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Bombshell: Whistleblower Claims DHS Scrubbed Records That Might Have Prevented Orlando And San Bernardino Attacks

2016-06-16

[SeanHannity] As we continue to learn details about the terror attack that took the lives of 49 people at a popular Orlando nightclub, we're now learning that the attack might have been preventable. A whistleblower from the Department of Homeland Security has come forward to claim that the department scrubbed records that tied Muslims to terrorism, records that might have prevented the attacks in both San Bernardino and Orlando. Philip Haney was a founding member of the DHS, beginning his work for the department in 2003. His job, as he explains it, was "connecting the dots" between individuals, organizations, and networks across the country that may have had ties to terrorism. In 2009, six years into his tenure with the department, Haney claims critical information about U.S. based Muslims with terror ties, which represented years of painstaking work, were deleted from the DHS's records. "It was directed from DHS headquarters," Haney said on Tuesday's Hannity. "It's important to keep in mind that that was one year after the November 2008 Holy Land Foundation trial, the largest terror trial in American history, that irrefutably proved that these individuals from the Muslim Brotherhood front groups were in direct financial support of Hamas." It was during this trial that the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic Society of North America, and the North American Islamic Trust were named as un-indicted co-conspirators in funneling money to the terrorist organization Hamas. According to Haney, orders to purge DHS records came down shortly after President Obama took office in 2009 and then again in 2012. He believes that both the San Bernardino and Orlando attacks might have been prevented had the purges not occurred.

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Mosque Linked To Muslim Brotherhood Has Received Millions In Federal Grants

2015-12-29

[Daily Caller] A Kansas City mosque owned by an Islamic umbrella organization with deep ties to the U.S. arm of the Muslim Brotherhood has received millions of dollars in federal grants over the past several years, according to a federal spending database. The Islamic Center of Greater Kansas City has received $2,739,891 from the Department of Agriculture since 2010, a Daily Caller analysis has found. The money largely went to the mosque's Crescent Clinic to provide services through the Women, Infant and Children nutrition program, known as WIC. The most recent federal payment -- in the amount of $327,436 -- was handed out Oct. 1. Property records show the mosque is owned by the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), which acts as a financial holding company for Islamic organizations. It offers sharia-compliant financial products to Muslim investors, operates Islamic schools and owns more than 300 other mosques throughout the U.S.

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Meanwhile, An Islamic Fifth Column Builds Inside America

