jonhatfield Loc: Green Bay, WI

The proof is in the cited article, "The Covert Origins of ISIS," an obvious example of Russia's version of Middle East geopolitics in every detail. Putin's Patty posted similar Libya-Syria Russian propaganda lines a few months ago on OPP.

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

There are those that can discern fact from fiction, and logic. You use guilt by association. Is that the best your training can come up with? I do suspect you are no someones payroll. A teacher for 26 years? Hmmmmmmmmmm
Pre-Maidan: Ukraine Deputy Has Proof of US Staging
Civil War in Ukraine

http://www.ForbiddenKnowledgeTV.com/page/27033.html

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

Israel is the Real Terrorist State
Now before you use guilt by association; Watch and refute the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noln8nx43Sk&feature=player_detailpage

jonhatfield Loc: Green Bay, WI

"the Real Terrorist State"...why do you and Sicilianthingy have the same unique capitalization habit? Are you partners in posting as well as thought? Are you a single person posting as two personas?

How is it you have so many quotes and links to cite at moment's notice? Sure sign of a propaganda operation to have a prepared list of sources to cite.

What association of guilt am I supposed to refer to? Am I supposed to associate you with antisemitism and N**ism? Actually, I associate the statement that Israel is the "Real" terrorist state with Russia's view of Israel. OK, who is the "F**e" terrorist state that you are contrasting to Israel as the "Real Terrorist State"? hmmmm???????????

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

You associated me with Patty Putin somebody. Never heard of her.

"Are you a single person posting as two personas?" Pretty funny; are you getting desperate. Sicilian uses a lot of different language than I do. We are aware of many of the same things though, of which you have no answer; other than being derogatory.

"How is it you have so many quotes and links to cite at moment's notice? Sure sign of a propaganda operation to have a prepared list of sources to cite." Now that seems to be what I am up against, along with mindless cheerleaders, giving you an attaboy. :-)

jonhatfield Loc: Green Bay, WI

Posted by Eagleye today:
Pre-Maidan: Ukraine Deputy Has Proof of US Staging
Civil War in Ukraine

Yikes! ...are you Putin's Pana-Capitalist-Patty resurrected on OPP under new fourth persona name? Reference to another Putinist internet propaganda site. Can you explain why you are posting Putin propaganda?

jonhatfield Loc: Green Bay, WI

Hey, Birdey, I asked who the 'f**e' terrorist state was that you contrast to Israel as the 'real' terrorist state. Isis's caliph**e? Syria's Assad? Iran's ayatollah? Just currious what the parrot birdey was referring to.

jonhatfield Loc: Green Bay, WI

Are you claiming that I or others cite links and sources like YOU and other propagandist with prepared lists do? Where do you get the idea that a bunch of "cheerleaders" are posting agreements ('attaboys') with my comments about you and your kind? They are more likely laughing at both you and me. :lol: :lol: :lol:

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

Who ever pays you to hang out here, is over paying you. You are not worthy. You have no salt. Now watch the video, and refute the content. All the k*****g of civilians, using phosphorous on them; etc.
Israel is the Real Terrorist State
Now before you use guilt by association; Watch and refute the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noln8nx43Sk&feature=player_detailpage

Sicilianthing

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

If he can really watch... and comprehend and digest is the challenge too...

jonhatfield Loc: Green Bay, WI

"attaboy" partners :lol: :lol: :lol: cheerleaders for each other...
two who present fantasy as fact claiming anyone who doesn't buy into the fantasy propaganda line can't comprehend. Funny :lol: :lol: :lol:

Sicilianthing

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Hey JonBoy read these words carefully and save them for the rest of your life...

We're not in Peaceful preaching forgiving Denmark (who dont cave into violence) (how's that working out for the innocent? who got shot today?)

and I dont give a fuck what peaceful bulls**t Ghandi and Martin luther King think they accomplished in their time.. strategy against their oppressors !

That peaceful bulls**t isn't going to work with sick asshole psycho Muslim murdering, invader, free loaders !

This is the United States of America, Land of the ARMED, BRAVE and FREE ! in case you've forgotten about that...

I will make damn sure we use every atom of violence necessary as an empowering tool to destroy the enemy within and these sick Scumbag psychopaths when they pull their s**t here like they did in Denmark today !

Many a good American Man and Woman Patriot will come out of their home and offices to answer that call to arms.

They want a war? driven by evil dark money funding bankster families?
They want to launch the crusades all over again ?
They want to fund and push the WAR of Ideologies ?
They want us all fighting each other for their ill gotten sick games ?

We're gonna give it to em' no worries.

You understand that slappy ?

Be very careful of who you side with man, I'm giving you free advice !

The sacred ground you stand on everyday and piss on is not and was not free ! ! ! !

If you think for one minute American Patriots in any state are going to take a drive by and walk in shooting by some sick fuck ideologists who are not welcome here anyway ?

YOU ARE STUPID WRONG !

Read the Topic again and understand what you're dealing with or Move to Denmark, Syria or any other Non Constitutional Christian place and consume their resources !

Be a Patriot or deal with the consequences of T*****R-SHIP sympathizing with your Muslim Scum when the bell rings.

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

Still waiting jon
Who ever pays you to hang out here, is over paying you. You are not worthy. You have no salt. Now watch the video, and refute the content. All the k*****g of civilians, using phosphorous on them; etc.
Israel is the Real Terrorist State
Now before you use guilt by association; Watch and refute the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noln8nx43Sk&feature=player_detailpage

bdamage Loc: My Bunker

Jonny my boy....get the cobwebs out, will ya?

I welcome any debunking you may attempt....but you are too ignorant to even realize that we are being taken over....so I won't hold my breath.


Suspected Muslim Brotherhood infiltrators in Obama Administration List of Associations and Activities

The following are seven profiles of Muslim individuals who were, or still are, in the administration of President Barack Obama. In December 2012, the Egyptian monthly political magazine Rose El-Yousef named 7 individuals in the Obama administration who they claimed were agents of the Muslim Brotherhood. With the single exception of Dalia Mogahed, the individuals in this report represent those who were named.
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Arif Alikhan

Born: 1968, in North America.

Family Background:

* Mother from Pakistan. Father from India.

* Family immigrated to North American in late 1960s.

* Family moved to California in late 1970s.

Alma Mater:1

* Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. Certificate, National Preparedness Leadership Institute. 2008-2009.

* Loyola Law School, Loyola Marymount University. JD. 1990-1993.

* University of California, Irvine. BA, Social Ecology. 1986-1990.


Role in Obama Administration:

* Assistant Secretary for Homeland Security for Policy Development. 2009-2010.

Current Positions:

* Police Administrator, Special Assistant for Constitutional Policing - Los Angeles Police Department. 2014-present.

Other Positions (Select):

* Deputy Executive Director for Homeland Security and Law Enforcement. Los Angeles World Airports. 2011-2014.

* Distinguished Visiting Professor of Homeland Security and Counterterrorism at the National Defense University’s College of International Security Affairs in Washington, DC. 2010-2011.2

* Deputy Mayor of Homeland Security and Public Safety, City of Los Angeles. 2006-2009.3 4

* Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California (Los Angeles). 1997-2001.

Affiliations with Islamic Organizations: CAIR

* Alikhan was congratulated by CAIR-LA when appointed to DHS. "Congratulations to Mr. Ali Khan on this well-deserved appointment," said CAIR-LA Executive Director Hussam Ayloush. "Mr. Alikhan's new position reflects his and the community's dedication to helping preserve the security of our country. The American Muslim community can be proud of him."5

MPAC

* Alikhan participated in fundraiser for MPAC. According to WND, "Just 13 days prior to his appointment by Napolitano, Alikhan joined the Muslim Public Affairs Council, or MPAC, for a special fundraiser called “Be the Change” to support what the group calls its innovative leadership development programs."6 7

Other:

Georgetown University

* In June 2014, Alikhan participated on a School of Foreign Service-hosted public national security conference, "Ethos and Profession of Intelligence." His Panel addressed the topic "Roles of Intelligence in the 21st Century."8

o Central Intelligence Director John O. Brennan delivered the introductory remarks.

DHS

* Assistant Secretary for Homeland Security for Policy Development (see above).


Connections to Qatar:

* Participated in law enforcement conference sponsored by the State of Qatar. The Gulf States, European, and North American Law Enforcement Symposium: The International Perspective on Law Enforcement Cooperation. November 2-5, 2009.9

Notable Activities:

* Responsible for ending the monitoring of Los Angeles-area Muslim community post 9/11. "During his years in Los Angeles, Alikhan was responsible for derailing the Police Department's plan to monitor activities within the Los Angeles Muslim community, where numerous radical mosques and madrassas existed, and where some of the 9/11 hijackers had received support from local residents."10

o "For his part, while Alikhan was deputy mayor of Los Angeles, he blocked a Los Angeles Police Department project to assemble data about the ethnic makeup of mosques in the Los Angeles area. This was not an attempt to conduct surveillance of the mosques or monitor them in any way. LAPD Deputy Chief Michael P. Downing explained that it was actually an outreach program: “We want to know where the Pakistanis, Iranians and Chechens are so we can reach out to those communities.” But Alikhan and other Muslim leaders claimed that the project manifested r****m and “Islamophobia,” and the LAPD ultimately discarded all plans to study the mosques."11

Other Notes:

* Called Hezbollah a "liberation movement."12

* Bio from Los Angeles Police Department.

http://www.lapdonline.org/inside_the_lapd/comm_bio_view/56232

* Founder of World Islamic Organization, providing direct link between White House and Arab Spring. According to the Investigative Project on Terrorism, the Egyptian magazine Rose El-Yousef suggests that "Alikhan was responsible for the "file of Islamic states" in the White House and that he provides the direct link between the Obama administration and the Arab Spring revolutions of 2011."
http://www.investigativeproject.org/3869/egyptian-magazine-muslim-brotherhood-infiltrates#
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Huma Abedin

Born: July 28, 1976 in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Family Background:13

* Her father, Syed Abedin (1928-1993), was an Indian-born scholar who had worked as a visiting professor at Saudi Arabia's King Abdulaziz University in the early Seventies. Mother from Pakistan. Father from India. * Her mother, Saleha Mahmood Abedin, is a sociologist known for her strong advocacy of Sharia Law. A member of the Muslim Sisterhood (i.e., the Muslim Brotherhood's division for women), Saleha is also a board member of the International Islamic Council for Dawa and Relief.

* When Huma was two, the Abedin family relocated from Michigan to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. This move took place when Abdullah Omar Naseef, a major Muslim Brotherhood figure who served as vice president of Abdulaziz University (AU), recruited his former AU colleague, Syed Abedin, to work for the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA), a Saudi-based Islamic think tank that Naseef was preparing to launch.

Alma Mater

* George Washington University. Began 1994.


Role in Obama Administration:

* Personal Chief-of-Staff and personal aide of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. January 2009 - February 2013.14

Current Positions:

* Personal aide of Hillary Clinton.

Other Positions (Select):

* Executive Board Member, George Washington University Muslim Students Association. 1997-1999(?).15

o Also Head of the Social Committee. * Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA). Abedin was the assistant editor of IMMA's in-house publication, the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs (JMMA). 1996-2008.16


Affiliations with Islamic Organizations

CAIR

* In September 2012, CAIR Florida's Legal Counsel, Wilfredo Amr Ruiz, came to Abedin's defense after she was identified by Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and other elected officials as being a potential security risk in the Obama administration.17

* In July 2012, CAIR-Chicago published an article comparing Bachmann's concern over Abedin to a "witch hunt." Additionally, it compared Bachmann and her co-signers to Senator McCarthy's investigations into C*******t infiltration in the 1950s.18

ISNA

* In August 2012, Abedin was seated next to (then) ISNA President Mohamed Magid at the annual White House Iftar Dinner.19

o At that same dinner, Obama honored Abedin, calling her an "American patriot."20

MPAC

* In April 2014, Abedin joined an MPAC-hosted panel discussion at the White House, "Beyond the Ceiling: Groundbreaking Voices of American Muslim Women."2122

* In August 2012, MPAC's Washington, D.C. Director Haris Tarin defended Abedin from Bachmann et al.'s claims, writing in part, "Why the party of Abraham Lincoln has chosen to allow bigots and fear to control its discourse on some of the most pressing issues facing our nation puzzles me."23

* In August 2012, MPAC Iowa's Shams Ghoneim stated, "Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., has been calling for investigations into what she called the supposed “infiltration” of the U.S. government by “fundamentalist Muslims.” What she is really calling for in an absurd and shameful witch hunt that would make Sen. Joe McCarthy proud."24


MSA

* Abedin was on the Executive Board of the George Washington University Muslim Students Association. 1997-1999(?).25

o Additionally, she was Head of the Social Committee.

o It is noteworthy that in 2001-02, soon after Abedin left that executive board, the chaplain and "spiritual guide" of GWU's MSA was Anwar al-Awlaki, the al Qaeda operative who ministered to some of the men who were among the 9/11 hijackers. Another chaplain at GWU's MSA (from at least October 1999 through April 2002) was Mohamed Omeish, who headed the International Islamic Relief Organization, which has been tied to the funding of al Qaeda. (Source: Discover the Networks.)26


Others

Brookings Institution

* In 2011, Abedin attended the U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Washington D.C. This event was organized by the OIC, the Brookings Institution, and the government of Qatar. Also in attendance were Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Madeline Albright, and Martin Indyk.27

* In 2006, Abedin's mother, Saleha Abedin, attended the U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar. Also at that meeting was Liz Cheney. Saleha is a sociologist known for advocacy of sharia law, and a member of the Muslim Sisterhood.28

* In 2014, Abedin's boss, Hillary Clinton, announced (at the Clinton Global Initiative) the launch of an education initiative at the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. Collaborative for Harnessing Ambition and Resources for Girls' Education (CHARGE).29

Georgetown University * In addition to defending Abedin in a glowing Washington Post Op-ed when Abedin was at the center of controversy resulting from a letter naming her as a potential national security threat (was sent to the State Department IG). Esposito once served on the Board of the Institute for Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA). IMMA was commissioned by al-Qaeda financier and Saudi Abdullah Omar Naseef and was founded by Abedin’s parents. (Source: Shoebat.com)30

Hillary Clinton's Curious Record at State Department:

While Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton took many positions that were beneficial to the Muslim Brotherhood and various Islamic terrorist groups. Abedin was Clinton's top advisor and Chief of Staff at this time.31

* Mrs. Clinton refused to designate Nigeria’s Boko Haram as a terrorist group when various other government agencies urged to do so, long before it grabbed international headlines by kidnapping hundreds of schoolgirls

* She personally engineered the opening of formal relations with the Muslim Brotherhood before it came to power in Egypt.

