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Bernie Sanders, Julián Castro set to speak at Hamas-linked Islamic Society of North America conference

Aug 9, 2019 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

There is simply no concern on the Left for Islamic jihad and its enablers. Jihad does not exist; only “Islamophobia” does.

“The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) was established in July 1981 by U.S-based members of the Muslim Brotherhood with a background as leaders of the Muslim Students Association (MSA). As author and terrorism expert Steven Emerson puts it, ISNA “grew out of the Muslim Students Association, which also was founded by Brotherhood members.” Indeed, Muslim Brothers would dominate ISNA’s leadership throughout the Society’s early years. Striving “to advance the cause of Islam and serve Muslims in North America so as to enable them to adopt Islam as a complete way of life,” ISNA was highly dependent upon Saudi funding during its early years.” — from Discover the Networks

From the Investigative Project on Terrorism:

In its latest filing before the federal district court in Dallas on behalf of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and its affiliate organization, the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) in the Hamas-terrorism financing case, the ACLU has made a noteworthy admission.

Rather than deny that there is copious evidence tying ISNA and NAIT to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, the brief argues that such evidence is merely dated. In a curious footnote on page 7, the reply states:

Assuming the authenticity of documents’ dates, the most recent documents to mention either ISNA or NAIT are dated 1991, Gov. Exhs. 3-3 and 3-85, but the majority of the documents are older. Almost all of the numerous exhibits that purport to show financial transactions and that contain any mention of ISNA or NAIT are dated 1988 and 1989 (there are two dated 1990), almost a decade before the majority of the overt acts the government alleges in support of its conspiracy charges against the HLF defendants.

So ISNA and NAIT are not saying that the documents tying their organizations to Hamas are “inauthentic,” but that the problem with the evidence is just that it is old. Then, even more curiously, the reply goes on to argue something that the government has not even alleged:

Even if the “evidence” provided some basis for alleging criminality against petitioners, the government’s discussion of it shows the government utterly fails to grasp the singular weight and consequence that an official accusation of criminal conduct carries in our criminal justice system and in our society.

But, of course, the government has not charged ISNA or NAIT with criminal conduct, or the two groups would be indicted in their own right, rather than un-indicted co-conspirators who worked with the Holy Land for Relief and Development (HLF), the defendant and alleged Hamas-front. The reply brief then, as Shakespeare might write, “doth protest too much.”

“Bernie, Castro Set to Speak at Terror-Linked Radical Islam Conference,” by Tyler O’Neil, PJ Media, August 7, 2019:

At least two candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former HUD Secretary Julián Castro, will speak at the annual convention for the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). ISNA was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case concerning funding the terror group Hamas.

ISNA may be the largest Muslim group in America, but it also has a bad history with terror and radical Islam. The Holy Land Foundation raised $12 million for Hamas, which the State Department designated a terrorist organization in 1997. The U.S., Israel, and the European Union have shut down organizations that funnel money to Hamas.

The Department of Justice lists ISNA as an “entity” of the Muslim Brotherhood, a radical group dedicated to establishing a global caliphate with all humanity living under sharia (Islamic law).

ISNA wasn’t just a co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case — the organization also shared an address with the Holy Land Foundation. One of its founders, Sami Al-Arian, would later be deported to Turkey thanks to his support for terrorist groups. Abdurahman Alamoudi, who would later be convicted on terror charges, led ISNA’s Political Awareness Committee.

ISNA’s bi-monthly publication, Islamic Horizons, has promoted terror-supporting radicals like Siraj Wahhaj, imam of Brooklyn’s al-Taqwa mosque. Wahhaj was an unindicted co-conspirator for a trial dealing with the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, an act that killed six Americans. He had been linked to the bombmaker. The publication has also fundraised for Islamic Relief, which Israel labeled as a front for Hamas.

Many forms of sharia condemn homosexuals. In July 2017, ISNA booted Muslims for Progressive Values, a pro-LGBT Muslim group, from its convention. Muzammil Siddiqi, ISNA’s president from 1997 to 2001, said he supported laws in countries where homosexuality is punishable by death.

Why do Sanders and Castro, who claim to support LGBT activism, openly associate with ISNA?…

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  1. CRUSADER says

    Aug 9, 2019 at 3:18 pm

    These attention seekers really are becoming troublesome with their delusions and treasonous remarks and incitations.

    • revereridesagain says

      Aug 9, 2019 at 9:22 pm

      I’m hoping we’ll at least get footage of Bernie and Julian down on all fours banging their heads on the floor and waving their butts in the air. To show “solidarity”, y’know…

      • J D S says

        Aug 10, 2019 at 10:01 am

        It would be a sight to see these two with their heads on the ground and butts in the air…praying to the non existent God called allah…..political candidates who patronize ANY Muslim organization are not acting in the best interest of the U.S.

  2. Wellington says

    Aug 9, 2019 at 3:21 pm

    No fool like an old fool. Here Bernie is a real contender.

    You know, Sanders is kinda’ like Karl Marx in this specific respect (unfortunately other respects too): Figure out what he thinks, conclude exactly the opposite of what he thinks, and you have around a 98% probability of being correct on the issue at hand. Yeah, Bernie gets this much wrong. Just like Karl.

