Minnesota. When CAIR similarly protested his appearance, Guandolo alleged the organization has ties to Palestinian militant group Hamas.

“Guandolo alleged” — as if he made it up. In reality, the FBI and the Justice Department have affirmed CAIR’s ties to Hamas. But Le Miere either doesn’t know that or doesn’t care. He has, of course, no business calling himself a “journalist” or working for something that claims to be a news outlet. But these days, he is just another cog in the Soros-funded hard-Left propaganda machine.

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Filed Under: "Islamophobia", CAIR, claiming victim status, Featured, journalistic bias Tagged With: International Business Times, Jason Le Miere, John Guandolo


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  1. Michael Copeland says

    Oct 25, 2016 at 3:58 pm

    John Brennan has visited Mecca.
    Only muslims are allowed in to Mecca.

    • billybob says

      Oct 25, 2016 at 4:01 pm

      Maybe he went there disguised as a Muslim?

    • Jack says

      Oct 25, 2016 at 4:15 pm

      I have no doubts that he is a Muslim, I have believed this for quite a while because years ago he commented on what a great religion Islam is but there was something else he did or said that escapes me for now. Most likely a tool of the Saudis too.

    • Veka Fitzfrancis says

      Oct 25, 2016 at 4:20 pm

      True. Non-Muslims are told to meet in Riyadh if they wish to do business with partners from Mecca.

  2. billybob says

    Oct 25, 2016 at 4:00 pm

    It is encouraging to know there is still law enforcement somewhere who want to understand the threat in spite of endless platitudes from Obama and the MSM and condemnation from the stealth jihadists CAIR.

    • Jack says

      Oct 25, 2016 at 4:09 pm

      Billybob also the Muslim Brotherhood, one Egyptian official declared the Brotherhood the most dangerous group in the world he says they cause destruction and then step back and condemn those that did making themselves look like the good guys.

      • Anne Smith says

        Oct 26, 2016 at 5:15 am

        Isn’t Hillary Clinton’s chief aide the daughter of a Muslim Brotherhood official? and a Muslim Sisterhood official, too?

  3. Jack says

    Oct 25, 2016 at 4:05 pm

    Thanks Robert for bringing us such important news, I’m familiar with John Guandolo’s work understandingthethreat.com

  4. My Opinion says

    Oct 25, 2016 at 4:24 pm

    Is there anything the moslem filth are NOT enraged about? If they are enraged, someone is doing something right…

  5. Ashley says

    Oct 25, 2016 at 4:33 pm

    I’m glad Sheriff Steven Smith changed the name of the seminar…

    Every police department in the United States should hold an “Understanding the Jihadi Threat” seminar in their community. Ex-Muslims should be the keynote speakers (although their safety might be an issue).

    An understanding of the tenets of Jihad and Sharia are essential. An elementary understanding of the Koran is essential. An understanding of radicalization is essential.

    CAIR should welcome such seminars. Why throw a tantrum if only a “few” Muslims hijack and exploit the Religion of Peace?

    Why?

    Because CAIR knows damn well and silently condones the Jihadi threat. CAIR is the first to cry “foul” and “backlash” on the heels of an attack on US soil instead of CONDEMNING the atrocity.

    Hope the seminar is well attended and cookies are served.

    • PRCS says

      Oct 26, 2016 at 1:39 am

      All good points, and agree, except (not to be rude or mean) this: “An understanding of radicalization is essential.”

      IMO, the term “radicalization” is used–by the usual suspects–to perpetuate the oxymoronic notion that Islam “is a religion of peace which has been hijacked by a tiny minority of extremists”–as though “Allah” doesn’t really expect full and complete submission from his every slave.

      When groups like CAIR (even better, less sophisticated Muslims) are asked to explain what such “radicalization” means to them–the lie will begin to fall apart.

  6. davej says

    Oct 25, 2016 at 4:47 pm

    They do not claim there is no threat, just that we shouldn’t try to understand it.

    Also, he did not say “the threat posed by Muslims”, he said “by the Muslim religion”.

    Which is perfectly true as it is the “religion” that instructs and inspires the Jihadis.

    It is also perfectly appropriate that the Sheriff’s Office sponsor an educational seminar on the Muslim “religion” since it is the police force who must respond to and try to prevent the violent Jihad attacks.

    CAIR pretends not to understand that and instead gets “enraged” yet again. But they don’t seem to get enraged by the many successful jihad attacks, or even denounce them.

  7. Angemon says

    Oct 25, 2016 at 5:01 pm

    “Everyone, even anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant bigots, have the First Amendment right to spew their hatred and conspiracy theories, but that bigotry should not have the implicit endorsement of a law enforcement agency,” the letter read. “Let these individuals pay for their own private speaking venue and be ignored, as they deserve.”

    Right, because CAIR never tried to silence people speaking in private venues… And for all of CAIR’s bluster about “the implicit endorsement of a law enforcement agency”, they’re trying to interfere with the working of said agency. Isn’t that against the law?

  8. somehistory says

    Oct 25, 2016 at 5:39 pm

    There was the police officer in OK who was told he had to go to a barracks and listen to the local moslims
    “spew” hatred for everyone, or lose his job.

    When there is a gang problem in a city, the local police unit that deals with gangs will hold seminars to inform the public about what is happening and what they can do. No one objects or claims *gangophobia.* or “cripsophobia” or “bloodsophobia” or a phobia for that gang that is *13* members.

    If a private group, without any police officers present, decided to advertise or publicize the meeting to address the dangers of terrorism, terror groups, and who pose the threat, these cair guys would be all over that as people encouraging their favorite *phobia.* They would protest even a private meeting if those having the meeting let the public know about it and any moslims found out and dialed the 800 cair number.

    cair is so beastly. And they look like it.

