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Obama Holdovers with Islamist Connections Still Employed by the DoJ

2020-07-30

[American Thinker] What’s with all the Obama holdovers who can still be found throughout the Trump administration? It is now just a little over three months before the 2020 presidential election, and despite an alarming amount of evidence of Obama holdovers still in the Washington bureaucracy, working hard to block Trump policies, all too many of these saboteurs are still in place. One of them is an appeaser, capitulator, and Muslim Brotherhood stooge named Eric W. Treene.

The Justice Department’s "Religious Freedom in Focus" is "a periodic email update about the Civil Rights Division’s religious liberty and religious discrimination cases." It lists as a contact the Special Counsel for Religious Discrimination, Eric W. Treene. I exposed Treene’s subservience to Muslim organizations linked to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood over eight years ago. What’s Eric Treene still doing there?

Back in January 2012, after receiving a huge box (in response to my Freedom of Information Act request) full of documents relating to the Justice Department’s interactions with Muslim groups linked to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, I wrote that what struck me almost immediately was the casual familiarity between the Muslim groups including the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which has admitted its ties to the Brotherhood and Hamas, although it claims that it is no longer connected with either, and senior officials of the Department of Justice, all the way up to Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez. They discuss lunch, vacations, job changes -- always with the Muslim Brotherhood groups pushing their narrative, even in these casual exchanges.

Even more striking was the servile demeanor of Eric Treene, who was then listed as Special Counsel for the Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, and the demanding condescension of Muslim Brotherhood operatives. Muslim and Arab operatives treat Treene and Co. like an errand boy, asking them for email addresses of other contacts and setting them to perform the most menial gofer duties. The DoJ even takes lunch orders and picks up the tab, and in some cases asks them how much money they need for a little soiree they’re holding. It is astonishing.

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Fifth Column

America’s Muslims fight back

2020-03-01

The always wordy view from Egypt.

[AlAhram] Prominent Moslems in the United States are combating Islamist attempts to take over political podiums in the country and standing up to those who claim to speak on their behalf.

It has taken much meticulous planning, abundant financing and manipulative politics for the Moslem Brüderbund to infiltrate certain groups in the United States over the past four decades. Since the drafting of its masterplan to take control of various Moslem communities in North America in 1980, the Brotherhood has worked to spread its influence in Islamic centres in the US and to bring a number of Islamic communities in the country under its banner.

The Brotherhood has not operated under its own name, however. Instead, it formed several offshoot groups such as the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). These organizations, using the fronts of NGOs, have spread the doctrines of the Moslem Brüderbund in the US. Unlike in Europe

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Home Front: Politix

Bernie Campaigner Kyle Jurek Arrested Days Before Project Veritas Exposé, Expose2020 Part 2 video released

2020-01-17

Karma.

[BREITBART] Kyle Jurek, a field organizer for Sen. Bernie Sanders

...The ~~only~~ first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being a socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around...
’ (I-VT) presidential campaign, was arrested just days before Project Veritas released undercover footage of the self-described "anarcho-communist" suggesting that Trump supporters require re-education in Soviet-style concentration camps.

Jurek was arrested on January 8 by Iowa state police, according to Polk County, Iowa, Sheriff’s Department. Jurek was charged with violation of probation, possession of drug paraphernalia, failure to provide proof of financial liability, as well as operating while intoxicated ‐ his second offense. The 38-year-old was previously arrested in September 2019 for possession of a controlled substance, unlawful possession of a prescription drug, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Jurek is at the center of Project Veritas’s latest sting targeting 2020 Democrat candidates.

He was filmed arguing that gulags were beneficial for the Soviet Union and suggesting they could be used to re-educate both Trump voters and billionaires.

"In Nazi Germany, after the fall of the Nazi Party, there was a shit-ton of the populace that was fucking Nazified," says Jurek. "Germany had to spend billions of dollars re-educating their fucking people to not be Nazis," Jurek is seen explaining to an undercover Project Veritas staff member. "We’re probably going to have to do the same fucking thing here. That’s kind of what all Bernie’s whole fucking like, ’hey, free education for everybody’ because we’re going to have to teach you to not be a fucking Nazi."

"[The] greatest way to break a fucking billionaire of their privilege and their idea that they’re superior, go and break rocks for 12 hours a day. You’re now a working class person, and you’re going to fucking learn what the means, right?" he adds.

In another part of the video, Jurek warns that Milwaukee, host of this year’s Democratic National Convention, will "burn," and police will be "beaten" if the Vermont senator loses the nomination.