2015-10-04

[NEWS.INVESTORS] In berating GOP presidential hopeful Ben Carson ... a neurosurgeon who is under the impression that being brilliant qualifies him to be president.... for suggesting a loyalty test for Moslems seeking high office, CNN host Jake Tapper maintained that he doesn't know a single observant Moslem-American who wants to Islamize America. Meaning no one's rigged his car with explosives yet. Tapper doesn't get out much. If he did, chances are he'd run into some of the 51% of Moslems living in the U.S. who just this June told Polling Co. they preferred having "the choice of being governed according to Shariah," or Islamic law. Or the 60% of Moslem-Americans under 30 who told Pew Research they're more loyal to Islam than America. If your loyalty is to Allah, whose will is interpreted by your local holy man, you're not loyal to the U.S.A., whose structure was laid out by Jefferson and Madison and Hamilton, et al. Maybe they're all heretics, so let's see what the enlightened Moslems think. Oh, come now. Do we ever let facts interfere with an opinion? If Tapper did a little independent research he'd quickly find that America's most respected Islamic leaders and scholars also want theocracy, not democracy, and even advocate trading the Constitution for the Koran. They're also the holy men who do the interpreting. These aren't fringe players. These are the brass hats representing the Moslem establishment in America today. Hopefully none of them ever runs for president, because here's what he'd have to say about the U.S. system of government: • Muzammil Siddiqi ... issued a fatwa on Islam Online, stating By participating in a non-Islamic system, one cannot rule by that which Allah has commanded.... We must not forget that Allah's rules have to be established in all lands, and all our efforts should lead to that direction. In 2002, federal authorities raided headquarters of the Fiqh Council. However, no arrests were made, and in fact in July 2005, Siddiqi's Fiqh Council of North America publicly issued a fatwa piously stating Islam's condemnation of terrorism and religious extremism..... , chairman of both the Fiqh Council of North America, which dispenses Islamic rulings, and the North American Islamic Trust ...holds titles to the real estate assets of Islamic centers and schools in more than forty States. Properties are operated primarily for the purpose of religious worship. In addition, NAIT pools the American Muslim community’s assets under its Islamic Centers Cooperative Fund, and publishes credible Islamic literature under its American Trust Publications. Through a wholly-owned for-profit subsidiary, NAIT develops financial vehicles that are compatible with both the Shariah and American law, e.g. mutual funds..... , which owns most of the mosques in the U.S.: "As Moslems, we should participate in the system to safeguard our interests and try to bring gradual change, (but) we must not forget that Allah's rules have to be established in all lands, and all our efforts should lead to that direction." • Omar Ahmad ...founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). He also worked for the Islamic Association of Palestine, a precursor to CAIR. He was born in Amman, Jordan. He holds a Masters in Computer Science from Santa Clara University as well as a Masters in Political Science. Says the reporter who quoted him saying the Koran must become the supreme authority in the U.S.A. is a liar, damn her..... , co-founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations ... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ... , the top Moslem lobby group in Washington: "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth." • CAIR ...designated a terrorist group by the UAE... front man Ibrahim Hooper: "I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future." • Imam Siraj Wahhaj, director of the Moslem Alliance in North America ...a predominantly black organization representing Moslems indigenous to the United States, founded in 2001 by Siraj Wahhaj, believed to be a co-conspirator to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, and Ihsan Bagby. The latter is currently MANA’s General Secretary. Convicted cop-killer Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (formerly known as H. Rap Brown) was once a driving force behind MANA and continues to enjoy the organization's support. MANA seeks to establish Shariah as the governing principle of American society. MANA is part of the American Moslem Task Force on Civil Rights and Elections (AMTF), along with American Muslim Alliance, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Circle of North America, the Islamic Society of North America, the Muslim American Society, the Moslem Public Affairs Council, the Muslim Students’ Association of the U.S. and Canada, the Muslim Ummah of North America, Project Islamic Hope, and United Moslems of America... : "In time, this so-called democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing. And the only thing that will remain will be Islam." • Imam Zaid Shakir, co-founder of Zaytuna College in Berkeley, Calif.: "If we put a nationwide infrastructure in place and marshaled our resources, we'd take over this country in a very short time. . . . What a great victory it will be for Islam to have this country in the fold and ranks of the Moslems."

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Islamic group once tied to terror trial received thousands in farm subsidies

2014-02-01

...my Great Uncle once related to me a story about his neighbor farming the government...at least back then, we kept the $ at home... HT: Weasel Zippers [FoxNews] The subsidies to the North American Islamic Trust are just a slice of the questionable payments that, as has been well documented, go to millionaires and non-farmers every year. But as Congress moves to rein in the program, these subsidies stand out considering the group's involvement in the Holy Land Foundation case of 2008. During the trial, the group's farm subsidies stopped, only to be reinstated after a federal judge cleared them.

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Judge ruled unindicted co-conspirators list shouldn't have been released

2010-11-07

U.S. District Judge Jorge Solis has found that one of the most widely circulated documents from the Holy Land Foundation financing case should not have been released publicly, according to a ruling recently ordered unsealed by an appeals court. The North American Islamic Trust, the Council on American Islamic Relations and the Islamic Society of North America have for years said that their inclusion among Holy Land's unindicted co-conspirators amounts to guilt by association. Despite the violation, Solis denied NAIT's request to have its name removed from the government's list, finding "ample evidence" linking it to Holy Land. He also ordered the list sealed but untold copies have already circulated on the Internet. As we well know. Solis had sealed his 2009 ruling on the matter to shield NAIT. NAIT asked the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to unseal the order, and sought to overturn his ruling that kept the group on the list. ISNA and CAIR did not join in that appeal. On Oct. 20, an appeals panel ordered that Solis' ruling be made public, but upheld his finding that NAIT remain on the government's list.

