Anti-Semites,
Terror Apologists Hide Behind Civil Rights Rhetoric on Capitol Hill
by John Rossomando
IPT News
May 15, 2018
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 Terrorist apologists
and their allies wrapped themselves in civil rights rhetoric on Capitol
Hill last week for the 4th Annual National
Muslim Advocacy Day, sponsored by the US Council of Muslim
Organizations (USCMO).
The USCMO acts as an umbrella organization, coordinating
activities of major Islamist organizations including the Council on
American Islamic Relations (CAIR), Muslim American Society (MAS) and the Islamic Circle of North
America (ICNA), among others.
CAIR
and MAS have direct connections to the Muslim Brotherhood,
which seeks to incorporate religious law into secular society. ICNA
has a historical
connection with Jamaat-e-Islami, the oldest Islamist group in South Asia,
which aims to create an Islamic society and state.
Egyptian Americans for Freedom and Justice (EAFJ), a more openly Muslim
Brotherhood support group, piggy-backed on the USCMO event to engage in its
own lobbying effort. To read more about that, click here.
"Too many members of Congress
insist on closing their eyes when it comes to Islamists, perhaps out of a
fear of being called names, perhaps wanting to show goodwill to perceived
underdogs," Middle East Forum (MEF) President Daniel Pipes told the
Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT). "Whatever the reason, these
members are shutting out and discouraging moderate Muslims, precisely when
these latter are most needed to offer an alternative to the Islamists'
totalitarian vision. Wake up senators, wake up representatives, and do your
job."
MEF issued a report on the eve of the advocacy event
highlighting some of the radicals who participated in the USCMO lobbying
effort in prior years.
Participants lobbied members of Congress and senators about
President Trump's visa ban, immigration reform and gun control, among other
issues. More than 400 people participated in the event, according to statistics
posted on CAIR's Twitter account. They met with a third of the offices in the House of
Representatives and half of the 100 Senate offices, engaging with more than 250 elected officials or
staffers.
Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, was the only elected official to
address the entire USCMO gathering, but the text of her remarks was not
provided.
U.S. Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., introduced a resolution recognizing "the historic
and valuable contributions by the American Muslim community" with CAIR's help, timed
to coincide with the USCMO lobbying event. Co-sponsors included Jackson
Lee, Keith Ellison, D-Minn.; Luis Correa, D-Calif.; Eleanor Holmes Norton,
D-D.C.; and Betty McCollum, D-Minn.
CAIR Michigan met with Democratic members of their state's
delegation, including Sens. Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters, a video on its
Facebook page showed. They also met with Reps. Debbie Dingell, Brenda Lawrence and Dan
Kildee. Programming and Outreach Director Asha Noor,
who visited the Hill
offices, supports the Boycott,
Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel and is sympathetic
toward Hamas. She claimed
in a 2015 tweet that a professor scored her lower because he was a
"open Zionist" and she supported BDS.
 "@FayZaZu I was
about to say.....saw a retweet bashing hamas, especially on a day like
this<<<," she wrote
in a 2012 tweet posted the same day
Israel assassinated Hamas terrorist Ahmed al-Jabari at the start of the
2012 Gaza War.
Noor declared in
December that Jerusalem was non-negotiable for Muslims because it houses
the Al-Aqsa Mosque and that Israeli settlers were engaged in
"genocide" against the Palestinians.
CAIR California's Zahra
Billoo joined Noor to lobby Congress.
Billoo spread a conspiracy theory last summer that the Trump
administration planned to round American Muslims up and send them to
internment camps.
"And we know from our experience that unless we have laws in
place... and we [know they have done this] with other communities, that
they're going to send us to concentration camps," she said.
Billoo previously encouraged Muslims to "build a wall of
resistance" against the FBI and compared the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to ISIS. Like
Noor, she accuses
Israel of genocide. She also defended Hamas, noting in a 2013 tweet that it was
democratically elected to rule the Palestinians. She also compared Israel
defending itself from the Palestinians with "Nazi Germany defending
itself from Jewish uprising" in a May 2014 tweet.
 Just last week, she complained
that, while she and her fellow Islamists engaged in democracy, supporters
of Israel had the nerve to do so, too: "Today, we've been running into
Zionists (sic) war mongers from @AIPAC in the
elevators and the anti-civil rights activists from @ADL_National
in Congressional offices."
CAIR chapters from Michigan,
California, Texas, Oklahoma, Minnesota and other
locations across the country participated, visiting representatives from
their respective states.
Internal records seized by the FBI place CAIR in the heart of a Muslim Brotherhood-created
Hamas-support network in the United States. It was called the Palestine
Committee, and CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad, who participated in the
advocacy day activities, was a member. The FBI cut off community liaison work with CAIR because CAIR's
Hamas ties. Neither CAIR nor Awad has ever acknowledged these connections
or claimed to have renounced them.
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Dhaouadi posted this
picture with U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.
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Former CAIR Connecticut board member and Executive Director Mongi Dhaouadi
– currently with the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID) –
used National Muslim Advocacy Day to discuss Tunisia's elections
with members of Congress.