    • CRUSADER says

      Aug 10, 2019 at 2:01 am

      “A fool by 40 is a fool forever.”

  3. Me says

    Aug 9, 2019 at 3:43 pm

    Bernie & Castro… Treasonous … Totally…

    • Barb says

      Aug 9, 2019 at 4:42 pm

      Totally agree – treasonous, treacherous and anti-American!
      It’s time all Islamic associations were listed as Terrorist Organizations!

  4. No Muzzies Here says

    Aug 9, 2019 at 3:59 pm

    The radical left has entered into a love relationship with Islam. They are in love with each other because they both want to eliminate the Christian influence in this country, and replace it with totalitarianism.

    Barack Obama used his high office to bestow favors on Muslim countries. There is no doubt that a democrat president would give privileged status to Islam.

  5. Georg says

    Aug 9, 2019 at 4:09 pm

    “In September 2004, she received the Community Service Award from the Islamic Society of North America, becoming the first woman to ever receive the honor.”

    Who is “she?” Answer: Sharifa Alkhateeb. It doesn’t look like anything other than groups hostile to America uniting for an overthrow. That, or they sure do a good impression of it.

  6. Angemon says

    Aug 9, 2019 at 4:50 pm

    Why do Sanders and Castro, who claim to support LGBT activism, openly associate with ISNA?…

    Because intersectionality – your enemy’s enemy is your friend…

    • Robert_k says

      Aug 10, 2019 at 1:42 pm

      Intersectionality links LGBTQ and Islamist – Linda Sarsour, a case in point.
      For Islamists, the freedom to push Gays off roofs For the LGBTQ, Gay Marriage.

  7. James Lincoln says

    Aug 9, 2019 at 5:08 pm

    Until now, I didn’t realize that both Sanders and Castro were as bad as they are.

    Absolutely rotten to the core – they should hold no place in any United States government position.

  8. CRUSADER says

    Aug 9, 2019 at 7:13 pm

    If you are still a fool by age 40…
    there really isn’t hope for you…

    Seems set in stone by then!

    (But there’s always a chance for a turnabout!
    Look at David “Freedom Center” Horowitz….)

  9. CogitoErgoSum says

    Aug 9, 2019 at 7:46 pm

    I wonder if Bernie will ask the Muslims if they believe Christians and Jews stand condemned. He wasn’t afraid to ask a Christian about his beliefs to and speak scornfully toward him. I think Bernie will act very humble and submissive and not at all the way he did here:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPD9aiLKKoc

    :

    • CRUSADER says

      Aug 10, 2019 at 4:56 pm

      BS would probably ask a Muslim to serve as VP if he thought he could win the presidency and virtue signal at the same time….

    • CRUSADER says

      Aug 10, 2019 at 4:59 pm

      CEG,

      I was just at Wheaton College, and I think it is great how Russel Vought came to its defense for firing thst prof.

  10. tgusa says

    Aug 9, 2019 at 8:02 pm

    Sanders is a halfwit who was ejected from a hippie commune for being a lazy bum. That’s really something! Therefore, Vermont has a voting majority of halfwits.

    Castro is a, well, in light of recent events I can’t decide if he is a weasel or a worm. He may be proof that it is possible to be both at the same time.

  11. gravenimage says

    Aug 9, 2019 at 10:09 pm

    Bernie Sanders, Julián Castro set to speak at Hamas-linked Islamic Society of North America conference
    …………………….

    Either deep ignorance or something much, much worse.

  12. CTTV15@Hotmail.com says

    Aug 10, 2019 at 8:18 am

    Marxists and Sedition-istas of the world unite…AGAIN..

  13. mortimer says

    Aug 10, 2019 at 1:13 pm

    The ‘Islamophobia’ smear is the way Muslim supremacists try to prevent discussion of Islamic terrorism.

  14. mortimer says

    Aug 10, 2019 at 1:18 pm

    Bernie Sanders chooses to ignore that Jews are among the first victims of Islamic terrorism.

    Mohammed’s first genocide was against the Jews of Yathrib/Medina.

    Mohammedans must emulate Mohammed.

    Bernie Sanders does not know that.

  15. tgusa says

    Aug 10, 2019 at 6:03 pm

    Most of us have heard the term Never Again. Bernie is part of the new and improved progressive wing of the democrat party and his slogan appears to be, Lets Do It Again. Boy is that fellow dumb, a new level of stupid.

    • Georg says

      Aug 10, 2019 at 6:58 pm

      “Boy is that fellow dumb, a new level of stupid.”

      Seems to me the Bernies of the United States are disaffecteds (new word) who just cannot bring themselves to blame… themselves for their failure. Freedom didn’t work out for Bernie, and so we have whatever he’s become.

      • tgusa says

        Aug 10, 2019 at 7:14 pm

        “whatever he’s become”

        Yes, whatever that is.

  16. Robert_k says

    Aug 11, 2019 at 6:13 am

    Push Gays off roofs, support LGBT rights – it’s all the same to Bernie Sanders.

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