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Inspired to jihad

2010-07-22

In three short years, Samir Khan went from blogging about jihad from his parents' North Carolina basement to editing al-Qaida's new online magazine in Yemen -- all under the FBI radar. The 24-year-old Khan is now helping America's Enemy No. 1 recruit Muslims to kill fellow Americans as Webmaster of al-Qaida's splashy new propaganda organ, which provides instructions in English on how to "make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom."And the FBI and U.S. intelligence never saw it coming. The ability to search the internet for key words and phrases was forbidden to U.S. intelligence agencies as a result of left wing outrage at invasion of privacy. Blindfolding the investigators impacts their ability to investigate. The Khan case is the latest example of a disturbing trend in U.S. intelligence lapses involving radicalized Muslims. From the Fort Hood shooting to the Christmas Day airline bombing to the Times Square car-bomb plot, warning signs are ignored, dots left unconnected. Indeed. In October, Khan visited Yemen and hooked up with fugitive al-Qaida cleric Anwar Awlaki, another American terrorist turncoat. He was allowed to make the connection, despite sounding security alarms while living in the U.S. From Charlotte, N.C., he ran a Web site praising Osama bin Laden and calling for the death of U.S. troops. He even made death threats against a private detective in Florida. The investigator filed a complaint with the FBI, but the bureau took no action. The known jihadist wasn't even added to the no-fly list. "How far does someone have to go before we take them seriously?" asked Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., who warned about Khan in 2007, only to have her concerns brushed aside. Khan was exercising his free speech, she was told. Yes, he might have been promoting jihad, but technically, he wasn't soliciting violent acts. And he was viewed as a lone jihadist, unconnected to a terrorist group -- even though we now know he'd forged links with al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula while he was here in the U.S. "That was not followed up with the intelligence community," complained Myrick, a House Intelligence Committee member. Authorities and the local media were also assured by Khan's family mosque, the Islamic Center of Charlotte, or ICC, that he wasn't a threat -- even though that assurance should have been discounted, given the mosque's terror ties. Turns out ICC is owned and controlled by the radical North American Islamic Trust, which the Justice Department has implicated in a plot to funnel millions to Hamas suicide bombers. Still, Khan was given a pass by the government -- literally. While posting video of attacks on U.S. soldiers that "brought great happiness to me," he even managed to land a job with a federal contractor, Convergys Corp., which was awarded a $2.5 billion deal to set up emergency communications centers in the event of terror attacks. Khan, a naturalized American from Saudi Arabia, was virulently anti-American and didn't try to conceal his hatred. He also wore a Taliban beard and Islamic skull cap, telegraphing his zealotry. Yet nobody seemed to think he was dangerous, save Myrick and a local TV news correspondent. (Molly Grantham of the Charlotte CBS affiliate staked out Khan's home and office. He then targeted her on his blog.) He was just another misunderstood young Muslim man practicing the "religion of peace." We know different now, but it's too late: Terror experts say Khan is safely (from his Yemeni redoubt) aiding al-Qaida in its new push to recruit English-speaking American converts to Islam to carry out attacks on the homeland. The terrorist group is successfully using the Web as a recruiting tool. Of last year's 15 al-Qaida or homegrown terrorist plots, nine defendants had downloaded jihad videos or English jihad publications from the Internet. Al-Qaida's ambitious new online recruiting tool, "Inspire," is a slick magazine with bright graphics splashed across 67 pages, which feature articles by bin Laden and Awlaki. U.S. intelligence suspects Khan's encrypting messages to suicide cells within the graphics. Treasury should freeze Khan's assets, including any accounts tied to his upscale parents, as it last week finally did with Awlaki. More, the CIA should add Khan to its hit list, alongside his pal Awlaki. To do less would allow Khan to keep inciting mass murder of fellow Americans. It would also send a message to recruits in the U.S. that we're not serious about punishing treason in a time of war. The Web-savvy, Americanized Khan is a plum for al-Qaida. Its latest recruit is our latest intelligence failure.

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Jihad financed on Wall Street

