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CAIR and Cultural Jihad





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CAIR and Cultural Jihad


Dear Solsticewitch13 ,


Andrew McCarthy’s excellent commentary below on CAIR (the Council
on American-Islamic Relations) echoes a point we have been making since
the founding of ACT! for America: That as horrific as terrorism is, to
focus on that Islamist threat to the exclusion of “cultural” or “stealth”
jihad is a monumental mistake.

Too many in our government have not connected, or do not want to
connect, the dots between the supremacist ideology of political Islam
and the jihadist actions perpetrated against the West in the arenas
of government, academia, law, and the media.


This is why the “War on Terror” essentially misstates the “war,”
because terror is a means, not an end, in the bigger arsenal of the
Islamists. The “end” is the overthrow of Western civilization and the
imposition of Islamic shariah law worldwide. And the arsenal to achieve
that end includes many other “means,” such as efforts to criminalize
public critique of Islam.

One of the topic sessions in our “Citizens in Action” conference is titled
“Why the ‘Typical’ Western Approach for Dealing with Radical Islam Will
Not Work – and What Does.” We in the West must understand the
mindset and worldview of those who wish to destroy our way of life,
if we are to devise effective strategies and tactics to combat them.

If you haven’t yet done so, please log on to
www.actforamerica.org
today and register to attend one of our “Citizens in Action”
conferences.






National Review Online
Andrew C.
McCarthy

NR Contributing Editor
March 24,
2009, 4:00 a.m.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZjEyNTQyMmYzYmM0ZDk4NGYxYTdkMTQxZmZlNDgxY2Q


CAIR’s Well-Deserved Expulsion

Terrorism is only one expression of jihad — there are others as
dangerous.


A week ago, the FBI officially announced that it
has cut ties with the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The
self-styled civil rights organization is characteristically squawking, but
the FBI’s move was patently overdue — so much so that we ought to be
asking: Why on earth did the FBI have ties with CAIR in the first place?


While we should applaud the government for finally doing the right
thing, we also must seize this moment to consider why this action was
necessary, and what it says about the threat we are up against.


That threat is not, essentially, about terrorism. Given the
life-and-death stakes involved, it is understandable that government is
preoccupied by terrorism (or what Obama’s homeland security secretary,
Janet Napolitano, absurdly calls “
man-caused disasters”).
But jihadist terror is merely the means to a specific
end: the installation of sharia, the Islamic legal code, which Muslim
fundamentalists regard as the necessary precondition for the achievement
of Islam’s universalist ambitions.

Sharia should be of grave concern to us because it is antithetical to the U.S.
Constitution and to our way of life. It rejects several core American propositions:
that liberty cannot co-exist with an established state religion, that free
people have a right to govern themselves irrespective of any religious
code’s dictates, that there should be freedom of conscience (sharia holds
that apostasy from Islam is not merely a crime but a capital offense),
sexual liberty (homosexuality is also a death-penalty offense), and equal
protection under the law (sharia privileges Muslims over non-Muslims and
men over women). Sharia, furthermore, is the rationale commonly trotted
out by militants to justify the use of force (whether we call it
“terrorism” or employ such sophistries as “resistance” or “man-caused
disasters”) for resolving policy disputes — under the rationale that
policies that do not privilege Islam constitute an attack on Islam and
therefore justify jihadist violence.

Incrementally establishing sharia is the central imperative of CAIR and several
other organizations to which our government has recklessly been reaching out for
years, since long before the 9/11 attacks. In sum, administrations of both parties,
and executive branch agencies including the FBI, have taken the position that
government’s only legitimate concern is the comparatively tiny cohort of
terrorists who construe Islamic scriptures to command mass-murder attacks.


Not only have we averted our eyes from the ideology that motivates
jihadism. We have affirmatively anointed as Muslim “moderates” the
purveyors of this ideology, who are anything but moderate. Worse, the
effect has been to empower anti-American elements at the expense of
authentic Muslim moderates and reformers who crave liberty.