* The Clinton State Department insisted that nothing be done to challenge the narrative that everything was going swimmingly in Libya after its “liberation” by jihadists backed by U.S.-enabled NATO air strikes. This folly, in turn, led to State’s refusal at the highest levels to authorize requested security upgrades for our special mission compound and CIA facility in B******i.

* Hillary Clinton co-founded the so-called “Istanbul Process,” a multi-meeting “dialogue” with the European Union and the Islamists’ international front, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). This initiative has been used to advance the OIC’s agenda of curbing free speech in America and elsewhere in the West that might “offend” Muslims – something Mrs. Clinton said she would use “old-fashioned techniques of peer-pressure and shaming” to ensure

* Such techniques, and worse, were evident in September 2012 when then-Secretary of State Clinton lied that a video that gave such offense was responsible for the attacks on U.S. missions and personnel in Egypt and B******i. She actually achieved her stated goal to have the person who made the almost-entirely-unseen internet film, “Innocence of Muslims,” arrested and prosecuted. In fact, to this day, that filmmaker, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, is the only individual punished in connection with the B******i attacks.

(Source: Center for Security Policy.)


Abedin's mother's endorsement of Sharia

* Saleha Abedin, Huma's mother, t***slated a book entitled Women in Islam: A Discourse in Rights and Obligations. It was written by Saleha's colleague at King Abdulazis Universtiy in Jeddah, Fatima Umar Naseef. Naseef is a past head of the “women’s section” and professor of shariah. The book was published in 1999.32 * Excerpts from Women in Islam in Ties That Bind? The Views and Agenda of Huma Abedin’s Islamist Mother include Islamic sharia justifications for the following practices:

o Stoning for Adultery when Married; Lashing for Adultery when Unmarried

o No Death Penalty for the Murder of an Apostate

o Freedom of Expression Curtailed to What Benefits Islam

o Women’s Right to Participate in Armed Jihad

o Social Interaction Between the Sexes is Forbidden

o Women Have No Right to Abstain from Sex with their Husbands

o A Woman Should Not Let Anyone Into the House Unless Approved by Her Husband

o Female G*****l M********n is Allowed

o Man-Made Laws “Ens***e Women”

Source: Center for Security it Policy.

Consulting Activities:

* While working for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Abedin was providing services to clients outside State as well. These included the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation and Teneo, a firm co-founded by Doug Band, a firm founded by a former consultant to Bill Clinton.33 Teneo is "... a global advisory firm that partners exclusively with the CEOs and senior leaders of many of the world’s largest and most complex companies and organizations."34

Other Notes:

* Adebin's documented links to Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden financier:35

Abedin served on the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs’s editorial board from 2002 to 2008. Omar Naseef served on the board with Huma from at least December 2002 to December 2003.

o Naseef’s sudden departure from the board in December 2003 coincides with the time at which various charities led by Naseef’s Muslim World League were declared illegal terrorism fronts worldwide, including by the U.S. and U.N.

o The MWL, founded in Mecca in 1962, bills itself as one of the largest Islamic non-governmental organizations.

o According to U.S. government documents and testimony from the charity’s own officials, it is financed by the Saudi government.

o The MWL has been accused of terrorist ties, as have its various offshoots, including the International Islamic Relief Organization, or IIRO, and Al Haramain, which was declared by the U.S. and U.N. as a terror financing front.

o The Treasury Department, in a September 2004 press release, alleged Al Haramain had “direct links” with Osama bin Laden. The group is now banned worldwide by U.N. Security Council Committee resolution 1267.

o There long have been accusations that the IIRO and MWL also repeatedly funded al-Qaida.

o In 1993, bin Laden reportedly told an associate that the MWL was one of his three most important charity fronts. (Source: World Net Daily.)

* Abedin is the wife of former Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY).

* Speaks fluent Urdu and Arabic.

* Abedin's defenders regarding the accusations of Michele Bachmann et al. (as documented at Shoebat.com) include: Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN)); Comedian Dean Obeidallah; Anderson Cooper; Senator John McCain; Hillary Clinton; John Esposito; John Brennan; Barack Obama; and various other public figures.36

* In 2012, Walid Shoebat published a 37-page booklet entitled, Proof: Huma has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood - Countless Documents Surface.37
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Mohamed Elibiary

Born: 1976(?), in Alexandria, Egypt.3839

Family Background:

* Moved to Texas with family in 1983, from Alexandria, Egypt.

* Father was petroleum engineer for Mobil Oil.

Alma Mater: Unclear

Role in Obama Administration:

* Member, Department of Homeland Security's Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC). October 2010-September 2014.40

* Promoted to Senior Fellow on HSAC, September 2013.41

* Served on DHS's Countering Violent Extremism Working Group and Faith-Based Security and Communications Advisory Committee.42


Current Positions:

* Founder, President, and CEO. Freedom and Justice Foundation. November, 2002-Present.43


Other Positions (Select):

* Founder and President. Lone Start Intelligence. Security-Crisis consulting firm based in Texas.44

* Founder. Texas Islamic Council. Founded 2005, as a subsidiary of the Freedom and Justice Foundation.45


Affiliations with Islamic Organizations

CAIR

* In November, 2014, when the United Arab Emirates designated CAIR a terrorist organization, Elibiary took to Twitter, writing, " I condemn in harshest terms the despicable act by #UAE govt of designating US civic orgs as 'terrorists'."46

* In 2003, Elibiary was listed as a board member for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Dallas chapter, which was founded by now-convicted Hamas operative Ghassan Elashi.47

* Elibiary has described CAIR as a "community organization," despite their court-determined links to terrorism.48

ISNA

* In 2008, Elibiary spoke at ISNA's 45th Annual Convention in Columbus, OH. He stated, "I was honestly worried about the security of Muslims riding in buses, ad hoc created t***sportation committees in, popping up or wh**ever from Dallas and Houston going down to Austin. I didn’t know what the state troopers were gonna do, what at the state capital, what at the gallery rooms. I was like, you know, I wouldn’t be surprised in Texas if they rounded us all up."49

* Also spoke at the Islamic Society of North America’s (ISNA) Dallas Conference held July 4-6, 2003, andts 4th annual South Central Regional Conference held in Dallas June 30-July 2, 2006.50

MAS

* Investigative reporter Patrick Poole found a photo of Elibiary sitting next to Jamal Badawi for a panel.51 Badawi is an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land trial because of his fundraising for the group. His name appears in a 1992 US Muslim Brotherhood directory. Badawi’s website says he is “active” in the Islamic Society of North America, a US Muslim Brotherhood entity and, like CAIR, is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas-fundraising trial. ISNA’s website listed him as a “Member at Large” of its board until the website was renovated this year. In 2009, Badawi referred to Hamas terrorists as “martyrs.” In 2010, he endorsed the “combative jihad” of Palestinians and Muslims who face “unprovoked aggression or to resist severe oppression.” ... Badawi is also a founder of the Muslim American Society, which federal prosecutors said in 2008 was “founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America.”52

* In an interview with Ryan Mauro, Elibiary stated, "Similarly with the Muslim American Society (MAS) chapters, some like in San Antonio were supportive of F&J’s civic engagement efforts from the start while other MAS chapters were either slow coming on board or opposed to our efforts for a number of years."53

MPAC

* In 2013, Elibiary was featured in an MPAC video that was part of their "Safe Spaces" campaign. Elibiary was in their video "Online Radicalization: Myths and Realities."54 Also featured in the video were: o Rabia Chaudry - Founder of the Safe Nation Collaborative, a training program for law enforcement and American Muslim communities. o Imam Suhaib Webb - With the Boston Islamic Society, and who has very strong ties with the Muslim American Society (MAS).

o Rashad Hussain - see below.

* In January 2013, Elibiary tweeted congratulations to MPAC and its president, Salam Al-Marayati, for attending Obama's immigration reform speech. MPAC had then launched an "Immigration Reform Campaign."55

MSA

* In 2013, Elibiary, then a senior advisor to the Department of Homeland Security, was instrumental in crafting memo with new policies and guidelines for counter-terrorism officials. These included protections for groups such as the Muslim Students Association.56 Other groups protected in the memo included:

o CAIR

o ISNA

o ICNA

o North American Islamic Trust (NAIT)

o Muslim Businessmen Association (MBA)

o & several others

Others

DHS

* Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC).

* Promoted to Senior Advisor of HSAC, Sept 2013.

* DHS Countering Violent Extremism Working Group (CVEWG).

* DHS Faith-Based Security and Communications Advisory Committee.

Georgetown University

* Elibiary is the founder of Freedom and Justice Foundation. On his organization's website, he states that: "He currently is: currently pursuing a Certification in Homeland Security Studies at the Michigan State University (MSU) School of Criminal Justice a 2008-2009 Fellow at the University of Southern California (USC) American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute (AMCLI). AMCLI is a joint program through USC’s Center for Religion and Civic Culture and Georgetown University’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding."57

Notable Activities:

* Elibiary's company, Lone Star Intelligence, offers "services ... assisting defense attorneys representing individuals who have been charged with material support to terrorism. Elibiary works to get the clients to cooperate with the attorneys."58

* In 2011, Elibiary was accused of leaking classified documents to the media from the Texas Department of Public Safety's terror database. Elibiary was the only member of the 26 person DHS advisory council with access to the database.59

* Elibiary's Twitter picture formerly featured his picture and the "Rabba" four-finger symbol of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, a common sign of support for former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.60

* Elibiary made monthly donations to the Holy Land Foundation.61

* In December 2009 Elibiary helped establish the Texas Fusion Center Policy Council, to help state and local law-enforcement personnel improve their information-sharing, analytical capabilities, and community relations.62 * In a 2006 letter to the Dallas Morning News, Elibiary defended the early Muslim Brotherhood leader and theorist Sayyid Qutb, known for his extreme anti-Americanism. Said Elibiary: “I’d recommend everyone read Qutb, but read him with an eye to improving America not just to be jealous with malice in our hearts.”63

o Qutb was also a noted r****t, writing "The white man in Europe or America is our number-one enemy," he wrote, "...the white man crushes us underfoot while we teach our children about his civilization, his universal principles and noble objectives." He recommended, "Let us instead plant the seeds of hatred, disgust and revenge in the souls of these children; let us teach these children (from the time their nails are soft)...that the white man is the enemy of humanity and that they should destroy him at the first opportunity."64

Other Notes:

* Elibiary, who resides in Texas, is a Republican. In September 2014, following his resignation from DHS, Elibiary wrote on Twitter that he left DHS "To help reform conservative movement so @GOP can win in 2016."65

* Upon his resignation from DHS's HSAC, Elibiary took to Twitter, stating, "Though today’s my last day as Senior Fellow member of the HSAC, I plan to remain supportive across the #HmldSec Enterprise via other roles."66

* In 2007, Elibiary made a presentation at the 4th Annual Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America, held jointly with the North American Imams Federation, groups described by the Center for Security Policy as a "hardline Islamist groups."67 * In 2013, the Clarion Project listed 13 "Disturbing Facts" about Elibiary.68 They included:

o Elibiary is accused of trying to leak confidential documents for political purposes. * Patrick Poole reported in 2011 that Elibiary tried to leak confidential documents to a media outlet in an attempt to damage the p**********l campaign of Texas Governor Rick Perry. Elibiary reportedly had his access to the database containing the files revoked.

* Elibiary says he was exonerated by the Secretary of the DHS. Poole says, “At no time was I or my source ever contacted by anyone at DHS. How could they have done an investigation with only one side being heard?” o Elibiary says he knows the Muslim Brotherhood in a “personal manner.” * In 2007, Elibiary wrote, “[O]ur government is playing a post-9/11 script it played in the 1960s against the Mafia, but this time against a social network it calls the ‘International Muslim Brotherhood.’ People like me know of the brotherhood group in a much more personal manner than the Average White Guy, who has no more insight than what’s available in the media.”

o Elibiary praises the Muslim Brotherhood and says the U.S. should support it.