2008-04-06

By Deroy Murdock Turn your clock back 70 years. Imagine that Wall Street banks and brokerages sold Nuremberg-compliant bonds and stock funds in 1938. American Nazi sympathizers bought financial instruments certified by Berlin-based advisers as free of ``Jewish profits'' from, say, Salomon Brothers and Bloomingdale's. In turn, a percentage of such funds' gains underwrote pro-Nazi charities, like the German-American Bund, and similar organizations in the Fatherland, like the Hitler Youth. Seventy years hence, an analogous outrage grows on Wall Street, only this time for real. Sharia-compliant finance (SCF) is expanding among banks and securities houses eager to absorb the hundreds of billions of petrodollars cascading into the Middle East, thanks to $100-per-barrel oil. To lure this cash, financial companies increasingly offer vehicles that neither pay interest nor benefit from gambling, entertainment, alcohol, pork or anything considered ``haram'' or ``un-kosher'' in Islam. Bahrain's International Islamic Financial Market (IIFM) counts $97 billion in Islamic bonds in circulation with another $66 billion forecast through 2008 - and SCF is not limited to the bond market. SCF goes far beyond marketing to Muslims and Middle Easterners. IIFM lists ``wider sharia acceptance'' among its goals. Selling sharia-compliant investments legitimizes a barbaric theocratic orthodoxy that should be defeated, not promoted. Turn your clock back 1,300 years. According to the Koran, sharia means that, with disobedient women, men should ``admonish them, and send them to their beds and beat them'' (Koran 4:34). For those having sex outside marriage: ``The fornicatress and the fornicator, flog each of them with a hundred stripes'' (24:2). ``Cut off the hands of thieves, whether they are male or female, as punishment for what they have done'' (5:38). Instead of celebrating gay sex with parades and rainbow flags, ``kill the one who does it, and the one to whom it is done'' (''Reliance of the Traveler'' - Abu Dawud 4447). How do you handle an adulteress? ``Khalid Walid came forward with a stone which he threw at her head, and when the blood spurted on his face, he cursed her'' (''Reliance'' - Muslim 4206). Western financiers have no business complying with this. Nevertheless, SCF advisers help these funds remain sharia-compliant. Unfortunately, these authorities often are Muslim extremists who appear mainstream by consulting for such powerhouses as Deutsche Bank and Standard & Poor's. And: [ufaro][mc]In 2002, Caribou Coffee had to explain the ties between its Atlanta-based sharia-compliant owner, Arcapita Inc., and Arcapita's sharia adviser, Yusuf Al-Qaradawi. He had defended ``our brothers and children in Al-Aqsa and the blessed land of Palestine generously sacrificing their blood, giving their souls willingly in the way of Allah.'' Qaradawi eventually resigned from Arcapita. Sheik Muhammad Taqi Usmani advises the Dow Jones Islamic Index. He has written: ``The purpose of Jihad...aims at breaking the grandeur of unbelievers and establish(ing) that of Muslims.'' The North American Islamic Trust owns 69.8 percent of the Dow Jones Islamic Fund. The Justice Department identified NAIT last June as an un-indicted co-conspirator in supporting Hamas' murderous anti-Israeli terrorism. NAIT also owns the Masjid As-Salam mosque in Albany, N.Y. In April 2007, its founder, Mohammed Mosharref Hossain, and imam, Yassin Muhiddin Aref, received 15-year prison sentences for assisting an FBI sting operation to assassinate a Pakistani diplomat in Manhattan with a shoulder-fired missile. Sharia-compliant funds usually donate 2.5 percent of profits as ``zakat.'' While such money assists peaceful Muslim causes, some of it has gone ka-boom. The Holy Land Foundation, Benevolence International Foundation and Global Relief Foundation, all major Muslim charities, were shuttered in December 2001 for allegedly supporting Islamic terrorism. According to ``The Tax Lawyer,'' Yasin al-Qadi - an investor in one Hamas-connected, sharia-compliant company called BMI (not the perfectly legitimate Broadcast Music Inc.) - transmitted $820,000 to Chicago's Quranic Literacy Institute in 1991. QLI employee Mohammad Salah confessed in 1995 that he trained recruits to handle assorted toxins and ``basic chemical materials for the preparation of bombs and explosives.'' ``This is bad for America, bad for capitalism and good for jihad,'' says Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy, which is sounding the anti-SCF claxons. CSP's legal analysis by David Yerushalmi richly details SCF's dangers. The last thing America needs is jihad with tailored suits and Excel spreadsheets. It's time to stop the clock on this deadly idea.

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CAIR Accused in Terror Trial

2007-06-05

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, which brands itself as a mainstream promoter of civil rights, has been named with two other prominent U.S. Islamic groups as an "unindicted co-conspirator" in a plot to fund the terrorist group Hamas. When the DOJ names "co-conspirators" without indictment, they are signalling that they are trying to make a case against the party named. CAIR has never been a civil rights group; members work to advance the Islamofascist agenda. Federal prosecutors also cited the Islamic Society of North America and the North American Islamic Trust as participants in a plot with five officials of the defunct Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, who go on trial July 16 in Dallas, the New York Sun reported. CAIR is a spinoff of the defunct Islamic Association for Palestine, launched by Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook and former university professor Sami al-Arian, who pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy to provide services to Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Several CAIR staffers have been convicted on terrorism-related charges, and CAIR founder Omar Ahmad allegedly told a group of Muslims they are in America not to assimilate but to help assert Islam's rule over the country. The officials on trial in Dallas include Ghassan Elashi, who founded CAIR's Texas chapter. The Holy Land Foundation also gave $5,000 in seed money to set up CAIR's Washington office, according to congressional testimony by counter-terrorism researcher Steven Emerson...