CAIR is an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Egyptian organization
founded in 1928 that today boasts divisions throughout the world. The
Brotherhood has been operating in the United States since the 1960s in a
manner fully consistent with its motto: “Allah is our objective. The
Prophet is our leader. The Quran is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in
the way of Allah is our highest hope.” Its website makes no bones about
the fact that it seeks “the introduction of the Islamic Shariah as the
basis for controlling the affairs of state and society.”

Last year, the government won convictions in a terrorism-financing trial that
targeted an ostensible Islamic charity, the Holy Land Foundation, along
with several of its top operatives. CAIR has complained long and loud
because prosecutors identified it as an unindicted co-conspirator in the
case. Its argument that this was a smear is specious. The issue is not
whether the government named CAIR on a list disseminated pretrial; what’s
germane is the basis for that listing. The government richly supported its
assertion with evidence, and no citizen or organization has a right to
expunge that which is proved in the public’s courts.

At trial, the jury was treated to a 1991 Brotherhood memorandum that described the
organization’s “work in America” as “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 is made victorious over all other
religions.” CAIR has been the linchpin of that strategy.

Some history is in order. In 1987, the Brotherhood had established Hamas (or
“the Islamic Resistance Movement,” as it describes itself). As its charter
professes, Hamas


is one of the wings of Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine.
Muslim Brotherhood Movement is a universal organization which
constitutes the largest Islamic movement in modern times. It is
characterized by its deep understanding, accurate comprehension and its
complete embrace of all Islamic concepts of all aspects of life,
culture, creed, politics, economics, education, society, justice and
judgment, the spreading of Islam, education, art, information, science
of the occult and conversion to Islam.

In a memorandum filed in a Texas federal court, prosecutors further elaborated that,
through the early 1990s, “the Muslim Brotherhood was controlled by
Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood members, and the leader of the U.S.-Muslim
Brotherhood was Mousa Abu Marzook, who in 1989 was selected to be the
leader of HAMAS, a position that he held while residing in the United
States and controlling the U.S.-Muslim Brotherhood.” To support Hamas, the
Brotherhood established a “Palestine Committee” in the United States.


Marzook (deported in 1995, he is currently wanted on a U.S.
terrorism
indictment
in Chicago) led the Palestine Committee. One of its most important members
was Omar Ahmad, who became president of the Islamic Association for
Palestine (IAP), which Marzook had formed years earlier. In 1993, the
Palestine Committee convened a meeting in Philadelphia to plot a strategy
for destroying the Oslo Accords’ vision of a two-state solution —
Palestine peacefully co-existing with Israel, which Hamas is pledged to
destroy. The meeting was secretly surveilled by the FBI, which caught
Ahmad conversing with Nihad Awad, the IAP’s public-relations director,
about strategies for deceiving Americans about their true intentions.


Less than a year later, Ahmad and Awad formed CAIR. The Holy Land
Foundation, which was ultimately shuttered by the government and finally
convicted for providing millions of dollars to Hamas, contributed part of
the seed money. To serve as CAIR’s communications director, Ahmad and Awad
tapped Ibrahim Hooper, another IAP veteran who has publicly acknowledged
that his purpose is to establish sharia as the law of the United States.


Since its founding, several CAIR officials have been convicted or
deported for terrorism-related activities and for other criminal offenses.
CAIR, meanwhile, has sought to undermine national security — and the FBI
specifically — at every turn: frequently mounting public-relations
campaigns for indicted terror suspects, vigorously opposing the Patriot
Act and the surveillance of suspected al-Qaeda communications, and even
distributing a
Muslim community safety kitthat discourages cooperation
with the FBI.


Despite that sordid record, government officials regarded CAIR as
a representative and leader of American Muslims. Our law-enforcement and
national-security agencies consulted with it closely and even permitted it
to indoctrinate our agents during compulsory “sensitivity training”
lectures. Doing so, they raised its profile, facilitated its radical,
anti-American agenda, and dispirited our allies in the Muslim community,
many of whom are in the United States precisely because they don’t want to
live in the totalitarian misery the Muslim Brotherhood and its satellites
would impose.

The major threat we face today is not what al-Qaeda
may do to the grand structures that house our government and our
institutions. It is what radical Islam is accomplishing inside those
structures. Thankfully, the FBI has shown CAIR the door. But that only
begins to address the problem.




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