* In his interview with me, Elibiary said, “MB in Egypt is a pragmatic, non-violent and generally pluralistic socio-political movement by Egyptian cultural standards. It is not accurate to paint MB-Egypt as dogmatic, violent or autocratic, much less more sensationalized terms like dictatorial, totalitarian or jihadist.”

o Elibiary compares the Muslim Brotherhood to Christian evangelicals.
* In 2007, his organization made a presentation at a conference of the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America. It stated: “The Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt, Jordan, Tunis, etc. is a social movement for religious revival that seeks to Islamicize the society through cultural changing Dawah and that includes the political system, sound familiar? Yup you’re right they are the Muslim world’s version of the Evangelical Christian Coalition/Moral Majority movement.” * He told the Daily Caller “Islamism is a multi-century, t***snational, intellectually grounded movement with influential philosophical works from multiple continents … It has many subcultures and currents of thought. Some are no different than conservatives who ground their values in a Judeo-Christian worldview and it has its violent extremist strains.”

o Elibiary says the U.S. should not oppose sharia law in Muslim countries.

* In the same presentation, Elibiary’s group said, “We should remember that them [Islamists] ruling their countries with sharia law doesn’t mean them coming to our country and using our planes to destroy our buildings.”

* “We must always resist the temptation to force one group such as Islamists to reform by adopting ‘liberalism’ for example. That would be denying them their self-determination to structure their societies according to their public will,” it also said.

o Elibiary is a long-time friend of the former head of the Holy Land Foundation, a convicted Brotherhood/Hamas fundraiser.

* In 2007, Elibiary wrote that he was 16 years old when he met Shukri Abu Baker and his life was changed when Abu Baker told him about the alleged persecution of Palestinians by Israel. Elibiary took the first $50 he ever deposited into a bank account and donated it to the Holy Land Foundation and donated monthly until it was shut down in 2001.

* Abu Baker was the CEO of the Holy Land Foundation, a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity that was shut down for financing Hamas. He was convicted in the largest terrorism-financing trial in U.S. history. The FBI had wiretapped Abu Baker during a secret Brotherhood/Hamas meeting urging participants to engage in deception to further their Islamist goals.... The two were so close that they met for coffee the day before the verdict.

o Elibiary depicts the Holy Land Foundation and U.S. Muslim Brotherhood network as a victim of political persecution by the U.S. government.

* In 2010, Elibiary blasted the guilty verdict in the Holy Land Foundation trial in an editorial. He wrote, “Using the law to force compliance with unjust foreign policies by our government will simply trigger civil disobedience.”

* “This global war on terror needs a new strategy, because we’re destroying ourselves more than al-Qaeda ever could,” he wrote in another editorial in reaction to the prosecution.

* In our interview, Elibiary said he was “warning against the strategy being deployed against the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) and a broader Muslim Brotherhood network, in the eyes of the government, as if they were an organized criminal syndicate akin to the mafia. I viewed this strategy in 2007 as counterproductive to our national interest and instead called for an honest dialogue between the US and Islamists to find common ground and turn the page on the past.”

o Elibiary says he helped “safeguard” U.S. Muslim Brotherhood groups from prosecution.

* In our interview, Elibiary made three statements about his role in protecting American Islamists:

* “I helped my community pick up the pieces and safeguard its nonprofit organizations, in order to protect its liberties, after the HLF’s closure and eventual conviction.”

* “But the corollary to my position was that if the Muslim community leadership and the government can mutually reconcile and turn a new page, then the targeted national Muslim community organizations should be allowed to proceed anew.”

* “As has been reported in multiple conservative media outlets over the past few years, the long-desired HLF 2.0 trial for the unindicted co-conspirators is no longer going to happen.” * The statements substantiate reports by counter-terrorism expert Patrick Poole in 2011 that the Justice Department cancelled planned prosecutions of senior U.S. Muslim Brotherhood figures, including a founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

o Elibiary likely helped craft Islamist-friendly counter-terrorism training guidelines.

* In our interview, Elibiary said, “The area that has earned me the most amount of anti-Islamist media criticism has been my role assisting DHS and the broader administration craft a framework and later a strategy for Countering Violent Extremism (CVE).” * A Clarion Project analysis of the DHS Countering Violent Extremism training guidelines concluded that they prevent instruction about the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood and non-violent Islamist tactics. Elibiary served on the DHS Countering Violent Extremism Working Group.
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Rashad Hussain

Born: 1978, in Wyoming.

Family Background:69

* Raised in Plano, Texas * Son of Indian-born U.S. citizens.

* His father, Mohammad Hussain, was a mining engineer. His mother Ruqaiya, and his older sister Lubna are medical doctors, and his younger brother, Saad is a medical student.


Alma Mater:70

* Yale Law School, Yale University. J.D.

o Editor of Yale Law Journal.

* Harvard University. Master’s Degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies.

* University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Political Science.


Role in Obama Administration:

* Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC). February 2010-Present.71

* Deputy Associate Counsel to President Obama. 2009-2010.

o Was influential in helping Ben Rhodes write Obama’s 2009 speech delivered in Cairo, “A New Beginning.”72

* Associate Counsel to Obama’s P**********l T***sition Team. 2008.


Other Positions (Select):

* Mr. Hussain previously served as a Trial Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice.

* Legislative assistant on the House Judiciary Committee.

* Intern in the office of former House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt. Summer of 2000.73

Affiliations with Islamic Organizations:

CAIR

* In a press release, CAIR said of Hussain's appointment by Obama, "[Hussain] will be in a position to strengthen positive outreach to the Islamic world and will be able to provide the president with direct access to the views and concerns of Muslims worldwide."74

* In May 2009, Mr. Hussain was one of the speakers at a Leadership Summit of the Council for Advancement of Muslim Professionals (CAMP). Many of the sponsoring organizations of that event are tied to the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood including Islamic Relief, Amana Mutual Funds, the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR), and the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding.75 Muslim Public Affairs division of CAIR NEED SOURCE - DENISE PAPER

ISNA

* In June 2013, ISNA announced that Hussain would speak at their banquet in Dallas.7677


MAS

MPAC

* In December 2010, Hussain was a speaker on stage at the 10th Annual MPAC Convention. The topic was "Struggle for America's Conscience."78

* Hussain was one of the speakers at a Leadership Summit of the Council for Advancement of Muslim Professionals (CAMP), of which MPAC was a sponsor (see above).

MSA

* In 2004, Hussain spoke at a Muslim Students Association’s conference in Chicago.79 There he defended Sami al-Arian, a Palestinian activist who had been indicted by the Department of Justice for racketeering, calling it a "politically motivated persecution." In 2006, al-Arian was sentenced to 57 months following a plea bargain.80

o Hussain originally denied the comments, but eventually admitted making them, saying "I made statements on that panel that I now recognize were ill conceived or not well formulated."81

Others

DHS

Brookings Institution

* In 2008, Hussain co-authored a paper for the Brookings Institution, Reformulating the Battle of Ideas: Understanding the Role of Islam in Counterterrorism Policy. This paper explicitly calls for the American government not to reject political Islam, but to utilize Islamic scholars and Islamic “policymaking” to reject “terrorism.” It also recommends that “policymakers should reject the use of language that provides a religious legitimization of terrorism such as ‘Islamic terrorism’ and ‘Islamic extremist.’”82

* In 2013, Hussain was a Forum Speaker at the U.S.-Islamic World Forum, held in Doha, Qatar. This event is co-hosted by the Brookings Saban Center, and the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs.83

Georgetown University

* In May 2011, Hussain was part of a panel discussion hosted by the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. The topic of the discussion was “Georgetown Hosts Panel on Rethinking Muslim-West Relations,” and also featured Georgetown Professor John Esposito.84

* In October 2000, Hussain spoke at a conference sponsored by the Association of Muslim Social Scientists and Georgetown University’s Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. Titled “Islam, Pluralism, and Democracy,” this gathering featured appearances by numerous leaders of the global Muslim Brotherhood, including such notables as Louay Safi, Jamal Barzinji, Hisham Al-Talib, and Abdul Hamid Abu Sulayman.85

Connections to Qatar:

* In 2012, Hussain attended the U.S.-Islamic World Conference in Doha, Qatar. With him were future P**********l Chief-of-Staff Denis McDonough, Imam Mohamed Magid (ISNA), and Sheikh Abdallah bin Bayyah, who works for Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yousef Qaradawi.86


Notable Activities:

* In 2013, Hussain met with Abdullah Bin Bayyah at the White House. Bayyah is a Vice President of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS). IUMS is headed by Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who is banned from entering the United States.87

o Hussain also attended a meeting in Mauritania hosted by Bayyah in 2012. ISNA reported that the meeting was about “challenges faced by religious minorities in Muslim-majority communities.”88

* In 2010, the Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Watch published an article on Hussain’s connections to the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood. In part, the article stated: October 2000 Mr. Hussain spoke at a conference sponsored by the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS) and the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University (CMCU). The conference was titled “Islam, Pluralism, and Democracy” and featured many leaders of the global Muslim Brotherhood including former German diplomat Murad Hoffman, and International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) leaders Louay Safi, Jamal Barzinji, Hisham Al-Talib, and Abdul Hamid Abu Sulayman. The AMSS was founded in 1972 as an outgrowth of the Muslim Student Association and has long been associated with the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood.89

* Hussain has appeared at numerous events sponsored by the US Muslim Brotherhood including those held by the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID), the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago, the Council for the Advancement of Muslim Professionals (CAMP), and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).90

* The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report took a look at Hussain’s official biography and found several concerning affiliations. The first is that in October 2000, Hussain spoke at a conference sponsored by the Association of Muslim Social Scientists, which was listed in an internal Muslim Brotherhood document as one of “our organizations and the organizations of our friends,” and the Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding of Georgetown University, which receives Saudi funding and is directed by prominent Muslim Brotherhood advocate, John Esposito. (Front Page Magazine.)91

Other Notes

* Hussain is a hafiz (i.e., he has memorized the Koran).92

* In January 2013, Mr. Hussain received the Distinguished Honor Award which is given for "exceptionally outstanding service to the agencies of the U.S. Government resulting in achievements of marked national or international significance."93

* Powerline Blog series on Hussain: The Case of Rashad Hussain, Parts 1-4:

o Part 1: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/02/025613.php
o Part 2: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/02/025643.php
o Part 3: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/02/025671.php
o Part 4: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/03/025715.php
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Salam al-Marayati

Born: September 2, 1960, in Baghdad, Iraq.94


Family Background:

* Family is Iraqi. Immigrated to United States in 1964. Marayati is an American citizen.


Alma Mater:

* University of California-Irvine (UCI). Executive Masters Degree in Business Administration.95

* University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Bachelor's of Science, Bio-Chemistry. 1978-1984.9697


Roles in Obama Administration:

* In January 2010, Marayati traveled to Europe at the invitation of the State Department to speak about religious freedom and free speech.98

o He spoke at UNESCO in Paris and at the U.S. mission to the United Nations in Geneva.


Other Positions (Select):

* President and Founder, Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). (Current President.)

* Marayati is on the Council on Foreign Relations Religious Advisory Committee.99 Others who serve include Eboo Patel, Feisal Abdul Rauf, and former Secretary of State Madeline Albright.

* Marayai served as co-chair of the Interfaith Coalition to Heal Los Angeles, which formed as a result of the Los Angeles uprising in the Summer of 1992.100


Affiliations with Islamic Organizations:


CAIR

* In October 2014, MPAC partnered with CAIR to host an event on extremism called " “The Crisis of ISIS: The Community’s Role and Response.”101 The even had more than 300 attendees.

* In July 2005, the French Ambassador Jean-David Levitte was joined in a forum by Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) Executive Director Salam Al-Marayati. The forum was called "The R**ts in France: Disenfranchisement and Integration."102

* Discover the Networks lists CAIR as one of MPAC's "Affiliations for Joint Programs." http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/marayati25.html


ISNA

* During a 2005 ISNA conference, al-Marayati blasted the idea that Muslims would be used as informants to thwart possible terrorist plots. “Counter-terrorism and counter-violence should be defined by us. We should define how an effective counter-terrorism policy should be pursued in this country,” he said. “So, number one, we reject any effort, notion, suggestion that Muslims should start spying on one another.”103

* Marayati's profile and professional summary is on ISNA's website. http://www.isna.net/salam-al-marayati.html

MPAC

* Current President and Founder.