  9. linnte says

    Oct 25, 2016 at 6:19 pm

    I went to the Sheriff’s web site and no email, but there is a phone number, and all calls are recorded at a police station. We must call this Sheriff and support him and let him know he is doing the correct thing! His Facebook page is liked by me!

  10. Allan says

    Oct 25, 2016 at 6:44 pm

    “former FBI agent and conspiracy theorist John Guandolo”??

    Um, just a thought here: FBI agents are PAID to be conspiracy theorists when dealing with organized criminals, as FBI agents sometimes do. People hired to be agents are EXPECTED to be good at developing theories about criminals’ motivations, plans, and activities.

    • linnte says

      Oct 25, 2016 at 6:52 pm

      People seem to forget this about the FBI.

  11. Eyes open says

    Oct 25, 2016 at 6:58 pm

    Cair should be enraged at their prophet mohamed for twisting the narrative of islam to incite violence and jihad. He does not represent trueislam then acaccording to them….. what a joke. Stop the BS CAIR

  12. Westman says

    Oct 25, 2016 at 7:25 pm

    “Let these individuals pay for their own private speaking venue and be ignored, as they deserve.” Darn good advice for CAIR, a paid-for propaganda arm, which sticks its runny nose into anything that educates potential victims about the reality of Islam.

  13. gravenimage says

    Oct 25, 2016 at 9:02 pm

    Virginia: Hamas-linked CAIR enraged that sheriff’s office hosting seminar on jihad threat
    …………………..

    Because everyone knows that objecting to Jihad terrorism is “Islamophobic”…sarc/off

    • linnte says

      Oct 26, 2016 at 2:09 am

      Some so called Christian Apologist Professor actually called the people who were interested in this meeting Islamophobic and haters, from the Sheriff’s FB site. I accused HIM of being the “hater” for preventing dialog and learning about Islamic texts as islamophobic.

  14. underbed cat says

    Oct 25, 2016 at 9:40 pm

    John Guandolo is a subject matter expert on the muslim brotherhood organizations that support sharia, which is the doctrinal roots of jihad. Once you understand and learn about the layers of organization which support sharia.(from coast to coast) that peaceful demeanor and victim status, serves a purpose of a misinformation campaign to silence the truth. John to me is a hero. The last line of defense to protect the citizens is the information..and to understand the danger we are facing, that is on their timeline, he has a 13 part lecture on you tube, your eyes will open and you will understand the threat.

    • underbed cat says

      Oct 26, 2016 at 4:22 pm

      The 13 part video lecture is older (15 minute segments awesome) but still extremely informative as is his websiite, at http://www.understandingthethreat.com that is current That series on google is excellent and worth viewing.

  15. underbed cat says

    Oct 25, 2016 at 9:56 pm

    Sharia law should be illegal in the U.S. it is only to subvert the Constitution. Remember Imams are legal jurist, …..sharia is legal code for muslims who do not recognize no matter what they say, the laws of a secular country are to be subverted. For muslims the truth is slander that is sharia.

  16. Hummer says

    Oct 26, 2016 at 2:17 am

    Why am I not surprised by this. I certainly would believe Guandolo as I’ve known and read and or heard him for years. We have a mess in our government and it is going to take some deep cleaning out. Let’s call it the enemy within and guess who made it happen.

  17. Lucia Bartoli says

    Oct 26, 2016 at 3:05 am

    Maybe he can get airtime on Hannity

  18. Margaret says

    Oct 26, 2016 at 3:39 am

    MPR also did a hit piece on John Guandolo.
    http://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/10/25/antiislam-speakers-urge-rural-mn-prepare-muslim-attack?utm_campaign=Capitol+View+Daily+Digest+for+October+25%2C+2016&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&utm_content=Capitol+View+Daily+Digest+for+October+25%2C+2016&elqTrackId=dc0655423b2748f28fa91507c3dc4e85&elq=c78d6652e1e746deab38a44b7bf54e25&elqaid=24816&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=21746

  19. David says

    Oct 26, 2016 at 5:05 am

    Anti-muslum “hate crimes”.
    What an absolute Crock of excrement !
    Even the political “leadership” has been doing double back flips just to kiss the arse of any and every muslim who can string two English words togeather !
    Truth be told, the vile, hateful, savage and barbaric crimes of the Muslims in my state alone would FILL A BOOK!
    I’m sick to death of our government allowing this turd to just roll down hill untill it “Snow Balls” into a huge civil war”
    Hope and pray for a Trump victory. STOP ALL MUSLIMS from entering this country. DEPORT ALL that have slithered in under Barry Obama.
    And CLOSE DOWN EVERY SINGLE JIHADIST sponsoring mosque!
    No, if’s, and’s or but’s.
    Put under cover FBI agents into every mosque or other muslum organizations and weed out every hateful act.
    These critters are worse them the NAZI’S ever were!
    No need to tip toe around this pig excrement any longer! Get out the big “Shit Scoop” and start the clean-up right now.
    Moderate muslums, my horses ASS.

  20. thelastvirgingoat says

    Oct 26, 2016 at 11:06 am

    I am a peaceful Muslim and if you disagree I wil kill you.

  21. Joanne says

    Oct 27, 2016 at 6:16 pm

    I live in a big city and the police dept where I live says all the usual nonsense about Islam being peaceful, etc, but I am hoping that the only do so in order to maintain a good working relationship with a large mosque that is right down the street and with other mosques in the area. Hopefully the department is bright enough at the very least to look at Europe and see what is happening there. Not that European police departments seem to be doing much to protect their citizens.

    Another thought too about the charge of “conspiracy theorist,” which is of course an easy way to discredit someone whom one cannot refute – I would prefer to live near a thousand well meaning conspiracy theorists than one Muslim who interprets the Koran as Mohammed did.

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