Muslimska Brödraskapet och Obamas administration

Islamistexperten Douglas Farah har ett varningens

ord kring Muslimska Brödraskapets infiltration av

Obamas administration. Hilary Clinton, en politiker

som borde veta bättre, ställer glatt upp som invignings-

talare på ett MB-arrangemang. MB-aktivister dyker

plötsligt upp som "rådgivare" åt Obama:

The Muslim Brotherhood legacy organizations have

recently made tremendous strides in occupying

positions of influence within the Obama administration,

at the same time the FBI and other law enforcement

officials have move to cut ties to the very same

organization.

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The MB has only one political agenda-its own.

Its organizations strongly backed George W. Bush

in 2000 and 2004, (remember the famous picture

of Bush hugging the al Arian family?). Hoping for

friendlier pastures, the groups switched their support

to the Dems in ‘08. So far, it appears to be paying of. Big time.

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The architect is Dr. John Esposito, a long time defender

of the MB and the head of the Saudi-financed George-

town University Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center

for Muslim-Christian Understanding at the Walsh

School of Foreign Service.
The same Dr. Esposito who maintained prior to 9/11

that radical Islam was essentially a myth and certainly

no danger. It is hard to imagine any academic being

so consistently wrong in their professed field of expertise

maintaining much influence, but there he is, deeply

enmeshed with all the major MB legacy groups in

the country.

(...)
To be clear: these groups have a clearly enunciated

and never renounced policy of toppling the government,

hollowing out the institutional structures, and imposing

the caliphate here, where Sharia law is the law of the

land. As I have often said, if they want to openly join

the political process and espouse this, they are welcome

and they will be marginalized, even within the Muslim

community.
It is the fact that these organizations are front groups

for a foreign movement that wants to end our political

system (while supporting radical Islam) that I object to.

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First is the announcement by the Center for the Study

of Islam and Democracy (CSID), a sort of umbrella

organization for many of the MB groups in the United

States, that Secretary of State Clinton (along with a

senior MB leader from Britain who has been banned

from the United States previously will be keynote

speakers at their 10th anniversary celebration.
It is hard to imagine the vetting process of the

Secretary letting this one through, and time will tell

if it really on her agenda or an attempt to hype the

event. Here is what GMBDR says on CSID:

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CSID was founded in 1998 largely by the efforts of

Georgetown University academic Dr. Esposito who,

during the 1990’s, had served in the State Department

as a “foreign affairs analyst.” Many members of the

early CSID board were associated with the International

Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), the American Muslim

Council, and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC).

For example, past CSID board members included Jamal

Barzinji and Taha Al-Alwani, both important Brotherhood

leaders who are closely associated with the now defunct

SAAR Foundation, still under investigation by the U.S.

government. Both Barzinji and Al-Alwani helped to

establish many of the most important U.S. Brotherhood

organizations. The current CSID Vice-Chair, Antony

Sullivan, has many ties to U.S. Brotherhood groups

including the Association of Muslim Social Scientists

(AMSS), the United Association for Studies and

Research (USAR), and the Circle of Tradition and

Progress (COTP), a group whose other founding

members included Youssef Qaradawi, the most

important leader of the global Muslim Brotherhood.

From its inception, CSID has argued that the U.S.

government should support Islamist movements

in foreign countries and has received financial

support from the National Endowment for

Democracy and the United States Institute of Peace.

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Dr. Esposito, who will also be attending the conference,

has been a long-time supporter of the global Muslim

Brotherhood and has espoused views consistent with

Brotherhood doctrine. During the 1990’s was known

for his claims that Islamic fundamentalism was, in

fact, democratic and posed no threat to the U.S.

Dr. Esposito has at least a dozen past or present

affiliations with global Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas

organizations including having served on the

advisory boards of the Institute of Islamic Political

Thought in the U.K. and the United Association for

Studies and Research in the U.S. and has served with

global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi

on the Steering Committee of the Circle of Tradition

and Progress. In 2005, Saudi prince Alaweed bin Talal,

a financial supporter of the global Muslim Brotherhood

donated $20 million to the Center for Muslim Christian

Understanding at Georgetown, headed by Dr. Esposito.

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The second is the naming Dalia Mogahed as one of the

Muslim members of the President’s Advisory Council

Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. She is

(surprised gasps all around) an Esposito protege.
Ms. Mogahed, who was born in Egypt and lived in the

U.S. since the age of 5, is the executive director of the

Gallup Center for Muslim Studies and the co-author

of a book with Dr. Esposito suggesting that majority

of the world’s Muslims support some form of democracy.

Dr. Esposito is also a member of the Gallup Center

along with Ahmed Younis, previously a National Director

for the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), part of

the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood. In 2003, Ms. Mogahed

was identified in 2003 as the Outreach Coordinator

for the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh (ICP) whose co-

founder recently lost a DOE security clearance and

whose Imam will probably be deported on immigration

violations. Ms. Mogahed is the daughter of Elsayed

Mogahed, an Egyptian immigrant who is a former

engineering scientist at the University of Wisconsin

and director of the Islamic Center of Madison (ICM).

The website of the ICM links mainly to U.S. Muslim

Brotherhood organizations and Souheil Ghannouchi,

the President of the Muslim American Society (MAS),

was ICM Imam and President for several years.

The MAS is part of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood

and closest to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.
So, there we have it.

And it isn’t pretty.

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