MSA

* In April 2013, Salam Al-Marayati, President of MPAC, reached the hearts of students at California State University Northridge's Muslim Students Association (MSA) on Wednesday, March 20th. The room was filled with students who were engrossed as Al-Marayati showed them ways in which they could get more involved in addressing the issues that we face today.104 (MPAC Press Release)

o On May 20, 2001, UCLA hosted a conference, co-sponsored by the UCLA MSA, called "The Israeli Palestinian Crisis: New Conversations for a Pluralist Future." Among the radical Islamic organizations that participated in the event and sent speakers to this conference were the Council on American Islamic Relations, CAIR, and the Muslim Public Affairs Council, MPAC.105

Others

DHS

* In November 2014, MPAC President Salam Al-Marayati attended a meeting with Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson at the Islamic Center of San Gabriel Valley in California. Johnson met with American Muslim leaders who have raised concerns about government surveillance, initiatives to combat extremism, and religious profiling.106

* Also in November 2014, MPAC President Salam Al-Marayati delivered a presentation on MPAC Safe Spaces Initiative at the Department of Homeland Security Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties town hall event at the Colorado Muslim Society Abu Baker Mosque in Denver, CO.107

Brookings Institution

* In 2011, Marayati participated in the US-Islamic World Forum in Washington, D.C. This was co-hosted by the Brookings Institution's Saban Center and the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The year's theme was "Year of Change."108

* In 2006, Marayati was an opening speaker at the US-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar. The year's theme was "Leaders Effect Change." http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/events/2006/2/18islamic%20world/20060218program.pdf


Georgetown University

* Marayati is part of Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs.109


Notable Activities * In October 2011, MPAC was one of 57 organizations to co-sign a letter that Farhana Khera, executive director of an Islamic organization called Muslim Advocates, wrote to Barack Obama’s then-Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (and later CIA director) John Brennan. The letter demanded that Obama officials “purge all federal government training materials of biased materials”—that is, materials that they claimed were biased against Islam—and “implement a mandatory re-training program for FBI agents, U.S. Army officers, and all federal, state and local law enforcement who have been subjected to biased training.”110 o Joining MPAC as signatories were such groups as the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Circle of North America, Islamic Relief USA, the Islamic Society of North America, and the Muslim American Society.

* In 2010, Marayati traveled to Europe at the invitation of the State Department to speak about religious freedom and free speech. He spoke at UNESCO in Paris and at the U.S. mission to the United Nations in Geneva.111 * In September 2005, MPAC joined with the anti-war organization Code Pink for Peace to sponsor a Culver City, California event promoting a new book by UC-Irvine professor Mark LeVine, who contends that an "Axis of Empathy" is the only strategy that can bring about a long-term solution to the war between radical Islam and the West. MPAC has also worked closely with International ANSWER, which has intimate ties to Ramsey Clark’s International Action Center and the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party. (Source: Discover the Networks.)112

* On September 11, 2001, the day of the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center, Marayati, stated during an appearance on KCRW-FM's "Which Way, LA?" program that "we should put the State of Israel on the suspect list."113

* Sept. 2000 American Muslim Political Coordination Council Political Action Committee – a political umbrella organization to bolster the impact of Muslim v**ers

* In 2000, MPAC joined an Islamic umbrella PAC together with the following members of the Council of Presidents of Arab-American Organizations and the American Muslim Political Coordination Council: American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC); Arab American Institute (AAI); the Arab American University Graduates (AAUG); National Association of Arab Americans (NAAA); American Muslim Alliance (AMA); American Muslim Council (AMC); and Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).114


Other Notes:

* In 2011, al-Marayati threatened to sever ties with the U.S. government in a strongly-worded Los Angeles Times op-ed column. Expressing anger over the use of "anti-Muslim" training materials by the FBI and a U.S. Attorney's office, al-Marayati wrote: "If this matter is not immediately addressed, it will undermine the relationship between law enforcement and the Muslim American community."115

* A 2003 counterterrorism paper issued by MPAC advocated removing Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hizballah from the federal government's list of designated terrorist groups. It reads: “Meanwhile, Arab states question Washington's list of designated pro-Palestinian groups and humanitarian organizations. It is clear that the current terrorist threat to the US emanates from Al-Qaeda and not Palestinian groups. There is no evidence that Palestinian groups designated as terrorist organizations have any connections to Al-Qaeda. Yet the preoccupation with these groups raises the question as to whether targeting Palestinian groups serves true national security interests or is based on political considerations.”116

* Marayati originally gained national attention in 1999, when House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt nominated Marayati to serve on the National Commission on Terrorism. Gephardt later withdrew the nomination after a public backlash highlighted al-Marayati's defense of terrorist acts and the groups who carry them out. (Source: Investigative Project on Terrorism.)117
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Mohamed Magid

Born: 1965, in Northern Sudan.

Family Background:

* Father was Grand Mufti of Sudan.118

* Immigrated to USA in 1987.


Alma Mater

* Studied Islam and Sharia under African Sunni scholars, including his father, the Grand Mufti of Sudan.


Roles in Obama Administration:

* DHS Countering Violence and Extremism Working Group. Appointed 2011119

o Trained and advised personnel affiliated with the FBI and other federal agencies.

* National Security Council.

* FBI's Muslim, Sikh, and Arab Advisory Board.120

Current Positions:

* Imam, All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS). 1997-present.

Other Positions and Affiliations:

* President, Islamic Society of North America. 2010-2014.

* Howard University. Taught courses on the Koran.

* Chairman, Fairfax County Faith Communities in Action.121

* Board Member, Fairfax County Partnership for Youth.122

* Board Member, FaithTrust Institute.123

* Board Member, Muflehun.124

* Member of George Mason University Campus Ministry.125

* Buxton Interfaith Initiative.126

* Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington Assembly.

* Peaceful Families Project.

Affiliations with Islamic Organizations

CAIR

* Magid invited CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad to a meeting encouraging “community building,” following (the investigation) “Operation Green Quest,” which was targeting terrorist financing organizations. This meeting intended to build alliances among the organizations targeted by the investigation.127

ISNA

* President, Islamic Society of North America. 2010-2014.

MAS

* Magid was featured in a video created by MPAC, "Injustice Cannot Defeat Injustice." Featured in the same video was a founding member of the Muslim American Society, Jamal Badawi.128

MPAC

* Magid invited MPAC’s political advisor and Wahabbi talk-show host Mahdi Bray to “community building” meeting following Operation Green Quest. (See CAIR section above.)

* Featured in MPAC video “Injustice Cannot Defeat Injustice.”129 This was part of MPAC’s “Safe Spaces” initiative.

MSA * In November 2007, MSA VCU promoted an event by the Muslim Students Association of the U.S. and Canada, titled “Maintaining Spirituality: Key Lessons for MSA Workers -- A Nationwide Conference Call with Imam [Mohamed] Magid.”130

Brookings Institution

* Convened Brookings Institution Working Group on “The Roles of Muslim-Majority and Muslim Minority Communities in a Global Context” at the 2011 U.S.-Islamic World Forum, held in Washington, D.C. 131

Georgetown University

* Part of Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs.132

* In May 2012, participated in Georgetown University program, “Symposium on Religious Freedom and the Rights of Minorities."133

* In 2009, Magid participated in a “conversation” between Muslims and Evangelicals hosted by the Institute for Global Engagement and Georgetown University.134


Notable Activities:

* In February 2015, Magid was one of the Muslim leaders invited to the White House to discuss the alleged "alarming rise" in bigotry toward Muslim Americans.135136 Also in attendance were current ISNA President Azhar Azeez, and MPAC's national policy advisory, Hoda Hawa. * In response to pressure from Magid and his fellow lobbyists, DHS carefully erased from its "Countering Violent Extremism" curriculum any suggestion that Muslim terrorism drew its inspiration from the laws and doctrines of Islam. In 2012, the FBI purged some 700 documents and 300 presentations from its training materials and lesson plans.137

Other Notes:

* In January 2015, Magid was a panelist in International Institute for Islamic Thought (IIIT) “Need for Intra-Muslim Dialogue” event. Held at George Mason University.138 IIIT has been described as the “Muslim Brotherhood’s think tank” by the Center for Security Policy.139

* Magid was recognized by the Washingtonian as “2009’s Washingtonians of the Year” for building bridges between faith communities.

* In May 2006, Fairfax County Human Rights Commission awarded Magid with their Human Rights
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Eboo Patel

Born: November 9, 1975 in Mumbai, India.

Family Background:

* Raised in Glen Ellyn, Illinois (near Chicago).

* Family is of Ismaili Muslim of Gujarati Indian heritage.141

Alma Mater:

* Doctorate in Sociology. Oxford University. (Rhodes Scholar).

* Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.


Roles in Obama Administration:

* Member of the President’s Advisory Council to the Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Appointed February 2009.142

* Serves on the Department of Homeland Security’s Faith-Based Security and Communications Advisory Committee.143

Other Positions and Work (from Wikipedia)144:

* President and Founder, Interfaith Youth Core.

* Patel is on the Council on Foreign Relations Religious Advisory Committee.145 Others who serve include Salam Al-Marayati (MPAC), Feisal Abdul Rauf, and former Secretary of State Madeline Albright. * Patel has blogged for The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, USA Today, and Sojourners, among other outlets. * He is on the National Committee of the Aga Khan Foundation * He was on the Advisory Board of Duke University Islamic Studies Center. * Patel is an Ashoka Fellow, part of a select network of social entrepreneurs. * He has spoken at TED (conference), the Clinton Global Initiative, and the Nobel Peace Prize Forum

* He wrote "We Are Each Other's Business."

Affiliations/Associations with Islamic Organizations

CAIR

* In 2007, CAIR-Chicago joined DePaul University in the opening of the Center for Interfaith Engagement. Patel was one of the panelists. welcomes Interfaith Engagement.146


ISNA

* Patel's profile and professional summary is on ISNA's website.147


MPAC

* In October 2014, Patel participated in a New York Times "Room for Debate" series with others writers, MPAC's Salam al-Marayati among them. The debate centered the appropriate response of Muslims to extremism.148

* In 2007, Patel was a speaker at MPAC's 7th Annual Convention.149

* In 2004, Patel took part in a Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow conference sponsored by the ASMA Society and was on a panel which was moderated by Ahmed Younis of the Muslim Public Affairs Council.150151

MSA

* [I]n July 2011 Obama’s faith adviser, Eboo Patel, spoke at the main event of a three-day convention held by the Muslim Brotherhood-founded Muslim Students Association... Patel appeared on a panel alongside Tariq Ramadan, grandson of the notorious founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, and Siraj Wahhaj, who was named as a possible coconspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Wahhaj has defended the convicted WTC bomb plotters and has urged the Islamic takeover of America.152

* A description of the panel on the ISNA website states, "We live in a society in which immersion is encouraged and in which we are often confronted with evil. Muslims have always been challenged, but Islam is a guiding star that can help us overcome these challenges as we strive to remain faithful. We must remain confident and unified as we make our short journey through this life. And sometimes, we must be 'strangers.'"153

Brookings Institution

* Melissa Rogers, the Director for the White House's Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, for which Patel is on the council, was a nonresident Senior Fellow in the Governance Studies program of The Brookings Institution.154

* Brookings Institution scholar Dr. Cynthia P. Schneider leads the Arts and Culture Initiative within the Saban Center for Middle East Policy. Dr. Schneider was a guest blogger on Patel's website, faithstreet.com, writing about Hollywood bias against Muslims.155

Georgetown University

* Part of Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs156 * In 2010, Patel founded the Interfaith Leadership Institute with Georgetown University and the White House.157 "Last week, we trained 200 more Zach Jordans, as well as 100 campus staff who can support them, from 136 different campuses, in Washington, DC at our inaugural Interfaith Leadership Institute. When we first organized the Institute, hosted by Georgetown University with a kick-off session at the White House, even we had no idea how much demand there would be."

* In 2013, the Georgetown University Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs hosted the third President’s Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge, where Patel was part of a plenary sessions, "Celebration of Accomplishments."158 Also in attendance were Melissa Rogers and Georgetown President John J. DeGioia.

Connections to Qatar:

* In April 2010, Interfaith Youth Core (Patel’s organization) conducted training in Doha’s Education City for students of Georgetown University, Northwestern University, Carnegie Mellon University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the Faculty of Islamic Studies.159

* In 2011, IFYC’s Bob Roberts (Senior Pastor of NorthWood Church in Keller, Texas) was in Doha, Qatar. He recounted his trip in an article published on IFYC’s website, which was broadly supportive of the Arab Spring revolutions and explicitly denied any “Islamist” connection to the revolutions: “First, it’s about freedom – pure and simple. They are not Islamist with a global agenda of Islam – I’ve been around people like that a good deal.”160

* Jenan Mohajir, the leadership institute manager at Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), oversees curriculum development and production for the Interfaith Leadership Institutes. Mohajir was born in India, and grew up in Qatar and the United States. In 2012 Mohajir was appointed to the El-Hibri Charitable Foundation’s Campus Deen Resource Committee, an initiative to provide Muslim students on U.S. college campuses with training and support to develop thriving, civically engaged American Muslim identities.161

* In 2010, Patel met with a Qatari delegation from the Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue (DICID).162

Harvard University:

* Patel represents the Interfaith Youth Core for Harvard University's Pluralism Project.163

* In 2009, Patel was selected as five “future policy leaders to watch” by Harvard Kennedy’s School Review. He has a biography at The Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program. http://www.islamicstudies.harvard.edu/conference/speakers/eboo-patel/


Support for Arab Spring revolutions:

* In January 2011, Patel urged President Obama to support the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. This led to e******n of Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi.164

* In February 2011, Patel tweeted an anti-Gaddafi message: “Pray for these brave ppl. In #Libya they r chanting "the people want to bring down the mental one". #feb17”165

* In February 2012, retweeted “Yo Bashar al-Assad, your regime seriously sucks and you're kinda like a human devil.”166

Notable Activities:

* Patel has spoken at and worked with the Clinton Global Initiative.167


Some of Interfaith Youth Core’s Donors include (according to 2013 Annual Report)168: * Open Society Foundation ($50K+) - A project of George Soros * Boeing Corporation ($10K-$49K) – Boeing has large weapons and airline contracts with Qatar169

