01/19/2015
Egypt Warns U.S. About CAIR's Brotherhood Links
The UAE has designated the Hamas group CAIR a terrorist
organization. My colleagues and I have for years demonstrated this group's
nefarious origins and multiple terror links. But the Obama administration and
the media continue to collude with these jihadists. Americans should be very
concerned - the camel's nose has long been in the tent.
Egypt warns of Brotherhood groups like CAIR. Nihad Awad (C),
Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and
Ibrahim Hooper (L), National Committee Director of CAIR during a press
conference in Washington. Photo © Reuters
Egypt Warns of Muslim Brotherhood Organizations in U.S.,
Clarion Project, January 14, 2015 (thanks to the Religion of Peace)
An Egyptian government website features a warning that
the Muslim
Brotherhood has a lobby in the U.S. disguised as civil society
organizations. The United Arab Emirates has made
similar statements and the U.S. Justice Department has confirmed the
existence of a Muslim Brotherhood branch in America. The Egyptian government’s State Information Service has
an entire section devoted to documenting the violence and
terrorism of the Muslim Brotherhood. Egypt is furious with
the U.S. for its stance on the Brotherhood. President El-Sisi told the Washington Post in December
2013, then as Defense Minister, that the U.S. has turned its back on Egypt and
is misunderstanding the Islamist group.
The documentation includes a timeline of violence perpetrated by Brotherhood
members since July 2014, a statement from the National Council for Childhood and
Motherhood condemning the Brotherhood’s exploitation of children,
and many videos documenting the Brotherhood’s extremism
and the justifications for overthrowing it and banning it.
Most importantly, the section prominently features an article about the Muslim Brotherhood operating in
America and influencing U.S. policy through various fronts. It cites a study
done by the Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development Studies, a highly-respected
organization in Cairo.
“She [Center executive director Dalia Zeyadah] warned that
the MB has a network based in the US and operating through civil society
organizations engaged in community service domains there. These organizations,
she also warned, aim to spread the MB's extremist ideologies in the US,” the
Egyptian government website says.
The article from June 2014 states that the Brotherhood is
moving to Turkey to set up the “nucleus of its European headquarters which
would be operating under the cover of charity work to carry out terrorist acts
across the region.”
The Cairo Post reported in February 2014 that the Ibn Khaldoun Center
director Dalia Zeyadah “[asserted] that the Brotherhood are still trying to
impact decisions of the White House, noting that campaigns against Brotherhood
‘terrorism’ must continue.”
The Egyptian government often talks about the International
Muslim Brotherhood to emphasize that it is not just an Egyptian organization.
In his interview with the Washington Post, El-Sisi said it operates in 60 countries and that Hamas is one
of its branches. He warned that the group is “based on restoring the Islamic
religious empire.”
The Clairon Project’s research into the Brotherhood
sympathies of a senior adviser to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was covered
in the Egyptian media in 2013, specifically by the Al-Nahar television
network.
The U.S. government confirmed the existence of a U.S. Muslim
Brotherhood with a network a fronts under different names during the
prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation, one such trial.
The Justice Department’s list
of unindicted co-conspirators in that trial includes a list a U.S.
Muslim Brotherhood entities and members. The list includes the Islamic
Society of North America, theNorth
American Islamic Trust and the Council
on American-Islamic Relations. The lattermost organization was listed as an
entity of the U.S. Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee, a sub-section set up to
support Hamas.
The United Arab Emirates caused a stir recently when it
banned the Brotherhood and some of its most powerful affiliates in the U.S. and
Europe, including CAIR, the Muslim
American Society andIslamic
Relief.
The UAE justified its
designation of the U.S-based groups as terrorist organizations despite the
immense backlash. The Foreign Minister of the country said it was based on the
group’s incitement and funding of terrorism.
Another UAE official said the objective is “putting a cordon
around all subversive entities.” And UAE State Foreign Affairs Minister Anwar
Gargash said the backlash was being orchestrated by the Muslim Brotherhood
lobby in the West.
“The noise (by) some Western organizations over the UAE’s
terrorism list originates in groups that are linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and
many of them work on incitement and creating an environment of extremism,”
Gargash tweeted.
The U.S. Justice Department, countless terrorism experts and
the governments of Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have confirmed the
existence of a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood. The U.S. Brotherhood’s own documents
are even publicly available.
Yet, those who point this out are ridiculed by these
Islamist groups and their allies as bigoted “Islamophobes.” The accusation is
even nonsensically made about Muslims who point this out.
The refusal of the U.S. government to recognize the toxic
ideology of the Brotherhood is undermining America’s ability to have a frank
discussion about the issue of Islamism.
Muslim governments are providing verifiable evidence about
the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood, but their warnings are ignored or rejected. Americans
(Muslim and non-Muslim) who voice these same concerns are personally attacked.
Terms like Islamism and Political Islam are
used regularly in the Muslim world and even on the Brotherhood’s own website,
but the U.S. Brotherhood and its apologists say we can’t. CAIR has waged
a campaign to make the media stop using the “Islamist” term.
America is in the middle of a heated debate about the
defining the threat. We should listen to our Muslim allies and let the facts
speak for themselves, instead of letting Islamists and their apologists edit
our vocabularies.
Watch video: CAIR (the Council on American Islamic
Relations) is in damage control after being designated a terrorist org by the
UAE.
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