"If Bernie doesn’t get the nomination or it goes to a second round at the DNC convention, fucking Milwaukee will burn," Jurek is seen saying. "It’ll start in Milwaukee and then when the police push back on that, other cites will fucking [explode]."

"We’re going to make [1968] look like a fucking girl’s scout fucking cookout," he then warns, referring to the 1968 DNC convention in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
, where left-wing activists engaged in violent riots in the streets. "The cops are going to be the ones fucking beaten in Milwaukee."

Despite Jurek’s statements, he still appears to have employed by the Sanders campaign, which has yet to address Project Veritas’s explosive footage.

#Expose2020 – Part 2: Bernie 2020 Field Organizer, Kyle Jurek: “There Are Things That Are More Important Than The Rule Of Law In The United States”; Declares That His Views Are Shared By Many Others Within The Sanders Campaign; Secret Service Notified Over POTUS Assassination Concern

Video and transcript at the link.

Kyle Jurek, Iowa Field Organizer, Sanders Campaign, Says That Stalin Had a Legitimate Reason to Use Gulags, Claiming Gulags Were “Better Than What the CIA Has Told Us They Were.”

Jurek Claims That “…Our Prisons, in the United States Right Now, Are Far Worse. Far Worse Than Anything That They Experienced in a F***ing Gulag. Like People Get Raped. People Get F***ing, Work Twelve Hours a Day. People Have to go Fight Fires in California for a Dollar. You Know What I Mean? That’s F***ed up. That’s Super F***ed Up. Soviet Union Didn’t do That S**t.”

Believes That Americans Opposed to Socialism Must be Re-Educated.

Jurek: “Like and No Matter What Country and What Laws Were, That Exist, They’re Irrelevant to, There Are Things Greater Than Those Systems, Right? There Are Things That Are More Important Than the Rule of Law in the United States, When it Comes Down to the Existence of the Human Race.”

Admits to Participating in Antifa Events, Reveals That “A Lot of Them Are Probably on the Bernie Campaign.”

Tip From People Who Know Jurek Personally: Worried He Might Try to Assassinate President Trump

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Home Front: Culture Wars

The Islamic Society of North America endorsed Lt. Saleha Jabeen to become the Air Force's first female imam

2020-01-11

[Air Force Times] The Air Force last month commissioned the first female Muslim chaplain in the service.

Second Lt. Saleha Jabeen

...naturalized Indian-American, multi-lingual theologian, social justice advocate, interfaith professional, and former US Army medic who wrote about her journey here...

was commissioned Dec. 18 at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago by Air Force Chief of Chaplains Maj. Gen. Steven Schaick, the Air Force said in a release Friday.

The Islamic Society of North America

...one of the Muslim Brotherhood’s American front groups. Perhaps someone should look into why they have endorsed this particular lieutenant...

endorsed Jabeen to become the Air Force’s first female imam, a spiritual leader in Islam, the release said.

Female imams are not usually the Moslem Brotherhood’s style...

"Any time we advance religious freedoms, it’s a win for all persons of faith," Schaick said in the release. "This is a big day not just for Muslims, but for persons of all faiths."

While Air Force chaplains are ordained in their own particular faith, they are responsible for counseling and supporting the spiritual needs of all airmen in their units, even if the airman follows a different religion, or no religion at all.

In his remarks at the commissioning, Schaick spoke about the importance of diversity in the Air Force’s chaplaincy.

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Home Front: Politix

Bernie Sanders speaks at Muslim Brotherhood front group convention, calls for Americans to stand together

2019-09-08

From Tuesday, but interesting to see the company the honourable senator keeps.

[IsraelTimes] Sen. Bernie Sanders

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Home Front: WoT

The Long Arm of Turkey's Erdogan

2019-06-10

Key bits:

[AmericanThinker] Sports and politics have always been uncomfortable bed-fellows, despite the best efforts to keep sports as a unifying nonpartisan activity. From Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics to the American hockey team from the 1980 Miracle on Ice, sports heroes have had a way of rankling authoritarians.

And so it is for Enes Kanter, a ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish-born NBA star currently playing for the Portland Trailblazers, following the failed ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish coup in 2016. Kanter has been made a wanted man for his criticism of ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
’s President Tayyip Erdogan. He was not able to travel with his New York Knicks teammates back in January to play the Washington Wizards in London for fear of being kidnapped or killed. And in December 2017 he was sentenced to four years in prison in absentia. Enes Kanter’s father was also fired from his university position and is now serving a fifteen-year sentence in prison, some say as backlash for his son’s criticism of the government.