* El-Hibri Charitable Foundation ($10K-$49K) – Azizah El Hibri was appointed by President Barack Obama to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom in 2011, and has appeared at ISNA events. 170


Other Notes:

* According to Rose El-Yousef, “has a very strong relationship with Hani Ramadan, one of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood and the grandson of Hassan al-Banna and the son of Said Ramadan the brother is law of al Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe and the United States, in addition to his relationship with Siraj Wahhaj, a known American Brother, and his membership in the MSA in America: a large Brotherhood organization.” (t***slated)171 * In 2005 Patel and several young radicals co-authored the book Letters from Young Activists: Today’s Rebels Speak Out. Among Patel's co-authors were Chesa Boudin (the adopted son of former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers) and Ismail Khalidi (the son of Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi). The book's Preface was written by Ayers’ wife, Weather Underground co-founder Bernardine Dohrn. The back cover featured an endorsement from the convicted cop-k**ler and former Black Panther Party member Mumia Abu-Jamal. And on the Acknowledgments page, Patel and his fellow authors thanked Ayers personally for the “guidance” and “encouragement” he had provided.172 * Patel stayed as a guest in residence during the 2004-2005 school year in the same hall as Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.173174

* In 2006 Patel published Building the Interfaith Youth Movement: Beyond Dialogue to Action. The book's Afterword was written by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, famous for having led an effort to construct a large mosque near the site of the 9/11 attacks in Manhattan.175

* Article from Militant Islam Monitor. D'awa as Dialogue: How Eboo Patel and The Interfaith Youth Core promote Islamism as diversity. http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/3492

* Patel was Dominican University’s Lund-Gill Chair for 2011, and the University has partnered with the Interfaith Youth Core.176

* Patel has stated that “American is ideal place for a renewal of Islam,” and that White House advisor Van Jones is a “faith hero.”177

* Patel has called Martin Luther King Jr. an “interfaith visionary,” and has a fascination with the American Civil Rights movement.178 In December 2014, the Annual King Breakfast in Lisle, Illinois (outside Chicago) featured Patel as a speaker.179

* 2012 Ted Talk on Women influences in his life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIaEOl6tLF8

* 2012 article: Nine Years after 9/11, a debate about Islam. Mentions Reza Aslan. http://www.faithstreet.com/onfaith/2010/10/04/how-to-build-a-fear-bomb/3392

* Author Haroon K. Ullah serves on Secretary Kerry’s Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. State Department. His books have been reviewed by Eboo Patel, Brookings’ Strobe Talbott and Bruce Reidel, Reza Aslan, among others.180

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

That is awhole lot to chew on:-)
Had to save for future reference.
I wonder how many are CFR?
[quote=bdamage]Jonny my boy....get the cobwebs out, will ya?

I welcome any debunking you may attempt....but you are too ignorant to even realize that we are being taken over....so I won't hold my breath.


Suspected Muslim Brotherhood infiltrators in Obama Administration List of Associations and Activities

The following are seven profiles of Muslim individuals who were, or still are, in the administration of President Barack Obama. In December 2012, the Egyptian monthly political magazine Rose El-Yousef named 7 individuals in the Obama administration who they claimed were agents of the Muslim Brotherhood. With the single exception of Dalia Mogahed, the individuals in this report represent those who were named.
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Arif Alikhan

Born: 1968, in North America.

Family Background:

* Mother from Pakistan. Father from India.

* Family immigrated to North American in late 1960s.

* Family moved to California in late 1970s.

Alma Mater:1

* Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. Certificate, National Preparedness Leadership Institute. 2008-2009.

* Loyola Law School, Loyola Marymount University. JD. 1990-1993.

* University of California, Irvine. BA, Social Ecology. 1986-1990.


Role in Obama Administration:

* Assistant Secretary for Homeland Security for Policy Development. 2009-2010.

Current Positions:

* Police Administrator, Special Assistant for Constitutional Policing - Los Angeles Police Department. 2014-present.

Other Positions (Select):

* Deputy Executive Director for Homeland Security and Law Enforcement. Los Angeles World Airports. 2011-2014.

* Distinguished Visiting Professor of Homeland Security and Counterterrorism at the National Defense University’s College of International Security Affairs in Washington, DC. 2010-2011.2

* Deputy Mayor of Homeland Security and Public Safety, City of Los Angeles. 2006-2009.3 4

* Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California (Los Angeles). 1997-2001.

Affiliations with Islamic Organizations: CAIR

* Alikhan was congratulated by CAIR-LA when appointed to DHS. "Congratulations to Mr. Ali Khan on this well-deserved appointment," said CAIR-LA Executive Director Hussam Ayloush. "Mr. Alikhan's new position reflects his and the community's dedication to helping preserve the security of our country. The American Muslim community can be proud of him."5

MPAC

* Alikhan participated in fundraiser for MPAC. According to WND, "Just 13 days prior to his appointment by Napolitano, Alikhan joined the Muslim Public Affairs Council, or MPAC, for a special fundraiser called “Be the Change” to support what the group calls its innovative leadership development programs."6 7

Other:

Georgetown University

* In June 2014, Alikhan participated on a School of Foreign Service-hosted public national security conference, "Ethos and Profession of Intelligence." His Panel addressed the topic "Roles of Intelligence in the 21st Century."8

o Central Intelligence Director John O. Brennan delivered the introductory remarks.

DHS

* Assistant Secretary for Homeland Security for Policy Development (see above).


Connections to Qatar:

* Participated in law enforcement conference sponsored by the State of Qatar. The Gulf States, European, and North American Law Enforcement Symposium: The International Perspective on Law Enforcement Cooperation. November 2-5, 2009.9

Notable Activities:

* Responsible for ending the monitoring of Los Angeles-area Muslim community post 9/11. "During his years in Los Angeles, Alikhan was responsible for derailing the Police Department's plan to monitor activities within the Los Angeles Muslim community, where numerous radical mosques and madrassas existed, and where some of the 9/11 hijackers had received support from local residents."10

o "For his part, while Alikhan was deputy mayor of Los Angeles, he blocked a Los Angeles Police Department project to assemble data about the ethnic makeup of mosques in the Los Angeles area. This was not an attempt to conduct surveillance of the mosques or monitor them in any way. LAPD Deputy Chief Michael P. Downing explained that it was actually an outreach program: “We want to know where the Pakistanis, Iranians and Chechens are so we can reach out to those communities.” But Alikhan and other Muslim leaders claimed that the project manifested r****m and “Islamophobia,” and the LAPD ultimately discarded all plans to study the mosques."11

Other Notes:

* Called Hezbollah a "liberation movement."12

* Bio from Los Angeles Police Department.

http://www.lapdonline.org/inside_the_lapd/comm_bio_view/56232

* Founder of World Islamic Organization, providing direct link between White House and Arab Spring. According to the Investigative Project on Terrorism, the Egyptian magazine Rose El-Yousef suggests that "Alikhan was responsible for the "file of Islamic states" in the White House and that he provides the direct link between the Obama administration and the Arab Spring revolutions of 2011."
http://www.investigativeproject.org/3869/egyptian-magazine-muslim-brotherhood-infiltrates#
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Huma Abedin

Born: July 28, 1976 in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Family Background:13

* Her father, Syed Abedin (1928-1993), was an Indian-born scholar who had worked as a visiting professor at Saudi Arabia's King Abdulaziz University in the early Seventies. Mother from Pakistan. Father from India. * Her mother, Saleha Mahmood Abedin, is a sociologist known for her strong advocacy of Sharia Law. A member of the Muslim Sisterhood (i.e., the Muslim Brotherhood's division for women), Saleha is also a board member of the International Islamic Council for Dawa and Relief.

* When Huma was two, the Abedin family relocated from Michigan to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. This move took place when Abdullah Omar Naseef, a major Muslim Brotherhood figure who served as vice president of Abdulaziz University (AU), recruited his former AU colleague, Syed Abedin, to work for the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA), a Saudi-based Islamic think tank that Naseef was preparing to launch.

Alma Mater

* George Washington University. Began 1994.


Role in Obama Administration:

* Personal Chief-of-Staff and personal aide of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. January 2009 - February 2013.14

Current Positions:

* Personal aide of Hillary Clinton.

Other Positions (Select):

* Executive Board Member, George Washington University Muslim Students Association. 1997-1999(?).15

o Also Head of the Social Committee. * Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA). Abedin was the assistant editor of IMMA's in-house publication, the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs (JMMA). 1996-2008.16


Affiliations with Islamic Organizations

CAIR

* In September 2012, CAIR Florida's Legal Counsel, Wilfredo Amr Ruiz, came to Abedin's defense after she was identified by Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and other elected officials as being a potential security risk in the Obama administration.17

* In July 2012, CAIR-Chicago published an article comparing Bachmann's concern over Abedin to a "witch hunt." Additionally, it compared Bachmann and her co-signers to Senator McCarthy's investigations into C*******t infiltration in the 1950s.18

ISNA

* In August 2012, Abedin was seated next to (then) ISNA President Mohamed Magid at the annual White House Iftar Dinner.19

o At that same dinner, Obama honored Abedin, calling her an "American patriot."20

MPAC

* In April 2014, Abedin joined an MPAC-hosted panel discussion at the White House, "Beyond the Ceiling: Groundbreaking Voices of American Muslim Women."2122

* In August 2012, MPAC's Washington, D.C. Director Haris Tarin defended Abedin from Bachmann et al.'s claims, writing in part, "Why the party of Abraham Lincoln has chosen to allow bigots and fear to control its discourse on some of the most pressing issues facing our nation puzzles me."23

* In August 2012, MPAC Iowa's Shams Ghoneim stated, "Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., has been calling for investigations into what she called the supposed “infiltration” of the U.S. government by “fundamentalist Muslims.” What she is really calling for in an absurd and shameful witch hunt that would make Sen. Joe McCarthy proud."24


MSA

* Abedin was on the Executive Board of the George Washington University Muslim Students Association. 1997-1999(?).25

o Additionally, she was Head of the Social Committee.

o It is noteworthy that in 2001-02, soon after Abedin left that executive board, the chaplain and "spiritual guide" of GWU's MSA was Anwar al-Awlaki, the al Qaeda operative who ministered to some of the men who were among the 9/11 hijackers. Another chaplain at GWU's MSA (from at least October 1999 through April 2002) was Mohamed Omeish, who headed the International Islamic Relief Organization, which has been tied to the funding of al Qaeda. (Source: Discover the Networks.)26


Others

Brookings Institution

* In 2011, Abedin attended the U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Washington D.C. This event was organized by the OIC, the Brookings Institution, and the government of Qatar. Also in attendance were Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Madeline Albright, and Martin Indyk.27

* In 2006, Abedin's mother, Saleha Abedin, attended the U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar. Also at that meeting was Liz Cheney. Saleha is a sociologist known for advocacy of sharia law, and a member of the Muslim Sisterhood.28

* In 2014, Abedin's boss, Hillary Clinton, announced (at the Clinton Global Initiative) the launch of an education initiative at the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. Collaborative for Harnessing Ambition and Resources for Girls' Education (CHARGE).29

Georgetown University * In addition to defending Abedin in a glowing Washington Post Op-ed when Abedin was at the center of controversy resulting from a letter naming her as a potential national security threat (was sent to the State Department IG). Esposito once served on the Board of the Institute for Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA). IMMA was commissioned by al-Qaeda financier and Saudi Abdullah Omar Naseef and was founded by Abedin’s parents. (Source: Shoebat.com)30

Hillary Clinton's Curious Record at State Department:

While Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton took many positions that were beneficial to the Muslim Brotherhood and various Islamic terrorist groups. Abedin was Clinton's top advisor and Chief of Staff at this time.31

* Mrs. Clinton refused to designate Nigeria’s Boko Haram as a terrorist group when various other government agencies urged to do so, long before it grabbed international headlines by kidnapping hundreds of schoolgirls

* She personally engineered the opening of formal relations with the Muslim Brotherhood before it came to power in Egypt.

* The Clinton State Department insisted that nothing be done to challenge the narrative that everything was going swimmingly in Libya after its “liberation” by jihadists backed by U.S.-enabled NATO air strikes. This folly, in turn, led to State’s refusal at the highest levels to authorize requested security upgrades for our special mission compound and CIA facility in B******i.

* Hillary Clinton co-founded the so-called “Istanbul Process,” a multi-meeting “dialogue” with the European Union and the Islamists’ international front, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). This initiative has been used to advance the OIC’s agenda of curbing free speech in America and elsewhere in the West that might “offend” Muslims – something Mrs. Clinton said she would use “old-fashioned techniques of peer-pressure and shaming” to ensure

* Such techniques, and worse, were evident in September 2012 when then-Secretary of State Clinton lied that a video that gave such offense was responsible for the attacks on U.S. missions and personnel in Egypt and B******i. She actually achieved her stated goal to have the person who made the almost-entirely-unseen internet film, “Innocence of Muslims,” arrested and prosecuted. In fact, to this day, that filmmaker, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, is the only individual punished in connection with the B******i attacks.

(Source: Center for Security Policy.)


