In Dallas, the Department of Justice is presenting evidence in the Holy Land Foundation trial tying the Islamic Society of North America closely to the extremist Muslim Brotherhood, which, according to a MB planning document introduced into evidence, has a secret plan to overthrow the American order and institute an Islamic state. Lovely.
But this weekend in suburban Chicago, that same Department of Justice is sponsoring a booth at the annual ISNA convention. Well, DOJ, which is it?
As Steve Emerson rightly notes:
...the fact that the DOJ has an official presence, sponsorship or otherwise, at a convention held by an unindicted co-conspirator in the case, can be used by defense attorneys to argue that the prosecutors are not on the same page as other sections within the DOJ, who are not at all concerned with ISNA and its participation in the Hamas fundraising conspiracy.Additionally, the unindicted co-conspirators themselves can exploit this apparent inconsistent approach, arguing (falsely) that a band of overzealous prosecutors are merely engaged in a "war against Islam," since other elements within the same agency are more than happy to engage Muslim Brotherhood front groups, who apparently pose no threat nor were a part of the larger conspiracy. This is just the latest in another example of the shortsightedness of various government agency outreach programs, not taking into account the long term consequences of short term goals.
If you had told me on September 12, 2001, that six years later we'd be dealing with politically correct insanity like this, I wouldn't have believed you.
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What asinine comments, especially yours, Daniel. The reason they're having this trial in Dallas is because that's where the Holy Land Foundation was based.
I don't claim these groups are guilty of anything other than having their roots in the Muslim Brotherhood, which promotes extreme Islam, and according to a document introduced into the trial, intends to establish its brand of Islam in US civil society, and control Muslim organizations -- with the ultimate goal being Islamist revolution and a sharia state. If you want to believe in your cloud-cuckoo land theories, be my guest. But the evidence is there in the trial. And I contacted Prof. Husain Haqqani, head of the Intl Relations Dept at Boston U., to ask him if that "strategy document" from the MB was an accurate description of how the MB operates in this country (establish and/or take over Muslim organizations for the sake of making its highly politicized version of Islam normative in America). He told me it was. I only mention him because he is a Muslim himself, and is really concerned about the MB's role in US Muslim life.
"I don't claim these groups are guilty of anything other than having their roots in the Muslim Brotherhood..."
And the KKK has roots in Christianity. Get out the broad brushes, boys, we have some white washin' to do.
Of course, Haqqani is the go to Muslim for the conservative elite, which is why he is a Hudson Institute Fellow and writes Op-eds for the Wall Street Journal, as well as speaks at neoconservative-funded conferences like the one you went to in Turkey. Of course he believes you, because he holds the same opinions your hold. There's a reason he's the favorite Muslim academic in your circles. He's hardly neutral, as surely you realize.
His is just one opinion. Sadly, it is the opinion that parrots those in your conservative elite circles so of course you believe it.
ISNA STATEMENT OF POSITION
http://www.isna.net/index.php?id=35&backPID=1&tt_news=898
Rod, why do you continue to conflate the Muslim Brotherhood with ISNA?
ISNA Denounces Terrorism in the Name of Islam
http://www.isna.net/index.php?id=35&backPID=1&tt_news=4
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