Despite the mistrial, the Holy Land trial in Dallas was of lasting importance. From my Sunday Dallas Morning News column:
Despite the absence of verdict, what emerged was highly valuable and deeply damaging evidence that the radical Muslim Brotherhood is the guiding light behind the U.S. Muslim community's leadership. It is impossible for any intellectually responsible person to regard as positive or even benign organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Islamic Society of North America, Islamic Circle of North America, Muslim American Society or others who presume to speak on behalf of all American Muslims.As Douglas Farah, the former Washington Post reporter who now works as a counterterrorism consultant for the nonprofit Nine Eleven Finding Answers Foundation, put it after the Holy Land verdict, the evidence shows "definitive proof that CAIR, ISNA, ICNA and all the Muslim Brotherhood groups in this country came here with a markedly different purpose from what they claim, and they have gone through decades of deceit to conceal their true identities and purposes."
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There has been testimony before Congress about the Wahabi (or in some cases, Salafi) control of the organizations Rod mentions, such as CAIR.
I realize that it is a serious charge to accuse any organization of having a hidden agenda, but the evidence suggests that many of these groups do, and that the public face of these groups is rather far removed from that agenda.
Actually, the evidence doesn't show that at all. One can interpret the evidence to lead to that conclusion, but standing on its own, the evidence doesn't show that.
Rod:
You have followed and reported on this trial extensively. I have not. So I will assume your reporting is more or less accurate.
Here are my questions:
1. Are you saying that there is enough evidence now, despite the acquittal, that federal government should close down CAIR, ISNA, etc. as terrorist organizations due to their ties to Muslim Brotherhood? (Which, through Qutb through Zawahiri, is of course much of the ideological inspiration for Al Qaeda.)
2. If so, presumably there are millions of patriotic American Muslims, horrified of September 11th, anti-terrorist, who would nevertheless want to form community groups again. How would we be able to monitor the re-forming (and hopefully, reforming) of such groups without the threat that Saudi Arabia Wahhabi extremists would fund them again and create unwitting terrorist ties all over?
3. If not (or if we simply aren't allowed to under current federal law), what needs to be our "tipping point" to watch for where there is sufficient infiltration money laundering-wise to show they are terrorist organizations under U.S. law and need to be closed down? Or do you think the groups will be more careful (crafty/cunning) and make sure that doesn't happen now?
"presumably there are millions of patriotic American Muslims, horrified of September 11th, anti-terrorist"
Please provide any factual references proving that millions of patriotic Am Muslims do in fact exist.
Perhaps you have photos of Million Muslim March Against Islamic terrorism, or you have results of respectable polls.
Really, anything.
Jorge Boosh and bipartisan political elites are begging for moderate Muslims, much less patriotic Muslims to show up.
Where are they?
"Please provide any factual references proving that millions of patriotic Am Muslims do in fact exist.
Perhaps you have photos of Million Muslim March Against Islamic terrorism, or you have results of respectable polls.
Really, anything."
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Here's one:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=23480&only
Unfortuneately, his co-religionists threatened him and kicked him out of the mosque.
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