Abedin's mother's endorsement of Sharia

* Saleha Abedin, Huma's mother, t***slated a book entitled Women in Islam: A Discourse in Rights and Obligations. It was written by Saleha's colleague at King Abdulazis Universtiy in Jeddah, Fatima Umar Naseef. Naseef is a past head of the “women’s section” and professor of shariah. The book was published in 1999.32 * Excerpts from Women in Islam in Ties That Bind? The Views and Agenda of Huma Abedin’s Islamist Mother include Islamic sharia justifications for the following practices:

o Stoning for Adultery when Married; Lashing for Adultery when Unmarried

o No Death Penalty for the Murder of an Apostate

o Freedom of Expression Curtailed to What Benefits Islam

o Women’s Right to Participate in Armed Jihad

o Social Interaction Between the Sexes is Forbidden

o Women Have No Right to Abstain from Sex with their Husbands

o A Woman Should Not Let Anyone Into the House Unless Approved by Her Husband

o Female G*****l M********n is Allowed

o Man-Made Laws “Ens***e Women”

Source: Center for Security it Policy.

Consulting Activities:

* While working for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Abedin was providing services to clients outside State as well. These included the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation and Teneo, a firm co-founded by Doug Band, a firm founded by a former consultant to Bill Clinton.33 Teneo is "... a global advisory firm that partners exclusively with the CEOs and senior leaders of many of the world’s largest and most complex companies and organizations."34

Other Notes:

* Adebin's documented links to Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden financier:35

Abedin served on the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs’s editorial board from 2002 to 2008. Omar Naseef served on the board with Huma from at least December 2002 to December 2003.

o Naseef’s sudden departure from the board in December 2003 coincides with the time at which various charities led by Naseef’s Muslim World League were declared illegal terrorism fronts worldwide, including by the U.S. and U.N.

o The MWL, founded in Mecca in 1962, bills itself as one of the largest Islamic non-governmental organizations.

o According to U.S. government documents and testimony from the charity’s own officials, it is financed by the Saudi government.

o The MWL has been accused of terrorist ties, as have its various offshoots, including the International Islamic Relief Organization, or IIRO, and Al Haramain, which was declared by the U.S. and U.N. as a terror financing front.

o The Treasury Department, in a September 2004 press release, alleged Al Haramain had “direct links” with Osama bin Laden. The group is now banned worldwide by U.N. Security Council Committee resolution 1267.

o There long have been accusations that the IIRO and MWL also repeatedly funded al-Qaida.

o In 1993, bin Laden reportedly told an associate that the MWL was one of his three most important charity fronts. (Source: World Net Daily.)

* Abedin is the wife of former Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY).

* Speaks fluent Urdu and Arabic.

* Abedin's defenders regarding the accusations of Michele Bachmann et al. (as documented at Shoebat.com) include: Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN)); Comedian Dean Obeidallah; Anderson Cooper; Senator John McCain; Hillary Clinton; John Esposito; John Brennan; Barack Obama; and various other public figures.36

* In 2012, Walid Shoebat published a 37-page booklet entitled, Proof: Huma has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood - Countless Documents Surface.37
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Mohamed Elibiary

Born: 1976(?), in Alexandria, Egypt.3839

Family Background:

* Moved to Texas with family in 1983, from Alexandria, Egypt.

* Father was petroleum engineer for Mobil Oil.

Alma Mater: Unclear

Role in Obama Administration:

* Member, Department of Homeland Security's Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC). October 2010-September 2014.40

* Promoted to Senior Fellow on HSAC, September 2013.41

* Served on DHS's Countering Violent Extremism Working Group and Faith-Based Security and Communications Advisory Committee.42


Current Positions:

* Founder, President, and CEO. Freedom and Justice Foundation. November, 2002-Present.43


Other Positions (Select):

* Founder and President. Lone Start Intelligence. Security-Crisis consulting firm based in Texas.44

* Founder. Texas Islamic Council. Founded 2005, as a subsidiary of the Freedom and Justice Foundation.45


Affiliations with Islamic Organizations

CAIR

* In November, 2014, when the United Arab Emirates designated CAIR a terrorist organization, Elibiary took to Twitter, writing, " I condemn in harshest terms the despicable act by #UAE govt of designating US civic orgs as 'terrorists'."46

* In 2003, Elibiary was listed as a board member for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Dallas chapter, which was founded by now-convicted Hamas operative Ghassan Elashi.47

* Elibiary has described CAIR as a "community organization," despite their court-determined links to terrorism.48

ISNA

* In 2008, Elibiary spoke at ISNA's 45th Annual Convention in Columbus, OH. He stated, "I was honestly worried about the security of Muslims riding in buses, ad hoc created t***sportation committees in, popping up or wh**ever from Dallas and Houston going down to Austin. I didn’t know what the state troopers were gonna do, what at the state capital, what at the gallery rooms. I was like, you know, I wouldn’t be surprised in Texas if they rounded us all up."49

* Also spoke at the Islamic Society of North America’s (ISNA) Dallas Conference held July 4-6, 2003, andts 4th annual South Central Regional Conference held in Dallas June 30-July 2, 2006.50

MAS

* Investigative reporter Patrick Poole found a photo of Elibiary sitting next to Jamal Badawi for a panel.51 Badawi is an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land trial because of his fundraising for the group. His name appears in a 1992 US Muslim Brotherhood directory. Badawi’s website says he is “active” in the Islamic Society of North America, a US Muslim Brotherhood entity and, like CAIR, is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas-fundraising trial. ISNA’s website listed him as a “Member at Large” of its board until the website was renovated this year. In 2009, Badawi referred to Hamas terrorists as “martyrs.” In 2010, he endorsed the “combative jihad” of Palestinians and Muslims who face “unprovoked aggression or to resist severe oppression.” ... Badawi is also a founder of the Muslim American Society, which federal prosecutors said in 2008 was “founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America.”52

* In an interview with Ryan Mauro, Elibiary stated, "Similarly with the Muslim American Society (MAS) chapters, some like in San Antonio were supportive of F&J’s civic engagement efforts from the start while other MAS chapters were either slow coming on board or opposed to our efforts for a number of years."53

MPAC

* In 2013, Elibiary was featured in an MPAC video that was part of their "Safe Spaces" campaign. Elibiary was in their video "Online Radicalization: Myths and Realities."54 Also featured in the video were: o Rabia Chaudry - Founder of the Safe Nation Collaborative, a training program for law enforcement and American Muslim communities. o Imam Suhaib Webb - With the Boston Islamic Society, and who has very strong ties with the Muslim American Society (MAS).

o Rashad Hussain - see below.

* In January 2013, Elibiary tweeted congratulations to MPAC and its president, Salam Al-Marayati, for attending Obama's immigration reform speech. MPAC had then launched an "Immigration Reform Campaign."55

MSA

* In 2013, Elibiary, then a senior advisor to the Department of Homeland Security, was instrumental in crafting memo with new policies and guidelines for counter-terrorism officials. These included protections for groups such as the Muslim Students Association.56 Other groups protected in the memo included:

o CAIR

o ISNA

o ICNA

o North American Islamic Trust (NAIT)

o Muslim Businessmen Association (MBA)

o & several others

Others

DHS

* Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC).

* Promoted to Senior Advisor of HSAC, Sept 2013.

* DHS Countering Violent Extremism Working Group (CVEWG).

* DHS Faith-Based Security and Communications Advisory Committee.

Georgetown University

* Elibiary is the founder of Freedom and Justice Foundation. On his organization's website, he states that: "He currently is: currently pursuing a Certification in Homeland Security Studies at the Michigan State University (MSU) School of Criminal Justice a 2008-2009 Fellow at the University of Southern California (USC) American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute (AMCLI). AMCLI is a joint program through USC’s Center for Religion and Civic Culture and Georgetown University’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding."57

Notable Activities:

* Elibiary's company, Lone Star Intelligence, offers "services ... assisting defense attorneys representing individuals who have been charged with material support to terrorism. Elibiary works to get the clients to cooperate with the attorneys."58

* In 2011, Elibiary was accused of leaking classified documents to the media from the Texas Department of Public Safety's terror database. Elibiary was the only member of the 26 person DHS advisory council with access to the database.59

* Elibiary's Twitter picture formerly featured his picture and the "Rabba" four-finger symbol of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, a common sign of support for former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.60

* Elibiary made monthly donations to the Holy Land Foundation.61

* In December 2009 Elibiary helped establish the Texas Fusion Center Policy Council, to help state and local law-enforcement personnel improve their information-sharing, analytical capabilities, and community relations.62 * In a 2006 letter to the Dallas Morning News, Elibiary defended the early Muslim Brotherhood leader and theorist Sayyid Qutb, known for his extreme anti-Americanism. Said Elibiary: “I’d recommend everyone read Qutb, but read him with an eye to improving America not just to be jealous with malice in our hearts.”63

o Qutb was also a noted r****t, writing "The white man in Europe or America is our number-one enemy," he wrote, "...the white man crushes us underfoot while we teach our children about his civilization, his universal principles and noble objectives." He recommended, "Let us instead plant the seeds of hatred, disgust and revenge in the souls of these children; let us teach these children (from the time their nails are soft)...that the white man is the enemy of humanity and that they should destroy him at the first opportunity."64

Other Notes:

* Elibiary, who resides in Texas, is a Republican. In September 2014, following his resignation from DHS, Elibiary wrote on Twitter that he left DHS "To help reform conservative movement so @GOP can win in 2016."65

* Upon his resignation from DHS's HSAC, Elibiary took to Twitter, stating, "Though today’s my last day as Senior Fellow member of the HSAC, I plan to remain supportive across the #HmldSec Enterprise via other roles."66

* In 2007, Elibiary made a presentation at the 4th Annual Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America, held jointly with the North American Imams Federation, groups described by the Center for Security Policy as a "hardline Islamist groups."67 * In 2013, the Clarion Project listed 13 "Disturbing Facts" about Elibiary.68 They included:

o Elibiary is accused of trying to leak confidential documents for political purposes. * Patrick Poole reported in 2011 that Elibiary tried to leak confidential documents to a media outlet in an attempt to damage the p**********l campaign of Texas Governor Rick Perry. Elibiary reportedly had his access to the database containing the files revoked.

* Elibiary says he was exonerated by the Secretary of the DHS. Poole says, “At no time was I or my source ever contacted by anyone at DHS. How could they have done an investigation with only one side being heard?” o Elibiary says he knows the Muslim Brotherhood in a “personal manner.” * In 2007, Elibiary wrote, “[O]ur government is playing a post-9/11 script it played in the 1960s against the Mafia, but this time against a social network it calls the ‘International Muslim Brotherhood.’ People like me know of the brotherhood group in a much more personal manner than the Average White Guy, who has no more insight than what’s available in the media.”

o Elibiary praises the Muslim Brotherhood and says the U.S. should support it.

* In his interview with me, Elibiary said, “MB in Egypt is a pragmatic, non-violent and generally pluralistic socio-political movement by Egyptian cultural standards. It is not accurate to paint MB-Egypt as dogmatic, violent or autocratic, much less more sensationalized terms like dictatorial, totalitarian or jihadist.”

o Elibiary compares the Muslim Brotherhood to Christian evangelicals.
* In 2007, his organization made a presentation at a conference of the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America. It stated: “The Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt, Jordan, Tunis, etc. is a social movement for religious revival that seeks to Islamicize the society through cultural changing Dawah and that includes the political system, sound familiar? Yup you’re right they are the Muslim world’s version of the Evangelical Christian Coalition/Moral Majority movement.” * He told the Daily Caller “Islamism is a multi-century, t***snational, intellectually grounded movement with influential philosophical works from multiple continents … It has many subcultures and currents of thought. Some are no different than conservatives who ground their values in a Judeo-Christian worldview and it has its violent extremist strains.”

o Elibiary says the U.S. should not oppose sharia law in Muslim countries.

* In the same presentation, Elibiary’s group said, “We should remember that them [Islamists] ruling their countries with sharia law doesn’t mean them coming to our country and using our planes to destroy our buildings.”

* “We must always resist the temptation to force one group such as Islamists to reform by adopting ‘liberalism’ for example. That would be denying them their self-determination to structure their societies according to their public will,” it also said.

o Elibiary is a long-time friend of the former head of the Holy Land Foundation, a convicted Brotherhood/Hamas fundraiser.

* In 2007, Elibiary wrote that he was 16 years old when he met Shukri Abu Baker and his life was changed when Abu Baker told him about the alleged persecution of Palestinians by Israel. Elibiary took the first $50 he ever deposited into a bank account and donated it to the Holy Land Foundation and donated monthly until it was shut down in 2001.

* Abu Baker was the CEO of the Holy Land Foundation, a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity that was shut down for financing Hamas. He was convicted in the largest terrorism-financing trial in U.S. history. The FBI had wiretapped Abu Baker during a secret Brotherhood/Hamas meeting urging participants to engage in deception to further their Islamist goals.... The two were so close that they met for coffee the day before the verdict.

o Elibiary depicts the Holy Land Foundation and U.S. Muslim Brotherhood network as a victim of political persecution by the U.S. government.

* In 2010, Elibiary blasted the guilty verdict in the Holy Land Foundation trial in an editorial. He wrote, “Using the law to force compliance with unjust foreign policies by our government will simply trigger civil disobedience.”

* “This global war on terror needs a new strategy, because we’re destroying ourselves more than al-Qaeda ever could,” he wrote in another editorial in reaction to the prosecution.

