Terrific news from Dallas! Defendants in the Holy Land Foundation trial were found guilty on all counts of using what was once the country's largest Islamic charity to raise terror funds for Hamas.
During the first HLF trial, which ended in a mistrial, I wrote a column about a secret Muslim Brotherhood document the government recovered in a Virginia raid, and introduced into evidence at the trial. Its authenticity was not contested by the defense, though they did say it was outdated. The document outlined a long-term strategy by the Muslim Brotherhood to establish front groups to integrate into civil society, for the sake of waging fifth-column jihad against the United States. Here's an excerpt from my piece. The stuff in italics is a direct quote from the Muslim Brotherhood's "explanatory memorandum":
The process of settlement [of Islam in the United States] is a "Civilization-Jihadist" process with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Brotherhood] must understand that all their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" their miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all religions. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim's destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who choose to slack.The entire 18-page platform outlines a plan for the long haul. It prescribes the Muslim Brotherhood's comprehensive plan to set down roots in civil society. It begins by both founding and taking control of American Muslim organizations, for the sake of unifying and educating the U.S. Muslim community - this to prepare it for the establishment of a global Islamic state governed by sharia.
It sounds like a conspiracy theory out of a bad Hollywood movie - but it's real. Husain Haqqani, head of Boston University's Center for International Relations and a former Islamic radical, confirms that the Brotherhood "has run most significant Muslim organizations in the U.S." as part of the plan outlined in the strategy paper.
The HLF trial is exposing for the first time how the international Muslim Brotherhood - whose Palestinian division is Hamas - operates as a self-conscious revolutionary vanguard in the United States. The court documents indicate that many leading Muslim-American organizations - including the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the Muslim American Society - are an integral part of the Brotherhood's efforts to wage jihad against America by nonviolent means.
And now we know that they are guilty. Every single Muslim organization named as "unindicted co-conspirators" of the guilty HLF -- and that includes CAIR, ISNA, MAS and others -- ought to be ostracized. The US government works with them as part of its outreach to the Muslim community. That has to stop. These folks have an agenda, and it's not the agenda they present to the public -- nor to well-meaning American Muslims ignorant of these organizations' roots and aims.
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It's a sad day for the justice system in our country. Aside from the injustice that has been done to these law abiding citizens, an injustice was done to the American constitution and people. Those who are behind this political persecution are actively destroying the confidence of the American people and world in our justice system. Those who have massive lobbying power can over ride everything in Washington, even our justice system. The outside world has figured it out and unfortunately, our fellow citizens are still oblivious to the idea. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
I pray that the Holy lord rids us of the twisted politicians in Washington and replaces them with honorable public servants, like those who founded our beautiful country. God bless the USA.
Bill.
You said: "Aside from the injustice that has been done to these law abiding citizens.."
They were found guilty. They are not law abiding. They are criminals.
You then said: "an injustice was done to the American constitution and people."
Hamas has murdered a large number of American citizens. If you want a list of them, go to the link at the end of the post. If you are prepared to read Azzam Tamimi's Hamas: the Unwritten Chapters you will get a grip on how their dawa work, training and military branches are all intertwined and interdependent.
Why exactly do you think that Hamas wants to run schools, other than to train the next generation of martyrs.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/usvictims.html
I was wondering what the response of the Muslim-American community would be to this verdict. It appears to be deafening silence. I couldn't find any blog entries under either "City of Brass" or "Progressive Revival" dealing with the verdict.
A search of the CAIR and ISNA homepages yields articles from the previous verdict - which was a mistrial, several years back.
I recognize that CAIR and ISNA have major issues, since they were unindicted co-conspirators in this case, but an honest discussion of mistakes made would go a long way towards building confidence that these groups had changed or were attempting to "clean up their acts."
I look forward to the day when these groups will address the issue of funding Hamas and other terrorist groups with the same vigor that they use in attacking hate-promoting dreck like the "Obsession" DVD. Then they will truly have a claim to represent the best of the American Muslim community.
A shameful case of fear-mongering - a tragedy for our American system of justice. We have been manipulated to do the bidding of hawkish foreign interests. In this case, the prosecutor's witness was allowed to remain anonymous.
If you thought facing your accuser was fundamental to our criminal justice system...to the ideals that American women and men have died for....ideals that inspired our foremothers and fathers to forge a proud revolution... you are confused and so am I.
Mr. Dreber,
Please contact Rabbi Eric Yoffie of the Union for Reform Judiasm who "reached out to ISNA" last year for dialogue and came under severe critisim from both Jewish and moderate Moslem groups for consorting with ISNA. He was warned of ISNA's status with the HLF and their alleged role in money laundering for Hamas.
Ask him if he has changed his position in view of this verdict. And let your readers know of his response or lack of response whichever it is.
Thanks
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