During the 18th annual MAS-ICNA Convention held at the McCormick Place in Chicago in December 2019, Nihad Awad and Hatem Bazian were panelists for the Islamic Movement clearinghouse Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU), whose executive director is Dalia Mogahed. Bazian is co-founder (along with Hamza Yusuf and Zaid Shakir) and Professor of Islamic Law and Theology at Zaytuna College. In the late 1980s, Bazian, while a student, was an outspoken advocate for the Central American Solidarity Movement, an entity known for its open embrace of communist ideology.
In 1992, Bazian (then an executive board member for the United States Student Association) endorsed the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism national conference, which was held on the campus of University of California at Berkley. There, a specific agenda of activities was established for an Islamic Movement leader closely working for decades with the Left. The purpose is clear: to leverage willing leftist institutions and organizations to help advance the Islamic Movement civilization jihad with an opportunistic, symbiotic alignment.
The dialogue between Awad and Bazian during this MAS-ICNA ISPU session “Islamophobia Is Not What You Think” held on 29 December 2019 was indicative of Muslim Brotherhood/Islamic Movement plans for targeting law enforcement by means of future agitation and street demonstrations. Concern should be warranted based upon the following remarks by two senior leaders within the Islamic Movement, which is engaged in hostile influence operations against the USG.
Hatem Bazian conveyed these points to convention attendees:
- “Many of your local police departments have engaged and linked themselves to what is called the Joint Terrorism Task Forces. Part of it is that police departments get what you call the goodies that the federal government give them the surplus equipment and so on. But many of this equipment that are put at the local level have surveillance capabilities, and those surveillance capabilities have third party access to them. So what you need is to intervene at your local government level, at the city council level, because local police department are answerable to your city council members. Which means you have to understand what is the local police doing, what type of surveillance equipment have been installed, and what third party access to that information at the local level is taking place.”
- “Make sure your local police is not sent abroad to be trained on counterterrorism. This is a fact that some of the primary, uh, avenues for the local police they send to Israel to be trained on counterterrorism tactics.”
- “That is a decision at the local level that you need to get in the face of your city council members, your mayor, in order to affect that this is not a place for people to go and be trained.”
Nihad Awad followed up with concluding remarks:
- “So our success is not only in our self-interests, but really a reflection of our faith standing up for justice. When you witness any bigotry against any community you have to show up, and you have to stand up, you need not to be invited. When you see an oppression, as the prophet (in Arabic) said, it’s not only about the oppressed or the oppressor, it is also about you. Where are you?”
- “So, when you stand up against any injustice against other communities, automatically they will come to you, because it takes the entire community to fights [sic] bigotry (unclear) Islamophobia.”
In the wake of the violent protests directed by the Left across the U.S. following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the ICNA Council for Social Justice declared a Day of Outrage on 5 June 2020. Imams were instructed “to give khutba on police brutality and structural racism in America.” This entrance of the Islamic Movement, as Muslims joined at the street level with the Left in demonstrations, represents an escalation with mass line attacks by a strategic anti-American alliance targeting the pillars of a free society. Today, the Islamic Movement and Left are destabilizing and threatening the security of communities across the U.S. through their public demands calling for the defunding and abolition of law enforcement.
Matthew Edwards is a national security analyst with an emphasis on counter intelligence and threat assessment.
Walter Sieruk says
The title along of the article which is “Islamic Movement and Left Join Forces in Anti-American Revolution” leads to the reiteration of the Bible verse of Proverbs 11;21. Which is “Though they join forces ,the wicked will not go unpunished…” [N.K.J.V.]
Kesselman says
It starts with the “radicals” of the late 1960s, jettisoning the old order, though they would destroy Capitalism and then became the most aggressive capitalists in history. Steven Jobs is a shining example.—Then they rolled over the educational system (“the long march through the institutions”) culminating with the overtake of fringe DNC. In the last two decades, the aggressive left joined issues with the Muslim Brotherhood. Today we see a conglomerate of evil including academic Marxists, frustrated history-less street youth, and the sinister Globalist Liberal Utopian eco-Elitists aka liberal fascists plus Islamists (the Red-Green Axis). It is the modern-day pestilence!
yiyoya says
It is unfortunate that Marx coined the term “capitalism” to refer to the Free Market since this can lead to confusion.
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and others can be called businessmen or entrepreneurs but that doesn’t make them advocates of capitalism, or capitalists, in the philosophical sense of the word, i.e., advocates of the Free Market, advocates of economic freedom. Businessmen existed even in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia.
Adam Smith rightly observed that some of the biggest enemies of the Free Market are businessmen. No sooner does a businessman and his business become successful than they try to destroy the competition and harm the public by running to the government and demanding and bribing the politicians to protect them and hurt the public and other businesses and businessmen with special favors, protections, bailouts, handouts, and other anti-capitalist, anti-free market legislation.