Now however, Erdogan’s long authoritarian arm has apparently reached even youth sporting. On June 2nd, Kanter published this message on his Twitter feed:

One reply to Kanter’s tweet declares Islamic Association of North Texas (IANT) Richardson as the organization that initiated the boycott of the basketball camps.

A Twitter user by the name of THEOLOG writes, "I knew it, Yusuf Kavakci was an Islamist and Erdoganist Imam whose daughters and even grand children have governmental positions in Turkey. Shame on this masjid, I led some salahs when I was there! They are so political and erdoganist sadly!!!"

The Twitter user THEOLOG makes a valid point. Yusuf Kavakci was previously a board member for the Moslem Brüderbund-affiliated Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and for a time was president of the Islamic Tribunal that caused such a stir for openly stating that it would use Sharia to resolve disputes within the Moslem community during the tenure of Mayor Beth Van Duyne in Irving, Texas.

As previously reported in the American Spectator, Erdogan’s regime is increasingly using connections with domestic-based U.S. Islamist groups, like Moslem American Society (MAS), Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) to exert political influence in the United States. And now Erdogan is utilizing those connections to put pressure on a children’s basketball clinic held in the suburbs of Dallas, Texas.

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Home Front: WoT

Imam tied to Holy Land case to be at American Jewish Committee forum

2019-05-31

Idiots.

[Jpost] Mohammed Magid is scheduled to be part of the "Rabbis Roundtable Breakfast" in a discussion titled "Building a Golden Age of Moslem-Jewish Relations: Overcoming Challenges and Seizing Opportunities."

An imam of an organization affiliated with an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror case is scheduled to be part of a roundtable discussion at the American Jewish Committee’s annual global forum in Washington, D.C., which will take place from June 2 to June 4.

Mohammed Magid, born in Sudan in 1965 and who arrived in the United States in 1987 after studying in Soddy Arabia

...a resume to inspire confidence in his broad mindedness...

...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, is the current iman of the Virginia-based All Dulles Area Moslem Society Center (ADAMS), which is affiliated with the Islamic Society of North America, or ISNA, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror case that proved HLF’s connections to the terrorist group Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, and other radical Islamic entities.

ADAMS is a network of mosques and Islamic community centers in Washington area.

The United States designated HLF as a terrorist group in 2001 and became defunct. The case resulted in 108 guilty verdicts and several years later, five of its leaders were convicted and sentenced to decades in federal prison.

Know the connections:

Magid was ISNA’s East Zone representative, then as vice president, and finally as president. The U.S. government listed ISNA in the HLF case as among "individuals/entities who are and/or were members of the U.S. Moslem Brüderbund."

He was "the B.O. regime’s go-to guy for Moslem outreach and advised on international affairs and counterterrorism."

Of course he was.

He was "a regular visitor to the White House (even when the administration wants to conceal it)" and involved in other aspects of the administration, such as playing a crucial role in the Department of Homeland Security, according to PJ Media.

Magid is scheduled to be part of the "Rabbis Roundtable Breakfast" on Monday in a discussion titled "Building a Golden Age of Moslem-Jewish Relations: Overcoming Challenges and Seizing Opportunities."

The session is only open to rabbinic participants at the conference.

AJC spokesperson Kenneth Bandler appeared to dismiss the allegations against Magid, telling JNS, "We know Imam Majid. He is a member of the Moslem Jewish Advisory Council."

Seriously: idiots.

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Home Front: Culture Wars

Freedom Center Revamps Online Encyclopedia Of The Left: DiscoverTheNetworks.Org

2018-10-15

[FrontPageMagazine] The Freedom Center’s comprehensive and innovative online encyclopedia of the Left, DiscoverTheNetworks.org, has just completed an extensive revision and update. The new DTN is faster and easier to use, its contents more accessible and more pertinent to breaking news, its networks easier to visualize, and its look more appealing.

DTN now has a constantly updated "In The News" feature that uses its encyclopedic contents to add background context to the day’s latest stories. The new and more powerful search engine is front and center, as are a series of five select profiles on timely and trending topics and individuals. A search on a particular topic will bring up not only the entry on that subject but also a linked list of the "known connections" among other leftist organizations and individuals. For instance, a search for the anti-Israel terror group Hamas shows a total of 209 connected profiles including Jimmy Carter, Noam Chomsky, the Islamic Society of North America, and the Muslim Students Association.