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Islamic Groups (CAIR) Named in Hamas Funding Case

2007-06-04

HT to the Captain Federal prosecutors have named three prominent Islamic organizations in America as participants in an alleged criminal conspiracy to support a Palestinian Arab terrorist group, Hamas. reeaallly? Prosecutors applied the label of "unindicted co-conspirator" to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America, and the North American Islamic Trust in connection with a trial planned in Texas next month for five officials of a defunct charity, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. While the foundation was charged in the case, which was filed in 2004, none of the other groups was. However, the co-conspirator designation could be a blow to the credibility of the national Islamic organizations, which often work hand-in-hand with government officials engaged in outreach to the Muslim community. should, but we'll see. Perhaps the FBI, et al, could QUIT using them for sensitivity training? hmmmm? A court filing by the government last week listed the three prominent groups among about 300 individuals or entities named as co-conspirators. The document gave scant details, but prosecutors described CAIR as a present or past member of "the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee and/or its organizations." The government listed the Islamic Society of North America and the North American Islamic Trust as "entities who are and/or were members of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood." The secretary-general of the Islamic Society of North America, Muneer Fareed, said his group was surprised to be named in the Texas case. "I can tell you categorically that the current administration of ISNA, as well as its stakeholders, they have no connection to my knowledge with any Holy Land foundations," he said. Mr. Fareed denied his group has any ties to Hamas, though he said it is difficult to police all 300 mosques under his umbrella. "We might have a kid whose dad was president of Hamas for all I know," he said. "How do you verify these things?" he oughtta be dragged outside and kicked with steel-toed boots just for that stupidity The Islamic official expressed frustration at the lack of detail in the prosecution's filing. "Perhaps there's some evidence. I just don't really know what it is," he said. "I don't know how much they got" Spokesmen for CAIR did not respond to messages seeking comment yesterday. Efforts to contact the North American Islamic Trust were unsuccessful. The identification of the alleged co-conspirators could aid prosecutors when the Holy Land Foundation and five of its officials, Shukri Abu-Baker, Mohammad El-Mezain, Ghassan Elashi, Mufid Abdulqader, and Abdulraham Odeh, go to trial on July 16 in Dallas. Statements by and about co-conspirators are exempt from rules barring hearsay. RTWT - Discovery should've been fun. Now, expose the whole rat's nest. On the front page, dammit

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U.S. court blows terrorists' cover