* In our interview, Elibiary said he was “warning against the strategy being deployed against the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) and a broader Muslim Brotherhood network, in the eyes of the government, as if they were an organized criminal syndicate akin to the mafia. I viewed this strategy in 2007 as counterproductive to our national interest and instead called for an honest dialogue between the US and Islamists to find common ground and turn the page on the past.”

o Elibiary says he helped “safeguard” U.S. Muslim Brotherhood groups from prosecution.

* In our interview, Elibiary made three statements about his role in protecting American Islamists:

* “I helped my community pick up the pieces and safeguard its nonprofit organizations, in order to protect its liberties, after the HLF’s closure and eventual conviction.”

* “But the corollary to my position was that if the Muslim community leadership and the government can mutually reconcile and turn a new page, then the targeted national Muslim community organizations should be allowed to proceed anew.”

* “As has been reported in multiple conservative media outlets over the past few years, the long-desired HLF 2.0 trial for the unindicted co-conspirators is no longer going to happen.” * The statements substantiate reports by counter-terrorism expert Patrick Poole in 2011 that the Justice Department cancelled planned prosecutions of senior U.S. Muslim Brotherhood figures, including a founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

o Elibiary likely helped craft Islamist-friendly counter-terrorism training guidelines.

* In our interview, Elibiary said, “The area that has earned me the most amount of anti-Islamist media criticism has been my role assisting DHS and the broader administration craft a framework and later a strategy for Countering Violent Extremism (CVE).” * A Clarion Project analysis of the DHS Countering Violent Extremism training guidelines concluded that they prevent instruction about the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood and non-violent Islamist tactics. Elibiary served on the DHS Countering Violent Extremism Working Group.
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Rashad Hussain

Born: 1978, in Wyoming.

Family Background:69

* Raised in Plano, Texas * Son of Indian-born U.S. citizens.

* His father, Mohammad Hussain, was a mining engineer. His mother Ruqaiya, and his older sister Lubna are medical doctors, and his younger brother, Saad is a medical student.


Alma Mater:70

* Yale Law School, Yale University. J.D.

o Editor of Yale Law Journal.

* Harvard University. Master’s Degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies.

* University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Political Science.


Role in Obama Administration:

* Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC). February 2010-Present.71

* Deputy Associate Counsel to President Obama. 2009-2010.

o Was influential in helping Ben Rhodes write Obama’s 2009 speech delivered in Cairo, “A New Beginning.”72

* Associate Counsel to Obama’s P**********l T***sition Team. 2008.


Other Positions (Select):

* Mr. Hussain previously served as a Trial Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice.

* Legislative assistant on the House Judiciary Committee.

* Intern in the office of former House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt. Summer of 2000.73

Affiliations with Islamic Organizations:

CAIR

* In a press release, CAIR said of Hussain's appointment by Obama, "[Hussain] will be in a position to strengthen positive outreach to the Islamic world and will be able to provide the president with direct access to the views and concerns of Muslims worldwide."74

* In May 2009, Mr. Hussain was one of the speakers at a Leadership Summit of the Council for Advancement of Muslim Professionals (CAMP). Many of the sponsoring organizations of that event are tied to the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood including Islamic Relief, Amana Mutual Funds, the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR), and the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding.75 Muslim Public Affairs division of CAIR NEED SOURCE - DENISE PAPER

ISNA

* In June 2013, ISNA announced that Hussain would speak at their banquet in Dallas.7677


MAS

MPAC

* In December 2010, Hussain was a speaker on stage at the 10th Annual MPAC Convention. The topic was "Struggle for America's Conscience."78

* Hussain was one of the speakers at a Leadership Summit of the Council for Advancement of Muslim Professionals (CAMP), of which MPAC was a sponsor (see above).

MSA

* In 2004, Hussain spoke at a Muslim Students Association’s conference in Chicago.79 There he defended Sami al-Arian, a Palestinian activist who had been indicted by the Department of Justice for racketeering, calling it a "politically motivated persecution." In 2006, al-Arian was sentenced to 57 months following a plea bargain.80

o Hussain originally denied the comments, but eventually admitted making them, saying "I made statements on that panel that I now recognize were ill conceived or not well formulated."81

Others

DHS

Brookings Institution

* In 2008, Hussain co-authored a paper for the Brookings Institution, Reformulating the Battle of Ideas: Understanding the Role of Islam in Counterterrorism Policy. This paper explicitly calls for the American government not to reject political Islam, but to utilize Islamic scholars and Islamic “policymaking” to reject “terrorism.” It also recommends that “policymakers should reject the use of language that provides a religious legitimization of terrorism such as ‘Islamic terrorism’ and ‘Islamic extremist.’”82

* In 2013, Hussain was a Forum Speaker at the U.S.-Islamic World Forum, held in Doha, Qatar. This event is co-hosted by the Brookings Saban Center, and the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs.83

Georgetown University

* In May 2011, Hussain was part of a panel discussion hosted by the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. The topic of the discussion was “Georgetown Hosts Panel on Rethinking Muslim-West Relations,” and also featured Georgetown Professor John Esposito.84

* In October 2000, Hussain spoke at a conference sponsored by the Association of Muslim Social Scientists and Georgetown University’s Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. Titled “Islam, Pluralism, and Democracy,” this gathering featured appearances by numerous leaders of the global Muslim Brotherhood, including such notables as Louay Safi, Jamal Barzinji, Hisham Al-Talib, and Abdul Hamid Abu Sulayman.85

Connections to Qatar:

* In 2012, Hussain attended the U.S.-Islamic World Conference in Doha, Qatar. With him were future P**********l Chief-of-Staff Denis McDonough, Imam Mohamed Magid (ISNA), and Sheikh Abdallah bin Bayyah, who works for Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yousef Qaradawi.86


Notable Activities:

* In 2013, Hussain met with Abdullah Bin Bayyah at the White House. Bayyah is a Vice President of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS). IUMS is headed by Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who is banned from entering the United States.87

o Hussain also attended a meeting in Mauritania hosted by Bayyah in 2012. ISNA reported that the meeting was about “challenges faced by religious minorities in Muslim-majority communities.”88

* In 2010, the Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Watch published an article on Hussain’s connections to the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood. In part, the article stated: October 2000 Mr. Hussain spoke at a conference sponsored by the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS) and the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University (CMCU). The conference was titled “Islam, Pluralism, and Democracy” and featured many leaders of the global Muslim Brotherhood including former German diplomat Murad Hoffman, and International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) leaders Louay Safi, Jamal Barzinji, Hisham Al-Talib, and Abdul Hamid Abu Sulayman. The AMSS was founded in 1972 as an outgrowth of the Muslim Student Association and has long been associated with the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood.89

* Hussain has appeared at numerous events sponsored by the US Muslim Brotherhood including those held by the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID), the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago, the Council for the Advancement of Muslim Professionals (CAMP), and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).90

* The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report took a look at Hussain’s official biography and found several concerning affiliations. The first is that in October 2000, Hussain spoke at a conference sponsored by the Association of Muslim Social Scientists, which was listed in an internal Muslim Brotherhood document as one of “our organizations and the organizations of our friends,” and the Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding of Georgetown University, which receives Saudi funding and is directed by prominent Muslim Brotherhood advocate, John Esposito. (Front Page Magazine.)91

Other Notes

* Hussain is a hafiz (i.e., he has memorized the Koran).92

* In January 2013, Mr. Hussain received the Distinguished Honor Award which is given for "exceptionally outstanding service to the agencies of the U.S. Government resulting in achievements of marked national or international significance."93

* Powerline Blog series on Hussain: The Case of Rashad Hussain, Parts 1-4:

o Part 1: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/02/025613.php
o Part 2: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/02/025643.php
o Part 3: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/02/025671.php
o Part 4: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/03/025715.php
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Salam al-Marayati

Born: September 2, 1960, in Baghdad, Iraq.94


Family Background:

* Family is Iraqi. Immigrated to United States in 1964. Marayati is an American citizen.


Alma Mater:

* University of California-Irvine (UCI). Executive Masters Degree in Business Administration.95

* University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Bachelor's of Science, Bio-Chemistry. 1978-1984.9697


Roles in Obama Administration:

* In January 2010, Marayati traveled to Europe at the invitation of the State Department to speak about religious freedom and free speech.98

o He spoke at UNESCO in Paris and at the U.S. mission to the United Nations in Geneva.


Other Positions (Select):

* President and Founder, Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). (Current President.)

* Marayati is on the Council on Foreign Relations Religious Advisory Committee.99 Others who serve include Eboo Patel, Feisal Abdul Rauf, and former Secretary of State Madeline Albright.

* Marayai served as co-chair of the Interfaith Coalition to Heal Los Angeles, which formed as a result of the Los Angeles uprising in the Summer of 1992.100


Affiliations with Islamic Organizations:


CAIR

* In October 2014, MPAC partnered with CAIR to host an event on extremism called " “The Crisis of ISIS: The Community’s Role and Response.”101 The even had more than 300 attendees.

* In July 2005, the French Ambassador Jean-David Levitte was joined in a forum by Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) Executive Director Salam Al-Marayati. The forum was called "The R**ts in France: Disenfranchisement and Integration."102

* Discover the Networks lists CAIR as one of MPAC's "Affiliations for Joint Programs." http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/marayati25.html


ISNA

* During a 2005 ISNA conference, al-Marayati blasted the idea that Muslims would be used as informants to thwart possible terrorist plots. “Counter-terrorism and counter-violence should be defined by us. We should define how an effective counter-terrorism policy should be pursued in this country,” he said. “So, number one, we reject any effort, notion, suggestion that Muslims should start spying on one another.”103

* Marayati's profile and professional summary is on ISNA's website. http://www.isna.net/salam-al-marayati.html

MPAC

* Current President and Founder.

MSA

* In April 2013, Salam Al-Marayati, President of MPAC, reached the hearts of students at California State University Northridge's Muslim Students Association (MSA) on Wednesday, March 20th. The room was filled with students who were engrossed as Al-Marayati showed them ways in which they could get more involved in addressing the issues that we face today.104 (MPAC Press Release)

o On May 20, 2001, UCLA hosted a conference, co-sponsored by the UCLA MSA, called "The Israeli Palestinian Crisis: New Conversations for a Pluralist Future." Among the radical Islamic organizations that participated in the event and sent speakers to this conference were the Council on American Islamic Relations, CAIR, and the Muslim Public Affairs Council, MPAC.105

Others

DHS

* In November 2014, MPAC President Salam Al-Marayati attended a meeting with Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson at the Islamic Center of San Gabriel Valley in California. Johnson met with American Muslim leaders who have raised concerns about government surveillance, initiatives to combat extremism, and religious profiling.106

* Also in November 2014, MPAC President Salam Al-Marayati delivered a presentation on MPAC Safe Spaces Initiative at the Department of Homeland Security Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties town hall event at the Colorado Muslim Society Abu Baker Mosque in Denver, CO.107

Brookings Institution

* In 2011, Marayati participated in the US-Islamic World Forum in Washington, D.C. This was co-hosted by the Brookings Institution's Saban Center and the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The year's theme was "Year of Change."108

* In 2006, Marayati was an opening speaker at the US-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar. The year's theme was "Leaders Effect Change." http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/events/2006/2/18islamic%20world/20060218program.pdf


Georgetown University

* Marayati is part of Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs.109


Notable Activities * In October 2011, MPAC was one of 57 organizations to co-sign a letter that Farhana Khera, executive director of an Islamic organization called Muslim Advocates, wrote to Barack Obama’s then-Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (and later CIA director) John Brennan. The letter demanded that Obama officials “purge all federal government training materials of biased materials”—that is, materials that they claimed were biased against Islam—and “implement a mandatory re-training program for FBI agents, U.S. Army officers, and all federal, state and local law enforcement who have been subjected to biased training.”110 o Joining MPAC as signatories were such groups as the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Circle of North America, Islamic Relief USA, the Islamic Society of North America, and the Muslim American Society.

* In 2010, Marayati traveled to Europe at the invitation of the State Department to speak about religious freedom and free speech. He spoke at UNESCO in Paris and at the U.S. mission to the United Nations in Geneva.111 * In September 2005, MPAC joined with the anti-war organization Code Pink for Peace to sponsor a Culver City, California event promoting a new book by UC-Irvine professor Mark LeVine, who contends that an "Axis of Empathy" is the only strategy that can bring about a long-term solution to the war between radical Islam and the West. MPAC has also worked closely with International ANSWER, which has intimate ties to Ramsey Clark’s International Action Center and the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party. (Source: Discover the Networks.)112

* On September 11, 2001, the day of the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center, Marayati, stated during an appearance on KCRW-FM's "Which Way, LA?" program that "we should put the State of Israel on the suspect list."113

* Sept. 2000 American Muslim Political Coordination Council Political Action Committee – a political umbrella organization to bolster the impact of Muslim v**ers

* In 2000, MPAC joined an Islamic umbrella PAC together with the following members of the Council of Presidents of Arab-American Organizations and the American Muslim Political Coordination Council: American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC); Arab American Institute (AAI); the Arab American University Graduates (AAUG); National Association of Arab Americans (NAAA); American Muslim Alliance (AMA); American Muslim Council (AMC); and Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).114


Other Notes:

* In 2011, al-Marayati threatened to sever ties with the U.S. government in a strongly-worded Los Angeles Times op-ed column. Expressing anger over the use of "anti-Muslim" training materials by the FBI and a U.S. Attorney's office, al-Marayati wrote: "If this matter is not immediately addressed, it will undermine the relationship between law enforcement and the Muslim American community."115

* A 2003 counterterrorism paper issued by MPAC advocated removing Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hizballah from the federal government's list of designated terrorist groups. It reads: “Meanwhile, Arab states question Washington's list of designated pro-Palestinian groups and humanitarian organizations. It is clear that the current terrorist threat to the US emanates from Al-Qaeda and not Palestinian groups. There is no evidence that Palestinian groups designated as terrorist organizations have any connections to Al-Qaeda. Yet the preoccupation with these groups raises the question as to whether targeting Palestinian groups serves true national security interests or is based on political considerations.”116

* Marayati originally gained national attention in 1999, when House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt nominated Marayati to serve on the National Commission on Terrorism. Gephardt later withdrew the nomination after a public backlash highlighted al-Marayati's defense of terrorist acts and the groups who carry them out. (Source: Investigative Project on Terrorism.)117
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Mohamed Magid

Born: 1965, in Northern Sudan.