“The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers….
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” – Adam Smith
Kesselman says
I agree, to be a businessman doesn’t mean you are for a free market. For all the current elitists the temptation of a totalitarian society is too great. The elimination of decency, ethical, and moral standpoints do the trick: we are all for the enslavement—of the others.
James Lincoln says
Kesselman, yiyoya – excellent exchange.
Mr John L Smith says
Why is it that Muslims flee the shithole countries they and try to turn the civilised world into the shithole that they have just left. The left only have to look at areas of the US where the left are in charge to see the shitholes that their brethren have created
yiyoya says
Because their religion commands them to do it. And they believe their religion is true. Lead 9/11 hijacker, Mohammed Atta, actually packed his wedding suit in his suitcase the night before boarding the airplane that he believed would take him to Paradise. We’re literally dealing with lunatics.
When you have 72 virgins waiting for you in your eternal grave, what care you if you spend your brief earthly life in misery and make others miserable too?
Aussie Infidel says
yiyoya, When people understand the power of indoctrination to produce a disruptive, totalitarian mindset that is driven only by their supernatural (or political) beliefs, they will understand what is driving the Muslim and Marxist radicals of this world.
James Lincoln says
Exactly.
livingengine says
At this point it is more than clear that CAIR is not opposing “injustice”. They are simply furthering their agenda.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhNJhR0-v1A
mortimer says
The Red-Green Axis of Evil. Which side will betray their erstwhile partner FIRST ???
borolina says
The Reds don’t stand a chance against Islam. Secular mysticism versus religious mysticism. The Reds promise peace, abundance, and prosperity on earth something they never have and never can deliver. By it’s nature no form of collectivism can deliver those things here on earth.
Islam on the other hand says misery, poverty, tyranny, self-sacrifice, self-immolation, and suffering on earth will earn you eternal rewards — after you die. Excellent escape clause for the purveyors of misery, poverty, collectivism, and tyranny. Marx wasn’t smart enough to figure that out.
curious george says
Mortimer,
+1
…………………………………..
Excellent question.
Only time will tell.
James Lincoln says
mortimer,
If history is any guide, the Leftist/Marxists will go the way of the Tudeh Party of Iran after the 1979 revolution.
mortimer says
I predict the Tudeh party is not finished. It was 100 years old in June 2020.
I think of the alliance between Lenin and Asian Muslims which Stalin thoroughly betrayed.
James Lincoln says
mortimer,
You are correct, the Tudeh party is not finished, 23 June 2020 marked its 100th Anniversary.
Despite intense repression, the party has somehow managed to survive, even after the 1979 Iranian revolution.
It has also pledged solidarity with groups like the Venezuelan Communist Party.
https://www.tudehpartyiran.org/en/news/4884-on-the-occasion-of-the-100th-anniversary-of-the-foundation-of-the-communist-party-of-iran-a-century-of-the-labour-and-communist-movement-in-iran
gravenimage says
Mortimer, the Tudeh Party was founded in 1941, not 1920. Then, most of the party members were savagery liquidated by the Mullahs in the early 1980s–thousands of people.
The Tudeh Party barely exists today, and is mostly based in exile, primarily in France.
And while I am horrified by the violence against the Tudeh Party members–*no one* deserves torture and summary execution–the Tudeh Party itself is Stalinist, and did a not inconsiderable amount of damage backing the brutal Mullahs before they turned on them.
And far from existing as some sort of force against the Mullahs, they mostly tout their party line. The only recent communique from them was a condemnation of President Trump for taking out Jihad terrorist Qasem Soleimani.
jca reid says
Well that’s it then. The Democratic Party of the USA are working with the Enemies of the USA. Think that’s called Treason. Pres Trump said he’d drain the swamp. Well, it’s a helluva big & deep one!
OLD GUY says
All forms of government and ruling people have thousands of laws and rules. The difference is will the rules support and help the citizens live in a society that promotes a good quality life for all or just for the chosen few. Let’s face it there will always be the chosen few. The difference is how well the rest of us will live and flourish in the society we are living in. America has its faults but provides the opportunity and the laws to protect us and encourage us to get ahead and have a good life style for most.
Eli says
We’ve had the joint, evil forces of the Muslim Squad and 50 + communists at work in congress for the past several years, against President Trump. Sitting in our commenting circles, without getting the message to the nation will not help us. They are trying to complete what the Clintons, and Obama started. It was in his term, that we lost major industries to China and brought ties to our enemies, Iran and Islamic nations. He increased their invasion, and Christians need boldness to stand strong against them. The Muslims and Marxist BLM are pushing to defund the police, and our military to leave us defenseless. Make people aware of what is happening around them, besides the inflated covid fear numbers.