For over a decade, DTN has been far and away the best resource for information about the left and how its organizations, individuals and causes collaborate in an assault on American institutions. The producers of Sean Hannity, Lauran Ingraham and other radio and TV shows have referenced it regularly, as have a variety of authors and journalists, legislators and policy makers, students and ordinary citizens anxious to understand the nature of the left and how its juggernaut operates in the political, cultural and social arenas.

DTN is a one stop destination for people who want to discover the truth about the individuals, organizations, and topics that comprise and fuel the left; subjects such as the origins of Black Lives Matter, the background and beliefs of old leftists like Saul Alinsky and new ones like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the sinister operations of George Soros’ "charities" and the unholy alliance between campus leftists and backers of Islamic terror groups. It is the one place a reader or researcher can go to see the links between the people, issues, and groups of the left and understand how these networks combine to make the left a vast conspiracy.

"Discoverthenetworks.org is the brain stem of the Freedom Center," said David Horowitz, founder of the Freedom Center. "The political and cultural issues that are our daily battlegrounds come and go. But the left itself is always with us and has been since the French Revolution. DTN is at the core of our mission: understanding the left’s personality and agendas and how its networks make sure that its sinister ends always justify its sinister means."

The David Horowitz Freedom Center, founded in 1988, is a not-for-profit organization located in Sherman Oaks, California. The Center’s mission is to defend free societies like America and Israel, which are under attack by totalitarians both religious and secular, domestic and foreign.

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Olde Tyme Religion

Linda Sarsour: Muslims Mustn't Make The Mistake Of ‘Humanizing' Jews

2018-09-09

[RedState] At Houston’s Islamic Society of North America conference ‐ the biggest annual meet-up of Muslims in the U.S. ‐ lightning rod radical Linda "Hamas Louse" Sarsour charged her fellow Islamists with making sure not to mistake Jews for human beings.

Sarsour is, of course, a darling of the Left, having earned an arrest Tuesday for her interruption of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing (please see my article here). Most ridiculously, perhaps, the defender of Sharia law paradoxically led 2017 and 2018’s anti-Trump Womens March.
Don't complain when you'll force us to become devils.

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Home Front: WoT

Ties emerge between Linda Sarsour and Islamic radical running ‘jihadist’ camp in New Mexico

2018-08-10

[BIZPACREVIEW] On Wednesday reports broke that an Islamic radical had been tossed in the clink
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
last week for allegedly abusing children at a compound in New Mexico and allegedly training them to be school shooters.

The media identified the perpetrator as Siraj Ibn Wahhaj and reported that he had been caught "conducting weapons training with assault rifles at the compound near the Colorado border where authorities say they found 11 hungry children living in filthy conditions in a raid Friday."

Authorities found Ibn after they went searching for his missing 3-year-old son. Instead they discovered the Islamic radical at the compound with the maltreated children. Though Ibn’s son wasn’t seen at the compound, authorities did locate the remains of a child that could be him.

What some in the media neglected to mention was that Ibn is the son of Siraj Wahhaj, a controversial Brooklyn imam of the same name who just also happens to be the mentor of left-wing activist, terrorist apologist and "anti-American mouthpiece" Linda Sarsour.

While speaking at an Islamic Society of North America convention last year, the feminist icon called for Moslems to wage a "jihad" against President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
and issued a shout-out to Wahhaj, whom she described as a "mentor, motivator and encourager" of hers."

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Home Front: WoT

Linda Sarsour: Resisting Trump Is a ‘Form of Jihad’

2017-07-07

[FREEBEACON] Anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour said that resisting President Donald Trump is a "form of jihad" at the Islamic Society of North America's 54th annual convention on Saturday.

Sarsour, who has vocally expressed sympathy towards terrorists, was the keynote speaker at a community service recognition luncheon during the convention.

"I hope that when we stand up to those who oppress our communities, that Allah accepts from us that as a form of jihad," Sarsour said of Trump's administration.

"We are struggling against tyrants and rulers not only abroad in the Middle East or on the other side of the world, but here in these United States of America. Where you have fascists and white supremacists and Islamophobes reining in the White House," Sarsour said.

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Home Front: Culture Wars

DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson Speaks at Convention of HAMAS-LINKED Group

2016-09-07

[PJ] It was bad enough that Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson spoke at the annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a group with demonstrable ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. But what he said made it even worse.

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