Family Background:

* Father was Grand Mufti of Sudan.118

* Immigrated to USA in 1987.


Alma Mater

* Studied Islam and Sharia under African Sunni scholars, including his father, the Grand Mufti of Sudan.


Roles in Obama Administration:

* DHS Countering Violence and Extremism Working Group. Appointed 2011119

o Trained and advised personnel affiliated with the FBI and other federal agencies.

* National Security Council.

* FBI's Muslim, Sikh, and Arab Advisory Board.120

Current Positions:

* Imam, All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS). 1997-present.

Other Positions and Affiliations:

* President, Islamic Society of North America. 2010-2014.

* Howard University. Taught courses on the Koran.

* Chairman, Fairfax County Faith Communities in Action.121

* Board Member, Fairfax County Partnership for Youth.122

* Board Member, FaithTrust Institute.123

* Board Member, Muflehun.124

* Member of George Mason University Campus Ministry.125

* Buxton Interfaith Initiative.126

* Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington Assembly.

* Peaceful Families Project.

Affiliations with Islamic Organizations

CAIR

* Magid invited CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad to a meeting encouraging “community building,” following (the investigation) “Operation Green Quest,” which was targeting terrorist financing organizations. This meeting intended to build alliances among the organizations targeted by the investigation.127

ISNA

* President, Islamic Society of North America. 2010-2014.

MAS

* Magid was featured in a video created by MPAC, "Injustice Cannot Defeat Injustice." Featured in the same video was a founding member of the Muslim American Society, Jamal Badawi.128

MPAC

* Magid invited MPAC’s political advisor and Wahabbi talk-show host Mahdi Bray to “community building” meeting following Operation Green Quest. (See CAIR section above.)

* Featured in MPAC video “Injustice Cannot Defeat Injustice.”129 This was part of MPAC’s “Safe Spaces” initiative.

MSA * In November 2007, MSA VCU promoted an event by the Muslim Students Association of the U.S. and Canada, titled “Maintaining Spirituality: Key Lessons for MSA Workers -- A Nationwide Conference Call with Imam [Mohamed] Magid.”130

Brookings Institution

* Convened Brookings Institution Working Group on “The Roles of Muslim-Majority and Muslim Minority Communities in a Global Context” at the 2011 U.S.-Islamic World Forum, held in Washington, D.C. 131

Georgetown University

* Part of Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs.132

* In May 2012, participated in Georgetown University program, “Symposium on Religious Freedom and the Rights of Minorities."133

* In 2009, Magid participated in a “conversation” between Muslims and Evangelicals hosted by the Institute for Global Engagement and Georgetown University.134


Notable Activities:

* In February 2015, Magid was one of the Muslim leaders invited to the White House to discuss the alleged "alarming rise" in bigotry toward Muslim Americans.135136 Also in attendance were current ISNA President Azhar Azeez, and MPAC's national policy advisory, Hoda Hawa. * In response to pressure from Magid and his fellow lobbyists, DHS carefully erased from its "Countering Violent Extremism" curriculum any suggestion that Muslim terrorism drew its inspiration from the laws and doctrines of Islam. In 2012, the FBI purged some 700 documents and 300 presentations from its training materials and lesson plans.137

Other Notes:

* In January 2015, Magid was a panelist in International Institute for Islamic Thought (IIIT) “Need for Intra-Muslim Dialogue” event. Held at George Mason University.138 IIIT has been described as the “Muslim Brotherhood’s think tank” by the Center for Security Policy.139

* Magid was recognized by the Washingtonian as “2009’s Washingtonians of the Year” for building bridges between faith communities.

* In May 2006, Fairfax County Human Rights Commission awarded Magid with their Human Rights
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Eboo Patel

Born: November 9, 1975 in Mumbai, India.

Family Background:

* Raised in Glen Ellyn, Illinois (near Chicago).

* Family is of Ismaili Muslim of Gujarati Indian heritage.141

Alma Mater:

* Doctorate in Sociology. Oxford University. (Rhodes Scholar).

* Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.


Roles in Obama Administration:

* Member of the President’s Advisory Council to the Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Appointed February 2009.142

* Serves on the Department of Homeland Security’s Faith-Based Security and Communications Advisory Committee.143

Other Positions and Work (from Wikipedia)144:

* President and Founder, Interfaith Youth Core.

* Patel is on the Council on Foreign Relations Religious Advisory Committee.145 Others who serve include Salam Al-Marayati (MPAC), Feisal Abdul Rauf, and former Secretary of State Madeline Albright. * Patel has blogged for The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, USA Today, and Sojourners, among other outlets. * He is on the National Committee of the Aga Khan Foundation * He was on the Advisory Board of Duke University Islamic Studies Center. * Patel is an Ashoka Fellow, part of a select network of social entrepreneurs. * He has spoken at TED (conference), the Clinton Global Initiative, and the Nobel Peace Prize Forum

* He wrote "We Are Each Other's Business."

Affiliations/Associations with Islamic Organizations

CAIR

* In 2007, CAIR-Chicago joined DePaul University in the opening of the Center for Interfaith Engagement. Patel was one of the panelists. welcomes Interfaith Engagement.146


ISNA

* Patel's profile and professional summary is on ISNA's website.147


MPAC

* In October 2014, Patel participated in a New York Times "Room for Debate" series with others writers, MPAC's Salam al-Marayati among them. The debate centered the appropriate response of Muslims to extremism.148

* In 2007, Patel was a speaker at MPAC's 7th Annual Convention.149

* In 2004, Patel took part in a Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow conference sponsored by the ASMA Society and was on a panel which was moderated by Ahmed Younis of the Muslim Public Affairs Council.150151

MSA

* [I]n July 2011 Obama’s faith adviser, Eboo Patel, spoke at the main event of a three-day convention held by the Muslim Brotherhood-founded Muslim Students Association... Patel appeared on a panel alongside Tariq Ramadan, grandson of the notorious founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, and Siraj Wahhaj, who was named as a possible coconspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Wahhaj has defended the convicted WTC bomb plotters and has urged the Islamic takeover of America.152

* A description of the panel on the ISNA website states, "We live in a society in which immersion is encouraged and in which we are often confronted with evil. Muslims have always been challenged, but Islam is a guiding star that can help us overcome these challenges as we strive to remain faithful. We must remain confident and unified as we make our short journey through this life. And sometimes, we must be 'strangers.'"153

Brookings Institution

* Melissa Rogers, the Director for the White House's Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, for which Patel is on the council, was a nonresident Senior Fellow in the Governance Studies program of The Brookings Institution.154

* Brookings Institution scholar Dr. Cynthia P. Schneider leads the Arts and Culture Initiative within the Saban Center for Middle East Policy. Dr. Schneider was a guest blogger on Patel's website, faithstreet.com, writing about Hollywood bias against Muslims.155

Georgetown University

* Part of Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs156 * In 2010, Patel founded the Interfaith Leadership Institute with Georgetown University and the White House.157 "Last week, we trained 200 more Zach Jordans, as well as 100 campus staff who can support them, from 136 different campuses, in Washington, DC at our inaugural Interfaith Leadership Institute. When we first organized the Institute, hosted by Georgetown University with a kick-off session at the White House, even we had no idea how much demand there would be."

* In 2013, the Georgetown University Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs hosted the third President’s Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge, where Patel was part of a plenary sessions, "Celebration of Accomplishments."158 Also in attendance were Melissa Rogers and Georgetown President John J. DeGioia.

Connections to Qatar:

* In April 2010, Interfaith Youth Core (Patel’s organization) conducted training in Doha’s Education City for students of Georgetown University, Northwestern University, Carnegie Mellon University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the Faculty of Islamic Studies.159

* In 2011, IFYC’s Bob Roberts (Senior Pastor of NorthWood Church in Keller, Texas) was in Doha, Qatar. He recounted his trip in an article published on IFYC’s website, which was broadly supportive of the Arab Spring revolutions and explicitly denied any “Islamist” connection to the revolutions: “First, it’s about freedom – pure and simple. They are not Islamist with a global agenda of Islam – I’ve been around people like that a good deal.”160

* Jenan Mohajir, the leadership institute manager at Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), oversees curriculum development and production for the Interfaith Leadership Institutes. Mohajir was born in India, and grew up in Qatar and the United States. In 2012 Mohajir was appointed to the El-Hibri Charitable Foundation’s Campus Deen Resource Committee, an initiative to provide Muslim students on U.S. college campuses with training and support to develop thriving, civically engaged American Muslim identities.161

* In 2010, Patel met with a Qatari delegation from the Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue (DICID).162

Harvard University:

* Patel represents the Interfaith Youth Core for Harvard University's Pluralism Project.163

* In 2009, Patel was selected as five “future policy leaders to watch” by Harvard Kennedy’s School Review. He has a biography at The Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program. http://www.islamicstudies.harvard.edu/conference/speakers/eboo-patel/


Support for Arab Spring revolutions:

* In January 2011, Patel urged President Obama to support the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. This led to e******n of Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi.164

* In February 2011, Patel tweeted an anti-Gaddafi message: “Pray for these brave ppl. In #Libya they r chanting "the people want to bring down the mental one". #feb17”165

* In February 2012, retweeted “Yo Bashar al-Assad, your regime seriously sucks and you're kinda like a human devil.”166

Notable Activities:

* Patel has spoken at and worked with the Clinton Global Initiative.167


Some of Interfaith Youth Core’s Donors include (according to 2013 Annual Report)168: * Open Society Foundation ($50K+) - A project of George Soros * Boeing Corporation ($10K-$49K) – Boeing has large weapons and airline contracts with Qatar169

* El-Hibri Charitable Foundation ($10K-$49K) – Azizah El Hibri was appointed by President Barack Obama to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom in 2011, and has appeared at ISNA events. 170


Other Notes:

* According to Rose El-Yousef, “has a very strong relationship with Hani Ramadan, one of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood and the grandson of Hassan al-Banna and the son of Said Ramadan the brother is law of al Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe and the United States, in addition to his relationship with Siraj Wahhaj, a known American Brother, and his membership in the MSA in America: a large Brotherhood organization.” (t***slated)171 * In 2005 Patel and several young radicals co-authored the book Letters from Young Activists: Today’s Rebels Speak Out. Among Patel's co-authors were Chesa Boudin (the adopted son of former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers) and Ismail Khalidi (the son of Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi). The book's Preface was written by Ayers’ wife, Weather Underground co-founder Bernardine Dohrn. The back cover featured an endorsement from the convicted cop-k**ler and former Black Panther Party member Mumia Abu-Jamal. And on the Acknowledgments page, Patel and his fellow authors thanked Ayers personally for the “guidance” and “encouragement” he had provided.172 * Patel stayed as a guest in residence during the 2004-2005 school year in the same hall as Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.173174

* In 2006 Patel published Building the Interfaith Youth Movement: Beyond Dialogue to Action. The book's Afterword was written by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, famous for having led an effort to construct a large mosque near the site of the 9/11 attacks in Manhattan.175

* Article from Militant Islam Monitor. D'awa as Dialogue: How Eboo Patel and The Interfaith Youth Core promote Islamism as diversity. http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/3492

* Patel was Dominican University’s Lund-Gill Chair for 2011, and the University has partnered with the Interfaith Youth Core.176

* Patel has stated that “American is ideal place for a renewal of Islam,” and that White House advisor Van Jones is a “faith hero.”177

* Patel has called Martin Luther King Jr. an “interfaith visionary,” and has a fascination with the American Civil Rights movement.178 In December 2014, the Annual King Breakfast in Lisle, Illinois (outside Chicago) featured Patel as a speaker.179

* 2012 Ted Talk on Women influences in his life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIaEOl6tLF8

* 2012 article: Nine Years after 9/11, a debate about Islam. Mentions Reza Aslan. http://www.faithstreet.com/onfaith/2010/10/04/how-to-build-a-fear-bomb/3392

* Author Haroon K. Ullah serves on Secretary Kerry’s Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. State Department. His books have been reviewed by Eboo Patel, Brookings’ Strobe Talbott and Bruce Reidel, Reza Aslan, among others.180
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