2004-12-16

Counterterrorism efforts got a major boost last week when a U.S. district court found three Muslim organizations and one individual, mostly based in the Chicago area, guilty of funding Hamas and fined them an astonishing $156 million. The four were found liable for their roles in the murder of an American teenager, David Boim, on May 13, 1996, when he was shot by Hamas operatives as he waited for a bus near Jerusalem. This case is important in itself, providing some measure of justice and relief for the Boim family. Beyond that, it helps fight terrorism in four ways. First, it validates and operationalizes a 1992 U.S. law that prohibits sending any money to terrorist organizations, not just money specifically tied to violence. Even funds used for medical care or education, the logic correctly goes, ultimately forward violence. Judge Arlander Keys established that "the Boims need only show that the defendants were involved in an agreement to accomplish an unlawful act and that the attack that killed David Boim was a reasonably foreseeable consequence of the conspiracy." This ruling places other civil cases, most notably the one linking Saudi royals to 9/11, on much firmer legal ground. Second, this marks the first decision by a jury penalizing Americans who support terrorism abroad and making them liable to pay civil damages. Third, as the Boims' lawyer, Stephen J. Landes, explained, it shows that "the American court system is prepared to bankrupt the Islamist terror network," just as it earlier destroyed the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nations, two extremist and violent organizations, "by bringing unpayably large judgments against them." Finally, the case confirms a pattern of culpability among even the most innocent-appearing of Islamic institutions. Two of the three liable groups have known ties to Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group; Holy Land Foundation serves as its fund-raising arm, Islamic Association for Palestine as its political front. But the Quranic Literacy Institute appeared wholly unconnected to Hamas. It is a religious group based in a Chicago suburb that since 1991 has engaged in the pious work of translating Islamic sacred texts from Arabic, then publishing them in English. But appearances can deceive. In June 1998, federal authorities charged QLI with having for nine years supported "a conspiracy involving international terrorist activities and domestic recruitment and training in support of such activities" and seized $1 million of its cash and assets. The FBI found that Yassin Kadi, a Saudi-based financier linked to Osama bin Laden, loaned $820,000 to the QLI in 1991 which the QLI laundered through a series of real estate transactions. QLI cleared nearly $1.4 million, and investigators suspect it planned to use this money in 1993 to fund the rebuilding of Hamas. QLI's complicity in terrorism has great significance, for it is no rogue outfit but a stalwart of the Saudi-backed "Wahhabi lobby" in the United States. QLI's founding president, Ahmad Zaki Hammad, is a scholar of Islam boasting advanced degrees from Cairo's prestigious Al-Azhar University and the University of Chicago. He has served as president of the lobby's largest organization, the Islamic Society of North America, and sat on the board of the North American Islamic Trust, its mechanism for taking over mosques and other Islamic properties. When the QLI's assets were impounded in 1998, leading organizations of the Wahhabi lobby, ISNA, the Islamic Circle of North America, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim Students Association leapt to its defense, declaring themselves "shocked at this unprecedented action taken against members of the Muslim community." Nearly 1,000 supporters rallied on QLI's behalf. And yet, we now know that this innocuous-appearing organization did have a key role funneling money to Hamas. Muslim institutions too often are not what they seem to be. The "Progressive Muslim Union" is actually reactionary. Mosques harbor criminals. The lesson is clear: Wahhabi organizations like the QLI cannot be taken at face value but must be scrutinized for extremist, criminal, and terrorist connections. Extensive research, including undercover operations, is needed to find out the possibly sordid reality behind a seemingly benign exterior.

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Report: says Saudis funded infiltration of U.S. military

2003-10-17

From World Tribune.com Saudi Arabia has funded the indoctrination of U.S. soldiers and inmates to an ideology adopted by Al Qaida. Research conducted by the Washington-based Institute of World Politics has asserted that Saudi Arabia poured tens of millions of dollars into spreading Al Qaida-related ideology among American soldiers and inmates. The report said the Saudi aim was to form insurgency cells throughout the United States that support a Wahhabi agenda. "Islamists terrorists view conversions of non-Muslims to Islamism as vital to their effort," J. Michael Waller, a professor at the institute, said. "U.S. counterintelligence is vigilant against recruitment of American military personnel by foreign intelligence services, but has been blind toward the possible recruitment of American officers into Wahhabi political extremism or Islamist terrorist networks." The report said the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated the U.S. military, Middle East Newsline reported. At least nine of the 14 chaplains in the U.S. military received their religious training from the Saudi-funded Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences in Leesburg, Va. The report cited Bilal Philips, a former Jamaican Communist Party member who was recruited in the United States and studied in the Saudi Air Force. Philips was said to have turned into a Saudi agent of influence who claimed to have converted thousands of American soldiers to Islam since the 1991 Gulf war. "The strategic goal is twofold," Waller told the Senate subcommittee on terrorism, technology and homeland security on Tuesday, "to dominate the voice of Islam around the world; and to exert control over civil and political institutions around the world through a combination of infiltration, aggressive political warfare, and violence. Another Saudi-financed group, the North American Islamic Trust controls most mosques in the United States, the report said. The group was said to have aided in the construction of between 50 and 79 percent of the mosques in North America. Another group, the Islamic Society of North America was said to provide ideological material to about 1,100 of an estimated 1,500 to 2,500 mosques in North America. The group has vetted and certified Wahhabi-trained imams and is the main official endorsing agent for Muslim chaplains in the U.S. military. The study said Saudi-sponsored Wahhabi organizations dominate Muslim prison recruitment in the United States and seek to create a "radicalized cadre of felons who will support their anti-American efforts." The report said Muslims comprise up to 20 percent of the prison population and Muslim clerics linked to Saudi Arabia have excluded moderates. "The Saudi government also pays for prison chaplains, along with many other American Muslims, to travel to Saudi Arabia for worship and study during the haj, the traditional winter pilgrimage to Mecca that all Muslims are supposed to make at least once in their lives," the report said. "The trips typically cost $3,000 a person and last several weeks."

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