Dhaouadi's employer, CSID, is close with Tunisia's Ennahda Party headed by Sheikh
Rached Ghannouchi, who supports Hamas. Ennahda scored
big gains in the recent local elections.
Last June, while still on the CAIR Connecticut board, Dhaouadi posted a video on
Facebook by specially designated al-Qaida terrorist Sheikh Abdel
Majeed al-Zindani. Al-Zindani was both a close associate of Osama bin Laden and a Hamas fundraiser. He also has been a leader in Yemen's Muslim Brotherhood linked
Al-Islah Party. In 2013, U.S. Treasury officials said that al-Zindani was a
spiritual leader for al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula
(AQAP).
Dhaouadi also denied that Palestinian attacks against Israeli
security forces were terror attacks. "Resisting the occupation is NOT
terrorism it is a legitimate right of defending one self from your land
from real terrorists i.e. IDF," Dhaouadi wrote.
MAS and ICNA also participated
in the event.
Funding for the
lobbying effort came from Islamic Relief USA (IRUSA), United Muslim
Relief and Life for Relief and Development. IRUSA provides just under 25 percent of Islamic Relief
Worldwide's (IRW) funding. Israel, Bangladesh, United Arab Emirates and
several European banks accuse IRW of funding Hamas and other terror groups.
Members of Congress who claim to value tolerance and oppose bigotry
contradict their own values by mainstreaming Islamists who normalize
anti-Semitism and who rationalize or support terrorism. It's exactly what
organizers of the National Muslim Advocacy Day organizers hoped for.
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by John Rossomando
IPT News
May 15, 2018
 Members of the Muslim Brotherhood-linkedEgyptian
Americans for Freedom and Justice (EAFJ) canvassed Capitol Hill last week
seeking support against the Egyptian regime's human-rights record.
They timed their lobbying Congress about
Egypt's mass incarceration and human rights record to coincide with the US
Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) event, just like last year.
EAFJ President Hani Elkadi and his EAFJ
colleagues want military aid
to Egypt blocked. Under Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, more than
60,000 people have been imprisoned for political crimes and
subjected to torture, Human Rights Watch reported last fall.
A staffer for U.S.
Sen. Robert Casey, D-Penn., expressed sympathy with
EAFJ's points about human rights in Egypt, and said the senator shares
their concern that the Trump administration won't be hard enough.
"This
president doesn't seem to acknowledge the importance of human rights as a
security issue," she said.
Elkadi, who was present while she spoke,
isn't bashful about advertising his
support for the Muslim Brotherhood. "I am [Muslim] Brotherhood and I'm
not threatened," he wrote in a 2015 Facebook post. Elkadi and members
of his group flashed the Muslim
Brotherhood's four-fingered salute on the Capitol lawn during the visit.
Just like last year,
congressional staffers were not made aware of Elkadi's support for Muslim
Brotherhood-linked terror.
He lamented the 2016
death of Muslim Brotherhood Guidance Bureau member Mohamed Kamal in a
shootout with Egyptian security forces. Kamal created a
terrorist infrastructure for the Brotherhood after the Egyptian military
ousted it from power in 2013. State Department officials added two groups that evolved from
Kamal's terror infrastructure, Hassm and Liwa al-Thawra, to the U.S. terror
list earlier this year.
 Elkadi posted a
Muslim Brotherhood communiqué on Facebook calling his death an
"assassination" by "coup criminals" with the hashtag
#Kamal_martyrs in October 2016. A month later, Elkadi called "all
young people" to wage jihad against the Egyptian regime. He previouslyposted a
communiqué from the Popular Resistance Movement (PRM) in February 2015, an
element in Kamal's terrorist infrastructure.
His opinions aren't isolated within
EAFJ. Spokesman Mahmoud ElSharkawy, who joined in last year's lobbying but was
noticeably absent last week, also expressed support for
PRM, which claimed joint responsibility with ISIS for the killing of police
officers in Helwan near Cairo in 2015. ElSharkawy mourned the October
anniversary of Kamal's death.
It was a year ago that "the
criminals in Cairo have announced the assassination of the leader of the
revolution, the Martyred Doctor Mohamed Kamal and his companion, the hero
and martyr Yasser Shehata," ElSharkawy wrote.
Egypt's Al Bawaba newspaper identified ElSharkawy in 2015 as a
member of the International Organization of the Muslim Brotherhood. He
allegedly helped fund these terror groups in conjunction with exiled
Brotherhood members in Egypt and Qatar.
EAFJ cites liberal
democratic values when they meet with Western politicians and speak in
English, but they express pro-terror ideas in Arabic on social media when
they don't think people outside their circle are looking.
Related Topics: The Muslim Brotherhood | John Rossomando, Egyptian Americans for Freedom and Justice, USCMO, lobbying, Hani Elkadi, Robert Casey, Mohamed Kamal, Hassm, Liwa al-Thawra, Popular Resistance Movement, Mahmoud ElSharkawy
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